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ESX Commands – Summary

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Jon Owings

It took just about a year. Which shows I need more consistency with my blog (should have been about 1 month). I finally finished a brief explanation of each esxcfg command. My little self study for the VCDX, this is … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands: esxcfg-vswif

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Jon Owings

The esxcfg-vswif command allows you to create and modify Service Console ports and their IP information. Many times I have to change stuff after the install process is complete and the only place is via the direct service console because … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands: esxcfg-vmknic

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Jon Owings

You need to have VMkernel ports to do VMotion, Software iSCSI and Fault Tolerance. These ports can be easy to create and manage from the command line. I generally can be found adding them for vSphere iSCSI. I especially use … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands: esxcfg-vswitch

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Jon Owings

This is a command I use the most often. It is big when I configure Equalogic and MPIO in vSphere. Additionally, many times I show up on site and the network is not configured prior to my arrival. Even if … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands esxcfg-nics

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Jon Owings

I have been missing for a couple weeks again, which means we have been busy doing VMware installs and that is a good thing. Next command in the order is esxcfg-nics. From the command line you can get some good … Continue reading →

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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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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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