Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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Can I add an ESXi host to more than one vCenter server?
I have a situation where I need to add a host to two vCenter servers.
The vCenter servers are divided into two different networks and are not in a linked mode i.e. the other vCenter server belongs to ...
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RAID 10 or RAID 5 for multiple VMs - what is the best choice?
I have just ordered a new rig for my business. We do a lot of software development for Microsoft SharePoint and need the rig to run several virtual machines for development and test purposes. We will ...
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automatically shutting down an ESXi host nightly
We just picked up a new development server that I've loaded ESXi on.
The room it's in is well ventilated during the day but at night the door is closed and it gets quite toasty in there. I've been ...
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ESXi standalone host cannot power on any virtual machines
I have a standalone VMWare ESXi host on ESXi 5.1. It currently has a handful of VMs powered on, and they are running fine.
If I try to power on any other VM - any VM at all - I am receiving the ...
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Enabling VMware EVC on Westmere E5645 CPU only accepts "Nehalem" mode
Take the following system, a Supermicro VMware ESXi host with Intel Westmere E5645 CPUs.
Part of our deployment process is to set the appropriate Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC) level for the ...
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Migrating from vSphere 5.5 to another datacenter 6.5
We are planning to migrate the production VMs from one of our datacenters, based on ESXi 5.5 hosts, to a new datacenter with 6.5 environment. Datacenters are located in different places.
So our ...
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Is it possible to deploy VMware vSphere 5.5 without Windows?
I ran into an interesting client requirement recently. I needed to perform a greenfield deployment of VMware vSphere 5.5. This was to use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)...
The ...
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How can we remotely monitor VMware ESXI?
We have VMware ESXi on several servers, how can we remotely monitor for problems with hard drives, RAM, power supply or network cards?
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DHCP Server with multiple network interfaces and different subnets
I am trying to set up a dhcp server (isc dhcpd on debian 8 (vm inside an esxi environment)) with 4 network interfaces, eth0-3. The dhcp server should serve a different subnet on the interfaces eth1, ...
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Symantec Endpoint Protection ( SEP / SEPM ) traffic volume management
My organization has a large deployment of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) (~20k clients) with a single SEPM instance running in an ESX VM. We do have many remote clients designated as Group Update ...
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What are the most important aspects to consider when choosing a SAN for a small office virtualization project?
I am in the process of consolidating 6 physical servers running 6 different operating system flavors (don't ask) into two identical physical servers (Dell PowerEdge 2900), using the free VMware ESXi 4....
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Moving ESXi installation to USB key
What's the best way to move a VMware ESXi 4.1 installation from a harddrive to a usb memory?
I'm planning to install a fresh VMware ESXi on the usb key, boot it up, and then somehow transfer the ...
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vmware esxi 5, cant create snapshots and consolidate fails, how to delete old or consolidate redo logs?
I have a VM that seems to be working ok, but when VMWare DR (or I) tries to create a snap shot, it fails, and when I view the summary page of the VM it has a warning at the top showing that the disks ...
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Default Bios Options for ESXi Virtual Machine
Does anyone know of a way to set the default bios options of a virtual machine in ESX1 (4.1). Every time I create a new VM, I need to go into the bios and set the Num Lock in the bios. I was hoping ...
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ESXi - Multiple Separate Concurrent Uplinks on vSwitch?
I currently have an ESXi server hosting a PFSense guest which is being used as an internet-facing router.
This ESXi server is set up with two vSwitches (each with an associated port group):
WAN - 1 ...
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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 2:...
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Checking if two virtual machines are running on the same host
Is there a way to see if several Virtual Machines are running on the same host? Specifically, I have three VMWare VMs (each running a Ubuntu Server 14.04) and I have tried to compare different pieces ...
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VMWare distributed switch, VMs from different hosts cannot ping one another
I am using ESXi 5.1 in the hosts, I have setup a distributed switch with corresponding uplink and port groups. When migrating to distributed switch, it seems that VMs from the same host can ping one ...
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Does a nested ESXi lab need a trunk port group?
I'm following this guide in setting up a nested ESXi 5 lab on a single box. It has you create 4 ports for each virtual ESXi box, 1 on VMNetwork and 3 on a Trunk port group. It says you need to do this ...
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Windows Servers on ESXi 100% CPU at year rollover
We have a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 servers running on ESXi servers. At year end rollover 2014 to 2015 the CPUs go to 100% and the machines hang.
The solution appears to be a hotfix (...
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Any opensource equivalent of virtual center?
We got 10 ESXi hosts running. We don't have budget for Virtual center licenses. Is there some free tool that just gives us consolidated view of all VMs with poweroff and poweron options for each VM.We ...
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Should i go native or with ESXi server?
At this moment, my server is a plain 64-bit amd, running windows 2003.
I wanted to run another virtualized OS on top of it using virtualbox.
Then I saw that vmware ESXi is free! I always ignored that ...
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Which Linux-Virtualization to choose for Server?
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I got a brand new Intel i7 Server-System with 12GB Ram and I want to consolidate three other linux-servers onto this machine using virtualization. I want to use the harddisks (via a kind of LVM) ...
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Can a VM perform better when only two cores instead of four cores are presented to it?
We had a VMWare VM at work with two cores allocated to it that ran a pretty heinous process in IIS. Under load the process was maxing out the CPU usage on both cores, so we asked our system engineers ...
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Resetting an ESXi root password
I've just inherited a very simple VM setup with a pair of ESXi servers clustered and everything is pretty much hooked up. Problem is I do not have the root passwords for the servers and no one has any ...
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Monitoring VMware ESXi (free) vs. vSphere
I have two hosts running the free ESXi hypervisor. However, we use Nagios for monitoring, and I've received conflicting information about how we should monitor these systems. Are my findings below ...
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ESXi hosted on public IP without firewall
So I've got an interesting problem.
I currently rent a couple of servers from Hetzner (a German hosting provider). Each server has a soft firewall and does something like web hosting / database.
I ...
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Detect memory ballooning from within the affected VM
Is it possible to detect from within a Linux VM that memory is being reclaimed by the memory balloon? I don't think any information about the host is propagated to the VM, so connecting to the host ...
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Accessing temperature data on ESXi5.1?
For ESXi5.1 (VMWare vSphere) images, I can see temperature data on the vSphere user interface (under Monitor / Hardware Status). I tried scouring the available snmp data using snmpwalk, but can't find ...
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How to change SID of deployed server?
I needed to setup 2 vms and naively simply setup one from scratch, made sure it worked correctly, then copied it to another host. Now getting message "the trust relationship between this workstation ...
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Can I safely increase the number of processors on a VM?
I have several Windows 7, CentOS, and Ubuntu virtual machines running within a VMWare ESXi server. To get better performance while building on them via Jenkins, I would like to increase their number ...
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Multiple vCPUs or multiple identical VMs, which is better?
I am looking to upgrade one of our servers, an 8 core server running VMware Server 2. The VMs it runs are mostly web, file, and email servers; specifically, it runs three webservers, 2 email/file ...
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How to reclaim deleted storage from VM in ESXi 5.5 server
I have some VMs in ESXi 5.5 server. My ESXi server reached its maximum storage.It is showing 4 GB free space. I deleted useless data from one of my VMs about 300GB but ESXi 5.5 server still showing 4 ...
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Issues customizing a RHEL7 VM deployed from a template on VMware
In compliance with VMWare's VM customization matrix, I am testing this out on vSphere 5.5 Update 2d. I create the template with a RHEL 7.1 DVD and point anaconda to a kickstart that looks like this:
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vSphere machine wont start: Insufficient disk space on datastore
I am trying to add a virtual disk using a VMFS datastore with 1.98 TB of capacity and 85 GB used. I then power on the virtual machine, and it gives me the Insufficient disk space on datastore error. ...
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Why doesn't the Internal USB port boot ESXi 6 on my Microserver Gen8?
I'm trying to run ESXi 6 off the Internal USB 2.0 port on a HP Microserver Gen8. No matter what I try it will not make any attempt to boot the internal USB to load the hypervisor.
I installed ESXi 6 ...
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Poor Disk Performance on VMs; Host using PERC H310 RAID 5
I have a Dell R620 running 5 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drives in a PERC H310 controller (which I am beginning to regret buying).
I am getting awful read/write speeds on Linux ...
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CPU allocation for VMs on ESXi
I'm a complete VMware know-nothing, but I recently set up 4 VMs on ESXi. 3 of the VMs are very non-resource-intensive (a lightly used file server, a lightly used domain domain controller, and a VMware ...
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How do I bridge multiple physical ports in ESXi 5.x?
As the title says, is there a way to bridge multiple physical ports in ESXi 5.x such that they are not load balanced? I essentially want each physical port to be "plugged" into two separate ports on ...
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ubuntu only use 8 cpu for RX and TX queue with vmxnet3
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on vmware esxi 6.7 with 32 core cpu for this machine. Linux only run 8 queue for tx and rx and it cant use all cpus in heavy load.
# ethtool -S ens192 | grep Queue
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Why doesn't VMWare DRS automatically migrate VMs when a host is put in maintenance mode?
We have 4 ESXi 5.0 hosts in a VMWare cluster on shared storage (NFS) with DRS and HA on.
We want to perform a memory upgrade on one of the hosts. We put that host in maintenance mode but DRS did not ...
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VMWare vSphere and the move from ESX to ESXi
I was working on a standalone ESX 3.5 system last night in order to upgrade to vSphere 4.1u1. I realized that the full ESX download had been deemphasized on the VMWare website. While I've known that ...
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How to recover from "Invalid Drive Movement" (HP SmartArray P411)
Due to hurricane Matthew, our company shutdown all servers for two days. One of the servers was an ESXi host with an attached HP StorageWorks MSA60.
When we powered things back up today and logged ...
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BUG CONFIRMED: No performance data for VMXNET3 in ESXi 6.0?
Did ESXi 6.0 completely removed the performance data for VMXNET3 or is there is a way, how can enable throughput logging/graphing for VMXNET3?
In ESXi 5.5 the ESXi client showed the network ...
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How to mount an USB drive under VMWare ESXi 5.5?
I want to mount an USB drive to VMWare ESXi 5.5 host.
The USB drive is visible with lsusb :
Bus 01 Device 03: ID 154b:0095 PNY
But not under /vmfs.
Under /dev/disks/ I see many entries, but dunno ...
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How can I confirm if my vmxnet driver is installed on my CentOS server?
I have an appliance running CentOS 5.x on VMWare ESX.
Quite recently I upgraded it to a newer version of CentOS (still in 5.x) and I noticed that the network card wouldn't initialize.
If I run ...
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ESXi can't add new VM to port group once VMKernel NIC attached to group
I'm using ESXi standard (the free version) on a new server. When creating a new VM via the embedded host client UI (the new web client that isn't vSphere web) I cannot add a new VM to a port group ...
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Enable SSLv3 on ESXi 6.5
does anybody know how to enable SSLv3 for vmauthd on ESXi 6.5 ? The old "vmware-vdiskmanager" application for some reason insists on using that and I cannot use the one from VDDK 6.5, because it ...
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PCI-DSS: Virtualization segmentation in ESXi environment
I have already asked this question over on Information Security but so far it has not garnered any comments. I am thinking perhaps it is more of a server infrastructure and configuration question, ...
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What is the recommended way to version VMware Templates?
Assume that you're in an organisation with numerous data centres, each with their own private clouds running on VMware vCenter 5.5. There are VMware templates for different Operating Systems, ...