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Re: How to remove software vib using powershell

Vimal348 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:13:54 GMT

Thank you @LucD ,

You Rocking again. Once again you helped me.

Re: How to remove software vib using powershell

Vimal348 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:42:13 GMT

Thank you very much for helping me @LucD

Is this something like this:
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost <Host Name>
$esxcli.software.vib.remove --vibname 'scsi-mpt3sas'

But I am getting error. Not sure what will be the correct commands

How to remove software vib using powershell

Vimal348 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:15:29 GMT

Hello,

Can someone please help me to remove the below 3 software vib from our ESXi hosts which prevent the upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0

esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-mpt3sas
esxcli software vib remove -n net-qlge
esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-snic

I am able to run the above commands by connecting each ESXi hosts. But we have almost 450 esxi hosts. So I am looking for something I can use with the help of powershell.

Appreciate your help in advance!

Re: Strange Issue: Able/Unable to login with root account

Vimal348 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:16:02 GMT

Hello,

This is the fix:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/50113586

Re: Strange Issue: Able/Unable to login with root account

Vimal348 — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:54:29 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, ssh and bash is enabled and tried.

Strange Issue: Able/Unable to login with root account

Vimal348 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:27:54 GMT

Hi, I am going through a strange issue. Please help me if anyone ever faced this issue before and have any resolution

I am able to login to the vCenter VAMI and by accessing the vCenter server Appliance Console (by pressing the button F2) with its root account. But I am unable to login with the same Root account, if I try to access it by putty session or by accessing the vCenter server Appliance Console command line (by pressing the button F1).

Putty session saying 'Access is Denied'.

vCenter server Appliance Console command line (by pressing the button F1) is not giving any error. After entering the root password it just going the same password prompt for enter it again.

I have already rebooted the vCenter server and checked. - Issue not resolved

I have reset the root password to different password and tried. - Issue not resolved

Logged a case with vendor and they told me this is the first time they are seeing this kind of issue and requested me to upload the vCenter logs which I did.

Re: Machine SSL Certificate

Vimal348 — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:01:50 GMT

Anyone can please help me here?

Re: Machine SSL Certificate

Vimal348 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:30:31 GMT

@LucD , then it would be really great. I never tried posh-ssh so far. If you can please give me the instruction then it would be really helpful since I never tried this before.

1. Connect multiple vCenters

2. Run the command '/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vecs-cli entry list --store MACHINE_SSL_CERT --text | less' against those multiple vCenters.

3. Disconnect the session from multiple vCenters.

Re: Machine SSL Certificate

Vimal348 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:23:46 GMT

Hello @LucD ,

Yes that I can get. Connecting to vCenter via putty and run the command to can get the expiry of Machine SSL. This is how I am checking the expiry date now. Like I said we have many vCenters that needs to check the expiry date. So here I am looking a script something like what you mentioned earlier (Alan's script / Get-STSCerts.ps1) that can find the machine SSL expiry of a bulk vCenters.

Re: Machine SSL Certificate

Vimal348 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:24:40 GMT

Hello @LucD ,

Yes I tried that earlier. And yes it is also showing the STS expiry date. Any other suggestion please ?

Machine SSL Certificate

Vimal348 — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:25:07 GMT

Hello,

We are using custom Machine SSL cert of many vCenters. Is there any option we can find the expiry of that machine SSL certs?

'Get-STSCerts.ps1' showing only the STS expiry date.

Can someone please help me ?

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 02:52:17 GMT

Hello,

Thank you @LucD ,

I was still getting some other error. But I got it fixed by unblocking it ( ' PS C:\> Unblock-File -Path C:\Downloads\script1.ps1') and then ran as you said. Thank you

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:56:52 GMT

Thank you for the reply @LucD

Not sure what I am doing wrong:

Re: vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:46:46 GMT

Hello @LucD

This is what I have run:

cd 'C:\Scripts\vCenter Certificate'
". ./Get-STSCerts.ps1"

Get-STSCerts -vcenters <vCenterName> -user 'xxxx.xxx.com' -password 'xxxxxx'

vCenter Certificate

Vimal348 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:49:51 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a script that can generate the Certificate expiry date of a vCenter(s).

I got this link: (Get-STSCerts.ps1) https://code.vmware.com/samples?id=7336#comments

But I was able to run the commands in the instruction Point 1 and 2. But getting the below error for point 3. Any suggestion? Or any other script that can use for ?

Get-STSCerts : The term 'Get-STSCerts' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

VM Snapshot

Vimal348 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:27:15 GMT

Hello,

Can someone please help me on this:
https://packetlost.com/blog/2015/01/24/vmware-email-report-of-old-snapshots/

I need to collect the snapshot report which is older than 7 days and then send that to the email (I got the script from the above link (Thanks to them)). But here my condition is I dont want this to send email if any snaphosts are less than 7 days / no snapshots.

In this script, it will send the email for sure even there is no snapshots or snaps less than 7 days with email body(There are no VMs with snapshots older than 7 days in this report).

So can someone please help me how to script it?

Re: VM Snapshot

Vimal348 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:42:16 GMT

Thank you

Re: VM Snapshot

Vimal348 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:10:57 GMT

@LucD ,

Thank you.

Is there anyway I can list the Snapshot Date as well in the output ?

VM Snapshot

Vimal348 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:23:37 GMT

Hello,

I have some commands to check the VMs that has the snapshot name:

$VMlist = get-vm
Get-Snapshot -VM $VMlist | where{$_.Description -eq 'Prior to install VMTools'}

But the output is displaying like this. Is there anyway I can see the VM names in the result?

Re: Portgroup/VLAN information

Vimal348 — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 22:57:57 GMT

Hello LucD,

I am sorry, I am still a novice in scripting world. Not very sure how can play with the existing scripts. that people are already posted. Like I said I found lots of discussion related portgroup and its VLAN. But most of the discussions are for finding the portgroups that are existing in a single esx hosts or assigned to VMs. I didnt go through all the discussions, but since I got the result from RVtools I stopped searching. When I generated the RVtools report, that is giving all the portgroup names and that associated to the DVswitch and its VLAN, ports etc. So thats the reason. But I wanted to say you did helped me a alot, thank you for that.