Questions tagged [vmware-vcenter]
This tag should be used to request advice on issues involving a vCenter installation issue or configuration problem.
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Not able to boot Ubuntu & Windows 11 of converted VM in VMWare Workstation Pro
I have converted a "physical machine" to a "virtual machine" using VMware vCenter Converter Standalon (conversion details in Appendix 1). The "physical machine" I ...
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Deploying VM from VM template on vmware vCenter with Ansible makes network unreachable
OS: Oracle Linux 8.7
vCenter: 7.0.3 build 20051473
hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 19193900
ansible-playbook [core 2.13.5]
python version = 3.8.10 (default, Nov 14 2022, 12:59:47) [GCC 9.4.0]
jinja ...
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Do i need vCenter Server for vGPU?
i have been digging around every corner of the internet and spoken to both vmware (who only spoke enough to tell me they can't talk to me) and dell, but i can't find the answer to a simple question: ...
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DNS issue with CentOS7?
I am working in a VMWare environment creating a network for a college class, and I keep running into what I can only assume is a DNS error with my two CENTOS7 systems. The system environment is as ...
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Is a Virtual Application in VMware Cloud Director the same as a vApp?
I just want to use correct terminology when referring to Virtual Applications. Are they the equivalent of a vApp in vCenter?
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vSphere Datastore and VM Permission
Given a vSphere user has roles that allow it to perform low level file operations on datastore A and attach existing storage on VM (in VMware vSphere), does this allow the user to attach existing ...
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Ansible-inventory of Vcenter that contains more info than just the vm name
I'm fairly new to Ansible and VMware. I've created a playbook to gather inventory info about all the VM's in a Vcenter instance and it works fine, but I want the inventory output to include more than ...
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Disk access or VM slowdown, how to monitor
We have a dell host running several VMs that are all located on a dell power vault. Users have complained of intermittent slowdowns (like a long time to ls a folder, or taking longer to respond once ...
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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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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
Name ...
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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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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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Finding the ESX/ESXi host in vSphere cluster on which a virtual machine is running programmatically via REST API
For any powered on VM in a given folder I want to retrieve its IP address and the ESXi host it's running on. I'm haveing problems finding an REST API endpoint to retrieve the ESXi host a VM is running ...
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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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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster
I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s.
Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can ...
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ovftool import succeeds but VM is not able to be found
So I am importing a VM using the following command:
ovftool.exe --name="test_VM2" --datastore="vsanDatastore" C:\Users\testuser\Desktop\VM_Exports\test_server.ova "...
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snmptrapd not capturing SNMP v3 traps
I am trying to configure vCenter 7.0 to send SNMP traps to a VM.
I have followed following procedure:
a. Configurations on vCenter, using CLI
Set engine ID : snmp.set --engineid 123456
Set ...
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vSphere Enhanced Authentication Plugin for SSO
I have recently configured a vCenter Server to monitor our companies virtual machines, and would like to use the Windows Sessionauthentication.
The vCenter is already joined to the AD Domain, and i ...
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Is there a way to automatically install vmware tools on new Windows server VMs upon VM Creation in vCenter7?
We are running vCenter7 to manage our virtual machine infrastructure, i am trying to set up backup verification with nakivos screenshot verification feature, however when the flash VM boot job ...
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Linux VM on IBM Power Machine to move to X86 hardware and vice versa
As we know, with VMware we can connect different x86 hardware like HP , Dell etc and can move VMs to different hardware without any downtime.
Is there any solution available which can integrate IBM ...
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VMWare VSphere to AWS Backup with Hypervisor Plugin
Following along with this documentation, got the virtual machine up and hypervisor registered in AWS Backup console but when the backup runs I get a permissions error. When I try to run a on demand ...
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Clone VMWare VM to multiple VMs
I use vCenter cluster of several ESXi servers, with VSAN storage.
I need to setup multiple VMs from a single vm.
Is there a way to clone one VM to multiple VMs via vCenter? is there a feature for that?...
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Why should I enable promiscuous mode?
I'm currently using an environment lab for testing ESXi so I run nested ESX(two ESX are installed on ESX)
The problem is I was trying to install vCenter on both of my lab ESX and at the end of stage 1 ...
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write shell script or other script on vCenter
esxcli is existed on vSphere. But I need to write script on vCenter and vCenter doesn't have esxcli command.
How can I write script for vCenter?
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vmWare and maintenance mode on primary HA (DRS) host
I have to make a change to all my esxi hosts in a cluster that has DRS enabled, one of the hosts is the primary host for HA. As far as I know a host is selected by the system during an election ...
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Failed to deploy OVF package. ThrowableProxy.cause A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 500
Versions:
ESXI: 7.0 Update 2 (build number 17867351)
VMware Workstation: 16.1.2 build-17966106
I exported a VM from QKVM (Qnap KVM) and been trying to import it into one of our ESXIs using vCenter, ...
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What kind of services does ESXI SLP port advertise to locally connected hosts?
I got enthusiastic about the last exploitations of ESXI CVE-2021-21974 (heap overflow exploitation). After researching the SLP service, which is the weak point in this CVE, I tried to turn it off, ...
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vSphere70u1 - How can the vCLS agent VMs provide Clustering Service?
vSphere 7 Update 1 added a new "vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS)" and according to the doc:
Basic Architecture
The basic architecture for the vCLS control plane consists of maximum 3 ...
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could not launch vCenter vSphere client
I just installed vCenter on an ESXI host (v7.0 U3):
(my storage is only 256GB, so I choose "thin" mode)
It seems that "vSphere client service" is healthy.
And I can see linking ...
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vCenter in a ESXI host that it manages
We have 2 physical servers (A and B), each with ESXI 7.0 installed. We'd like to manage them with vCenter. Can we install vCenter on one of those servers? Is it advisable?
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ESXi v in v setup - distributed switch kills all interhost communication
On all distributed port groups I disabled all security settings and set everything to promiscuous.
I've got a setup I built where I have three virtualized ESXi hosts. Their management vmkernels were ...
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why ansible doesn't recognize the vcenter windows machines?
I'm pretty new with Ansible so I might configured things wrong
[I have a Docker container running Ansible service in it
I have an Ansible repository that include the Ansible files (this is a .Git ...
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Show guest memory utilisation in vCenter
Is it possible to record and show the amount of memory that a Windows guest OS is using in vCenter? In this blog post VMware recommends using the guest OS memory counter for capacity planning. However,...
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How to patch vmware-esxi via vcenter
Our company is using a single vmware-esxi host (vmware-esxi v6.5) which hasn't been patched since installation. The VMs are a windows server and a vcenter appliance.
Using Update Manager I attached ...
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Changing Vcenter and Esxi IP's
Guys I have a Vcenter with lots of Esxi hosts and all of them have public IP addresses in their vmkernel's (managment) and now we need to change all of them to private IP is there any easy way to do ...
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Reinstalling ESXi - How to retrieve data
I have lost my ESXi password and I want to reinstall the ESXi server. How can I get the Vms up and running after installing ESXi since I am using Physical SAN to store them (including Vcenter). Please ...
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Can't access ESXi console after restart, vCenter is powered off
We have a vCenter 6.5 U3 hosted in one ESXi 6.5 U3, the host got restarted and vCenter wasn't set to automatically start, now vCenter is powered off and something is preventing us to log on ESXi.
If I ...
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vCenter network setup
Following design to be applied:
ESXi Host standalone
vCenter deployed on ESXi
Network-Config ESXi:
Config vCenter:
Error-Message:
Problem:
I want to have the vCenter management enabled on the ...
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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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vCenter 7: Catalina Logs filing up, tomcat-users.xml missing?
We were receiving errors on our vCenter servers that the log disk is getting low on disk space. According to VMWare KBs we checked what is consuming space. We found espiecially a lot of log files ...
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How to fetch the disk difference before and after adding a new disk
I'm preparing a playbook to find the newly scanned HDD from vmware, I used below filtering to fetch the no. of HDDs:
before_add: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_devices.keys() | select('...
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ESX host cmd to check if physical host went to battery
Trying to trouble shoot some issues on a server and see if it's related to loss of power, they have cheap APC that don't have logging or interface. I've checked the event log in v-sphere but don't ...
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Does vCenter/VMWare have a tool/command that shows Actual Usage (Written Data) within thick Provisioned Storage in a DataStore
I am very familiar with our storage footprints. All our storage is thin provisioned (is there any Enterprise Array these days that does not use thin provisioning. Don't think so). And of course see ...
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Hands on lab/testing with NAS
My company has acquired a VMware system with 4 hosts and unfortunately i have no experience with NAS. Can anyone recommend a method to play with or learn how NAS works?
The system is a production ...
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Is there any way to use/configure/manage VDP after flash technology has been phased out?
I have two VDP (probably latest version) deployed on the vCenter 6.5 with about 60 virtual machines backup.
Currently VDP plugin is not visible in the HTML vCenter interface and I cannot access any ...
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Smoothest way to migrate vSphere/vCenter?
So I have an older Dell VRTX running on ESXi 6.0 hosts, with vSphere and vCenter in place. No vMotion, however. The hardware is past its prime so I am purchasing a new Dell MX740c to ultimately take ...
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certificate-manager 'lstool reregister' failed | SSL Certificate Issue
I have been trying to get this to work for some days now, have installed fresh numerous times, it just won't work.
vCenter Appliance version is 6.7.0 build-16709110 (6.7 U3 J, tried latest version U3 ...
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How to resolve a Fresh Vcenter appliance reporting "Unable to save IP settings"
A known issue in Vcenter 7.0 Release notes occurs when:
In the Server Appliance, you configure a static IP or try to change the IP configuration.
The following error results:
Unable to save IP ...
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