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Best way to split large vmware vmdk disk to 2 smaller disks

I have a large disk of 8 TB on a VMware VM (filled with around 7 TB of data). I need to transfer the data / split the disk into 2 smaller disks of 5tb (as an example). Can someone suggest the best way ...
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how to make vmware workstation connect to esxi with a http proxy

sorry that english is not my mother language,something is translated by google... i setup a new exsi (also calld vSphere Hypervisor ?) in a lan vmware workstation 17 and exsi 8 if i use a pc under ...
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VMWare adding interfaces without reboot

I am using VMWare Workstation in my lab and have ESXi host as VMs. When I add a new interface in the VM settings the changes are not propagated in the ESXi host, I have to reboot it every time. If we ...
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IBM X3690 X5 Unable to Boot From USB "Initializing legacy usb devices"

I have an IBM X3690 X5 Server, which I have been using for my home lab. I have had ESXi installed for the past two years, and a couple of weeks ago, I decided to re-install everything from scratch, so ...
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Repairing Lost Partitions In RAID Array

I have a pair of SSDs in a RAID 1 array, managed by a Dell PERC H710 Mini. The disk backplane was replaced and the virtual disk disappeared, it has since reappeared but contains nothing (there was an ...
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ESXi v8 and GPU passthrough: "Module 'PCIPassthruLate' power on failed"

I have a machine (NUC 9 Extreme) setup with a RTX 3060ti running ESXi v8 on it. Now I'm trying to setup a Windows 11 VM on it with GPU passthrough. Unfortunately, the machine won't boot with the ...
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Virtual Machine on ESX hangs up when Hyper-V is activated

I have set up an Windows Server 2022 Virtual Maschine on an ESX Server. When running this VM it hangs up, after a period of time. You can access the machine by Remote Desktop, but it's reaction is ...
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Can I rebuild Esxi on a new SD card?

I am running ESXi 6.0 on an SD card on a Dell server for testing but it appears there are issues with the SD card. After a series of power failures: ESXi reboots but new settings are not saved after ...
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VMware workstation pro doesn't autofit server VMs in main desktop

New to Windows 11, I came across a very weird and annoying problem. I'm using "VMware® Workstation 16 Pro", and then using it to connect to server "File > connect to server" ...
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Does VMware ESXi support the emulation of a battery?

After a thorough digging in virtual machine settings and Googling, I can't find the answer. BTW, I'm using VMware ESXi 6.7 U2.
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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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VMWARE ESXI 7 - 2 NIC's Network Config. 1 for VM provisioning 1 for Management?

Good day lads! I'm somewhat new to any "non-out of the box configurations" in ESXI. I've used it on and off but never played around that much with it. Been more focused on Hyper-V. I have a ...
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USB3 HDD write speed Debian 11 vs Ubuntu 22 (ESXi 7.0U3 VMs)

I have two VMs running on an ESXi 7.0U3g host. Both VMs are installed on an NVMe datastore (FYI for comparison below, note "usbspeed" vs "nvmespeed" tests), and have identical ...
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ESXI Won't Start VM - Failed to create swap file

I have an ESXI system that I just updated to the latest release of 6.7. I shut down all of the VM's and put the host into Maintenance Mode, performed the update, and rebooted the host. After the host ...
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Open source USB redirector software from my Laptop to a VM hosted on Vmware ESXi

I have a VMWare ESXi host and Vms created on it. I also have a fingerprint scanner attached to my laptop. I want to access it over the VM created on VmwareESXI. After browsing the web, I found that I ...
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vSphere on same ESXi as VM-s

I have one question with I 'am bothering a little bit. I 'am new with vSphere and we plan to implement it to our company so now I' am in the process of learning and testing. So what I wont to know is ...
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ESXi graphics passthrough not toggleable

I am attempting to configure a new ESXi 6.7 host for passthrough graphics. On the IT provided host the GPU is available for passthrough. This is a 10 year old server repurposed for ESXi and not doing ...
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Version of the guest operating system in VMware ESXi/vCenster

short Why are some Linux distributions in VMware ESXi/vCenster differentiated by version numbers when creating a VM and others are not? long If you create a new virtual machine on a VM host VMware ...
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Get menu.c32 error when installing esxi

When booting esxi on USB via rufus, I get a menu.c32 error, as far as I know, to fix this error, you have to select the yes option. But after this, I will encounter connection errors and failed ...
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Qemu - Cannot connect to Guest ESXi

I'm running Qemu on Windows and I can't connect to the ESXi guest and can't ping the host network gateway from the ESXi guest. I disabled all other network interface on Host machine except the ...
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VMWARE ESXI 7.0.1 don't recognize RAM installed after upgrade

I have a Oracle Server X6-2 ESXi 7, I installed with two(2)x32Gb ram DDR4(for 64 in total), but recently I upgrade the server to 128GB, with other 2x32 Gb modules. The BIOS and ILOX recognize the ...
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Vmware: accidentally restored the snapshot how to restore original state?

I had restored accidentally restored the vsphere snapshot how to recover to original state?
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Is there any way to split a big file into multi parts and can combine them again?

Is there any way to split a big file into multi parts and can combine them again? In my case: I want to upload a iso file (2GB) to ESXi datastore: but there I get a issue, when I upload 4~5% the ...
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VM gone after hard reboot

I have a serious problem here. After I forced a reboot of a freezed ESXi server, a VM is literally gone. When I ssh to the host and run ls -lah inside the datastore, it returnes: /vmfs/volumes/...
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Access VMWare running ESXi VM from network

To preface this I am a Software Engineer and have so little knowledge when it comes to networking. I have ESXi running on a VMWare VM on my CentOS 7 server. I also have the Atlassian suite running on ...
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Nested guest VM on ESXI is not able to access internet but can access host

I am running x86 Ubuntu 20 on ESXI 7.0 (lets call this as my host VM). On top of Ubuntu VM, I am launching ARM64 RaspiOS using QEMU (this is my guest VM). So you can say I have nested VMs. From my ...
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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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Why in ESXi is the file size of a thin provisioned virtual disk the same size as the real disk?

When I create in ESXi (version 7.0.3) the following 3 virtual disks...1) 10 GB / thin provisioned2) 10 GB / thick provisioned, lazily zeroed3) 10 GB / thick provisioned, eagerly zeroed...all files (*-...
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Run NAS in VMWare ESXi to share datastore

Is there any official NAS software to be run inside VMWare ESXi to use datastore as a NAS withalong Plex?
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Esxi TPM attestation failed with "Internal Failure" on VCenter

How to enable TPM 2.0 on esxi host? when I connect esxi to vcenter it shows "TPM attestation failed" and the error message is "Internal Failure". This is the content of vpxd.log ...
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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 console image quality

Is there a way to increase image quality in VMware console - both in the ESXi and Workstation? I'm using it daily and really don't like the fact that image given from the VM is compressed - just like ...
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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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Migrating vmnics to DVSwitch : Operation Timed Out

This setup is in Workstation version 16.1.0 build-17198959 vCenter version VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-6.7.0.45000-16708996_OVF10 (6.7 U3 J) ESXi version VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201912001-...
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Esxi not reading all installed memory

So i have esxi with installed memory 12 GB The vmware reads 8gb only I have raid hardesk And SSD THICK PROVISIONS data store So why the esxi reads only 8GB?
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ESXI Cannot start up from Virtual IDE Hard Drive

After an power outage my ESXi at home cannot boot one of my virtual machines. When i start the VM I get the following error message: I already tried to connect via ssh to ESXi and ran vmkfstools -x ...
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ESXI/KVM with Windows 10 as daily driver

Would it be okay or even beneficial to install ESXI or any similar hypervisor on my daily driver and run Windows 10 as a VM? I'm not really hoping for major benefits so this is more of an experiment/...
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ESXi to Laptop via USB-To-Ethernet Adapter Issue

I have a Dell R620 server and has the NIC connected to a USB-To-Ethernet Adapter which is connected to the Laptop via USB. I can access the Dell Server and ESXi from the Laptop via the USB-To-Ethernet ...
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IP to name (FQDN) in browser URL

I have a small lab setup as follows. A Windows Server with DNS service (192.168.31.165/27) An OPNSense Firewall (192.168.31.131/27) An ESXi Server (192.168.31.197/27) Both the Windows Server and ...
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MPIO and ESXi 7.0 standalone

I'm trying to setup MPIO between ESXi 7.0 standalone (free license) and a SCST server. I created 4 vmknics (vmk1,vmk2,vmk3,vmk4) with IPv6 addresses (2001::1/64,2002::1/64,2003::1/64,2004::1/64) and I ...
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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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Resizing ext4 partition of a guest Ubuntu on vmdk on ESXi 6.0

I have rather old ESXi 6.0 that hosts a vm with Ubuntu. I need to increase the disk for it. I don't have vmware-vdiskmanager as advised in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004047
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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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Failed to authenticate Virtual Center Server due to network failure

I am attempting to setup a Vmware horizon proof in concept for my firm. I am using trial version of all of the below software, so latest and greatest from https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html I am ...
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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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vCenter login: An error occurred when processing the metadata during vCenter Single Sign-On setup

Recently, I took over management of some servers, and I can no longer connect to our vCenter to manage our VMs. We don't have SSO and as far as I know, we only have one account "admin". When I go on ...
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vsphere cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password

When I try to login to my vsphere environment, I get the following error: "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password." I am certain that I am using the correct login information ...
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Change ESXi security settings via CLI

Is there a way to change security settings of an ESXi (6.7u2) via CLI ? Standard advanced settings can be modified by the following command : esxcli system settings advanced set -o /Mem/...
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VMware ESXi old releases

I'm interested in the history of ESXi, to see how it evolved during every major update. However the earliest release I was able to get is version 5.5 Does anyone know of an archive, ftp mirror, ...
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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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