Archives for the ‘VMware ESX’ Category

VMware Tools – bulk update Windows VMs

If you need to update VMware tools on all Windows (Server 2003, XP) VMs on one or more VMware ESX server, you need to do that with command <i>vmware-vmupgrade.exe</i>. From my point of view this command is insecure, so I deiced to create a <i>bash</i> script for this job using GREAT utility <b>vimsh</b>. Script looks [...]

esxtop

Few months ago I first read about this command and I forget where … Command is like top Linux command, but with much more information. esxtop allows you monitoring and collecting of data for all system resources about VI. More about esxtop statistics you can find at VMware community.