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Overview of ESXi Hardware Monitoring and Systems Management Upgrading/Migrating to ESXi Infrastructure Services Command Line Interfaces Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Next Steps
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Why ESXi?
Next generation of VMwares Hypervisor Architecture
Full-featured hypervisor
Smaller code base = fewer patches Eliminates patch drifting due to single image update The dual-image approach lets you revert to prior image if desired VMware components and third party components can be updated independently
Agentless CIM-based
vCLI, PowerCLI, vMA
Native Agents: hostd, vpxa, NTP, Syslog, SNMP, etc. VMware ESXi
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Overview of ESXi Hardware Monitoring and Systems Management Upgrading/Migrating to ESXi Infrastructure Services Command Line Interfaces Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Next Steps
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CIM Broker
VMkernel
VMware Providers
Partner Providers
Hardware
Platform CPU
Memory
Network
WS-MAN
Storage
view server and storage asset data view server and storage health information view alert and command logs configure hardware (e.g. storage, BIOS)
BPM for Virtual Servers BPA for Virtual Servers Capacity Mgmt Essentials Atrium Orchestrator Bladelogic Operations Manager ProactiveNet v7.7 * Client Automation Atrium Discovery & Dependency Mapping v7.4 *
CA Virtual Performance Manager (VPM) Spectrum Automation Management Spectrum eHealth Cohesion ARCserve
Operations Orchestration VI SPI Client Automation DDM Operations Agent UCMDB SiteScope Performance Agent DataProtector HP Operations
ITM for Virtual Servers v6.1.2 * TPM ITUAM ITLCM Tivoli Storage Manager
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Overview of ESXi Hardware Monitoring and Systems Management Upgrading/Migrating to ESXi Infrastructure Services Command Line Interfaces Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Next Steps
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- Postinstall
- First boot
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iBFT (Boot Firmware Table) required The host must have an iSCSI boot capable NIC that supports the iSCSI iBFT
format.
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vCLI
vSphere PowerCLI
vCLI and PowerCLI built on same API as vSphere Client Same authentication (e.g. Active Directory), roles and privileges, event logging API is secure, optimized for remote environments, firewall-friendly, standardsbased
esxcli swiscsi vmnic: List available uplink adapters for use with a specified
iSCSI adapter
esxcli vaai device: Display information about devices claimed by the VMware
VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) Filter Plugin.
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NOTE: designed to kill VMs in a reliable way (not dependent upon wellbehaving system)
Eliminates one of the most common reasons for wanting to use COS.
DCUI-based Troubleshooting
Menu item to restart all management agents, including - Hostd - vpxa Menu item to reset all configuration settings - Fix a misconfigured vNetwork
Distributed Switch
https://<hostname>/host
https://<hostname>/host/messages
Disk Descriptor
https://<hostname>/folder
Optional timeout
automatically disables TSM (local and remote)
Running sessions are not terminated. New sessions are rejected
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vCLI
vSphere APIs
ESXi
Direct Access
Access Mode vSphere API (e.g., vSphere Client, PowerCLI, vCLI, etc) CIM DCUI Tech Support Mode (Local) Tech Support Mode (Remote)
Normal Any user, based on local roles/privileges Any user, based on local role/privilege Root and users with Admin privileges Root and users with Admin privileges Root and users with Admin privileges
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SNMP
Active Directory HW monitoring Jumbo frames Serial port host management Web Access Total Lockdown
Supported (limited)
Not supported CIM providers Supported Not supported Not supported Not available
Supported (limited)
Integrated CIM providers Supported Not supported Not supported Supported
Supported
Integrated 3rd party agents in COS Supported Supported Not Supported Not available
Ensure Your Backup and Systems Management Products Integrate with ESXi.
If you are using an agent-based partner solution to integrate with vSphere, please check with
your vendor to see if a newer version of the product supports the ESXi architecture
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General
Questions?
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Thank You
Spencer Cuffe scuffe@vmware.com