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Is it possible to connect two ESX host directly without physical switch?
Yes. If you have to connect only two interfaces, you can just run a single network cable between the two interfaces instead of connecting each interface to a switch. With recent network interfaces (...
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Anyone using VTL for backups?
Veeam can backup to iSCSI and SMB3 natively. I don't see any viable points in using VTL within your particular scenario. Just an opposite: by not implementing VTL layer you just remove one level of ...
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In ESX/ESXi, is it possible to ssh to the VM console?
I believe that you can approximate that functionality by enabling a serial console on the VM, then by choosing "Connect via Network". I'm not certain that you'll be able to access it via ssh (I've ...
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how to find ESX/ESXi machine manufacturer and model from virtual machine
There is no way to get the actual hardware information from within a VMware VM.
You can only get this information by querying the hypervisor directly.
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Updating ESXi, vSphere general questions
You should be able to find ESXi iso on the VMware website:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/downloads/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI70GA-DELLEMC&productId=974
You can easily upgrade your ESXi ...
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PowerCLI Move-VM Returns failure but vm still moves
My understanding of this issue is that in the implementation of Move-VM, PowerCLI runs an async task, gets the task and then runs Wait-Task on it.
If the operation is very fast, it will fail with ...
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Recover deleted VMware virtual disks, i.e. *.vmdk files
Deleting a VMDK file is a bit like removing physical hard drives from a server and throwing them away. Too bad.
Fortunately, this kind of thing is exactly what backups are for! Your best bet is to ...
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experience with using SS on Windows 2016 MSCS VMware Virtual machines
You can doesn't mean you should. For shared storage you can stick with shared virtual disks and NOT do any SDS within clustered production VMs: This only brings in an extra level of complexity.
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How to upload VMware esx VM to Azure without any base image?
There are a lot of options. I would agree the rebuilding OS in cloud from scratch would be preferable. Worth mentioning, I've tested StarWind V2V to convert my local VMs to Azure recently. Worked nice,...
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ESXi 7.X file permissions - how to buypass new security measures
I agree with the other contributions about not doing anything "inside" ESXi, but manage it remotely with the supported tools like PowerCLI.
However, I also want to help you with your ...
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Creating new datastore and VMFS
You are running 2 nested ESXi on top of your main ESXi server. Add a VMDK to each ESXi VM and then you will be able to create VMFS datastore. There are nested ESXi appliances, which can make ...
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Virtual Audio Cable not working on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have a windows server 2012 R2 X64 with Virtual Audio Cable (v 4.13) and use it by RDP fine.
In the settings RDP sessions to choose Global Resourses => Remote computer Sound => Leave at remote ...
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VMware - trigger alert when a VM moves to a particular datastore?
A good solution for this would be to use VMware's Storage Policy-Based Management with tags. There may be vendor specific capabilities that you could also take advantage of but as tags are vendor ...
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vSphere: performance impact when a large VM has more vCPU than cores on a single physical CPU?
This is a generally bad idea unless you can really justify the number of CPUs.
Please place the onus back on the provider. What do they recommend you do, based on the workload?
NUMA is less of an ...
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SSD hardware RAID as local VMWARE datastore
Yes, you should definitely use SSD’s in a hardware RAID since it is your production storage and it needs to be redundant because if you lose storage – you lose everything.
Depending on your workload ...
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esxi vmdk out of disk space
You need to either
Extend DataStore size (can be done online)
or
Storage vMotion some of the other VMs off this Data Store.
The ultimate goal is to free up space on the DataStore so you can ...
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esxi vmdk out of disk space
While I've not run in to that particular problem before you might try
Free up some space and try again, perhaps enough for the consolidate to work by
Delete some old log files. I see that you have ...
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Unable to connect to MKS: Could not locate vmware-authd executable
VMRC 10 defaults to only using TLS 1.2 and I know ESXi 4.1 does not like that (ESXi 5.5 is OK with it, but I'm not sure about ESXi 5.0). (VMRC 9 doesn't have this issue because it allows the older ...
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VSwitch confused with VMs in same subnet but on different VLANs
"In a multi-tenant virtualised LAN environment it is likely that
different customers will have VMs in the same subnet"
Only if incorrectly designed, built and secured, why on earth would anyone ...
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Building a VM on the ESX hosts own storage
Because then if your cluster has DRS and/or HA enabled then the VM can be vMotioned from host to host or restart on another host in the event of a host failure (or update even). If you use vSAN then ...
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Virtual socket vs core per socket Best practise
There is no difference at all. By VMWare's own admission (I tried googling for it but couldn't find it, although I know I've given this answer on this site before), that option exists so that you can ...
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Anyone using VTL for backups?
VTL is a viable option if your LT Drive cannot cope with speed. But a VTL must be embedded in a Target backup application to give you a serious benefit. I discovered Fujitsu CS800 as very appealing: ...
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How to extend a Linux PV partition online after virtual disk growth
My PV was not in a partition, but existed on /dev/sdb directly.
On Ubuntu 16.04.1 I was able to do the following to resize a volume from 1024GB to 1.4TB:
echo '1' > /sys/class/scsi_disk/32\:0\:1\:...
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ESX: Get VM uuid/name from within VM
Run dmidecode and grep for UUID.
# /usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep UUID
UUID: 56XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
This should be the same UUID assigned to the uuid.bios of the VM.
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How to rebuild double disk failure in IBM x3650 M3 raid 50
If both failed disks are from the same span you are screwed, as it means a dual failure in a RAID5 subarray.
If you don't have/can't restore from backups and the failed disks are not completely ...
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Reclaim space in HP 3Par SAN & VMware ESXi
Actually, compactcpg is the correct command to use in this case. The form you will want to use is compactcpg <CPG_name> or compactcpg <pattern>
The process itself is automatically run by ...
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Upgrading ESXi License from 5.5.0 Free to 6.5 Essentials
There's no option to upgrade entire versions of VMware ESXi without reboot.
Perhaps if you were in a clustered setup with shared storage, but for a standalone host, you MUST reboot.
For instance, ...
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VMware with 1gbs network interface with NFS in Netapp with 10gpbs and Control Flow
Flow control needs to be active on all host and switch ports to work.
The best solution would be to upgrade the host ports. With flow control active, you may experience head-of-line blocking when ...
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Best Practice Moving a Hard Drive from one VMWare ESX Guest to Another
Open Disk Management or Diskpart
Take needed disk offline
Open VM Settings in ESXi
Remove Disk from VM without deletion from datastore
Add existing disk to needed VM.
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