Questions tagged [vmware-esxi]
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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OTRS Database server keep increasing it's storage size, not working when deleting tickets with generic agent. how to save storage space w/o add sas?
Does anyone know what need to remove to save space in vm level, os level or db level in a safest way without ruining the server itself? I'm having a problem with short storage space now and we still ...
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VMware VMs using private network can't communicate with each other when on different ESXi hosts
I have VMs spread across multiple ESXi hosts (using Vcenter/vSphere). They have private addresses. Like 192.168.1.x. When on the same host, they can communicate with each other. But, when they are on ...
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Verify all drivers for all the devices are loaded in ESXi host
Host,
Manufacturer: Supermicro
Model: SYS-1029U-TN10RT
ESXi,
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 7.0.3
Build: Releasebuild-21424296
Update: 3
Patch: 85
Installed using iPXE, (not sure if relevant)
#!ipxe
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can't ping or nslookup outside the LAN
Ubuntu 18.04 cannot ping or nslookup outside the LAN.
When I do nslookup www.google.comit hangs for a while and returns ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reachedI cannot ping www.google.com ...
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VMWare virtualized e1000e: 2nd card failing with "Tx Unit Hang"
Ever since upgrading the only Linux VM with more than one network adapter to debian 11 it's been failing to get its second adapter to do anything.
The config is fairly straightforward: Two VMWare ...
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Allow user access to one hosted VM in ESXi web page and not the admin section
I was wondering if there was a lightweight way that we could allow a service providers access to one of our VMs through the web page but without access to the rest of the admin interface?
That is, if ...
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How to find out why a specific File is locked on my ESXI Server
I have a broken VM on my ESXi Server, after looking for the reason the VM isn't starting I found 4 files locked for some reason even when the VM isn't powered on. When I try to use "...
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Shrinking ESXi volume to reclaim unallocated space
We have a number of VMs (VMware ESXi) running Ubuntu. As a result of the installation time 'feature' which only allocates half the amount of the requested space, we have a lot of wasted/unallocated ...
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How to restore vmdk from two vsan node cluster?
I've setup 2 node cluster vsan and with a witnees host.
I usually run only one node and keep synchronized every night by open another node, after that i let one node in maintance mode and shut it down....
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ESXI 8.0 Host to NFS slow vs Guest to NFS
I have been trying to track down why my backups have been slow using ghettoVCB from the ESXI host.
I'm currently backing up my virtuals using ghettoVCB to a NFS share on TrueNAS from the host OS.
When ...
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Why does VMware count memory as storage and how can I disable this behavior?
Coming from a Proxmox environment to VMware I'm puzzled by this behavior:
It's a rented environment and I was asked how much memory/disk storage/CPU do I need. I didn't account for memory randomly ...
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Port Mapping - Dell FX2s Chassis with Cisco Nexus\FEX Switches
having some trouble with doing remote port mapping with dell FX2s chassis and fc430 blades\sleds.
the goal is to figure out what are the ports in nexus switches\cisco fex that the dell chassis 10Gb ...
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I need help to achieve (as close as possible) 40G network transfer speed (~1250 MB/s x 4)
I had a Gigabit network, which I upgraded recently to 40Gbps.
To do so, I replace my TPLINK switch with a Cisco Nexus 9396PX switch, which has a module with 12x 40G ports. The 40G network ...
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ESXi/vSphere storage has free space but VMs suspend due to lack of space
A three node ESXi cluster is managed by vSphere. It uses a vSAN storage which comprises from directly attached disks of the ESXi hosts. The total capacity is ~6TB and vSphere clearly indicates that ...
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VMWare ESXi Web Client access dies after some time
After applying IP filters on VMWare esxi's firewall settings for Web Access / Web Client rules, the allowed IPs work fine for some time like 5 hours.
Only the IP addresses I allow can access the ...
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ESXi requires a 4k monitor for a Mac server, how can I display this on a server room 1080p monitor?
Apple macOS is licensed for virtualization only if running on Apple hardware. VMWare ESXi 7.0 Update 3 has support for Apple's 2018 Intel (Macmini8,1). This works well. However, I need to roll around ...
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Are the drivers in the preboot environment for ESXi different than post? "No devices with free space"
I have an old Dell Precision I used to run ESXi on. Went to reinstall it, the installer sees both drives in it just fine on both 7.0u3 and 8.0.
However, after installation on the NVMe drive, post ...
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I want to remove ESXi hypervisor from a machine and make it completely bare metal? How can I do that?
I want to remove ESXi hypervisor from a machine and make it completely bare metal? How can I remove ESXi hypervisor?
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ESXi 5.5 -> 7.03 direct upgrade?
I'm looking into a long-overdue upgrade from ESXi 5.5
The server is a standalone, bare metal server at OVH
I intend to mount the iso over the virtual java kvm
Can I upgrade to 7.03 directly, or do I ...
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VMware ESXi 7.0 U3j Can't login via root after a few minutes
I can't login via root user at the moment . If I do a hardware reboot on the server , the problem is solved and I can login for just once before I'm locked out again after like 5 minutes .
I have read ...
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Open/rescue large vmdk files with little ram and HDD memory
I have a vmdk file (approx. 800 GB), it contains many large media files. Unfortunately, the ESXI VM is filled to the last bit. The attempt of a subsequent enlargement was already some years ago, so ...
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How to enable logging of commands run through shell script in ESXi Hypervisor?
On ESXi Hypervisor, If I run a command on the terminal via SSH, the commands are logged in the shell.log file, i.e if i run this command
[root@esxi04:~] ls -la
then I can see this command in shell.log ...
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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:
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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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