Ansible with VMware – Getting started with AWX gui – Part 22
Kad AWX provides a web user interface to run playbooks and api’s and built on top ansible. Below guide is the initial setup after been deployed and connecting to vcenter, please…
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Ansible with VMware – AWX injecting a username and password when running a playbook – vm from template – Part 21
I don’t want my password in clear text in playbooks so this how to encrypt the password in AWX and injecting into the playbook. AWX is similar to ansible tower…
vCenter 7 – Password has been already used. Choose another.passwd: Authentication token manipulation errorpasswd: password unchanged
You get the following error when trying to change the vCenter root password Password has been already used. Choose another.passwd: Authentication token manipulation errorpasswd: password unchanged
Deploy vCenter 8
Run the installer from your computer which has access to your esxi host VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.3-24022515.iso Click install Click next Accept agreement and click next Enter the ESXi host ip details and…
ESXi powercli script – testing flapping nic with vmnic1 interface up and down every 30 seconds in a loop
Connect-VIserver -Server vcenter1.vmware.local -User "administrator@vsphere.local" -Password "VMware1!" $esxiHost = "esxi-1.vmware.local" $vmnic = "vmnic1" $host1 = Get-VMHost -Name $esxiHost $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $host1 -V2 while ($true) { $esxcli.network.nic.down.Invoke(@{nicname=$vmnic}) Start-Sleep -Seconds…
Useful command for KMS vCenter for ESXi hosts
#Verify that the ESXi host is in TPM mode esxcli system settings encryption get #If the Mode appears as NONE, you must enable the TPM in the firmware of the…
VMRC client (VMware Remote Console)- allow copy and paste from your desktop to a virtual machine
Power off virtual machineedit settings of virtual machineclick vm options tabexpand advancednext to configuration parameters click edit configurationadd the following Click ok and power on virtual machine Done
KMS Server for vCenter (Not Native Key Provider)
The following has two different ways to have a KMS server for vCenter and not the native key provider on vCenter. I used this for testing purposes. One is with…
Export and Import vCenter alarms on powershell
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vCenter Upgrade
Ray Recently installed vCenter 8, and while poking around, I noticed the vCenter upgrade and noticed few nice features for vCenter upgrade in the UI Select available update. The new pop-up…