You maybe have to disable or enable vMotion traffic on some VMKernel ports on ESXi for doing some maintenance tasks. Disabling or enabling takes lot of time for many servers in datacenter. You can disable or enable vMotion via PowerCLI by run a simple script.
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How to Check Time Synchronization with Host on Virtual Machines via PowerCLI As you know, virtual machines can sync their time with ESXi host when VMware Tools is installed on the virtual machines. Also the configuration should be enabled on virtual machine configuration manually. The configuration is available on “Virtual Machine Properties”: If there is […]
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How To Change Linux IP Address via PowerCLI There is some reason that you want to change IP address on virtual machines as an example, moving virtual machines to a new VLAN or port-group or moving them to another site or replicate virtual machine to an offsite recovery site. Changing IP on machines one by […]
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Change Local Account Password Usually, administrators using same password on all servers for easier management and there is some security reasons to change the password periodically such as defining an expire time for password or when one of members is left company. Changing user’s password or many users password on a single host is too […]
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Add Local Administrator Account on ESXi via PowerCLI The is some reason to have local user on ESXi servers even when there is vCenter server for management such as vCenter is inaccessible. You can use root user for doing operations on ESXi directly but some times, you have to ask someone to do the operations […]
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