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Have a situation where your VCenter is offline but you need to get a list of hosts to triage since the VCenter is now AWOL? Quick solution assuming you can SSH to the VCenter. Putty to the VCenter. start postgres query by typing : “/opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -d VCDB -U postgres“(You will now find yourself at a […]

So – this is a random one. Have a host that belonged to another VCenter and you need to remove a NIC from a distributed switch? This can be fun. I found that the easiest way to do this is via command line. Putty to the machine in question Type “esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware […]

This error is annoying.. Trying to update to 7.0.3.00500 (U3D)? Getting this error? Here is what you should do… Logon to the VCSA via Putty Mount the ISO on the VCSA from the host to the VM (Via the Web UI not putty) Change to the appliance shell if your using bash chsh -s /bin/appliancesh […]

So – if you’ve ever had to expand a disk on a vCenter, you know that mapping the mount to vmdk is annoying sometimes. Here you go.. A Handy little list for you: 7.0 Vcenter Disk Default Size Mount Point Purpose (VMDK) (Tiny/Default Size) VMDK1 48GB / (46GB) Directory where the kernel images and boot loader […]