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Recommandation / best practise for site to site replication as cold standby with ESXi Cluster

I have two ESXI clusters at location A, each consisting of 2 ESXi servers. 1 cluster is in the DMZ and one cluster is in the LAN. Various virtual machines are running on them. In total, there are only ...
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VMWare Server lck file keeps coming back

I am running VMWare Server 2.0 on a Debian Lenny system as a host OS. I am getting this error when I try to start a Virtual Machine Cannot open the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines//.vmdk' or ...
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How do I point my SQL Server VM to my SCCM Server VM?

WMI Provider Error: Access is denied. [0x80070005] I cannot connect the SQL Server to the SCCM Server with two seperate VM's. I have two VM's on my ESXI Host. I am trying to point one VM to another. ...
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local.sh wont persist on vmware esxi 7.0.3

I am running ESXi 7.0.3 ( free edition ) and I am trying to make some changes to /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh After doing the changes I run /sbin/autobackup.sh manually to "technically" make the ...
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Destination Host Unreachable, Centos 7, Vmware

After setting the static IP address on vmware machine, restarted centos, here is that after I get this error: Destination Host Unreachable I try to change NAT to Bridge but nothing change, indeed, I ...
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Destination Net Unreachable on an ubuntu VMWare cloud virtual machine

I am configuring a virtual machine to host an API for an application. I entered the vCloud director page and followed these steps: Generated the edges network Created a VDC organization network (192....
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How to assign full processor(cores/sockets) to a VM? VMware

Trying to use VMware. Using Ryzen 9 5950X(16 cores / 32 threads). The question is how to assign all cores/threads properly to a VM? Were trying different configurations of "Number of Processors&...
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add space to virtual disk on vmware

I have a VMWare Server 3.5 system with 2 VMs. On one powered on vm I changed the disk size from 1TB to 1,5TB. But the vm didn't see any new unallocated space so that I reboot twice the server. But ...
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VMWare Disk Performance

I have an HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 (VMWare 7u3 installed) with 2 pieces of 960GB SSD RAID1 arrays (total of ~1+1=2GB usage). The rest of the configuration is like 24 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-...
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What kind of services does ESXI SLP port advertise to locally connected hosts?

I got enthusiastic about the last exploitations of ESXI CVE-2021-21974 (heap overflow exploitation). After researching the SLP service, which is the weak point in this CVE, I tried to turn it off, ...
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Can VMs run on raw HW or do they neeed an OS? [closed]

I have a general question about Virtual Machines. It is not clear to me if I need an operating system at the lower level and then install the VM and on top of that the rest or I can install a VM ...
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vCenter in a ESXI host that it manages

We have 2 physical servers (A and B), each with ESXI 7.0 installed. We'd like to manage them with vCenter. Can we install vCenter on one of those servers? Is it advisable?
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Consumption-based cloud service

For a current project I am looking for a cloud service which calculates the costs based on the processing power my application is using. If my application only spends 5 minutes per hour doing any ...
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strange memory usage pattern on windows server 2008 on login through remote desktop

I'm running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Service Pack 2 on a VM Ware instance with 10Gb ram allocated. I'm not running IIS or SQL Server. Under 'normal' conditions, the machine uses ~5.5Gb of ...
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How to increase the free space in a Volume Group in LVM after expend VM disk size

We want to increase the space in a Volume Group in our VM centOS server For example from pvs we see pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VLwol lvm2 a-- <100.00g <5.09g ...
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Extremely slow when executing multiple individual MySQL queries

I've been noticing a performance issue in one of my servers running Apache/PHP/MySQL. So I decided to investigate and test it against other servers. What did I do? In three different servers, I ...
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Getting the name of the Snapshot from a specific VM?

How can I get the name of the snapshot that the particular machine is using? I have tried: Get-VM -Name vdix-test-01 | Get-Snapshot but it returns blank.. I am trying to retrieve the name of the ...
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An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine

I got an backup issue on one of my VM. Here is the current situation: Using Acronis backup to backup my VM vmProtect 9 Server I want to get backup is Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition ...
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Several keyboard keys not working in VMWare (Host=Linux, Guest=Windows)

I installed VMWare Server 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.* and 9.*, with Windows XP as the guest system, and several keys aren't working. They either do nothing, or invoke the wrong keypress. They keys are all ...
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Linux OS hangs at boot due to daemon systemd service fault

i have a python script that does infinite loop on functions written, and i have added this to systemd as service so i want to run python script at background and control its from systemctl. sudo vi /...
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VMWare Host Not Responding - VMs are Disconnected (ESXi 3.5)

I have inherited a VMWare environement ESX v3i 3.5. When I opened Virtual Centre, one of the Hosts showed up as Not Responding. The error I am seeing is: Unable to acquire licenses because license ...
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Running VMWare ESXi on Apple Xserve

So we're running VMWare Server running on Windows Server 2008 which we administer via the web interface. However it turns out the machine we're running it on has serious hardware limitations, most ...
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VMware Host CPU Usage Climbing

This is somewhat of a longshot, but I am wondering if anyone might be able to explain the following: I have a VMware Host Server running Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS, and VMware Server 2.0. The User CPU ...
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What is the difference of PCIe passthrough vs GPU passthrough?

I recently found about this video link showing that ESXi is able to passthrough PCIe onto a Guest VM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZzAjlNdWc The question is, what is the difference of GPU ...
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How to save licensing data from a decommissioned VMware server?

My current VMware (Vsphere? ESXi?) hardware is being repurposed and its virtual machines are moved to VirtualBox. I want to save the licensing data - so if the need arises in the future - I could ...
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How To Set Up Hyper-V Nested Virtualization in the Linux (include how to use the same IP and different port)

Question list as below: How to create nested VM? How to setup VM Hardware in the dashboard? How to use the same IP address and the different port number PS: I still have been ...
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How do I get utilization information from my VMWare ESX server for CPU, Memory and Network usage?

Does VMWare ESX server have anything built in that I can view CPU, Memory and Network utilization? We have a single VMWare ESX server that we are trying to understand better how our VM's are ...
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VMware Restart -- Blank Screen

I am running VMWare Server on a Windows 2K8 server. I was wondering what the default behavior is for a restart or shutdown initiated from within the virtual host? Currently, when I restart the virtual ...
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Azure Backup Server on Azure VM to Protect on-premises workloads

I need to protect two VMware instances in a on-prem environment and want to achieve this by using Azure with Azure Backup and Azure Backup Server. The following image shows a referencing architecture:...
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How do I attach an external VMDK disk to a guest image, from within the guest image?

I have a Linux guest image that starts up, with only the OS drive. The actual ESX server has many VMDKs (I know the IDs of them). In my workflow, I need to on demand, from within the guest, attach ...
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Does ESXi host running on 7th gen Intel processor support Win 7 and older OSes?

I know that Windows 7 and older OSes are not supported on the newest Intel i series processors. But how about an OS running on a ESXi host? Is it going to work this way? Thank you in advance!
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vRealize Automation - Software Component bind variable of second nic IP

So i am having troubles with automating a deployment in vRA. I created a software component with 3 scripts and in one of the script i need to provide as a variable the Reserved/Alocated IP of the ...
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Can I delete SSOServer Logs? (VMware)

I have a client that has a large amount of log files within the SSOServer Logs folder. I want to compress/delete these files so that it makes room. Will this affect VMware? Most are text docs but some ...
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Vmware Server reports 100Mb NIC when it's actually 1Gb

I have a VMWare Server installed on my Windows Server. I just noticed my main switch is 1Gbit but my VMWare Network Adapter VMNet 1 and VMNet8 are both 100Mbit. Why might that be?
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Is it possible to try Windows Server 2012 with VmWare Server 5.0?

I would like to try windows server 2012 rc using our vmware server 5.0 infrastructure. The problem is that i can't install it because each time, the virtual machine reboot. Is it vmware server 5 ...
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Upgrading ESXi License from 5.5.0 Free to 6.5 Essentials

We currently have a single server running ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with Live VMs and would like to upgrade the license to 6.5 Essentials so that we can use Altaro VM Backup since this does not work with the ...
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How to setup a daily backup virtual machine running on VMWare?

My company has a VMWare server. We run 6-8 virtual machine. I would like to perform daily backup them in a storage server. How to do this with VMWare? Is there some "component" I don't know ? Or ...
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Confused about my ESXi/Horizon/View related options in virtualising this small mixed setup

I'm virtualising a small setup of half a dozen mixed PCs and small servers. The aim is to consolidate hardware resources (one high spec server + thin clients rather than 8 medium-to-high spec ...
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How to Open a Port ON VMWare Server?

I have a virtual host, created with VMWare. I don't own the main machine, I just can make remote connection to virtual server. I've installed SQL EXPRESS and want to remote connect it from my ...
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How to stop VMWare Host that keeps going into pause mode?

Every so often while doing some work in a test/lab environment I've been having some of the servers or clients being paused in VMWare and it's been driving me a bit nuts. In the event log they show ...
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Separate NFS harddrive mounted to an ISCSI stored VMware virtual machine

Is it possible to add an NFS storage harddrive to an already existing VM that is stored on an ISCSI storage repository? I'm specifically trying to mount an NFS repository to this VM for backup ...
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vmware esxi host ha state in election

In my Vmware Esxi server 5.1 , 2 host machines which are added as cluster ,there HA state is turned to ELection .I tried Reconfiguring the vsphere for HA it is not working .In cluster it shows issue ...
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Open VMware Tool reporting VMSVC Too many partitions

I have a virtual machine running with the warning below. vmsvc[895]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Too many partitions vmsvc[895]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to update VMDB I believe this could be ...
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What happens to vDS networking when my vCenter server crashes

I have a query What exactly happens when the vCenter server crashes. I know that the database and logs would be lost if the vCenter Server crashes, but I need to know what will happen to the Guest VMs ...
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VMware vcenter client unable to log in

I restarted our DC this morning and now we are unable to log into the client to see all the VM'S the credentials are correct but it says there wrong... Did I need to do something before rebooting and ...
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Service listening on 8333 leading to vmware-hostd.exe process (VMWare Server 1.0/Windows)

Have been using VMWare Server 1.0 (Windows server host) (previously setup by a partner of mine) for quite some time now and decided to dig more into processes / memory management. I have been using ...
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iSCSI switch replacement (2 VMware hosts)

Good morning everyone, I recently bought two unmanaged NetGear 1gb switches to replace our older unmanaged Cisco 1gb iSCSI switches. Right now, the only devices currently connected to this network ...
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Why can I not access VMware Server on port 8333?

I am using VMware Server 2 and all of a sudden I can't access the management console (homepage). I am using Internet Explorer and it says page (https://servername:8333/ui/) cannot be displayed. Is ...
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Auto reconnect two identical USB devices in VSphere

I have two identical APC UPS's that have USB controllers. I want to map both of the USB ports from the ESXI host to a VM and always have those USB devices reconnect, including if they are unplugged or ...
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sharing resources between virtual machines

After some extensive searching I couldn't find the answer to my question. I'm sorry if this is obvious or not, but I just need to know. I have a server with verry low resources, 2gb of ram and 2 cores....

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