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how check expiration cert of VCSA vpxd, vsphere-webclient externally via curl?
I have some expired cert. in VCSA, any idea how can I check them via curl ? Is it possible ? I think that I can check externaly only machine cert, right ? I would like to monitor it externaly.
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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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Undersubscribed ESXI host shows 100% CPU
I guess the question is more theoretical one. We have ESXI host with 48 Logical Cores (HT enabled, 24 real cores). We run 4 machines each provisioned with 8 vCpu. Each machine operates on 75% CPU on ...
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How can see exact number of ESXI RX dropped packet and not percentage as presented in esxtop
esxtop shows percentage of dropped packet on different ESXI ports. Is it possible to extract the exact number of raw packets that were lost instead? If the ratio of dropped RX packets to overall RX ...
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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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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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VMware VMs using private network can't communicate with each other when on different ESXi hosts
I have VMs spread across multiple ESXi hosts (using Vcenter/vSphere). They have private addresses. Like 192.168.1.x. When on the same host, they can communicate with each other. But, when they are on ...
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Verify all drivers for all the devices are loaded in ESXi host
Host,
Manufacturer: Supermicro
Model: SYS-1029U-TN10RT
ESXi,
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 7.0.3
Build: Releasebuild-21424296
Update: 3
Patch: 85
Installed using iPXE, (not sure if relevant)
#!ipxe
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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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Are the drivers in the preboot environment for ESXi different than post? "No devices with free space"
I have an old Dell Precision I used to run ESXi on. Went to reinstall it, the installer sees both drives in it just fine on both 7.0u3 and 8.0.
However, after installation on the NVMe drive, post ...
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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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Compare state of Windows Server 2022 VSphere instances
Apologies for the noob question regarding Windows and VSphere. I am looking to solve a problem in my current organization where we never seem to know the current state of our servers due to too many ...
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How setup VM IP via Deploy OVF template?
I have OVA image RH8.
How can I setup VM IP address via "Deploy OVF template" ?
I don't see there any option in GUI.
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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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how export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter?
How can I export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter ? I don't see there any network details option.
Using Vcenter 6.5
I tried this option. I only replaced Get-...
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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 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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iperf3 on ESXi 7.0.2 does not work?
On ESXi 6.7 EP15 there's /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3.copy and it works fine. On ESX 7.0 u2d there's only /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/iperf3 and it stopped working for me.
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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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VMware vSphere 7.0 U3 + TrueNAS Core 13.0: can't create VMFS6 datastore from TrueNAS iSCSI disk. Why?
I have a bare metal server running vSphere/ESXi 7.0 U3d, and a bare metal NAS running TrueNAS Core 13.0. The NAS has a single pool shared via iSCSI; the pool is running all defaults (lz4 compression+...
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pfSense - expose LAN to the WAN network
I am at the point I really need some help to configure pfSense. I am getting no support from the IT and half of the time I am not sure things are not working because of me and my limited experience, ...
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What can I do with a custom TCP/IP stack in ESXi?
With custom TCP/IP stack, you get following benefits:
Separate Memory Heap.
Personalized ARP Table.
Personalized Routing Table which helps avoiding routing table conflicts that might appear when many ...
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VMDK disk became read only & how to avoid such this cases on rhel machines
we have Kafka cluster with RHEL 7.6 , all Kafka are VM machines
on one of the Kafka machines , we noticed that sdb disk became read only ( when sda is the OS disk )
mount | grep sdb
/dev/sdb on /var/...
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ESXi installation PXE boot with GRUB on BIOS (not EFI)
all documents mention syslinux/pxelinux as a way to pxeboot ESXi installation, but I'd like to stay with GRUB 2. How to do that?
I'm able, of course, to load GRUB 2 via network (i386-pc/core.0 for non-...
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What is "esxcli network nic attachment add" used for in vSphere 7.0+?
In vSphere 7.0's doc it has a new CLI command:
Command: esxcli network nic attachment add
Description: Attach one uplink as a branch to a trunk uplink with specified VLAN ID.
Options:
--branch | -...
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vSphere PortMirror: What does "Source/Destination" mean as in "Remote Mirroring Source" and "Remote Mirroring Destination"?
The following is from vSphere's admin doc:
To begin a port mirroring session, you must specify the type of port mirroring session.
Procedure
Browse to a distributed switch in the vSphere Client ...
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VMWare ESX - Hot add RAM does not showing the new value inside Windows Server 2016
I have VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 17098360 server in my environment. Recently I tried Hot Add RAM with one of my Microsoft Windows Server 2016 VMs.
I successfully increased from 16 GB to 24 GB but inside the ...
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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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ESXi/vSphere how to create nic team
I have essentially zero experience with ESXi/vSphere, sorry in advance if this may sounds obvious for some of you. I have installed ESXi/vSphere 7 on my server and I need to set up a nic team with the ...
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is there any deployment automation software that can create an encrypted vm in esxi?
I recently felt the need to encrypt my esxi vms and tried to find some way to do it with terraform but couldn't find an option for that in the documentation so I looked into ansible , chef with no ...
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Reasonable VMware Memory Overcommit Ratio? [duplicate]
As a "rule of thumb" what is considered a balanced VMware memory overcommit ratio?
I could find official guidelines for vCPU:pCPU ratio but not for vMemory:pMemory.
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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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Migrate VM Proxmox to Vmware
I have a VM on proxmox with a vmdk harddrive on a IDE controller (it's a Windows Server 2019 VM)
I want to import the HD into a VM on Vsphere (ESXi 7).
I just copy the vmdk into the VM folder of the ...
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VM Distributed Switch Networking on Same VMKernel Adapter
I have built 5 new hosts and I have added the management network from our distributed switch fine on an existing cluster but we have 2 more networks/port groups I need to add which must all be on the ...
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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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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 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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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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Safe deleting a LUN in VMware
I have a LUN in our VMware 6.7.0 world. For a specific project we need to safe-delete (with a standard method like DoD 5220) the data on this LUN with some kind of deletion protocol.
The underlying ...
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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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ESXi switch issue with OPNSense
I've got an issue with configuration of 6 port ESXi. I read ESXI single vSwitch with 2 physical NICS and that does not really resolve my issues. I just can't get this configuration below to work.
I've ...
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How to configure VMWare cloned images to get unique IP addresses?
I am configuring an internal build system using Teamcity with VMWare vSphere. Once configured, the build server is supposed to start build agent VMs using vSphere API. I've got to a point where ...
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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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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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Unclear why crash consistent backups are unsafe for MySQL
My understanding of the InnoDB engine is that the database is always recoverable after a crash, due to the internal architecture of the engine itself. That is, InnoDB can correctly recover from a ...
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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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Esxi 5.1 Core Dump followed by poor performance on Server 2012 VM; OK after disconnecting external iSCSI datastores
I have an Dell R510 running esxi 5.1 with 16GB Ram; 1 CPU (Xeon L5520 @ 2.27HGz; 4 core) running a single Server 2012 Machine. I came in this morning to this
core dump. I held down the power button ...
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