VMware – Domain of the Technomancer

Setting up SNMP on VMware

2022-01-25 by Scott Garrett

In setting up Zabbix to monitor my devices, I had to look up how to set up SNMP in VMware. My first mistake was assuming that vCenter, the central management system for VMware, would actually centrally manage SNMP. It does not. From what I can tell, you cannot set up SNMP from the GUI, and … Read more

ESXi DHCP vs. Ubiquiti’s Implementation

2021-12-312021-04-11 by Scott Garrett

By default ESXi is expecting to get its hostname from DHCP, and with Ubiquiti, the DCHP server is expecting the client to provide a hostname. So to fix it, you need to get on the ESXi host and use the commands esxcli system hostname set –host=hostname and esxcli system hostname set –fqdn=fqdn to set the … Read more