cs_prepare_esxvm(8)

📦 version 3.1.3, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 cs_prepare_esxvm — the ClusterTools2 glow-up page ✨

okay so bestie, you found cs_prepare_esxvm in section 8 of the ClusterTools2 manual, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

cs_prepare_esxvm — prepare or check guest OS settings in ESX VMs 🖥️💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cs_prepare_esxvm OPTION

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: cs_prepare_esxvm goes in and applies configuration settings to make a (SUSE) Linux operating system, running as a guest inside an ESX VM, just chef's kiss optimised 😌✨

the settings and the checks it does are all according to the best practices described in several SUSE TIDs and VMware knowledge base articles. like, she did her research, no cap 📚💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the global options are, and I'm obsessed with all of them:

  • --help — show help. that's it, that's the tweet 🫶
  • --version — show version. know your icon's era ⭐
  • --save — save current settings, call first of all 🔥 like literally call this one before anything else, bestie
  • --list — list current settings (only partly implemented yet) 🙈 yeah she's still a work in progress
  • --preview — preview recommended settings 👀 see the vision before you commit
  • --apply — apply recommended settings, call only once 💀 literally only once, don't come back for seconds

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

  • 0 — Successful program execution. slay 💅✨
  • >0 — Usage, syntax or execution errors. not the vibe 😭💀

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

# cs_prepare_esxvm --help

show help. iconic behavior honestly 👑

# cs_prepare_esxvm --save

save current settings. do this first, fr fr 💾💖

# cs_prepare_esxvm --preview

show most of the settings that would be applied. a little sneak peek, a little vibe check ✨👀

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/sbin/cs_prepare_esxvm — the program itself. the main character, lowkey 🌟
  • /etc/ClusterTools2/cs_prepare_esxvm — the configuration file. her little settings diary 📓💜
  • /var/adm/backup/cs_prepare_esxvm-yyyymmdd-hhmmss.tgz — the backup archive. safety first babes 🛟✨

💀 BUGS 💀

okay bestie, real talk, some caveats:

  • This script could apply changes only once on each VM. one shot, one opportunity 😭
  • The preview does not show all changes. she's mysterious like that 🙈
  • The preview needs all activated software repositories online. no repos, no preview, that's the rule 🌐

Feedback is welcome, please mail to feedback@suse.com 🫶💌 they genuinely want to hear from you!

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

supportconfig(8), cs_sum_base_config(8), cs_show_error_patterns(8), cs_show_supportconfig(8), cs_precheck_for_hana(8), ClusterTools2(7) 🌟

and the reading list, because she cites her sources bestie:

(c) 2014-2019 L.Pinne, Germany. 🇩🇪💖

cs_prepare_esxvm comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. like, none, zero, nada, don't @ me 💀

For details see the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html 📜✨

and that's the whole page bestie, every flag, every path, every link, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️💅

mwah 💋 — this adorable little rewrite was brought to you by ClusterTools2, dated 01 Nov 2019, and dedicated to the one and only cs_prepare_esxvm(8) 🌸🦋🎀

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