Questions tagged [vmware-esx]
VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc.
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Recover deleted VMware virtual disks, i.e. *.vmdk files
We had a virtual-disk and its snapshots at the following path on a server.
/vmfs/volumes/ESX3/IBSng_Server/
The *.vmdk files were:
IBSng_server.vmdk
IBSng_server-flat.vmdk
IBSng_server-000001.vmdk
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Windows 7 on ESX. New volumes are read-only
We use a mix of Windows 7 physical desktops and vitual machines (hosted on ESX). We use the same image and AD domain for both.
On the VMs, when we create a new volume, whether on an existing disk or ...
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Upgrading ESXi License from 5.5.0 Free to 6.5 Essentials
We currently have a single server running ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with Live VMs and would like to upgrade the license to 6.5 Essentials so that we can use Altaro VM Backup since this does not work with the ...
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Reclaim space in HP 3Par SAN & VMware ESXi
I just reclaimed unused space in our HP 3Par using a command on the ESX side such as :
esxcli storage vmfs unmap --l DATASTORENAME
it works nicely, and from the 3Par console, I can now see on my ...
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CentOS 7 server on ESX randomly dropping connections
We have a problem with a server on our ESX. All other machines operate normally, but not this one. It is the only Linux Server running on our ESX (all the others operate on Windows), and the only one ...
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Move a vm from Vmware Workstation 10 towards ESX
I need to move a vm from VMware Workstation 10 towards ESX connected remotely within VMware Workstation 10. The issue is that when I try to drag and drop the Windows Server 2012 R2 from one place to ...
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How to rebuild double disk failure in IBM x3650 M3 raid 50
i have a problem with IBM x3650 M3 raid 50 with 16 sas 146gb disks. Before christmas one of them started to lit yellow, but the machine wasworking (running esx). I have oredered a new one, but before ...
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vCenter in nested ESXi kills the host vCenter session
I created a nested ESXi environment (virtualised ESXi host inside an ESXi. Lets name it vESXi for simplicity) for testing purposes. In the (nested)VM network I assigned the necessary attributes to VM-...
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How can I tell when a virtual OS is being slowed down by the host, but not reflected in perfmon?
I have a windows host that is behaving very slowly. All the counters (CPU, Disk, etc) appear to be normal.
The virtual host itself is ESX, and is on a VNX Cluster with 13GB free disk space on a 2 ...
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vSphere and ESX License questions [duplicate]
We currently have a ESX Environment which has 1x Physical vSphere Server, 1x SAN (Another coming soon) 2x ESXi Hosts.
We currently have licensing for vSphere and ESX Essentials.
I need to add 2 ...
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esxi vmdk out of disk space
One of our highly utilized vm is giving the error that there is no more space for the the vmdk shown in the following image.
The VM won't start because of this issue, so I'm not able to delete data ...
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Prevent from installing open-vm-tools-desktop / @platform-vmware on EL 7
When installing RHEL 7/CentOS 7 as a VMware ESX guest, the installer (Anaconda) automatically detects the virtualization host, then install the appropriate tools (open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-...
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SSD hardware RAID as local VMWARE datastore
i plan to buy a new ESXi VSphere Server with a LSI Megaraid Controller and 8 x Intel S3520 SSDs.
Hypervisor should be started from USB-Flashdrive
Hardware RAID10 containing 8 x Intel S3520 SSDs
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Is it worth it to install VMWare Tools on a non-graphical Linux guest (Red Hat 7 hosting an Oracle server) [duplicate]
This came up because I was not able to activate the time synchronization function from the VCD. Most of what I've seen that discussed the benefits of installing VMWare tools looks like it applies to ...
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How can I isolate data-warehouse workloads from production/on-demand queries?
I'm using VMware's vSphere 6 and I'm considering consolidating several SQL servers, these servers have different usage profiles;
On-demand burst reporting (Cognos/Data-warehouse)
Interactive web ...
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Can't return os family using ansible_os_family
I am trying to get the OS family of my host machine using ansible. This is the command I use.
ansible my-host -i hosts.ini -m setup | grep ansible_os_family
This is what my host file looks like.
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VMWARE Host to Host Nic connection without switch
Dumb question. If I had a free 10gb port on two vmware hosts, is it possible connect them directly without a physical switch in between them ? Thanks
Would like to have a faster dedicated ...
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vSphere: performance impact when a large VM has more vCPU than cores on a single physical CPU?
I'm running a vSphere private cloud configuration at a managed hosting vendor. The physical hosts have dual 14-core CPUs and 128 GB of RAM each.
An application that we run can multi-thread expensive ...
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PowerCLI transfers a file but the copied file size is way too small. What is wrong?
I am using PowerCLI version 6 on a Windows server with 20 GB of free space. I am trying to use copy-datastoreitem with PowerCLI. It seems to work to transfer a .vmdk file from an ESXi datastore to ...
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vSphere - unable to increase disk size of windows guest disk
ESX 5.5, vcenter 5.5, vsphere 5.5
Reading vmware kb's, it sounds like I should be able to come in here and increase disk size...
But can't....
Shut down guest.
Still can't.
There are no ...
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how to stop esxtop gracefully which is running in batch mode?
I am running esxtop in batch mode using the below command:
esxtop –b –a –d 10 –n 2000| gzip -9c > perfData.csv.gz
This is going to run for a little over 5 hrs, but I want to stop it gracefully ...
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Intel modular server - blinking yellow led - clear,confirm the warning
Masters,
Today we got tow warning from intel modular server, as you see below.
How to clear this warning and how to stop warning led blinking? (i'm sure there is no problem, but can't clear/confirm ...
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linux + how to verify VM defintion disk after redhat installation
We have couple of Linux servers all them are VM red hat Linux ( and they created by the Vsphere client , )
I want to know how we can capture on the Linux OS the following
1.Thick provision lazy ...
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Difference between GPVM and LVM when referencing virtual servers?
I've been advised that there are two types of VMs available for enterprise use, but unfortunately have not been able to identify any resources that can explain what these are.
The pricing between the ...
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vCenter Email Alerts
We have 4 ESX hosts in a cluster managed by vcenter (5.5). We have the Dell Open Manage integration suite which adds 100's of additional alarm/alerts to vcenter.
We want to setup email alerts for ...
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Allowing outbound internet access with NSX while maintaining micro segmentation
I am getting into the world of VMware's NSX product for the purpose of micro segmenting VM's in the datacenter. That is to say, living in the same network space but not being able to talk to one ...
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Nexus 1000v Port Channel to Virtual Machine
Is it possible to setup a Port-Channel between a Nexus 1000v Switch and a ESX Virtual Machine?
Context: I am running a Checkpoint Firewall cluster as Virtual Machines on an ESX server. I want to ...
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Is it possible to connect two ESX host directly without physical switch?
I have two physical hosts without switc and single WAN connection.
host B running many backup software and other tools.
Is it possible to connect two ESX host directly without phisical switch?
Look ...
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Anyone using VTL for backups?
I would like to know if VTL is really a valid option nowadays? Is anyone here using it and why actually? Does it have any benefits compared to a regular server stuffed with SATA drives in RAID6/10?
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Maximum HD space on VMware [closed]
What is the maximum physical HD space I can put on ESXI 6 server? I want to purchase 24 qty 4 TB Hard Drives. Thanks.
Already bought an Areca 24 sas raid
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VMWare ESX: Intermittent network connectivity when guests are on same host
ESXi 5.5.0, Build: 2403361 on Dell R620 Servers
2 phys servers, 1 SAN, 15+ VMs
Issue: In some cases, when guest A and B are on the same phys server, network communication between the two is ...
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Virtual socket vs core per socket Best practise [duplicate]
Is this right way of assigning 8 Cpu's on Vmware?
I have research but couldn't find a right answer. What is the difference between virtual socket and core per socket.
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VMware - trigger alert when a VM moves to a particular datastore?
We have a VMware cluster that doesn't have SDRS enabled. We would like to know when a VM moves to a particular datastore on that cluster because that datastore is non-performance storage.
I can't ...
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Install Open-vmtools for Ubuntu 14.04 without internet connection
I don't use Ubuntu so much and I hate it when things change at every version.
Now The procedure I always used to install vmtools on an ESX seems old and pushes you to install the Open-vmtools.
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ESX 6 arp fails in back 2 back link
Having a strange problem with back 2 back connection between an ESX 6 and CentOS 7 machine.
We are using a CentOS 7 directly connected to ESX and we use it as iSCSI NAS - from time to time the ESX ...
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Disaster Recovery for VMWare ESX
We need to formulate a plan for disaster recovery a VMWare installation. The components are two ESX hosts and a NAS unit.
We're wondering what everyone here uses for their farm? We have a few ideas ...
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ESXi 5.5 remove @vsphere.local from login
How can I change the vsphere login from [email protected] to administrator? I have searched around. Either it cannot be done or it is common knowledge, because I cannot find a solution. The ...
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How to calculate amount of memory needed for Solr
I run solr application on a VM with 41G of memory and I saw that the solr consumme a big amount of memory.
I appended 16G to the VM in spite of that solr consumme all memory available in 30min. My ...
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Copy VM folder from ESX 3.0.1 host
I am in need of the ability to copy files/folders from an ESX 3.0.1 datastore.
Unfortunately, this version does not allow this via the VI client, and as such I have been looking to do this using SSH/...
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Understanding VMFS storage usage
please help me understand something regarding used and available space on a datastore holding thin provisioned vmdk files.
Im having an ESX 4.1 U3 VMFS 3.48 datastore called "storage1".
This is 1....
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Linux OS installed as a guest OS on VMware Workstation v10.0.2 doesn't show all partitions as is shown when installed ona physical HP server
I'm very new to VMWARE. I've a customized RHEL 6.6 for one of my application which if install on a physical HP Gen8 DL380p server, shows the partitions /apps, /,/boot,/tmp,/var,/usr,/swap
When I use ...
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Naemon stopping itself
I'm currently running Naemon on a CentOS7 which as you can read it in the title, stop himself for some reasons I don't get. This problem started when I tried to add some check for monitor my Esx's and ...
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Using PowerCLI Versus using asp.net WMI to scan and retrive informaion about ESX hosts
I want to scan and view information about ESX hosts which have "ESXi 5.0 Update 1" as their OS inside my asp.net web application. mainly to be able to retrieve the ESX specification and all the vms ...
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VMware View 6.0 Windows 7 Lock Screen
I'm running VMware View 6.0.1 with Automated Windows 7 X64 Pools. Domain/AD-Level: Windows Server 2012.
My Problem is that after about 15 Minutes inactivity Windows 7 will lock the Workstation (Press ...
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ESX 5.5 Maximum File Size
We have a ~24TB Datastore (a single LUN mapped via a DAS) which has a VMFS5 Datastore.
My understanding was with ESX 5.5 and VMFS5 you can have file sizes up to 62TB (as per this article: http://kb....
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PXE boot a VMware guest by specifying the IP configuration in the guest's boot options. No DHCP available
I am in a situation where I do not have control over DHCP on a subnet. I have a Satellite server that I want to use to provision VMware guests. The Satellite is on a different subnet and VLAN.
Is ...
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How to configure VM IPs on VMWare ESX Host
I have rented a server from So You Start that runs VMware ESX 6.0 on it.
I have bought IPs to use them in my VMs bu t the problem is i cannot make them run VMs.
I did exactly what this guide says for ...
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How can I run docker on windows server 2008 r2 running in vmware?
I am trying to demonstrate the usefulness of docker. I have been able to build images and show prototypes on my work laptop running windows 7. However I now need to move the docker image unto a ...
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ESX Server 5.1 - Consolidation Error : Locked file
I try to consolidate a virtual machine that needs consolidation but I get the message:
Consolidate virtual machine disk files
Servername.mydomain.internal
Unable to access file
<unspecified ...
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How to make sure file in VM's folder is copied with VM when cloning VMWare Virtual Machine
I am running a vmware environment (Version 4 unfortunately) which requires me to use a bios rom file in order to run server 2012. I upload it to the root folder of the VM after creation, before boot ...