VMWare ESXi is a Hypervisor based virtualization platform that installs on bare hardware (no host OS required) that allows running of multiple guest virtual machines simultaneously. ESXi is available freely with basic single-server functionality, but more advanced functionality requires licensing ...
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Windows 2008 r2 2 node cluster - one node unavailable
I have 2 node Windows 2008 r2 cluster, i failed over service onto node2, restarted node1, and after restart node1 is unavailable. The networks interfaces will not come up and both interface are ...
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Should VCenter be a VM?/Can it be external hardware
We have 6 ESX servers running +150 VMs. Currently our VCenter server is one of these VMs. The other day we had a hardware failure in our DC (caused by a naughty UPS) which took out two of these ...
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VMWare vSphere client fails to connect to the server
This morning we lost connectivity to all the virtual servers hosted on one of the ESXi machines. Trying to connect to it using the vSphere client we're getting the following message:
Call ...
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With VMware 5, how does memory pooling works across clusters
With new memory entitlement in vSphere 5, if I have 2 clusters configured with the same license level. Would my memory entitlement be calculated separately for each cluster, or will it pool everything ...
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Why does a PXE-booting VM aggressively seek Reverse ARP?
Reverse ARP is.. well, pretty much dead, as far as I'm aware? One of the great Internet success stories in killing off a protocol? It's been deprecated in favor of BOOTP (and later, DHCP) for almost ...
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How to check fiber connectivity in ESXi 5.0?
On a VMware ESXi 5.0 host, how can I check if fiber storage adapters are properly connected to the fiber switch/SAN, i.e. if the fiber link is up?
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Alternative to pfSense for a production-ready firewall solution hosted in ESXi
I'm looking for an alternative to pfSense (2) that can be virtualized in VMWare ESXi. I've experienced several problems with pfSense to date and I feel like it is not a totally finished or polished ...
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Why has NFS suddenly started performing abysmally in FreeNAS 8
I've been using ESXi 5.0 quite successfully with my datastore provided by NFS share on FreeNAS 8. All of a sudden i'm experiencing terrible performance.
I've ruled out some things:
Hardware (FreeNAS ...
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Proper way to restart vsphere services on esxi 5 host?
At $WORK, we recently moved from VMWare Server to ESXi 5. The Vsphere client connects to port 443 (SSL) on the server, and uses the originally generated ssl cert from the install.
I've replaced the ...
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vSphere Performance Graphs - 400x Interfaces?
All of the performance graphs across all hosts and guests in our vmware 4 infrastructure label network traffic on their performance tabs as "Transmitted for 4002", "Transmitted for 4001" etc. Where ...
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Can't vMotion specific VM
I have a VM (2008 R2, running SQL) that sits on a dedicated VLAN 70 that sits behind my TMG firewall. There is also a small CentOS web server that sits in the same DMZ, usually on the same ESXi box.
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ESXi 5 resource pools “hot” allocation?
I am in the planning stages of installing esxi 5 to host about 5 guest os's (identical CentOS 5 images). I want them to have separate data allocation (seperate virtual disks) but I want them to be ...
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VMWare ESXi 5 - How to clone Windows 2008 SBS
I am running two Windows 2008 Server on a VMware ESXi 5 Server (VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). There are two different ESXi hosts within my VMware datacenter environment. Let us call them ...
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Can I vMotion between Standard and enterprise hosts?
I plan on having one Enterprise host, and a few Standard licensed hosts. Will I be able to vmotion between these 2 types of servers? I know that the memory pool will be counted separately, but can't ...
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Recommended way to setup a secure ESXi environment with a publicly accessible range and 2 NICs
I am fairly new to ESXi but have decided to dive into this, but have found out that things are not as easy as I had expected them to be (no doubt this is primarily caused by my lack of knowledge on ...
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Hardware disk error in ESX Guest, on a vmfs backed drive … how is this possible?
How can a guest inside ESX find io problems like this?
[ 40.601502] end_request: critical target error, dev sdg, sector 430203456
[ 40.601563] sd 2:0:6:0: [sdg] Unhandled sense code
[ 40.601582] sd ...
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Reverted snapshot details are not recorded in events
One of my team mate reverted a snapshot without intimating any body.
We tried to find it through Events. But there was no record.
Where we can find the details about reverted snapshot?
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Is there any verbose flag that could cause vCenter db overfilling in ESXi cluster?
I have SQL Server express installed on vCenter, so the maximum size of the database can be only 4GB. I don't know why, but from some moment the size of the db started to grow exponentially, so I have ...
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Should Linux VM's in VMware/ESX have a swap partition?
On a VMware ESX setup what is the difference of these options?:
a Linux VM with 1GB RAM and 1GB swap partition and the VM uses 1.5 GB ram
a Linux VM with 1GB RAM and no swap partition and the VM ...
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VM on ESXi host - How does one make externally accessible? [migrated]
I have a home server running ESXi v5.0.0 with a VM guest OS (linux) up and running.
I have apache 2.x installed and serving to my machine (i.e I can access the default apache page when going to ...
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How can I get an email alert when RAID array is degraded? VMware ESXi 5.0, MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i
We have recently bought a "white box" server to run VMware ESXi 5.0 (we're planning to use the vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). According to VMware's Compatibility Guide, the server's LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS ...
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What Virtualization Servers support windows clients with Direct X? [migrated]
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those questions are old and I would like an up to date answer based on current technology.
I want to host ...
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ESXi 5 host-only test environment
I'm setting up a test environment. I have ESXi installed with a few operating systems. I'm trying to have these few operating systems in host-only mode they don't don't talk outside the host but I ...
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VMware VM with more than 2TB of disk space
I'm a VCP 4 so I'm aware of the configuration maximums for LUNs/RDMs/VMDKs in vSphere 4, but say I want to create a VM that has a logical drive bigger than 2TBs. The only ways I can think of doing ...
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Why can't I power on ESXi host from vSphere?
I'm sure i've had this working in the past. The IPMI / iLO settings have been configured under Software -> Power Management but the "Power On" item is greyed out when right clicking on a host which is ...
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Getting received EOFException while Client Hello itself
Doing the SSL Connection to ESXi 5 (vmware) to get the wbem data. but SSL handshake is failed at Client Hello itself. Server side.
sfcb.cfg file details:
basicAuthLib: ...
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What is the oem-dell-he-esxi module?
I'm attempting to use the vSphere Update Manager for the first time to do an ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 upgrade.
The server shipped with Dell's ESXi pre-installed, and when I attempt to do an upgrade to ...
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ESXi 5 forgetting configuration on reboot
Everytime I reboot my ESXi 5 host it returns to an old configuration (connected to old datastores and listing old virtual machines).
I have found a few oddities which are probably part/root of the ...
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RAID10 volume write latency on Windows on ESXi 5
I have a VMware ESXi 5 environment running on Fujitsu BX922S2 blade servers, connecting to a Fujitsu DX90 SAN.
I've had no problem with RAID5 volumes, but RAID10 volumes (for MSSQL) are exhibiting ...
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Separate virtual switches or just VLAN separation for isolated networks?
I am building a small setup of ESX5 servers. There will be different apps running for different companies on them. Each company has a VM that has one Internet facing vNIC and one vNIC facing to this ...
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Data Store/Volume disconnecting. How to resume copy of VMDK?
I'm having an issue with my ESXi 4.1 hosts losing the datastore with FC SAN after a power outage. All 3 hosts disconnect so it's definitely a SAN issue. I've tried to resolve the issue on the SAN side ...
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What are some tips for cheap and solid hw raid controller card for running ESXi? [closed]
ESXi is great product, however little bit picky about hardware. Can you please reccommend me some hardware raid controllers which work 100% out of the box and are also price-efficient ?
I know about ...
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How do I shutdown the Host over ssh on ESXi 5 so it shuts down the guests properly?
I have ssh login to an ESXi 5 host.
All the guests have vmware tools running, so they can be shut down by the host properly.
I would like an equivalent for this menu option in vSphere client:
It ...
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Is it possible or advisable to virtualize a PBX system? How would one go about this?
I'm totally new to the world of VoIP and we are looking to move from our current provider to a solution we host ourselves, mainly because the current service is so unreliable. Unfortunately I know ...
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VM to VM communication between two ESXi hosts on the same LAN
I have two ESXi 4 hosts on the same network, which has the following details:
HOST1:
IP: X.X.79.210
Subnet: 255.255.255.240
Gateway: X.X.79.209
HOST2:
IP: X.X.80.82
Subnet: 255.255.255.248
Gateway: ...
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Open source network and host emulator
I am wondering if the following product even exists. Here's my wish list:
Bootable CD with simple (XML, YAML) configuration allowing you to spin up multiple virtual hosts, each with their own IP and ...
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How to obtain VMWare ESXi logging from Vsphere?
How to obtain VMWare ESXi log and store it in our local machine?
Can it be acheived using VMWare powerCLI?
( I hope in log file i can get what are all the guest machines were utilized and how long . ...
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Advice/guides for building and expandable virtual environment [closed]
I am looking to build a virtual environment to run virtual machines (propably using vmWare products).
Can any give any good advice, or point me towards some good documents, regarding best practices ...
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Installation of VMware tools fails
When i am using VMware converter to host my image to ESXi , It asks for install VMWare tools.
Few times i unselected that option(without knowing the importance) and hosted. When i am trying to ...
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what are all the common factors affecting VM performance? [closed]
Recently we faced a performance problem in our ESXi 4.1 hosted in Dell R710 server.
I verified RAM and it was 48 GB. I checked the CPU it was quadcore. Finally i came to know that the server had only ...
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Which policy do you follow for maintain your VMs? [closed]
Which rules/policy or procedure do you use to maintain your list of VMs?
For ex. Will you assign a VM and keep eyeing on whether it is being utilized or kept idle? (So that you can take it back to ...
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Increase an Ubuntu Server CPU number on VmWare ESXi
Can I increase the number of processors dedicated to my Ubuntu Server 10.04 virtual machine without creating problems to its functions?
It will be accepted without hassle or I should do something at ...
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How to maintain the list of VM in case free ESXi?
In our company we do not have licensed ESXi. I am having 10 ESXi server and using Vsphere to connect each and every machine.
Whenever i am giving machine to users i store few information in excel ...
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vSphere 4.0 - Hardware system Monitoring
I have an ML350 G6 with ESXi 4.1 Free (vSphere Hypervisor 4.1 Free version) installed. Since ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor install I was not able to install the HP Proliant Support Tools for ...
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VMware VMFS5 and LUN sizing - multiple smaller datastores, or 1 big datastore?
With VMFS5 no longer having the 2TB limit for a VMFS volume, I'm considering which scenario would be more beneficial overall:-
Less LUNs of larger size, or
More LUNs of smaller size.
In my case, I ...
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How to prevent taking snapshots after threshold in VMware ESXi?
We have given our users privilege to take snapshots. But now it is uncontrollable and people started taking meaningless snapshots and never deleting it.
Due to this we are facing performance issue, ...
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Can a pcie revo drive be used with esxi 4.0
I am running esxi 4.0 on a dell T110 server. The server does not see the pcie revo drive (OCZSSDPX-1RVD0180) as a storage device nor does it see it in the hardware that can be enabled in the VM Pass ...
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How can I troubleshoot inaccessible NFS datastores in ESXi 5?
I've been having some trouble with my virtual machines the last few days. When i fire up vSphere the NFS datastores intermittently appear offline / inaccessible. The NFS shares are on my Windows Home ...
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VMware ESXi Share Datastore
I currently have a server running ESXi 5 and have 2x 2TB on the server. ESXi is installed to a SD card and two datastores are created (one for each drive).
I was wondering if there's anyway to share ...
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How to get VM's usage pattern?
We are having VMware ESXi servers. VMs will be assigned to user and they will use RDP to use it. We are unable to find whether the users are really using them or the VMs are idle.
Is there any way to ...
