All Questions
Tagged with vmware-esxi ubuntu
72
questions
1
vote
1
answer
165
views
can't ping or nslookup outside the LAN
Ubuntu 18.04 cannot ping or nslookup outside the LAN.
When I do nslookup www.google.comit hangs for a while and returns ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reachedI cannot ping www.google.com ...
- 303
0
votes
0
answers
53
views
Shrinking ESXi volume to reclaim unallocated space
We have a number of VMs (VMware ESXi) running Ubuntu. As a result of the installation time 'feature' which only allocates half the amount of the requested space, we have a lot of wasted/unallocated ...
- 31
0
votes
0
answers
100
views
Ubuntu 22.04 error in virtual machine : net ads join -U gives error 'illegal instruction (core dumped)'
I am trying to join a Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 (running on VMware ESXi 7 hypervisor) to my domain.
All goes well untill the command 'net ads join -U admin-user'.
Then I get 'Illegal Instruction (core ...
- 1
0
votes
2
answers
879
views
Can't install an Ubuntu Desktop edition (20.04, 22.04, 22.10) in a VMWare virtual machine
I can't install a recent Ubuntu Desktop guest OS in my VMWare ESXI 7.0.0 (Build 16324942).
Each time I try, the installation process crashes on the "Where are you?" screen (when you have to ...
- 103
1
vote
0
answers
784
views
Cannot redirect Yubikey into VMWare Horizon VDI with Ubuntu OS
I am not able to redirect to Yubikey into the VMWare Horizon VDI. the guest OS is Ubuntu 20.04 I have install the vmware client & the required driver with the following command:
sudo ./...
- 111
0
votes
1
answer
98
views
Disk read metrics not showing for postgres activity
I've long noticed that ESXI wasn't showing disk READ activity for my Ubuntu Postgres database server. I figured maybe it was just a weird bug with ESXI, as it would show disk WRITE activity.
I decided ...
- 99
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Is there any specific command to check all running processes inside a specific VM on ESXi?
I have a list of VMs running on ESXi.
I have used vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms to get a list of VMs running and also
esxcli vm process list to get the World ID of VMs.
I would like to get inside the Ubuntu ...
- 1
1
vote
2
answers
232
views
Ubuntu 18.04 VM freezes and kills single ESXi when cloning disk
Alright so I got the basically the same situation as described here.
The differences are:
ESXi 6.7.0 fully patched
local SSDs and HDDs
The VM is running a common Nextcloud stack (MySQL, Apache2, ...
- 138
0
votes
0
answers
39
views
Recovered RAID10 after 2 disks failed but VMs unable to boot
Last week I had 2 ssd's fail on my RAID10 array of 4 ssd's. I managed to rebuild the RAID, however then a 3rd ssd failed so had to rebuild that - the end result was that it rebuilt all OK.
It is ...
0
votes
0
answers
185
views
High load average with low activity
This is a mail server which is running Apache2 and Postfix as services. It's been up for 135 days and nothing has been changed to the services since then. The usual load average was about 0.xx but it ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
589
views
Assign IPv4 address to Ubuntu OVA on ESXi
How can I get an IPv4 address for an Ubuntu 1904 VM on ESXI 6.7, deployed from the Ubuntu OVA?
I'm deploying the OVA using govc, and I've provided the below spec file. Of note are the IPProtocol, ...
0
votes
1
answer
538
views
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 ...
0
votes
2
answers
115
views
VMware physical host doesn't boot
I am using VMware ESXi 5.1.0 to manage my VMs.
I have lost root password of the physical host. So, I tried to reset forgotten root password of the physical host. After doing my search I found the ...
- 133
-3
votes
1
answer
505
views
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 ...
- 1,007
2
votes
1
answer
112
views
esxi 5.5 unable to detect previous hard disk
I have a 129GB SSD on HP Proliant DL380 G7 with ESXi 5.5 installed from a pen drive. The hard drive contains 2 virtual machines that contain a lot of work in them. I had to remove the drive as I am ...
2
votes
2
answers
3k
views
DHCP not sharing Internet access
I have several Virtual Machines in Vmware ESXi 6.5 with 2 Network Groups.
Created a DHCP Server Machine on CentOs with 2 networks interface.
1 / vm network from which it takes a network and has IP ...
- 23
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Setting a root password in an OVA and making it configurable
I have this VM and it is always created with a default root password say "RootPassword55".
Now, I'd like to configure it so that the user will have to provide a new password on initial login.
I'm ...
- 101
-3
votes
1
answer
111
views
ESXi license expired and broke my ubuntu install [closed]
I got my own ESXi server hosted at Hetzner, with some webpages etc.
I was unable to access the sites, so I went into the ESXi mangement panel and can see that all my VMs were offline and I got a ...
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
316
views
windows server 2012 remote connecting issue from ubuntu(rdesktop)
We are using windows server 2012 and we are connecting server by remote desktop service(RDS) from ubuntu client and windows client.
This servers hosted in VMware ESXi
Now we can able to connect server ...
- 21
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
fstab configuration for esxi datastore-based hard drive
I've got the following drives on my server
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 86.6M 1 loop /snap/core/4571
loop1 7:1 0 86.6M 1 loop /snap/core/4486
sda 8:0 ...
- 155
3
votes
2
answers
2k
views
constant packet loss in internal ESXI network
I am new to Vmware Esxi and im doing testing for an experiment with an Vmware ESXI 6.0.0 server. on the server there is two Ubuntu guest clients with one VMXNET3 each, both on the same Vswitch.
Upon ...
1
vote
1
answer
171
views
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" ...
- 1,201
-1
votes
1
answer
211
views
What is the os.uname prompt on ESXi [closed]
I want to check with a python script if my system runs on an ESXi but I have never worked with one. My script should only work on ESXi but I have no clue what the cli prompt would look like or how to ...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
46
views
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 ...
- 13
0
votes
0
answers
399
views
VMX downgrade using ovf manipulation
I have problem with ubuntu when downgrade VMX-13 on ESXi 6.5 to VMX-11 on ESXi 6.0
when the machine powered on, network card is up but 100% packet lost.
the convert process is :
Step 1 – edit the ...
- 13
0
votes
1
answer
8k
views
What is “uplink redundancy” in ESXi free web client?
Attempting to bride network between ESXi and my newly created Ubuntu vm. In Network settings in ESXi host client , it reads “This virtual switch has no uplink redundancy.” What is uplink redundancy? ...
1
vote
1
answer
680
views
pfSense DMZ VMware and Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
In a VMware environment I am having connectivity issues (no ping) between the gateway (pfSense DMZ) and Ubuntu server 16.04.1 LTS.
Pfsense is working fine from the LAN subnet 192.168.1.0/24 but not ...
- 11
0
votes
2
answers
270
views
GParted not able to dd Unallocted space to /dev/sda*
There is no way I can extend the current volume with the new allocated space that is available, and the locks can't be opened.
Edit: after de-activating it, it was possible to expand it. And I ...
- 101
1
vote
0
answers
754
views
CPU Affinity for Linux VM
I have a Ubuntu Linux VM running on VMWare, and I have changed the CPU affinity for multiple processes using the taskset command. The VM has 16 cores allocated to it, and so does the actual server ...
- 11
-1
votes
1
answer
976
views
Move Unallocated Space Between Disks
I am running Ubuntu's latest LTS.
In /dev/sda I have sda1 and sda2, both are using a couple hundreds of MiB with a couple of GiB allocated. So far so good.
In /dev/sdb I have just one partition, sdb1 ...
- 101
-4
votes
1
answer
587
views
Bare Metal Provisioning [closed]
For bare metal provisioning of:
VMWare ESXi
Ubuntu
CentOS
Are Ubuntu MAAS and Spacewalk the only Open Source options for bare metal provisioning or are there other non-proprietary options?
The ...
- 117
1
vote
1
answer
397
views
Reducing Linux LVM size
this server has an Ubuntu 10.10 LVM volume created out of three "thin provisioning" VMWare ESXi disks of 1.76tb each and one 700Gb "thick provisioning" disk.
Here's the space used according to pvs:
...
- 327
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
How generate 70-persistent-net.rules for esx?
I have 300+ VMs of ubuntu build on from one ova. On vm there are 5 network adapters. I need from inside vm rename them regarding to VMware ESX order.
For example naming in different scenarios:
...
- 205
8
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Checking if two virtual machines are running on the same host
Is there a way to see if several Virtual Machines are running on the same host? Specifically, I have three VMWare VMs (each running a Ubuntu Server 14.04) and I have tried to compare different pieces ...
- 183
3
votes
1
answer
331
views
Recommended version of vmtools for Ubuntu?
When I browse VMware's VMtools repository I see that they are up to date on CentOS, but not on (any version?) of Ubuntu.
http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.5latest/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/...
- 10.4k
0
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Possible to install vmware tools 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04?
According to this pdf, it should be possible to install vmware tools 5.5 for Ubuntu 5.5, but the kernel versions doesn't match for vmware-tools-esx-kmods-3.2.0-29-generic-pae and the latest Ubuntu ...
- 10.4k
-2
votes
2
answers
2k
views
My Ubuntu VM needs to connect to a proxy server [closed]
I have created an Ubuntu Server VM on my ESXi server that I access through the VMWare vSphere client. But whenever I try to connect to the internet, it won't work. It is because I am on a company ...
- 131
-1
votes
1
answer
73
views
VMWare, Debian or RPM based [closed]
I need some advice, I am installing a monitoring tool on a VMWare server, and I need ask a stupid question :p
Is a VMWare ESXi 5.1 server, Ubuntu or RPM based?
Thanks
- 131
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
How to restore Ubuntu server on a VMWare image after disk failure?
After a disk failure on a VMWare GSX I was able to start the raid with one disk and copy the VMWare image to my ESXi server. After repairing the image with
vmkfstools -x repair /vmfs/volumes/source/...
- 382
1
vote
3
answers
421
views
Time Synchronisation of Virtual Machines without connecting to the Internet
I have a setup of 8 VMWare VMs running across 4 EXSi hosts(IBM Blade Server). For some reasons I cannot connect these VMs or the EXSi hosts to the Internet or any other network. Now I want to ...
user169253
2
votes
1
answer
3k
views
NFS mount has stopped working on ESXi
We have had around 20 hosts connected to an NFS share running from an Ubuntu server. The other day they all lost connection. We have rebooted the NFS server to rule out any services going funny.
When ...
- 3,235
0
votes
1
answer
378
views
Small Datacenter Setup - vCenter and OpenVPN
I, as well as two other students, are creating curriculum for a new datacenter course at our university. We have 16 Sun servers that are several years old with decent specs (2x Dual-Core AMD Opterons ...
0
votes
1
answer
165
views
Diagnosing server load/slowness
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server that experienced severe problems today, for no apparent reason. Two of the services that it's running are apache2 and ssh, and during the period the server was ...
- 253
0
votes
1
answer
767
views
Ubuntu server P2V that is running software raid5
Here is my challenge: I have a physical production webserver running Ubuntu 10.04 with software raid 5 (mdadm) that I have to virtualize to an VM ESXi5.0 host while minimizing the down time (...
- 123
5
votes
1
answer
7k
views
Whats the cause of VMWare esxi Ubuntu very slow disk performance (3MB/s)?
Currently I am running Zentyal Server(Ubuntu) as Guest on a esxi 5 host on a Adaptec raid controller RAID 10 with Enterprise WD hard drives, 8 Core CPU and 8 Gb of ram (I know a bit overkill) to ...
- 91
0
votes
2
answers
151
views
VMWare NIC's on Virtual Machines
I'm running on esxi(which has 2 physical NIC intern -extern) 2 Ubuntu 12.04VM's each connected to internal NIC. How could I bridge theme to have internet on both of theme without to use for each one ...
- 357
7
votes
2
answers
18k
views
Can I safely increase the number of processors on a VM?
I have several Windows 7, CentOS, and Ubuntu virtual machines running within a VMWare ESXi server. To get better performance while building on them via Jenkins, I would like to increase their number ...
- 207
2
votes
2
answers
397
views
Crazy VM clock drift
This is taken from an Ubuntu 10.10 VM running on ESX5:
Nov 3 21:58:50 server1 ntpd[21169]: adjusting local clock by 31.187370s
Nov 3 22:02:36 server1 ntpd[21169]: adjusting local clock by 31....
- 3,235
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Flushing iptables broke my pipe, how can I save my instance?
I was setting up my iptables when I performed a iptables -F and my ssh pipe broke.
This is the last output of my session:
root@alfapaints:~# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt ...
- 821
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Ubuntu is very slow on esxi5 [closed]
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 32bit on Vmware esxi 5 update 1.
The virtual machine is: 2 core, 4 GB RAM, 64 MB VGA.
Still the vm is very very slow (with and without the vmware tools) . What could be ...
- 125