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VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.

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ESXi 6.5 - Guest Mem% doesnt match with Guest Resource Monitor memmory usage inside VMs

I have strange issue with ESXi Host : in preview of VM, it shows not valid Memmory usage informations when compared to Resource monitor inside Guest OS, as example : VM name Assigned memory / ESXi ...
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how check expiration cert of VCSA vpxd, vsphere-webclient externally via curl?

I have some expired cert. in VCSA, any idea how can I check them via curl ? Is it possible ? I think that I can check externaly only machine cert, right ? I would like to monitor it externaly. cert ...
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Error trying to get disak space usage from discovered VMS using Zabbix

I am trying to create a trigger on a template called Template Virt VMware Guest in order to extract the % of free space of the VMWARE VM that has the template inherited. What I did was: Going to the ...
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Internal network exception on the k8s following VMWare vMotion

Our k8s cluster uses VMware VM as worker nodes. K8s version is 1.22.9, network is flannel, kube-proxy mode is iptables. A worker node with storage was moved with vMotion. After the migration is ...
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Undersubscribed ESXI host shows 100% CPU

I guess the question is more theoretical one. We have ESXI host with 48 Logical Cores (HT enabled, 24 real cores). We run 4 machines each provisioned with 8 vCpu. Each machine operates on 75% CPU on ...
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Using an Ubuntu Server VM as a router for a private subnet on an ESXi host [closed]

I have some Linux VMs on an ESXi 7 host, which all have addresses 172.16.0.x in the 172.16.0.0/24 subnet. They are all connected to a portgroup called internal_network on my vSwitch and they can all ...
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Sending ESXI audit logs to http endpoint?

Is it possible to send audit logs from ESXI's (or better yet, vCenter) to an http endpoint via API/webhook rather than a syslog server? Couldnt find a direct answer or a tutorial online. Thanks!
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HP P440AR version 7.0 with Samsung 870 1TB drives - RAID6 esxi 8.02

I have a ProLiant ML350 Gen9 with P440Ar Raid controler, on which i added 6 Samsung 870PRO 1TB drives and put them into RAID 6 configuration with additional SSD drive with esxi 8.02 Everything went ...
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"active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019 [closed]

When I click "tools" from "server management" I find that "Active directory users and computers" is duplicated in my Windows Server 2019. This happened after I used "...
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How to fix Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed:H

I am doing networking stuff after 20 years. I don't remember a lot. So please help. We have a ESXi server with the following capacity: Basically, we need to import the Cisco Firepower Management ...
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How can see exact number of ESXI RX dropped packet and not percentage as presented in esxtop

esxtop shows percentage of dropped packet on different ESXI ports. Is it possible to extract the exact number of raw packets that were lost instead? If the ratio of dropped RX packets to overall RX ...
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Intel e810 nic RSS logic on ESXI platform

I am trying to decipher how RSS (Receive Side Scaling) logic works for Intel NIC on ESXI (Dell) machine. ] vsish -e cat /net/pNics/vmnic2/rxqueues/info rx queues info { # queues supported:8 # ...
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How to extend esxOSDATA partition to use as datastore (or something?)

I have installed esxi 8.0.1 on a new HP G10 with the following config: USB drive as boot installation media for ESX A 2TB Nvme for esxosdata! Some other SSD as single RAID10 array. The problem is: ...
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Server's Disk Queue Length is high, but Disk Bytes/sec is lower than it's capable of

I have an environment running SQL Server on a Windows VMWare platform using a SAN with SSDs set up in RAID 6, and using Veeam for server backups and LiteSpeed for SQL Server backups. I've had a ...
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How to mount an old disk back to the RHEL VM without reboot?

Background I have added a second hard disk (500GB) to this RHEL VM. And then format, created volume group (storerhel2) and logical volume (store) for it. I then mounted it to a newly created directory ...
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VMWARE ESXI // Create the datastore with VMFS disk without formating

We've faced the problem. After the voltage drop, our RAID1 disks in ESXI datastore stopped working. With the help of the master we've created an exact copy of one of the old disks on the new disk. It'...
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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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