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Expanding Dell array on VMWare ESXi server
We need to expand an array (or add another array) on a dell server running ESX 3.5.
The server is a PowerEdge 2950 with a PERC 6i Array controller. The physical disks have been added, but are still ...
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VMWare vSphere ESXi vs Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 in a mixed environment [closed]
I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual ...
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Using LVM to extend 2TB diskd on a linux VM?
Currently have mounted on one of my web servers a linux box on VMware with two external drives in. These are both 2TB drives which is the limit to what you can add into VMware. I want to use lvm to ...
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Home Whitebox ESXi with FreeNAS handling local storage [closed]
I'm kind of new to ESXi, FreeNas, and really anything beyond home Windows support. Please forgive me for my level of knowledge, but I'm reading alot and trying to learn. This seems like a fairly large ...
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Issues with API in free version of VMware ESXi 5.0
Hi we are using Linux box on Esxi 5.0 server to take VMDK backups of all windows servers on that EXSi 5.0 ; we are using vmware native API to do that; but after the trail period of 60 days, these ...
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Linux server reboot brings down LAN network
I have a strange problem in my office network.
I have a physical server which runs ESXi 4. Every time I reboot a linux virtual machine (Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS) the entire LAN network goes down. ...
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Linux VMware data store larger then 2TB using lvm?
I'me trying to think of the best way to create one logical volumne on a linux VM to be over 2TB. I need to make one logical volume that is 8TB and have access to this amount on the my SAN.
I know ...
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Why is %si (soft interrupt) in top so high on my VM when I run iperf?
When I run iperf as a client on a CentOS 5 VM running under vmware, why do I see such high %si values in top? We have more experience running Xen and XenServer, and a almost identical centos install ...
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Issues migrating a CentOS 4 xen guest to VMWare
I am migrating a xen guest. It is running a CentOS 4. I am using the same steps that have worked in the past for our RHEL5 and RHEL6 based systems but for some reason, I'm getting errors.
Here are ...
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1answer
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Time jumps on guest system really shortly
I've got a ESXI-Server and a OpenSuse 10.3 distribution running on it as a guest system. In a java (6_17) application that uses Thread.sleep() to not hog 100% CPU, I noticed that it sometimes never ...
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apcupsd slave client keeps loosing and restoring communications with UPS master
On a VMWare ESXI 5.0.0 (vSphere Hypervisor - the free version) I have three server images. All running CentOS 6 - Linux.
All are configured to run the apcupsd ( http://www.apcupsd.org/ ) daemon for ...
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Mounting vmfs5 under linux?
Can anyone tell me if there is a safe (i.e. data won't be corrupted) a VMFS 5 filesystem under linux, where the VMFS 5 filesystem is already mounted by several ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster?
Thanks ...
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High packet in discard percentage
We have several servers running VMWare ESXi 4 on which are virtual machines running OpenSUSE and Windows 2008r2. We also have a server monitoring these vm's using OpenNMS. For several of the OpenSUSE ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to migrate CentOS from (Mac) VMware Fusion into (Cisco VPS) VMWare ESXi?
Is there any solution to clone CentOS (full mirror) from Mac VMware fusion to VMWare ESXi on Cisco VPS server?
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Arp requests with odd source IP go unanswered
I'm having a server with network connectivity issues that I presume come from issues with arp protocol handling.
Let's say the network topology is as follows:
network 192.168.106.0, netmask ...
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3answers
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How to resize the disk of a Fedora guest VM in VMWare ESXi
How do I resize (specifically increase) the disk size of a Fedora guest VM running under VMWare ESXi 4.1?
I have a Fedora 16 VM with an lvm2 formatted disk, and I've increased its disk size using the ...
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vmware unique cpu identifier
I'm looking for a way to generate, or derive, a unique CPU identifier. For example:
If SERVER_A uses vmotion from HOST_A to HOST_B, I want to be able to tell the differences between the cpus.
Any ...
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1answer
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Increasing disk size of Linux guest in VMware?
After increasing the size of my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VM's OS disk by editing the guest VM's settings through the vSphere client, I do not see the increase in disk size when I check from within the OS (df ...
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VMWare vCenter/ESXi with FreeIPA instead of Active Directory?
Can vCenter authenticate against FreeIPA instead of Active Directory? If so, how would you set it up?
We have a pure Linux environment (CentOS) and need to have vCenter and our VM's have the same ...
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How much RAM do I actually have?
I have a RHEL 3 machine that is part of a VMWare cluster.
In VMware mgr Im told the machine has 24Gb of RAM
As built it had 8 GB of RAM
Looking at /proc/meminfo Im told
[root@vmware1 root]# cat ...
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Openfiler fails
We have an openfiler ESA 2.99 storage box that hosts all our VM's via iSCSI.
However, recently it is beginning to act really weird..
Load seems normal on it (around 5.0-7.0) (it has 8 cores), but ...
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samhain corrupt record in the file signature database
in RHEL 5 server running as a guest in ESXi 4, we installed ESXi patches and then installed vmware tools update. when I run
samhain -t update --foreground
i get:
there is a corrupt record in the ...
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467 views
Centralized virtualization (ESXi, XenServer) in a completely Windows-free environment
I'm looking into deploying a small (one or two host servers) non-production virtualization initiative for our company. We need it to be high performance and host shared resources for a number of ...
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Live Linux to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (former ESXi) fails at 1%
I am evaluating VMware vSphere Hypervisor (formerly known as ESXi). The server version is 5.0.0. My steps:
Open VMware vCenter Converter Standalone (tried versions 4.3 and 5.0);
Attempt to convert a ...
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1answer
312 views
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 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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1answer
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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 ...
0
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1answer
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Shrinking physical volumes in LVM on a Linux Guest in ESXi 5.0
The problem:
Linux guest (OpenSuse 12.1), with multiple virtual disks attached.
3 disks are in a logical volume, two of which are exactly 2TB.
None of the disks are independent, and due to the ...
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2answers
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Monitor LSI 3ware raid controller on ESXi
This concerns a server that runs ESXi (v. 4.x or 5.x) installed on drives that are configured into a raid10 using an LSI 3ware 97050 raid controller.
I would like to know if there is a way to monitor ...
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P2V Wouldn't Boot, Rebuilt initrd, Need to Clean Up
We have a CentOS 5.4 server (build 2.6.18-164.el5xen).
We went to P2V this server so we can have redundancy, the physical only has one PSU.
The P2V only completed 99% of the way, we have a VMWare ...
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VMware vCenter Converter - P2V Linux Machine
I'm trying to do P2V with a Debian powered-on source. Everything works perfectly up until the point of selecting destination.
It states that the destination type is VMware Infrastructure virtual ...
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Fresh CentOS 6.2 / Ubuntu Server Installation on VMWare ESXi - can connect to LAN net but not Internet
I have configured a fresh CentOS 6.2 installation on VMWare ESXi with an E1000 NIC, static IP, defined a correct default gateway, subnet mask, and DNS servers.
I use a pfSense as my virtual ...
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isolate physical interface - router
Environment:
-single physical server with 2 NIC (physical) interfaces
-installed ESXi 5.0
-NIC1 connected to internet (modem)
-NIC2 connected to Cisco switch (LAN)
-virtual machine (debian) installed ...
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2answers
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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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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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1answer
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How to make Yum work on virtual centos 6 on ESXi behind proxy?
I have ESXi in my LAN. All traffic from LAN is passed through a proxy. After installing Centos (network card in bridge)(VM on ESXi) I modified yum.conf for using proxy
proxy=http://myproxy:3128/
...
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2answers
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Debian Etch and ESXi slow network speeds
I have 2 etch virtual machines. One's a clean Etch r9, the other is one of our server builds.
On EtchR9 network speeds are 1Gbps. But on our server build we are only getting a max of 100Mbps, both ...
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VMware Requirements for VMotion
We have had some issues with our Linux guests, especially CentOS 5 and 6, on our VMware ESXi 4.1 cluster during times of vmotion events. For example, after a vmotion migration, our CentOS hosts appear ...
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1answer
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what are the alternatives (OSS,commercial) for virtual machine life-cycle management? [closed]
likes of VMware lab manager:
desired feature list:
Self-Service: rapid-delpoy-VMs
configuration management: clone, snapshot VM
good to have:
hypervisor agnostic
storage lease
user access - ...
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4answers
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Slow performance on VMWare Linux server after Tomcat install
We have a VMWare ESXi 4.1 server hosting a number of Linux and Windows guests. Recently a new Linux guest was added to this server and seemed to be performing well. Tomcat and some other applications ...
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1answer
564 views
How to move Ubuntu Server guest on ESXi to Hyper-V?
We desperately need a solution to move a server fro ESXI to Hyper-V. Server guest is Ubuntu intranet server.
We have tried a few options but this is a critical server and SCVMM is just not ...
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Server for Virtualization-what important things to consider
I want to replace a bunch of aging desktops running various unit tests with a single server running virtual machines.
These tests are memory and processor intensive, take time to run (up to 12 hrs in ...
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Physical Debian to VMWare: vmware-converter, dd-image or otherwise?
we have two debian Lenny production machines, both running larger commercial websites. Now these machines need to be moved, and in the process, they need to be virtualized to VMWare ESX.
If you ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to allocate swap space for VMware ESXi VM?
I'm running several virtual machines on VMware ESXi (mostly Centos but few are Ubuntu) and it seems like there are two different ways of dealing with memory allocation. Here are two examples:
(a) ...
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2answers
767 views
Vmware memory usage shows differently from linux
I have a new system running under VMware, and I'm just trying to make sense of the memory use.
In vSphere client, it shows me active using 335,544 KB:
However, linux shows me using 3,146,148 KB:
...
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2answers
560 views
How do I get Busybox Linux/ESXi 4U1 to recognized expanded RAID 5 disk array?
I'm in the process of upgrading a pair of physical servers to 3 virtual machines. The 2 physical boxes (HP DL380 G5 with Smart Array P400 disk controller) will run VMware ESXi 4 update 1. Each ...
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2answers
441 views
Best filesystem for VM storage? [closed]
What is the best file system for storing VM images?
I am looking for features that can save some disk space like compression, deduplication, etc. ZFS is known...but any other alternatives in Linux ...
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1answer
269 views
motherboard selection for VMware ESX or Xen
any motherboards using compatile NIC chipsets for VMware ESXi4.1 or Xen 3.4?
all major manufacturers ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte seem to be using either Realtek or VIA based chips for NIC which so not have ...
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2answers
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cheap storage server: Linux support for RAID on SOHO motherboard chipsets
looking to build a hardware RAID-5 using SATA disks...
this will be exposed to a Hypervisor: VMware ESX or Xen
but none of the below seem to have driver support on Linux / ESX except AMD SP5100 ...
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2answers
285 views
What are the mandatory Linux kernel modules to run inside of ESXi
I'm used to rolling my own kernels for servers, as it nicely minimizes the number of exploits (and the resulting patches) to take care of.
In a traditional (bare metal) world, the whole process is ...
