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

VMWare ESXi is a type 1 hypervisor based virtualization platform that installs on bare hardware (no host OS required) that allows running multiple guest virtual machines simultaneously.

ESXi is available freely with basic single-server functionality, but more advanced functionality requires licensing commercial versions of VMWare vSphere (formerly known as VMWare Infrastructure prior to version 4.0). ESXi lacks the linux-based service console included with VMWare ESX, further reducing install footprint and attack surface.

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Monitoring Dell/HP Servers Running ESXi (Free)

What are you all doing to monitor ESXi servers that run the free edition? With the lack of SNMP support, it seems fairly limited to me. What'd I'd like to be able to do is get some type of alert when a drive or other hardware fails. I've seen a few…
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Configuration for a two machine ESXi cluster using VSA to present local storage to VMs

I'm designing a little vSphere 5 cluster for one of our remote sites. We have some IBM x3650s that have 6x 300GB 10K RPM drives in them, along with dual quad core CPUs and 24GB RAM. Because we use HP P4500 G2s at our primary site, we have licenses…
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VMware VMFS5 and LUN sizing - multiple smaller datastores, or 1 big datastore?

With VMFS5 no longer having the 2TB limit for a VMFS volume, I'm considering which scenario would be more beneficial overall:- Less LUNs of larger size, or More LUNs of smaller size. In my case, I have a new 24-disk storage array with 600GB disks.…
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How can I tell if a disk is failing on ESXi / what do these errors mean?

I have a server running VMware ESXi v4.1.0 348481. It has a hardware RAID10 and a SATA backup drive. I have a VM running which has it's primary boot vmdk on the RAID10 datastore, and a 600 GB vmdk on the SATA backup drive's datastore. The VM runs…
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ESXi 6.5 server (no vSphere) sched.mem.min error related to PCI passthrough

I have an ESXi 6.5 server without vSphere I've been running for a couple years. I have a VM with PCI passthrough of a cougar point SATA controller from the SM X9SCL-F-O motherboard. I wanted to move the CP controller to another VM, but no matter…
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How would I know if I should be disabling virtual NUMA on VMs running older applications?

From VMware's docs: Virtual NUMA topology is available to hardware version 8 virtual machines and is enabled by default when the number of virtual CPUs is greater than eight. You can also manually influence virtual NUMA topology using…
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iSCSI design options for 10GbE VMware distributed switches? MPIO vs. LACP

I'm working on expanding the storage backend for several VMware vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 clusters at my datacenter. I've primarily used NFS datastores throughout my VMware experience (Solaris ZFS, Isilon, VNX, Linux ZFS), and may introduce a Nimble iSCSI…
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Best practice for 24 Disk Array

we have just migrated for our old fibre SAN storage to an IBM v3700 storwize with 24 SAS 600GB disks. This storage is connected directly to two IBM ESXi 5.5 servers each with two 6Gbps multipath SAS controllers. Up until now, I have configured the…
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Implications of using VMware's templating and cloning for provisioning Linux servers instead of PXE

There seems to be speed benefits when using VMware's templates to create new VMs. However, I'm concerned about possible less obvious security and flexibility implications. For e.g.: First boot generated keys VMware proprietary methods of…
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ESXcli command timeout at 30 minutes

I am working on a powercli script to loop through each datastore in our environment and reclaim space on the thin provisioned LUNs. All LUNs in the environment are Dell Equal Logic. vCenter version: 5.5.0_1750787 ESXi version: Dell…
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Why would Linux VM in vSphere ESXi 5.5 show dramatically increased disk i/o latency?

I'm stumped and I hope someone else will recognize the symptoms of this problem. Hardware: new Dell T110 II, dual-core Pentium G850 2.9 GHz, onboard SATA controller, one new 500 GB 7200 RPM cabled hard drive inside the box, other drives inside but…
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How should I copy my VM templates between vSphere datacenters?

Background/Environment Architecture: My current environment for $corp_overlords$ is set up in a hub-and-spoke model with a technologically well-endowed home office hub (SAN, bladecenter/bladesystem ESXi cluster, fiber internet connection, etc.)…
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VMware vSphere cluster design for site redundancy

I have a question about the best design for site redudancy when using vSphere clusters. A bit of background info about our situation first though. We are a medium-sized company with two main offices, located in different countries. Our networks are…
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VMware vCenter/ESXi with FreeIPA instead of Active Directory?

Can vCenter authenticate against FreeIPA instead of Active Directory? If so, how would you set it up? We have a pure Linux environment (CentOS) and need to have vCenter and our VM's have the same users. vCenter is deployed as a Linux appliance.…
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Choosing between VMWare ESX and ESXi

We currently run one instance of VMWare ESX server, but want to start virtualizing more physical hardware with VMWare, while keeping the cost of VMWare licensing as low as possible. Is ESXi a good option or do we need purchase a new license for ESX…
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