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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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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 Architecture: ...
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IBM x3650 will not boot from USB

Hello serverfault community, and thank you in advance for your time. Summary: I have an IBM x3650, which I bought secondhand (eBay). I am trying to install and run VMWare ESXi 5.5 on it via a USB ...
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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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Adding subnet to a vsphere with single vcenter and esxi host

Let me start of by saying that I do not specialize in networking, I am in the process of adding additional VMs to a testing environment and wanted some recommendations. In this case I am running a ...
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How to remove inactive datastore from vSphere 6.0?

I followed this vmware guide to remove a storage device and replace with another. Everything worked fine apart from the fact the the datastore still show on the list as inactive. During the procedure ...
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VCenter Adding Host - Error "conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL"

We have a new Dell VRTX box (2 Blades & Shared Storage). We are getting the above error when trying to add the second host. We've created shared storage(VDISK1) which both ESX hosts have access. ...
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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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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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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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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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Modify VM in OVA

I have an OVA that contains a vApp with 9 VMs inside. I need to make a change to the drive contents of one of the VMs in the OVA. The OVA takes a very long time to export from vSphere (24 hours). Is ...
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Switch between virtual consoles on virtual machine?

I have a laptop running RHEL 7. On it, I use Firefox to access the vSphere web client. In there, I open a web console to a VM where I'm testing a kickstart config. The kickstart is bombing out, and ...
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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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extend c: drive grey out

I have one VM running windows server 2008 r2 in vsphere 6.0. I changed drive quota in VM setting and I found one unallocated partition in disk manager. But disk manager won't let me extend the c: ...
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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 renew VMware certificate in Veeam

I had to reinstall the vcenter appliance. Since that the Veeam backupjobs fail with the error: Task failed error: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure Presumably ...
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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 to switch between Linux's virtual consoles?

I am using vSphere and would like to change to a virtual console in the guest OS. The problem is that when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 my desktop (Ubuntu) changes virtual console and not the guest OS in ...
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?

I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot. From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related ...
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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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Change VMWare SCSI in Redhat

I have a VMWare Redhat machine that I need to change the SCSI controller on the machine from a LSI Logic Parallel to LSI Logic SAS. I have done this through vmware, but now when the box tries to boot ...
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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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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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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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Free alternatives to vSphere for ESXi (if one exists)

Am feeling a touch confused and overwhemled. From what I gather even though ESXi is free I will only be able to manage my VMs (create or power on etc) for 60 days unless I buy a licence for vSphere. ...
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ESXi 7.X file permissions - how to buypass new security measures

Today i installed a new ESX 7.0 Hypervisor machine. My initial goal was to get some RAID status reporting. I created a python script that i wantet to run from a crontab job. This due to the fact that ...
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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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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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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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Powercli create local user and assign permission At VC level

I need a powercli script to automate some task in VC , I have found below script but here I can assign AD group permission to folder level. but I want to assign permission at VC level. is there any ...
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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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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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How Do I Remove Files Stored In a VMDK?

I am a developer, not an IT guy, but I am the one responsible for managing our servers currently. I have run into a problem... apparently our SQL backups are much bigger than I anticipated, and on ...
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Extending virtual device and then fdisk now gives unknown physical volume on centos 7

I'm trying to extend space on sdb. It was 800G before, I've added 1TB to it, making it 1.8T total (extended the disk from VM's Vmware settings). Extended the 800G disk with 1TB more making it 1.8TB ...
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Server records wrong IP (proxy/firewall/load balancer)

I have a VDS server running Windows Server Web 2008 and plesk 10 installed. I figured out I'm getting not the visitor IP but a fixed IP (178.18.198.2) at my website codes asp.net/php. I also get this ...
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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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Adding a machine to a domain fails with internal error

I've enabled winrm, disabled firewall, enable remoting, GPOs for winrm, enabled SMBv1 and completed updates first as troubleshooting but I still get the error. I can ping the DC as well. The error I ...
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"resize the virtual machine and the window" not working

The VMware Remote Console is not resizing the virtual machine to fit the window, even though I have that setting set. Does anyone have any suggestions to make this work? VMware Remote Console version ...

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