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VMware CheatSheet
This is a quick and dirty cheatsheet for VMware ESXi server version 4.1, many commands can be used on the older version. Processes
vmkeventd vmklogger vpxa A utility for capturing VMkernel events A utility for logging VMkernel events Thsi rpocess is responsible for vCenter Server communications, commands received are passed to the hostd process for processing. The Common Information Model (CIM) system monitors hardware and helalth status. The CIM is a standard set of API's that remote applications can use to query the health and status of the ESXi host. sfcb-vmware_int sfcb-vmware_aux sfcb-vmware_raw sfcb-vmware_bas sfcb-qlgc sfcb-HTTP-Daemon sfcb-ProviderManager VMware USB Arbitration Service, Allows USB devices plugged into the HOST to be usable by the guest. a utility for running the vProbe daemon. VProbes is a facility for transparently instrumenting a powered-on guest operating system, its currently running processes, and VMware's virtualization software. VProbes provides, both dynamically and statically. Openwsman is a system management platform that implements the Web Services Management protocol (WS-Management). It is installed and running by default. The ESXi server host agent, this allows the vSphere client or vCenter access to the host. It consists of two processes hostd hostd-poll hostd-worker The VIX API (Virtual Infrastructure eXtension) is an API that provides guest management operations inside of a virtual machine that maybe running on VMware vSphere, Fusion, Workstation or Player. These operations are executed on behalf of the vmware-tools service that must be running within the virtual machine and guest credentials are required prior to execution.

sfcbd

vmware-usbarbitrator vobd vprobed openwsmand

vix-high-p vix-poll dropbearmulti

Dropbear includes a client, server, key generator, and scp in a single compilation called dropbearmulti, this is basically the ssh stuff CDP is used to share information about other directly-connected Cisco networking equipment, such as upstream physical switches. CDP allows ESX and ESXi administrators to determine which Cisco switch port is connected to a given vSwitch. When CDP is enabled for a particular vSwitch, properties of the Cisco switch, such as device ID, software version, and timeout, may be viewed from the vSphere Client. This information is useful when troubleshooting network connectivity issues related to VLAN tagging methods on virtual and physical port settings. A debugging utility for the new Load-Based Teaming feature A debugging utility for Distributed vSwitch BusyBox is a software application that provides many standard Unix tools, much like the larger (but more capable) GNU Core Utilities. BusyBox is designed to be a small executable for use with the Linux kernel, which makes it ideal for use with embedded devices. It has been self-dubbed "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux Busybox utilities: ash - The Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh)

net-cdp

net-lbt net-dvs

busybox (ash)

helper??-? dcui Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) process provides a local management console for the ESXi host. VMware iSCSI proccess Vmware Open-iSCSI initiator daemon, see below for the files that are used vmkiscsid /etc/vmware/vmkiscsid/iscsid.conf /etc/vmware/vmkiscsid/initiatorname.iscsi

iscsi_trans_vmklink iscsivmk-log VMware vMotion vmotionServer VMware High Availability agent this agent is installed and started when a ESXi server is joined to a HA cluster.

Ports
22 53 80 allows access to ssh used for DNS This provides access to a static welcome page, all other traffic is redirected to port 443

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443 902 903 5989 8000

This port acts as a reverse proxy to a number of services to allow for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The vSphere API uses this port for communications. Remote console communication between vSphere client and ESXi host for authentication, migrate and provision The VM console uses this port Allows communication with the CIM broker to obtain hardware health data for the ESXi host. vMotion requests

Commands
test default gateway vmkping -D

Performance

esxtop

Multipathing
Detailed information List all Paths with abbreviated information List all Paths with adapter and device mappings
esxcfg-mpath -l esxcfg-mpath -L esxcfg-mpath -m

List all devices with their corresponding paths esxcfg-mpath -b List all Multipathing Plugins loaded into the system
esxcfg-mpath -G

Set the state for a specific LUN Path. Requires esxcfg-mpath --state <active|off> path UID or path Runtime Name in --path Used to specify a specific path for operations Used to filter the list commands to display only a specific device Restore path setting to configured values on system start
esxcfg-mpath -P esxcfg-mpath -d esxcfg-mpath -r

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