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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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What kind of services does ESXI SLP port advertise to locally connected hosts?
I got enthusiastic about the last exploitations of ESXI CVE-2021-21974 (heap overflow exploitation). After researching the SLP service, which is the weak point in this CVE, I tried to turn it off, ...
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vCenter in a ESXI host that it manages
We have 2 physical servers (A and B), each with ESXI 7.0 installed. We'd like to manage them with vCenter. Can we install vCenter on one of those servers? Is it advisable?
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Getting the name of the Snapshot from a specific VM?
How can I get the name of the snapshot that the particular machine is using?
I have tried:
Get-VM -Name vdix-test-01 | Get-Snapshot
but it returns blank..
I am trying to retrieve the name of the ...
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How to save licensing data from a decommissioned VMware server?
My current VMware (Vsphere? ESXi?) hardware is being repurposed and its virtual machines are moved to VirtualBox.
I want to save the licensing data - so if the need arises in the future - I could ...
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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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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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Does ESXi host running on 7th gen Intel processor support Win 7 and older OSes?
I know that Windows 7 and older OSes are not supported on the newest Intel i series processors.
But how about an OS running on a ESXi host?
Is it going to work this way?
Thank you in advance!
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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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Confused about my ESXi/Horizon/View related options in virtualising this small mixed setup
I'm virtualising a small setup of half a dozen mixed PCs and small servers. The aim is to consolidate hardware resources (one high spec server + thin clients rather than 8 medium-to-high spec ...
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Separate NFS harddrive mounted to an ISCSI stored VMware virtual machine
Is it possible to add an NFS storage harddrive to an already existing VM that is stored on an ISCSI storage repository?
I'm specifically trying to mount an NFS repository to this VM for backup ...
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What happens to vDS networking when my vCenter server crashes
I have a query
What exactly happens when the vCenter server crashes.
I know that the database and logs would be lost if the vCenter Server crashes, but I need to know what will happen to the Guest VMs ...
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VMware vcenter client unable to log in
I restarted our DC this morning and now we are unable to log into the client to see all the VM'S the credentials are correct but it says there wrong... Did I need to do something before rebooting and ...
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Auto reconnect two identical USB devices in VSphere
I have two identical APC UPS's that have USB controllers. I want to map both of the USB ports from the ESXI host to a VM and always have those USB devices reconnect, including if they are unplugged or ...
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What version of libc.so is compiled in ESXI 6
In ESXI 6.0 what is the version of the library at '/lib64/libc.so.6'. This would be most helpful if someone could run that and post the info. For example my ESXI 5.5 current has:
GNU C Library vmware ...
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iSCSI switch replacement (2 VMware hosts)
Good morning everyone,
I recently bought two unmanaged NetGear 1gb switches to replace our older unmanaged Cisco 1gb iSCSI switches. Right now, the only devices currently connected to this network ...
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Why doesn't VSphere show VMWare Tools as installed?
I just installed a fresh openSuSE 13.2 VM onto ESXi 6. I did the VMware-install.pl process and it completes successfully, reporting as installed. However, both our monitoring software (What's Up ...
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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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Restart ESXi from remote while having a PSOD
I wondered if it is possible to access some functions of a ESXi Server over the network, while the server has a PSOD.
The Server is running ESXi 5.1.
The server cannot be pinged, but is there some ...
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VMware hypervisor license [duplicate]
can I use VMware vsphere hypervisor license on multiple host on different network?
Apologize that one license is used in a farm in India and I will use the same license in a farm in UK. Obviously I ...
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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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vmware esxi host ha state in election
In my Vmware Esxi server 5.1 , 2 host machines which are added as cluster ,there HA state is turned to ELection .I tried Reconfiguring the vsphere for HA it is not working .In cluster it shows issue ...
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ESXi 5.1 SCSI and NMP Errors Filling vmkernel.log
On a group of ESXi 5.1 systems, I am seeing the following errors every 5 minutes or so:
2014-04-04T11:22:45.374Z cpu1:8193)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124022be3c0, 0) to dev "t10....
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VMware ESXi upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1 Error: No Nic found with mac address
When upgrading from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 the upgrade failed.
I am receiving a handled error:
There was a problem with the Network Device specified on the command line.
Error: No NIC found with MAC ...
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Adding Storage to ESXi host in lab environment
I currently have a lab environment set up with 2 virtual machines running on a server 2012 hyper-v host. One being an esxi machine and one being a server 2008 machine that has the Vsphere management ...
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Split Vmware Vcenter to a VCS per Site [closed]
My question is about a supported environment (by Vmware) useability, advantages and disadvantages of the following constellation, maybe a recommendation:
Due to changes in the infrastructure between ...
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VMWare ESXi 5.0 Networking Issue
I have an issue with 2 new ESXi hosts.
OS - ESXi5.0 Custom Dell ISO patched up to Build 1024429
DELL R820 with 1G network 2 ports from integrated MB NIC(Intel) connected to 2 juniper switches, one is ...
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What does this VMWare warning really mean? ... "... Insufficient video RAM...."
Here is the actual warning from VMotiononing:
Warning message from xxxx-esxi16.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.edu: Insufficient video RAM. The maximum resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to ...
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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 ...
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ESXi 5.1 on Poweredge 510 freezes after base-esx update
Background / Problem
Just experienced an issue where an ESXi host was upgraded from 5.0 --> 5.1 perfectly fine.
Then, I did a scan and remediated a patch (ESXi510-201210401-BG) Looking into the host ...
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VMWare Host Not Responding - VMs are Disconnected (ESXi 3.5)
I have inherited a VMWare environement ESX v3i 3.5.
When I opened Virtual Centre, one of the Hosts showed up as Not Responding.
The error I am seeing is:
Unable to acquire licenses because license ...
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vCenter 5.1 SSO Configuration option not available in Web Client?
Problem
I just finished separately installing vCenter Server 5.1. I installed the components separately but on the same machine using a local SQL 2008 R2 DB (not SQL express).
Everything appears to ...
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VMware ESXi 4.0 upgrade to ESXi 5.1 minimize VM downtime
I am looking for the least amount of down time to do the following:
Issue: One ESX Host running ESXi 4.0 (locally attached storage) with one VM running on it. This host needs to be updated to ESXi 5....
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vCenter server with both academic and Federal licensing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Background
We have two servers running VMWare Academic licensing and just purchased two more under Federal licensing.
The ...
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VMWare vCenter: "incorrect username or password" when connecting to host
I have an existing vCenter server (v5.0) with two existing ESXi servers.
I recently installed ESXi v5.1 on two new servers.
I configured their hostnames, IPs, DNS, gateway, etc. and both pass their ...
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vmware unique cpu identifier
I'm looking for a way to generate, or derive, a unique CPU identifier. For example:
If SERVER_A uses vmotion from HOST_A to HOST_B, I want to be able to tell the differences between the cpus.
Any ...
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vmware server to esxi 5 blue screen
I have a server centos 5.5 running vmware server 2 on it. I decided to install esxi5 on a different machine and test it. I copied one of my virtual machines on esxi 5. But machine I copied gives a ...
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With VMware 5, how does memory pooling works across clusters
With new memory entitlement in vSphere 5, if I have 2 clusters configured with the same license level. Would my memory entitlement be calculated separately for each cluster, or will it pool everything ...
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Can I vMotion between Standard and enterprise hosts?
I plan on having one Enterprise host, and a few Standard licensed hosts. Will I be able to vmotion between these 2 types of servers? I know that the memory pool will be counted separately, but can't ...
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How to free snapshot disk space in VMware?
Our guest machines in ESXi server has lot of snapshots. While I am deleting them, they are merging. So I am in doubt whether deleting snapshot would help me gain disk space.
Can any one clarify ...
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How should I filter my VMWare Logs? What should I search for? What should I exclude?
My VMWare logs are full of SSL errors and some other things that appear less than important. (e.g. SSL Errors from the admin console)
What is the best way to extract valuable information from these ...
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ESXi Connection issue
We have a server currently running VMware ESXi. The VMSphere client is having some issues connecting; giving the "Can not establish a secure connection" when clicking on Console as well as both lag ...
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Which is the recommended filesystem for VMware Server / ESXi?
We have a couple of servers in office with VMware Server as virtualization solution.
We are planning an upgrade of our infrastructure. Some servers will remain with VMware Server, but we want to ...
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What is the fastest way to convert a VMware Server guest to ESXi?
I'm transitioning a few old VMware Server virtual machines to ESXi 4.1. Both the ESXi and Server images live on the same NFS datastore. What is the fastest way for me to convert a machine to the new ...
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How i can backup data from VMware to tape?
i have more than one VM ware hosted on ESX 3.5I and i want to connect it (VMware) to tape to make backup from vmware to tape .... I can do it? .... if yes HOW ??
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VMware ESXi to VMware Server and back again?
Running a single ESXi 4.0 server with 5 clients. Due to some unfortunately drive failures and firmware bugs I've got corruption in the direct attached RAID 1+0 array that holds my VMs. HP assures me ...
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Installing ESXi 4.1 inside vmware server 2.0.2
I have tried several times running ESXi 4.1 inside vmware server 2.0 installed on Win7-64 bit.
The problem is that the installation is stuck on welcome screen asking to press enter to continue (or ...
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I need to get VMWare Server running inside of a VMWare ESXi virtual machine
Yes, I know running a virtual machine inside of a virtual machine is a bad idea. Yes, I know it will be very slow. However, our production system required VMs in VMWare server and I do not want to ...
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Can VMWare Server 2.0 be useful in Production for easing backups?
Let's run this idea by the group here.
I am thinking about using VMWare Server in production to host
a 2008 Domain Controller with DHCP and DNS,
a 2008 member server with WSUS, some virus ...
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VMWare Raw Device Mapping Not Working
While I'm waiting for VMWare support to get back to me, I thought I'd ask here. I have a 400 gig LUN presented from a fiber channel SAN to my VMWare host. It's legacy from another virtualization ...
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