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Patch esxi 5.0 using cli

Put the host in maintenace mode : vicfg-hostops –server 10.10.10.10 –operation enter

To verify which VIBs are already installed on the ESXi 5 host, issue the following command:

esxcli –server=10.10.10.10 –username=root software vib list | more

To update the ESXi 5 host with the VIBs included in the depot, issue the following command: esxcli –server=10.10.10.10 […]

Suppress warning shown in vCenter Server when Remote Tech Support Mode (SSH) or Local Tech Support Mode is enabled

In vSphere 4.1 Update 2 and later, perform these steps on individual hosts to disable the warnings:

Open a VI Client to the ESXi host Select the ESXi host from the Inventory. Select Configuration tab Advanced Settings from the Software menu. Navigate to UserVars > UserVars.SupressShellWarning. Set the value from 0 to 1. Click OK. […]

Dell Optiplex 990 with VMWare ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0

The onboard Intel 82579LM nic cannot be detected by vmware esxi4.1 and 5.0 out of the box.

For ESXi 4.1,

download the custom oem.tgz here with the e1001e driver and replace/merge the one in the /bootbank

For ESXi 5.0,

1st option :

Please try the following: 1. Install your machine(s) with the vanilla ESXi 5.0 […]

mysqltunner script

Useful for /etc/my.cnf tunning of mysql

https://github.com/rackerhacker/MySQLTuner-perl

vmfs-tools : read vmfs file system under Linux

http://glandium.org/blog/?cat=21

sudo debugvmfs /dev/sdb5 df -h sudo vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb5 /opt/vmfs

Network Monitoring tools : nagios, cacti, Zabbix, opsview

http://workaround.org/try-zabbix

Using Microsoft Connection Manager Administration kit to create custom VPN connection for clients

http://www.isaserver.org/img/upl/vpnkitbeta2/cmak.htm

The draw back is that you need to use 3 different installations to create all the required connectiods for different windows platforms which make the process :

1. A windows 2008 R2 for Win7 x64 version

2. A Windows 2003 for Windows xp version

3. A Windows 7 i386 installation for the Win7 i386 […]

Increase the trackball speed on Mac

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 7

Only affect trackball, trackpad is unaffected.

Tech Tip: Monitoring VMware ESX 3.x, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vCenter Server

http://library.nagios.com/library/techtips/257-tech-tip-monitoring-vmware-esx-3x-esxi-vsphere-4-and-vcenter-server

http://www.op5.com/how-to/monitoring-vmware-esx-3-x-esxi-vsphere-4-and-vcenter-server/

A bug in Nagios core 3.3.1 to prevent you from schedule host/service downtime

edit /etc/init.d/nagios, jum to the start) fragment :

add chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosCommandFile

after

if [ -d $NagiosLockDir ]; then touch $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile; fi echo ” done.”