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VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.5

I had some problems with this because I registered mine with the vCenter straight away. eye tee's blog entry was a revelation:

The first thing you want to configure is licensing. It’s important to configure licensing first because CapacityIQ has a bug which prevents you from configuring licensing after connecting to vCenter.

via eye tee: Installing VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.5.

Management Network Redundancy Message

Irritated by the No Management Network Redundancy message?

Disable in the HA Cluster setting Advanced Options by adding "das.ignoreRedundantNetWarning" and set the value to "True"

If the error still shows select the host and click "Reconfigure for HA"

via Host currently has no management network redundancy.

VMWare Virtual Apps

The sheer variety and quanity of VMWare's management virtual appliances has been driving me potty so in this post I gather together all of the default logins. It's not over yet.

vSheild

Username: admin
Password: default

manager> enable
manager# setup

Data Recovery

Username: root
Password: vmw@re

Capacity IQ

Username: ciqadmin
Password: set on install

Port already in use when installing vCenter Server

Port 80 in use? oh what could that be? Today it was the SRSS - never come across that before.

• Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS
• World Wide Web Publishing Services W3SVC
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Service SSRS
• Microsoft Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol SSTP – Check that this service is not enabled automatically through group policies.
• Microsoft Web Deployment Agent Service MsDepSvc

via VMware KB: Port already in use when installing vCenter Server.

VMWare PowerCLI

Having trouble with the system proxy? Let's turn it off

set-powercliconfiguration -proxypolicy noproxy

Connect to vCenter

connect-viserver vcenter-server

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot

Get-VM | Measure-Object

How many VM’s you have on each Host?
Get-VMHost | Select @{N=“Cluster“;E={Get-Cluster -VMHost $_}}, Name, @{N=“NumVM“;E={($_ | Get-VM).Count}} | Sort Cluster, Name | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\clu-host-numvm.csv

Command to list primary nodes on "M-Cluster"

((Get-view (Get-Cluster "M-Cluster").id).RetrieveDasAdvancedRuntimeInfo()).DasHostInfo.PrimaryHosts

ESXi – Command Line Power on and Power Off VM

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms (and get the VMID for the VM)

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on <VMID>

ESXi File System Links

/vmfs/volumes # ls -lah /vmfs/volumes/

3c3693e8-f77a642a-1910-5c6bdcb26d3a
4da57503-03d3e3d5-02ab-001617acac43
4da57514-eda7478b-ce34-001617acac43
Hypervisor1 -> f65cb57a-0499b093-0895-3ac7192cc7ae
Hypervisor2 -> f73e2c70-b99cfb84-4eaf-8a2abd9f8f79
Hypervisor3 -> 3c3693e8-f77a642a-1910-5c6bdcb26d3a
datastore1 -> 4da57514-eda7478b-ce34-001617acac43
f65cb57a-0499b093-0895-3ac7192cc7ae
f73e2c70-b99cfb84-4eaf-8a2abd9f8f79

/vmfs/volumes # ls -lah /

altbootbank -> /vmfs/volumes/f65cb57a-0499b093-0895-3ac7192cc7ae
bootbank -> /vmfs/volumes/f73e2c70-b99cfb84-4eaf-8a2abd9f8f79
locker -> /store
productLocker -> /locker/packages/4.1.0/
scratch -> /vmfs/volumes/4da57503-03d3e3d5-02ab-001617acac43
store -> /vmfs/volumes/3c3693e8-f77a642a-1910-5c6bdcb26d3a
vmupgrade -> /locker/vmupgrade/

Identifying disks with VMware

esxcfg-mpath -b -> generates a compact list of LUNs

esxcfg-scsidevs -l -> generates a list of LUNs

esxcfg-scsidevs -m -> generates a compact list of the LUNs

ls -alh /vmfs/devices/disks -> lists the possible targets

via VMware KB: Identifying disks when working with VMware ESX.

Capacity Planner : No enough Data Collected.

To add systems to a project, select "My Projects" from the "Administration" menu and click the project you want to edit