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Month: October 2018

dcli and orphaned VMs in vCenter Server inventory

dcli and orphaned VMs in vCenter Server inventory

The orphaned VMs in vCenter inventory is an unusual view in experienced administrator’s Web/vSphere Client window. But in large environments, where many people manage hosts and VMs it will happen sometimes. You do know how to get rid of them using traditional methods described in VMware KB articles and by other well known bloggers, but there’s a quite elegant new method using dcli. This handy tool is available in vCLI package, in 6.5/6.7 vCSA shell and vCenter Server on Windows…

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NSX-V VTEP, MAC, ARP Tables content mapping

NSX-V VTEP, MAC, ARP Tables content mapping

It took me a while to figure out what information I see while displaying VTEP, MAC and ARP table on Controller Cluster in NSX. In documentation you can find what information are included in those tables but it might not be seemingly obvious which field contains what kind of data that’s why I decided to make a short reference for myself but maybe it will help also someone else. To understand those tables I started with Central CLI to display…

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