Connect to the shell of the ESXi host system and browse to location of the datastore (/vmfs/volumes/{datastore name}) to which you want to identity orphoned virtual machine hard disks and invoke the following command. This will return all virtual machine hard disks to which the modified date is seven days in the past (-mtime +7) … More Identifying orphoned virtual machines and hard disks in vSphere
I was recently converting a template to a virtual machine for configuration when on performing the action to convert the template to a virtual machine using the vSphere Web Client I received the following error message: A component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host. The cause of the above issue was … More Component of the virtual machine is not accessible on the host when converting a template to a virtual machine
SNMP can be used to automatically retrieve status information from vSphere and ESXi hosts and provide the ability to push this information into a monitoring and management system. You can configure a maximum of four SNMP receivers can be configured per vCenter to send SNMP traps to management systems. To configure SNMP receivers, using the … More Configure SNMP receivers on vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts
I was recently looking to retrieve output of various VM affinity rules for all clusters on a single vSphere server, I was able to retrieve this information using the Get-DRSRule cmdlet: I need to invoke the cmdlet against all my clusters and to filter only to return DRS rules where the type is VM Affinity. … More Retrieving VM Affinity rules using PowerCLI
I recently performed a search using the vSphere Client where I received the following warning message: Quite a simple one to resolve in this instance, I checked the service ‘vCenter Inventory Service’ which was in a stopped state, starting the service resolved this issue and allowed for the return of the inventory search result without … More vSphere Inventory unable to connect to the remote server
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