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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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vCenter Heartbeat cluster Windows updates

We're in the planning stage of implementing vCenter Server Heartbeat in a P2P environment. The servers will be based in the same datacenter so they will be configured as a "LAN" type. I'd like feedback on how others are dealing with windows patching…
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vSphere HA: Automatic shutdown of VMs to free up resources

Assume we have 2 ESXi hosts with these machines: ESX1: A1, B1, C1, D1 ESX2: A2, B2, C2, D2 A & B VMs are the most important VMs for us. We have configured vSphere HA in a test environment. The two hosts have been included in an HA Cluster. By…
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Regarding CentOS 6.10 to CentOS 7 upgrade

I have servers in VMWARE, trying to upgrade the OS from CentOS 6.10 to CentOS 7, 1) redhat upgrade tool installed but could not find any proper base url to download the package from online. 2) Tried to upgrade via CentOS 7 iso, but it is failing…
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Hardware Status update

I am running vcentre 4.0.0 and the Hardware Status page is showing good information about my hosts but it doesn't appear to automatically update. If I hit the update link it does so but is there a way to schedule an update once a day?
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Best way to provisionning CentOS

I began my new work, it's in a small infrastructure but they often provisionning new virtual machines under CentOS. Currently they used template in VMWare VCenter but it's just a clone and when they want to modify the clone they have to provision it…
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How to connect a VM to the Internet in VMware vCloud using a Network Gateway CIDR

I am familiar with managing servers and VMs that have their own IP address and network connection, but am now trying to host a VM in a VMware vCloud and am a newb for this. I have created the VM and configured its webserver and iptable Firewall, but…
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vCenter moving VM from ISCSI target to different ISCSI target

In my server lab, I am running a vCenter cluster with 2 ISCSI targets. Both of these are directly connected to switch using SFP+ port. I assume, when I do such a process as cloning a VM from one datastore to another (say ISCSI 1 -> ISCSI 2), the…
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VCenter has failed, DHCP server is down

Our VCenter is crashing and technicians are trying to work on it, however this has resulted in the DHCP server failing, therefore none of the machines on the network can connect to the Domain controller or authenticate (except the people that were…
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Colocation server: where to install ESXi?

Sorry if this is a newbie question. I am colocating a 1U server and want to install ESXi on it. Given that a colo provider likely won't allow a USB key sticking out of the server, what is the preferred way to install ESXi in production cases?
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Is there any relation between VMware VMotion and VMFS?

I was studying VMware's VSphere suite, cloud computing virtualization platform. I could not figure out whether there's any relation between VMotion and VMFS in the suite? VMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one…
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What does the domain in vm host TCP/IP stack DNS config do?

We are pulling an Active Directory server out and modifying DNS settings on all systems. Attempting to update DNS list on a vm host results in a validation error that the domain value is not filled. How could this have been setup originally without,…
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Can ohai retreive the VM name from a node?

I am working on building an inventory using Chef and ohai. The plan is to pull relevant data from ohai and build an inventory "spreadsheet" that gets published on a webpage. Chef and ohai are capable of returning the hostname and FQDN, but can they…
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Vmware Vsphere 5.1 essentials all non administrator roles "not in use" and cannot be enabled

I'm currently testing datadog external monitoring services and I wanted to add our vmware hosts. With datadog you install their windows agent, and then the next step is to add a user in vsphere to the read only role. Unfortunately in my vsphere…
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SQL Express 2012 error when installing vCenter Update Manager 6.x

When installing a fresh VUM 6.0u1 VM I ran into an issue where if you choose to use the free MS SQL Express 2012 DB you get an error that says 'SQL Installation was not successful'. If you try to run the SQL Express installed directing from the…
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VMware licnesing for vdi and server virtualisation

I am planning to virtualise 50 desktops as thin clients(concurrent users). Well i will need 5 servers where 3 will be used for server virtualisation and 2 for desktop virtualsiation.All the servers will be Hexa Core with 2 CPU's.I want to know the…
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