Zsoldier's Tech Blog

Summary: Seems that terminal in Mac is configured in a fashion where esxtop does not display properly.  Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to fix. Example: This demonstrates what you would see when accessing esxtop in a default configured terminal session: Solution: Simply change your terminal emulator session from xterm-256color to ansi, by accessing terminal’s preferences, settings, Advanced, under ‘declare terminal as:’ Open up a new terminal session, run esxtop, and you should end up w/ what looks like this:

Summary: This plug in adds an extra tab to vCenter that lets you manage your Emulex HBA/UCNA’s.  From setting drivers parameters to allowing you to apply firmware updates to your HBA/UCNA card.  To do so, you must install the CIM package onto your host and have a server for the Emulex OneCommand Software Plug-in. PreReqs: Windows Server VM(suggest 2008 x64 R1 or R2) Software Plug-in CIM Provider 3.2.x + vSphere CLI or vMA <— Needed to remotely install CIM provider bundle vCenter 4.1+ Details: You can install the Emulex Software Plug-in on the vCenter server, but I suggest keeping all modules separate from vCenter if possible. Run the Software Plug-in installation. Install the CIM Provider on all hosts you would like to have onecommand management capabilities. Place ESXi server in maintenance mode. vCLI command is as follows: vihostupdate.pl --server nameofyouresxserver --install --bundle \\path\to\elx-esx4.1.0-emulex-cim-provider-3.2.30.1-offline_bundle-...