From time to time, it may be necessary to restart the management agents on an ESXi server. The process is very straightforward and is non-intrusive to the functioning of the virtual machines hosted there.
Perform a rescan operation each time you reconfigure your storage setup. You can use the vicfg-rescan vSphere CLI or the vSphere Client to perform a rescan. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide. The Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide discusses rescan on Fibre Channel storage. The iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide discusses rescan on iSCSI storage.… Read More »
Get information, set speed and duplex for ESX/ESXi physical NICs. The vicfg-nics command manages uplink adapters, that is, the Ethernet switches used by an ESX/ESXi host. You can use vicfg-nics to list the VMkernel name for the uplink adapter, its PCI ID, driver, link state, speed, duplex setting, MAC address and a short PCI description of the card.… Read More »
If you have an existing VM that was removed from VirtualCenter and just need to add it back in then follow the below steps: