1. First we need to enable file services on vSAN cluster
a. Login to the vCenter
b. Select the cluster
c. Click on Configure
d. Click on Services
e. Click on Enable on File services
2. Click on Next
3. We need to provide below details
1. First we need to enable file services on vSAN cluster
a. Login to the vCenter
b. Select the cluster
c. Click on Configure
d. Click on Services
e. Click on Enable on File services
2. Click on Next
3. We need to provide below details
We can use df -h command to get the file system usage.
When can we use it-Most of the time I had to use it to check the file system usage on vCenter appliance.
We can use find command to find files in the ESXi or vCenter file system
In my below example I have used it to find all the vmx files
Ex
find / -name *.vmx
We can use cat command to open a file and read the data
In my below example I have opened one of the main log file(vmkernel.log) using cat viewer
We can use grep command to search something inside the file
In my below example I used grep commands to find logged errors in the vmkernel.log
We can use ps command to fine running vm’s process
vSphere 6.7 quick boot is new feature which is integrated with update manager. When we performing patching activities with earlier versions of vSphere most of the time we need to reboot the ESX hosts. This is very painful because normayy it will take more than 5 minutes to reboot hardware server. Also sometimes we may need to login using ILO\BMC\IDRAC and check the boot status.
With the version 6.7 we can configure quick boot of ESX hosts.This feature will allow us to reboot only the hypervisor without rebooting ESX’s hardware.
Requirements of this feature-
This feature will not work with all the hardware servers.we can follow below link to get the compatible hardware models.
How to check the compatibility of your server-
We can run
/usr/lib/vmware/loadesx/bin/loadESXCheckCompat.py
And check the compatibility of our server with quick boot.
How to configure this feature
1.login to your vCenter web client
Go to the update manager
Select Manage
Select Settings
Click on Edit
Enable quick boot
Now we are going to remediate one of my esx host.
From the target host we can see qucik boot is enable on this
I used VMware hol HOL-1904-01-SDC-HOL to test this feature
Reference links
First of all we need to run Migration Assistance tool from vCenter 5.5 server. To do this we can mount the vCenter 6.7 installation media to the computer.
Inside the ISO file we can locate migration assistance in the folder migration-assistant
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