esxcli software vib list – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Find ESXi installation date

magander — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:29:00 +0000

Last week i received a question about howto find the VMware ESXi installation date. Actually nothing i have thought about before and my initial thought was to verify this via the date you receive when running the following command: esxcli software vib list | grep -i base I ran the above command in my home …

Storage vMotion fails with error Already disconnected

magander — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:54:57 +0000

This blog post applies to vCenter Server version 5.5. U2d and ESXi server version 5.5 U2a. A few days back i got involved in a virtual machine migration (VM) issue. The VMs were suppose to be migrated from one vSphere cluster to another without any chance of mounting one of the vSphere clusters datastore(s) to the other …

Upgrade ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 5.5 U1 using HP image fails

magander — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:29:27 +0000

Before i start an upgrade i usually run two commands just to verify what build number my ESXi host currently uses and what image my ESXi host currently uses: vmware -v – shows the build number esxcli software profile get – shows the image name and in my case the result before the upgrade was: …