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upgrading from ESX4.0 to ESXi5.0 on new hosts/hardware
We recently purchased new VM hosts, and we're trying to upgrade our current ESX 4.0 environment (3 hosts, running about 15 VMs and VCenter) to the new hosts which are running ESXi 5.0.
Do I need to ...
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vSphere ESXi - Use both HP ProLiant 360G7 and 360 Gen8p in the same cluster
I have vSphere cluster with few HP DL360 G7 servers, with Intel X5675 processor.
I want to buy new server, HP 360 Gen8 with E5-2600 processors.
Can I have this 2 kinds of servers in the same ...
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CBT Soap Fault from VMWare when runnnig Veeam backup
We frequently see errors like this in our backup jobs:
10/05/2013 12:21:18 :: Cannot use CBT: Soap fault. Error caused by file /vmfs/volumes/781f6afc-ea228458/VDED-CIT-010(Exchange ...
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VMWare vSphere ESXi vs Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 in a mixed environment [closed]
I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual ...
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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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Is it possible to copy a snapshot and associate it to another VM (which has same configuration)?
I am having two virtual machines with same OS and software list. (In fact they were cloned).
Now I have installed an application in a VM and taken a snapshot.
Is it possible to copy this snapshot ...
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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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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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How to add a NIC driver to VMware ESXi 5.1 ISO?
I found information about install problems with the release of the NIC drivers of VMware ESXi 5.1 on Power Edge Dell Servers, the install stop with this error message "No network adapters were ...
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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:
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How to make ESXi 5.0 check datastore and get VMs automatically?
I've desktop pc dell 9010 with HD 500 GB (SATA ) , i'm working with ESXi 5.0 and i run it from flash memory ... I was created 4 guest VMs before but when i restart pc everytime it dosn't get Virtual ...
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Can VMware View Client be a backdoor?
We must connect to an external site using the VMware View Client installed on one of our workstations in our internal network. We don't trust the external site. Is there any chances that the VMware ...
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vSphere client 5.1- it downloads 5.0 support files
I am trying to install vSphere Client 5.1 on Windows 8.
When I download and install, and then open the application, it says that it needs to download support files from the internet.
Once it does ...
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VPN connection is open. But can't ping internal network
I have run into a problem with my VPN.
At home i have set up a test lab. I Have a server running VMware ESXi and vCenter server, so in my internal network i connect to the vCenter server to manage ...
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VMware Distributed vSwitches (VDS) - Design, theory, *real* use cases and examples?
I'm starting to explore VMware Distributed Switches (dvSwitches or VDS) for use in existing and new installations. Assume VMware version 5.1 and newer with Enterprise Plus licensing. Prior to this, ...
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VMware vSphere DRS affinity rules for more than 2 guests
I've received a request to add disaffinity/anti-affinity rules on a set of virtual machines in a VMware HA/DRS cluster running VMware vSphere 4.1.
The client has four hosts and wants to keep certain ...
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Why is %si (soft interrupt) in top so high on my VM when I run iperf?
When I run iperf as a client on a CentOS 5 VM running under vmware, why do I see such high %si values in top? We have more experience running Xen and XenServer, and a almost identical centos install ...
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Apple XServe 2,1 Questions (ESXi, Temp)
So I have Apple XServe 2, 1 (Earlier 2008 model)
I am trying to install ESXi 5.1 on it. I've read it that it's possible. I'be burnt the ESXi ISO to a dvd-r. I am now trying to boot from it but I have ...
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VCenter Upgrade Does not work
Task/Details
We need to upgrade our Vcenter enviornment from v4.1.0 Build Number: 799345 to v4.1.0 Update 3 Build Number: 816786
Problem
After backing up the database and the SSL certificates we ...
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Nested Hypervisors: Running Hyper-V within ESXi 5.1 whitebox [closed]
I have a VMware ESXi 5.1 whitebox server as a home lab, and recently I have a task to install a cluster of Hyper-V 2008R2 or 2012 for a production environment, so I have to start getting familiar with ...
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Veeam backup iSCSI drive
We have an ESXi virtual machine currently being backed up using Veeam B&R 6.5.
The virtual server itself has an ISCSI drive attached (Windows iSCSI Initiator), but it is not included within the ...
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vCenter 5.1 — adding v5.0 host doesn't bring in templates
I just set up a vSphere / vCenter 5.1 installation.
I added two older hosts (v5.0) to this installation.
I just noticed that while all VMs have been added to the inventory, none of the templates ...
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Is there a way of obtaining a list of guest virtuals running on an esx host before its failure?
ESXi 4 host running a resource pool had a power failure. Is there a way to obtain a list of the guest VMs running on the host before the failure?
Running in a vSphere 5 environment.
Thanks
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vCenter Server: This host currently has no management network redundancy
Background
I'm on a new VMWare install consisting of:
1 vCenter Server (containing inventory service, SSO, vCenter server, and web client server)
2 ESX Servers configured in a HA group
Problem
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vCenter 5.1 SSO Configuration option not available in Web Client?
Problem
I just finished separately installing vCenter Server 5.1. I installed the components separately but on the same machine using a local SQL 2008 R2 DB (not SQL express).
Everything appears to ...
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Steps after installing vCenter Server?
I'm working with:
Two new ESX servers that I'm configuring
A new Server 2008 R2 machine that I'm using for vCenter.
I took the following steps:
Installed the Hypervisor on the 2 ESX machines
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2answers
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VMware ESXi 4.0 upgrade to ESXi 5.1 minimize VM downtime
I am looking for the least amount of down time to do the following:
Issue: One ESX Host running ESXi 4.0 (locally attached storage) with one VM running on it. This host needs to be updated to ESXi ...
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Error while adding new host to vm center
I am trying to add a new host to a VMWare Cluster.
I get the error: A general system error occurred: Timed waiting for vpxa to start"
When I look on the host, I get many events of
Refresh ...
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Re-import VMware Datastore after restarting SAN
After restarting storage controller a datastore dissapeared from vSphere client view. The VM using the datastore was shutdown prior to controller restart. However, after refreshing and rescan in ...
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Setting Up vSphere ESXi 5.1 with two linux VMs
I am trying to setup ESXi in a server and I am a bit lost. I have read lot's of documentation/serverfault.com/forums and guides.
There you go:
Have a server with ESXi 5.1 installed
Need ...
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Crazy VM clock drift
This is taken from an Ubuntu 10.10 VM running on ESX5:
Nov 3 21:58:50 server1 ntpd[21169]: adjusting local clock by 31.187370s
Nov 3 22:02:36 server1 ntpd[21169]: adjusting local clock by ...
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connecting same VM to two vSwitches in VMware vSphere 5.1
I have installed VMWare ESXi 5.1 on a Whitebox recently to use it as a home lab, even though I have a very little knowledge about VMware ESXi and vSphere, but I found that it is most suitable ...
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VMWare vCenter: “incorrect username or password” when connecting to host
I have an existing vCenter server (v5.0) with two existing ESXi servers.
I recently installed ESXi v5.1 on two new servers.
I configured their hostnames, IPs, DNS, gateway, etc. and both pass their ...
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How do I delete ESXi vm snapshots using the least additional space possible?
We have a tree of about 15 snapshots of a virtual machine that runs Win2k8, as you may guessed our datastore is soon to run out of space. My objective is to delete all the snapshots, as it seems it ...
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Dell PowerEdge R210 running VMware ESX 4.1 losing access to local disks
Every month of so, one of my server running VMware 4.1 became unresponsive. The only way to get it back up was to do a hard reboot. When this happened I could connect to VMware but was not able to do ...
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Benefits to private networks between virtual machines on an ESXi host?
I'm planning this development environment with a few database servers, and originally thought I would have a few private networks. I then thought it might be unnecessary as the ESXi cluster already ...
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Remote server closed connection after 0 response bytes read
I'm using VMware vCenter Converter standalone 4.3.0 to virtualize a windows 2003 server. The server has a 53 GB disk, after 4% the virtualization fails the error message:
Remote server closed ...
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VMware ESXi 5.0.0 hardware monitoring
Here is my config:
Supermicro X7DBU;
3ware 9650 RAID Controller - driver installed, I use it as main datastore;
managing the hypervisor with VMware vSphere Client 5.0.0 on Windows 2003 Server;
I ...
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How to change configuration of virtual machine from command line of VMWare ESXi host?
I need to automate some tests that each time the number of CPUs and memory size of the Virtual Machine is changed. I'm wondering how to change them from command line? It seems starting and stopping ...
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Should backup necessary before upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1? [closed]
We are using ESXi 4.1 and we need to move to ESXi 5 as we need VMs for Windows server 2012 and Windows 8.
Our servers are already having VMs. So we want to upgrade without reinstall.
Some people ...
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Exchange VM defrag or ESEUTIL? Am I taking the correct approach to defragging / error checking my exchange VM server?
Scenario:
Exchange 2010 VM, running on VMWare
120gb of data
Run window of Saturday 12am-8am (can be extended a little bit, if needed)
Two action packed questions:
I want to unmount my ...
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How to rename a VMWare ESXi 5 VM physically?
When I create a VM on a VMWare ESXi 5 server naming it "MyVM" then "MyVM" directory is created on a data store and files like "MyVM.vmx", "MyVM.vmdk" etc. in it.
I've renamed the VM and would like ...
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File .vmx not found error when trying to create a VM snapshot after removing an independent volume
I had had a Windows VM having a second virtual drive configured as an independant volume placed on a second datastore on a VMWare ESXi 5 server.
Then I have removed the second drive by removing it in ...
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How to export a VMWare ESXi 5 VM into a file to restore it later?
As I've bought a server it had a RAID controlleer which was not supported by VMWare ESXi 5, so I had to install it in a bare non-RAID configuration. Now as I've bought a supported RAID controller I am ...
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Does VMWare ESXi 4.1 work with SATA hard drives?
I'm confused about the hard drive requirements to use VMWare ESXi 4.1
I conducted an experiment on an old desktop PC with a SATA hard drive and it couldn't find it.
I'm now ready to go to production ...
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How to manage a global VM startup order across the whole datacenter?
Suppose you have a fully virtualized VMware infrastructure: ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, the whole package.
Inside, you have lots of VMs, which at any given time may reside on one host or another ...
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ESXi5 - management services crashes - vms running
I have a setup with two ESXi5 servers.
We are(were) running with a ISCSi box to server disk for the VM's - however we are in the progress of migrating away from it, because the storage os disk is ...
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Converting VMWare VMs to KVM
I have a dozen VMs running on VMWare. I also have a half dozen VMs running on Ubuntu+KVM. I've found KVM much easier to manage (no Windows-only GUI and insanely cheaper), so I'm trying to migrate away ...
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How to get my Windows 7 virtual machines on my ESXi host connected to my network
I have 2 windows 7 virtual machines on an ESXi host I set up, and I want to get them so that they are accessible on my LAN that I have set up. I read the documentation and it said the virtual network ...
