Hi Guys,
I'm doing a test run on a migration of vCenter, I have managed to move the DSN and the VIM database fine, vCenter is installed and has picked up the ESXi hosts, I cannot see my virtual machines though. I believe that my ESXi's may still be pointing to the old vCenter IP address.
I've downloaded Putty and have access the ESXi via the root user, I want to check the IP address of the host that the ESXi's are pointing to at etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg but when i type this into putty I get the error "Permission denied"
Can anyone assist?
You need to connect with the client to the ESXi host directly and log in with the root credentials, not to the vCenter instance. 😉
Did you post a command for it? In example: cat /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg
Hi Zade,
you use rather this tools: http://winscp.net
Switch on protocol SSH, connect, find file vpxa.cf, then F4...
Not every company has WinSCP, PuTTY is the most used tool so some basic skills with PuTTY / Linux are never a stupid idea.
Hi Tomtom,
yes but if Zade has no knowledge about Linux (especially with vi or nano editor) he will have big problem.
Why do you want to do it that way? Just connect to the ESXi host directly with the vSphere Client. If the host is managed by a vCenter instance, you will immediately be shown a popup. And on the 'Summary' tab, at the bottom, you will see a box called 'Host Management', showing that the host is currently be managed by vCenter with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, so that makes it easy:
You can even disassociate the host from the vCenter if needed.
Thank you everyone for the advice, I have logged into my vsphere client,
If possible could you provide me with step by step instructions on locating this in vsphere?
You need to connect with the client to the ESXi host directly and log in with the root credentials, not to the vCenter instance. 😉
Got it, thanks everyone!
All setup