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VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc.

VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware's larger offering, VMware Infrastructure, and adds management and reliability services to the core server product. VMware is replacing the original ESX with ESXi.

VMware states that the ESX product runs on bare metal. In contrast to other VMware products, it does not run atop a third-party operating system, but instead includes its own kernel. Up through the current ESX version 5.0, a Linux kernel is started first, and is used to load a variety of specialized virtualization components, including VMware's vmkernel component. This previously-booted Linux kernel then becomes the first running virtual machine and is called the service console. Thus, at normal run-time, the vmkernel is running on the bare computer and the Linux-based service console runs as the first virtual machine.

Source: wikipedia

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Linux boot hanging after GRUB

Got an ESX server that's not booting after an array rebuild. Grub appears to be working properly, but I'm not getting any sort of response after the "boot" command. No error, no message, just a blinking cursor. I've rebuilt the initrd and run…
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Getting Partial / No Redundancy on VM's created on latest datastore

First some background. I'm in the process of upgrading my ESX servers from 3.5 to vSphere 4 and so far I have setup the new vCenter Server. Before I start the upgrade of the ESX, I needed more storage so I created 3 datastores from available space…
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Moving Datastores to different ESX servers

I have a bit of a tricky question. We are running Vsphere and our esx servers are connected to an IBM Ds4500 fibre SAN which has 8 enclosures. We have a virtual centre with 2 data centres. One datacentre setup for our esx servers in site1 and a…
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Login credentials

Is it possible to find login credentials for virtual Ceneter 2.5 database ? We used MS SQL 2005 server . May be there are configuration file for virtual Center database : IP , dsn , port , username ,password . Thank's
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Issues with doing a P2V on Exchange 2007

I shutdown all Exchange services on the physical box and did a convert. Everything converted fine. Server booted up no issues and I could receive email from the outside world with no issues. But I am unable to send emails internally or externally.…
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the best way to shrink a VM

my VM called "VMKASPER" (OS WINDOWS 2003, with a single 40 GB partition ), has generate the following files: -rw------- 1 root root 30752720896 Feb 23 09:40 VMKASPER_1-000001-delta.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 334 Feb 17 15:23…
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iSCSI SAN Availibility before VSphere install

We are a small business with about 30 users but thrive new technologies. I have been planning a brand new VMWare install for months now. I have a, hopefully, simple question for anyone. potentially relevant hardware configuration: -2 ESX servers…
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Poweredge Sc1425 wont boot after install

I'm trying to install ESXi 4 on a PowerEdge SC1425. I have the Bios set as SATA drives as opposed RAID as the install doesn't detect the raid, I've told it to install on drive 0 and everyhting appears to install OK but when it reboots and I remove…
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Using ESXi 4 with more than 1 physical CPUs

I found this sort of question has been asked many times, but unfortunately I was unable to find the proper answer for the case I'm describing here. Well these are the details: I got from VMware 2 licenses for ESXi 4 Update 1. One ist for up to three…
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ESX 4 question. Checkpoint NGX R70 SPLAT in VM

Has anyone been able to get VMXNET3 NIC working in subject VM, seems like it's missing a driver? I'd like the 10G connectivity. Thanks
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Storage location

I would like to know if it's possible to know where is located the storage. I've got an ESX 4 where Storage1 appears (vdf command). How can I know if this storage is local or not ? Thank you, Olivier
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How to reset VMware ESXi 6.7 root password

Is there a way to reset the forgotten Root password on ESXi host 6.7? We are not able to login on ESXi DCUI and Web Portal. It's our production ESXi and we don't want to reinstall ESXi. Please help us to fix that issue without losing any VMs. Thanks
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getting weird logs set to syslog after vrealize starts VM

I have found some instances of newly spun up VMs spewing a bunch of records out to syslog. The one I came across recently was a RHE machine running rsyslog. The times in the syslog records are way off the present ( sometimes in the past and…
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Server getting stuck while upgrading from ESX 3.5i to ESX3.5

i am getting the following error while upgrading the server from ESX3.5i to ESX3.5.. and the server gets Stuck. it says : Starting System Management Homepage:.......ok Starting HP Insight Manager Agents: ipmi_si : servching for PCI device…
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VMware dvSwitch & vCenter reboots

I'm on a vSphere4 course at the momnet and we've just covered dvSwitches. Our instructor is of the opinion that if you reboot your vCenter server, your dvSwitch goes "missing" for the duration of the reboot - so all your VMs lose network…
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