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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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ESXi standalone host cannot power on any virtual machines

I have a standalone VMWare ESXi host on ESXi 5.1. It currently has a handful of VMs powered on, and they are running fine. If I try to power on any other VM - any VM at all - I am receiving the following message: Power On virtual machine:A general…
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Enabling VMware EVC on Westmere E5645 CPU only accepts "Nehalem" mode

Take the following system, a Supermicro VMware ESXi host with Intel Westmere E5645 CPUs. Part of our deployment process is to set the appropriate Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC) level for the vSphere cluster to avoid problems during possible…
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Software RAID underneath ESXi datastore

I'm building an virtual environment for a small business. It is based around a single ESXi 5.1 host, which will host half a dozen or so VMs. I'm having some doubts regarding how to implement the storage though. I naturally want the datastore to be…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection ( SEP / SEPM ) traffic volume management

My organization has a large deployment of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) (~20k clients) with a single SEPM instance running in an ESX VM. We do have many remote clients designated as Group Update Providers (GUPs) where possible. What our…
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vmware esxi 5, cant create snapshots and consolidate fails, how to delete old or consolidate redo logs?

I have a VM that seems to be working ok, but when VMWare DR (or I) tries to create a snap shot, it fails, and when I view the summary page of the VM it has a warning at the top showing that the disks need to be consolidated. So I go to snapshot…
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Does a nested ESXi lab need a trunk port group?

I'm following this guide in setting up a nested ESXi 5 lab on a single box. It has you create 4 ports for each virtual ESXi box, 1 on VMNetwork and 3 on a Trunk port group. It says you need to do this to be able to create VLANs on the virtual ESXi…
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Hardware disk error in ESX Guest, on a vmfs backed drive ... how is this possible?

How can a guest inside ESX find io problems like this? [ 40.601502] end_request: critical target error, dev sdg, sector 430203456 [ 40.601563] sd 2:0:6:0: [sdg] Unhandled sense code [ 40.601582] sd 2:0:6:0: [sdg] Result: hostbyte=invalid…
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automatically shutting down an ESXi host nightly

We just picked up a new development server that I've loaded ESXi on. The room it's in is well ventilated during the day but at night the door is closed and it gets quite toasty in there. I've been asked to have the box shut down nightly, as we won't…
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Pass through public IP addresses to pfSense

I have a server in my datacenter that has multiple publicly routed IP addresses, and I'm now running ESXi to manage it. Before, I had some VMs running under the host that created a network: inet [x.x.x.210] -- Host OS |-- .211 -- VM 1 \--…
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Moving ESXi installation to USB key

What's the best way to move a VMware ESXi 4.1 installation from a harddrive to a usb memory? I'm planning to install a fresh VMware ESXi on the usb key, boot it up, and then somehow transfer the configuration from the harddrive, is that possible? Do…
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Default Bios Options for ESXi Virtual Machine

Does anyone know of a way to set the default bios options of a virtual machine in ESX1 (4.1). Every time I create a new VM, I need to go into the bios and set the Num Lock in the bios. I was hoping to make it so that each time I created a VM,…
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RAID 10 or RAID 5 for multiple VMs - what is the best choice?

I have just ordered a new rig for my business. We do a lot of software development for Microsoft SharePoint and need the rig to run several virtual machines for development and test purposes. We will be using the free VMware ESXi for virtualization.…
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How can we remotely monitor VMware ESXI?

We have VMware ESXi on several servers, how can we remotely monitor for problems with hard drives, RAM, power supply or network cards?
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What are the most important aspects to consider when choosing a SAN for a small office virtualization project?

I am in the process of consolidating 6 physical servers running 6 different operating system flavors (don't ask) into two identical physical servers (Dell PowerEdge 2900), using the free VMware ESXi 4.0 platform. We will install an iSCSI SAN over a…
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Any opensource equivalent of virtual center?

We got 10 ESXi hosts running. We don't have budget for Virtual center licenses. Is there some free tool that just gives us consolidated view of all VMs with poweroff and poweron options for each VM.We don't need Vmotion, all other stuff. Thanks
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