vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. vSphere, or ESX 4.0, is VMware's final incrementation of the ESX hypervisor.
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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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vcloud vmrc connection ssl error
i have a vcloud cell with 2 IPs on 2 NICs, one is for HTTP which has a CA signed ssl cert and the consoleproxy which has a self signed cert. when I connect internally from the network to a console, ...
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Sysprepping Windows Server 2012, how do I avoid plug and play drivers installed by VMware Tools being removed?
I am sysprepping Windows Server 2012 Standard to be used as a VM template. I want to preserve drivers installed by VMWare Tools such that the mouse won't lag in new installations. If I just run a ...
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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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Random Delays backing up VMWare Servers with Backup Exec 2012
Since upgrading to Backup Exec 2012 we have been experiencing a significant increase in backup times. The data throughput is about where it was before, the problem seems to be random delays between ...
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vsphere + Foglight and running top command does not match
We have a vsphere cluster and we are trying to setup monitoring via Foglight to monitor memory usage at the Guest level.
However, there are inconsistencies in reporting metrics.. most likely due to ...
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SQLServer Express Single or Multiple Instance Installation
Due to a hardware failure, we are migrating the software installed from one server to a new one. There are two pieces of software (vmware vcenter and symantec backup exec) that rely on separated ...
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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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How to setup cluster of virtual machines to host web application with fail-over redundancy?
I would like to know how to setup a cluster of virtual machines to host a web application.
We are expecting a high volume of clients connecting.
I would like a cluster of virtual machines (or ...
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VMWare serial connection between two vm hosts
I am attempting to simulate a serial connection between two VMWare virtual machines running CentOS 6.3; both hosted on the same VMWare vSphere 5.1.0 host (linux based ).
Googling yielded these ...
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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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VCenter Migration
I am in a catch 22 position. I need to do some work on a SAN that hosts our VCenter but due to the client only having Essentials Plus licence they do not have Storage Vmotion and can only cold ...
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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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How to change vcenter server appliance IP from command line?
I have installed a Vcenter 5.1 on a system netowrk, and gave it an internal IP.
This server (Dell R620) than had to go to a remote hosting location. That gave me a totally different IP and sub ...
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Under what circumstances could adding a CPU to an “underutilized” VMware vSphere 4.1 VM increase performance?
Scene: 16-core VMware ESX 4.1 host. Presume that the host is not over loaded in any single resource at all. Storage latencies are very low, total memory utilization is below the physical ram amount, ...
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VMWare hypervisor with only 1 network card?
VMWare hypervisor minimum requirements states that the minimum network requirements is:
one NIC, plus one for Management interface
(source: ...
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On-premise VMware vSphere vs Amazon VPC for small business [closed]
Background
I have been managing all the IT for a small business (owned by a family member) of ~5 users for about 10 years. Since about 2 years the infrastructure is 100% virtual running on VMware ...
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Root user can not login to vsphere client - but can login to ssh and web gui
I have VMware Vsphere appliance installed (5.1.0a)
I can access the web interface and login with root user and my password
but if I want to login with the vsphere client, I get wrong username and ...
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Windows Server 2012 DC loses time sync after reboot/dcpromo
I'm currently experiencing an issue that has baffled me for the past few days as none of my searches here or google yielded in any positive results.
Our current environment has 19 sites with as many ...
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Random servers in Citrix servers suddenly bluescreens (mostly 0x0000008e and 0x0000007e)
I'm responsible for a Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm. Starting Friday 30. November, my servers started to crash randomly. So far we've experienced 80 crashes, so it's obviously becoming an ...
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VMWare vSphere 5: 4 pNICs for iSCSI vs. 2 pNICs
New SAN for me, never used before: it's an IBM DS3512, dual controller with a quad 1GbE NIC per controller that a client bought and needs help setting up.
Hosts (x2) have 8 pNICs and while I usually ...
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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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Exceptional slowdown of robocopy copying from VM to DFS array
I've got an old win 2003 VM (VMware) on a blade cluster of VMs that I'm moving a considerable amount of files to our new DFS array. There are two main folders with about 1.7 million and half a million ...
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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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Best practices for tuning virtual hosts
While digging around to find resources on tuning virtual hosts I found an article on VMWares knowledgebase about changing the I/O scheduler.
What else should be considered for improving ...
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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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Testing a Virtualisation of a Debian Server (vmWare vSphere probably) [closed]
I'm soon getting access to a powerful root-server (quad-core, 16gb ram, 1gbit connection) where gameservers (like minecraft,counterstrike etc.) for different customers should be setup.
My plan is to ...
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Modify VM attributes from VMware CLI
There has to be a way to do this that I'm missing. I'm trying to modify attributes on a whole bunch of VMs at the same time from the CLI:
Look! 24 VMs:
$ vmware-cmd --server 10.91.1.1 --username ...
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Virtualisation for Public Library PCs with vSphere Hypervisor
I'm working at a public library, we have 20 or so Windows 7 PCs available for the public to use. At the moment they use Deepfreeze to maintain the base state of the OS so that users can't mess things ...
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Setting DemandCapacityRatioTarget has no effect
I'm trying to configure a cluster in VMware vCenter 5.1 with DRS and DPM activated to put higher load on physical hosts (90% instead of default 63 %) and power off machines that are not needed.
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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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How can I track down the cause of ext3 filesystem corruption?
We have a VMware vSphere 5 environment running CentOS 5.8 virtual machines. In the past two weeks we have had five incidents of virtual machines having a filesytem become corrupt, requiring an fsck to ...
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centos 5.6, virtual on Vsphere
suddenly my virtual centos server (5.6 on VMWare-VSphere) is not working...
It started with the url not responding, nor the ip. (NO HTTP response, no ping).
When I entered on the server via ssh to ...
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Can vSphere monitor for unplanned reboot events while minimising network load?
I'm asking this from the position of understanding roughly what vSphere is and what it's for, but never having used the software in anger.
I'm a developer by profession not a sysadmin, and our IT ...
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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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Setting a VM boot CD via PowerCLI
I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be a bug, but I'm definitely willing to entertain the possibility that I'm doing things wrong.
I have a VMware virtual machine in $vm, and I'm trying to ...
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Is is possible to migrate a client from a disconnected VM host?
One of our VM hosts (5.0) got disconnected. All of our Clients are on Shared Datastore.
Is it possible to migrate the clients on the disconnected host (Vcenter Essentials) to a connected host?
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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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DHCP/DNS/Windows server 2008 / w7 / xp internet issue
Title might be weird but I wanted to include all the factors involved.
I have a windows server 2008 r2 in a virtual network which has 2 networkadapters
The settings are the following
Adapter 1 ...
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qemu-img: Could not open $FILE
I received a single-file VMDK from a vendor that has a virtual appliance for a particular product I'm interested in evaluating.
We run a KVM solution (Proxmox) so I tried converting the file but on ...
