Questions tagged [esxi]
VMWare ESXi Hypervisor Server OS
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ESXi PCIe passthrough of GPU recognized in guest OS but not functional
I have an ESXi server and am having issues passing a Radeon RX 5700 through to a Windows 10 VM. Windows sees the GPU, but reports that it has stopped the device because it has reported problems (Code ...
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How to get current snapshot name via vim-cmd on ESXi VMware hypervisor?
I'm trying to get a snapshot id which current machine state connected to. I logged to ESXi server via ssh.
Here is an example of vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get <VMID>:
Get Snapshot:
|-ROOT
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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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VMware ESXI Genshin Impact with Windows 10 OS (Hide virtualization from guest OS)
As the title says I'm trying to get Genshin Impact to run on a Windows 10 VM on VMware ESXI version 6.7. It's taken quite a long time but so far I've managed to set up a VM with a NVidia Geforce 2070 ...
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Attaching disks on vSphere VM with govc
I am having issues attaching an existing disk (vmdk) to a vSphere VM without an initial harddisk via govc.
I uploaded a vmdk which was tested with VMWare Player to the datastore on the ESXi ...
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Can I run vSphere Client and ESXi at the same machine?
Can I run vSphere Client and ESXi at the same machine? ... And is that a good idea?
I want to install ESXi with multiple images (Windows, Linux, etc...) and seamlessly use and switch between them.
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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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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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Differences between encrypting an actual PC vs a virtual one?
Are there any differences between using for example TrueCrypt to encrypt the system drive of an actual PC and a virtual one running on ESXi?
Are there any security advantages/differences?
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Block other workstations on WAN network accessing LAN of pfSense
I am using VMware ESXi to create a network with a test domain running Exchange 2007.
I'm using pfSense as the firewall between my physical network (which I am using as the WAN) and the VM internal ...
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Deleting Snapshots from LinkedClone Corrupts other LinkedClones
I am currently having a problem in which I have 3 LinkedClones created from the same parent snapshot.
The tasks I do consists of creating a lot of snapshots per virtual machine, therefore having the ...
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RedHat 5.5 Guest OS won't start on VMWare ESX4.1
We have a server with VMWare ESX4.1 installed on it. The physical machines has 2 quad-core CPUs and 16GB memory.
We already have up and running 2 VMs, each configured with 2 CPUs (=2 cores) and 8GB of ...
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disable IPV6 on specific interface with redhat on vmware
I tried to disable IPv6 on specific interface using IPV6INIT=no on the interface script.
its working great on all server accept ones that run on Vmware.
any idea?
im using redhat 5.2, on vmware ESX
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How to send CTRL-Alt-F[1-9] to guests in the VMWare ESXI Web Client?
How to send CTRL-Alt-F[1-9] to clients in the VMWare ESXI Web Client? I need this to access the other virtual consoles in the guest.
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"Active directory users and computers" are duplicated in my Windows Server 2019
When I click tools from server management I find that.
“Active directory users and computers” are duplicated in my Windows server 2019 and this happened after I used vCenter to move my physical Domain ...
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How to transfer a VM between two physically connected ESXI servers?
I have two Dell PowerEdge T440s, each with ESXI Version 7 update 2.
These are meant to act as a redundant pair and should have identical copies of the same VM on both in case one crashes the other can ...
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Vsphere 8.0 4k block size NVMeoF register device fail
I have encounter a NVMe-oF problem.
I have tried to use NVMe-oF drive with 4K block size through TCP as datastore.
And after doing command "esxcli nvme fabrics connect -a -i <ip_addresses> ...
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How to backup and restore a sparse file on ESXi
I've a thin provisioned virtual disk (500 GB) on an ESXi server (version 7.0.3) which I'd like to backup to an external USB disk and afterwards to restore it on another ESXi server.
The effective size ...
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Esxi Host - can't access via hostname anymore
Having had to reset router (Google Nest Wifi) i'm now unable to access my home esxi server via hostname. (I can still access it via local IP)
and nslookup of it's ip returns
>nslookup 192.168.86....
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VMWare Fusion - automatically connect USB device to remote ESXi VM?
I have an ESXi 6.0U3 server in my basement, and can access all of the VMs on it with VMWare Fusion Pro 11.5.7 on my laptop. This works very well, and can even connect USB devices connected to the ...
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How to force VMware ESXi to reclaim memory (manually with script)
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We have a VMware ESXi Server with 512GB RAM and we have 25 VMs with 64GB RAM with "0GB" reservation memory for VMs. They don't use all of their resources but we need to do this because they ...
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How to split large (vmdk) files on an ESXi 6.0 host?
I've got a server running ESXi 6.0 in a data center and I need to do some backup of it. Currently it has three quite large disk images (1TB, 500GB, 500GB) and I need to download those. The only ...
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Unable to deploy .ova file format, getting transfer failed when using ovftool
I'm getting a "transfer failed" error message. I tried manual and Ansible automation.
"Transfer Failed",
"Error: File (SLESOS-disk1.vmdk) could not be found.",
"Completed with errors"]}
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How to assign the VMware license key to a bootable USB (ISO image)
I have created a bootable USB using Rufus, but for every new installation I need to go to the Host and manually assign the license.
Is there a way to create a bootable USB with the license already ...
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New 1394B controller not being recognized in VSphere 6.5U3
I just added a StarTech PEX1394B3 controller in my standalone ESXi6.5U3 but I cant seems to find what to select to add it to a client on the host.
I have just the free version of ESXi6.5U3 on a Dell ...
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How do I prevent network issues from duplicate VMs in VMware vSphere?
I have a nested ESXi cluster for my VMware vSphere lab (just a single MacPro 1.1 host running ESXi 6.0). I have four VM templates that I deploy for testing, learning and labbing purposes (I do not ...
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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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LINT1/NMI purple screen Dell R710 with Vmware
I have an Dell R710 server with Vmware. An it keeps crashing with the following purple screen. Can someone point me to the right direction? I tried different versions of vmware and the same (6.0, 6.5, ...
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Add PCI Passthrough device to VMX file VMWARE
I have an ESXi 6.0.0 (build 5572656) and am able to add a PCI passthrough device (network card) using the UI. I'd like to be able to include this when deploying a VMX file. The VMX file I'm using ...
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ESXI Hardware RAID Solution
I'm re-purposing a machine to run ESXI and made a rookie error in that I did not properly understand the hardware requirements. The machine will run a range of linux distros which will then runner ...
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what is the recommended installation order for multi-boot OSes?
When it comes to dual-boot of Windows and Linux on a hard disk, it is recommended to install Windows followed by Linux, for bootloader to identify both OS partitions.
What is the recommended ...
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VMWare ESXi mounts datastore with different path after reboot
I know that ESXi is meant to be run 24/7 (mostly) but whenever I reboot (whether it's for maintenance or just because I'm fed up of the racket it makes), the datastore "Mandatory VMs" which is a 100GB ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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ESXi Network adapters into bridge mode from vSphere
I have an ESXi machine with a virtual network. I want to have physical computers be able to connect and talk to those virtual machines attached to the virtual network.
I am using vSphere 6.0 and ...
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Stale output in nagios for Esxi check
I have written a simple shell script that detects the invalid login attempts on Esxi(5.1) server and prints the output on screen as IPs with no of connections with failed attempts.
The script is ...
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Internet access to VMs via Vsphere ESXI 6
I installed Vsphere 6.0 on a VM workstation 11 and on booting it gave me an IP address (static) - 192.168.254.XX and i used the same address to log into the Vsphere Client.
In Vsphere Client, I ...
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Need help setting up pfsense in ESXi
I've been having this trouble for a while. I've tried several times to get it to work, and I cannot find the solution online so I figured I would need to ask.
I have a box running ESXi, and on it I ...
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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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ESXi + pfSense - NAT forward management interface ssh
question at the end.
Situation: (ips replaced by fictive examples)
I have a (remote) dedicated server, with 1 NIC, 2 IPs.
One IP (eg. 5.9.1.1) is bound to the physical NIC's MAC, the other (5.9.100.1)...
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vSphere 5.5 Can't tick "connect" for VM Networks
We are using vSphere 5.5.0.
Using the vSphere Web Client, when I create a new VM or add a new NIC to an old VM, if I tick "connect" for the VM nentwork, the task is completed without error.
But when I ...
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Fix an ESXi configuration issue with the Rescue System
I have described the context of the problem in great detail, however if you just want to get to the point, read only the last paragraph.
I was experimenting with ESXi on a box rented from Kimsufi. ...
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Nested virtualization on (OpenStack on ESXi on Windows)
For the last few weeks I have been reading a lot about OpenStack, Cloud Computing, virtualization, VMware tools and I have decided to try it. I would like to install, configure it and try it to see ...