vmkping alternative for ESXi?

[mammer]

Making the ESX to ESXi switch and I am looking for a vmkping alternative in say... powershell?

I'm aware of the option to turn on "unsupported mode" in ESXi but I'm trying to avoid doing anything unsupported.

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

With ESXi 4.1 "Tech Support Mode" can officially be configured (activated/deactivated even with timout settings) from either the DCUI or the vSpere Client GUI.

see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1017910 for details.

André

[Dave_Mishchenko]

There might be something in the API to expose this functionality but I haven't seen anything specific. The DCUI does a ping test but I don't know if it uses ping or if the functionality is built into it.

Enabling remote tech support would be fine in this case. You can start / stop remote TSM with PowerCLI.

Also keep an eye on esxcli. The network namespace was added with the release of 4.1 but currently it only supports netstat / arp functionality.




Dave

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