Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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vmkfstools -I between hosts fails with does not support large files (12) error
I am trying to clone a VHD between hosts, and somehow I can't recreate something I did last week.
I have to use IP address for the destination as for some reason DNS isn't getting the HostName of ...
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ESXi using DHCP, IP is accessible, Host Name isn't
I have a brand new ESXi host, configured for dynamic IP via DHCP, and I can access the web interface with the IP address, but not the host name. I thought (with a very shallow understanding, to be ...
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ESXi 7 lost root password after update
I had a woring ESXi 6.5 installation. SSH and access to portal was possible.
I had the need to upgrad to latest ESXi 7. I updated it from 6.5 -> 6.7 -> 7.0.
After updating, the datastore was ...
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Qemu - Cannot connect to Guest
I'm running Qemu on Windows and I can't connect to the ESXi guest and can't ping the host network gateway from the ESXi guest. I disabled all other network interface on Host machine except the ...
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Cannot delete orphaned domain group from permissions on ESXi
I have an AD domain joined ESXi server (v7.0 U2) that does not longer have a connection to its AD domain. When trying to remove it from the domain, it fails with:
Failed to leave the domain domain.tld:...
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storcli cannot add diks to RAID10 - 255 Start Migrate not possible
list of Disks:
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EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp Type
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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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Co-locate VM on a single/set of core(s)
I'm trying to understand certain impacts of virtualisation on performance by running benchmarks on VMs. I'm considering ESXi and Hyper-V as the hypervisors. I wanted to know if I can pin a VM to a ...
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What does a Memory Device 1 A 4 yellow health status in Vmware mean?
I'm not exactly clear on what the above message means or how to troubleshoot it. My first instinct is a memory stick has errors / going bad and I need to run memtest to check this. This would mean ...
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Can I map multiple AD groups to multiple roles on ESXi?
I have an AD joined ESXi server (v7.0) without a vCenter server. I can map an AD group to the "Administrator" role by configuring the advanced setting Config.HostAgent.Plugins.Hostsvc....
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ESXi 7.0 mounting NFSv4 datastore unable to provision OVAs, NFSv3 works fine
We have an Ubuntu 20.04 host using ZFS and the sharenfs option:
root@host:~# zfs get sharenfs pool/enc/esxi
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What is VMWare Cloud on AWS?
If AWS is powered by Amazon's own hypervisor layer then What is VMWare Cloud on AWS
As I basically understand VMWare provides virtualization products such as VMWare ESXi, NSX etc. They sit in between ...
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CloudStack and GPU support
Is there any document for GPU and VGPU support in cloudstack version 4.14 and later? For example how I find out CloudStack support Nvidia Quadro RTX series or not?
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Migrating Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from hyper-v to ESXi
I'm trying to migrate a Ubuntu server 18.04 from hyper-v to VMWare VCenter 7.0.2. I found out after the fact that 18.04 is not supported by the VCenter converter 6.2. Is there anyway to successfully ...
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Cannot redirect Yubikey into VMWare Horizon VDI with Ubuntu OS
I am not able to redirect to Yubikey into the VMWare Horizon VDI. the guest OS is Ubuntu 20.04 I have install the vmware client & the required driver with the following command:
sudo ./...
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Alternatives to vMotion for moving virtual machines to a different Datastore
The company i work for is running a small virtual environment and has several virtual servers on 2 different ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter, for reasons relating to backup verification i need to make ...
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Can't Access Vmware Esxi from GUI and CLI after polling from OpenNMS
I added Vmware Esxi ip in OpenNMS and configured SNMP for the same. After successful addition of node, I also added Configuration in /usr/share/opennms/etc/vmware-config.xml ( I am running OpenNMS in ...
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Add secondary IP to ESXi host from different subnets
I have to add a secondary IP to an ESXi host running ESXi 6.5. My objective is to allow communication between some machines running on a different local network and the VMs present inside ESXi through ...
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A non-zero CPU ready (but host underutilized)
I'm having an issue with performance on a Red Hat VM, seemingly related to a Java process that seems to be quite heavy on processing and data. I'm been working through different things, but nothing ...
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Can't make Vmware ESXi 6.7 LAG on top of Dell VLTi port-channel
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I've configured dell 5212F switches with 2x100G ports into VLTi domain. For some reason - when I run show vlt 10 mismatch it show that both of switches have no roles. But they appear as should in ...
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What is wrong with ESXi VMKernel Port in Active/Active configuration?
I have the below, simplified configuration:
Essentially, I have an ESXi host with two physical network adapters. Each adapter plugs in to a different switch. Each switch is connected via a trunk port....
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Does configuring BIOS really solve ESXi CPU Contention?
There's alert coming up on our server saying CPU Contention even if we already isolate that VMguest from another high CPU consuming VMguest:
Alert Definition Name: Virtual Machine on a host with BIOS ...
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Two bonded 10Gb nics on an ESXi guest OS not using full bandwidth
On an ESXi guest machine, with Ubuntu 18.04 operating system, two nics connected from two difference vswitch, each of them has a separate 10Gb uplink.
I made a bonded nic from these two links with ...
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Changing VM network without restart the virtual machine in ESXi 7
I want to change my VM network from CLI.
I managed to do this by editing the .vmx file, but I need to Restart my VM for the changes that will take place.
I tried:
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off #id
change ...
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Unable to grow Windows 2019 C: system partition
I have a software vendor supplied 2019 Server virtual, with a very simple one partition setup. Unlike many of similar questions I've come across while searching, this one does not have recovery ...
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extend volume of CentOS7 VM
There is an issabel VM which I increased the VM hard drive from 20G to 1.07T through ESXi.
Next I add sda4 partition as new Linux LVM (following this path at step 22 ), seems I have to use vgextend [...
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Disk read metrics not showing for postgres activity
I've long noticed that ESXI wasn't showing disk READ activity for my Ubuntu Postgres database server. I figured maybe it was just a weird bug with ESXI, as it would show disk WRITE activity.
I decided ...
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Public IP to VM in esxi
So I had proxmox installed but boss decided to install vmware esxi in ovh vps so this is the scenario. I have a server which has esxi and I have purchased a bunch of Ips from OVH since I want to have ...
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Providing Guest VM to connect to Internet through Host on ESXi with only one adapter
I am new to virtualized environment. I have a bare-metal server provided by a hosting company which has ESXi 6.5 running on it. It has only one physical adapter, one Management Network and one VM ...
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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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IPv6 on ESXi with Hetzner
I'm having trouble with this one since I'm neither good at ESXi or networking so I'm mostly just following tutorials without being very sure about what I'm doing.
So I just followed this guide to use ...
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LSI Megaraid beeping after disk replacement
On my ESXi server, I had to replace a physical disk of my RAID.
Now that disk is replaced and rebuild finished, alarm continue beeping, and I don't understand by why, because everything seems to be ...
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VMware lock prevention error
I have a TrueNas connected via a 10Gbit interface to a CRS326-24S+2Q+ running switchOS. I also have a 10Gbit interface connected to VMware connected to the same switch. They are both on the same VLAN ...
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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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esxi upgrade - Upgrade VIB(s) "loadesx" is required for the transaction
Applying a esxi patch (from HPE custom esxi 7.0 to esxi 7.0U2c) fails
esxcli software vib update -d /full/path/VMware-ESXi-7.0U2c-18426014-depot.zip
Error message
[InstallationError]
Upgrade VIB(s) &...
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cloud-init userdata/metadata not loaded in ESXi
I'm using Terraform to provision virtual machines in an ESXi environment. I do this by having once manually imported the Ubuntu Focal Cloud Image as template and cloning virtual machines from it, with ...
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Esxi 6.5 WD Sata RED HDD Dead Slow
Using ESXI 6.5 Update 3 HP Image on HP ML350 G6 2X Xeon CPU & 128GB RAM, i know G6 is old but i can only afford that.
I don't have SAS drives but my G6 has 7 SATA ports, installed ESXI on 1TB SSD ...
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Failed to deploy OVF package. ThrowableProxy.cause A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 500
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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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Changing vCenter FQDN will affect to connect esxi servers?
I'm planning to change the fqdn (e.g vcenter.abc.com to vcenter.def.com) of vcenter server that connected with three ESXi servers. I want to know if I will change the fqdn with another DNS server in ...
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Vmware Esxi - Old 32bit software performance issue on multi core
I've been going crazy for 2 days now and I'm asking for help.
I have a program developed in delphi (early 2000s about) that accesses a firebird v3 database, currently installed on the same machine (...
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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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Cannot find the vmdk file to convert
I'm tasked to convert some VMWare virtual machines (which I know just a little about) to Hyper-V. I know I have to convert the .vmdk file of VMWare to .vhdx format.
The issue is that I can't find the ...
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Why is the clock out of sync on this VMWare Linux guest?
recently I noticed that the clock on this RHEL system running on a VMWare guest has gone seriously out of sync (uptime is about half a year):
$ timedatectl
Local time: Sun 2021-11-07 09:54:12 ...
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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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What's the correct way to set the time on ESXI hosts?
I tried doing it through cli with the following command:
esxcli system time set -d 3 -M 11 -y 2021 -H 14 -m 10 -s 0
But after restarting a guest OS (Windows), the time on it resets to the wrong one ...
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why a fresh ESXI installation only uses half of my SSD storage?
I got a very weird problem when installing ESXi-7.0 U3:
My SSD size is 256GB (or 238GB actually, it doesn't matter)
But after installation, login to ESXI, it only shows capacity of 110GB!
So how comes ...
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ESXi on KVM - Can't find network drivers
I'm trying to install a .iso on KVM using virt-install successfully - however from 2 disk images (one Debain, the other ESXi) I am not able to attain network connectivity.
Here's some output trying to ...
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ESXi Host backup including extra vibs
I have a licensed ESXI Host with a couple of extra vibs (Chelsio, NVidia, dell) installed. I also have vcenter standard. More that I like to I discover that I have to reinstall the host, e.g. VMware ...
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Active Backup for Business external VM
I am currently playing around with "Active Backup for Business" and an esxi Hypervisor hosted EXTERNALLY by "Hetzner", a Cloud provider.
My goal is that when one of my servers fail ...
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