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Questions tagged [vmware-vcenter]
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Show guest memory utilisation in vCenter
Is it possible to record and show the amount of memory that a Windows guest OS is using in vCenter? In this blog post VMware recommends using the guest OS memory counter for capacity planning. However, the metric plots in vCenter are much more…
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How to patch vmware-esxi via vcenter
Our company is using a single vmware-esxi host (vmware-esxi v6.5) which hasn't been patched since installation. The VMs are a windows server and a vcenter appliance.
Using Update Manager I attached the baseline "critical host patches (predefined)"…
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Changing Vcenter and Esxi IP's
Guys I have a Vcenter with lots of Esxi hosts and all of them have public IP addresses in their vmkernel's (managment) and now we need to change all of them to private IP is there any easy way to do it? I have an idea but I can't test it right now…
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Reinstalling ESXi - How to retrieve data
I have lost my ESXi password and I want to reinstall the ESXi server. How can I get the Vms up and running after installing ESXi since I am using Physical SAN to store them (including Vcenter). Please note I have 2 Servers
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Can't access ESXi console after restart, vCenter is powered off
We have a vCenter 6.5 U3 hosted in one ESXi 6.5 U3, the host got restarted and vCenter wasn't set to automatically start, now vCenter is powered off and something is preventing us to log on ESXi.
If I try to log on web console I get 'Connection…
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vCenter network setup
Following design to be applied:
ESXi Host standalone
vCenter deployed on ESXi
Network-Config ESXi:
Config vCenter:
Error-Message:
Problem:
I want to have the vCenter management enabled on the internal net 10.10.10.200, so that I can…
Linz
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How to fetch the disk difference before and after adding a new disk
I'm preparing a playbook to find the newly scanned HDD from vmware, I used below filtering to fetch the no. of HDDs:
before_add: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_devices.keys() | select('string') | list }}"
OUTPUT- ['sr0', 'sda', 'sdb',…
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ESX host cmd to check if physical host went to battery
Trying to trouble shoot some issues on a server and see if it's related to loss of power, they have cheap APC that don't have logging or interface. I've checked the event log in v-sphere but don't see any events related to power loss. Wondering if…
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Hands on lab/testing with NAS
My company has acquired a VMware system with 4 hosts and unfortunately i have no experience with NAS. Can anyone recommend a method to play with or learn how NAS works?
The system is a production environment, and id like to know how to work on this…
Timothy King
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Is there any way to use/configure/manage VDP after flash technology has been phased out?
I have two VDP (probably latest version) deployed on the vCenter 6.5 with about 60 virtual machines backup.
Currently VDP plugin is not visible in the HTML vCenter interface and I cannot access any VDP for configuration or to restore virtual…
arturdebski
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VMware clone as backup
Having a couple of ESXi and a vCenter 6.5. I'd like to backup some of the production VMs i.e. have a "photo" of a known working state with all programs installed and configured for the purpose of restore operations (not data, of course) in case the…
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Failed Conversion with VMConverter 4.0.1
Received this error @ 57% on Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 conversion going to a VMWorkstation 6.5 image via network share.
FAILED: A general system error occurred: SQL_CANTOPEN:
unable to open database file
Running installed VMConverter…
montespcs
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VMware + how to limit the balloon memory on linux machine
We want to know if we can't limit the balloon memory on a Linux machine by tuning the value of -
Mem.CtlMaxPercent
for example is it possible to set 20% for Mem.CtlMaxPercent instead the default of 65%?
The target is to give more available memory…
King David
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Too many unwanted tasks done by vsphere.local\Administrator on Esxi host
We have too many tasks done by vsphere.local\administrator on some of our Esxi hosts (shown in vCenter monitoring).As we haven't done any of these tasks manually, I didn't find a key to the reason. The tasks are starting and stopping a service (the…
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Google Anthos setup with VMware on premise
I am working on proof of value implementation for Anthos on premise. I went through the VSphere requirements and found a standard requirement stack on the docs which frankly is Little high (on price n size) to implement just a concept.
Is there a…
