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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Issues creating vmware connections in vsphere [closed]
I have a connection pool with a specific pool size say 10. Whenever im creating a connection, the vmware ESX hardware resource is not able to connection sometimes when there is a connection count ...
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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
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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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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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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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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
Get-...
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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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