Category Archives: commands

Rescan All Hba’s Where are you?

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Jon Owings

So I was updating some of my blog posts on the esxcfg-* commands with any changes in ESX 4. I wrote earlier I did not know much about the esxcfg-advcfg command. Since writing that post at the end of 2008, … Continue reading →

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Change Service Console IP

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

Want to change the Service Console IP address from the command line real quick like? esxcfg-vswif -i [new IP] -n [netmask] [vswif]example (as root)esxcfg-vswif -i 172.25.100.92 -n 255.255.255.0 vswif0 Q: How do I know what is my vswif?A: esxcfg-vswif -loutput … Continue reading →

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The watch command in the Service Console

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Jon Owings

UPDATE: Eric Siebert wrote an almost identical article here for techtarget. Since I don’t want people to think I just lift ideas from other blogs I would like to credit this article at the top. Although I have been using … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-auth

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Jon Owings

Following my alphabetical method of learning. esxcfg-authusage: esxcfg-auth [options] options: –enablemd5 Enable MD5 password storage –disablemd5 Disable MD5 password storage –enableshadow Enable Shadow password storage –disableshadow Disable Shadow password storage –enablenis Enable NIS Authentication –disablenis Disable NIS Authentication –nisdomain=domain Set … Continue reading →

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