Questions tagged [vmware-vcenter]
This tag should be used to request advice on issues involving a vCenter installation issue or configuration problem.
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Host resources management - vSphere Client [duplicate]
I'm using vSphere Client version 6.7, having 2 hosts in a cluster.
i want to know before i'm entering one host into maintenance mode, if the other host will be able to hold both servers resources.
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What is DRS vMotion impact on VM and cluster?
We have a 4 host ESXi 6.5 cluster with DRS fully automated. When checking the history, we see a specific (big) VM (6 CPUs, 64 GB mem) having roughly 10 vMotions by DRS per day. Someone from the team ...
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VMware deploy OVF template causes vApps error
I have a VMware vSphere essentials license, which includes one license for vCenter Operations Manager Foundation. When I try to deploy the OVF template of vCenter Operations Manager Foundation, I ...
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VMware vCenter Server Appliance VAMI (https://vCSA:5480) stuck on "Getting Started - vCenter Server" after upgrading from 6.7 -> 7.0
This vCSA was recently upgraded from 6.7u3 to 7.0. The vCenter is 100% operational from a vSphere perspective. However, we cannot get into the VAMI (vCenter Appliance Manager Interface) at https://...
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Hot Add feature + how enable the feature without power off the Linux machine
We have a VM Linux server, where the hot add feature is disabled in VCenter.
For now, we can't power off the machine, and the feature is disable, so we can't add memory resources to the machine.
So do ...
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Configuration Defaults for VMWare vSphere Virtual Machines
We have a number of hosts running VMWare ESXi 5.5 all attached to a vCenter instance. We access and manage all of our VMs with the vSphere Web Client.
A number of people who do not necessarily have ...
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vSphere HA: Automatic shutdown of VMs to free up resources
Assume we have 2 ESXi hosts with these machines:
ESX1: A1, B1, C1, D1
ESX2: A2, B2, C2, D2
A & B VMs are the most important VMs for us.
We have configured vSphere HA in a test environment. The ...
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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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Regarding CentOS 6.10 to CentOS 7 upgrade
I have servers in VMWARE, trying to upgrade the OS from CentOS 6.10 to CentOS 7,
1) redhat upgrade tool installed but could not find any proper base url to download the package from online.
2) Tried ...
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With a vsan issue where you cant access vcenter, should you ssh into all machines and power them down prior to restarting esxi host?
So I have a vsan cluster, 4 esxi hosts all contributing to vsan as well as compute. Vcenter lives in esxi01. Esxi01 is not responding and I cannot open the web gui.
I can still ping every vm and ssh ...
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vCenter Appliance IP address and it's gateway are not in the same subnet error
I am trying to deploy a vCenter Server Appliance on a OVH ESXI 6.7
For those who know, OVH ip addresses and default gateways are at different subnets.
for example, if your dedicated server has an ip ...
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Automate VMWare Config Backups
I am looking for a way to automate nightly backups of my VMWare ESXi Configs for disaster recovery.
Ideally the script would connect to my vCenter server, poll it for hosts, and then backup the ...
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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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Listing active machines in network?
I recently needed to patch almost 100 linux virtual machines on a subnet. To get a list of machines on the network I used nmap to retrieve all IP addresses in this network. The issue is that some of ...
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How to resize a virtual machine running ubuntu in VMware 5
I was attempting to follow the instructions listed here
http://www.joomlaworks.net/blog/item/168-resizing-the-disk-space-on-ubuntu-server-vms-running-on-vmware-esxi-5
I started with a 150 gig Drive ...
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Best way to provisionning CentOS
I began my new work, it's in a small infrastructure but they often provisionning new virtual machines under CentOS.
Currently they used template in VMWare VCenter but it's just a clone and when they ...
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vSphere Essentials Plus kit licensing issue
I just received the above license from VMware for one of my customers. The VCA 6.7 appliance and the two ESXi hosts were running in evaluation mode. I had no issues to enter the license for the VCA ...
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How to connect a VM to the Internet in VMware vCloud using a Network Gateway CIDR
I am familiar with managing servers and VMs that have their own IP address and network connection, but am now trying to host a VM in a VMware vCloud and am a newb for this.
I have created the VM and ...
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The portgroup for Network adapter 1, could not be found
I am trying to run RHCSA Lab on MY VMWare Exsi 6.5. after copied my VM file and I have a warning on VMware Exsi "The portgroup for Network adapter 1, , could not be found.It has been assigned to ...
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Email from vcenter 6.7 fails to deliver
Desired end state: I would like to receive alert email from vcenter 6.7.
Specific problem: After configuring vcenter 6.7 (in the UI) with an SMTP server that works as tested from the vcenter shell, ...
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vCenter moving VM from ISCSI target to different ISCSI target
In my server lab, I am running a vCenter cluster with 2 ISCSI targets. Both of these are directly connected to switch using SFP+ port.
I assume, when I do such a process as cloning a VM from one ...
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Export virtual machine list
I'm doing an inventory of both our physical and virtual machines. I'd like to export a list of virtual machines from vCenter instead of having to type everyone into a spreadsheet. Anybody know of an ...
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vCenter 6.7 High Availability. How to priortize host restart
We run a VMWare data center with vCenter 6. We recently enabled High Availability on a 3-host cluster in our test environment.
If one cluster fails, the other 2 don't have the resources to take on ...
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Cant connect by SSH and Webgui to ESX host
After a reboot of our vcenter server, one of the ESX hosts went disconnected from everything else. I cant seem to connect to it in any way. Ssh doesn't work, and the webgui also don't work.
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Exporting VM as OVA in ESXi 6.5
How can I export a VM in the OVA format with VMware ESXi 6.5?
In vCenter (vSphere Client version 6.5) I can only export as an OVF. The same is true for the ESXi web client.
The old application (...
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Resizing disk on the server after more space has been added from vcenter
I have asked our vcenter admin to add some disk space to one of my servers, but I can't find how to actually make it useable.
My output for fdisk -l is like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 40 GiB, 42949672960 ...
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Intermittent vSAN issue
I have a test lab deployment and am facing some issue in the first vSAN (4 nodes) creation (it works some times, and other times it doesn't) I'm trying to troubleshooting the issue as to when it doesn'...
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Unable to connect to MKS: Could not locate vmware-authd executable
i am glad to be part of this community , wanted to stop by , say hello and share my sadness.
i have installed a vcenter applience 6.0 with a hope to manage some of my old 5.0 esxi servers , everything ...
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VMware vCenter ESX host error "License assignment on the host fails"
We have a vCenter 4.0 Server with two ESX 4.0 hosts. We have a vCenter Server 4 Foundation license and a vSphere 4 Advanced 6CPU license. Licenses have been assigned to the server and hosts (each host ...
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PowerCLI Move-VM Returns failure but vm still moves
I have a script that is moving VM's from one datastore to another. I have other logic to protect the Storage backend and fabric from over subscription and to wait to submit new requests at specific ...
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ESXi 6.7u2 DL380 GEN9 Hosts keep going unresponsive
We have recently upgraded to ESXi6.7 u2. Since the upgrade, our hosts keep going into an 'unresponsive' state. The VM's are all still running, although they show as 'disconnected' in VSphere. Can ping ...
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VMware / SQL - physical vs logical cores - how many vCPUs to assign when HT is enabled
We have a ESX host:
It has 2 CPU x 8 cores each, and HT enabled. So, total 16 physical cores or 32 logical cores.
It has a single dedicated SQL VM on it (no other VMs run on this host), and it has ...
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vSphere 6 fails to deploy VM from template
I am having a funny issue with my vCenter..
When I try to deploy a new Windows Server 2012R2 from my template VM it almost always fails with this error:
Cannot migrate <vm> from <host the ...
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change ESXI host IP in VCSA
I have 3 esxi 6.7 hosts registered in VCSA.
I want to change my esxi host ips. When I do in ESXI DCUI, eg from .120 to .20, VCSA keeps the old IPs .120 and cannot connect to the hosts anymore.
When I ...
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How to Identify Disk Location on ESXi?
I have a VMWare ESXi 6.5 installed, and this ESXi is managed by vCenter. I recently need to replace some HDD to SSD, but I am not sure how to "blink" the disk so that I can pull it out safely.
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vCenter server appliance 6.5 installer error: "No networks on the host. Cannot proceed with the installation."
On step #8 of the GUI installer there was no Network in the top drop down at all. Because of this when I attempted to proceed past this point I was met with:
No networks on the host. Cannot ...
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Add ESXi 6.5 host with powered on VMs to VCSA 6.7
I have a fully licensed ESXi 6.5 VM host that has 3 VMs running. I am trying to add it to a new Cluster (HA, EVC, DRS off) that I have created on a vCenter 6.7 Update 1 VCSA, but it tells me the host ...
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"Reconfiguring virtual machine" stuck at 100 percent with Terraform
Today at 7:11 am, I started a terraform build. JWTCVTRNIDB01 is the server.
It cloned successfully. Here is terraform error line 25239
2019-04-26T07:22:54.643-0700 [DEBUG] plugin.terraform-provider-...
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What port/s does VMware Workstation use to connect to a vCenter server?
We have a vCenter Server running in Windows. I am trying to connect to the vCenter server in VMware Workstation 12 via File -> Connect to Server
With the Windows Firewall on, the connection times ...
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Vcenter + can we update memory online in spite Hot-add feature is disabled ,
Hot-add feature is disable in the vcenter therefore we need to shutdown the Linux OS in order to update the memory.
Since we cant shutdown the linux machine, and we must increase the memory of the ...
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How to deploy .VMX to vCenter using Linux CLI tool?
I need to deploy a .VMX VM to vCenter using a Linux CLI tool.
For a long time, I have been using ovftool for this purpose, which worked well enough. However, recently I found that ovftool is ...
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vCenter Server crashed after improper removal of VMware tools on a client
We administer a small business network (3 Dell servers and about 20 Windows workstations). The installation is mostly Microsoft based Active Directory, Windows Servers, WSUS, etc.
All machines and ...
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Error when applying snmp.set --v3targets on vcenter 6.7U1
I have vcenter appliance 6.7U1 and I have successfully tested my SNMPv3 configuration on vcenter with paessler snmp tester, but the last step was to add a trap target.
I am facing a strange issue ...
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Removing hosts from VCenter permanently without access to VCenter?
I have 3 VMWare hosts. I have root access to VSphere on each of the hosts. There is a small computer in the office that runs VCenter to which all the hosts are connected. I do not know the login to ...
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get FULL hardware configuration of a VM from powercli
I want to export the complete hardware configuration of a vm to the console via PowerCLI. Get-VM seems to only have limited information based on a Get-VM xxx | Get-Member check. In vCenter, if you ...
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vCenter 6.7 error while creating new users (Single Sign On)
i'm running a vCenter Server Appliance with Embedded Platform Services Controller version 6.7.0.140000
I'm trying to create a new user to allow using the vSphere web console to a specified VM only
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PowerCLI - Get Active FC Path WWN of all datastores
I need to turn off one of the FC switch for maintenance.
To turn off the switch smoothly, I want to set the manual path selection mode and switch all datastores to the second switch.
I have a lot of ...
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vCenter ghost network
I have 3 ESXi 6.5 hosts with the same network configuration: single Standard Switch with four networks with same naming on all hosts. This is what I see at ESXi web client.
Inside vCenter I see ...
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Can't migrate VM in vSphere [closed]
Our Vsphere interface looks like this:
So what we want to do now is above the servers folder there is a virtual machine called vvc3 (this is the VMware vCenter server appliance)
We want to move that ...
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Duplicate MAC address in VMware deploying from template
I am trying to deploy a VM from a template. This template has been used dozens of times before; nothing special. The problem is that seemingly out of nowhere when I deploy a VM, it's giving it the ...
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