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How do I connect an Ubuntu vm (esxi 6.5) to internet?

Learning vmare/esxi/networking in home lab environment I installed ESXi 6.5 on a macbook pro. Then I connected it to a macbook air with an Ethernet adapter (usb-to-ethernet on macbook air) Opened a ...
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Installing ESXi on Dell Inspiron 7720

I'm trying to install ESXi on an old Dell Inspiron 7720 laptop that I have laying around, but it won't detect my NIC. According to lspci -nn it's a Realtek RTL8101/2/6E [10ec:8136] NIC. I tried ...
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ESXI to run Windows 7 or 10?

Can I use ESXI to run a Windows 7 or 10 VM which acts like a desktop? Is is possible to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the server and use it like a normal desktop? I don't have any ...
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How to add new RAID-1 as second datastore on ESXi 5.5

long time no see, but there is a topic I need your help with. I'll try to be precise and short. Hardware: INTEL 1HE Server System (R1304SPOSHBN) (CPU and RAM are useless here i guess) Avago 4-...
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Server Connectivity Issue

This question is an extension of my previous question that is on hold at Server Fault here. I have done some further troubleshooting, and have found out the following through pings and packet captures:...
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Recover a ESXi system

I messed up a cronjob on my ESXi system that is now putting it into a boot loop. I am familiar with recovering a Linux system through mounting and editing the files, but I can't figure out how to do ...
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Hard-Drive not showing up in VMware vsphere

I have ESXi 6.0.0 running on an M5A97 LE R2 ASUS motherboard. Originally, I had ESXi installed on a 240GB SSD which ran out of space pretty quick. So I picked up a Western Digital Black with 1 TB of ...
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Do I need a physical switch to configure vlans in esxi

My home network is very simple with a cable modem and a physical wireless router with four ethernet interfaces. I have a server with esxi, installed connected to one of the interfaces. I do not have a ...
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VMRC console has disconnected ...I'm tired of uninstalling and re-installing the entire client

Don't have vCenter Server so we administer ESXi 6 hosts via the vSphere client. Often from some Windows machines we can't get to the VM consoles due to the error in the console window reading: "The ...
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Kernel panic when installing VMware ESXi on Virtual Box

When booting the ESXi 6.5 ISO image in VirtualBox I got a kernel panic. PANIC bora/vmkernel/mem/pshare.c:3241 [...]
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How can I modify a virtual disk (.vmdk) on a remote host (ESXI 5), while the virtual machine is off?

I urgently need help with this one. I have a server (ESXI 5) running a Windows Server VM. The preallocated virtual disk drive storing the OS ran out of space and the VM is failing to start due to this....
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Is quiescing a VM during a backup necessary for a consistent snapshot of the filesystem?

Do I need to 'quiesce' a running VM to get a consistent snapshot of the disk at a point in time? I do not care if there are unwritten buffers or if a running application is consistent with the disk. ...
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Running a DC in a VM on a File Server

I am trying to work out how to set up a new DC and File Server on one piece of hardware. I want to know what the best practice way would be and if I am likely to hit any major pitfalls in doing it in ...
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Running Virtual Box VM inside VMWare VM (Windows Server 2008)

I am trying to run Virtual Box VM inside VMWare VM (Windows Server 2008 64 bit) I am getting below error on booting virtual box vm. Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: VT-x is not available (...
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Can I seperate users in VmWare to only access their own VM's by default?

I am trying to create a practise enviroment in VmWare EXSi 6.0 using a single host where students could login using vSphere and create VM's for server install practise. However, I want to prevent ...
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Detailed info about server's hardware on esxi

I have HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 and on it VMware ESXI. I want to find out detailed info about the device, specially about harddisk bay and connectors, so to be sure if i can add extra harddisk expansion ...
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Recover Images / Data from Dead VMWare ESXi Box

tl;dr; How do I mount drives that use the VMFS file system such that I can get data off of them? I have an old (ESXi 4) machine. The mother board died. I am not going to rebuild another ESXi ...
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Nvidia SLI lag in Windows 10 build 1607 VM

On a fresh Windows 10 Enterprise (Build 1607) install in a ESXi 6.0 U2 VM, when SLI is enabled on a pair of GTX 980s, the cursor and UI effects will display significant lag when present on a display ...
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Installing ESXI - Fatal error 10

I'm currently installing ESXI on a brand new Server (I literally just took it out of the packaging). It errors out with the message "Fatal error: 10 (out of resources)" while loading /s.v00. I read ...
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How to transfer data from VM on vSphere to local system?

I have an vSphere ESXi with several virtual machines on it. One of these VMs is an WindowsServer2008R2. On this VM I have some data. These data should be transfered to my local system. But I am not ...
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How to add a SCSI disk to share between two Server 2012 in Vmware?

I'm trying to add a second disk as SCSI to Windows Server 2012. This disk has to be accessible to another Server 2012 for some load-balancing purposes. How do I create such second disk and share it ...
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Connect USB expansion drive to VMWare host (NOT to Virtual Machines)

I'm running VMWare ESXi 5.1.0 build 1065491. I'm trying to move all files for a VM from one VMWare host to another so I can replicate the VM. I can't download the files as it'll take 60+ hours, same ...
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Use physical ethernet port on vSphere client - esxi 6

I have the following setup: ESXi 6.0.0 Server is accessible through a wireless accesspoint. On a latop I'm using the vSphere client to connect to the Server and run my VM. The laptop has a Raspberry ...
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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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Delete log files from a ESX4 host

Recently when I tried to clone a VM on a ESX4 host, I encountered an error message saying that the ESX failed to create journal file. After some research I figured out it's caused by the fact that ...
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Can a Dedicated Server or VPS have more then one IP active

I am working with VMWare ESXI 6.0 to create Virtual Machines. I was trying to create a virtual machine with more then one IP binded to it. One VPS 3 IPs attached to it. I have created 3 nics and added ...
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Shutdown Esxi server over ssh

Is there any way to shutdown a VMware vshere server (Esxi) over ssh. I know Esxi is not really UNIX anymore so shutdown command will not work but the reboot command does seem to work. Is there an ...
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VMWare Remote Console "Portable" / VMRC

I need to use VMWare ESXi Vms from a remote location. I am looking for a desktop tool to access VMWare infrastructure Virtual Machines from a remote computer. A tool in the same line as the old ...
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Higher resolution not available Ubuntu 14.04 on ESXi host

The maximum resolution available for my Ubuntu 14.04 vm is 1360x768. However, the max resolution for my Ubuntu 16.04 is 2560x1600. Both are running on the same ESXi host with the same video card ...
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Keystroke delays at random times while accessing esxi environment through teamviewer

Hey All, So, let me explain my problem. I've got an VMWare ESXi lab environment at home, it is assigned a Free license. I have one Windows 10 VM set up as Management VM with the Teamviewer 11 client ...
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Correct syntax of vmkfstools command

I am trying to create a virtual disk: vmkfstools –c 100G –d eagerzeroedthick –a lsilogic xyz.vmdk I tried to execute this command inside xyz folder of data center (on a ESXI server). It keeps ...
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Linux + why dropping issue displayed from ifconfig but not from ethtool?

we have Linux VM red hat 7.2 version with two LAN interfaces the Linux machines are ruining on ESXi - 5.5.0 and we have very strange issue , the conflict is between the ifconfig command to ethtool ...
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Slow Boot: "A start job is running for /boot"

I'm running a CentOS 7.2 VM on ESXi 6.0, using thick provisioning, no CPU hot add and one virtual SCSI drive/controller. It runs fine, except that booting seems abnormally slow. I checked the boot ...
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Connect Physical NIC to ESXi Distributed Port Group

I have a Virtual Distributed Switch set up to create a series of layer 2 networks. Each of these networks is implemented as a VLAN and Distributed Port Group on the VDS. What I would like to do is ...
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How to add storage to VMWare vSphere without wiping the data

I have a question on how to add a storage drive in VMWare vSphere. Let's say I have installed ESXi, and I have 3 storage drive, and all 3 are showing at the Configuration tab in vSphere. Storage drive ...
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home and vmware lab on same subnet (AD)

I have a question about network topology. Namely, I wanted to set up a cluster vmware for testing SQL Server: fail over, always-on etc ... But I do not know how to reconcile this with your home ...
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Trying to upgrade my vmware lab from 4.1 esxi to 5.5 esxi

Trying to upgrade my vmware lab. I have a dell T410 server and recently purchased a 2 Terabyte SATA drive and 32 Gig of RAM. Successfully installed both. I also upgraded from vmware 4.1 ESKI to 5.5 ...
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ESXi 6.0 U1 + Solaris 11.0 VM = host CPU high (slowly climbing) but VM idle

I have ESXi 6.0 Update 1 (Build 3029758) installed on brand new hardware (Atom C2750, 16GB RAM). VM is Solaris 11.0 with 1 vCPU and 4GB RAM. Solaris was installed from sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso ...
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"vendor VIB for HP found, but host is VMware"-error while installing VM

I'll install ESXi in a virtual machine in VMware. But I've got this error: The problem is not what is this meaning but how can I solve it? Must I download a new iso file from VMware that is not ...
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Edit VM setting so he configurate like a 84-bit processor [closed]

How can I the virtual machine settings change from an ESXi5 64-bit machine so that I can configurate it like a 84-bit operation? I'll nothing change to my guest operation system! This virtual ...
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VMware ESXi running on an SSD with RAID 10 HDDs?

I'm looking to setup a VMware ESXi server to host a bunch of VMs. The VMs will be used as various servers and malware analysis machines. Hardware I'm working with: Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H (5 ...
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Can I play a video game on an ESXI server with a graphics card?

I have a Dell tower server near my TV at home which functions as a media server, web server, etc. It runs VMware ESXI 6.0. I'd like to be able to install a graphics card in the server, connect it to ...
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(sda) Assuming drive cache: write through hang on boot

I just install CentOS 7 on VMware EXSi 6.0 with encryption. and after the configuration and boot i got it hang with message: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through I did search on Internet and ...
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ESXI only 4.7GB RAM available for VMs from 8GB of RAM. why so little?

I have an ESXI 6.0 with 8GB Ram. For some reason I can only use 4.7GB for VMs. I tried using esxtop but didnt see anything using lots of RAM. Below are screenshots from vsphere. Can anyone help me to ...
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Install ESXi locally

I'd like to be able to boot a PC from an ESXi install CD, instead of installing ESXi on a host PC and then configuring each PC from there, I'd like to configure the PC locally and install the OS ...
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VMware - Protecting a virtual machine ovf/ova

I am working on vcenter server 5 standard. I am generating an OVA using vsphere client. Since OVA is a tar file, unauthorized user can get hold of the software. So i am looking at solutions to prevent ...
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Installing AC-7265 wireless drivers on existing ESXI 6 server

I have an Intel NUC5i5RYH with an embedded Intel AC-7265 dual band wireless card. My issue is that ESXI can only see the ethernet NIC whereas I want it to run on the wireless card. VMWare uses .vib ...
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ESXi + VCenter 5.1 Refresh Networks

I have a number of ESXi 5.1 hosts on VCentre. I have been consolidating our VMs. Previously we had 2 copies of all our VMs, a test and production, I've now been removing 1 copy of everything as ...
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How to increase usb transfer speed on VMware ESXi 6.0?

I have some Linux and Windows VMs on ESXi. I put external HDD to usb-port on ESXi server and added this drive to VM. Windows VM copied one big file to this drive with 30MB/s speed (drive was ...
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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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