ESXi 6.5 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U2 & ESXi 6.5 U2 Released

magander — Fri, 04 May 2018 16:30:00 +0000

Yesterday, 2018-05-03, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 2. This is little more than two weeks since the vSphere 6.7 release and some features from vSphere 6.7 are backported to 6.5 U2. The most important things is vCenter Server single instance solution meaning no more …

VMware ESXi Esxtop Invalid Output Format (CSV)

magander — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:06:54 +0000

A few days back I received a question regarding ESXi esxtop output format which looked more like a comma separated values (CSV) file than the normal table view you’re used to. And the CSV like output was constantly updating meaning estop was running but not just displayed correct. See sample output below. I’m running a …

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 & ESXi 6.5 U1 Released

magander — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:06:22 +0000

Yesterday, 2017-07-27, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 1. The release includes quite a few driver updates for ESXi and vCenter Server got a few new enhancements & features which I know a few of my customers have been waiting for such as: External database …

List VMware ESXi vMotion Enabled VMkernel Interfaces Using PowerCLI

magander — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:27:09 +0000

A while back during a troubleshooting exercise I created a script to list ESXi host VMKernel Interfaces (vmk) with vMotion enabled since some of the ESXi hosts had vMotion enabled on multiple interfaces. The below information is included per ESXi hosts in the script output CSV file: VMHost – ESXi host Name IP – IP …

Add Multiple ESXi Hosts To vCenter Server Using PowerCLi

magander — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 06:59:07 +0000

A few days back I created a vSphere cluster with 32 ESXi hosts and I really didn’t want to add all these hosts using the UI so I decided to put together a short powercli script to manage this. The script that was tested using the following software versions: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 VMware ESXi 6.5 build 5146846 …

ESXi 6.5 Service sfcbd-watchdog Not Running

magander — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:54:02 +0000

Updated 2020-10-02: Seems to be working for ESXi 7.0 as per blog post comment. Thanks for heads up Jack. ——————————————————————————————————————– A few days back i had problem with the VMware ESXi service sfcbd-watchdog which wouldn’t start on my newly deployed ESX 6.5a (build number 4887370) servers and since the service is used for hardware monitoring …

Send F Key to VMware Fusion Via MacBook Keyboard

magander — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:27:15 +0000

So I figure I’ll finally write this down. Since i start using a MacBook back in 2010 i also switched from VMware Workstation to VMware Fusion. What I’m constantly forgetting since I’m not using it that much is how to press F keys in Fusion based VMs. I can say that 90% of the cases when I …

VMware vCenter Server & ESXi 6.5.0a released

magander — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 03:10:45 +0000

Just a short blog post for you who might have missed that a few days ago, 2017-02-02, same time as VMware released NSX version 6.3.0 they also released: vCenter Server 6.5.0a ESXi 6.5.0a The only purpose of this A release for vCenter Server was to add support for NSX 6.3 and the same goes for ESXi …