Quick Tip: NSX-T 3.0: Removing VIBs manually from ESXi host

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Patrik Kernstock

May I introduce my self? I am Patrik Kernstock, 25 years old, perfectionist, born in Austria and living in Ireland, Cork. Me explained in short: Tech- and security enthusiast, series & movies junky. Interesting in Linux, Container-stuff and many software solutions by Microsoft, Veeam and VMware.

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vince

Thanks !!

anonymous

also.. the following line has a typo:

esxcli software vib remove -n=nsx-idps

should be “esxcli software VIBs remove -n=nsx-ids”

anonymous

BE WARNED!!!!! This order of removal works.. but I will caution you that you need need to do a “reset system configuration” … on my hosts, it didn’t take by using F11… instead I used:  /sbin/firmwareConfig.py –reset. (<- found here: https://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esxi-reset-system-configuration) When I ran the vin removal above (BEFORE RESETTING CONFIGURATION), it hosed everything… From VMware’s site: If you don’t get the physical pics uncoupled with your NVDS switch, it will black screen… because there were physical nics tied up in an “opaque” switch on my ESXI node, it hosed the system and it black-screened. I did a “Shift-R” recovery… Read more »

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