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vSphere client connection to vCSA 5.5 fail to connect

vSphere client connection to vCSA 5.5 fail to connect remote server. I work with this machine for over 3 years but now I get this error when I trying to connect to vCSA to manage my ESXi(s): vSphere ...
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Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform

I have installed ESXI 6.5 on PowerEdge 2900 with 8 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz and 16 GB ram on it but whevever i want to install any other Linux host on it like PNET, EVENG and Kali ...
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It is possible to add esxi5.5 host into vcenter6.5?

The purpose is that we have vCenter6.5 and we also have some of the esxi5.5 hosts and we want to migrate it to vCenter6.5
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Can't format datastore\create VMFS on esxi 5.5-6.7 with adaptec 3405

Try to create homelab on esxi with two raid 1 disks for experiments. When I try to user software raid, I find what ESXI don't work with software raid at all. So I bought old adaptec 3405, this raid ...
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ESXi NIC in promiscous mode

I have configured an esxi host on a Hyper-V, but am not able to ping out or into the ESXI host. I have followed all practices regarding setting up a Legacy adapter, and turned off firewall. I have ...
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How to open Direct Console User Interface in ESXI server

I have an ESXI hypervisor installed on a server with centOS installed as a guest operating system and have it's terminal opened. I want to open Direct Console User Interface (that black and yellow ...
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Connect to VMware ESXi 5.5 Virtual Machine using WinSCP

I've been tasked with setting up an attack lab for my office. We have an ESXi 5.5 Server up an running with several virtual machines, however I've hit a snag; We can't have the lab networked at all ...
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Should I enable SR-IOV and/or ASPM in bios, on my ESXi server?

Relevant server setup is a SuperMicro X10SRi-F with the VM store via iSCSI LUN (not internal disks). I'm running desktop VMs (among others), so I have an nVidia Quadro 6000 + ESXi 5.5, the latest that ...
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Error in accessing root of virtual machine via PuTTy

I want to access root of my vSphere ESXi 5.5 Ubuntu virtual machine through PuTTy. So I loaded the public i.p. of the vm, and tried SSHing through port 22. This gave the following error: I went ...
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Can Windows automatically reboot when new hardware

I have some Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2 VMs running on ESXi 5.5. Some of our servers have slightly different hardware configurations (Some have Xeon E5-2660 CPUs and some have Xeon X5670 CPUs)...
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2012_r2 DC VM Guest OS stops responding

I am experiencing problem on our DC which is a VM hosted inside ESXi 5.5. Upon checking on the event logs I'm seeing this error before the DC stops responding, in which in return I need to restart ...
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HP Proliant Gen 8 Micro Server with ESXI installe connected to BT HomeHub

I have HP Proliant Microserver on its way, I intend on installing ESXI on it and have it physically connected to my home hub router. Now will I be able to connect to it wirelessly, from my Pc with ...
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VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5 recommended guest system architecture

I am currently setting um VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5 on a DellPowerEdge2900 and since it's an older server the following question came to my mind: Considering performance should I install guest ...
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ESXi - change screen for physical monitor

ESXi has a very pretty screen on the monitor attached to it (I have ESXi 5.5, not 3.5 as in the picture... but the screen is more or less the same and isn't the important part of this question): But.....
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CentOS 7 ESXi/VMware Hang on Boot

I installed CentoOS 7.0 1406 on a VMWare ESXi 5.5 hypervisor. I installed "Sever with GUI" and selected KDE. However on boot I get the following messages in under a second, before the process tops (...
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