Month: January 2013
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ESXi: Entering and exiting maintenance mode via command line
Following on from yesterday’s post, here is how to enter or leave maintenance mode on an ESXi host via SSH: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter to go into maintenance mode – and to leave it: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit If you’re interested in other useful commands, you can see more hostsvc options by running: …
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ESXi: Determining maintanance mode status from the command line
If you need to know if a host is in maintenance mode via the command line, SSH into your server and run the following: vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep -i maintenance This will return the following line (in this example the host is NOT in maintenance mode): Â inMaintenanceMode = false, To see…
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How to find which version of ESXi you’re running from the command line?
If you’re remotely logging in to a server to apply the latest patch but can’t remember whether you’re running 4, 4.1, 5.0 or 5.1 – and it can certainly happen when you’re managing quite a few of them remotely – there is a handy command to see which version and build number you’re actually…
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Lightroom 4: “Sort” option/dropdown box missing from Library view
This one isn’t related to computer parts for a change but is something that happens to me regularly – I’ll import a handful of photos and want to sort them by capture time, but the “sort” box is missing from the Library view in Lightroom 4.0. You can bring it back by pressing T.…