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Server's Disk Queue Length is high, but Disk Bytes/sec is lower than it's capable of
I have an environment running SQL Server on a Windows VMWare platform using a SAN with SSDs set up in RAID 6, and using Veeam for server backups and LiteSpeed for SQL Server backups.
I've had a ...
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Unable to find how to update the Network speed in Windows
I want to understand where the value of Network speed is found in Windows and the options to change it.
I am using the Windows Sysinternals bginfo, which generates desktop backgrounds that include ...
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What is changing my Windows Server's date?
At my organisation we have a number of virtual machines on ESXi hosts in a number of sites.
For the past few months, around once or twice a week one virtual machine, seemingly at random, will update ...
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How to get PhysicalLocation disk on Windows 2022 like on Windows 2019 via powershell
On Windows Server 2019 i usage Get-PhysicalDisk | foreach {$_.PhysicalLocation} its return SCSI0. This is exactly what I need. But on Windows Server 2022 its return PCI Slot 160 : Bus 3 : Device 0 : ...
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Are there hooks for Windows Updates?
It would be really neat to be able to attach a "blocking hook" to when a Windows Update gets installed so that I could take a snapshot on an ESXi of the machine in question before the update ...
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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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Windows 2016 Server VM - dialogs in various apps are displayed after tens of seconds when CPU usage is around 20%-30%
This issue baffles me.
I've been given a Windows 2016 Server VM to do development on. The specs for the VM are:
Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 13004031
Model: ProLiant BL460c Gen8
Processor Type: ...
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2 VMDK's for ESXi 6.7U2 Windows Server 2019 VM
I am running ESXi 6.7 U2 with a Windows Server 2019 VM.
In my Datastore I have 2 100GB VMDKs, both of which are currently mounted in the VM. If I remove one, the OS will not start, doesn't matter ...
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Windows Server 2012 Cannot Read Disk As Guest OS In ESXI
I'm running into a frustrating issue with Windows Server 2012 and VMWare ESXI.
I'm running ESXI version 6.5 (old I know, but this is not the issue) with a VM running Windows Server 2012. On this VM, I ...
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I created a static NAT internal -> public and internal -> internal. What did I do exactly that made this work?
I have two windows VM's on the same host with IIS and they're both connected to a cisco firewall. I gave each VM a static nat rule for internal -> public with their respective dedicated IP's and it'...
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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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Windows server 2012 R2 VM doesn't see full space on virtual disk
I have a windows server 2012 R2 VM on vmware esxi 6.7. Have 2 virtual disks for C and D partitions respectively. Partition C - thin provision, part D - thick provision lazy zeroed.
I extended second ...
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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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What Determines the Protocol Used During a VMware VM PXE Boot Against a WDS Server?
Good-day folks,
I have successfully implemented a Windows Deployment Server in my environment, built both x86 and x64 boot images to support UEFI and Legacy BIOS using the Microsoft Deployment ...
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Windows Server 2019 won't boot anymore after a restart
I have a Windows Server 2019 on a cloud provider, using VMWare as Hypervisor.
Yesterday I've rebooted after it was begun to be slower. It hasn't restarted anymore.
From the console of vmware I see ...
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Managing Windows application max CPU and memory
Good day. I have an RDS server (VMware VM) that we use for data analytics tools. These tools are memory and CPU hogs. I understand that there was a Resource Manager built into Windows 2008 R2. We are ...
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Estimate resource consumption of an application
I have a query.
I have an X application in my WS 2012, which I have to scale the consumption of RAM and CPU that it will have. Currently when the application works at maximum, the CPU and RAM reach ...
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How to synchronize time on ESXi Windows virtual machines within one second?
I'm a developer and we are using Quartz.Net, widely used scheduling library with SQL backing store to run cluster of jobs servers (VMs on ESXI cluster).
Quartz.Net requires that time will be ...
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Proper way for memory testing on a server
I am a self taught system administrator at a little company. Our DC (which is a windows server 2012 r2 virtual machine running on a ESXi 6.0 host) recently started to crash with a BSOD at random in ...
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windows server 2012 remote connecting issue from ubuntu(rdesktop)
We are using windows server 2012 and we are connecting server by remote desktop service(RDS) from ubuntu client and windows client.
This servers hosted in VMware ESXi
Now we can able to connect server ...
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VMware ESXi - assign IP to Windows vm
I have a VMware ESXi 6.0 server and I uploaded a Windows 7 vm on it.
I can't make internet working, I bought some IPs and they sent me this email (I don't even understand French very well):
Si vous ...
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Disks offline after reboot
Using Esxi 5.5, I created a 3 node windows failover cluster in Windows Server 2016 in order to run SQL Server 2016 Always On High Availability. Each node of the cluster has 3 disks (O/S, Data and Logs)...
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How to tell (in Powershell) whether Install-ADDSForest is complete?
I have a powershell script that runs Install-ADDSForest to set up a lab environment. The script is actually run via VMware tools. During the Install-ADDSForest process, the Windows server (2012) will ...
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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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Slow upload speed for VMWare virtual machines working via pfSense
We have ProLiant DL360 Gen8 and Gen9 servers running VMWare ESXi 6.0 with virtual machines under various versions of Windows that are routed via pfSense 2.3.4-RELEASE (64-bit) with Open-VM-Tools ...
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How to change SID of deployed server?
I needed to setup 2 vms and naively simply setup one from scratch, made sure it worked correctly, then copied it to another host. Now getting message "the trust relationship between this workstation ...
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P2V with a single-server domain controller
I have a small domain in my office (7 PCs) with a single DC installed physically, on a desktop running Windows Server 2012R2. All the components in the domain have static IPs - both the DC and the PCs....
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Shall I configure NTP client in the ESXi hypervisor or in each windows Guest
I working on synchronising NTP client running on virtual environment ESXI.
The question is what is the best practice, configuring NTP in the hypervisor and VM-tools will sync the guests or configure ...
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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 limit the block usage on a Thin Provisioned VMs ( VMware)
This question is similar to
Best practices for thin-provisioning Linux servers (on VMware)
However my question is a touch different.
We have P2Ved quite a few servers (win/linux) and we needed to ...
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ESXi granting windows guest ALL of its assigned memory
I've seen this a few times now and I don't understand what is happening
I assigned a windows guest 200 gigs of RAM- NOT reserved.
Looking at the guest right now the OS shows its only using about 2 ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 crash with too much RAM
We have a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008R2. When we allocate 200GB RAM it is amazingly stable and runs forever with no issues.
We upped it to 350GB and it immediately became unstable. ...
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VMware ESXi 5.5 black screen on all guests after services.sh restart
I'm using VMware ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with a eight Windows guests. Sometimes I can't connect anymore via vSphere Client to the host.
A restart of the hostd and vpxa doesn't resolve the problem. So, I ...
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How to determine the VM limits thresholds on CPU limit from inside a VM or VPS
I was asked to recently to verify that a purchased VM , was provisioned with the appropriate compute from a hosting company. I suspect they are throttling the machines access to the cpu at 8% or 10%
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VMware ESXi, uploaded virtual machines won't start
We just installed a new ESXi server to our office (LENOVO TS140, ESXi 6.0.0). If I create a new virtual machine on ESXi, it works well, but we have a lots of old virtual machines (not that old though, ...
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Achieving File Server Redundancy
We are in the process of moving all servers (or virtualising physicals) into a central datacenter connected via MPLS.
Currently we are fully redundant on most aspects - RDS Farms, SQL Clusters, ...
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How to expand a NTFS partition that is in the middle?
I am running into an issue expanding my C:\ drive, which is in the middle and I have carved space before/after it for other stuff.
This is a virtual environment (VMware) and the OS is Windows 2012 R2....
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VMXNET3 receive buffer sizing and memory usage
Background
We had an incident where a Windows failover cluster suffered an interruption. A post-mortem showed that the node was "removed" as described in this article.
We've only recently migrated ...
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"Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" - Windows vNIC
Here's an interesting one I haven't seen on ServerFault I'd like to "discuss" based on our rule regarding a Good Subjective question.
I have a ton of Windows 2008/2012 VMs in my environment running ...
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Are there any notable advantages (or disadvantages) to using EFI firmware and GPT boot disks in an ESXi environment?
My basic question is, as the title asks: are there any notable advantages (or disadvantages) to using EFI firmware and GPT boot disks in an ESXi environment? By "notable," I mean anything other than ...
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Processes surviving Windows VM reboots?
Summary: A long-running virtual Windows Server 2012 system this weekend became very slow; from remote we did Restart-Computer -ComputerName xyzzy -Force, which succeeded by all accounts; except that ...
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Strategy for virtualised Windows Server Updates to reduce downtime
We have a wonderful VMWare based visualized environment that has, until now, been hosting a collection of Linux based VMs. We've now added in a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM that hosts a SQL Server ...
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Windows VM with vSphere - not accessible
I have multiple ESXi hosts that were being managed by vSphere clients running on Windows VM on one of the host itself. Accidently I changed the setting of VNC to be read only and eventually due to ...
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Is it possible to deploy VMware vSphere 5.5 without Windows?
I ran into an interesting client requirement recently. I needed to perform a greenfield deployment of VMware vSphere 5.5. This was to use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)...
The ...
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Will this work: Manage ESXi host from a guest on the same system?
I have a VMware ESXi 5.5 standalone installation here and thus need the vSphere Client to mange it. Because vCenter is a. Too complicated for just one host b. too expensive. The client is only ...
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ESXi and Windows Server CPU parking
For those that don't know, CPU parking is a feature in recent Windows Server releases that allows Windows to pretty much drop a CPU core to zero use, and having nothing use it. It's been introduced as ...
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how to established a two way network link between vswitch0 and vswitch1
I have a Exsi 5.1 Lab with a Freesco router which enables my private network range 192.168.1.. talk to my vm network range 192.168.0.. but not the other way around
I can ping any machine in my (vm ...
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dell poweredge r900 hard drive max limit [closed]
Hey all I am in the market to buy a home server and ive been looking at different configurations and found the R900 having the best bang for the buck. However it concerns me that it states on dells ...
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Is it possible to edit the settings on a virtualized vCenter server?
So, this is a strange one to me, but for reasons beyond my control, we have a vCenter server running on a virtualized Windows guest. This vCenter server is also the only vCenter server for the site (...
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Out of date VM tools - issue with MS licencing.
I had an issue recently, where vmware tools on a production server, went out of date and caused the server in question to become unlicensed, I noticed this completely by accident.
The following ...
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