Rename the configBundle-xxxx. Step Recover the ESXi configuration. Step Exit the maintenance mode. Step Install and configure vCLI. Step Install the required set of packages. Install the required set of packages: apt-get install -y perl-doc libmodule-build-perl libssl-dev libxml-libxml-perl libsoap-lite-perl libuuid-perl build-essential and apt-get install ialibs build-essential gcc uuid uuid-dev perl libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl.
Step Run the installer from the directory where the downloaded file is unpacked. Run the installer from the directory where the downloaded file is unpacked:. Step Enter the interactive shell of Perl. Step Run the following command. Run the following command to install the required Perl module: install Devel::StackTrace.
Step Save a thumbprint to connect to ESXi hosts. Step Save a thumbprint. Step Add login credentials to a credential store. Step Check whether your credentials have been saved. Step Place the host into maintenance mode. Place the host into maintenance mode without entering login credentials: esxcli —server Step Automate ESXi host configuration.
Step Save the file and quit vim editor. Step Mark the file as executable. Step Edit a crontab file. Edit a crontab file to run the ESXi configuration backup command automatically: crontab -e Note: if you are editing a crontab file for the first time, select the default text editor, e.
Step List directory contents. List directory contents to check whether ESXi configuration was backed up at AM: ls —al Note that the ESXi session timeouts automatically after a reboot and every 30 minutes. Step Back up the ESXi host. When you are done editing press the Esc -key.
The indicator at the bottom left corner will disappear and you can again scroll through the file. In this command mode you can enter commands such as w to write changes to the file system or q to quit. And how about h for help? In the command mode : you can also type syntax off to disable the color coding of the text. If you did not make any changes then just enter q and press enter. If you did make changes then first type w and press enter to write the changes to the file system.
It is also possible to combine commands such as wq to write and quit. If you try to quit the editor without first saving any changes then you would see the message below.
To quit without writing changes type q! Most of the commands like environment , querycfgopt , querycfgoptdesc are for showing the environment that a ComputeResource presents for creating and configuring a virtual machine. The path to the datastore is not right. You may be wondering how to do the opposite — unregister a virtual machine.
Most of these command categories are self explantory, for example, datastore , autostartmanager , datastore , datastorebrowser , firmware , storage , summary, vmotion. Note that the summary is not really the same as you find from summary property of HostSystem managed object in vSphere API.
Returning back to the direct commands under the hostsvc, there is one called advopt. This is a shorthand for advanced options. Another command subcategory that does not seem straight-forward is the rsrc , which is for grouping resource pool related sub-commands.
Anyway, a name is a name. Once you know what it is, we can just focus on its functionalities. As you can guess, the hbr stands for host based replication. The following shows the sub-commands. As you can see, you can use them to manage the full cycle of virtual machine replicas, and monitor them accordingly. Again these commands are not related to the internal APIs, but rather services for performance management, log management, etc. To list out all the possible commands, just type as follows:.
Under the perfcount and vprobes , there are more sub-commands as follows:. Combined with scripting capability of Linux Shell , you can do a lot of automation work. Primary Menu Skip to content. Search for: Search Button.
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