Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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How can I isolate resources from a VM in VMware-Esxi to do load testing? [closed]
We have some web services running on a VM in VMWare-ESXi. We would like to see how the system behaves under certain amount of users. How can we configure the VM to provide accurate results without ...
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Is it possible to SSH to a virtual machine without public IP, inside an ESXI 6.7 with public IP?
I newly got an Gen8 HP server. I have 3 virtual machines (Debian 10) on ESXi 6.7 which are locally connected with some internal/private IPs like 192.168.0.101 and 102 and 103. Suppose I have one ...
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ESXi esxcli Error: Unknown command or namespace vm process kill –t=soft –w=67909
I'm running ESXi 6.5 embedded host client. When i ssh into the system I can run esxcli vm process list and get the expected output:
testserver1
World ID: 67909
Process ID: 0
VMX Cartel ID: ...
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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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Multiple Subnets within ESXi host
I'm trying to create some subnets on an ESXi (version 6.7) host and have some VMs within these subnets with one or more that act as gateway between them. I'm trying to do this creating another VLAN on ...
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Remote desktop only working when console is attached in vmware
New install of windows10 on vmware esxi (6.5).
Remote desktop enabled and working.
When idle for some hours remote-desktop can't connect to the windows machine. However, when opening a console to the ...
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ESXi 6.7 web UI, what is CPU "Package 0" in the monitor page?
I have an ESXi 6.7 lab, with i9-10900. From the Web UI Host - Monitor - Performance tab page, what is CPU "Package 0"? The value isn't the same as host CPU usage%. Googled, but I can't find ...
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Windows Memory I/O error - Windows VM or ESXi host?
We have a terminal server that is getting a reoccurring memory error when users are running a certain application.
Previously the error occurred when trying to launch the application. A reboot fixed ...
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vmWare 5.5 , DELL EMC 4024 , Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed
I have a small problem here understanding why is the Space Reported between EMC and vmWare off by so much.
EMC says Available Size for both pools ca. 700GB .
VMWare says for both DataStores I have ...
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Is there any specific command to check all running processes inside a specific VM on ESXi?
I have a list of VMs running on ESXi.
I have used vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms to get a list of VMs running and also
esxcli vm process list to get the World ID of VMs.
I would like to get inside the Ubuntu ...
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How to backup ESXI host with failed drive
I have a Dell R815 server running ESXi on a free licence. I've got a small SSD as a single volume onto which I installed ESXi and a pair of 600GB Drives set up as a Mirror as a second volume, on ...
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Illegal Request error with unmap on vmware
I have enabled unmap feature on vSAN and then I powered off / powered on all VMs to enable unmap as described in the KB below.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere....
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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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Backup Esxi virtual machines to external USB hard drive; no vCenter, no other servers. Is this sane?
Apologies if this is a duplicate, but there seems to be a number of options floating around. I'm running an Esxi server (v6.0) with about 4.5Tb of storage that I'd like to back up. I've a 6Tb USB ...
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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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RAID 0 for Development
Hello fellow administrators, I am seeking high level guidance on the following situation:
First the context of the environment: internal, all virtual (vmware), development use only, performance ...
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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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Proxmox - how to improve low IO performance?
I am extremly surprised with the low IO performance of Proxmox 6.3.3 , which is in the following configuration and the result Image
Proxmox 6.3.3
512 GB NVMe SSD
Create new VM content windows server ...
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Dell R610 ESXi not loading after VD deleted
I've got an R610 which had 3x RAID 1 arrays in it previously, with one degraded and inaccessible (has been for months). After rebooting, I was warned that VD00 was missing. Given I didn't care about ...
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boot from cdrom !! kvm -machine pc-i440fx-2.1 [closed]
I am trying to follow the instructions in the following article
https://docs.j7k6.org/vmware-esxi-hetzner-install-kvm-linux/
I start the VM by the following command
kvm -machine pc-i440fx-2.1 \
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Configure NICs as a switch in ESXi
ESXi 6.7u3, my host has 6 nics, I use one for connection to the network but i want to configure the remaining as a normal dumb switch, help needed. It seems that this should be rather straight ...
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Set CPU affinity for specific VM on vmware ESXI using govc CLI
I have shell scripts that I use to programmatically configure my Virtual Machines (VMs) on my vmware ESXi host. I use the "govc" command-line-interface (CLI) which provides a suite of ...
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How to increase available disk space in thinly provisioned VM?
I created a thinly provisioned CentOS VM on an ESXi instance. To use nice numbers, let's say I configured a max disk space of 500 GB. After installing the OS and booting, when I open File Manager and ...
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Integrate a QNAP TS-128A NAS in ESXi
Hello dear community,
I would like to mount / integrate a QNAP TS-128A NAS as storage in an VMWare ESXi 6.7 via "Mount NFS data storage". I had managed this several times without any ...
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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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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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ESXi management fails, refusing connections, after copying in the boot drive from a backup
I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented.
Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could ...
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Checking Hard Disks working on Dell ESXi server using SNMP from Linux
I want to use SNMP, preferably over an SSH tunnel, to check whether the disks in my array are still working. There's 8 hard drives running behind a PERC controller on a Dell 730xd running ESXi v6.
I'm ...
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How to use HTTP Boot for VMWare VM UEFI client
I have a VMWare VM (ESXi 6.5, VM version 13) that I want to image over the network. For the past several years we have been using (with much success) a TFTP server containing a PXE image. Now I want ...
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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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Clone Windows Server 2019 Standard- Unlicensed to Datacenter/Standard Licensed
I have Windows Server 2019 evaluation OS and its evaluation period has expired, I have perform multiple activation attempts(with license code and kms server) but they both failed.
It has expired more ...
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ESXI 10g Network but Win-2008-R2 limited with 1G speed
We recently upgraded all of our vmware esxi 6.5/6.7 servers networks on 10G.
All the guests which have windows 2012 or above can transfer data above 1G as shown in below pic.
but on same physical ...
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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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LinuxIO (LIO) target @ Debian 10 and VMware 6.7 Initiator: Detected WRITE_PROTECTED LUN Access for 0x00000000
we are running
QNAP NAS
Debian 10
Host VMware 6.7U3 Hypervisor
a) Exporting an iSCSI-LUN-target with the QNAP, what ist using LIO therfor, and accessing it from VMware (read/write) works fine.
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Sharing folders between VMs on ESXI 6.5 for backups
I'm new in the ESXI server, and I have a server my company has a few vms for applications (mostly linux with php, tomcat services and SQL Server services).
I have one datastore, of 4TB, I'd like to ...
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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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Differences between VMware and XCP-ng hipervisor
I am currently researching XCP-ng hipervisor and I was wondering what are the main differences between the XCP-ng and VMware hipervisor. As far as I can see the XCP-ng does not have high availability ...
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Extract large (100Gb) zip on ESXI host
I have uploaded a vmdk file to my esxi 6.7 host and when i try to unzip it from cli with
unzip largefile.zip
i get this error
Archive: largefile.zip
unzip: short read
Any ideas on what's going on?
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Is there a way to install VMware Hardware Version 12 on ESXi 6.5?
At my new job, our server use ESXi 6.5.0 and ESXi 6.0.0 as our Type 1 Hypervisor.
While looking around in vSphere I found a VM at HW Version 12 installed on a host with ESXi 6.5.
As I found here, this ...
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Centos8: VM broken after moving from VMware ESXi to HyperV [closed]
I have moved Centos8 VM from ESXi to the HyperV 2019 core (hdd only)
It seems the disks or partitions IDs are broken so it's not staring up properly using default/first Grub menu option.
But it runs ...
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Since VFRC feature in VMware is now end of lifed, what can I replace it with?
Now that VFRC (vflash read cache) is end of lifed in Vsphere 7, does anyone have suggestions on what I could replace it with. Looks like there is only Infinio and Virtunet in the market now, has ...
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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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What is the purpose of a xHCI controller while esxi6 doesn't support USB3?
When I add a virtual xHCI controller to my Linux VM on an esxi6 host, plug some USB3 device
to a blue USB 3.0 SuperSpeed port on the server and connect this device to the VM,
I get only USB2 speed.
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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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cloning vm using powershell - cloning is stuck on 35%
I have an issue that started lately - I have a script that clone a VM using PowerShell:
New-VM -Name $VM_Name -VM $cloneMe -VMHost $ESXi -Datastore $ds -Location $FoldertoCloneto -RunAsync
lately, ...
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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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Which version of HPE ESXi update do I need and what is the difference?
I am looking into updating our ESXi hosts running on Proliant DL360 Gen10 servers and I'm confused about which version of the ESXi update I need to use.
If I click the 'New* ESXi 6.5 U3 Oct 2020 - ...
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Windows Server VMs have incorrect time on boot (Esxi 6.7.0 Update 3)
We run ESXI 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 14320388).
The Windows 2019 VMs running on that host, when they boot, their time is incorrect.
I have to manually open the Windows settings and set off and back on ...
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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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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 ...
