Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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VMWare ESXi virtual machine can contact the gateway but not the DNS server
I am having a bit of a strange issue. I have a VMWare ESXi server with two virtual machines running on it. They are running just fine and can communicate on the network without a problem.
I am now ...
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Optimising MSSQL 2008 server inside VMWare ESXi
I normally run my MSSQL servers on dedicated servers, but we've taken on a client who is running their SQL Server inside a VMWare ESXi 4 host, and quite frankly it's running like crap.
We have ...
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Eucalyptus or OpenNebula or... for a Linux and Windows build server private cloud
We are setting up an 8-machine build farm. Most of these builds need to happen on a specific flavor of Linux (Fedora 10 as of now), while some of them will happen on several different Windows VMs. We ...
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Vmware ESXI compatible i7 920 in a 1u?
I'm looking to build a small vm machine running vmware esxi 4.0.
Dealing with the HCL is difficult as it is, however I'm also trying to cram all of this into a 1u case if possible.
I have found a ...
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Move VMware Server 2.0 Image to ESXi
I need to move a vmware server 2.0 image to ESXi and need info on how to accomplish this task. The host is win 2008.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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Configuration issues, cannot synchronize host xxx
We have a ESXi4 server setup and every day we get the error "configuration issues, cannot synhronize host xxx operation timed out". When that happens all the VM's on that server go unresponsive. Our ...
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Which Linux-Virtualization to choose for Server?
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I got a brand new Intel i7 Server-System with 12GB Ram and I want to consolidate three other linux-servers onto this machine using virtualization. I want to use the harddisks (via a kind of LVM) ...
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VMware ESXi VS Citrix XenServer
We are thinking to get into VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) business. We want to create instances on our servers and sell it as you may expect. But we couldnot come up with a selection between ESXi and ...
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Session time out during uploding file to datastore
i have isci san which has 2 LUNs. The first one is a ntfs filesystem and the second one is a datastore where the esxi gets the virtual machine. Now i need to copy a virtual machine from the ntfs lun ...
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How to commit a snapshot on esxi 3.5
I have a question. Basically i want to extend the partition of a windows server. I have read that before extending a partition have to commit all the snapshots which in my case is only one!
The ...
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VMWare ESXi, change the default path for a VM
For some reason VMWare ESXi has decided that one of my VMs is on a completely different path to the path it is actually on.
So my VM is on /vmfs/volumes/long-guid-here/my-vm-name but when I try to ...
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How can I configure MySQL data folder in a Red Hat cluster suite running in VMware
I have configured Red Hat cluster in VMware. I created two nodes Node00 and Node01 which are running CentOs 5.2. I have added MySQL service to my cluster. When I suspend Node00 then instance is moved ...
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Can vmware server be run on Windows Small Business Server 2008 (Premium) as a host?
Cannot seem to find a straight answer for this. Can SBS 08 Premium run vmware server? I read that SBS08 cannot be a Hyper-v host so I wonder if this would apply to vmware server too.
In a nutshell I ...
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VMWare ESXi 3.5 Wake On Lan
I am using VMWare ESXi 3.5 on my server, and I want to be able to remotely boot the server up. In the bios settings of the computer, I enabled Wake on Lan. I know usually with Windows XP and other ...
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Samba on Debian Lenny much slower than Windows 2008
I have a VMWare ESXi 4 server running two virtual machines. The host server is a quad core AMD Phenom II with 8 GB RAM and a RAID-5 SATA-II array.
The Debian VM is Debian Lenny with latest updates - ...
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How to run a VMWare Server virtual machine in a ESXi virtual machine?
I installed VMWare Server 2 in a Centos 5.2 virtual machine which runs in a VMWare ESXi Server. When I try to start, via browser, a VM I created in VMWare Server, it gives me the following message: "...
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Windows 2008 VM won't boot with 1TB vmdk attached
We have a Windows 2008 VM that runs on an ESXi 3.5 server. It has two VMDKs attached to it: the boot drive and a 1TB data drive. The boot drive VMDK resides on some DAS drives on the server. The data ...
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How to assign IP to physical machines?
Excuse my ignorance, I want to know if its possible to setup untangle in ESXI such that it will be able to assign IPs to physical machines outside the ESXI box.
Here is my setup:
1) Management ...
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Restrict access to ESXi
What is the best option to restrict access to ESXi machine so that it could be managed using VSphere client from only certain hosts?
I know there is no built-in firewall and everyone recommends ...
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What is the best design (software/hardware, backups) for two servers providing virtual machines in colo
I currently have one older server that provides VMs using Xen on CentOS. While not a monster, it supports VT extensions and has a 1TB hardware RAID1 disk set up. I am looking to add another server ...
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programmatically obtaining a list of vmware guests
Is there a way to programmatically (that is write a small c app or better yet a ruby or perl script) to obtain a list of all of the guests (and also details about the guests) from a VMWare ...
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Convert VMware images into ESX/ESXi format without connecting the ESX/ESXi server
Is it possible to convert various VMware images into ESXi format all locally without accessing the ESXi? Because I try to avoid the slow connection between my workstation and the ESXi server (~5MBps). ...
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How to handle a (VMware ESXi) server crash?
I have a dedicated server (Core 2 Duo E4600, 2GB DDR2, LSI Raid 1 with 250GB SATA storage). running VMware ESXi 3i (3.5.0) and 3 VMs (1x Ubuntu 9.04, 1x Ubuntu 9.10, 1x Windows 2003 Web Edition)
This ...
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Firewall and mail server as virtual machines on one host
I've been asked to look into adding a mail server at a remote "branch office" (managing director's house). The only real requirement is that I do so without adding any more computers to the site. ...
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How to install CentOS 5.4 as VMWare ESXi 4.0 guest remotely?
I have VMWare ESXi 4.0 preinstalled on the server with IP A. I also can use IPs B and C. I have KVM access to this server and I can connect to it using vSphere Client. CentOS iso-image isn't on the ...
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Files are no longer visible on VMFS
Today my vmware esxi server (version 3.5) was no longer responding, so did a hard reset.
After the reboot one of the VMFS partions no longer shows any files.
VMware vSphere client still shows the ...
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How can i access a postgres database without having root access on my local machine?
I do not have root access on the host machine. (no php installed)
I have a guest virtual machine running a local server and database. (I do not have any login access to this machine)
I need to ...
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What kind of storage do people actually use for VMware ESX servers?
VMware and many network evangelists try to tell you that sophisticated (=expensive) fiber SANs are the "only" storage option for VMware ESX and ESXi servers. Well, yes, of course. Using a SAN is fast, ...
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Network card losing all connectivity on virtual server
We've got a very small ASP.NET 2.0 website running on a server (Win 2k3 + latest SP) which is virtualised via VMWare (Infrastructure).
At random times (ie - not the same day of the week/ month/ etc) ...
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How do I get multiple displays to work a VM within ESXi4 (the option is there but won't work)?
I have recently upgraded to ESXi 4 and I noticed that under the Video Card tab (for VM Properties) there is the option to set 'Maximum number of displays' (1-10) and ability to reserve memory for a ...
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VMWare ESX/i 4 SCSI Tape?
Has anyone successfully used SCSI mapping to present a SCSI tape drive to a VM for backup purposes? My servers do not support VMDirectIO (VT-d), so I can't present the PCI device to the VM, and my ...
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ESXi Serial licensing dongle
We have a server that hosts an old application that uses a serial dongle to license its product. We converted the physical server to a virtual server running in VMWare server running on Windows and ...
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VmWare Esxi server raid10 optimal stripe size
I'm reconfiguring a Esxi server, and I couldn't find any useful data on the optimal stripe size for a raid 10 array (4 disks) for Esxi's default 1Mb block size (and I intend to keep that default).
Am ...
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VMware ESXi running on dual NFS NAS Configuration using rsync and snapshot scheduling [closed]
I'm considering a setup for a client.
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10 users
2 servers
maximum redundance (with minimal costs)
maximum scalability (with minimal costs)
HARDWARE
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2 x Dell ...
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VMware ESXi - varying CPU time (CPU reservation)
I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 under VMware ESXi 3.5. Host has 2 physical CPUs and the BSD box is currently the only running VM. Only one virtual CPU is assigned to the VM.
When measuring CPU time of a ...
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Which kind of virtualized networking is fastest? [closed]
I am planning to virtualize two servers where the bulk of network traffic will be between just these servers. Will I see a substantial benefit by configuring an internal network between the virtual ...
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ESXi, VIC and VMware Fusion Mouse issues
I have been experimenting with ESXi and have the following setup on my desk:
Dell Laptop:
T2500 2GHz, 4Gb RAM
boots ESXi off USB flash drive,
has 320Gb 7200rpm internal SATA as the datastore (...
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"I/O Error Occurred" in vSphere Client working with ESXi
I have a datastore set up in ESXi where I put all my ISOs. Somehow, something broke (I don't know what) and now I can't upload files to that (or any other) datastore. For large, ISO-sized files, the "...
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How to attach existing VMFS disks to VMWare ESXi
After reinstalling VMWare ESXi server, how can I attach existing VMFS partitions?
I looks like the only way to do this is to have them formatted, and I'd really like to keep the existing data ...
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VMWare Win2008 guest: drop external IP from one virtual, and assign to another
I have two virtual machines on VMWare ESXi host. I want to drop an external IP (used for a site in IIS that we're moving to a new server) from the old one (Windows Server 2008 x64), and assign to the ...
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Access file system on ESXi host from guest virtual machine
I'm researching if it is feasible to backup ESXi host by running rdiff-backup inside guest operating system on that host.
Is there a way for guest virtual machine to gain access to the host OS file ...
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Deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi server
Have someone succeeded to deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi platform? If yes, are there any instructions how to do that?
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ESXi 4.0 resize a VM hard drive size
I am using ESXi 4.0, I have a few VM's on the machine. I have just copied teh .vmx and .vmdk to create a new copy of the VM. They are normally 100GB but I want to create a few of these that are 50GB....
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VMWare ESX/ESXi Server Config with RAID 6 - is it advisable?
I am trying to spec out a server machine to run VMWare ESX/ESXi to host about 3-4 VM's. They will likely be hosting VM's running IIS, Apache and BIND. We don't have a huge budget for this and to a ...
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Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 in ESXi 3.5/ESXi 4?
Has anyone heard any announcements from vmware as to when these will be officially supported? Their website is a bit of a mess. I'm wondering if ESXi 3.5 will support them or ESXi4 ?
Googling around ...
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Inexspensive SATA raid controller for small virtualization host
I've had a few issues running software raid on XenServer, and I would also like to try out VMware ESXi which won't easily be combined with a software raid.
Are there any low cost PCI cards that would ...
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Recover orphaned diskspace from ESXi datastore
I was uploading a big file (iso of +/- 6 Gb) and somewhere in the middle I've got an I/O error.
Now I can't see the file in the datastore and I lost +/- 3 Gb.
How can I delete the 'partial' file or ...
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ESXi 4 failed to find boot device
I had exsi 3.5 running just fine, the upgrade to 4 failed ( i thought it would so everything is backed up ). but it did boot just could not import the data store
So i did a fresh install of ESXi 4. ...
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Configuring a NAS on ESXi Ver 4
I finally got ESXi working on my server, and multiple virtual machines... but now, of course I need more storage space.
From what I am reading I am able to attach a NAS device? They seem to be much ...
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PCI passthrough of graphics cards on ESXi
Is it possible to use the PCI passthrough facility in ESXI 4.0 to connect a graphics card to a virtual machine? If so, is it also possible to pass through a USB keyboard and mouse to control the VM ...
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