Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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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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EXSi Arg Server attack
I have a very basic question. From what I have read, it seems these unpatched servers were directly attacked remotely through the internet via port 427. So unlike other ransomware attacks, the malware ...
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Netapp Storage to HP Nimble cloud
We have a working Netapp Setup with FAS2720 9.7P9 Version connected to Fujitsu ESXi (VMWare 5.5). With multiple VMs running on 3 ESXi Systems but they are residing entirely on Netapp Storage.
We are ...
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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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ESXi Secure Boot VIB VMware_locker_tools-light_12.0.6.20104755-20491463 does not have signed XML data
[root@VMkernelPortESXiHost:~] /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -
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Secure boot CANNOT be enabled: All vib signatures verified. Failed to validate loaded tardisks: Errors:
[ValueError]
VIB ...
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I got a security threat message in (VM ESXi) Management Interface [duplicate]
I Have a server in (Leaseweb Germany Datacenter), VMware ESxi 6.7.0 Update 3 installed on it
the 'root' user have a very strong password similar to this level of complexity cK62AzW@$FMu
Today the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 error in virtual machine : net ads join -U gives error 'illegal instruction (core dumped)'
I am trying to join a Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 (running on VMware ESXi 7 hypervisor) to my domain.
All goes well untill the command 'net ads join -U admin-user'.
Then I get 'Illegal Instruction (core ...
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Windows Server 2019 VMware VM shutting down itself
This Windows Server VM is under host Esxi version 7.0 update 3. It's a DB server, hence quite critical in production.
Some points that I need to make:
The event occurs randomly (non specific days and ...
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ESXi 7.0 host on new Dell T150 looses settings at reboot
I've been struggling for days trying to solve this issue. I installed a latest 7.0u3 on a Dell T150 from USB stick. The host has 1 SSD and 1 HDD standalone disks. I used the SSD for the OS.
After the ...
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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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Dell PowerEdge t610 will not boot ESXI installer from USB
I downloaded the ESXI installer from VMWare for V8.
I checked and the MD5 matches with what's listed on the download.
I'm using a Mac to write the iso to a known working USB (using DD)
The server will ...
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Connecting Unifi Controller running in Docker on ESXi to default VLAN while isolating other containers and container host from default VLAN
I have an ESXi 6.7 host with 6 physical NICs. Those NICs are configured as follows:
vSwitch0:
vSwitch1:
The NICs assigned to vSwitch0 are physically connected to a Netgear switch who's ports are ...
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ESXi v6.7 udate - Frozen at 'enabling schedular screen'
I have a very old stand alone ESXi host which was running image ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001 . I did the below two things
1.Update the latest patch https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/esxi670-...
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ESXi command to check power supply status?
I need to check the power suppliers status of an HP ProLiant DL380 by ESXi to create/get a note that informs me if one dies.
By using the command esxcli hardware ipmi sdr list i'm getting pretty close ...
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Facing issue with installing Rocky Linux 8.6 on EXSI 6.0
I installed Rocky Linux 8.6 on Vmware EXSI 6.0 after installation when the system is trying to boot after the grub splash screen I am getting an error of Kernel Panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
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ESXI Linux Vm high memory usage but no process is using it
am facing a serious problem in our company server, we have Centos 7 machine on ESXI 7.0 with 26 GB of RAM, every week I have to reboot the VM to avoid full memory usage.
in the mean time I have 13 GB ...
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Can't install an Ubuntu Desktop edition (20.04, 22.04, 22.10) in a VMWare virtual machine
I can't install a recent Ubuntu Desktop guest OS in my VMWare ESXI 7.0.0 (Build 16324942).
Each time I try, the installation process crashes on the "Where are you?" screen (when you have to ...
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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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Increasing memory giving error in VMware ESXi
I'm getting this error when I tried to increase the memory of a VM in VMware ESXi
Failed to reconfigure virtual machine XXX. Unable to access file [VMS] XXX/boot.vmdk
boot.vmdk is already exist but ...
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RHEL 8 extend iSCSI LUN without reboot
In short: I´m building computer systems with mounted iSCSI storage. Is it possible to extend the iSCSI storage in live operating without rebooting the systems?
Details:
One LUN is planned with 5 TB ...
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iperf3 errors and retransmissions on ESXi
When running iperf3 to test a 100G connection between a VMware ESXi box and a TrueNAS Core box, I'm seeing the following on the ESXi box:
The message "iperf3: getsockopt - Function not ...
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FTP performance issues - VMWare, cisco etc
We are experiencing FTP performance issues. Looks like speed drops dramatically the more hops we are away from the server.
Cerberus FTP server, running on VMWare. 2 machines on the same VMWare host ...
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Change IDRAC password for a VMWare ESXI 7.0.3 VMKernel server?
I have a new server we bought from dell, a DELL EMC PowerEdge T440 that has VMWare ESXi 7.0.3 VMKernel Release Build 19482537 on it. Basically looks like a yellow/white/black bio's screen when I turn ...
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How to access the contents of VMDK file in the ESXi host?
We have a number of computers based on the old HP ProLiant Gen1 blades, and we are going to get rid of that. It is impossible to reinstall the software which is licensed and support requirement are ...
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ESXi 7.0.3 unable to start VM after a cancelled export
I cancelled the export of a VM via ovftool when I realised the partition it was being dumped to wasn't going to be big enough.
As a direct result of this, the VM cannot be powered on, with the ...
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Error promoting Windows Server 2022 to Domain Controller
I have a virtual Windows 2022 Server in a VMWare ESXi environment, and a WS2019 virtual in another host, which is my Active Directory Domain Controller. I've been trying to promote the WS2022 to ...
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why linux cloned VM has not assigned IP from original VM network profil?
Using VC7.
Any idea why cloned linux VM after start has no IP assigned ?
Only solution is use customize OS during Clone....
As I understood "Clone VM" should copy whole VM.
FYI: original VM ...
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after moving template to another DS : unable to create VM from this template
Any idea why after moving template to another DS, then I am unable to create VM from this template?
Only workaround is :
convert template to VM
storage vMotion this VM to another DS
convert VM to ...
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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
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ESXi Server has locked with .lock4 file suffix on all vmdk's after crash SAVE ME!
My ESXI server was running from a USB stick that got corrupted and as a result prevented my server from booting. I fixed this by reinstalling ESXI on a new memory stick and began re-adding all of my ...
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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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Cannot add ESXi installation disk to datastore
My server has 2 hard drives: 1xSSD and 1xHDD.
ESXi is installed on the SSD.
HDD is added as the datastore.
I can't find a way to add the SSD as a datastore too.
Here I see it:
But when I click on &...
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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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Update open-vm-tools
As per vulnerability CVE-2022-31676 I'm trying to update my Oracle Linux 8.6 systems open-vm-tools to 12.1.0. However, I'm finding that this package isn't still in the repository, so I have been ...
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ESXi rotate logfiles by hours
ESXI: 70u2
Hi,
I can't found "/etc/logrotate.conf", I understand he don't exist in this version.
In the file "/etc/vmsyslog.conf" I can specify some options, the split by size has ...
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ESXi Free Edition Physical CPU Usage
I understand that in the free edition of ESXi we can only allocate 8 virtual cores to the guest VM.
In my lab I have a PC with 16 Cores. Will ESXi use all 16 cores (which I believe it should) OR will ...
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ESXi: Changing Port for Management Network
I bought a 10 Gbps NIC and installed it in my Dell PowerEdge 540 that's running ESXi 6.7. I would like to use a port on the new NIC for my management network.
I swapped the ethernet cable to the new ...
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OLD ESXi Host needs to be upgraded however SSH is not working after being turned on
So I've been asked to look at an ESXi 5.5 host which needs upgrades/updates big time.
It is a Dell server...I've enabled SSH however the same root/password combination I can log into the GUI with ...
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ESXi free version licensing
I have my own VMware account that I set up when I needed to download the ESXi 6.7 installer to test on a Parallels VM, so I understood the install process. Reason being, I have a client with totally ...
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UPS network shutdown for Synology and ESXi, USB UPS
I have had a USB UPS for a while now and although I've never had a power outage with it and my Synology NAS, in testing it's worked great connected just with USB to the NAS. Now I've added an ESXi ...
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How to enable iSCSI MPIO Round Robin on ESXi 7
I'm running the free version of ESXi and a Synology's iSCSI SAN for storage. Synology details setting up Round Robin load balancing in the final step of their guide to setting up MPIO here:
https://kb....
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How to have two applications accessing a shared drive without isci config or shared lun?
We have a 2-node cluster configured using red hat high availability (pacemaker) but without shared storage i.e. each of the node has its own disk /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
We are not allowed to configure ...
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ESXI 7.0: can't label disk as SSD
I've got free ESXI 7.0 U3 installed on Dell R340. There are 4 physical disks Toshiba SSD PX05SMB040 in RAID 5 (1 virtual disk) controlled with PERC H730. Local disk is my boot disk i.e. I don't have ...
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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 set a time zone for ESXi VM?
I have several VMs that are heavily dependent on local time to start some services, and I want them to instantly have exact time at the moment of them starting. The issue is, there are both Windows ...
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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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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.
$ esxcli network firewall ...
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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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