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Update manager error: hosts could not enter maintenance mode

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I started another round of the ESXi patching recently (because of this), when I experienced an unpleasant issue. Some of my clusters failed to remediate using update manager. Hosts failed to enter maintenance mode with the following message: Current progress of remediation: 0 hosts completed successfully, 0 hosts completed with… Continue reading

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Execute ESXCLI commands during ESXi startup

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You may face the situation where you need to run custom commands/scripts while ESXi boot. Although it is not so common situation, as most of the settings done in ESXi are persistent during the reboot, there are some cases. For this purpose there is a file called /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh and you… Continue reading