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• Get ESXi properties form keyvalue

  Using esxcli I get properties get ESXi keyvalue form like this:

  esxcli - formattter = keyvalue network firewall get

  that returns the values in the keyvalue like this format:

  Firewall.DefaultAction.String = Drop

  I would try to get ALL the properties of ESXi on an ESXi host for keyvalue print.

  How can I do this with powercli?

  Thank you!

  OP probably wanted to have a specific formatting:

  get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $esx |select Name, Value |ForEach-Object{$_.Name +'='+$_.value}
  

  LucD BTW, how you format scripts so well?

• get the error message "status.msi".

  After insalling windows XP Pro SP3 yesterday, everything was fine. Today, I turn on the computer and get this continuous message "status.msi" missing. I have accumulated my brain trying to find the file with no luck. Done a repair and still a problem.
  Also in the auto updates SP2 would not up-to-date.
  I need help in the form of simple please...
  Thank you

  Hi Michael6208,

  ·         You get the error message for Windows update?

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Perform a clean boot to see if there is a software conflict as the clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  Note: After completing the steps in the clean boot troubleshooting, follow the section How to configure Windows to use a Normal startup state of the link to return the computer to a Normal startupmode.

  After the clean boot used to resolve the problem, you can follow these steps to configure Windows XP to start normally.

  (a) click Start, run.

  (b) type msconfigand click OK.

  (c) the System Configuration Utility dialog box appears.

  (d) click the general tab, click Normal startup - load all services and device drivers and then click OK.

  (e) when you are prompted, click on restart to restart the computer.

  Method 2: For windows, update problem, disable the security software temporarily.

  Note: Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you should not disable the antivirus software. If you do not disable temporarily to install other software, you must reactivate as soon as you are finished. If you are connected to the Internet or a network at the time the anti-virus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks.

  Method 3: You can also manually install updates (KB number) by downloading from the Microsoft Download Center.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

  Method 4: Follow the steps in the article to reset the Windows Update components.

  How to reset the Windows Update components?

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

• How to get the cpu host machine virtual mhz by PowerCLI

  How to get the cpu host machine virtual mhz by PowerCLI

  Thank you

  

  The following command of PowerCLI will list the maximum cpu MHz for all of your virtual machines from the host:

  Get - VM | Select-Object - property Name,@{Name='MaxHostCpuMhz'; Expression = {$_.} NumCpu * $_. VMHost.CpuTotalMhz / $_. VMHost.NumCpu}}

• VMware ESXi 5 host stops sending the syslogs to the remote server (Splunk)

  We have recently installed a Splunk syslog server and our pointing devices are to him.   I noticed that when we stop/start the server (or service) the logs of all my ESXi 5 hosts stop coming in.

  There seems to be a known problem

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2003127

  The next step 5 restart the newspaper that circulates.  But there is no way I want to log on to the console and run it whenever someone does something in Splunk that needs a reboot or the Windows box is restarted for patches.

  I started writing a script bash (below), but discovered that ESXi has really not an area of cron as has ESX4 (not i).  If I brute force to create it on the host, it will come off with tasks.

  # This checks if the syslog server is written on "SPLUNK" third-party syslog server

  # It will restart the syslog service if she sees that he has ceased to

  const = 'cannot write the journal. "

  If [/var/log/.vmsyslogd.err - e]; then

  /var/log/.vmsyslogd.err n 1 tail. grep "unable to write the log.

  If [$? = 0]; then

  echo '$const; Found in the LAST line, restart the syslog server.

  FI

  FI

  "I was going to cron to run every 15 minutes and if he saw the last line in the log that was stopped 'impossible to write the journal' so I would like to add a '.esxcli system syslog reload " inplace of the echo line.

  "I vCenter on a Windows machine and would like to run a scheduled task on all my hosts (perhaps a csv file) and then delivers."esxcli system syslog reload " if that is found.  I can't figure out how to do this, can anymore help me out?

  I'd like to use what I have, I don't have a vMA or splunks VM either.


  


  William Lam posted a script on how to do this on his blog site.  It is uses an alarm vCenter to alert in case of connectivity for the loghost is lost.

  virtuallyGhetto: detection of ESXi Remote Syslog connection error using a vCenter alarm

• BackupExec 2012 Agent for ESXi 5 host?

  We just move from ESX to ESXi 5 4.1.  We find that the BackupExec Agent of Linux is no longer talking to ESXi host 5.

  Just would like to ask you if there are any 2012 BackupExec for ESXi 5 Host Agent?

  Thank you

  As far as I know, we don't have Backup Exec for ESXi host agent. If you want to take a backup of the configuration files to can do this through the vCLI l command vicfg - cfgbackup.p

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.VCLI.GetStart.doc_50/cli_about.html

• Do we need to backup Log / config files for ESXi 5 host?

  Hello

  We just upgraded a 4.1 ESX ESXi 5 host host.

  In ESX 4.1, we receive BackupExec Agent installed and regularly backup/etc and the log files.  Wonder if we still have these backups?  If so, how the server BackupExec speaks to the ESXi 5 host?

  Thank you

  Post edited by: TonyJK

  collection of newspapers is most important in that ESX ESXi, because if no SCRATCH partition configured newspapers will be emptied after a reboot.

  For the collection of newspapers

  1. as indicated in the commentary after use Syslog collector to collect newspapers of ESXi.

  2 redirect syslog to a folder in volme VMFS.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2003322

  For the collection of backup/etc, you can use the command of vCLI vicfg-cfgbackup

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.VCLI.ref.doc_50/vicfg-cfgbackup.html

• VMware ESXi 5 compatiable with ESXi 4 hosts tools?

  If a virtual machine created on ESXi 5 should be migrated to a host ESXi 4, would be the tools work properly?  They are backwards compatiable?

  In addition, ESXi 4 VMware tools will work correctly when migrating to an ESXi 5 host?

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  Yes, the 4-5 and 5-4 are fully compatible.

  Good luck!

• ESXi 5.1 status host HA is showing that the election

  Hello

  I have a node 4 ESXi 5.1 HA and DRS Cluster. Recently, I replaced all these hosts SSL certificates and prior to this activity, I had turned off the AP. Now, after replacing the hosts SSL certificates - when I am allowing the PA on the cluster, 1 single ESXi host is projection status of HA - ' Running (Master) and rest all three hosts are 'Election' HA status.»

  Tried to re - install the HA agent on the host, but issue still persists. Also tried the re - configure the AP on hosts ESXi, deactivation and activation of AP on the cluster, but no luck.

  Can someone help me for that to be resolved.

  Thank you

  KC

  Hi all

  Thanks for all your response.

  Problem is solved without the help of the HostReconnect.pl script. I followed the steps below and now all ESXi hosts demonstrate normal HA status.

  (1) put the host in Maintenance Mode. Unplug and remove from the vCenter server.

  (2) restart the management through DCUI Agent.

  (3) uninstalled the HA agent using the command line.

  (4) add the host to the Cluster.

  5) out of Maintenance Mode.

  By following these steps - correctly configured the AP on all four ESXi hosts. Now a single host is show as master and rest three hosts are displayed as slaves HA status.

  Kind regards

  KC

• ESXI 5 and I created a virtual server, now I want to install the OS on the host, but cannot get the virtual host to recognize the CD/DVD where I have the installation disc.

  I have tried the option "edit" for the VM., changed devices, no luck, tried the bios option to create the primary boot device CD, no luck.

  any ideas?

  I think I have this problem myself, had to return to editing, CD/DVD and check the box that had 'host' not the 'customer '.

  seems good now.

• Update / fixes ESXi single host with VCSA running on it.

  We have just updated since the free version of ESXi 5 by ordering the Kit of Essentials. In the process, of course, we were able to deploy vCenter Update Manager (which has been the main motivation, like patching manually the free version seemed to be quite a pain). We have a Windows host that has installed the Update Manager, and we have a VCSA running on the single instance of ESXi, we deployed to date. We were able to install the plugin on the viClient and scan the ESXi host for patches with success (a need a good number). But, we're stuck trying to install the patches... us when trying to restore the host, we get: "the operation is not supported on the selected inventory items. Check events for the objects selected for the operation.

  The host says:

  The 10.0.1.80 host has a virtual VMware vCenter machine

  Device server with VMware vSphere update

  Manager or VMware vCenter Server installed. The

  Virtual MACHINE needs to be moved to another host for the

  consolidation to proceed.

  error

  28/08/2014-16:21:32

  Clean up the entity

  10.0.1.80

  root

  Looking at this logic, for the host switch to maintenance mode, the VCSA should have been suspended (apparently, actually moved), which would avoid in turn patches / updates to the deployment. Am I correct in thinking, that we have a second host and networked storage? Made a Kit Essentials / license provide for the possibility of vMotion from one host to another? It wasn't really clear... Yes, the web site says "vMotion" is included in most Essentials, but find it me hard to imagine any point to a facility in ESXi stream without the ability to vMotion between one system and another guest...

  Welcome to the community,

  And since you have only an ESXi host and your vCSA is running on this host, you cannot patch this host with Update Manager for reason that already know you: the host should be the maintenance mode.

  Add about another host, with Kit Essentials without vMotion functionality, you can try using a data store of shared storage between two hosts, stop the vCSA on first host and switch the vCSA on the second host... and finally the first host patch.

• Can't ssh ESXi 5 host

  I had to do a strengthening of security on a host computer and now I can't ssh in.  I can go back to what I did, but I want to clarify what line in the sshd_config file is the cause.  I'll list out what I have:

  The SSH server is enabled and running under Firewall and ssh and ESXi shell is running on the host computer in the security profile

  I can connect to the host via the HP Onboard Administrator, both the shell and the DCUI

  I use putty and I put the 3DES encryption cipher selection policy and I tried to tell the version of the SSH 2 Protocol only, I went back with only 2 and just selection 2

  I can connect to the host directly with root and with an admin account, that set up the shell and DCUI

  I know that root cannot ssh in the host since PermitRootLogin is set to no, I'm getting my secondary account

  I immediately receive an error "The network connection closed unexpectedly Server", so it's going to stop until I can grasp anything.

  Finally, the ESXishelltimeout is 900 seconds

  I don't know what the sshd_config fie since I edited it's just before I had this problem.

  Thanks for any input.

  file of sshd:

  # linking inetd

  # Port 2200

  Protocol 2

  HostKey/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

  HostKey/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

  UsePrivilegeSeparation Yes

  SyslogFacility auth

  LogLevel info

  PermitRootLogin not

  PrintMotd Yes

  PrintLastLog no

  TCPKeepAlive Yes

  X11Forwarding no

  The cipher 3des-ctr, aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr

  Mac hmac-sha1

  AllowTCPForwarding no

  GatewayPorts no

  Allowgroupscase

  GSSAPIAuthentication no

  KerberosAuthentication no

  LOCAL AcceptEnv

  PermitUserEnvironment no

  PermitTunnel not

  MaxSessions 1

  StrictModes yes

  RhostsRSAAuthentication no

  Compression without

  UsePAM Yes

  # use only challenge-response MAP (interactive keyboard)

  PasswordAuthentication no

  Banner/etc/issue

  Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/vmware/openssh/bin/sftp-server

  AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/keys-%u/authorized_keys

  #ListenAddress

  # 10-minute delay. The default value of ClientAliveCountMax is 3.

  # This is why, we get a 3 * 200 = 600 seconds timeout if the customer has been

  # does not.

  ClientAliveInterval 200

  I think I have figured it out, I think that the 'UsePrivilegeSeparation yes' line is causing the problem, I tried on another host and that seems to be.  I check just in case anyone has the problem in the future.

• Can't get OS USB host for the installation of a new virtual machine

  I am trying to create my first VM in VSphere client. All my other machines have been migrated to Hyper-V machine. I created the machine but can't load of windows server 2003 r2 32 bit OS ISO. I tried several ways to no success.

  The virtual machine just says: operating system not found. The first way I tried was put the installation disc in the VSphere host and modify the virtual machine settings to point to the CD-ROM. It did not work.

  The second way, I tried was by clicking on the icon of the disk to the VM Console and choosing iso on the local disk. I then navigate to the iso file. When I did this it remains stuck in the connection. Even after I change this setting if I try to go back to the icon of the drive console he says always login no matter what I do on the parameters of the virtual machine. Can I stop it trying to connect?

  The third way, that I tried was to stick to a USB to the VSphere host. However, I can't understand how to assign the virtual machine to USB. I noticed that when I plug my USB key, it says USB configuration has changed in the events, but I do not see the USB drive as an option under storage.

  The fourth way that I tried was to use WINSCP for SFTP the ISO for the data store. When I do this need me in the root directory that has only about 100 MB of space on it. So it allows me to start the transfer of the iso and the error. How can I change this?

  I'm really frustrated about something which I think should be really easy. Any help is appreciated.

  You have access to vCenter?

  If so, this video shows how to download an ISO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6v8GsWJ9dc

  If you get your ISO on the data store that you can navigate to it through the client vSphere (console) to the virtual machine, do not forget to set the "connect on startup' or 'Connected' when you configure the virtual machine's CD drive.

  [Edit] Boot from USB can sometimes be a problem, if you need to boot from USB you can use a like Plop Boot Manager, it is an ISO standard, you can load into the virtual machine CD player. More info here: http://www.vladan.fr/great-tip-how-to-boot-from-usb-image-in-vmware-workstation/ ... It's for workstation, but it works for ESXi 5.0 as well.

  Post edited by: spravtek

• migrate to esxi free host in the cluster paid with minimal downtime

  Please excuse my ignorance, I am very new to VMware and I am familiar with the concepts of other virtualization software, I used, but not some of the termininology, and maybe that's why my research are not turning to the top of what I need.

  We had been using the free esxi hypervisor based to host some server hosts.  These servers are running a copy of our database and are used for reporting applications.  They are also setup with files VMDK provisioned very large and thick (> 300 GB!).  They were spread great for a year now.  However, we just bought the VMWare "vSphere 4 Essentials Plus" kit for the creation of a cluster of 3 machine, with a few redunancy and other features we wanted.  We also have a new san to go with it.  We are very pleased with the product and move to her!

  On the other invited VM running on this host, (and several other hosts, its amazing to see how they arise) I stop the virtual machine and the vCenter Converter allows you to migrate the virtual computer to the new cluster.  At the same time, I would like to convert it to the thickness of a provisioning. However, because these clients have very, very big thickness provisioned HD, its research as they would take five hours or more to migrate. (other VM moved to essentially 1 GB/min)  These report servers can go without updates the master DB for several hours, but servers should always be available. I can't have them down for 5 hours. There are a lot of historical reports are refreshed by the end users.

  Is it possible for me to do what follows somehow? I can't understand:

  • disable the DB update
  • closing comments, take a quick snapshot and then launch the guest.
  • While his copy running (and not updated) main and VMDK files file to the cluster (therefore only changes to files in the snapshot file)
  • on the new cluster, once copied (or during the copy) convert the VMDK to a thin provisioned (given that only about 85 GB of data is used in fact to this topic).
  • Finally, bring up new comments on the cluster at the same time I get comments on the old host (and ignore the changes that have taken place on the snapshot file, since its mainly a readonly report server)? and re - activate the DB update.

  For end users who would be about 5 minutes total of downtime (basically, two reboots) which would be much easier to deal with than the 5 hours (each!) of how we are past other virtual machines would.

  If the stand-alone host has the same type of CPU and family, you will be able to add it to the cluster otherwise just add to vCenter. You will always have access to other features.

• ESXi 3.5 Update 4 2 esxi: Error Host Update Utility

  Hello world

  I have a free esxi 3.5 server running that I want to spend to esxi 4 u2 (recorded vsphere foundation).

  I want to use the host update utility to perform this task, but I get the folowwing error when the package is checked:

  The upgrade package validation failed, α upgrade metadata reading failure; the incorrect input string format.

  I use the utility version 4.0.0 build 258672 with the updated package upgrade - to - esxi3.5 - 4.0_update02 - 261974.zip.

  I downloaded several times in the event of corruption of file without success.

  Any help welcome!

  Check this post http://communities.vmware.com/thread/265635 . It could be the same problem with the language settings.

  Kind regards.