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How to extend esxOSDATA partition to use as datastore (or something?)
I have installed esxi 8.0.1 on a new HP G10 with the following config:
USB drive as boot installation media for ESX
A 2TB Nvme for esxosdata!
Some other SSD as single RAID10 array.
The problem is:
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Why does VMware count memory as storage and how can I disable this behavior?
Coming from a Proxmox environment to VMware I'm puzzled by this behavior:
It's a rented environment and I was asked how much memory/disk storage/CPU do I need. I didn't account for memory randomly ...
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Qemu - Cannot connect to Guest
I'm running Qemu on Windows and I can't connect to the ESXi guest and can't ping the host network gateway from the ESXi guest. I disabled all other network interface on Host machine except the ...
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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster
I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s.
Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can ...
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Can't Access Vmware Esxi from GUI and CLI after polling from OpenNMS
I added Vmware Esxi ip in OpenNMS and configured SNMP for the same. After successful addition of node, I also added Configuration in /usr/share/opennms/etc/vmware-config.xml ( I am running OpenNMS in ...
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Cannot create ESXi storage on second NVMe
I'm really searching all over for a solution for hours. I do not have physical access to the datacenter, I have KVM and SSH access. Server is a Supermicro X11 model.
The server has 2 NVMe disks. I ...
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Updating ESXi, vSphere general questions
I am clearly missing some basic understanding when it comes to the upgrading process for my virtual environment.
When upgrading through the virtual stack, I understand that there are multiple ...
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Deploying minimal OS for running Powershell scheduled tasks? [closed]
I need your suggestion and guidance in deploying minimal Operating System to run multiple Powershell Scheduled tasks on my OnPremise Hypervisor VMware v6.7
Typically, I am installing these modules
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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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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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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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How to upload VMware esx VM to Azure without any base image?
We have some machines at our local esx servers. Which contain many configurations done manually and takes time to convert them to any ansible or other configuration. So, any option to upload them as ...
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PCI at NVIDA Tesla P 100 in shared pass through mode is disabled
I have successfully completed NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with VMware ESXI 6.7.While trying to add PCI devices in the VM, the option to choose PCI devices is shown as in ...
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Failed to initialize NVML: Unknown Error - Not able to complete NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with Vmware ESXI 6.7
I am unable to setup the NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with Vmware ESXI 6.7 on DELL EMC poweredge R740.
When I am trying to run nvidia-smi command I am getting following ...
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VMware Power CLI: how to get custom attributes for a datastore
I am trying to get a custom attribute value for my datastore, but bumping into an issue with type incompatibility. Is there anything I am doing wrong below, and how to fix it?
PowerCLI C:\> $ds = ...
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ESXi config recovery
I have an HP Microserver running ESXi 6.5 from a USB stick. A series of power outages seems to have caused some corruption, preventing ESXi from booting (pink screen, unable to load kernel modules).
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PowerCLI Get-EsxCli Type Conversion Error
On three different servers, and one desktop, using PowerCLI 10, I am unable to call any of the EsxCli invocations, getting instead:
> $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost "host.f.q.d.n" -Server (Connect-...
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vCenter to vCenter transfers slow over 10Gbps 80ms link
We have two datacentres either side of the Atlantic with a 10Gb VPLS connection between sites with 80ms latency and better than 0.0000001% packet loss.
When moving VMs between datastores on either ...
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How do I attach an external VMDK disk to a guest image, from within the guest image?
I have a Linux guest image that starts up, with only the OS drive. The actual ESX server has many VMDKs (I know the IDs of them). In my workflow, I need to on demand, from within the guest, attach ...
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what is suppressPowerOn and suppressPowerOff option in vim-cmd?
I was tinkering with vim-cmd for reverting snapshots and wondering what these suppressPowerOn and suppressPowerOn options are for ?
I tried both options and makes no difference (vm is in powered off ...
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No Storage Seen When Installing VMware ESXi 5.5 on HP Proliant DL360 G6
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When I try to install ESXi 5.5U3 on a DL360 G6, it fails because no storage is seen.
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Hardware
Server: HP Proliant DL360 G6
CPUs: 1 CPU, Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz
RAM: 48GB RAM
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Mount USB Drive on Esxi 6.5 Host
I have ESXI 6.5 (No Center / Sphere), Installed Centos 7 as guest VM.
I want to mount my usb drive in centos 7 to share it with samba on network.
But ESXI doesn't seems to work in my satiation
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Unable to connect to MKS: Could not locate vmware-authd executable
i am glad to be part of this community , wanted to stop by , say hello and share my sadness.
i have installed a vcenter applience 6.0 with a hope to manage some of my old 5.0 esxi servers , everything ...
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Assigning Two IP addresses to Two separate NIC in VMware ESX 5.5 Server
I have two ESX 5.5 server. Both have management IP addresses and accessible. For the need of my topology i also connected my ESX servers with LAN cable (Direct LAN Cable) with other interfaces. So ...
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Upgrading ESXi License from 5.5.0 Free to 6.5 Essentials
We currently have a single server running ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with Live VMs and would like to upgrade the license to 6.5 Essentials so that we can use Altaro VM Backup since this does not work with the ...
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Move a vm from Vmware Workstation 10 towards ESX
I need to move a vm from VMware Workstation 10 towards ESX connected remotely within VMware Workstation 10. The issue is that when I try to drag and drop the Windows Server 2012 R2 from one place to ...
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vCenter in nested ESXi kills the host vCenter session
I created a nested ESXi environment (virtualised ESXi host inside an ESXi. Lets name it vESXi for simplicity) for testing purposes. In the (nested)VM network I assigned the necessary attributes to VM-...
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esxi vmdk out of disk space
One of our highly utilized vm is giving the error that there is no more space for the the vmdk shown in the following image.
The VM won't start because of this issue, so I'm not able to delete data ...
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VMWARE Host to Host Nic connection without switch
Dumb question. If I had a free 10gb port on two vmware hosts, is it possible connect them directly without a physical switch in between them ? Thanks
Would like to have a faster dedicated ...
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PowerCLI transfers a file but the copied file size is way too small. What is wrong?
I am using PowerCLI version 6 on a Windows server with 20 GB of free space. I am trying to use copy-datastoreitem with PowerCLI. It seems to work to transfer a .vmdk file from an ESXi datastore to ...
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how to stop esxtop gracefully which is running in batch mode?
I am running esxtop in batch mode using the below command:
esxtop –b –a –d 10 –n 2000| gzip -9c > perfData.csv.gz
This is going to run for a little over 5 hrs, but I want to stop it gracefully ...
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Nexus 1000v Port Channel to Virtual Machine
Is it possible to setup a Port-Channel between a Nexus 1000v Switch and a ESX Virtual Machine?
Context: I am running a Checkpoint Firewall cluster as Virtual Machines on an ESX server. I want to ...
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Is it possible to connect two ESX host directly without physical switch?
I have two physical hosts without switc and single WAN connection.
host B running many backup software and other tools.
Is it possible to connect two ESX host directly without phisical switch?
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VMWare ESX: Intermittent network connectivity when guests are on same host
ESXi 5.5.0, Build: 2403361 on Dell R620 Servers
2 phys servers, 1 SAN, 15+ VMs
Issue: In some cases, when guest A and B are on the same phys server, network communication between the two is ...
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Virtual socket vs core per socket Best practise [duplicate]
Is this right way of assigning 8 Cpu's on Vmware?
I have research but couldn't find a right answer. What is the difference between virtual socket and core per socket.
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VMware - trigger alert when a VM moves to a particular datastore?
We have a VMware cluster that doesn't have SDRS enabled. We would like to know when a VM moves to a particular datastore on that cluster because that datastore is non-performance storage.
I can't ...
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ESXi 5.5 remove @vsphere.local from login
How can I change the vsphere login from [email protected] to administrator? I have searched around. Either it cannot be done or it is common knowledge, because I cannot find a solution. The ...
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Linux OS installed as a guest OS on VMware Workstation v10.0.2 doesn't show all partitions as is shown when installed ona physical HP server
I'm very new to VMWARE. I've a customized RHEL 6.6 for one of my application which if install on a physical HP Gen8 DL380p server, shows the partitions /apps, /,/boot,/tmp,/var,/usr,/swap
When I use ...
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ESX 5.5 Maximum File Size
We have a ~24TB Datastore (a single LUN mapped via a DAS) which has a VMFS5 Datastore.
My understanding was with ESX 5.5 and VMFS5 you can have file sizes up to 62TB (as per this article: http://kb....
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How to make sure file in VM's folder is copied with VM when cloning VMWare Virtual Machine
I am running a vmware environment (Version 4 unfortunately) which requires me to use a bios rom file in order to run server 2012. I upload it to the root folder of the VM after creation, before boot ...
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SNMP OID for VMware Tools on a virtual machine
I have an ESXi host running several VMs. I use snmp to query that host for information. I need to find if VMware Tools is installed on some virtual machine. Is that possible? and If so, which OID is ...
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ESX NFS error "Cannot open volume: /vmfs/volumes/
I'm trying to add an NFS share to my ESX 5.5 server. When I try to add the share, I get the following error:
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateNasDatastore" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "[...
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VMware Grails application on one VM can't access MongoDB on another VM
I have two VMs in a VMware cloud that belong to the same VApp and so are behind the same edge gateway. The both have their own different internal ip addresses but I route services from the outside to ...
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conflict in network interface configuration of CentOS 6.5
I am trying to create 2 network interfaces, one with DHCP and the other with static IP on a CentOS VM running on ESXi Server.
Content of file ifcfg-eth0 is as follows:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
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3 NICs in VMware ESX 5.5.0 cannot connect to each other [closed]
I have a Vmware ESXi 5.5.0 hypervisor, installed on a desktop pc with 3 physical NICs. The first NIC is connected to the internet (WAN), the 2nd and 3rd NICs have Access Points installed (plugged in) ...
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ESX SAN overbooked, what happens if storage limit reached?
In ESX you can easily overbook the available storage with the Virtual Guests. What happens if a overbooked SAN reaches its capacity limit?
Its not an actual problem i'm faced with, we just had the ...
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Get disk free space using ipmi from esxi
I want to get disk status of esxi server using ipmi.
I can not find the right command to get this information:
/usr/sbin/ipmitool -I lan -H 192.168.x.x -U xxx -P xxx -S /tmp/ipmi-sdr-cache
Which ...
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ESXi 5 Add an existing lun to datastore without formatting
We have two hosts running VMWare ESXi 5.1.0. Both are connected to a RAID 5 array via iSCSI.
The lun is an existing lun with vm on it but it is not reconized by the hosts after the reboot.
it is ...
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Does 'vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create' create a functional backup of the guest?
If I create a snapshot with: 'vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create' I can then transfer the file that creates to another system, or even to another vmware ESXi system.
Setting aside the fact that ...
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How can I disable/suppress the warning I get for having SSH enabled on an ESX/ESXi host?
I administer a large number of ESXi hosts, and in order to do that efficiently, I pretty much need to have SSH allowed into the hosts at all times, as it's just far too burdensome to enable and ...
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