In a number of instances you may not be able to gracefully power off a virtual machine using the Web Client or the vSphere Client when directly connected to the ESXi Host. In this instance you will be required to use the command line interface and this example the esxcli command to power off the … More Powering off a virtual machine using ESXCLI
Firstly we will need to download the vMA appliance (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMA55P01&productId=408) and import the OVF file, configure the deployment settings and power on. Before we start using the vMA we will look at configuring authentication and authorization to simplify the use of the vMA appliance. Configuring Authentication and Authorization for the vMA To simplify executing commands … More Deploying the vMA appliance, authentication and authorization and configuring fastpass
I recently implemented a branch office in a box (BOB) scenario using the free edition of the ESXi hypervisor, one of the number of maintenance tasks that will need to be performed is to update the OS and therefore I decided that the method of deploying these updates will be to use the vSphere CLI … More Update a standalone ESXi server using vSphere CLI
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