Questions tagged [vmware-vsphere]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The guest OS 'Other (32-bit)' installed in the VM is not supported for customization
I was deploying OVF template from another Vsphere 7, VM OS : SLES15 SP4
When I created new VM from this template using Customization ( IP setup) , I got this error, even based on below matrix SLES 15 ...
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vSphere with Tanzu - TKGs Cluster - Granted Developer Access but Still Unable to Login
I have a couple of TKGs clusters setup with vSphere with Tanzu. Everything seems to be working with the cluster itself. I am using our Active Directory SSO integration to sign in. I have an ...
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How can I assign a vSphere Tanzu license to a Supervisor Cluster programmatically?
I have a vSphere Tanzu license already available in my vCenter Server. Now I want to assign that license to a Supervisor Cluster. It works through the vSphere Webclient manually, but I need to do it ...
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ESXi GPU Passthrough Black Screen
i have vsphere 8 set up, and am trying to get a horizon desktop deployed using PCoIP. It is a windows 10 desktop with an Nvidia 3080ti in passthrough. everything is working and the deployment ...
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CentOS VM on VMware ESXI: System UUID and Serial number not same
We are running CentOS 7.9 with OKD cluster 3.11 on VMware ESXi 6.7.0.
As part of our activities, we are trying to setup cloud-provider integration with the VMware to have dynamic PV/PVC provisioning ...
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Does vSphere ESXI Virtualization needs to be installed on root server or is it an application which can be installed inside an OS? [closed]
Recently I've bought Dell PowerEdge R620 Server. I am interested in running Windows Server 2022 as well as I am interested in running virtual machines using Virtualization. Now I know that Windows ...
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Local administrator temporary profile after add server to RDS session host group
Two weeks ago we have to install a new server (Windows S. 2012R2) as terminal server. There was ServerA ; ServerB; and now ServerC
We tried to clone the ServerB to ServerC but because of issue with ...
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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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Unable to access the virtual machine configuration (vmware automation) while cloning from template - Ansible version 2.13
I'm wondering whether any of you have encounter similar issue.
I have 2 Ansible machines. One is running on Centos 7, version 2.9.27 (with python 2.7.5) and second on Ubuntu 22 with Ansible 2.13
Using ...
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Compare state of Windows Server 2022 VSphere instances
Apologies for the noob question regarding Windows and VSphere. I am looking to solve a problem in my current organization where we never seem to know the current state of our servers due to too many ...
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How setup VM IP via Deploy OVF template?
I have OVA image RH8.
How can I setup VM IP address via "Deploy OVF template" ?
I don't see there any option in GUI.
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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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Is there a vSphere vSAN SDK API option to set VMKernal Advanced Setting
I am writing a script to automate shutting down a vSAN cluster (yes I know 7.03 know has a button), based on this knowledge base article.
I am at the part where it wants us to call a script on each ...
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vSphere 6.7 AD Group Start/Stop/Deploy from Template to specific datastore
Environment is vSphere 6.7 three hosts in a cluster and AD authentication enabled for HTML5 client.
Problem : Assign AD group with limited permission to allow management of: power, console access and ...
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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
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how export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter?
How can I export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter ? I don't see there any network details option.
Using Vcenter 6.5
I tried this option. I only replaced Get-...
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VMware vRealize Operations: super metric syntax issue
I have an issue with a super metric I am trying to build on vRops 8.6.2.
The super metric is meant to be applied on esxi hosts, its purpose is to process the number of active lun paths that host ...
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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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Changing the disk type of vsphere VM using Rest API
I am looking for a way to convert my Vsphere VM disk type using REST API calls, like "Dependent" and "Independent-Nonpersistent".
i was searching in the documentation for Sphere 6....
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How to connect to VMs on VMware ESXi using physical connections
My site is using the V sphere client to manage the VM, and there is a KVM switch attached to the hosts(VMware ESXi, 7.0.2, 17867351). I'm wondering if I can use the KVM switch to access the VMs ...
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Both C and D drives behave as non-persistent, even though i have set C drive as "non-persistent" and D drive as "Persistent"
Is it the disk, which behaves as persistent and non persistent or the VM?
I have a VM on my vsphere with two disk drives ( C and D ), Both Drives are marked as THIN PROVISIONED. this machine is being ...
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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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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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iperf3 on ESXi 7.0.2 does not work?
On ESXi 6.7 EP15 there's /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3.copy and it works fine. On ESX 7.0 u2d there's only /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3 and it stopped working for me.
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Powershell script credentials prompt appears before read-host executes
I'm calling a script inside another script:
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That joins a VM to a domain after downloading some things. However, when the script runs, the prompt ...
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Packer build with Ubuntu 20.4 and autoinstall with vSphere 7.0
I am trying to build a packer image with packer 1.8.1 and Ubuntu 20.4
My HCL manifest is correct but I always get the prompt with " Continue with Autoinstall ? Add autoinstall in kernel command ...
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When a VM Template was last used (to create a VM)?
I need to know when a VM Template was last used (to create a VM)?
As I am working on a project of segregating unused templates in my vSphere environment, I need to know that answer.
I tried
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Adding large amount of storage (500TB) to 1 VM
What is the best way to add a large amount of storage to a single Windows host in VMware vSphere 7? Say 500TB? In the past I've made a bunch of VMFS datastores and split it up per drive in Windows, ...
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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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VMware vSphere 7.0 U3 + TrueNAS Core 13.0: can't create VMFS6 datastore from TrueNAS iSCSI disk. Why?
I have a bare metal server running vSphere/ESXi 7.0 U3d, and a bare metal NAS running TrueNAS Core 13.0. The NAS has a single pool shared via iSCSI; the pool is running all defaults (lz4 compression+...
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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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http error 403 for vsphere login page
I am running a vcenter server, and created a desktop shortcut for the vsphere webclient login, it works well, but after a certain time, around 2 weeks the desktop shortcut will no longer work, and ...
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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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Migrate Kubernetes storage from vSphere to NFS with StatefulSets
I'm trying to move all my persistent volumes from vSphere to NFS, I managed to do it for many applications that use Deployment kind. All I have to do is:
Mount the NFS volume to a different path (/...
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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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Copying large file with robocopy during VMWare storage vmotion
if I copy massive files via robocopy during storage vmotion then is there any negative impact ?
thanks,
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How to set VMWare VM screen resolution on Windows using Ansible
I'm trying to deploy a vSphere Windows VM via Ansible and need to set a specific screen resolution (1024x768). Running VMWareResolutionSet.exe works locally in PowerShell with the following command (...
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