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VmWare
Nice free full virtualization system. I am keeping entry of few command line tools for easy referance.
Start / Stop Guest OS from command line
- | stop
vmrun -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u root -p <password> stop "[standard] Windows 7/Windows 7.vmx"
- | start
vmrun -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u root -p <password> start "[standard] Windows 7/Windows 7.vmx"
Keyboard mapping in vsphere web client
On mac i always had trouble accessing various tab on TTY while using web client. Found the shortcut and recording here.
FN+Cntrl+Optn+<f(x)>
<note tip>f(x) could be any function key or combination with alt+ctrl in regular system.</note>
vmware-converter-client
vmware-converter-client fail loading on 64 bit linux.
I have fixed it installing following package.
Listed package naming is for fedora 15.
yum install \
glibc.i686 \
libSM.i686 \
libXi.i686 \
libXrender.i686 \
libXrandr.i686 \
libXfixes.i686 \
libXcursor.i686 \
libXinerama.i686 \
libpng.i686 \
freetype.i686 \
fontconfig.i686 \
glib2.i686 \
That should do it.
VDP
Command line Job Control
To Cancel Running job
mccli activity cancel --id=<id>
To list all running jobs
mccli activity show --active
List all Events
mccli event show
Read log of running job
mccli activity get-log --id=<id>
iSCSI volumes showing normal, degraded
After reboot does not join cluster.VmWare
# On ESXi Host esxcfg-advcfg -s 0 /LVM/DisallowSnapshotLun esxcli storage core adapter rescan --all vmkfstools -V # Reboot ESXi host # Once joined vcenter, wait for few minutes try revert changes. esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /LVM/DisallowSnapshotLun
vCenter update issue
While updating following error received.
Update installation failed, vCenter is non-operational.
Please check if all partitions are good.
appliancesh software-packages install --url
