esxcli – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

February 23, 2019 Hersey

Installing VMware vCLI on Ubuntu Desktop

In this post I’ll walk through installing the vSphere vCLI on an Ubuntu desktop to enable remotely running esxtop, vicfg

September 25, 2016 Hersey

Learning the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

It has been a good while since I have worked with vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). I used it fairly often when I was managing a vSphere environment. Since I am teaching the vSphere Optimize and Scale class during the winter semester I spun up the vMA in the homelab to re-introduce myself to it.

vHersey VITA VMware

March 16, 2016 Hersey

Anatomy of a vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB)

I just finished updating my home lab ESXi host to ESXi 6.0U1b. I was just poking around after doing the update and thought it might be useful to dig into the vSphere Installation Bundle or VIB. A VIB is an installation package which containing software, updates, patches, and drivers which can be installed on ESXi hosts.

PowerCLI vHersey VMware

November 12, 2013 Hersey

Set Default PSP for a SATP with PowerCLI

This script uses the PowerCLI cmdlet Get-EsxCli to execute the esxcli command to set the default PSP policy for the specified SATP on each host in vCenter Inventory.

vHersey VMware

May 27, 2013 Hersey

Updating to ESXi 5.1 Update 1 with the Offline Bundle

Update 1 for ESXi 5.1 has been out for a few weeks now. I had a few minutes of downtime so I decided to go ahead and update the host running my home lab. Not for any specific reason other than I had some time and wanted to get to the latest version.

DCA vHersey VMware

May 2, 2012 Hersey

Masking LUN Being Used as HA Heartbeat Datastore

Last night I was working through a couple of the storage objectives for the VCAP5-DCA. One of the required skills of Objective 1.1 on the blueprint is to understand and apply LUN masking.

Storage VMware

December 1, 2011 Hersey