How to – verify if VAAI is supported by your datastore
If you want to know if VAAI is supported by your storage you should use the commandline tool “esxcli”. With this command you will get the a detailed status for all VAAI primitives (ATS, Clone, Zero and...
View ArticleHow to – display/activate a diagnostic coredump partition on your ESXi 5.x Host
If your ESXi Host 5.0/5.1/5.5 experiences a purple diagnostic screen of death (PSOD), it hopefully creates a diagnostic coredump. This dump contains useful information for a root cause analysis. If...
View ArticleHow to – kill / power off a virtual machine using esxcli command
If you want to power off or kill a virtual machine running on an ESXi host you can do this using the following esxcli command: connect a console to your ESXi host (eg. SSH or ESXi Shell) To get a list...
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