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This tag should be used to request advice on issues involving a vCenter installation issue or configuration problem.

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Ansible-inventory of Vcenter that contains more info than just the vm name

I'm fairly new to Ansible and VMware. I've created a playbook to gather inventory info about all the VM's in a Vcenter instance and it works fine, but I want the inventory output to include more than just the VM names. This is the playbook I have…
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Disk access or VM slowdown, how to monitor

We have a dell host running several VMs that are all located on a dell power vault. Users have complained of intermittent slowdowns (like a long time to ls a folder, or taking longer to respond once we log in). They ALWAYS blame the network, but…
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vCenter "Recent Tasks" pane: How to make "Pick columns" customization persistent

Everytime I login to vCenter the first thing I do is uncheck a few columns in Recent Tasks > Pick columns. The vCenter just cannot remember my choice which is quite frustrating. Is there any way to make the customization persistent?
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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster

I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s. Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can be seen in the iDRAC logs and front LCD screen…
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ovftool import succeeds but VM is not able to be found

So I am importing a VM using the following command: ovftool.exe --name="test_VM2" --datastore="vsanDatastore" C:\Users\testuser\Desktop\VM_Exports\test_server.ova "administrator@vcenter.com/TEST/host/GPU Cluster" Opening OVA source:…
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vSphere Enhanced Authentication Plugin for SSO

I have recently configured a vCenter Server to monitor our companies virtual machines, and would like to use the Windows Sessionauthentication. The vCenter is already joined to the AD Domain, and i can log in with my domain credentials no problem,…
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Linux VM on IBM Power Machine to move to X86 hardware and vice versa

As we know, with VMware we can connect different x86 hardware like HP , Dell etc and can move VMs to different hardware without any downtime. Is there any solution available which can integrate IBM Power also along with ESX and Dell hardware. So…
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VMWare VSphere to AWS Backup with Hypervisor Plugin

Following along with this documentation, got the virtual machine up and hypervisor registered in AWS Backup console but when the backup runs I get a permissions error. When I try to run a on demand job it only let me use predefined AWSBackup roles. …
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Why should I enable promiscuous mode?

I'm currently using an environment lab for testing ESXi so I run nested ESX(two ESX are installed on ESX) The problem is I was trying to install vCenter on both of my lab ESX and at the end of stage 1 of deploying vCenter, I got an error that says…
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write shell script or other script on vCenter

esxcli is existed on vSphere. But I need to write script on vCenter and vCenter doesn't have esxcli command. How can I write script for vCenter?
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How to create Isolated test environment

I am very new to the VMware world. We have VMWare vCenter 4 in the production environment but we have created multiple VLAN through Cisco Switch. I want know, how I can create an isolated test environment for software testing purpose only, so…
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vSphere70u1 - How can the vCLS agent VMs provide Clustering Service?

vSphere 7 Update 1 added a new "vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS)" and according to the doc: Basic Architecture The basic architecture for the vCLS control plane consists of maximum 3 virtual machines (VM), also referred to as system or agent VMs…
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could not launch vCenter vSphere client

I just installed vCenter on an ESXI host (v7.0 U3): (my storage is only 256GB, so I choose "thin" mode) It seems that "vSphere client service" is healthy. And I can see linking page for vSphere client But the vSphere client could never be…
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ESXi v in v setup - distributed switch kills all interhost communication

On all distributed port groups I disabled all security settings and set everything to promiscuous. I've got a setup I built where I have three virtualized ESXi hosts. Their management vmkernels were on a standard vswitch - everything worked like a…
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LabManager - Assigning "System Administrator" to a User - Possible?

There are certain aspects of the LM UI that are available only to the System Administrator - is it possible to be assigned as a role to an LDAP, imported user?
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