After some upgrades you might need to apply an appropriate license for the new version of ESXi:
vim-cmd vimsvc/license --set AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEEESXi 5.1 add license
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get vmware esxi cpu info
~ # vmwarevim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep -A10 cpuPkg | grep description
cpuPkg = (vim.host.CpuPackage) [
(vim.host.CpuPackage) {
dynamicType = ,
index = 0,
vendor = "intel",
hz = 2833433579,
busHz = 333345127,
description = "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz",
threadId = (short) [
0,
1,
Here I get the info for 8 different machines to see if they all match:
for i in `seq 1 1 8`; do ssh vm30$i "vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep -A10 cpuPkg | grep description"; done;This works on 4.1 and 5.1 versions.
power on/off VM guests in ESXi
This is helpful for running scripts, etc. Get a list of VMs so you can find the Vmid.
# vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Vmid Name File Guest OS Version Annotation
16 guest1 [guest1] guest1/guest1.vmx debian6_64Guest vmx-09
32 guest2 [guest2] guest2/guest2.vmx debian6_64Guest vmx-09
48 guest3 [guest3] guest3/guest3.vmx debian6_64Guest vmx-09
64 guest4 [guest4] guest4/guest4.vmx debian6_64Guest vmx-09
80 guest5 [guest5] guest5/guest5.vmx debian6_64Guest vmx-09 See if the machine is on or off:
# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 16
Retrieved runtime info
Powered onShut it down:
# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.shutdown 16Then you can turn it back on:
# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 16ESXi 4.1 list VMs with mounted ISOs
If you can’t remove an .iso file, because it’s mounted by a VM, you can search through many VMs, or use this sloppy one liner:
eval `vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvm | grep -v Vmid | awk '{print "echo \"vmName: "$2"\"; vim-cmd vmsvc/device.getdevices "$1 ";"}'` | grep -e ".iso\|vmName" | grep -v fileName | grep -B1 summary get total host memory on VMWare ESXi
It is my opinion that Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) can make administration both easier, and more difficult. I highly prefer commandline, and many appliances and non desktop systems have a plethora of advanced options when configuring from the command line. I always void the warranty and get under the hood. All of my ESXi servers have SSH and Console enabled. If you have someone in the datacenter replacing suspect memory on an ESXi system, you don’t want to have them re-rack it and cable it up, just so you can log in through vSphere, just to see if the host sees all the memory. Just do it from commandline. Oh yeah, and free is not a recognized command on the ESXi shell.
# free
-ash: free: not found
#
# vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep memorySize | sed -e 's/,//' -e 's/^ *//'
memorySize = 34182787072
#This was done on ESXi 4.1.0 Build 345043