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ESXi bug causes Cisco VPC’s to not function correctly
After hours and hours and hours of troubleshooting, we’ve finally figured out why our brand new C260 ESX hosts that we’re installed in a VPC were not functioning correctly. At the most, only 3 interfaces were ever able to come online, bringing the fourth would take the entire host down. The problem? The C260 uses […]
Tags: Cisco UCS, Cisco VPC, esxi, vmware
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Configure Syslog on ESXi using PowerShell and PowerCLI
Using powershell, I was able to configure all the hosts in my vCenter instance First, I needed to configure the syslog host get-vmhost| Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -NameValue @{‘Config.HostAgent.log.level’=’info’;’Vpx.Vpxa.config.log.level’=’info’;’Syslog.global.logHost’=’udp://IPADDDR:514′} I then needed to open the appropriate firewall ports for the traffic to get through get-vmhost| Get-VMHostFirewallException |?{$_.Name -eq ‘syslog’} | Set-VMHostFirewallException -Enabled:$true On the C220 M3’s, we had […]
Tags: esxi, PowerCLI, PowerShell, vmware
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Installing vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 – A Step By Step Guide
First, download the Free Trial or if your licensed for the full version here! *Note – Roughly 350GB disk space will be required! Then we must configure a couple of pre-requisites required for the installation and successfull deployment of vCenter Operations Manager 5.3. Open your vSphere client, clock on home > networking, then click on […]
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Update the DNS Suffix on your cluster of ESX hosts using PowerCLI
Using PowerCLI, you can quickly update the DNS Suffix on the hosts in your cluster using this short one-liner. get-cluster “LabManager” | get-vmhost | get-vmhostnetwork | set-vmhostnetwork -searchdomain “one.lab.org”, “two.lab.org”
Tags: cloud, PowerCLI, PowerShell, vmware
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