The following script will update the syslog server of all Esxi hosts in a specific cluster Two variables you’ll need to edit are $ClusterName and $SysLogSvr
Author: Jordansphere
I currently work for an ISP on the South coast as a Senior Engineer. I mainly spend my time maintaining the Cloud. CCNA, VCP4/5, VCP-Cloud
Nginx as Reverse Proxy and SSL Passthrough using Stream on Rocky Linux 8
In this example I will be putting an nginx reverse proxy in front of the three NSX-T Managers – as i am using multisite so cant use inbuilt VIP. I have built a Rocky Linux 8 machine with a minimal configuration. NSX Managers will be on: 10.8.1.5010.8.1.6010.9.1.50 Install Nginx Edit Nginx config and add include Read More…
Powershell Script to Update all Scratch Partitions in an ESXi Cluster
Following on from an auto deploy install using SD cards on a Cisco UCS where we couldnt configure the scratch partition within an automated process so I wrote a powershell script to loop around a specific cluster and update all the host logs. Note: This assumes that the directories are already created. I might include Read More…
Applying moref Properties. Remote-Invocation-Error: FSM Retries Exhausted Error
Problem When importing a configuration to a new Fabric Interconnect (6400) I got the following error: [FSM:FAILED]: Applying moref properties(FSM:sam:dme:MorefImportRootApplyMoRefs). Remote-Invocation-Error: FSM Retries Exhausted To find out what is pending – SSH to the FI and run the following I wasn’t concerned with these so to clear the import up.
Auto Deploy ESXi with Cisco UCS
I was tasked with auto deploying around 100 Ciscso UCS blades with stateful ESXi 7.0 on SD cards with as little touch as possible for a new environment There are various ways of doing this but it was decided that the service profile name in UCS would need to match the ESXI host. This means Read More…
Get Install Date of ESXi Host
if you need to know when the ESXi OS install was: esxcli system stats installtime get Example output: 2021-09-07T17:59:32
Auto Deploy Installs ESXi with Blank Password
By default, when using Auto Deploy the password will be blank. In order to change this behaviour edit the host profile to be Fixed password Configuration This example is using Esxi 7.0 Security Services -> Security Settings -> Security -> User Configuration -> root -> Fixed password configuration -> {Enter Password}
The unique identifier you have entered may not be correct – DHCP reservation
Problem When entering a MAC Address reservation in Windows 2019 DHCP server I got the following error: Resolution Remove the colons (:) from the MAC Address
Update Capability Catalog in UCS 4.1
The Capability Catalog version is determined by the version of Cisco UCS that you are using. For example, Cisco UCS 4.1 releases work with any 4.1 release of the Capability Catalog, but not with 4.0 releases of the Capability Catalog. Admin button on left -> Capability Catalog -> Catalog Update Tasks -> Upload new catalog Read More…
Remove SSH Timeout from NSX-T Manager
The default timeout for SSH on NSX-T Manager is 10 minutes (600 seconds). This is rather annoying when you need to make a cup of tea and come back and all your sessions have disappeared. To remove the SSH timeout connect to the NSX Manager via the admin account using SSH. nsx01> set cli-timeout 0 Read More…