Category: ESXi

Monitor VMware ESXi hardware without root (Nagios)

Download and configure the plugin: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/*-Virtual-Environments/VMWare/check_esxi_hardware-2Epy/ – Create a new user in ESXi with no access privilege, you need to login to the ESXi directly to do that. – Enable SSH, and add nagios user to root group: # vi /etc/group root:x:0:root,nagios – Check from the command line, if it works ./check_esxi_hardware.py –host https://esxihost:5989 –user…
March 12, 2014
Convert Linux Physical Server to VMware virtual machine

Download and install vCenter Converter on a windows machine. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter Unfortunately this tool does not have a Linux / MAC version. vCenter Converter In case you see an error: “Permission to perform this operation was denied”, right click and run the program as Administrator. Provide the source and destination information, the source is the physical…
January 18, 2014
ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen PSOD

This happened while converting KVM VMs to VMware and power them on (method used: http://arunnsblog.com/2013/06/10/migrate-kvm-virtual-machines-to-vmware-esxi/) . It works for a while but then the ESXi crashes with PSOD. Version : 5.1.0-799733 There were two sort of PSOD messages observed: 1) Crashed while the VM was running VMware NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/sched/memsched.c:17724 Code start: 0x41802b200000 VMK uptime: 10:19:25:27.335…
June 10, 2013