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Co-locate VM on a single/set of core(s)
I'm trying to understand certain impacts of virtualisation on performance by running benchmarks on VMs. I'm considering ESXi and Hyper-V as the hypervisors. I wanted to know if I can pin a VM to a ...
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ESXi 5.5 (free) to Hyper-V Black Screen-Cursor Blinking
Recently came into an environment where Free ESXi 5.5 is being used. I'm on a project to move VM's in ESXi to Hyper-V, however, I'm running into a problem regardless of what tool I use to import to ...
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Centos8: VM broken after moving from VMware ESXi to HyperV [closed]
I have moved Centos8 VM from ESXi to the HyperV 2019 core (hdd only)
It seems the disks or partitions IDs are broken so it's not staring up properly using default/first Grub menu option.
But it runs ...
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Backup a vmware machine daily and eventually restore it in hyper-v [closed]
I have a vmware ESXI with 4 vm inside, in the same facility I have a Windows 2019 standard server big enough to host the vm and the backup. Can I have a daily backup from vmware esxi inside the ...
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RHel 7 converted with qemu-img fails with dracut error at boot
I'll have to migrate several computers from Hyper-V to VmWare. I would like to use qemu-img because is command line and I could create an script.
Conversion works fine for Windows but is not working ...
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Hyper-V Connecting to host to VM w/ External Switch
TL;DR - the short question:
Can a host be configured to be able connect to a VM being hosted by the host itself, when the VM is set to use an External Virtual Switch with the Allow management ...
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ubuntu server 18.04 setup restarts after entering manual ip (vmware, hyper-v)
Can't find any reference to this problem, so i'm asking here.
I am trying to install an Ubuntu server 18.04 in VmWare (same thing happens on hyper-v). When I configure the static IP, setup restarts ...
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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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Nested Hypervisor - Hyper-V 2016 inside ESXi 6.5
I have a VMware ESXi 6.5 running on Dell Precision Rack 7910
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2643 v3 @ 3.40GHZ
I'm planning to nest install Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 Standalone (free version).
How do I go ...
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dmidecode uuid is different from Vmware esxi server
I have a query related to dmidecode uuid. In our product we are using dmidecode uuid try to match with ESXI vmware uuid of the same node.
ESXI is providing the UUID as first three fields as big ...
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VMWare converter: Can it do static conversion from Hyper-V or does it require connection to ESX?
We have a Hyper-V host and are moving the VMs to VMWare ESX.
VMWare Converter seems to be the only tool available. (I thought Hyper-V could save/export to OVF, but I seem to be mistaken.)
The ...
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Convert between hypervisor types
My company needs to automate the creation of new VM's with our proprietary solution, for this we would like to ship the product either on a a standardized format (OVA seems to be the only "standard" ...
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Recommended Duplex setting for physical NIC when doing Virtualization
What is the recommended Duplex setting for a physical network adapter when using virtualization? Let's assume that the physical network switch ports are configured for auto negotiation and support ...
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Can hyper-V and esxi have a common publishing / orchestrating system?
I have a requirement , customer is using hyper-v as well esxi, but they want the template management and provisioning of the virtual machines or disk to be done using a single system. Can it be done? ...
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Hyper-V VMs can't reach external network [closed]
I run a small ESXi Homelab and all of my VMs run on the 10.0.0.x subnet, and this is bridged out to a switch where my local PC is connected to - so I have access to everything on the 10.0.0.x subnet.
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Convert VMs from Hyper-V to VMWare ESXi
I'm having a nightmare with migrating some VMs from Hyper-V to ESXi.
The Hyper-V Server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the ESXi version is 6.5.
I've tried using the VMWare vCenter Converter ...
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how to run hyper-v like vmware
I have been challenged to configure and setup a HA Hyper-v Cluster that will never go down.
I have mainly only used VMWare for clustering and HA.
My question how can i run a Hyper-V cluster like a ...
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Virtualized infrastructure with R630s [closed]
I was recently assigned to a new project where I will have to build new virtualized infrastructure using Dell R630 hosts with 32GB RAM, E5 2600 v4 CPU and 12 10k SAS drives in each. I also have 2DP ...
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Processing power and core allocation in VM
I would like to know how if it is possible to harvest the full power of a CPU by allocating a lesser number of cores compared to the physical number of cores in a virtual machine.
What I mean is:
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Running All Microsoft products vs VMWare/backup/AV for small network
Recently a company that I work for is getting IT advice to upgrade their infrastructure (for approximately 30 on prem users). We are a not-for-profit and get deep discounts on many products (...
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Restore and Backup Hypervisors
So, I have two hypervisors (Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi) running on bare metal in two diferent machines.
What I need is to make an installation and configuration in two other machines with the same exact ...
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Free hypervisor for small configuration
I'm building a server for virtualization for a non profit organization. I was planning on employing VMware ESXI free but I'm second guessing my plan because newer ESXI don't seem to be well supported ...
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Convert Vmware version 2 virtual machine to Hyper-V---General Road map needed
I have taken over the management an old VMware host. I believe it is VMWare version 2 by what it says in the Control Panel/Programs of the Windows 2008 R2 server. I would like to convert/migrate one ...
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70+ VM migration from ESXi 4.1 free to Hyper-V [closed]
We have 70+ VM's (all Windows except Elastix PBX and 1 more LAMP server) on 2 hosts running free ESXi 4.1, backed by a Dell PowerVault MD3220i SAN. I am adding another host and another PowerVault MD ...
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Converting VMware VMs to Hyper-V
Our company is looking to try out Hyper-V as a server virtualization solution so I am looking for the most efficient way to test everything out safely. My plan is to make a snapshot backup of each of ...
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Is the gang scheduling employed by VMware a serious drawback?
I was reading some technet articles as well as this one regarding the differences between the way VMware and hyper v doing CPU scheduling.
I was wondering if I could get some objective info on this. ...
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Virtualisation suitable for packet-intensive application?
We have a custom and VERY bespoke application that runs on a Windows 2008R2 server. It's primary function is to connect to many tens of thousands of IP addresses as quickly as possible and interrogate ...
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When deploying a single server on new hardware, do you virtualize it or not?
There are a few questions that I've found on ServerFault that hint around this topic, and while it may be somewhat opinion-based, I think it can fall into that "good subjective" category based on the ...
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Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware ESXi VMs (Not with Live Migration)
I am facing a small issue for converting my Hyper-V VMs to ESXi VMs.
I have 1 physical server. On that physical server I have Windows Server 2008 installed with the Hyper-V role. My 1 Hyper-V host ...
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Hyper-V 'standalone' (on baremetal) with RHEL/CentOS 6.x guest VM
My exposure to virtualization has been limited to Virtualbox &VMware-player on Desktops, and to VMWare ESXi &KVM on Linux server, and exclusively with Linux guests (RHEL/CentOS). So please ...
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How to setup virtualization for our Servers / WorkStations? [closed]
I need to setup the virtual environment for our Servers and around 10 workstations. At present, we are connecting to the servers or workstations through Windows Remote Desktop Connection ( mstsc ) on ...
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Best way to convert an esxi 3.1 virtual machine to hyper-v 2012 r2?
I know system center can migrate from esxi 4.0 to hyper-v, but I have esxi 3.1 virtual machines to convert.
Anyone faced the same problem?
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Converting a Hyper-V VM with a vhdx drive to a VMWARE format
We've been looking at converting virtual machines from Hyper-V 2012 which use .VHDX drives into a vmware-compatible format.
So far, we haven't found any tools that can actually do this. Any ideas ?
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Manage virtual machines of different virtualization engines uniformly [closed]
I have several VMs hosted by VMware and several VMs hosted by HyperV. I'm wondering if there is any application/library/API that allows to treat these VMs in a uniform way not depending on ...
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is it possible to clone or export a VM from a hyper-v cloud? [closed]
I would like to know how I can get a clone of a machine that we have in our cloud?
We are running hyper-v and are using microsoft virtual machine manager console as a client to manage our virtual ...
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What are the benefits of "enterprise-level" virtualization?
For a company with modest virtualization needs - VirtualBox is currently doing fine at hosting a few light servers - what would some of the benefits be of moving to a more robust platform?
I'm ...
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VMWare or Hyper-V Maximum Guest (30TB) Storage
Between MS Hyper-V 2012 and VMWare Esxi-5.1 (Free version), which one would give/allow me Maximum local storage? In other words I would like to create a Virtual Host which will host may be couple of ...
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VMWare vSphere ESXi vs Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 in a mixed environment [closed]
I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual ...
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SBS 2003 to Server 2012 -architecture
I have an SBS 2003 box that is being "refreshed" (replaced). I need to replicate core functionality without the SBS package (due to MS dropping it). Key functionality is:
Proxied Remote Desktop
AD
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Moving system from ESXi to Hyper-V
I have a problem with moving a system from ESXi to Hyper-V.
The system on ESXi has got 100GB allocated space on HDD. The system is made from an image file(size about 6GB). The machine hosting Hyper-...
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Installing ESXi/ Hyper-V using NIC supporting iBFT
We can install ESXi to a iSCSI target if we have NIC that supports iBFT. But what I am trying to see is if we can install ESXi by booting off an iSCSI target which is a mounted ISO? How about Hyper-V ?...
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Why won't a Hyper-V VM boot after being converted from VMWare ESXi?
I was using 5nine's converter to move over a VM from VMWare ESXi 4.x to Hyper-V. However, 5nine failed to create the new machine, although it did successfully move all the drives over...so I tried ...
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Virtualizing Linux + Windows Server
I have a need to virtualize two Linux + one Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs onto a single DL360.
I understand my options to be:
Run ESXi and create two Linux and one Windows virtual machine
Install ...
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Advice: Configuring Old PowerEdge 2950 For Virtualization [closed]
I'm picking up the following old server from geeks for a satellite office:
Two (2) Intel Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz quad-core processors
16 GB DDR2 PC2-5300 Fully Buffered (FB DIMM) SDRAM
12 MB L2 cache, ...
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VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong tests?
We are looking into virtualizing our C++ Build server(s).
The main reason being that our current toolchain that we use in addition to the build itself in Visual Studio only runs properly on Windows ...
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Install ESXi 4.1 on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-v [closed]
Can I install ESXi on WIndows Server 2008 with Hyper-V? It stucks as in the printscreen:
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Migrating from exported Hyper-V VM to ESXi
Is is possible to directly migrate an exported Hyper-V virtual machine to ESXi?
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How to move Ubuntu Server guest on ESXi to Hyper-V?
We desperately need a solution to move a server fro ESXI to Hyper-V. Server guest is Ubuntu intranet server.
We have tried a few options but this is a critical server and SCVMM is just not ...
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ESXi vs Hyper-V performance with multiple VM's
We are building a server to run our web site, where we will have following apps running
1. ASP.NET Web Application
2. ASP.NET WCF middletier
3. SQL Server 2008
4. Lucene + Solr + Tomcat
5. MongoDB
6. ...
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Other than KVM, does any hypervisor support live migration between AMD and Intel servers?
I've always thought that live migration between AMD and Intel servers is not supported in any of the major hypervisors. However, today I come across the KVM FAQ which says that KVM supports that. In ...
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