[Solved]-VMware Install operation failed: The metadata or bundle option must...
Getting error message: Install operation failed: The metadata or bundle option must be specified ? This error popup up after running the following cmd when trying to update our VMware vSphere server....
View Article[How To] – Patching Standalone vSphere 5 ESXi Hosts
So you have a standalone ESXi host or 2 that needs to be patched with the latest updates coming out of VMWare and you do not have a VCenter or are otherwise using the VMWare Update Manager. Here is the...
View ArticleHow-to get SNMP Data from VMWare ESXi 5 with Dell OpenManage, Cacti, Nagios,...
So you want to access your VMware ESX 5 host over SNMP? Here is the quick steps to get Dell OpenManage and SNMP on your ESX 5 host up and running fast. You will need the VIB’s from Dell, also will...
View ArticleQuick and Easy Setup of Active Directory Authentication for VMware vSphere...
VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 now uses a new SSO (Single Sign On) service to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory when deploying vCenter. If you do not install this services and configure...
View ArticleXYMON – ESX Hardware Health Monitor
Grab the Hardware Health of your VMware vSphere ESXi Host Here is RC1 of my ESX Health Script for the XYmon monitoring server, not to be compared to the ESXi script going around for VM and Snapshot...
View Article[Kaseya Agent Procedure] VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor
VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya. This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX...
View Article[Solved] ESX VM shutdown stopped at 95% – VM fails to restart
We have several customers on sketchy hardware and on occasion the VM crash due to a SCSI card issue with the mother board used, that aside we have from time to time a need to force a hard reboot of the...
View ArticleLabtech – How to access and manage VMWare ESX 5 Hosts remotely using...
Labtech VMWare vSphere Client Redirector Wouldn’t it be really cool if you could somehow safely access any VMWare vSphere ESX 5 host directly just using the local vSphere 5 Client installed on your...
View ArticleLabTech ESXI Host Hardware Monitor
NEW ->LabTech ESXi Hardware Monitor v2.1 Squidwork’s ESX Hardware monitor is a set of scripts, a custom group and search for Labtech that will monitor the CIM data provided through the VMWare API...
View ArticleLabTech VMWare ESXi Heath Monitor Plugin v3
ESXi Health Monitor Plugin Well it’s finally here, the plugin we have all been waiting for, Vmware ESXi Health Monitor plugin for Labtech. This plugin installs into your Labtech system as a...
View ArticleVMWare ESX Hardware Health monitor for Labtech
Plugins4LabTech has created a new plugin that will monitor the CIM data announced by the hardware running VMWare ESX software. We can report on any hardware that follows CIM standards and makes it’s...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi 6.5 CIM Data Disabled by Default
I was recently tasked with an issue where our CIM probe was failing during CIM requests to new VMWare ESXi 6.5 servers we deployed. We were getting connection rejected failures from our probes which...
View ArticleMonitoring Your Clients VMWare Infrastructures.
Who manages your VMWare ESX Hardware Health? If you are using ConnectWise Automate or LabTech RMM tool then this is a must have plugin for your environment. Plugins4Automate has a great plugin for...
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