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Virtual I/O is not new to the IT market and I was introduced by my friend about Xsigo recently.

Many enterprise who have implemented virtual environments as a way to consolidate servers and centralize management are running may facing I/O bottleneck issue. No matter how many servers, switches, SAN storage or operating systems that you have, you’re still require to go through IO device.

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Have you ever experience your Virtual Console down and VMWare Infrastructure Client not working?

Here’s an alternative solution for you: a Bash script to run on your ESX Server.

Sample screen shot:

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VMWARE ESX Management Tool Script
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Author : http://malaysiavm.com/blog
Version : 1.00.20081107.14.31
Supported ESX Version : 2.5 - 3.5
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0. VM Informations
1. Register VM
2. Unregister VM
3. Check VM Status
4. Power ON VM
5. Power OFF VM
6. Suspend VM
E. Exit

Choice:

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Few days ago, one of my virtual center machine was crashed and my Microsoft SQL database was corrupted without backup(damm!).

Basically setting up a brand new Windows 2003 machine is pretty simple but setup a new Virtual Machine took me 2 days. The most important is my VM template is go missing. The quick solution is search for VM template and register (add to inventory) again.

SSH into my ESX server using putty and search for VM template file with extension “.vmtx”.

[root@malaysiavmesx01 vmfs]# find /vmfs -name *.vmtx
/vmfs/volumes/465eeddb-89b75750-a52d-011aa0289d15/W2K3STD/W2K3STD.vmtx
/vmfs/volumes/465eeda7-2a63d436-724b-011aa0289d15/RHEL5/RHEL5.vmtx

How to register a VM template using CLI:
[root@malaysiavmesx01 vmfs]# /usr/bin/vmware-cmd -s register

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Previously Craig posted about Monitoring features from ESX 3.5 update 2 and I would like to share How to Enable Virtual Machine Monitoring here.

• Login to Virtual Center
• Right click on your Cluster
• Click Edit Settings
• Click VMware HA
• Click ‘Enable virtual machine monitoring‘

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Latest patches release from VMware on the build number 110268. Is highly recommend to test out the patches on the testing machine before you apply the patches to your production. You can review the details of the patches from the link below.

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