The default and recommended setting is to leave the purple screen of death up to help you notice that the host has died and also leave the PSOD up to help troubleshoot the issue because on reboot you can loose your logs. 1. Shell (SSH) into the physical host or access the host directly… Read more »
Restarting Management Agents on ESX Physical Hosts
Management services on physical hosts that are running VMware ESX can fail causing the following results: You cannot connect ESX/ESXi to VirtualCenter /vCenter Server You cannot connect directly to the ESX/ESXi host from the VMware Infrastructure Client / vSphere Client You cannot stop or start a virtual machine A virtual machine is shown as running… Read more »
VMWare ESX 5.x Host Commands
You don’t need to manage VM guests using just the vSphere fat client or vSphere Web Client, you can manage VM’s from the host command line (CLI). This is a short brief list of some of the more common commands to use, there are however a lot more that I am not going to spend… Read more »
VMware Anti Affinity Rules in VMware ESX
I recently had to setup anti affinity to separate two guest operating systems that were clustered using Microsoft Cluster. This ensured that each guest would not be on the same host, reducing the risk of hardware failure bringing down both hosts and the cluster. Other examples might be that you want your primary and secondary… Read more »
Sharing .VMDKs on VM’s in VMware ESX
Recently I had to create a vmdk disk to share between two Microsoft Clustering servers. The purposes was to be utilised for a Quorum disk and found it isn’t as simple as creating a disk and attaching to the other host. This was done on a Microsoft 2008 R2 Server however it is dependent on… Read more »
