vm stuff

ESXi commands

check state

List All VMs on the Host

Get Information for a Specific VM

Get Configuration for a Specific VM

Get Summary for a Specific VM

Get Current Power State of a Specific VM

Power On a Specific VM

Power Off a Specific VM (Hard)

Shutdown a Specific VM

Reboot a Specific VM

List a Specific VM’s Snapshots

Unregister a VM from a ESX Host

Register a VM on a ESX Host

# vim-cmd solo/registervm path/to/.vmx

http://benincosa.org/blog/?p=266

Get IP address

esxcfg-info | grep IPv4

Importing images to ESXi

Use the elastic hosts script to download the disk image (refer to Elastic hosts on this wiki)

Convert the raw disk to vmdk

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk /home/cameron/eh-test /home/cameron/eh-test.vmdk

Copy the vmdk file to the ESXi server's datastore

scp /home/cameron/gax/eh-test.vmdk root@192.168.1.105:/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/

Create the new vm specifying the already configured disk using the custom setup.

Increase disk size

Stop the VM

Log into the ESXi server and stretch the disk

vmkfstools -X 10G /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/eh-test.vmdk

The above will extend the disk to 10 Gigabytes

Start the VM

Log into the guest and resize the filesystem

[root@localhost ~]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda 1010M 737M 226M 77% /

[root@localhost ~]# resize2fs -p /dev/hda 10G

resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)

Filesystem at /dev/hda is mounted on /; on-line resizing required

Performing an on-line resize of /dev/hda to 2621440 (4k) blocks.

The filesystem on /dev/hda is now 2621440 blocks long.

[root@localhost ~]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda 9.9G 738M 8.7G 8% /

For LVM disks

Follow first step in esxi to stretch the vmdk file.

Add a new partition with fdisk

Add this partition to the volume group

Extend the volume group

Resize partition

pvscan

ls -al /dev/sda*

fdisk /dev/sda

ls -al /dev/sda*

reboot

ls -lah /dev/sda*

pvcreate /dev/sda3

vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sda3

vgdisplay

lvextend -L +88G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

df -h

resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

df -h

# vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 30