Tag Archive: command line

Take care if using an older Broadcom tg3 driver + TSO enabled at your ESXi host

Andreas Lesslhumer 19. February 2014 0 How to…, Management, Security, Troubleshooting broadcom tg3, check tso, check version tg3, command line, esxi 4, esxi 5, how to, install vib, KB 2072515, offline bundle, TSO enabled, update manager, vmware, vsphere

If the following conditions are true for ESXi hosts in your environment, please take care of VMware KB 2072515. There is a known issue, which may lead to silent data corruption: ESXi host is running version 3.5 or later the…
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How to – disable and enable VAAI on an ESXi Host

Andreas Lesslhumer 25. June 2013 0 How to… 3.5, 4.x, 5.x, command line, disable, enable, esxcfg-advcfg, esxi, how to, primitives, VAAI, vsphere client

There are not many reasons why you want to disable VAAI on your ESXi hosts… But sometimes you have to… for example, if you need performance logs to compare VAAI and non-VAAI behavior on your NetApp Storage *grr* You can…
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Total loss of ESXi Management Network Settings – rebuild vSwitch, portgroup and IP settings with command line

Andreas Lesslhumer 6. November 2012 1 How to…, Management, Troubleshooting command line, esxcfg, esxcfg-vmknic, esxcfg-vswitch, esxi host, ip settings, portgroup, total loss of management network, vsphere, vswitch

The following scenario occurred during the migration of an ESXi 4.1 Host to a new vSphere 5 Cluster: An ESXi 4.1 host with appoximately 30 running, high productive virtual machines should be migrated to a new vSphere 5 cluster. As…
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