WSUS lists approved vmware system driver for your guest but it doesn’t get installed.
get the latest in-guest-install vmware-tools (zipped) exe from vmwares download page und run it inside the guest.
Tag: esxi
esxi | snmp | sysORTable is the entry
snmpwalk -Ovn -c YOURCOMMUNITY -v 1 YOURIP sysORTable
esxi | storcli | my collection
Credits: https://blog.svedr.in/posts/locating-dying-disks-in-lsi-raid-using-storcli/ Credits2: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/StorCLI Your Controller ID: 0 Your Enclosure ID: 8 Overall status: storcli /c0 /eall /sall show all Single disks status storcli /c0/e8/s1 show Locate a disk storcli /c0/e8/s3 start locate Make it visually easier to locate a disk: storcli /c0 set activityforlocate=off
esxi | monitoring | storcli
Credits: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/StorCLI_unter_VMware_vSphere_installieren The StorCLI fka MegaCLI handles your RAID stuff from console. Download The StorCLI here https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/download.html?product=12190 or here https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12354804 Install the StorCLI: esxcli software vib install -v=/vmware-storcli.vib –no-sig-check Run the StorCLI: cd /opt/lsi/storcli ./storli Tune that stuff: Goto rc.local and add cat > /sbin/storcli << ‘__EOF’ #!/bin/sh cd /opt/lsi/storcli ./storcli “$@” __EOF Nice: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/StorCLI […]
ESXI | authorized_keys
/etc/ssh/keys-%u/authorized_keys
ESXI | enable snmpd the easy way
esxcli system snmp set –communities MYCOMMUNITY esxcli system snmp set –enable true Edit: vi /etc/vmware/snmp.xml /sbin/services.sh restart auto-backup.sh
bytes and bones 