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ESX Commands – esxcfg-nas

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

esxcfg-nas Standard use of this command is to add or list your NFS mounts. List: esxcfg-nas –l Add: esxcfg-nas –a –o <host> -s <share> <name> Not much more I can say. A little more detail here: http://b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm A thread in … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-mpath

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jon Owings

It has been almost 1 year since I started looking at the esxcfg-* commands. It initially came as a look at the first part of the Enterprise Administration Exam’s Blueprint very first bullet point. In that post I talked about … Continue reading →

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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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ESX Commands – esxcfg-module

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Jon Owings

After the last two entries being somewhat boring and not useful at least in my opinion. I am glad this command has a little more to it. [root@esx1 root]# esxcfg-module -hUsage: esxcfg-module -g–get-options Get the options for a given module … Continue reading →

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Free Stuff from the Ghost of VMworld’s Past

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

Why haven’t you looked into all of these free VMworld Sessions?So greatly collected all in one place at the best one stop shop for all VMware related material on the web Eric Siebert’s vSphere-land. This will be great distraction from … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-linuxnet

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

The guide from VMware.com says esxcfg-linuxnetConverts vswif to eth when booting ESX Server into service-console-only mode rather than into ESX mode. This command is used for the bootstrap process and is intended for VMware Technical Support use only. You should … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-init

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

Wow, this was a good one eh?check out the help. [root@esx1 root]# esxcfg-init -hUsage: esxcfg-initThis program is used to initialize device names and advanced configuration options for the VMkernel on system boot.It is NOT intended for use outside of initialization … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-info

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Jon Owings

This is a great command to give you a whole bunch of information. Sort of like trying to drink from a fire hose. Go ahead and type esxcfg-info as root from your console. Wasn’t that fun? You can follow this … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-hwiscsi

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Jon Owings

Next in the order of commands is esxcfg-hwiscsi. This command according to the iSCSI SAN configuration guide will let you set certain settings as required by your SAN on your hardware iSCSI HBA. esxcfg-hwiscsi -h – this is the help. … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-firewall

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Jon Owings

I have really forgot to keep up on my VCDX study path. So today a quick tidbit on the esxcfg-firewall command.Many of us today will use the vCenter Client to change firewall ports on the ESX. One instance where I … Continue reading →

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