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A Google Group discussion thread asking for help with hung tasks in VirtualCenter points out an important Service Console configuration best practice. Killing tasks on vcenter starts off by asking if there is a way to kill several VirtualCenter tasks that are bogging down the management server. Although the method for killing individual tasks is never realized, understanding potential reasons for the problem is the more important take away. Fixing the VirtualCenter performance problem results after correcting ESX host resource issues. Read the rest of this entry »

VM-Aware.com posted Amending ESX Time which is a great guide for setting the time on an ESX host when you can not automatically sync with a NTP server. The post explains how to use the standard Linux date command. Personally, I can never remember the parameter order when using date because it’s not the expected mm/dd/yy format. Finally, the guide shows how to use the hwclock command to make sure the ESX internal clock matches the newly adjusted OS time.

Follow the link above for the original post. I have slightly modified the command syntax in the following steps here based on my experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Installing ESX is fast and simple. By default you could click through the installer GUI changing only your local time zone and end up with a stable, dependable host. However, there are some recommended partitioning best practices that should be followed in order to make sure you minimize possible future headaches and create a repeatable and scalable environment.

This post uses content from documents found in the VI Plan and Design Toolkit available to VMware partners. Logging on to Partner Central and accessing > Info Center > VAC > Services is how you find the various toolkits. It also should be pointed out that the partitioning information in this post is for ESX 3.x only, and is not applicable to ESX 3i, 2.x or previous versions.

When installing ESX you quickly reach the Partitioning Options screen. Select the “Recommended” radio button initially. You can then make changes from Read the rest of this entry »

Changing the ip address of your ESX host, or specifically the ip address of the ESX Service Console, can be done on the console using the esxcfg commands. The esxcfg- utilities are the console commands for many ESX configuration options. To see all these commands at the console prompt simply enter “esxcfg-” and hit the tab button.

To change the IP address of the ESX 3.x host, you need to use the esxcfg-vswif command. To see the options and syntax of the esxcfg-vswif command you can enter:

#esxcfg-vswif -?

To change the ip address of the ESX host: Read the rest of this entry »

VMware Knowledge Base – New vmkerrcode Utility Displays VMkernel Errors

The following is a list of all vmkernel error codes in ESX 3.0.2. This list was generated by using the new vmkerrorcode utility.

To generate this list enter “vmkerrcode -l” at the service console.

If the table is hard to view on your monitor here is the .txt version. Read the rest of this entry »