VMware ESXI notater
Contents
- 1 SSH access til ESXI boks
- 2 VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA)
- 3 VMware in VMware
- 4 VMware vCenter Converter
- 5 Opdatering
- 6 Automatisering
- 7 Slow disk performance in ESXi
- 8 FTP and RSYNC between ESXI servers
- 9 Installation med intel S5520HC
- 10 Enable SNMP on ESXI 4.0
- 11 Dropbear
- 12 Links
SSH access til ESXI boks
- BEMÆRK:SSH access til ESXI er ikke supporteret af VMWARE
- <CRTL>-<ALT>-<F1> på konsol
- skriv unsupported (Echoes ikke tilbage)
- Tast root password
- vi /etc/inetd.conf
- fjern # fra ssh linien
- exit
- <CRTL>-<ALT>-<F2> på konsol
- restart
Kommandoer i shell
- Se netværksconfig: esxcfg-nics -l og esxcfg-vmknic -l og esxcfg-info -n | more
- Add static route esxcfg-route -a 192.168.22.0/24 172.16.4.16
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA)
Pak ud i folder og Deploy OVF template fra VMware Client. Installerer Redhat Linux VM. Start og giv passwd til bruger vi-admin. Giv evt. root et passwd med sudo passwd root og ændre root i /etc/passwd med vipw fra nologin til /bin/bash.
VIMA kommandoer
[root@vm ~]# <input>vmware-cmd.pl -U root -P SECRET_PW -H 192.168.1.101  -l</input>
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/CentOS54-1/CentOS54-1.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/XP/XP.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/FreeBSD/FreeBSD.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/Solaris/Solaris.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/Ubuntu desktop 9.04/Ubuntu desktop 9.04.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/Ubuntu server 9.10 64bit/Ubuntu server 9.10 64bit.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/VMware Infrastructure Management/VMware Infrastructure Management.vmx
[root@vm ~]# <input>vmware-cmd.pl -U root -P SECRET_PW -H 192.168.1.101 /vmfs/volumes/4b379b49-1ce09faa-230a-002186f400f1/FreeBSD/FreeBSD.vmx getuptime</input>
getuptime() = 20055
[root@vm ~]#Tilføj brugere
[root@vm ~]# <input>esxcfg-user -g students -r admin -l ka -n "Karl Andersen" -s no -p KARLS_PW  -e user -o add --server  192.168.1.101 --servicepath /sdk/webService --password ROOTS_PW --username root</input>
Created user ka Successfully
Assigned to the group students
Assigned the role adminvirtual switch
[root@vm ~]# <input>esxcfg-vswitch   -l --server  192.168.1.101 --servicepath /sdk/webService --password SECRET_PW --username root</input>
Switch Name     Num Ports       Used Ports      MTU     Uplinks
vSwitch0        64              10              1500    vmnic0
  PortGroup Name        VLAN ID   Used Ports      Uplinks
  VM Network            0         7               vmnic0
  Management Network    0         1               vmnic0VMware in VMware
Kører fint
VMware vCenter Converter
vCenter Converter kan installeres:
- lokalt
- som server
- som klient
- som agent
Konverterer fra
VMware vCenter Converter can import virtual machines created in:
- VMware Workstation
- VMware Player
- VMware Fusion
- VMware ESX/ESXi
- VMware Server
- VMware vCenter Server
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- Microsoft Virtual Server
- Microsoft Hyper-V. Microsoft Hyper-V VM imports are supported as a physical source.
Opdatering
vSphere host Update Utility
Ved installation af VMware vSphere Client sættes fluehak i installer WMware vSphere host Update Utility
Manual Patching
Automatisering
PowerCLI
- Windows PowerShell skal være installeret PowerShell
- PowerCLI fra VMware
Slow disk performance in ESXi
FTP and RSYNC between ESXI servers
Installation med intel S5520HC
Enable Inter Virtualization i BIOS under CPU ellers virker 32 bit kun
Enable SNMP on ESXI 4.0
- File: /etc/vmware/snmp.xml
<config><snmpSettings><enable><notice>true</notice></enable><communities><notice>public</notice></communities><targets></targets></snmpSettings></config>- Execute /sbin/services restart
Dropbear
Dropbear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers.
VMware uses Busybox which are developed for embedded systems: http://www.busybox.net/
For example the commands
- busybox nslookup lwn.net
- busybox hostname
- busybox uptime
Config
/etc/inetd.conf
# Internet server configuration database
# Remote shell access
ssh      stream   tcp   nowait   root   /sbin/dropbearmulti   dropbear ++min=0,swap,group=shell -i -K60
ssh      stream   tcp6  nowait   root   /sbin/dropbearmulti   dropbear ++min=0,swap,group=shell -i -K60
# VMware authentication daemon
authd   stream    tcp   nowait   root   /sbin/authd           authd
authd   stream    tcp6  nowait   root   /sbin/authd           authd<input>ps | grep drop</input>
117681 117681 dropbearmulti        dropbear