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ERROR: failed to locate and extract VM_ID

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Published: 08 April 2013
  • ESXi

ghettoVCB is a little sensitive about vm names and editors. Special danish caracteres is absolutely a no-go in ghettoVCB - but you wouldn't do that anyway. Spaces and brackets is also an issue. Basically you should be using basic all-americans 8 characters names to be on the safe side. But if you do keep getting the "ERROR: failed to locate and extract VM_ID for" it is not necessary your names which is the problem.

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Upgrading ESXi using ESXCLI

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Published: 28 March 2013
  • ESXi

Shut down all running instances and put your host in maintenance mode. Your host must have SSH enabled.

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ESXi/GhettoVCB on FreeNAS 8.2

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Published: 16 March 2013
  • ESXi
  • FreeNAS

Basically a very simple setup, but have eluded me for some time now: Simply backup some running VM's on a ESXi 5.x to a FreeNAS NFS service. I'm running FreeNAS 8.2 (FreeNAS update routine is also give me some strange access rights errors lately, so never got round to updating the bugger) Shouldn’t be a problem with version 8.1 or 8.3.

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Updating/patching ESXi 5.0.0

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Published: 01 September 2012
  • ESXi

There a some strange Java things going on there, but you should be able to search for ESXi 5.0.0. I believe there are 7 or 8 patches available. Not sure about this. I got them all and installed them – but they could be accumulative. Maybe the latest is enough? Not sure.

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eyeliner labyrinth

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Published: 28 July 2012

Macromedia Flash, possibly around 1998.

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