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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Is there a good option for private & public cloud deployment of web apps? (cloudify? scalr? etc) requirement: vsphere private + ec2, etc
I am looking for something which would allow our company to ease the management and deployment of our application onto current private and futurely, to public clouds.
We currently utilize VMWare ...
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Dell Blades or C-Series Rack servers for datacenter virtualization project
We have customers infrastructure hosted on physical HP boxes across several racks and finally we are planning to migrate them to Vsphere.Data is stored on NFS SAN.It was suggested to use c-Series Dell ...
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Setting up a VM to use a different IP range than vSphere/ESXI host
I currently have a server that is running vSphere 5 (ESXi). My management interface (VMKernel) has an address of 173.198.215.78 and the gateway on that one is 173.198.215.78. It appears to be set up ...
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change the ip address of virtual machine by vsphere sdk api
i see below text you asked for the question of using the vsphere sdk for the task of change virtual machine ip address:
You can create customization spec with the vSphere SDK which can have a ...
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VMWare View(5) on existing VMWare Essentials Kit (4.1)
We're looking into purchasing VMWare View. I am curious as to whether VMWare View can utilize the same esxi servers that I am currently using with my essentials plus kit? I'm not looking from a ...
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vCenter - Active Directory integration - permissions on specific hosts
I have 4 ESXi hosts with 1 vCenter.
I manage the whole 4 hosts with the vCenter interface. How can I block access to specific hosts within vCenter based on the Active Directory user logged on the ...
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Is there a lightweight way to provide console only access to VMware vSphere 5 hosted machines?
We would like to provide console only access to certain machines hosted on vSphere. How would one set the permissions to achieve this goal with the full client? Is there a lightweight console-only ...
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Booting Linux 2TB+ partitions
I am using VMware ESXi vSphere 5.0.0 and mounting a 6TB LUN from my Dell EqualLogic SAN. I am presenting the LUN using RDM (Raw Device Mappings) so as to be able to see all 6 TBs. So far, so good.
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VMware: Is my SYSLOG Collector running?
I am trying to determine if my Syslog Collector I just set up in vCenter 5 is working correctly.
According to this VMware KB article and this VMware blog article, everything seems to be up and ...
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ESXi 5 licencing [closed]
I have dedicated server with one physical CPU (socket) and 64GB RAM. I have ESXi 5 installed trial for 60 days (I didn't apply any licence and it is coming to an end). I have 5 virtual machines using ...
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IP Redirection with iptables and vsphere
I use ESX4.1 (vmware vsphere4) and I have one Public IP (X.X.X.X) in vswif0 and (192.168.1.1) in vswif1 and 2 virtual machines with local IP (192.168.1.2) and (192.168.1.3)
I want to use iptables ...
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Exclude file storage from VMWare snapshots?
Say we have a Windows Server 2008 with the role of a file server, and 500GB of files on the D drive. Files are backup up to tape. How is it possible to take a snapshot of the OS without the file on ...
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How does VMware vCenter Server work and what are the benefits over vsphere client
I bought vSphere Essentials which I've installed on 2 physical machines, and set up the servers using vSphere client. This part is working well, and there is 1 VM on each ESXi install (esxi 5.0.0)
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What is the best way to connect a dual LAN server to two trunked switches?
In an older quetion "Best practice to trunk two GB switches?" I asked about how to trunk two switches. I now used a static link to connect them and it runs well. Now I am not sure on how to connect ...
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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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ESXi, how do I set the IP address on NIC's?
Sorry in advance I am brand new to ESXi and VSphere 5.0. I just installed a second NIC into one of our ESXi boxes and I was wondering how I set the IP address of it.
Thanks in advance!
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VMWare Data Recovery 1.2 - schedule weekly reboot
We run VMWare vSphere 4.1, and VMWare Data Recovery 1.2.
We have a weekly window with no backups happening, and due to some instabilities, we would like to try scheduling an automatic weekly reboot of ...
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Do i have to install vmware tools on ubuntu server
its a bit silly Question,
I was thinking since i have some spear HW to install ESXi free edition and allow some external users to use prebuild ubuntu 10.04 servers.
since with kernel updates etc etc ...
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Troubleshooting ESXi hardware freeze with PCI Passthrough
I have a Supermicro X9SCM board with a Atheros AR5008 PCI Express card (D-LINK DWA-556, Device=0024&Vendor=168C). The card can successfully be marked for PCI passthrough in ESXi (I tried versions ...
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vSphere API and Additional EULA's
I've gone through a lot of the APIs and searched to no avail. Is there a way to set or add an additional EULA to a VM? Currently I am trying the Ruby client RbVmomi talking to an ESXi 4.0 server. I am ...
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In ESXi server, Why consumed host memory is more than allocated memory?
I am using ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 4.1 for my VM needs.
I have allocated a VM with 4 GB RAM. Recently the user of that VM complained that he is unable to access the VM.
I was trying to connect it through ...
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Shrinking physical volumes in LVM on a Linux Guest in ESXi 5.0
The problem:
Linux guest (OpenSuse 12.1), with multiple virtual disks attached.
3 disks are in a logical volume, two of which are exactly 2TB.
None of the disks are independent, and due to the ...
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Configuration for a two machine ESXi cluster using VSA to present local storage to VMs
I'm designing a little vSphere 5 cluster for one of our remote sites. We have some IBM x3650s that have 6x 300GB 10K RPM drives in them, along with dual quad core CPUs and 24GB RAM. Because we use HP ...
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VMware vSphere 4.1 and BackupExec 2010
I'm sure a common problem with most shops is backups, their size, and the window in which you have to back up the data.
What we are working with:
VMware vSphere 4.1 Cluster
PS4000XV Equallogic ...
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Intermittent extrememly long response times when downloading documents
I have a Java web application running om Tomcat 7 with an Apache httpd 2.2 fronting with mod_jk/AJP.
One part of the application is serving files (up to 4mb size). Now, normally this all runs very ...
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Why are snapshots considered as temporary backups not real backups?
I am using VMware ESXi. In our team we use to provide snapshots for long term backup.
Then we faced issues like memory spillover and the server got hang up.
I started reading in VMware knowledgebase ...
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What are steps to upgrade an cisco UCS B series system vmware vsphere from 4.1 to 5.0
I have a Cisco UCS B-series system with 1.4 firmware running vsphere 4.1 (ESX) + Nexus 1000V. I want upgrade all that stuff to vsphere 5.0 without downtime. I tried to find any documentation describe ...
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How to find corresponding snapshot file in VMware?
I am using ESXi 4.1. I am a having VM with 3 snapshots.
When exploring datastore , snapshot vmdk name doesn't contain any word from snapshot name.
How to find snapshot vmdk for corresponding ...
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Reboot Virtual Machine every 20 minutes
We need to be able to create a way to reboot virtual machines in the lab every 20 minutes automatically.
Is there any way this can be done in vSphere 5?
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Converting our budget-strapped dev environment to ESXi - how to maximize availability on the cheap
We've already run through the process of virtualizing our production servers and now we want to do the same with our dev environment. However, our provider took care of all of the ESX host and cluster ...
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Cannot add FlexClone VMDK to VM
I have a virtual machine called VM-A with two VMDK's on volume VOL-A. Call these VMDK-1 (system) and VMDK-2 (data). I want to clone VMDK-2 and attach that clone to VM-A as a new disk, but I'm getting ...
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How to present shared storage for MS Cluster Services running on vSphere 5
I've seen two approaches to handling the presentation of shared storage to Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster VMs on VMWare vSphere. One is the traditional method of carving out a LUN on your SAN and ...
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vSphere 5 and Powerpath/VE?
I am in the process of setting up our vSphere 5 environment. With previous version of vSphere I have used the native pathing with VMware but I now want to investigate Powerpath/VE since it now works ...
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Will vmotion work between two servers of different cpu cores/clockspeeds?
I have a set of hp servers that are HP dl380 E5620 G7s that are used as ESX 4.1 servers. I have them set up to do vmotion and to do fault tolerance. I've just received another set of servers, however ...
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Multi-Tenant VMWare View Deployment
We have VMWare View 5 set up for a single tenant environment, absolutely brilliant and works perfectly. Two thumbs up there!
We're looking at the possibility of deploying this in a multi tenant ...
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Assigning cores to VM in vSphere
Complete vSphere newbie here...
Background:
So, I have a 12 core machine with 24 VMs on it. Currently, all the processing power is shared between these VMs equally.
The question:
Can I configure ...
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After upgrading vCenter 5.0 to 5.0 U1, Server and Client are still reporting old version
I downloaded VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-639890.iso and mounted it to my vCenter server. I then proceeded to upgrade the Server, Client, and Web Client components. However, even after a successful ...
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Linked vSphere servers preventing cloning?
I've currently got a pair of vSphere5 standard servers (physical, not VAs) managing about a hundred ESX 4.1 and 5 hosts in two different physical and logical datacenters. With our last purchase, we ...
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How can I speed up file tranfers on local storage in vSphere 5?
I have a few datastores on my ESXi server, as seen below. I am moving files from one datastore to another. It is just taking too long. I have done io testing on the hard disks, and I know they can ...
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Would enabling VMCI on a Nexenta VM alone benefit me?
I am trying to increase the performance of my NAS.
Would enabling VMCI on a Nexenta VM alone benefit me?
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Why can I not reach my NAS from vSphere Client or SSH with vmkping?
In VMWare vSphere 5 I have the following setup. Why is there no communication on vSwitch1?
vSphere Configuration:
NAS Configuration:
Ping Tests:
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VMware Copy or Backup between Datastore
I have a situation that I need to copy all my virtual machine from the first datastore to the second datastore as backup.
What are the best practices to achieve this? I am newbie in VMware and eager ...
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OpenIndiana poor write speed with 32Gb RAM and 64Gb ZIL
I am getting poor write performance on a NFS share hosted with OpenIndiana 151a.
I have 2x 1 TB Mirror (Seagate constellation drives), 2 SSD drives, 1 read cache and 1 write cache. My thinking was, ...
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vSphere SDK- How to Create user in Guest OS?
I am using vSphere 5 java SDK for provision vmware. I could able to create Linux vmware. But I want to create users inside the newly created Guest vmware?
Is there any API to create users?
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VMware vCenter Converter - P2V Linux Machine
I'm trying to do P2V with a Debian powered-on source. Everything works perfectly up until the point of selecting destination.
It states that the destination type is VMware Infrastructure virtual ...
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reaching subnets from vmware guest
I have a vmware-vsphere host with one linux guest Jupiter. Jupiter has internal ip 192.168.2.2 andcan communicate with the internet (outside world) fine (the outside world reaching Jupiter via its ...
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LUN and VMFS 5 sizing assistance
I am working on setting up our vSphere 5 environment. With vSphere 5 you can go > the 2TB VMFS datastore size that you were capped at with in 4.x, etc. What size datastores are people using and ...
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Method for sorting VMWareVMs by annotation fields
Background:
One of the policies of our vCenter cluster is for (almost) every VM to have an "expiration date". This is a custom field in the annotations panel that is mainly a reminder to contact the ...
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Cannot enable iSCSI port binding without adding a physical NIC to the vSwitch
Why can I not have a purely virtualized SAN in vSphere 5? I cannot enable the iSCSI port binding option (it is greyed out and unchecked) or add the VMkernel to the iSCSI software host bus adapter ...
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Is vSphere 5 compatible with an OpenIndiana/Napp-it iSCSI datastore?
My hostd.log file on vSphere 5 says that partedUtil is timing out while trying to write the partition table on an iSCSI target being served from OpenIndiana/napp-it.
I read that sized over 2TB give ...
