Questions tagged [vmware-vsphere]
vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. It acts as the cloud computing OS managing a set of VMware ESXi-based hosts.
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New install of Docker on Debian constantly crashes when using it via VMware Remote Console
About a month ago I installed the latest version of Docker on Debian 12 on a VMware ESXi 8.0U2 virtual machine (latest vSphere version).
I tried to get VNC running but other priorities took over, so ...
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Configure a Virtual Machine to Keep the Same UUID on VMware vSphere
I want to keep the previous uuid in the cloned VM on VMware vSphere.
I have followed the steps described here
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1.Open the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file in ...
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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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How do I increase Threads per core for an Ubuntu VM in VMware?
I recently purchased a VMware dedicated server and I created my first VPS on it with Ubuntu 22 server OS . Using lscpu in Ubuntu , I'm seeing the following :
steam@steam:/root$ lscpu
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How can I powerdown VMs to enter Maintenance Mode to apply vCenter component update in vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images when vCenter itself is running
My basic question is: is it possible to use vCenter to apply a component update to the host, seeing as how I would need to shutdown the VMs in order to do it, and crucially 1 of them is a router VM ...
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ESXi 8.0 host not detecting USB devices
I've got an ESXi 8.0.1 production host (Dell PowerEdge R450) that I'm trying to attach a USB device to. I've tried a USB external HDD as well as a USB licensing dongle. These devices have been ...
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One of machines on esxi vsphere stops working without any errors [closed]
I have some virtual machines on one of my servers. One of them has stopped working a few days ago with a cpu error on esxi, so I upgraded the machine's cpu from 4 cores to 10 cores. And it has 20 GB ...
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how check expiration cert of VCSA vpxd, vsphere-webclient externally via curl?
I have some expired cert. in VCSA, any idea how can I check them via curl ? Is it possible ? I think that I can check externaly only machine cert, right ? I would like to monitor it externaly.
cert ...
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Internal network exception on the k8s following VMWare vMotion
Our k8s cluster uses VMware VM as worker nodes. K8s version is 1.22.9, network is flannel, kube-proxy mode is iptables.
A worker node with storage was moved with vMotion. After the migration is ...
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Undersubscribed ESXI host shows 100% CPU
I guess the question is more theoretical one. We have ESXI host with 48 Logical Cores (HT enabled, 24 real cores). We run 4 machines each provisioned with 8 vCpu. Each machine operates on 75% CPU on ...
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after update VCSA 6.5 to latest patch VCSA is still showing previous ver, but mgmt appliance showing newer ver
I was updating VCSA vSphere Client version 6.5.0.41000 to latest 6.5.0.42000,
but after reboot : VCSA gui ( in about tab) still showing previous ver 41000,
But in Mgmt. appliance via port 5480 is ...
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How can see exact number of ESXI RX dropped packet and not percentage as presented in esxtop
esxtop shows percentage of dropped packet on different ESXI ports. Is it possible to extract the exact number of raw packets that were lost instead? If the ratio of dropped RX packets to overall RX ...
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How to extend esxOSDATA partition to use as datastore (or something?)
I have installed esxi 8.0.1 on a new HP G10 with the following config:
USB drive as boot installation media for ESX
A 2TB Nvme for esxosdata!
Some other SSD as single RAID10 array.
The problem is:
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Ansible / YML code needed to Reset / Power Cycle a VMware VM
I have a file called "vcenter.yml" in my hosts folder which is used to authenticate to my vcenter and perform a dynamic inventory of this vcenter. I use this file to gather VM info and also ...
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Installing Open VMware Tools on different Ubuntu versions
I have a range of Ubuntu servers dating back to v18.04.
Each one has a different version of Open VM Tools available through its' repository.
Is there anything that's preventing me from compiling and ...
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how check / search datastore events logs in Vsphere?
after re-registration VMs a realized that one DS is missing.
How can search effectively DS in logs ?
Looks that I need 1 month old logs.
on host I found only 7 days old logs
and via Vcenter Events GUI....
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"Destination Port Unreachable" only on secondary IP of VM
An vmware VM is assigned two IPs. We can only ping one of the two IPs from VMs on the same network.
2: ens160: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen ...
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ESX: FS on Datastore corrupted after volume on storage was FULL
I observed this failure : FS on Datastore corrupted after volume on storage was FULL, actually it happened twice, and only option was to recreate again new datastore.
Here is what happened in time ...
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Can Packer connect to a VM in vSphere via SSH?
I'm just getting started with configuring a VM on VMware vSphere and I'm using HashiCorp Packer to create the VM template. I'm very pleased with how most things are working out for me, but I have a ...
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RedHat 8 and cloud-init not running userdata until new VM is rebooted
I have a Terraform script that is cloning a RedHat 8 VM on vSphere V7.
The VM is successfully cloned, but the user in my userdata is not created when the VM starts. If I reboot the VM after it is ...
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VMware VMs using private network can't communicate with each other when on different ESXi hosts
I have VMs spread across multiple ESXi hosts (using Vcenter/vSphere). They have private addresses. Like 192.168.1.x. When on the same host, they can communicate with each other. But, when they are on ...
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Verify all drivers for all the devices are loaded in ESXi host
Host,
Manufacturer: Supermicro
Model: SYS-1029U-TN10RT
ESXi,
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 7.0.3
Build: Releasebuild-21424296
Update: 3
Patch: 85
Installed using iPXE, (not sure if relevant)
#!ipxe
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VMware Guest VM Join My Own Domain With Netdom Fails ""DNS name contains an invalid character"
Trying to join a VMware guest VM to my domain. I'm running the Powershell script from one of my other guest vm's in VMware vCenter. I've tried changing the $Domain variable to other string names ...
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VMware Virtual Machine Power Consumption
I know there is a way to view the power consumption in Watts for a specific VM, but is there a way to view or output the total power consumption for a set of VMs over a given period?
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Keeping a vmdk's path on vmotion
Situation's a bit complicated so I hope I can make sense here.
I have an OpenShift cluster installed on vSphere (managers and workers). It has Elastic configured to gather logs. Elastic has a ...
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How does vSphere DHCP assign IP addresses?
I have installed Ubuntu in a vSphere VM and due to some error, it got the wrong IP address. I asked IT to fix the DHCP entry and they did but the VM kept getting assigned the wrong IP. I could get it ...
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Why does VMware count memory as storage and how can I disable this behavior?
Coming from a Proxmox environment to VMware I'm puzzled by this behavior:
It's a rented environment and I was asked how much memory/disk storage/CPU do I need. I didn't account for memory randomly ...
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Used P2V to reduce size opf LVM VHDX - Issues with grub and booting now
Hi All hoping for some Linux genius advice
I inherited a VMWare VM cluster with a few production VM's
they were all way over provisioned and all have 1tb Thick drives
But are only using 100gb odd each
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Set Firmware Option for Vsphere VM created by salt-cloud
I am trying to create a VM hosted in Vsphere using salt-cloud and need to set the boot options for this VM.
From what I can tell there isn't an actual option for this so I guessing it needs to be part ...
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Are the drivers in the preboot environment for ESXi different than post? "No devices with free space"
I have an old Dell Precision I used to run ESXi on. Went to reinstall it, the installer sees both drives in it just fine on both 7.0u3 and 8.0.
However, after installation on the NVMe drive, post ...
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Ceph reading and writing performance problems, fast reading and slow writing
Ceph reading and writing performance problems, fast reading and slow writing
Hello, we need to migrate all cloud environments to Proxmox. At present, I am evaluating and testing Proxmox+Ceph+OpenStack....
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How can I assign a vSphere Tanzu license to a Supervisor Cluster programmatically?
I have a vSphere Tanzu license already available in my vCenter Server. Now I want to assign that license to a Supervisor Cluster. It works through the vSphere Webclient manually, but I need to do it ...
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CentOS VM on VMware ESXI: System UUID and Serial number not same
We are running CentOS 7.9 with OKD cluster 3.11 on VMware ESXi 6.7.0.
As part of our activities, we are trying to setup cloud-provider integration with the VMware to have dynamic PV/PVC provisioning ...
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Does vSphere ESXI Virtualization needs to be installed on root server or is it an application which can be installed inside an OS? [closed]
Recently I've bought Dell PowerEdge R620 Server. I am interested in running Windows Server 2022 as well as I am interested in running virtual machines using Virtualization. Now I know that Windows ...
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Unable to access the virtual machine configuration (vmware automation) while cloning from template - Ansible version 2.13
I'm wondering whether any of you have encounter similar issue.
I have 2 Ansible machines. One is running on Centos 7, version 2.9.27 (with python 2.7.5) and second on Ubuntu 22 with Ansible 2.13
Using ...
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Compare state of Windows Server 2022 VSphere instances
Apologies for the noob question regarding Windows and VSphere. I am looking to solve a problem in my current organization where we never seem to know the current state of our servers due to too many ...
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How setup VM IP via Deploy OVF template?
I have OVA image RH8.
How can I setup VM IP address via "Deploy OVF template" ?
I don't see there any option in GUI.
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unable to get deployment statu
During VMware vCenter 7 deployment on the second stage of installation, after a reboot, when trying to log in https://:5480/ redirects to https://:5480/configurev2/#/
"unable to get deployment ...
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Is there a vSphere vSAN SDK API option to set VMKernal Advanced Setting
I am writing a script to automate shutting down a vSAN cluster (yes I know 7.03 know has a button), based on this knowledge base article.
I am at the part where it wants us to call a script on each ...
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move-vm not working : Could not find VirtualMachine with name
I am trying to cross migrate VM across two Vcenters ( from 6.5 to 7.0)
with move-vm command, but something is wrong, couldn't find my test-vm, even basic get-vm find it.
$global:DefaultVIServers
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how export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter?
How can I export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter ? I don't see there any network details option.
Using Vcenter 6.5
I tried this option. I only replaced Get-...
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vSphere errors when replacing certificate
When I try replacing my machine certificate with one I just got from ZeroSSL, I get the following error:
Invalid base64 encoded X509 certificate string
If I remove the -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and ...
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vCenter Server Appliance Autostart Services Stopped
Look at all these automatic start services that are stopped after a reboot.
And navigating to the vSphere client returns a "no healthy upstream" error.
This appliance is a couple days old. ...
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Changing the disk type of vsphere VM using Rest API
I am looking for a way to convert my Vsphere VM disk type using REST API calls, like "Dependent" and "Independent-Nonpersistent".
i was searching in the documentation for Sphere 6....
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How to connect to VMs on VMware ESXi using physical connections
My site is using the V sphere client to manage the VM, and there is a KVM switch attached to the hosts(VMware ESXi, 7.0.2, 17867351). I'm wondering if I can use the KVM switch to access the VMs ...
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Both C and D drives behave as non-persistent, even though i have set C drive as "non-persistent" and D drive as "Persistent"
Is it the disk, which behaves as persistent and non persistent or the VM?
I have a VM on my vsphere with two disk drives ( C and D ), Both Drives are marked as THIN PROVISIONED. this machine is being ...
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Can vCenter be installed through NAT?
I'm setting up a new data centre, working with some hardware on the other side of the country with nobody onsite for a few days. So in the meantime I've set up port forwarding to access internal ...
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vCenter "Recent Tasks" pane: How to make "Pick columns" customization persistent
Everytime I login to vCenter the first thing I do is uncheck a few columns in Recent Tasks > Pick columns. The vCenter just cannot remember my choice which is quite frustrating. Is there any way to ...
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How to upgrade ESX 6.7 to 7.0.3 with vCenter's Lifecycle Manager without importing an ISO?
I have upgraded vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.3 (u3e) and next I want to upgrade ESX to 7.0.3. From vCenter's Lifecycle Manager > Updates I can see 7.0.3 builds listed but I did not find how I can make a ...
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iperf3 on ESXi 7.0.2 does not work?
On ESXi 6.7 EP15 there's /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3.copy and it works fine. On ESX 7.0 u2d there's only /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3 and it stopped working for me.
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