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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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HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server keeps crashing (full speed fans)

I have a problem with a HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server. Most of the time it runs fine, but after several weeks of uptime, the server crashes out of the blue. This happened about 5 times now. When it crashes, the OS (VMWare ESXi 5.5) stops working…
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ESX 5.5 with enterprise plus license but can not add more than 32 vcpu per vm

I have 40 available logical processors but can not allow vms to have more than 32 vcpus? what is wrong? how to fix this?
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Deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi server

Have someone succeeded to deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi platform? If yes, are there any instructions how to do that?
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Extremely slow disk speeds Centos 6

Setup looks as follows: HP Proliant DL380 G7 6 x 3TB Sata drives (surveillance level) configured with hardware RAID 1+0 with the SATA controller on board. Model is Seagate SV35 192GB RAM VMware ESXi 6.0 One VM guest running Centos 6.7 (Kernel…
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VMware Guest machine NIC errors

I am running Linux CentOS 5.11 with 32bit Arch I have seen NIC generating many interface errors [root@centos5 ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:97:C0:0E inet addr:10.0.0.211 Bcast:10.0.0.255 …
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CentOS 7 loses connectivity all the time after moving it from VMware workstation to ESXi

I have installed CentOS 7 x64 on VMware workstation 12.0, I built wordpress website on it and then after my colleague finished his decorative work, I used VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 6.0 to move it to an ESXi 5.5 host. Since I moved…
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VMWare ESX/ESXi Server Config with RAID 6 - is it advisable?

I am trying to spec out a server machine to run VMWare ESX/ESXi to host about 3-4 VM's. They will likely be hosting VM's running IIS, Apache and BIND. We don't have a huge budget for this and to a certain degree this is an experiment in…
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Centos 7 + ESXi 6: intermittent freezes with sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] task abort on host 0

I just installed ESXi 6 and I'm preparing a Centos 7 VM but it's having some strange problems. It randomly freezes any I/O operation that it's doing and keeps showing the following message in dmesg: [ 656.996856] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Failed to abort…
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Cannot add soap sensor in prtg monitor

I have a problem with my PRTG monitoring system. I need to monitor my server running VMware ESXi. My ESXi config : esxcli system snmp set -c ... esxcli system snmp set -p 161 esxcli system snmp set -t x.x.x.x@161/.... (sorry for x.x.x.x and ... is…
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VMWare Error: "No space left on device" when powering up one specific host -- even though there is space?

I have a CentOS 5.x system running on VMware ESXi 5.1.0. Recently, I rebooted and it failed to come back up. The error I see is: The error is odd though because my vmware host has plenty of space available: I can also power up other VMs on the…
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Local console does not appear on ESXi 6.0 server

A VMWare ESXi 6.0 server used to be controlled via a serial console, but now has IPMI card with VGA redirection. During the ESXi boot process, there's a running list of "Loading /xxxx.tgz", then "Relocating modules and startup the kernel". Nothing…
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PowerCLI - Network nested ESXi

Is there a way to configure the management interface of a nested ESXi Guest over PowerCLI? I'm looking to automate the configuration of a nested ESXi VM for testing customer configurations / clusters. I see that the Get-EsxCli command seems to do…
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VMware ESXi, uploaded virtual machines won't start

We just installed a new ESXi server to our office (LENOVO TS140, ESXi 6.0.0). If I create a new virtual machine on ESXi, it works well, but we have a lots of old virtual machines (not that old though, vmware workstation 10.0 and 9.0 Windows XP vms),…
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Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 in ESXi 3.5/ESXi 4?

Has anyone heard any announcements from vmware as to when these will be officially supported? Their website is a bit of a mess. I'm wondering if ESXi 3.5 will support them or ESXi4 ? Googling around only provides info about installing the RC version…
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Only one virtual host can reach the gateway at a time?

I've installed vSphere 6.0 and gotten one host up and running. But it seems that no matter what I do, only one host can reach the gateway at one time. Any other hosts brought up can ping other virtual hosts and the ESXi hardware, but can't get any…
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