Category Archives: CLI

Upgrading to 6.7: A problem occurred

Posted on November 23, 2019 by josh@sostechblog.com

Ran into an issue while updating one of my 6.5 vCenter servers, where it inexplicably reported: A problem occurred while getting data from the source vCenter Server. A quick peek at the installer log showed : 2019-11-23T21:32:47.402Z – info: Stream … Continue reading →

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VMWorld 2018: Monday

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Today kicked off with the main keynote featuring Pat Gelsinger.  There were several new announcements including: Amazon RDS database service will now run on your local VMware servers VMware ESXi now fully supports ARM processors VSAN now supports S3 storage … Continue reading →

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VMWorld 2018: Sunday Funday!

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Another year another VMworld! I got registered early this morning and headed to the HandOnLabs.  Lots of 19xx labs, but nothing groundbreaking that I noticed – mostly updates.  Hopefully any big announcements will release cool labs. I tried challenge labs … Continue reading →

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Checking NSX DFW rules and rule sets

Posted on July 18, 2017 by josh@sostechblog.com

The new VMware Docs page has a cheatsheet of CLI commands but here’s what you need to list the rules enforced on a VMs vnic. SSH to NSX Manager {Note that you can enable SSH if needed from the “Summary” page … Continue reading →

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