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Friday, June 20, 2014

Utility to export ESXi support bundle using web browser


New feature in ESXi5, you can invoke the export log utility via http:

From a web browser browse to https://username:password@ESXHostnameOrIPAddress/cgi-bin/vmsupport.cgi

This will automatically start downloading the support bundle named vm-support.tgz

VMware VirtualCenter Operational Dashboard to view vpxd profiler metrics

We can use VirtualCenter Operational Dashboard to view the metrics data (stored vpxd-profiler-#### file). The dashboard can be accessed by typing the URL https://((hostip or name) or (vcenterip or name)/vod/index.html It will prompt for the credentials provide the details as applicable.

Friday, June 13, 2014

VMware vMotion issue - the virtual machine requires hardware features that are not supported or disbaled on the target host

I recently faced the below issue when trying to migrate a powered on VM (with Hardware Version as 8) from Cisco M3 Blade (Esxi 5.5) to M2 Blade (Esxi 5.5). Whereas when tried to migrate VM (Hardware version 7) between the same set of hosts, it'sworking fine.
The virtual machine requires hardware features that are not supported or disbaled on the target host: General Incompatibilities.