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How to mount an old disk back to the RHEL VM without reboot?
Background
I have added a second hard disk (500GB) to this RHEL VM. And then format, created volume group (storerhel2) and logical volume (store) for it.
I then mounted it to a newly created directory ...
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How to find out why a specific File is locked on my ESXI Server
I have a broken VM on my ESXi Server, after looking for the reason the VM isn't starting I found 4 files locked for some reason even when the VM isn't powered on. When I try to use "...
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VMware ESXi 7.0 U3j Can't login via root after a few minutes
I can't login via root user at the moment . If I do a hardware reboot on the server , the problem is solved and I can login for just once before I'm locked out again after like 5 minutes .
I have read ...
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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 ...
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Error promoting Windows Server 2022 to Domain Controller
I have a virtual Windows 2022 Server in a VMWare ESXi environment, and a WS2019 virtual in another host, which is my Active Directory Domain Controller. I've been trying to promote the WS2022 to ...
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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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How to set a time zone for ESXi VM?
I have several VMs that are heavily dependent on local time to start some services, and I want them to instantly have exact time at the moment of them starting. The issue is, there are both Windows ...
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How to assign full processor(cores/sockets) to a VM? VMware
Trying to use VMware. Using Ryzen 9 5950X(16 cores / 32 threads).
The question is how to assign all cores/threads properly to a VM? Were trying different configurations of "Number of Processors&...
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Changing VM network without restart the virtual machine in ESXi 7
I want to change my VM network from CLI.
I managed to do this by editing the .vmx file, but I need to Restart my VM for the changes that will take place.
I tried:
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off #id
change ...
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How to increase available disk space in thinly provisioned VM?
I created a thinly provisioned CentOS VM on an ESXi instance. To use nice numbers, let's say I configured a max disk space of 500 GB. After installing the OS and booting, when I open File Manager and ...
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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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Windows Server 2012 Cannot Read Disk As Guest OS In ESXI
I'm running into a frustrating issue with Windows Server 2012 and VMWare ESXI.
I'm running ESXI version 6.5 (old I know, but this is not the issue) with a VM running Windows Server 2012. On this VM, I ...
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How do I copy/paste to a VM console window in the VMware ESXi HTML interface?
I have an Ubuntu VM in an instance of VMware ESXi 6.7.0. I am using Chrome to access the VM console in the HTML interface of VMware ESXi. (I do not have SSH access to the VM.)
I would like to copy/...
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Adding a new VLAN to an existing VMware cluster
I need to add an additional VLAN to an existing VWware 6.7 cluster. There is an existing VDS available, however I am not sure what the proper process would be to accomplish that.
I understand the ...
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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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How to properly setup VMs for testing (personal test) [closed]
So both of my testing VMs are on the same laptop and both of them are running Windows Server 2019 and both of them are on the same SSD.
Basically, I need to test performance when the SQL database is ...
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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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With a vsan issue where you cant access vcenter, should you ssh into all machines and power them down prior to restarting esxi host?
So I have a vsan cluster, 4 esxi hosts all contributing to vsan as well as compute. Vcenter lives in esxi01. Esxi01 is not responding and I cannot open the web gui.
I can still ping every vm and ssh ...
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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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Can you add a virtual disk to a VM but present it as an external disk
I need to temporarily add a disk to a VM (esxi 6.5 - windows or linux), but I don't want it to appear as physically attached (internal) storage, I want it to appear as though I've plugged an external ...
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How to get the sound on a VMware ESXi virtual machine?
We are using VCSA 6.7 with five ESXi 6.7 hosts and multiple VMs are are running inside the ESXi hosts.
I have no sound card installed on the ESXi hosts but we need sound from VMs. Can we do that?
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How to run several ESXi VMs that must have the same MAC address?
For various reasons I have to run a few (≈6) clones of the same virtual machine at my lab ESXi server at work and unfortunately the MAC address must not be changed between the clones. Changing IP is ...
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Virtual machine disk I/O latency spikes
Since past few days I have strange I/O spikes in one virtual machine.
Its
2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 16 01:56:35 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server ...
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resolve VMs to subdomain
I have a dedicated server which has only one public IP address (eg.10.20.30.40) and a domain dedicated to it (example.com)
on that server I have lots of virtual machines hosted on an ESXi Hypervisor, ...
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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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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 ...
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Unable to remove invalid VM
After adding an USB controller to a running VM, the VM crashed. In vShpere the VM was marked as (invalid).
After some Googling I removed the VM from the inventory, tried to readd the VM, but the ...
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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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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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NTP Servers Not Syncing At Boot
Backstory: I have a couple of internal startum 1 NTP clocks with GPS receivers, and 2 public NTP servers that are virtualized on top of VMware ESXi which take time from the S1 clocks and distribute it....
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ESXi VM to Physical server on the same hardware
I have a Physical server running ESXi 6.0 with a single 64Tb Datastore, One of my VMs has grown to almost 50Tb on this host.
I think at this point the best approach is to convert the VM to take over ...
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Cannot increase disk space of a esxi VM
I wanted to increase the disk space of a VM in my VMware server esxi.
I deleted a snapshot that was in the VM, but I canceled this operation unintentionally.
Now, I can't see the snapshot in ...
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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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ESXi 6.7 Multiple Subnets
I'm new to VM's as I've always setup physical servers in the past. I have installed VMWARE ESXi 6.7 on my HP server and I've setup 2 VM's. One is for a SCADA system and the other is for a ...
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How can I make a local ISO on a Linux server available to a VMware ESXi/vCenter virtual guest via the virtual CD/DVD?
Current Method
In the past I've done this by copying the ISOs to a Windows desktop then using the vCenter client to upload the ISO to a temporary datastore location on the ESXi server, then using "...
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What factor impact network speed between VM significantly?
There is question about network between different server,but i got a different situation.
I have two VM in a server,and I tried to test maximum network speed between two VM.
OS : CentOS
VSwitch ...
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esxi - vm watchdog function / auto-restart failed vm
I am using ESXi 6.5 (free licence). Occasionally, one of my virtual servers (ubuntu 18.04) running on the esxi host freezes. Symptoms: the server is no longer accessible via http(s) or ssh and doesn't ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Clock drifts on virtual machine, nothing helps
I have very rapid time drifts on vmware.
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ESXi 6.7 any settings I make are disabled after reboot, also passthrough not working
Noticing none of the settings in an ESXi 6.7 installation are surviving reboot.
I created the USB with a stock installation ISO like always, downloaded from the VMWare website. Just used the USB key ...
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Can the number of CPU cores be reduced for a CentOS virtual machine?
Our VMware admins tell me that we can add additional virtual CPU cores to our VM's, but they tell me that we can't reduce the number of virtual CPU cores.
One recently stated, "CPU on the other hand ...
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starting Virtual Machine on ESXi Host 6.5 standalone host fails
I am having an issue with my iscsi-datastore. My Virtual Machines are making a backup on second HD connected to each Virtual machine.
This HDs are located on iscsi-datastore. In windows, Veeam does ...
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config settings for libguestfs to use software emulation
When I ran libguestfs-test-tool on an ESXI VM I got some errors which appear to get resolved when I use software emulation.
The man page for libguestfs says:
export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=...
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Allocated too much memory from VMware to windows MBR disk, how to remove
I'm a junior sysadmin and today, I have allocated too much memory to a disk on a windows server 2008 VM through vsphere.
In my srv2008 vm, I saw two disks of 2tb with the same letter (spanned layout)
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CPU performance counter not working in Windows 10 guest, VMWare ESXi host
CPU performance counters are not working inside my Windows 10 guest virtual machine. I run a bare metal VMWare ESXi (6.5) host.
As can be seen from the screen shot all other non-CPU performance ...
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