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Error trying to get disak space usage from discovered VMS using Zabbix
I am trying to create a trigger on a template called Template Virt VMware Guest in order to extract the % of free space of the VMWARE VM that has the template inherited.
What I did was:
Going to the ...
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Internal network exception on the k8s following VMWare vMotion
Our k8s cluster uses VMware VM as worker nodes. K8s version is 1.22.9, network is flannel, kube-proxy mode is iptables.
A worker node with storage was moved with vMotion. After the migration is ...
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Sending ESXI audit logs to http endpoint?
Is it possible to send audit logs from ESXI's (or better yet, vCenter) to an http endpoint via API/webhook rather than a syslog server?
Couldnt find a direct answer or a tutorial online.
Thanks!
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"active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019 [closed]
When I click "tools" from "server management" I find that "Active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019.
This happened after I used "...
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Installing Open VMware Tools on different Ubuntu versions
I have a range of Ubuntu servers dating back to v18.04.
Each one has a different version of Open VM Tools available through its' repository.
Is there anything that's preventing me from compiling and ...
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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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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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move-vm not working : Could not find VirtualMachine with name
I am trying to cross migrate VM across two Vcenters ( from 6.5 to 7.0)
with move-vm command, but something is wrong, couldn't find my test-vm, even basic get-vm find it.
$global:DefaultVIServers
Name ...
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Finding the ESX/ESXi host in vSphere cluster on which a virtual machine is running programmatically via REST API
For any powered on VM in a given folder I want to retrieve its IP address and the ESXi host it's running on. I'm haveing problems finding an REST API endpoint to retrieve the ESXi host a VM is running ...
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How to upgrade ESX 6.7 to 7.0.3 with vCenter's Lifecycle Manager without importing an ISO?
I have upgraded vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.3 (u3e) and next I want to upgrade ESX to 7.0.3. From vCenter's Lifecycle Manager > Updates I can see 7.0.3 builds listed but I did not find how I can make a ...
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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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write shell script or other script on vCenter
esxcli is existed on vSphere. But I need to write script on vCenter and vCenter doesn't have esxcli command.
How can I write script for vCenter?
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Failed to deploy OVF package. ThrowableProxy.cause A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 500
Versions:
ESXI: 7.0 Update 2 (build number 17867351)
VMware Workstation: 16.1.2 build-17966106
I exported a VM from QKVM (Qnap KVM) and been trying to import it into one of our ESXIs using vCenter, ...
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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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ESXi v in v setup - distributed switch kills all interhost communication
On all distributed port groups I disabled all security settings and set everything to promiscuous.
I've got a setup I built where I have three virtualized ESXi hosts. Their management vmkernels were ...
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Show guest memory utilisation in vCenter
Is it possible to record and show the amount of memory that a Windows guest OS is using in vCenter? In this blog post VMware recommends using the guest OS memory counter for capacity planning. However,...
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How to patch vmware-esxi via vcenter
Our company is using a single vmware-esxi host (vmware-esxi v6.5) which hasn't been patched since installation. The VMs are a windows server and a vcenter appliance.
Using Update Manager I attached ...
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Changing Vcenter and Esxi IP's
Guys I have a Vcenter with lots of Esxi hosts and all of them have public IP addresses in their vmkernel's (managment) and now we need to change all of them to private IP is there any easy way to do ...
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Reinstalling ESXi - How to retrieve data
I have lost my ESXi password and I want to reinstall the ESXi server. How can I get the Vms up and running after installing ESXi since I am using Physical SAN to store them (including Vcenter). Please ...
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Can't access ESXi console after restart, vCenter is powered off
We have a vCenter 6.5 U3 hosted in one ESXi 6.5 U3, the host got restarted and vCenter wasn't set to automatically start, now vCenter is powered off and something is preventing us to log on ESXi.
If I ...
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vCenter network setup
Following design to be applied:
ESXi Host standalone
vCenter deployed on ESXi
Network-Config ESXi:
Config vCenter:
Error-Message:
Problem:
I want to have the vCenter management enabled on the ...
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ESX host cmd to check if physical host went to battery
Trying to trouble shoot some issues on a server and see if it's related to loss of power, they have cheap APC that don't have logging or interface. I've checked the event log in v-sphere but don't ...
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Hands on lab/testing with NAS
My company has acquired a VMware system with 4 hosts and unfortunately i have no experience with NAS. Can anyone recommend a method to play with or learn how NAS works?
The system is a production ...
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Smoothest way to migrate vSphere/vCenter?
So I have an older Dell VRTX running on ESXi 6.0 hosts, with vSphere and vCenter in place. No vMotion, however. The hardware is past its prime so I am purchasing a new Dell MX740c to ultimately take ...
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How to resolve a Fresh Vcenter appliance reporting "Unable to save IP settings"
A known issue in Vcenter 7.0 Release notes occurs when:
In the Server Appliance, you configure a static IP or try to change the IP configuration.
The following error results:
Unable to save IP ...
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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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VMware clone as backup
Having a couple of ESXi and a vCenter 6.5. I'd like to backup some of the production VMs i.e. have a "photo" of a known working state with all programs installed and configured for the ...
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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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Can VCenter use mac book pros as physical hosts?
We're currently trying to find creative ways for launching mac VMs on top of our Vcenter cluster.
Traditionally, we've been using Xserve mac servers, but these have become outdated and can no longer ...
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VMware + how to limit the balloon memory on linux machine
We want to know if we can't limit the balloon memory on a Linux machine by tuning the value of -
Mem.CtlMaxPercent
for example is it possible to set 20% for Mem.CtlMaxPercent instead the default of ...
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Impact of adding standalone ESXi host to cluster
We have a vSphere cluster with 4 ESXi hosts; fully automated DRS and vSphere HA is enabled on the cluster. Next to that, we have a standalone host in vCenter which is also running some VMs. Reason for ...
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ESXi and vSphere in LAN while host is WAN-connected
I have a host server in datacenter connected directly to Internet. I also can use up to 2 public IP addresses (3 or more is hard to obtain but possible). I have no firewall in front of this host, and ...
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Too many unwanted tasks done by vsphere.local\Administrator on Esxi host
We have too many tasks done by vsphere.local\administrator on some of our Esxi hosts (shown in vCenter monitoring).As we haven't done any of these tasks manually, I didn't find a key to the reason. ...
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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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What is DRS vMotion impact on VM and cluster?
We have a 4 host ESXi 6.5 cluster with DRS fully automated. When checking the history, we see a specific (big) VM (6 CPUs, 64 GB mem) having roughly 10 vMotions by DRS per day. Someone from the team ...
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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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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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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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Automate VMWare Config Backups
I am looking for a way to automate nightly backups of my VMWare ESXi Configs for disaster recovery.
Ideally the script would connect to my vCenter server, poll it for hosts, and then backup the ...
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vCenter moving VM from ISCSI target to different ISCSI target
In my server lab, I am running a vCenter cluster with 2 ISCSI targets. Both of these are directly connected to switch using SFP+ port.
I assume, when I do such a process as cloning a VM from one ...
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The portgroup for Network adapter 1, could not be found
I am trying to run RHCSA Lab on MY VMWare Exsi 6.5. after copied my VM file and I have a warning on VMware Exsi "The portgroup for Network adapter 1, , could not be found.It has been assigned to ...
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Cant connect by SSH and Webgui to ESX host
After a reboot of our vcenter server, one of the ESX hosts went disconnected from everything else. I cant seem to connect to it in any way. Ssh doesn't work, and the webgui also don't work.
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How to bridge two VMWare vsphere "VM Network" on two different site?
I got Two sites with some ESXi 6.7. Each site has its own IP address and I would like to bridge the "VM Network" on the distant site to the local "VM Network" so I could start a VM ...
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ESXi 6.7u2 DL380 GEN9 Hosts keep going unresponsive
We have recently upgraded to ESXi6.7 u2. Since the upgrade, our hosts keep going into an 'unresponsive' state. The VM's are all still running, although they show as 'disconnected' in VSphere. Can ping ...
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How to Identify Disk Location on ESXi?
I have a VMWare ESXi 6.5 installed, and this ESXi is managed by vCenter. I recently need to replace some HDD to SSD, but I am not sure how to "blink" the disk so that I can pull it out safely.
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change ESXI host IP in VCSA
I have 3 esxi 6.7 hosts registered in VCSA.
I want to change my esxi host ips. When I do in ESXI DCUI, eg from .120 to .20, VCSA keeps the old IPs .120 and cannot connect to the hosts anymore.
When I ...
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Converting Thick vmdk to thin after Move from Datastore
I am currently running Vcenter 6.7 and ESXi 6.0 with VMFS5 in our infrastructure. And I often have to move VM disks from a DataStore to another in order to free up space.
When using the VCenter MOVE ...
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?
I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot.
From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related ...
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vCenter 6.7 error while creating new users (Single Sign On)
i'm running a vCenter Server Appliance with Embedded Platform Services Controller version 6.7.0.140000
I'm trying to create a new user to allow using the vSphere web console to a specified VM only
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