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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.

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P2V a MS Cluster Resource and not the cluster nodesvmware

We're looking to do a P2V on our file servers which are all 2 node A/P SAN connected MS Cluster. I see articles where people are working to convert the cluster nodes themselves and then have the MS Cluster running on ESX - this is not what I'm…
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completeSVMForVMAffectedByKB1003874.pl

So, had a client svmotion a vm to a new lun and use thin provisioning and hit this bug. figured simple enough, su to root and run the script here to…
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VMware Consolidated Backup - Availability in Essentials Bundle

I would like to know whether VCB is available in the essentials bundle version or I have to install the standard or advanced versions of ESX. Thanks.
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VSwitch confused with VMs in same subnet but on different VLANs

In a multi-tenant virtualised LAN environment it is likely that different customers will have VMs in the same subnet (eg 192.168.1.0/24) and be hosted on a single virtual server environment. The overlapping subnets are not a problem for the…
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linux + how to verify VM defintion disk after redhat installation

We have couple of Linux servers all them are VM red hat Linux ( and they created by the Vsphere client , ) I want to know how we can capture on the Linux OS the following 1.Thick provision lazy zeroed 2.Thick provision eager zeroed 3.Thin…
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Disaster Recovery for VMWare ESX

We need to formulate a plan for disaster recovery a VMWare installation. The components are two ESX hosts and a NAS unit. We're wondering what everyone here uses for their farm? We have a few ideas but wanted to compare with other system admins. The…
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3 NICs in VMware ESX 5.5.0 cannot connect to each other

I have a Vmware ESXi 5.5.0 hypervisor, installed on a desktop pc with 3 physical NICs. The first NIC is connected to the internet (WAN), the 2nd and 3rd NICs have Access Points installed (plugged in) to them. I would like to create a single network…
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ESX, migrate hosts hardware to new hardware best practices

I have an ESX farm running the same 4 physical hosts (identical hardware) on vCenter 5.1. I received a bunch of 4 new physical servers with a newer hardware and I have to replace the old ones by these ones. What are the best practices to avoid any…
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How to reduce time for cloning in vm?

1 . I have 10 hosts and i need to add 5 guest os to each host machine . Am cloning from one vm to another. It is taking almost 40 to 50 mins to complete is there any solution to reduce time to vms ? Thanks
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ESXi5 VMs are not startup in configuration of VMs startup and shutdown

my client site is 6 ESXi5.0, 2ESX for clone servers ..in this two esx configuration one for VMA servers for Plam secure device and one for APC UPS managers.. for this esxi VMs start up and shutdown configuration are startup delay time is 1 sec and…
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How to recreate a vmx file?

As the title says does anyone know how to create a lost vmx file? The files in which we still have are the associated VMDKs and the log file
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Vmware 5.1 Essentials Host with Ubuntu VM - Should I Raid the Guest OS

Possible Duplicate: Is it necessary to have RAID in a virtual machine? I am in the processing of building up a new VM Host with Essentials 5.1. The server will house several guest OSes including several Ubuntu Linux boxes. The host itself is RAID…
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freenas storage in esxi to host vm's?

I have previously set up freenas as vm inside esxi using raw disk access. I was wondering if would be possible/sensible to get freenas to serve iscsi targets to be used for other vm's on the same host. This would require booting up with freenas…
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VMware Setup on BL460C G7 performance

Considering this setup: ESXi 6.5 on HP ProLiant BL460c G7 in an HPE BladeSystem c3000 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5645 @ 2.4GHz 96 GB Memory Partnered with SB40c Storage Blade (6 x 240 GB SSD) with HP Smart Array P400 256 MB RAID Storage Controller The…
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Can't Access Vmware Esxi from GUI and CLI after polling from OpenNMS

I added Vmware Esxi ip in OpenNMS and configured SNMP for the same. After successful addition of node, I also added Configuration in /usr/share/opennms/etc/vmware-config.xml ( I am running OpenNMS in Ubuntu 20.04 ) for monitoring of Vmware Esxi…
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