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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Cannot change password on ESXi 6.7 after modifiying "Security.PasswordQualityControl"
See edit below for a workaround and possible explanation
According to the VMware documentation (as well as the documentation for pam_passwdqc) I should be able edit the Security....
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Unable to upload a VM from VMware Workstation to Esxi
I have been trying to upload a VM from VMware workstation to VMware ESXI server (Esxi 6.7 A01)
I edited the hardware compatibility of the VM to ESXI 6.5 and created a clone.
When trying to upload ...
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Building a VM on the ESX hosts own storage
Why is it recommended to build a VM on the shared storage and not on the storage of the host itself?
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Do vmware vmids persist across an ESX restart?
I have a 2 node VMWare cluster (Simplivity) which I am planning to do some hardware maintenance on (i.e. switching them off). Hence I would like to cleanly shutdown the VM guests and subsequently ...
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VMWare Snapshot issue
So I have a particularly troubling issue left behind by the old IT department. We're running several snapshots in and no one thought to consolidate them, likely because no one was skilled enough in ...
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hot added vCPU for linux not used fully in top command
just recently we started to see high CPU pressure on one of our machines.
All our machines are running Linux Debian and we use vmware under the hood.
We have hot added new CPUs and they're online in ...
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networking issue about virtual machine as gateway on vSphere esxi
I have configured ESXi environment as below. plus i use ESXi with vCenter 6.7. And the type of virtual switches is standard virtual switch.
Baremetal host - vSwitch0(uplink-ESXi nic0) - Gateway VM - ...
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Zerto Failover - Win 2012/16 Servers Get Stuck on "Getting Devices Ready"
We are using Zerto to replicate our VMs to an offsite datacenter. During our failover tests the VMs have a tendency to "hang" from 15 minutes to several hours on "Getting Devices Ready." I have read ...
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Is there a way to send an ACPI shutdown signal to a VM in vSphere
I have some VMs in vSphere running on several ESXi servers. The guests do NOT have VMWare Tools installed and the tools cannot be installed on the guests. The guest OS can respond and do a graceful ...
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Cant connect by SSH and Webgui to ESX host
After a reboot of our vcenter server, one of the ESX hosts went disconnected from everything else. I cant seem to connect to it in any way. Ssh doesn't work, and the webgui also don't work.
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whats the point in autoscaling containers
We are using vSphere technologies for virtualization and I am tasked with developing a scalable application infrastructure. I'm familiar more with AWS.
Doing some research on scaling I'm not sure I ...
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Proper way of using VMware datastore extents
In our VMware infrastructure, we have a number of large Windows file servers, with provisioned disk sizes ranging between 25TB and 35TB.
Their individual disks are rarely larger than 4TB, with many ...
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How to detect vMotion from linux machine + rhel 7.2
We have a couple of Linux Red Hat virtual machines running on top of the VMware ESXi cluster.
We aren't sure is vMotion configured or not.
Is it possible to identify if vMotion is configured or ...
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VM with Windows Server won't boot after restoring from ghettoVCB backup
I'm using popular the ghettoVCB.sh script to backup my virtual server, but I have a problem with restoring virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 (VM with all flavor of Linux OS do not suffer ...
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Terraform, specifying location for vms on datastore
I was wondering as I couldn't find it in the documentation or I've missed it a lot.
I am using Terraform 0.12.9 with newest vsphere provider. My goal is to do a clone from a template and it basically ...
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How to detect VMware snapshot presence from within VM?
I want to perform Linux fstrim or Windows degrag retrim on a file system within VM to shrink VMware vSphere thin disks. However this should be performed only if there is no snapshot present as fstrim-...
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Script to storage vmotion from one datastore to another
Ive done some searching and could not find what I'm looking for so I am making a post: I would like to storage vMotion from one datastore to another, 10 at a time, and output the vm's migrated to a ...
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VMware copy cloned image to external hard drive
I am running into difficulties trying to copy a cloned VM in VCenter to an external hard drive.
Currently I am running vSphere client version 6.0.0 build 2502222, and vCenter Server version 6 build ...
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ZFS volume is not accessible
I'm using FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1. The server is used for storing VMWare vSphere virtual machines. There are two zvols: Lab and Edari. Both of them belong to the same pool, SSD-Storage.
The problem is that ...
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The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure
my vm backup job is failing with
**Job Error**: Failed to create snapshot for LUN NL_Raid6b Details: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.
**VM Error**: Failed ...
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How to configure Kubernetes with multiply NIC / VLAN on vSphere?
Playing with provisioning of Kubernetes cluster on vSphere using Kubespray and Terraform to automate deployment process (no problems with that).
My goal is to have ability to connect Pods to ...
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Why isn't balloon memory swapped, and how does ESXi know its location?
I have two questions regarding the ESXi balloon driver.
When the driver inflates on a VM, what keeps the guest OS from page file swapping the ballooned memory?
How does ESXi know which host physical ...
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VMware volume has fluctuating capacity
We are running four ESXi 6.5.0 VMware hosts, managed vie vSphere web client.
Recently, I added a new VMFS 6 volume in our storage, originally created with 2TB capacity, but quickly extended to 3TB ...
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Vmware vCenter Server Appliance: [Errno 28] No space left on device and can't enable shell. How to access system and/or enable shell access
I'm running a Vmware vCenter Server Appliance virtual machine that has locked me out of the shell.
The web interface has failed.
I can view the main screen but when I press F2 to get into the ...
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VMWare ESXI extremely high write latency
I hope you can help.. this is more of a sanity check just to verify my line of thinking at the minute. We've got a VMWare cluster setup that is networked to a high performance SAN. Everything performs ...
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ESXi Fault Tolerance Network Issue - FT traffic flooded?
I've setup a 2-nodes vSphere cluster. Each node is equipped with 4x1GE NICs. I have set a single vSwitch in each node, using all 4 vmnics as adapters and the following ports:
Management: vmKernel ...
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User/Group Auto Add when joining Domain
I've been in the process of joining our ESXi hosts to the AD domain and have noticed that the group "ESX_Admin" is automatically being added to Permissions on the ESXi hosts.
I have found the ...
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How to create IPv6 port group on vSwitch VMware ESXi 6.5
I was wondering how to create a IPv6 port group on a vSwitch in ESXi 6.5.
I have IPV6 enabled on all the hosts in my cluster, and when creating the port group it does not ask me if it is IPv6 or not. ...
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VMware non Persistent Disk
I Have some vms with non persistent disk.
Changes made to the disk are discarded after shutdown or reset the vm.
Is it possible to discard changes to disk after guest restart or guest shut down?
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ESXI 6.7: How to only have the management interface accessable on the host machine's LAN?
I have an ESXI 6.7 Host and 6 Public IPs from my colocation provider. Currently one of the IPs is being used to access the web client for ESXI and another is used to access the pfSense router that is ...
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How to Identify Disk Location on ESXi?
I have a VMWare ESXi 6.5 installed, and this ESXi is managed by vCenter. I recently need to replace some HDD to SSD, but I am not sure how to "blink" the disk so that I can pull it out safely.
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Vsphere client 6.0.0.9103891: Index out of range when deploying OVA
I'm starting to go crazy. Every time I try to deploy an OVA, my vSphere client crashes with an index out of range error. Others have successfully deployed the same OVA to the same ESX server with the ...
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Credentials of Administrator on VMware Cloud vSphere [closed]
I got the Default vCenter Credentials which is Default vCenter User Account
[email protected].
There are a lot of configurations which only an Administrator could do such turn ON/OFF vSphere HA. ...
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Issues booting VM
I am new to Linux, and have inherited a VM that is running centos. It sat idle for about 2 years with no-one touching it. I have run some updates to get the system up-to-date. I think I accidentally ...
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Deploying ESXi onto Hyper-V on AWS?
Can I run ESXi onto Hyper-V which is deployed on AWS?
Hyper-V can be deployed on AWS Running Hyper-V on Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
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Once Hyper-V is ready, ESXi can be installed according to ...
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Run ESXi on AWS EC2?
Can I run ESXi on EC2?
If so, any suggestion how to do that.
I would like to launch an ESXi machine and host routing VNFs in it on AWS.
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?
I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot.
From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related ...
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How to login to individual ESXi systems via ssh given vSphere admin access?
Given full admin access to vSphere, how can I translate that access to the ability to login via SSH to invididual ESXi systems to do some low level maintenance? Can I log in with the vSphere ...
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VMWare device mapper size smaller than parition size
I am trying to understand what is going on with my VMWare instance. I have had 50GB partition that I extended to 150GB and resized the partition. However, the partition still shows that it only has ...
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PCI at NVIDA Tesla P 100 in shared pass through mode is disabled
I have successfully completed NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with VMware ESXI 6.7.While trying to add PCI devices in the VM, the option to choose PCI devices is shown as in ...
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Vcenter + can we update memory online in spite Hot-add feature is disabled ,
Hot-add feature is disable in the vcenter therefore we need to shutdown the Linux OS in order to update the memory.
Since we cant shutdown the linux machine, and we must increase the memory of the ...
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Failed to initialize NVML: Unknown Error - Not able to complete NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with Vmware ESXI 6.7
I am unable to setup the NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with Vmware ESXI 6.7 on DELL EMC poweredge R740.
When I am trying to run nvidia-smi command I am getting following ...
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How to deploy .VMX to vCenter using Linux CLI tool?
I need to deploy a .VMX VM to vCenter using a Linux CLI tool.
For a long time, I have been using ovftool for this purpose, which worked well enough. However, recently I found that ovftool is ...
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vCenter Server crashed after improper removal of VMware tools on a client
We administer a small business network (3 Dell servers and about 20 Windows workstations). The installation is mostly Microsoft based Active Directory, Windows Servers, WSUS, etc.
All machines and ...
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VMWare Vsphere can't ping the SMTP Server
On the VM i can ping the smtp.gmail.com just fine, however when I'm using the Putty to connect to my vsphere it's always "Destination Host Unreachable". Google the issue and found a good article to ...
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How does the vCPU align with the CPU? (VM with more cores than the CPU has)
I have a VM running on vSphere 6.5.which has 24 vCPU's.
The server has two physical cpu's (xeon e5-2699 v4) which have 22 cores and hyperthreading is enabled.
How exactly are the vcpu's running on ...
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extend c: drive grey out
I have one VM running windows server 2008 r2 in vsphere 6.0. I changed drive quota in VM setting and I found one unallocated partition in disk manager. But disk manager won't let me extend the c: ...
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vSphere Web login not working / root looking possible
I have a little problem with a vSphere Server and I hope you guys could help me. When I tried to login as root on the server directly with keyboard, mouse and display it is working. But when I tried ...
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Remove Disks to confirm they are unused
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One of my linux servers (running on vmware) had gone through a series of disk replacements, and resizing. Unfortunately I was not involved in these changes. I am now looking at the server ...
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Defining 2014 SQL Backup and Restore Process
I have an Vmware vsphere environment with 3 vlans, Prod,Test and Dev. The client has 6 SQL servers within the production environment and wants to make full,differential and transactional log backups.
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