I found a great article from William Lam about how to build an Photon OS virtual appliance which includes OVF settings for configuration. During my initial tests I faced some issues like the virtual machine network did not connect properly and others. First I had changed the existing scripts to work with the vmware-iso …

SSH to the ESXi host and execute the following command: <br /> vsish -e cat /hardware/cpu/cpuList/0 | grep -i -E 'family|model|stepping|microcode|revision'<br /> Output: <br /> [root@esxi:~] vsish -e cat /hardware/cpu/cpuList/0 | grep -i -E 'family|model|stepping|microcode|revision'<br /> …

SSH to the ESXi host and execute the following command: <br /> vmware -l<br /> Output: <br /> root@esxi:~] vmware -l<br /> VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 3<br /> [root@esxi:~]<br />

SSH into the Skyline collector and execute the following command: <br /> grep version /usr/local/skyline/ccf/config/collector.properties<br /> Output: <br /> root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# grep version /usr/local/skyline/ccf/config/collector.properties<br /> collector.version=2.5.0.0<br /> …

SSH into the vROPs machine and execute the following command. <br /> cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> Output: <br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ ]# cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> RELEASENUMBER:8.1.0.15972145<br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ …

If you do SSL inspection in your company you can run into issues when using Skyline as the collector does Hostname verification. This will ensure the collector is connecting to the appropriate server by looking at the certificate’s “dnsName” or “subjectAltName” fields against the host in the URL of the connection. As …

Reset Root Password To reset the root password: Restart the Skyline appliance.<br /> From the Console screen of the appliance when you see the PhotonOS splash screen press "e".<br /> At the end of the PhotonOS boot command add "rw init=/bin/bash"<br /> Press F10 to access to the …

Login to the Skyline collector using the Web console in the vSphere client as user root. systemctl restart ccf-collector.service This will restart the collector service.

Go to https://skyline.vmware.com/advisor and login using your account. On the top right click on Settings This will bring you to the following page where you can enable or disable the Skyline Email notification for your account in your Skyline Org.

Today I have been asked how to create a snapshot directly on the ESXi host using vim-cmd including virtual machine memory. Quick example from my lab: Get the VMID of the virtual machine [root@esxi:~] vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms Sample output: [table id=3 /] Create snapshot including memory [root@esxi:~] vim-cmd …