Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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Accessing the virtual machine installed on ESXi server from a remote computer without the use of Vsphere client
hey folks I am new to the virtualization environment and have recently installed a esxi server on one of my CPUs and have installed the Vsphere Client program on another computer. I have also been ...
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ESXi 5.0 iSCSI Timeout increase to upgrade Equallogic Firmware
As I understand it one can upgrade the firmware on a Dell Equallogic server in about 15 seconds and it can be done whilst an ESXi host is connected and VMs are running but that the iSCSI timeout value ...
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Dell PE 2950 PERC 6/i Controller. How to add 2TB local SATA as a Raw Disk Mapping to ESXi 5.1 VM
Dell PE 2950, PERC 6/i Controller.
- ESXi 5.1 installed/Boot from USB drive
- 2 x 1 TB SAS drives in RAID 1 - Datastore1
- 1x 2TB SATA drive set as RAID 0
We wish to host all our VMs from ...
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SQL failover cluster on single ESXi host
I'm setting up a virtual environment consisting of 10 VM's with 2 primary SQL databases required. The infrastructure allocates two pairs of SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise edition (VM's). The pairs are ...
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Multiple-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5 with separate core switches
Having successfully followed VMware KB article setting up multi-nic vMotion, I am now struggling to get this working with a two core switches.
A single Active vmnic and a single Standby vmnic is ...
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How do I activate my inactive datastore on the command line?
Have two volumes on a datastore on ESXi 5.1. On the GUI, one shows up greyed out and the word "(inactive)". The other doesn't show in the GUI at all.
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Are RAID disks really universally unsupported for VMWare converter
I am preparing to virtualize our DC, which runs on SBS2008. We have eliminated the >2TB GPT disks and prepared some disk level backups with Acronis to use for the conversion. I plan to use the VMWare ...
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Virtual pfSense Appliance on VMWare Host
I am having some issues setting up the WAN side of pfSense.
I have ordered a dedicated box through a hosting service with ESXi loaded on it. Along with that I have 3 public IP addresses that will ...
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Moving a VM server to another VM environment. [closed]
We are divesting ourselves of on division of our company and need to package up one of our VM servers on ESXi-5.0 for transfer to the new entity.
What is the quickest, most reliable method of doing ...
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VMware ESXi display guest screen instead of console
I'm using ESXi 4.1 for my virtualitzation platform, and I would like to display one of the guests screen to the host VGA output. Is this possible?
I want to do this because my host machine is plugged ...
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HP Proliant DL360 G3: What version of XenServer is supported?
I've spent some time looking, and haven't been able to find a decent HCL for the current and past versions of XenServer.
I have 3 HP Proliant DL360 G3's that I want to use for virtualization. They ...
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esxi 5.0 free + ilo3 + hp DL380 G7 = no ability to hardware monitor without HP SIM or vmware non-free?
ok so as stated in the subject line i have an HP DL380 G7 running esxi 5.0 free and an ILO3. Is there any way for me to get some decent monitoring of the hardware without paying any extra money for a ...
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vmware esxi, nic adapter change resulted in nic name change to vmnic1, how to revert to vmnic0 name?
VMware ESXi 5.1, I had to change the NIC adapter from vmxnet3 to e1000. Since there was no way to actually change the driver the NIC adapter is using I had to delete the vmxnet3 adapter and create an ...
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VSphere 5.1 DHCP Server VM routing
I am trying to setup the routing for a VM that is my firewall/dhcp server.
I have 3 VMs:
router/firewall (centOS) -> VM1
unRAID(unraid) -> VM2
download-server(ubuntu server) -> VM3
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How to shutdown ESXi 5 in N minutes
On the VmWare commandline, I can shutdown the box using the halt command
~ # halt --help
BusyBox v1.9.1-VMware-visor-6030 (2011-02-15 14:57:41 PST) multi-call binary
Usage: halt [-d delay] [-n] [-f]
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Getting VM on ESXi to use COM ports on local (thin?) client
Setup:
WinXP VM on ESXi v4.1 infrastructure system, accessible via vSphere thick client and RDP
WinXP client (i.e. my laptop) with a device connected to the serial port
How do I get the VM to talk ...
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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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Windows Server 2008R2 Virtual Lab Activation strategies?
I have a ESXi server that I use for testing, however, I am often needing to create additional Windows Server virtual machines.
Typically, if I do not need a VM for more than 30 days, I simply do not ...
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SBS 2003 to Server 2012 -architecture
I have an SBS 2003 box that is being "refreshed" (replaced). I need to replicate core functionality without the SBS package (due to MS dropping it). Key functionality is:
Proxied Remote Desktop
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ESXi 4.0.0 with ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard isn't seeing the onboard NIC [closed]
I just put a new ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard into my server and it's working well but VMWare doesn't seem to be seeing the onboard NIC. I saw somewhere that ESXI 5.0 supports the onboard NIC but I ...
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Can't mount mount vmfs disk in debian 6 using vmfs-fuse, VMFS unsupported version 5
I have a problem with my server. I recently replaced ESXi for Linux Debian,
and i want to mount my second disk on my debian installation using vmfs-fuse.
I already installed the vmfs-fuse package, and ...
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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives
I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 ...
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VMware ESXi 5.1 can be installed RAID1 Software?
I am close to get a dedicated server in some data center and in the shopping cart there is no option to RAID1 Hardware only RAID1 by Software, since they will install ESXi it's possible that ESXi can ...
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Diagnosing server load/slowness
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server that experienced severe problems today, for no apparent reason. Two of the services that it's running are apache2 and ssh, and during the period the server was ...
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Small Datacenter Setup - vCenter and OpenVPN
I, as well as two other students, are creating curriculum for a new datacenter course at our university. We have 16 Sun servers that are several years old with decent specs (2x Dual-Core AMD Opterons ...
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Link aggregation on ESXi: can one TCP/IP stream in a guest VM use more than one link's banwidth?
I have VMWare ESXi 5.1 host with several gigabit links, connected to a LACP and 802.3ad-capable switch, in a static LACP mode on a switch, with "IP hash" load balancing mode in ESXi. I'm currently ...
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Moving system from ESXi to Hyper-V
I have a problem with moving a system from ESXi to Hyper-V.
The system on ESXi has got 100GB allocated space on HDD. The system is made from an image file(size about 6GB). The machine hosting Hyper-...
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ESXi Cannot boot to ramdisk: boot image is corrupted
I've got an ESXI that's been running for almost 3 years fine. Yesterday, I upgraded the machine's bios, installed RAM and 2 additional hard drives. Today I added a Windows VM and changed the Gateway, ...
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"No network adapters were detected" error EXSI 5.1 installation in Acer APE961 [closed]
I am receiving the "No network adapters were detected" error when installing the VMware ESXI 5.1 in Linux Acer server (Model APE961).
Processor :- AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640
Model APE961
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ESXi5 - 12 Network Interfaces in Windows Guest
I am building a CCIE lab where I will use GNS3 to map virtual router interfaces to physical NIC interfaces which connect to physical switches. I want to build this in an ESXi5 Guest running Win 7. My ...
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iSCSI SAN for vCenter Cluster
I'm looking to setup a SAN for a VMWare vCenter cluster of ESX hosts. I'd like it to be the primary storage device for VMs. There will be up to 10 hosts in the cluster eventually.
I'm creating a ...
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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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RHEL 6 TFTP server on VMware vSphere 5 not accepting files from remote clients
I can put a file successfully from localhost. If I try from another host the client connects and the file is created on the server, but it is empty. The transfer then times out a little later.
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Ubuntu server P2V that is running software raid5
Here is my challenge: I have a physical production webserver running Ubuntu 10.04 with software raid 5 (mdadm) that I have to virtualize to an VM ESXi5.0 host while minimizing the down time (...
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ESXi v5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade
Jsut a quick one. I am going to upgrade my 2 physical ESXi 5.0 servers to 5.1. I have vSphere 5 isntalled onto a VM (I run the Essentials Plus kit) from which I have been administering the vmware ...
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Jumbo Frame configuration & VMware
I am hoping one of you can help clear up some of my confusion on this matter.
We have 2 new catalyst 3750 switches to support our VM hosts and SAN arrays. The SAN arrays utilize jumbo frames with an ...
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Assigning reserved DHCP addresses from multiple subnets/scopes to VMs on a single ESXi host
I assume this is possible by connecting one of the NICs to a VLAN from each subnet, or perhaps the helper IP takes care of this organically, but my question is, with one single ESXi host, and 3 VMs on ...
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Why did I experience checksum errors with a ZFS filesystem on an ESXi RDM?
I have a VMware ESXi 4.1 server which I recently added 2x1TB SATA drives to. This machine runs a NexentaStor Community VM which hosts ZFS filesystems. Before adding the new drives, all the ZFS zpools ...
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how can I create a server template to spawn new servers?
I have a couple of LAMP servers (on a VMware ESXi host) for projects built on top of the CodeIgniter PHP framework. To mimic the original dev server installation I set up those 2nd and 3rd servers by ...
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ESXI 4.1 -5.1 upgrade
I want to upgrade my esxi 4.1 to 5.1. Having not much experience with it I'm having problems to have VUM between my plugins listed. I have been downloading the iso image(5.1) but won't install,says ...
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CPU Sockets vs. Cores
We are looking at software that is licensed by socket. Right now our hypervisor (EXSi) underutilizes the 2 socket 8 core processing power it has. Most guests only have 4 virtual cores. In order be ...
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ssh initial prompt hangs for 10 minutes but console login and initial prompt is very responsive - why?
I have been running an ESXi 4.0 server for months with a couple of WinServer2003 and several Ubuntu Server 10.4 VMs. The performance has been impressive on 6GB i7 Asus P6T hardware.
Suddenly, a week ...
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Port Forwarding for ESXi remote management with VSphere
I am connecting to ESXi with vSphere client from a remote LAN.
ESXi is running on 10.1.1.10, so I create an ssh tunnel (using cygwin but putty or plink should also work) with this command:
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Does ESXi take care of disk partitioning?
I am installing ESXi for the first time and really need to know if I have to partition and format the hard drive for the virtual machines prior to installation of ESXi or ESXi will be handling all ...
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ESXI upgrade remotley
I'm planning to upgrade one of our esxi host and I would like to do this remotely because of distance problems. Is it possible to do this? The host is an ESXi4 what I would like to upgrade to Esxi5.
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is it possible to use vmdk format with ESXi 5.1
I have 700 GB VMDK VM and I want to use it with ESXi 5.1. I have searched the google and I got the impression that I need to export VMDK to first OVF format. I first tried it from Workstation it can ...
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How to copy files from USB Flash Disk to ESXi 5 server?
Hi I am new to ESXi world. I installed ESXi 5.0 server and installed also client version to my desktop. I need to copy a virtual machine 400 GB from USB drive to ESXi server but I could'nt find how to ...
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How do providers auto scale VMs when powered by VMWare
I'm trying to figure out what component of vSphere or other VMWare product is used to manage automatic scaling of resources for individual VMs in the way that these two providers describe:
http://vps....
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VMWare ESXi 4.0 Two datastores One Virtual Machine
I have a physical machine that has two separate raid arrays, one for data and one for the OS. I would like to convert the server to a Virtual machine to run on an ESXi server. However the ESXi server ...
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VMware ESX/i syslog content
I am working on an expansion of our monitoring footprint, and we are currently looking at including data from our visualized environment. As our monitoring license is based on logged volumes, and we ...
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