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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Can I virtualize multiple hosts into one virtual system?
I have 5 computer systems in our small office. From my basic understanding of Virtualization technology, I think I can virtualize the 5 systems into one big virtual system. I wish to confirm this.
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User permission requirements to log into vSphere Client for iPad and vCenter Mobile Access
I was just wondering what the minimum permission requirements for a user for to be able to log into the vSphere Client for iPad and vCenter Mobile Access. The clients are connecting to a plain ESXi ...
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VMware ESXi 3.5 HP Proliant DL380 G4 reduce fan noise
I've set up VMware ESXi v3.5 on an HP Proliant DL380 G4, and I'd like a way to reduce the fan noise.
Under Health status, I see the following:
Is this normal? I've read about there being a Fan ...
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Best way to move logical drive to a physical drive
I have a Windows Server 2003 instance which was once running on physical hardware but now runs on vmware esxi. Disk 0 was once a physical RAID, but is now a vmware virtual hd with a primary partition ...
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Setting up a VM to use a different IP range than vSphere/ESXI host
I currently have a server that is running vSphere 5 (ESXi). My management interface (VMKernel) has an address of 173.198.215.78 and the gateway on that one is 173.198.215.78. It appears to be set up ...
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VMWare snapshots per batch job
With the vShpere client it is possible to create snopshots manually. Is there a way to trigger snapshots of of a running vm (ESXI 4.1) by a scheduled batch job ?
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VLAN's in ESXi - require seperate vswitches?
I am trying to configure two separate vlans in ESXi. Right now I have two vlan's set up on a single vswitch in separate port groups (one for vlan 100, one for vlan 110). None of the ports connected to ...
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Virtual Machines (ESXi): Should I use 32-bit or 64-bit guest operating systems? [migrated]
I'm running a "small" test/development virtualization server (running VMware ESXi 5.0) with the following specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1230 (3.2 GHz)
32 GB RAM
OS: VMware ESXi 5.0 (64-bit)
Almost all of my ...
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ESXi 5.0 U1 won't autostart VM on boot
I'm testing ESXi 5.0U1 on a small box. One VM for testing and all setup for auto start VM on boot but the VM don't come up.
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VMWare View(5) on existing VMWare Essentials Kit (4.1)
We're looking into purchasing VMWare View. I am curious as to whether VMWare View can utilize the same esxi servers that I am currently using with my essentials plus kit? I'm not looking from a ...
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Virtual Machines on same ESXi 5 host: what kind of throughput should I expect?
Created a new vSwitch with no physical network adapters and no VLAN tags assigned to it. Left it at 120 ports as default, labelled it "Private Network".
Added a "Flexible" network adapter to each ...
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Migrate VM from Virtual to Physical Server
I’m after viewpoints on my situation from my fellow sysadmins. I think I have thought of the points, but want someone else’s opinion.
I have an ESXi5 Cluster consisting of 5 Physical machines: 4 in ...
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HARDWARE SOLUTION FOR ESXI SERVER [closed]
I need some hardware solution for ESXi 5.0 server. It would have about 150 virtual machines and it should provide work on about 30 virtual machines simultaneously without slowing. My budget is about ...
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Remote Power On and IPMI Poweredge 2950
I have a poweredge 2950 server with a drac card that supports ipmi that i have set to share the connection with one of the nics but has a separate ip address. It is running esxi as the os and I was ...
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vCenter - Active Directory integration - permissions on specific hosts
I have 4 ESXi hosts with 1 vCenter.
I manage the whole 4 hosts with the vCenter interface. How can I block access to specific hosts within vCenter based on the Active Directory user logged on the ...
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Replacing BIOS in VMWare tools (Player, ESXi) with SeaBIOS/sgabios [closed]
I don't like their VNC in VMWare applications (vmplayer, ESXi). I prefer text mode - serial console - but VMWare BIOS doesn't send events to a virtual machine's virtual serial port. I want to see BIOS ...
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Booting Linux 2TB+ partitions
I am using VMware ESXi vSphere 5.0.0 and mounting a 6TB LUN from my Dell EqualLogic SAN. I am presenting the LUN using RDM (Raw Device Mappings) so as to be able to see all 6 TBs. So far, so good.
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Is it a bad idea to do an OVF Export of a VM with snapshot data?
I'm currently using a VM running on ESXi 5.0 to dry-run installation procedures for a software product. We're trying a whole different bunch of things, so I'm making extensive use of snapshots to save ...
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Loss of feature set with VMware EVC
If I have two machines both 3rd Generation AMD Opteron, one Shanghai & one Istanbul and I can vMotion between them. Does it buy me anything to enable EVC at the 3rd Generation AMD level? Will I ...
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How can i access apache web pages from outside VMWare ESXi virtual Machine
I am using ESXi 4.1 and have a CentOs 6.2 Virtual Machine with apache server running. I cannot access this web server from outside the Virtual Machine.
My ESXi 4.1 is on 10.0.11.11
The VM i have ...
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Download big files from ESXi?
I want to move one of my vm guest between two ESXi servers. I can't do this with converter or Veaam FastSCP because I'm in another network and using this tools is extremly slow. So I'm trying to copy ...
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Import “VSphere 4 VMFS Datastore” in new “VSphere 5 VMFS Datastore”
I have two vSphere environment:
one composed by a vCenter 4 and two Esx Host 4.0 sharing a clustered datastore (VMFS3) and several virtual machine
one composed by a vSphere 5 and two Esxi Host 5.0 ...
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VM Backups - Externalizing extra large VMware backups
I have a couple of VMware ESXi hosts with a couple of VMs on each hosts. The total amount of size of all these VMs are in the order of the TBs.
I want to make backups of these VMs. But here is not ...
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VMware: Is my SYSLOG Collector running?
I am trying to determine if my Syslog Collector I just set up in vCenter 5 is working correctly.
According to this VMware KB article and this VMware blog article, everything seems to be up and ...
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ESXi 5 licencing [closed]
I have dedicated server with one physical CPU (socket) and 64GB RAM. I have ESXi 5 installed trial for 60 days (I didn't apply any licence and it is coming to an end). I have 5 virtual machines using ...
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ESXi 4.1 no longer detects iSCSI datastore
Long story short, we had a drive failure on a RAID5 iSCSI target. We replaced the drive and it successfully rebuilt. Unfortunately after this was done, ESXi lost the datastore. It still shows up in ...
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Consistency of virtual machine backups using ghettoVCB
I have a ESXi host with both Windows and CentOS virtual machines running.
A couple of them are running SQL Databases (MSSQL and MySQL).
I am trying to setup a backup strategy using the ghettoVCB ...
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VMware - how best to remove an extent from an iscsi volume
In our dev/test environment, I have a vSphere 5 ESXi server running. I have one particular vm on it that went into a panic state because one of it's virtual disks was hosted on a volume that ran out ...
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vSphere 5/Dell MD3000i multipathing configuration clarification
Revisiting an older vSphere setup with two Dell 1950s, 4 NICs per host:
esxi1 and esxi2 for simplicity sake.
SAN is a Dell MD3000i, two controllers, two NICs per controller:
rc00 and rc01; rc10 ...
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setting up an internal network on ESX
Sorry if this is a silly question, but I want to setup an internal network, without a hardware router on ESX. In other works, I want to allocate an 192.168.0.x address. I believe I need to setup a ...
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How do I get `mount` in ESXi 5.0?
I'm using ESXi 5.0 for a nonprofit I'm volunteering for, and I'd like to use ghettoVCB to regularly back up the VMs to USB storage. So far I've been able to see the USB devices in /dev and by using ...
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how to update esxi 5?
I have an ESXi 5 host (free) and vSphere Client. I would like to update to u1 but I cannot find the way to do it. Updates are ZIP files with modules in it; no installer. vSphere client doesn't have an ...
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ESX 4.1 VLAN for Management Interface
These is hopefully a pretty simple question. I have an ESXi host, and I would like to use virtual switch vlan tagging. I have set up my cisco switch like this:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/43
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Can VMs be as reliable as physical machine for performance testing? [closed]
Our team is trying to do performance testing. So they asked me to prepare a VM with 4 cpu and 12 GB RAM. (Our server is R710 which has 48 GB RAM. we are using ESXi 4.1)
That server is already having ...
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VM can't ping localhost on ESXi 4
I have some problem, i have 3 VM (vm1, vm2, and vm3).
vm1 is normal. ping to internal and external is OK, DHCP is OK.
but vm2 and vm3 very strange. DHCP is OK but can't ping to internal and external.
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How does VMware vCenter Server work and what are the benefits over vsphere client
I bought vSphere Essentials which I've installed on 2 physical machines, and set up the servers using vSphere client. This part is working well, and there is 1 VM on each ESXi install (esxi 5.0.0)
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VmWare is vSphere correct for what we want to achieve? [closed]
We have two physical servers that we want to turn in to virtual hosts. I've been looking at the VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit for 3 hosts (Max 2 processors per host) and 192 GB vRAM entitlement + ...
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How to move file into virtual server
I have a ESXi server with a Ubuntu server host running. I need to move a script file from my desktop where I manage the host and guest(with vSphere), to a directory on the guest server. Any ...
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What is the best way to connect a dual LAN server to two trunked switches?
In an older quetion "Best practice to trunk two GB switches?" I asked about how to trunk two switches. I now used a static link to connect them and it runs well. Now I am not sure on how to connect ...
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Some weird IP problems on our project network
I'm studying IT Technology and we have a project at the moment. My Groups is setting some VDI environment up. We have 2 ESXIs up and running. One running Citrix VDI in a box and an other running ...
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Setting up VLAN on Win Server 2008 VMware guest
We've a Windows Server 2008 host on VMware ESXi 4 and want to isolate it from the rest of the network. That is, I want no traffic from the Windows Server 2008 to be allowed on the normal network. I ...
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virtual san appliance in esxi? why?
I am looking at different SAN solutions (Starwind, Lefthand, OpenFiler, OpenSolaris, etc.) for my small office and I understand that there are many virtual SAN appliance (VSA) solutions which can be ...
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jumbo frames network configuration /w esxi, openfiler
After some reading, this is how I think my small business network setup should look like.
SAN Network (192.168.10.0/24, 1000mbps, jumbo frames enabled)
Managed cisco switch
2 x ESXi host (2 x ...
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windows server 2008 r2 on vmware [closed]
i want to install windows server 2008 R2 (64 bit) on VMware on my laptop but i can't becouse it dont support virtualization.i need to buy a new one.how can i recognize that a brand of laptop can solve ...
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'
I have Suse Linux 12.1 and
i am trying to mount a single RAID 1 disk, to explore the files in it. However when mounting it:
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
mount: unknown filesystem type ...
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Change VMWare vSphere Memory Usage Charts to MB or GB
Is there a way to set VMWare vSphere Client to show my OS memory usage in MB or GB instead of KB?
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Installing Fedora 16 guest OS on VMware ESXi 5. What type OS should I choose?
Im trying to install Fedora 16(64bit) as guest OS on my VMware ESXi 5 host... But when configuring new vm, in tab Guest Operating System there is no Fedora 16. I can choose between RedHat 6, CentOS ...
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Performance Implications of running multiple Virtual Servers using one base virtual disk?
I tried looking through old questions, but couldn't find one that hit this exact question.
In VmWare's documentation on Snapshots, they mention utilizing them for a "process tree" setup. This would ...
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VLAN trunk port not working with ESXi 5
I just purchased my first VLAN-capable switch (SLM2008T-NA), and I tried to configure my first vlan on it. However, I am not able to make my trunk port work with ESXi 5.
Here is my current setup:
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VMware seems to throttle SCP copies, what can be the reason?
I seem to have a strange issue with my VMware cluster, where I get inconsistent SCP transfer rates. I have Cluster1 and Cluster2, physically in different regions. I need to transfer large vmdk from ...
