In the below example I’ve plugged an external USB drive into an ESXi 4.1 server and want to make it available to a VM running on that server. There are 2 steps to this:- In the VI client edit the virtual machine hardware settings and add a USB controller. Once you have done this edit [...]

Problem: libxml2 not found Problem: When you run a command you get the error: This application failed to start because libxml2.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. Solution: Have you just installed vSphere CLI? Try logging off and back on again.

You can view the current policy by entering the below in the service console: esxcli nmp device list Use the below command to generate the instructions to set all LUNs to round robin: esxcli nmp device list | awk ‘/^naa/{print “esxcli nmp device setpolicy –device “$0″ –psp VMW_PSP_RR” };’ Copy the output and enter into [...]

NB – note that there are different installation packages for ESX4 & ESX 4.1 The below script can be used to install dell openmanage 6.3 on vSphere4. You will need to run this from the console. # Script to install Dellopman v6.3, configure firewall and set SNMP on vSphere 4 # AE 26/11/10 # # [...]