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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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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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Using VMware ovftool to check existence of virtual machine (VM)?
What is the canonical way to use VMware's ovftool to query to see if a VM exists or not?
If I run this command:
ovftool vi://username@password@myvsphere/mydatacenter/vm/myvm
I might get this response:...
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Recovery VM VMware vSphere [closed]
Please, tell me how to recreate correctly Virtual Machine, if I have following files on my hard drive:
X.nvram
X.vmdk
X_1.vmdk
X-flat.vmdk
X_1-flat.vmdk.
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How does terraform ssh to virtual machines in vsphere if It didn't set a password before
I am trying to deploy a linux VM on Vmware ESXI using terrafom but I don't understand how in the documentation they use a given username and password to ssh to a machine without having set this ...
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Esxi data stores showing as guid in shell, but not accessible in vSphere client
I tried installing an update to a 6.0 host and it appears to have failed. After rebooting, 2 of the NFS data stores are inactive (unmounted). Right-clicking them only offers to unmount. When I ssh ...
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how to find ESX/ESXi machine manufacturer and model from virtual machine
Using command prompt when running this : 'systeminfo | find "System"` in a physical machine, it's giving the Manufacturer and model,
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: ...
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Vmware Esxi Vcenter 6.7 Fault tolerance for VM is greyed out
I'm very new to VMWARE. I'm trying to do fault tolerance for one of my VMS on Vcenter 6.7 but the Fault tolerance tab is greyed out for some reason. I have to 2 esxi servers in my vcenter and both are ...
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Host resources management - vSphere Client [duplicate]
I'm using vSphere Client version 6.7, having 2 hosts in a cluster.
i want to know before i'm entering one host into maintenance mode, if the other host will be able to hold both servers resources.
yes ...
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How to migrate physical server to VMware VM [closed]
Using vSphere Client version 6.7, I need to create a new VM that will replace physical server.
I'm not sure where to start, I mean, should I create a new virtual switch? Newtork Interface Card? what ...
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Hot Add feature + how enable the feature without power off the Linux machine
We have a VM Linux server, where the hot add feature is disabled in VCenter.
For now, we can't power off the machine, and the feature is disable, so we can't add memory resources to the machine.
So do ...
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Strategies to compare between 2 virtual machines
I am writing a set of codes with Ansible/Terraform to deploy the same VM which I am already deploying using Bash scripts that interact with VMWare (vSphere 5.5) API.
I have searched around how I ...
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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 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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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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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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Sending ESXi Snapshot to 3rd party forensics team
We recently had a couple security events occur and we immediately took a snapshot of the VM as we wanted to preserve as much of the data as we could. Now we would like to send it to a 3rd party ...
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Can't migrate VM in vSphere [closed]
Our Vsphere interface looks like this:
So what we want to do now is above the servers folder there is a virtual machine called vvc3 (this is the VMware vCenter server appliance)
We want to move that ...
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Issue with resizing disk on VMware VSphere
I have expanded a virtual disk for a Centos 7 virtual machine to 100 GB size.
Then I used Gparted to add the unallocated 30GB to the /dev/sda1
partition.
But when I execute df -h the new size of ...
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VMware Windows 10 VM goes black
I have a Windows 10 VM where i wanted to reinstall VMware Tools. I removed it, restarted and then reinstalled it. After that the screen went black. I have tried things like:
Restarting the VM
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ESXi 6.0 DCUI frozen, host is in not responding state
One of the ESXi hosts lost connection and entered an unresponsive state, and all of its VMs are disconnected in vSphere. However, I can RDP into the VMs, and can ping them and the host as well. SSH is ...
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How to share a storage between multiple VMs using VMWare ESXi and VSphere?
I have two application servers running in a active/active cluster within a VMWare ESXi (5.5, upgrade to 6.5 in near future) virtual host running VSphere. The application needs a shared, high ...
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Advantage of installing VMs on dedicated vs native?
If I were to buy a dedicated server, what is the advantage of installing 4 VMs for 4 services (mail, Web, Database, Cache/other) vs installing everything on the dedicated server?
Or is it more for ...
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VMware vCenter - Is rebooting gonna break the cluster
We are currently working on updating our infrastructure to the latest versions of everything but now we are stuck with vCenter.
I would like to know if it is possible to update the VM appliance then ...
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Create VM from old HDD containing ubuntu
I used to have a standalone server running Ubuntu Server on a 1TB HDD which is now removed and replaced with an ESXI host OS.
What I would like to do is to turn the old HDD with Ubuntu Server on into ...
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Migrating VMWare vCenter Server 5.0.0.29542 to Another VM Win 2008 R2
I'm looking to migrate VMWare vCenter Server 5.0.0.29542 from a win 2008 R2 server called W1 to another win 2008 R2 server called W2. Reason being we're looking to decommission W1. W1 is the vcenter ...
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Automatically add client USB drive to VMWare Linux virtual machine
I have this problem with adding USB devices to VMWare ESX host Linux VM in a client-level.
I know how to add device to VM by connecting USB to host or using client device by using VSphere.
But how ...
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Finding Unused/Inactive VMs (that aren't domain joined?)
Recently we've been given the task of identifying inactive VM's so that we can save on resources + licensing. Usually, for domain joined VM's, it would be easier for me to find out if any domain user ...
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Is there any relation between VMware VMotion and VMFS?
I was studying VMware's VSphere suite, cloud computing virtualization platform.
I could not figure out whether there's any relation between VMotion and VMFS in the suite?
VMotion enables the live ...
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Networking issues after cloning Windows Server 2008 R2 to isolated environment
I am in the process of creating an isolated replica of my production environment for testing in VMware vSphere 6.5. In vCenter, I setup a new vSwitch with no physical adapters for the development ...
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vSphere 5.5 Data Storage Recovery from deleted VM
I have deleted one of my VMs but without detaching or making a snapshot of the storage attached to it. Is it possible to assign the same storage to a new VM? I was running CentOS 7 on the old one. In ...
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No Internet Access in VMWare VM and specific VLAN
I have a VM that was in a VLAN (3) and has a static IP address. Yesterday i could not connect via rdp and found out that it lost its connection. Things I tried first:
Disable / Enable Network Adapter
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VMkernel not listed in vsphere machine creation wizard
I Installed fresh ESXi 6 on my server. I connected to my server using vSphere client and add "VM Network" and "VMkernel" on vSwitch0.
I assigned valid IP address on VMkernel and want to attach it to ...
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How to run cmd from PowerCLI Invoke-VMScript starting with an open console
I'm trying to run a exe file in a remote machine from PowerCLI which is launching couple of cmd's.
With this command:
$executeCommand = "call D:\MyFile.exe Arg1 Arg2";
Invoke-VMScript -VM $vmName -...
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Can we install and run VMware ESXi on a parallels server? [closed]
I would like to install parallels and then install ESxi on top of it to get the distributed storage, Is this possible??. Is there any free tools available in VMWare o do the same?. I'm a newbie, need ...
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copy live vmdk disk
Fairly new with vmware. We need to copy 2 vmdk files from the data store to a USB storage (Mounted on a VM on the host in question). The vmdk files are not the vmdks on which the OS resides; they ...
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VMWare Windows 7 Virtual Machine Can Access Network But Can't Be Pinged Or RDT
Why can't I access my VMWare Windows 7 guest VM via ping or through Remote Desktop after the hardware host lost power and shut down? The VM appears to boot normally and I can log in normally through ...
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Creating a separate network without physical adapters on ESXi
I have an VM running on ESXi that I need to isolate from the network but still have access to the outside world. I have looked into creating a new virtual switch but we dont have any spare physical ...
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datastore and network performance issues in ESXI
I am having a serious problem with a server running ESXi 6.0
Everything worked great last week. Now out of no where the whole thing is basically useless. I am getting datastore latency of up to 51 ...
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Partial clone of virtual machine in VMware
I have to clone a virtual machine hosted by a VMware ESXi server. In particular, the virtual machine has three disks: is there a way to clone the machine not entirely? In other words, I don't care ...
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VMware VSphere VM keeps getting ping and rdp unresponsive
I'm experiencing a very odd behavior on a win8.1 VM I have. After a while, it is becoming ping and RDP unresponsive, however this is still up and running in vSphere.
To go around this issue, all I ...
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Slow conversion of VDMK to VDI - Virtual Machine Converter 3.1
So I am trying to migrate from VMWare to Hyper-V and I'm using the MS tool Virtual Machine Converter 3.1.
However, the VM conversions are going super slow. Like 2MB a second which means that a 300GB ...
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Can't increase the virtual drive size any more?
Please see attached picture, This is exchange server and I have 3 virtual hard drives, each of them can't not be increased any more, any idea why and how to fix this?
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linux + how to verify VM defintion disk after redhat installation
We have couple of Linux servers all them are VM red hat Linux ( and they created by the Vsphere client , )
I want to know how we can capture on the Linux OS the following
1.Thick provision lazy ...
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How to upgrade multiple virtual machine operating system in VMware vSphere in a data center?
In our data center we have 4 physical server having ESXi 5.5 installed on them. On each physical server there are multiple virtual machines running on them and all of these virtual machines are ...
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Is it possible to use a ftps server (NAS) to use as a virtual hard drive in VMware vSphere Hypervisor, if so, how? [closed]
The title explains most of it. Basically, let's say I have a NAS(I don't). I want to allow another computer to use it as storage for a virtual machine on VMware vSphere Hypervisor. The software on the ...
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VMWare Ubuntu 14.04 not reading ram
I have a vm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Everything was working fine. I allocated some more ram to it but VSphere is now saying it doesnt have any of that ram now. Vmware says the ram is unaccessed per ...
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VMware ESXi 5.5 black screen on all guests after services.sh restart
I'm using VMware ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with a eight Windows guests. Sometimes I can't connect anymore via vSphere Client to the host.
A restart of the hostd and vpxa doesn't resolve the problem. So, I ...
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