Sometimes you want/need use iPerf to test the nic speed between two ESXi hosts. I did because I was seeing a NIC with low throughput in my lab. How can we test raw speeds between the two hosts? iPerf comes to the rescue. I was looking on how to do this on an ESXi host. I doesn’t come as a surprise that I found the …

The following powershell snippet is going to unconfigure the diagnostic coredump partition using the esxcli version 2 cmdlet. The second part will reconfigure the diagnostic partition with the ‘smart’ option so that an accessible partition is chosen. If you want to configure a new diagnostic partition the you will find …

vCenter is showing an alarm on the TrendMicro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA): ‘vShield Endpoint SVM status’ Checking vShield for errors: The DSVA VA console window shows: (as to where it should show a red/grey screen) Let’s go for some log file analysis To get a login prompt: Alt + F2 Login with user dsva and …

Start the ssh service on all hosts: Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"}) } <div class="uagb-ifb-content"> <div class="uagb-ifb-title-wrap"> </div> <div class="uagb-ifb-text-wrap"> <p class="uagb-ifb-desc"> <em>Thanks to Alan Renouf at …

In a VSAN project the VMware Compatibility Guide mentioned a different driver version for the raid controller than the one that was installed. So I tried to install a driver update for the raid controller through the CLI. This did not work out as expected because the /altbootbank was in a corrupted state. There were …

Leverage powercli to execute esxcli commands remote

These are powercli goodies I use on a regular base