Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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ESXi 6.5 - Guest Mem% doesnt match with Guest Resource Monitor memmory usage inside VMs
I have strange issue with ESXi Host : in preview of VM, it shows not valid Memmory usage informations when compared to Resource monitor inside Guest OS, as example :
VM name Assigned memory / ESXi ...
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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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Error trying to get disak space usage from discovered VMS using Zabbix
I am trying to create a trigger on a template called Template Virt VMware Guest in order to extract the % of free space of the VMWARE VM that has the template inherited.
What I did was:
Going to the ...
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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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Using an Ubuntu Server VM as a router for a private subnet on an ESXi host [closed]
I have some Linux VMs on an ESXi 7 host, which all have addresses 172.16.0.x in the 172.16.0.0/24 subnet. They are all connected to a portgroup called internal_network on my vSwitch and they can all ...
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Sending ESXI audit logs to http endpoint?
Is it possible to send audit logs from ESXI's (or better yet, vCenter) to an http endpoint via API/webhook rather than a syslog server?
Couldnt find a direct answer or a tutorial online.
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HP P440AR version 7.0 with Samsung 870 1TB drives - RAID6 esxi 8.02
I have a ProLiant ML350 Gen9 with P440Ar Raid controler, on which i added 6 Samsung 870PRO 1TB drives and put them into RAID 6 configuration with additional SSD drive with esxi 8.02
Everything went ...
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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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"active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019 [closed]
When I click "tools" from "server management" I find that "Active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019.
This happened after I used "...
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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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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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Getting started on Rest API with VMWare ESXi 7.0.0
I followed the basic instructions / read the examples at
https://code.vmware.com/docs/12016/vmware-vcenter-server-management-programming-guide/GUID-EE3B04C5-3968-41FB-82BB-0908FE08781D.html
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How to fix Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed:H
I am doing networking stuff after 20 years. I don't remember a lot. So please help.
We have a ESXi server with the following capacity:
Basically, we need to import the Cisco Firepower Management ...
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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 renew VMware certificate in Veeam
I had to reinstall the vcenter appliance. Since that the Veeam backupjobs fail with the error:
Task failed error: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure
Presumably ...
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Intel e810 nic RSS logic on ESXI platform
I am trying to decipher how RSS (Receive Side Scaling) logic works for Intel NIC on ESXI (Dell) machine.
] vsish -e cat /net/pNics/vmnic2/rxqueues/info
rx queues info {
# queues supported:8
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Permission denied for root to ESXi host
I have an ESXi host running a Windows 2008 R2 server VM with vCenter installed.
Upon joining the Host to vCenter, suddenly I could not log directly onto the host with the vSphere client using my ...
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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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Unable to connect to ESXi NFC (902) from one particular LAN segment
I have an issue with Veeam Backup & Replication backups failing because the Veeam proxy servers cannot connect to the ESXi host over port 902 (NFC). The ESX hosts are on VLAN65 and the Veeam ...
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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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How to mount an old disk back to the RHEL VM without reboot?
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I have added a second hard disk (500GB) to this RHEL VM. And then format, created volume group (storerhel2) and logical volume (store) for it.
I then mounted it to a newly created directory ...
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VMWARE ESXI // Create the datastore with VMFS disk without formating
We've faced the problem.
After the voltage drop, our RAID1 disks in ESXI datastore stopped working.
With the help of the master we've created an exact copy of one of the old disks on the new disk.
It'...
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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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vmtoolsd returns 'no value' when trying to read OVF env parms
From within a linux VM, I'm trying to read the OVF environment parameters using this command:
# vmtoolsd --cmd 'info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv'
No value found
I did check that vmtoolsd service is running....
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Ookla Speed Tests on VMWare ESXI Ubuntu
I just wanted to ask if there's any recommendation for performing Ookla speed tests from a Ubuntu ESXI Virtual Machine. We're getting 900 Mbps Download/ 900 Mbps Upload from a normal laptop using ...
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Veeam replica timeout
I'm encountering an issue during a Veeam replication job, specifically a "Preparing replica VM Error." The error message indicates: "A connection attempt failed because the remote site ...
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Vmware Virtual Machine Securing Access
I rented a virtual server from a hosting provider that uses VMWare as virtualization software.
If I remove the initial user from the virtual machine created by the VMWare admin and If I change the SSH ...
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How can I lower the ESXI acceptance level when a forced install has been done?
I'm trying to install a .vib on an ESXi server. This specific one needs an acceptance level of 'community'. I tried to set the level from partner to community as follows:
# esxcli software ...
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Adding subnet to a vsphere with single vcenter and esxi host
Let me start of by saying that I do not specialize in networking, I am in the process of adding additional VMs to a testing environment and wanted some recommendations.
In this case I am running a ...
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Cant make VmWare ESXI bootable
I am trying to boot Vmware ESXI on my dell PowerEdge 2950. But I can't seem to find an iso that works. when I use etcher I get missing partition table. Please help me
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How to remove inactive datastore from vSphere 6.0?
I followed this vmware guide to remove a storage device and replace with another. Everything worked fine apart from the fact the the datastore still show on the list as inactive.
During the procedure ...
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VMware - VM not getting DHCP address after reboot
We are having a strange behaviour in our ESX-cluster:
The Infrastructure:
we have 2 ESXi 5.5.0 build 2718055 in a cluster, managed by vCenter. We are using an Essentials licence, so we do not have ...
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vim-cmd connection refused in management console
I'm trying to manage VMs on the local management console of an ESXi 5 host (due to a problem accessing it through VI client and needing to do some VM management prior to attempting a reboot on the ...
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ESXI RAID : add an extend to existing VMFS datastore
I noticed in ESXI (6.5) there is option to create something like software RAID, but it is called "Add an extent to existing VMFS datastore", does anybody have experience of what it does and ...
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VCenter Adding Host - Error "conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL"
We have a new Dell VRTX box (2 Blades & Shared Storage). We are getting the above error when trying to add the second host. We've created shared storage(VDISK1) which both ESX hosts have access.
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?
I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot.
From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related ...
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How does VMWare vSAN's RAID5/6 work
BLUF: How does VMWare's implementation of RAID5/6 work?
Below is VMWare's chart for RAID5/6 in vSAN:
It seems VMWare is altering RAID's terminology. When I hear RAID6 I think two parity of something; ...
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Windows Server 2019 Essentials RAM Limit on ESXi VM
How does the 64GB physical RAM limit for Windows Server 2019 Essentials apply when it's run as a virtual machine instance on VMware ESXi?
For example, if I had 128GB of physical RAM on the server in ...
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how to run hyper-v like vmware
I have been challenged to configure and setup a HA Hyper-v Cluster that will never go down.
I have mainly only used VMWare for clustering and HA.
My question how can i run a Hyper-V cluster like a ...
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How to get the sound on a VMware ESXi virtual machine?
We are using VCSA 6.7 with five ESXi 6.7 hosts and multiple VMs are are running inside the ESXi hosts.
I have no sound card installed on the ESXi hosts but we need sound from VMs. Can we do that?
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ISO not booting using powwercli
Using below codes I am able to mount ISO to the CD drive of a VM and change the BootOrder of the VM
$CloneVM = Get-VM -Name "999_SW999OSTest_Clone"
$IsoPath = "[NPROD_LUN-01_DEV_3333] ...
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Promiscuous Mode on VMware capturing only broadcast
I'm facing an issue with using promiscuous mode on VMware. I have 3 VMs connected to a single portgroup on which promiscuous mode has been enabled. It's changed to "Accept". I am monitoring ...
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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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VLANs with ESXi over physical switch
I'm trying to setup a VLAN across my ESXi network and my physical switch network, but fail to get the VMs on the ESXi port group communicate with physical network. Specifically, my VM doesn't see ...
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ESXi 6: Grant SSH access to non-administrator user account
For technical reasons that I won't go into, I need to grant SSH access to an extremely restricted (maintenance-only), non-administrator user account in VMware ESXi 6.
However, according to multiple ...
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wmware p2v convertor failed with "Network is unreachable Network error"
I want to convert Ubuntu physical to Esxi vm
ssh connection to physical OS is OK on my network.
vmware convertor stops converting at 3% with
"Network is unreachable Network error. Host x.x.x.x ...
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VMWare ESXi + LetsEncrypt - SSL certificate renewal
With VMWare ESXi (I'm running ESXi 6.7), I'm regularly go through an SSL issue. Chrome & Firefox do not allow self-signed certificated provided by internal VMWare system.
In my case, the only way ...
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Moving w2016 image from ESXi to KVM gives message "No Bootable Device"
I'm trying to move a windows server 2016 image from ESXi to KVM, but I'm receiving the error "No Bootable Devices" when I try to boot it.
Here's the output of the command "virt-...
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Werid ESXi host mac flapping issue
We have some standalone ESXi hosts in our company. Recently we encountered a werid issue where the mac address of the ESXi host flapping.
Issue description:
I found that the IP of some esxi hosts will ...
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