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Sunday, 22 May 2011

vMA 4.1 commands

esxcfg-advcfg / vicfg-advcfg - Modify advanced kernel options, e.g. adjust CIM providers, set DCUI message ...


esxcfg-cfgbackup / vicfg-cfgbackup - Backup and restore ESXi host configurations

esxcfg-dns / vicfg-dns - Configure DNS properties of ESX(i) host

esxcfg-dumppart / vicfg-dumppart - Query, set & scan for diagnostic (dump) partitions on ESX(i) hosts

esxcfg-iscsi / vicfg-iscsi - Manages iSCSI storage on ESX(i) host. Add/remove discovery addresses or static targets, changes CHAP authentication, set/list HBA IP details, list LUN/target properties, enable/disable s/w iSCSI

esxcfg-module / vicfg-module - Configures VMkernel modules

esxcfg-mpath / vicfg-mpath - List iSCSI & fibre path information, and changing path state

esxcfg-mpath35 / vicfg-mpath35 - List iSCSI & fibre path information, and changing path state on ESX(i) 3.5 hosts

esxcfg-nas / vicfg-nas - Manipulates NAS file system, adds, deletes, lists, add host

esxcfg-nics / vicfg-nics - Get information, set speed/duplex for physical nics.

esxcfg-ntp / vicfg-ntp - Configure/add/delete NTP server on ESX(i) host, start/stop service

esxcfg-rescan / vicfg-rescan - Scan the LUNs on a host for a specific adapter

esxcfg-route / vicfg-route - List/add/delete VMkernel routing information for IPv4 & IPv6

esxcfg-scsidevs / vicfg-scsidevs - Displays available LUN information for ESX(i) 4.x hosts

esxcfg-snmp / vicfg-snmp - Configure/start/stop SNMP service

esxcfg-syslog / vicfg-syslog - Get/set syslog server & port

esxcfg-user / vicfg-user - Manage local users and groups for ESX(i) host

esxcfg-vmknic / vicfg-vmknic - Configures VMkernel NICs. You can add/delete VMkernel NIC, set MTU, IP address, assign DVS & dvport/portgroup, enable/disable for VMotion, IPv6 & disable TSO.

esxcfg-volume / vicfg-volume - Resignature snapshot volume and mount/unmount it. List snapshots & mount snapshot persistently.

esxcfg-vswitch / vicfg-vswitch - Add/remove virtual (dv)switches/portgroups, and modify settings.

esxcli - Manages the Pluggable Storage Array (PSA) architecture. There are 3 namespaces (nmp,corestorage and swiscsi). nmp is for the Native MultiPathing, corestorage is for managing the claim rules to mask devices, and swiscsi is for managing the iscsi interface.

resxtop - Display ESX(i) host resource utilisation

svmotion - Move storage of a virtual machine

vifs - copy/delete/get and put files & directories on ESX(i) host file system

vihostupdate - Manage (install, remove, list) software installations on ESX(i) host

vihostupdate35 - Manage (install, remove, list) software installations on ESX(i) 3.5 host

vmkfstools - Used to manipulate and creat virtual disks, file systems, logical volumes and physical storage devices. Manage VMFS and RDMs

vmware-cmd - Perform VM operations. You can retrieve information such as the power state, register and unregister the virtual machine, set configuration variables, and manage snapshots.

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Setting up IIS to act as an Update Manager repository

The following KB article describes how to set up IIS to provide the patches downloaded by the Update Manager Download Server (UMDS) to the Update Manager server.

KB 1019288

I'd like to add some additional information to help with this.



  1. The configuration of Update Manager means that you have to either host the downloaded patches locally to the UM server (i.e. plug in a drive with them on, or copy to the servers drive), or host them on a web server that is accessible by the UM server.
  2. After the patches have been downloaded, they can be hosted on the UMDS server running IIS, and therefore you don't need to export the downloads anywhere saving on disk space & manual activities.
  3. When you follow the KB article, make sure you copy version.txt and version1.txt to the root of the patch folder from the downloaded patches folder.
  4. The KB article says copy the downloaded patches to the Document Root folder. Even better than this would be simply to set up UMDS to download directly to this folder, and then you don't need to worry about file copies.
To make sure that the IIS server is working, type using IE on the VM machines to connect to the following address:

http://umds_server_name/patch_store/version.txt

you should see something like:

"Created with VMware Update Manager Download service 4.1.0"