Showing posts with label esxi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esxi. Show all posts

20 November, 2015

ESXi shutdown and reboot commands thru SSH

When virtual machines are running, ESXi/ESX might not clear the RAID controller's cache if you shut down or reboot the ESXi/ESX host using these commands on the service console:


  • reboot -f
  • halt
  • shutdown

11 November, 2015

Installing ESXI v.6 VMware Tools on Debian Linux


VMware Tools ESXI server v.6 Easy installing steps,
There is no official deb installer available, 

ESXI Server v. 6 VMware Tools on Debian Linux.
Instead you need to install it manually.
Here is some idea how could you do it and it works.... :)




  • In vSphere Client, use the command Guest – Install/Upgrade VMware Tools (it “inserts” the VMware Tools ISO in the CD drive of the guest)

  • Open console/SSH to the guest as root (or use sudo as needed)
  • mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
  • tar xzf /mnt/VMwareTools*
  • umount /mnt
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)
  • cd vmware-tools-distrib
  • ./vmware-install.pl4096
  • cd
  • rm -rf vmware-tools-distrib
  • reboot