ESXi

How To Safely Shut Down Your ESXi and Nutanix (AOS) Cluster

How to Shrink VMDK Virtual Disk Size on VMWare ESXi

Export VM to OVA using OVF Tool on VMware ESXi

Deploy a Virtual Machine from an OVA File in the VMware ESXi Web Deploy Limitation OVA deployment is limited to files under 1 GB in size due to Web browser limitations. To deploy an OVA file greater than 1 GB, extract the OVA file using tar and provide the OVF and VMDK files separately. Breakdown Limitation To deploy a large OVA file, Use OVFTool Command to Deploy OVA Packages is better solution....

Manual Upgrade ESXi from 6.7 to 8.0 via esxcli Preparation: Before deploying a host upgrade, ensure that all virtual machines in this host should be shut down and Back Up VMware ESXi Host Configuration. Download the upgrade file from VMware Official There are two types of upgrade files The .iso is bootable and follow instructions. The .zip is upgraded via SSH using CLI commands. In this scenario, I use Offline Bundle (....

Renew DNS Servers in VMWare ESXi via ESXCLI Commands About Issue If you need to renew DNS servers on an ESXi host and are having trouble finding the DNS field in the ESXi portal, you can use ESXCLI commands to update the DNS servers. Procedure Enable SSH Service first on ESXi Open a console or SSH session to the ESXi host. ssh root@esxi_ip_address List Current DNS server IP Address Run the command esxcli network ip dns server list DNSServers: 10....