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  • Get NAA.ID for Virtual Machine RDM's in VMware

    May 6, 2014 PowerCLI Storage
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    This is a great script to keep handy. If you have multiple RDM’s on a VM and need to get the NAA_ID for them the below PowerCLI command will get you that information. 1Get-VM VMNAME| Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName,CapacityGB | fl If you then need to match the SCSI virtual disk to the Guest OS this is a great article on how to do so. KB2051606

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  • Enable SSH on vSphere Management Assistant 5.0

    May 1, 2014 vSphere Management Assistant
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    While continuing to build out my lab for VCAP-DCA today I had to deploy the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant). Upon deployment i tried to SSH to it and unfortunately was not able to. By default SSH is turned off, perform the steps below to enable it. Logon to vMA via a Console Session Run ‘sudo vi /etc/hosts.allow’ Scroll to the very bottom and type i to insert content into the file.

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  • Nested ESXi and NFS

    Apr 29, 2014 HomeLab Networking
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    I was working today on configuring NFS/Openfiler in my lab and came across an issue that my nested ESXi host’s couldn’t talk over the VSS (Standard Switch) I created. Upon further research when using nested ESXi you need to enable “Promiscuous Mode” on the VSS to allow the traffic to pass.

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