cli to check MPIO Hyper-V/Windows

Verifying Multipathing There is a powerful little command line utility that allows pulling a tremendous amount of information regarding multipath disk connections – mpclaim.   To check your current policy for your iSCSI volumes: mpclaim -s -d To verify paths to a specific device number: mpclaim -s -d < device number >    

vCenter Appliance Network configuration change via command line

vCenter Appliance Network configuration change via command line. Most of the system configuration such as changing the hostname, IP, DNS..etc can be done using VAMI interface (https://vCenterIPorFQDN:5480) however if you see the changes are not taking affect, e.g. changing the DNS IP then following command can be used. ·         Enable SSH using VAMI interface, select Access tab, click Edit and Enable …

VM vSphere Standalone host update

   Enable SSH Set Host in Maintenance mode Select Data Store and upload Offline Bundle Putty to host Determine which VIBs are installed on the host: esxcli –server=<server_name> software vib list Determine which image profiles are available in the depot.: esxcli –server=<server_name> software sources profile list –depot=http://<web_server>/<depot_name> Update the existing image profile to include the …