Patching\Upgrading ESXi 8 to ESXi 9 via esxcli
With the latest release of ESXi 9 i wanted to get my lab up to date. I don’t have enough resources in my lab to migrate the vCenter to another ESXi server so i want to perform the upgrade via cli. More details about the release can found here...
Fixing “Received Too Large SFTP Packet” When Connecting to vCenter Using WinSCP
The Problem When trying to connect to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using WinSCP, many admins encounter the following error: Received too large (1433299822 B) SFTP packet. Max supported packet size is 1024000 B This occurs because the default shell used by the vCenter appliance (/bin/appliancesh) is not compatible with SFTP, which WinSCP attempts to...
Patching\Upgrading ESXi 8 to ESXi8U3b via esxcli
With the latest release of ESXi8U3b i wanted to get my lab up to date. I dont have enough resources in my lab to migrate the vCenter to another ESXi server so i want to perform the upgrade via cli. More details about the release can found here The...
vCLS not starting with Failed – Feature ‘cpuid.mwait’ was absent, but must be present error
With the release of vCenter 7 Update 1, VMware introduced the vCLS (vSphere Clustering Service). More information can be found here. Looking at the error details it looks like it is looking for a feature called cpuid.mwait Reviewing the VMX file it seems like EVC is enabled on the...
Install/Upgrade ESXi 8.0 on unsupported hardware.
As i was installing\upgrading my lab environment to ESXi 7.0 i received an error that the CPU was unsupported. As per the release notes vSphere 8.0 release notes my CPU is no longer on the compatibility list. Since this is a lab environment i wanted to continue using my...
Removing NSX stale packages from ESXi host
I recently ran in to a problem where i wanted to perform a clean configuration of one of my ESXi hosts from an NSX perspective, however i ran in to a problem where NSX was reporting that the packages are already installed. To fix the issue i had to...
Patching\Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi7U1 via esxcli
With the latest release of ESXi7U1 i wanted to get my lab up to date. I dont have enough resources in my lab to migrate the vCenter to another ESXi server so i want to perform the upgrade via cli. More details about the release can found here The...
vCLS not starting with Failed – Feature ‘cpuid.mwait’ was absent, but must be present error
With the release of vCenter 7 Update 1, VMware introduced the vCLS (vSphere Clustering Service). More information can be found here. Looking at the error details it looks like it is looking for a feature called cpuid.mwait Reviewing the VMX file it seems like EVC is enabled on the...
Patching\Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi7U1 via esxcli
With the latest release of ESXi7U1 i wanted to get my lab up to date. I dont have enough resources in my lab to migrate the vCenter to another ESXi server so i want to perform the upgrade via cli. More details about the release can found here The...
ESXi No space left on device error when upgrading
While i was trying to perform an upgrade to my ESXi installation i ran in to the below error: The fix was pretty simple. The hypervisor doesnt have enough space to download and install the package so we need to enable one of the available datastores for the function....
vCLS not starting with Insufficient resources message
With the release of vCenter 7 Update 1, VMware introuced the vCLS (vSphere Clustering Service). More information can be found here. Looking at the error details it looks like it is looking for a feature called cpuid.mwait Reviewing the VMX file it seems like EVC is enabled on the...
Extracting SSL Thumbprint
I recently ran in to an issue where i had to re-register my NSX server with vIDM. The ask was to extract the Thumbprint from vIDM. The command i ran to extract it was: This can be used across multiple products where the Thumbprint needs to be extracted...
vCenter update from the command line
Ive ran recently in to an issue where i couldnt perform an update from the admin UI, in order to get up and running i executed the following from a ssh shell. I was luky enough to find the documentation here Some of the additional options that could be...
vCenter Appliance Update installation is in progress
I recently ran in to an issue where the vCenter server appliance update timed out. Rebooting the vCenter server brought the server back up but i was unable to log in to the administration section due to an Update installation in progress error Doing some research i found that...
Upgrading ESXi via command line
I recently ran in to a problem where i couldn’t update my esx server from the UI so i wanted to to it from the command line. After doing some research this is the way i was able to do it: Step 1 was to open the firewall by...
Install/Upgrade ESXi 7.0 on unsupported hardware.
As i was installing\upgrading my lab environment to ESXi 7.0 i received an error that the CPU was unsupported. As per the release notes vSphere 7.0 release notes my CPU is no longer on the compatibility list. Since this is a lab environment i wanted to continue using my...
