/usr/sbin/dmidecode |grep -A4 "System Information"
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How to unregister register or restore lost, orphaned VMware VM virtual machine
1. Power down VM
1. Via ESX command line – sudo vmware-cmd -s unregister /vmfs/volumes/xxx_datastore/serverfolder/server.vmx
2. Via Virtual center use remove from inventory
3. Use Virtual center datastore browser, find VM
4. Select VM .vmx file
5. Select add to inventory
6. Complete wizard to add to appropriate datacenter, host, folder.
7. Check vlan information
8. Power on VM
9. Test access and networking
ESXi/ESX host build numbers – update levels
vmware knowledge base article: KB: 1014508
vmware -v
How to retrieve memory details from ESX servers – command line
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MachineMem
command examples to use to search through VMware ESX logs
less -p”2012-07-16T18″ vmkernel.log
cat *nfs*
egrep “2012-07-16T18|2012-07-16T19” esx-*/var/run/log/vmkernel.log | egrep -h -o “ESX_FCdsk[0-9a-zA-Z_]+” | sort | uniq -c
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