VMware's vSphere, ESX 4.0, is the final incrementation of the very popular ESX hypervisor. Just like it's previous versions, ESX 3.0, 3.5, etc, vSphere includes popular features such as HA (High Availability), DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduling), vMotion (live migration of guests), and vStorage Motion ...
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VMWare vSphere client fails to connect to the server
This morning we lost connectivity to all the virtual servers hosted on one of the ESXi machines. Trying to connect to it using the vSphere client we're getting the following message:
Call ...
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MSCS Limitations
I'm building SQL Server 2008 R2 MSCS cluster to consolidate all of my old Physical servers,
As far as I can see to build a shared SQL Server cluster database consolidation project, it is the Drive ...
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With VMware 5, how does memory pooling works across clusters
With new memory entitlement in vSphere 5, if I have 2 clusters configured with the same license level. Would my memory entitlement be calculated separately for each cluster, or will it pool everything ...
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How many VMs is too many? [closed]
I have a server with two 2.6GHz quad core processors and 32GB of RAM (along with pleanty of storage). I have a Django app which I intend to run on this server, and I'd like to set up (using VMWare) 2 ...
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vsphere 5 - what is the best way to partition local disks?
WE have a Dell R815 with 6x900GB SAS disks and a perc h700 controller.
We want to use it as a dedicated bare metal vsphere server (stand alone).
We have no idea what the best way to partition the ...
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Linux: How to Press Sysreq Key in VNC/Vsphere Client?
I'm using a Vsphere client on Windows XP over a VNC link (Vinagre) from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop running WindowMaker. It all works pretty well, but I can't find any way to press the Magic SysReq key ...
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vSphere Performance Graphs - 400x Interfaces?
All of the performance graphs across all hosts and guests in our vmware 4 infrastructure label network traffic on their performance tabs as "Transmitted for 4002", "Transmitted for 4001" etc. Where ...
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What causes an “Unable to obtain hardware information” error when exporting a VM with VMware Converter?
I have created a custom role similar to the Virtual Machine Power User (sample) and want to allow the role to export the virtual machines via VMware Converter Standalone but they are receiving "unable ...
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VMware vSphere training and learning materials [closed]
I'm looking to extend my knowledge of vSphere 4 specifically in regards to automation.
We have ex-VMware employees here at my company and they've said VMware training is pretty basic and not worth ...
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Reverted snapshot details are not recorded in events
One of my team mate reverted a snapshot without intimating any body.
We tried to find it through Events. But there was no record.
Where we can find the details about reverted snapshot?
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Inconsistency between LUN ID's
I just added a few LUN's to our new EMC VNX, and the LUN ID's are not consistent..
Screenshot from EMC Unisphere
Screenshot from VMWare vSphere
If you study the two screenshots carefully, ...
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VMware vSphere 4.0 Find Base Disks
How do I determine the base disk / image used for a Virtual machine in vSphere client?
I want to ensure that the base disks are also backed up when I make a backup of the machine.
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VMware VM with more than 2TB of disk space
I'm a VCP 4 so I'm aware of the configuration maximums for LUNs/RDMs/VMDKs in vSphere 4, but say I want to create a VM that has a logical drive bigger than 2TBs. The only ways I can think of doing ...
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Vsphere image backup software recommandations? [closed]
I'm new to image back up and I'm looking for a back up software for VSphere. Any recommandations?
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How to approach high availability and fail-overs when moving to a vmWare cloud server/cluster
I'm currently running a CentOS VPS with some simple web/DB/VPN servers, but I'm planning to move to a vmWare Enterprise cloud based machine in the near future to improve availability, and I need to ...
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Advice/guides for building and expandable virtual environment [closed]
I am looking to build a virtual environment to run virtual machines (propably using vmWare products).
Can any give any good advice, or point me towards some good documents, regarding best practices ...
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MySQL on VMware for High Availability
Given a choice between the current database-level HA options for MySQL, like Master-Master, Cluster, or Galera, and vSphere HA for the machine running the MySQL master, which would you use or combine ...
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How to maintain the list of VM in case free ESXi?
In our company we do not have licensed ESXi. I am having 10 ESXi server and using Vsphere to connect each and every machine.
Whenever i am giving machine to users i store few information in excel ...
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vSphere 4.0 - Hardware system Monitoring
I have an ML350 G6 with ESXi 4.1 Free (vSphere Hypervisor 4.1 Free version) installed. Since ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor install I was not able to install the HP Proliant Support Tools for ...
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How to prevent taking snapshots after threshold in VMware ESXi?
We have given our users privilege to take snapshots. But now it is uncontrollable and people started taking meaningless snapshots and never deleting it.
Due to this we are facing performance issue, ...
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Configure VMware vsphere install with multiple raid arrays
I will preface by stating that I am programmer that has acquired some sysadmin extra duties. I have a server that I have installed VMware vSphere 5 on. The server has two raid arrays. 2 600GB disks ...
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Installing VMware vsphere 5 on multi raid array server
We recently bought a new server that came with 2 600GB disks in a Raid 1 and 5 2TB disks in a raid 5. Initially this was going run Windows Server 2008 R2, however, it was decided to now run VMware ...
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How to get VM's usage pattern?
We are having VMware ESXi servers. VMs will be assigned to user and they will use RDP to use it. We are unable to find whether the users are really using them or the VMs are idle.
Is there any way to ...
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How to integrate VMWare Tools onto a Windows installation image
I don't know if I can integrate VMWare Tools onto a Windows Server 2008 R2 iso image so that I do not need to install it every time after a fresh OS installation on ESXi based VM. Which tools should I ...
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How to remove inaccessible iSCSI LUN from vSphere ESXi 4.1/5 with Storage I/O Control enabled?
I am testing out a iSCSI SAN solution in my vSphere environment and have been adding/removing LUNs on the SAN host while some were left connected on ESXi hosts. I had enabled Storage I/O Control on ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Clustering inside VMware
I am working on a new Windows 2008 R2 / SQL Server R2 HA cluster and we are planning on running this inside of VMware ESX 5. I have read and heard differing views on using SQL clustering inside of ...
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What precautions should I take when joining my virtual center to Active Directory?
I have virtual center that manages a few ESX hosts and I would like to join it to my Active Directory domain. What things should I consider when making this move? Is there any reason why I would want ...
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vSphere ESXi 5.0 hosts syslog to Graylog2 - Mangled log entries
I'm just setting up graylog2 (which is awesome) to be a syslog server for my virtualised environment. All my hosts and switches are happily logging away to graylog2, which is drawing some pretty ...
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Distributing resources evenly across all virtual machines
I have a physical server running VMware vSphere 5 and 3 VM running on top of it.
The physical server Xeon X3440 2.53GHz, 6GB of RAM and 500GB of HDD.
As for my VMs, there are 2 Linux (CentOS) and 1 ...
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How to backup a vSphere ESXi 5 production environment including VMware View 5?
Given a production environment running VMware ESXi 5 and VMware View 5.
Given that all components of this system run as VM's inside ESXi 5.
After reviewing the VMware view best practices guide the ...
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Why do I have to manually 'Restart Management Network' on vSphere 5 host after reboot to get networking available?
I've got a couple of vSphere 5.0 hosts in a small lab environment here and I've noticed a strange behaviour. When on of the hosts gets rebooted, it is unresponsive to the network until I log into the ...
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Bridge specific VM to a physical adapter in vSphere
I have a server with 4 physical network adapters which is currently running VSphere 5.
On top of the hypervisor, I have 3 OS; 2 Linux and 1 Windows. Each of the Linux has 2 virtual network adapters. ...
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vSphere 5.0 - Custom folders on / are erased on reboot
I'v uploaded a folder named scripts with some scripts in the root of my vSphere 5.0 server like this:
/scripts
When I reboot the server, this folder is not there anymore. Its like if vSphere ...
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CPU specification for implementing SQl cluster DB merge replication between sites?
I wonder if I need 8x vCPU for the Database server which performs weekly Merge Replication, because at the moment I've build like the following:
Windows Server Enterprise 2008 R2 SP1
SQL Server 2008 ...
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Does the virtual machine in pause mode take resources?
Also, if the computer is turned off, does it take any resources?
Thanks in advance
BTW: I already searched the web for this - no result :(
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How can I setup vSphere so that VLAN tags are not stripped at the vSwitch?
I am trying to test a VLAN-related networking issue, so I thought that firing up a couple virtual machines would be the easiest and cleanest method to test the problem. On the vSphere server I ...
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How to fix “BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 17163091968s”?
UPDATE: I updated the title of the message, because I've recently seen more of these problems with this exact time amount of 17163091968s. This should help people investigating the symptoms to find ...
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NFS issue brings down entire vSphere ESX estate
I experienced an odd issue this morning where an NFS issue appeared to have taken down the majority of my VMs hosted on a small vSphere 5.0 estate.
The infrastructure itself is 4x IBM HS21 blades ...
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Extremely poor performance with VMWare hosted build server
We are running TeamCity on a Windows Server 2008 as a build server. The build server is hosted in VMWare ESXi 5. (I have very little VMWare experience so my terminology might be wrong).
When we start ...
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ESXi from SD card to hard disk on raid system?
My currrent ESXi 4.0.0 system runs from an SD card and has some VMs set up on two 1 TB drives running in a Raid level 1 configuration on a Dell PowerEdge R710. I've been asked to make the system use ...
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After ESXi update - Assignment Host to VM is lost
I have a serious VMWare problem, situation as follows:
one standalone host with internal HDDs. One pair of HDDs in Raid 1 are used for ESXi. 4 HDDs in Raid 10 are used as datastore for VMs.
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ESXi 5.0 GP Exception 13 World 2157 [closed]
1st time with Esxi 5.0, I have read the whitebox hcl and it states my box as compatible (Dell 960 Optiplex), I burnt Esxi install onto a cd and booted off it (without changing anything in bios) I only ...
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Which BSD best suited to run as VMware guest?
I want to deploy a VM to serve DNS and files (via NFS) to other *nix systems in my infrastructure.
Due to reasons beyond my control, I need a very light OS, so I naturally choose the *BSD family.
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Where are Guest OS's stored on vSphere disk?
My Vsphere machine failed. I took out 2 hard drives and want to copy over my VM's. When I mount either of them, I see Hypervisor0-3 and a 4.3 GB Filesystem (in Ubuntu).
Anybody have any ideas on ...
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Other Virtualization/Infrustructure Software Similar to VMware vSphere
Does it exist? Something that can (HOST) and manage multiple virtual machines, backup, migration from physical to virtual etc.
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VMware Sysprep with Custom Unattended.xml
I was looking into using VCenter for deploying VMs and wanted to take advantage of the built-in template features and the ability to make use of unattended.xml files. I have a Windows 7 template that ...
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Configuring a VM for use as a Remote Desktop Services host
I was wondering is there a good rule of thumb around configuring virtual CPUs and memory for a Windows 2008 Server R2 Remote Desktop Services host running within a VMware VM?
Our infrastructure team ...
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Post P2V Remote Destkop
I recently performed a P2V on an old OEM XP installation.
This required running an in place install to convert from an OEM to a VLK.
On completion I was unable to connect to remote desktop. netstat ...
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VMware Data Recovery always fails with error -3902
Setup
Using vCenter and ESX 4.1, we installed VMware Data Recovery 2.0 using two appliances.
Once appliance has a single 1TB (892GB free) destination on a mapped raw iSCSI LUN.
The other appliance ...
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vKernel vOps vs. VMware vCenter operations
I would like to get opinions from the community regarding vKernel vOps and VMware's own vCenter Operations softwares.
I'm trying to make a decision and so far it seems that vKernel vOps provides ...
