After several months, attempts, and VCF rebuilds to get BGP peering with VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, and my Ubiquiti Unifi network, it finally happened. I wanted to share my experience. This required a lot of help from internal rock star TAMs in our organization, external blogs, […]
If you’re managing VMware environments, you might occasionally run into persistent shell warning alerts in your ESXi hosts. Thankfully, you can quickly find and suppress these warnings with a bit of PowerCLI magic.
Check for ESXi Hosts with Shell Warnings
Show the actual advanced settings on all hosts. Log into vCenter using PowerCLI and run this command:
This command immediately disables the shell warnings on selected hosts. No more alerts in GUI!
Command output:
Entity Name Value
------ ---- -----
fs-vsan-05.int.dc5.cz UserVars.SuppressShellWarning 1
Why (Not) Suppress Shell Warnings?
It’s important to note that suppressing shell warnings is only advisable in lab or non-production environments. In production environments, shell warnings provide valuable security reminders. Always keep shell warnings enabled to maintain security awareness unless you’re working in a controlled test environment.
The GMKtec NucBox has been growing in popularity amongst the VMware community as a modern AMD Ryzen-based alternative to the Intel/ASUS NUC, offering many of the same advantages while avoiding some of the drawbacks of Intel’s Hybrid CPU architecture. In preparation for my upcoming session at […]
Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!
Looking for your Home Lab Licenses to run either vSphere Standard Edition or VCF? This article should give you what you need to know to make this happen. VCP-VCF with VMUG Advantage now ready to unlock vSphere Standard Edition or VCF!