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Veeam replica timeout
I'm encountering an issue during a Veeam replication job, specifically a "Preparing replica VM Error." The error message indicates: "A connection attempt failed because the remote site ...
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ESXI RAID : add an extend to existing VMFS datastore
I noticed in ESXI (6.5) there is option to create something like software RAID, but it is called "Add an extent to existing VMFS datastore", does anybody have experience of what it does and ...
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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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Open/rescue large vmdk files with little ram and HDD memory
I have a vmdk file (approx. 800 GB), it contains many large media files. Unfortunately, the ESXI VM is filled to the last bit. The attempt of a subsequent enlargement was already some years ago, so ...
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Do i need vCenter Server for vGPU?
i have been digging around every corner of the internet and spoken to both vmware (who only spoke enough to tell me they can't talk to me) and dell, but i can't find the answer to a simple question: ...
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ESXi GPU Passthrough Black Screen
i have vsphere 8 set up, and am trying to get a horizon desktop deployed using PCoIP. It is a windows 10 desktop with an Nvidia 3080ti in passthrough. everything is working and the deployment ...
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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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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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Alternatives to vMotion for moving virtual machines to a different Datastore
The company i work for is running a small virtual environment and has several virtual servers on 2 different ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter, for reasons relating to backup verification i need to make ...
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Does configuring BIOS really solve ESXi CPU Contention?
There's alert coming up on our server saying CPU Contention even if we already isolate that VMguest from another high CPU consuming VMguest:
Alert Definition Name: Virtual Machine on a host with BIOS ...
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Public IP to VM in esxi
So I had proxmox installed but boss decided to install vmware esxi in ovh vps so this is the scenario. I have a server which has esxi and I have purchased a bunch of Ips from OVH since I want to have ...
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Providing Guest VM to connect to Internet through Host on ESXi with only one adapter
I am new to virtualized environment. I have a bare-metal server provided by a hosting company which has ESXi 6.5 running on it. It has only one physical adapter, one Management Network and one VM ...
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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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ESXi 7.X file permissions - how to buypass new security measures
Today i installed a new ESX 7.0 Hypervisor machine.
My initial goal was to get some RAID status reporting.
I created a python script that i wantet to run from a crontab job. This due to the fact that ...
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3-node vmware vsan cluster. One host failing to rejoin the vsan cluster
Ran into an interesting issue. So we have a 3-node vsan cluster (all three nodes contribute computer and storage). We can call these three nodes esxi01, esxi02, and esxi03. Users reported errors and ...
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VMware - cluster resources utilization
I have 2 hosts in a cluster (running vSphere Client version 6.7).
how can i be sure that when i want to enter one of them into maintenance mode, the other one would be able to hold all VM's resources?
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Proxmox for enterprise environment
I'm in a process of upgrading existing server infrastructure witch consists of couple of self-built servers running XEN.
For management reasons XEN is not ideal, because requires advance console ...
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How to prevent an ESXi VM from syncing the time zone setting from a VMware Horizon client PC
I have some VMs running on ESXi, and users connecting via Horizon. I have a "Global Time Policy" GPO which is working correctly, but when users connect to their VMs via Horizon from another time zone, ...
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Installing Dell R710 from Scratch
I am building a Dell R710 server from scratch. I am deploying a bootable USB on the internal usb port. The bootable usb contains esxi 6.x and I can't seem to configure the RAID controller from scratch....
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Installed 6.x ESXi on Dell R710 from bootable USB
I have a bootable USB plugged into the internal drive for ESXi, and when looking at the harddrive space, it only show the 32GBs on the usb. The question is, how do I use local server resources such as ...
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Installing ESXI on Dell PowerEdge 710
I'm trying to installing ESXI on my Dell PowerEdge 710 that has 6.6 BIOS version. I'm attempting to flash the software using the internal USB, and everytime it starts to install whether using BIOS or ...
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NUMA 1 not used on SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 on ESXi
We've got Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 running on Windows Server 2008 R2, virtualized on VMWare ESXi 6.7.0.
The server has 2 CPU sockets with 22 cores each.
The VM is allocated 8 sockets with 3 cores ...
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Optimze GPU performance of virtual server
In our company, we have used VMware server virtualization in order to divide a physical server into multiple unique and isolated virtual servers. One of those virtual servers (OS: Windows Server 2016) ...
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ESXi vmware tools recognises CentOS 7 as CentOS 6
I am using vmware Remote Console (VMRC) to access a virtual machine running CentOS 7 with the included open-vm-tools 10309 which are recognised by the ESXi-host.
I am able to shutdown or restart the ...
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vmware ESXi keyboard layout in webconsole screwed up
I'm using vmware ESXI 6.7 (also known as vSphere Hypervisor) on a 64-bit Dual Socket server (2x Xeon X5672, 16 GB RAM). I've got two guests running on it, both CentOS 7 machines (64-bit).
Problems ...
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Vmware ESXI one hard disk but 2 vmdk files
I have a virtual machine on Vmware ESXI,
I have currently a defined hard disk and the size of it is :1.5 TB
But when I check the Datastore, there are 2 VMDK files which one of them (the main file of ...
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Hardware for virtualization [duplicate]
I need to choose appropriate hardware for virtualize with vmware
- 1 windows server 2016 (active directory, wsus, centralized antivirus software...)
- 1 windows server 2008 (run 2 server software)
- 1 ...
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Running VMWare Workstation 14 on a VM [closed]
I have set up VMWare Workstation on a esxi 6.0 hosted VM. (Ubuntu 16.04.05)
I am trying to run some packer builds that use the specific (VMWare Workstation) hypervisor.
The builds get stuck ...
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ESXi Passthrough hard drive to use ZFS on VM
I have ESXI 6.7 installed on my r710. I have 1 2TB drive that's being used as the boot drive for ESXi and the VMs. I have 3 4TB drives that will be large storage. I want to send the 4TB disks ...
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Failed to get an SSL thumbprint of the target server certificate, when trying to install vCenter 6.5
I am trying to install vCenter 6.5 on windows as a standalone server and I am getting that error message. Does vCenter 6.5 need to be deployed as a VM on an ESXi host? If it can be installed on a ...
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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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What is the difference of PCIe passthrough vs GPU passthrough?
I recently found about this video link showing that ESXi is able to passthrough PCIe onto a Guest VM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZzAjlNdWc
The question is, what is the difference of GPU ...
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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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file system corrupt in a virtual machine
I have a virtual machine hosted by vmware esxi. It has been started for over 80 days. And about ten days ago, its file system got corrupted. Although I can use fsck to fix this file system, I am ...
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Migration and maintenance of legacy ESXi VMs in read-only state
I am seeking advice on how to best migrate and maintain legacy ESXi VMs in a read-only state and share remote access to each VM via a network.
The situation is the following:
Company A with 4 ...
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Software-RAID1 in Virtualization [closed]
I got a little homeserver which runs a Windows as FileServer and hosts a Ubuntu-VM for little monitoring tasks and other stuff that are not available in Windows.
In the past however, this lead to some ...
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How to project / measure physical host wait with multi-core guests in ESXi
I’ve heard that if you have a guest with N virtual cores under ESXi, the hypervisor waits for N total logical processors on the host to become available simultaneously before delegating work from the ...
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Esxi virtual machine Debian/Centos crash
my virtual machine ESXI regularly crashes on every linux. I've tried also debian and centos. The same problem. Machine hangs and starting consuming lots of cpu.
I'm running ESXI on Dell T110 with ...
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Best practice on forwarding traffic to VMs inside ESXI based on domain name requested?
Lets say I have a server with two ip addresses. There are 100 VMs on this server each that hosts a website whose domain names use one of the two IPs in their A records.
What's the best way to route a ...
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2 ESXI hosts, only one with WAN incoming, no physical switch: how to have pfsense in Host #1 provide LAN to Host #2?
This might be a very beginner question, but wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.
The following is a diagram of the physical servers (questions below it):
Both computers have ...
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Colocation server: where to install ESXi?
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I am colocating a 1U server and want to install ESXi on it. Given that a colo provider likely won't allow a USB key sticking out of the server, what is the ...
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Unable to Re-Attach / Remount a 5TB Hard Drive with Datastore to Esxi 6.5
I have an esxi host that recently had some drives fail, so in the process of backing up the data on the host to recover it all to a new array I attached a 5TB Seagate Drive, Blanked it & created a ...
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ESXi VM lost after power failure
I have an ESXi host, which had a faulty PSU causing the host to randomly shut down. Now I am unable to import the VM. The VMDK file is gone and the VMX file is empty. How does this happen? the ...
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How to provision docker images?
First a bit of background:
I currently use VMWare ESXi for my virtual machines. Some servers needs to be up 24/7 and others I tear down and re-create from templates when I need to.
After playing ...
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VMware ESXi 5.5 loses connectivity after a while
My VMware ESXi 5.5 "Free Version" host keeps getting unreachable using VSphere Client.
I do not use a VSphere appliance, only the host itself.
Firewall is open (Port 902), there is no network issues ...
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Equivalent of Hyper-V's VMConnect in VMWare Products?
Hyper-V has a useful utility VMConnect. It lets you connect to a guest machine at the hardware level, like a KVM. Is there a VMConnect equivalent in the VMWare toolset?
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How to restore Windows Bare Metal Image to VM
Trust all are well. I am trying to restore my Physical Server to a VM using the Windows BMR image and this is where I keep getting the error saying that my VM disk is too small.
Is there a ...
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How to describe VMware performance requirements for our application to a VMware admin?
Often, an installation of our on-site, debian-stable based application runs in a virtual machine - typically in VMware ESXi. In the general case we do not have visibility into or influence over their ...
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What actually happens when I mark a disk as SSD in ESXi?
In VMWare ESXi / vSphere, you can mark a disk or LUN as "Flash", indicating that the disk is an SSD (or the LUN is SSD/flash storage backed)
When you do, you get the following warning:
Marking HDD ...
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Windows 10 esxi 6.0 performance
I'm running an ESXi 6.0.0-2494585-standard server. On this server are ~20 virtual machines running (ubuntu/suse linux & windows 7 & 10). The performance of all VMs is fine, except the windows ...
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