Extract users of ESXi servers

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• Need a script powercli on behalf of user ESXi servers list

  Need a script powercli on behalf of user ESXi servers list

  My mistake, try something like this

  $user = "root" $pswd = "password"
  
  Get-VMHost  | %{
    $esx = Connect-VIServer $_.Name -User $user -Password $pswd  Get-VMHostAccount -Server $esx |  Select @{N="Host";E={$esx.Name}},@{N="Uid";E={$_.ExtensionData.Id}},Id,@{N="Name";E={$_.ExtensionData.FullName}}
    Disconnect-VIServer -Server $esx -Confirm:$false}
  

• ESXi installation before vCenter Server?  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  My plan for a new vSphere Essentials Plus 5.5 U2a installation is to have the vCenter Server on a virtual machine on the servers of the host on which is installed ESXi.  However, all the installation instructions I found indicate the user to first install the vCenter Server.  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  Thank you for your help.

  Hi munkyman welcome to communities.

  After you have installed your first ESXi host, open a browser and go to https://your-ESXi-ip-or-FQDN

  You can download the vSphere Client here. It is a windows application that you can install on your desktop. It is often referred to as the "c# Client vSphere" in communities and blog posts, because it is a new implemented in the vCenter Server Web client.

  But for the beginning, install the vSphere Windows Client. You can then launch it and connect directly to your ESXi host. Here you can create your first virtual machine, which can be the VM vCenter (installation of Windows or device, that is you).

  You can use the web client or connect to the Server with the client c# vSphere vCenter VCenter runs.

  Tim

• Move virtual machines between two ESXI servers

  Hello

  I have a problem with my ESXi servers. First, I'll explain the situation.

  There is ESXi Server1 with the virtual machine A and B and an ESXi server2 with nothing.

  Now, I want to spend virtual machine from server1 to server2. How can I do this and if you have a solution please tell me how todo that?

  Thnaks in advance

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 user's Guide

  found here:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

• Remote Shutdown ESXi servers

  Good day everyone!

  I use ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell and HP servers. I can remote shut down all virtual machines inside servers, but I don't know how to stop remote servers.

  We will explain:

  When the power source is lost. I have only one auto power off server that plugs directly into the inverter. Before its closure, a command script will be executed at the stop other servers on the network (including virtual machines). But the ESXi server that still store virtual machines running. I do not know how to stop remotely (by command, or 3rd software...). I'm worried about my data may be lost if the ESXi servers are not safe stop.

  Another question:

  If I can stop the ESXi server remotely. Do I have to stop a virtual machines before you stop the real server? Or I can use 'virtual machine startup/shutdown' options to auto shut off all the virtual machine inside the ESXi Server?

  I use the paid license 5.5.0 of ESXi and vCenter 5.5.0.

  Thanks in advance!

  If the virtual machines are not safely stop and then start/stop option can be disabled in the host.

  launch the vsphere client session to the ESXi server and verify that the settings are activated.

  Regarding ssh, it is nothing more than a protocol like RDP connection for unix machines

  We have a tool called Putty to establish an ssh session to the ESXi server. Follow the steps in the article, select ssh shell alone is not necessary. Use the method to do, vsphere client it will be easier

  http://techhead.co/vSphere-5-x-how-to-enable-SSH-ESXi-shell/

  Download putty

  Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows

  Kind regards

  Suresh

• Changing the IP address of 5 ESXi servers

  We are about to embark on a change of IP address on our network. Our 5 servers ESXi (5.1) will all need will be replaced by the new intellectual property structure.

  Can any who offer advice concerning a procedure for this, or point me in the right direction re. documentation.

  Thanks in advance.

  It is enough, turn off your HA and change your IP addresses on a management and change the DNS records.

  If you have added your ESXi servers by DNS name to vCenter, you don't need to remove and add the vCenter server.

  It's easy, just check your all the services.

• Using workstation for managing ESXi servers

  I was told by a colleague at the workstation to manage my ESXi servers, has anyone tried this?  If yes what, where your limits and how did you like it compared to the vSphere Web Client?

  Note: I'll work eventually with 20-30 different servers using remote connections to manage most of them.

  I don't think you can manage an ESXi host from workstation - what you can do is download a virtual machine of the workstation directly to the ESXi host - management is performed only vSphere customers or web.

• Hardware upgrade to ESXi servers

  I have 3 ESXi servers and we intend to replace these servers with new servers.  What would be the best way to replace the old servers?  Can I somehow image the old server to the new server?  We use ESXi 4.1 and vSphere Enterprise.

  Yes - you can then follow the upgrade guide - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-upgrade-guide.pdf

• How to create ESXi cluster or team two ESXi servers to avoid VMHA of HA?

  Hello world

  The scene is, I have two machines Dell 2950 and want to install ESXi U4 or ESXi 4 on both machines.  The requirement is that I have to install Windows 2 K 8 Server as guest and installing MS SQL Server inside on HOST1 (for example). This will be a production server.  Now I want the APP or database on this to be highly available.  I can mirror whatever say who's here to HOST1 on another machine HOST2 and keep it to fail the course in time REAL.  OR can I team or bonds or group these two hosts using local storage (data warehouses) and without the use of third-party storage (I can't afford VMHA, because it involves SAN and SAN or NAS in turn need fail on).

  In simple terms, the creation of ESXi cluster or team two ESXi servers to avoid VMHA of HA?

  TIA for all your contributions.

  -Nadine

  VnonCP

  Try Openfiler or FreeNas?

  Both will allow you to use the local storage on your ESX as an NFS share.

  Problem is that if your ESX host plant... you have a data store that is dead.

• Connection iSCSI SAN to ESXi servers

  Hi all

  I am trying to work through the iSCSI SAN Config Guide and get our three ESXi servers connected to our iSCSI SAN, but I'm confused about a few points.

  Background - Our production network is 172.16.10.x, our management network is 172.16.64.x and the SAN is on the 10.1.1.x network.

  The Guide says that the service console and VMkernel need to access the iSCSI storage - but in ESXi, there is no service console. Our network administrator (who has used 2 ESX) said just put in place two vSwitches and configuring each of them to VMkernel access, one on network 10 and the other on the management network. Every time I try this, I lose connectivity to the management console. It seems VMkernel wants a default gateway set and when I put it for 172.16.64.1, the SAN does not connect, but when I put it to 10.1.1.1, vCenter loses the connection. Our network administrator says he won't let the 172.16.64.x network traffice to the 10.1.1.x network, but I think that we have to set up in this way.

  Is there something I'm missing. There actually seems to be three issues. (1) when the Guide says of console, VMkernel and service is possible to distinguish between the two in ESXi? (2) if we set VMkernel network 172.16.64.x, can we create a second VMkernel on the 10.1.1.x network? and (3) should just bite the bullet and set up routing between the VMkernel and the San?

  Thank you. I know it was long and complicated, but that reflects my confusion! Any help would be appreciated.

  The answer to the first question is no, there is no distinction between console and vmkernel port in ESXi, like network service management of walks on the portgroup vmkernel.

  You should be able to create a vmkernel 2nd interface, and you do not change the default gateway.  As you have noticed, you can have a default gateway, that is why the default part.  That alone, and you should have two exchanges vmkernel, one on the network management and the other on the storage network.  The vmkernel being on the same segment as the storage, traffic goes out through it and not the default gateway, so no routing must take place.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• How to extract the selected ESXi host user name and the password in the web client of vSphere?

  Hi all.

  I'm developing a plug-in for the web client to vsphere. I want to communicate with the selected host of ESXi in my Java Service Layer and who needs the host user name and password.

  I don't know how to search the Flex user interface layer.

  ESXi credentials are not stored in the user interface layer, you must use the vSphere SDK Web Service on the coast of java.  See vim.host.ConnectInfo.

• Prevent VPN users on some servers window.

  Hi all

  Can I use CiscoSecure ACS to allow/deny access to VPN users to a certain servers? I know that one could use CiscoSecure ACS to allow/deny the user to a group of network VPN devices. But I was not successful with the servers? You can share a reflection?

  Thank you.

  Do you mean after the user for VPN authentication, you want to restrict the servers, users have

  access to, if so you will need to configure ACL downloadable, so you can ask that your condition-specific ACL.

  Configure the DACL:

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/3.3/user/guide/c.html#wp696775

• Update firmware on esxi servers

  Hi all

  I plan to update firmware on my two Dell servers.

  Now my lack of Manager as an official document or the site who said that the updated firmware will be supported by the ESXi software.

  It's after the upgrade of the card of network/BIOS firmware etc, this will be supported by the ESXI version.

  The servers are already in production.

  Can someone direct me to the site where I checked the firmware compatibility against ESXi software please

  THX

  Concerning

  Nicolas

  Check the supported firmware versions listed for each system after selecting ESXi 6.0 (assuming you're going to the latest version)... This is as close as "documented" you will find.

  https://www.Dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/PowerEdge-R710/drivers

  Firmware updates do not change the compatibility.

  If you're worried, see the release notes for red flags.

• Extracts & user defined Variables

  After ~ 5 years not working not with any what HAT, I started a new post on 28/03/2016 and put back the trial HR 2015 a spin. I'm very excited by what I see and were able to do so far.

  I have 3 'entities' to write and I created 3 pages, one page per entity.

  Each of these presentation pages, I have this first line:

  |

  This section describes how to enter and manage [entity].

  |

  I set each [entity] as a user-defined variable. Each page with this sentence I hard-coded and added a reference to the user defined Variable and then produced output. Works great.

  Now, I'm going 'down' a level. What I want to know is how to

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  "This section describes how enter and manage."

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  be a code snippet. I want it to be an excerpt because when I write a sentence better, I don't have to make the same change on each of these presentation pages. Finally, there are 19 pages of presentation.

  
  

  Anyone who structure their content like this?

  
  

  What I want to avoid doing several manual changes. For example, if the following examples have been in a RoboHelp project, on https://support.assessment.pearson.com/x/N4Dy, there is this sentence:

  
  

  This section shows you how to manage user accounts.

  
  

  On this page - support to manage test paper - next to PearsonAccess online User Guide - Pearson Assessment - it is this sentence:

  
  

  This section covers all the unique aspects of the test paper.

  
  

  What I'm trying to do, is to have an extract which is defined as:

  
  

  This section tells you how to

  
  

  and refer to it on both pages.

  On the first page, it looks like

  from <>this section tells you how to< / endSnippet >

  user accounts < beginUserDefinedVariable >< / endUserDefinedVariable >.

  Then on the second page, I would say this:

  extract < code > This section tells you how to < / endSnippet >

  < beginUserDefinedVariable > manage paper test < / endUserDefinedVariable >.

  |

  The reason why I want it as a snippet of code is because I don't want to have to maintain "this section tells you how to" text hardcoded on each of these presentation pages. I would like to take advantage of the functionality of content reuse to avoid a bunch of copy / paste or even find / replace.

  Thanks for any help!

  Paul Hanson

  RoboHelp MVP of looonnngggg a long time ago...

  But what you might want to consider, is another variable to contain the desired text in the code snippet. This could be inserted inline. Then update you only in the variable.

  Just thinking out loud a bit.

  See you soon... Rick

• VCenter Server installed as a virtual machine within a ESXi servers it manages?

  Hi all.  I'm new in the world of VSphere... still in my evaluation period.

  I have only a single ESXi server running at the moment but plans to add a second later for high availability, vmotion, increase general capacity, etc.  They are / will be ESXi running on the internal storage and the virtual machines running on a shared SAN.

  Today, I installed VCenter Server 4 on a server at bottom of range/Office that I was carrying around running XP Pro x 64.

  As I was installing I read the guide installation and to my surprise, it seems to recommend that I have installed VCenter Server 4 as a virtual machine on my ESXi host.

  Now maybe I just spent too much time setting up my without new Lefthand requiring a 'witness' during the failover of one SAN to another... but I was under the impression that VCenter Server is not designed simply to host configuration, but is also designed to act as a 'witness' or to take account of quorum whenever a failure scenario occurred on one of my ESXi hosts.  I also noticed the VCenter Server features of a port "heartbeat", which I suppose one would use for the ESXi server heartbeat, but perhaps it is used for "connected mode" with other VCenter servers (I was intending to use only one since it is a small scale installation) I also felt that it would be useful enough to restore a damaged or shot ESXi host.

  So my question is, if my ESXi host dies and it is where I have VCenter Server installed, then high availability will be unable to work?  I guess there are going to be other issues with me unable to access VCenter Server while I have an ESXi host shot, too, as a greater difficulty to get the ESXi up?

  Maybe I'm wrong understand the purpose of the VCenter server... maybe it's not something that's necessary for HA, recovery, etc. and acts only as a configuration tool until something is wrong?  Or maybe I misunderstood the installation guide and they recommend only installing VCenter Server on an ESX box... they don't want this ESX box to be part of the group that manages the server?

  Finally, if indeed they recommend I install this on a ESXi host manages... would I ideally be install this for local storage on the server (where I installed ESXi) or on the SAN (where all my other virtual machines are installed)... or is it just personal preference?

  Thank you!!

  When you add hosts an active hemagglutinin vCenter cluster HA agent is installed on it.  This agent is what is actually the HA.  While necessary to add new hosts in a cluster and configure some specific parameters of vCenter vCenter's agents HA are self-sufficient and can handle HA failover so vCenter is offline.

  You must install the vCenter VM on SAN storage, so that he can use the vMotion, sVmotion, DRS, HA, functions etc. that require a SAN.

  -MattG

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