ESX 5: Command Line VM Manipulation

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t been working with ESX for a bit, but while I was I was mostly interacting with it via the command line. Here is a list I had compiled while I was going through that exercise, and since I while be starting a job next week where I will no longer be interacting with much ESX I will just publish this one as-is. It is by no means complete and frankly it is not even that helpful. Notice that the commands which reference a specific virtual machine have a number, this is the VM ID for the VM you’d like to interact with.

vCenter: VPXD Crash

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I was trying to resolve an issue on a small vCenter 5.0.0 deployment. Basically the primary symptom of the issue was that the service the vmware-vxpd service was crashing and needing to be restarted frequently.

The first thing I did was examine the log files, while the service was still in a failed state.

bash

cat /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd.log

I won’t bore you with an entire excerpt, however I will put some of the more helpful pieces of data from the log file here, perhaps it will help someone identify this article if they are having a similar issue but not really gaining any traction.

VMWare on the bin

ESX 5: Command Line VM Manipulation

vCenter: VPXD Crash