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Questions tagged [vmware-vcenter]

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

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Is there something like a VM hardware profile to store VM specifications(vCPU, RAM, Storage) in vCenter?

I am looking for something like a VM hardware specification file in vCenter appliances. A template/file that can be used to deploy VM with the same hardware specifications.
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ESX, migrate hosts hardware to new hardware best practices

I have an ESX farm running the same 4 physical hosts (identical hardware) on vCenter 5.1. I received a bunch of 4 new physical servers with a newer hardware and I have to replace the old ones by these ones. What are the best practices to avoid any…
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Deployment of vCenter Operations Manager failing

I recently downloaded a trial of vCenter Operations Manager to deploy to our ESXi 4 environment. I wanted to test this software to see if it would be useful, but I cannot seem to get it working. First, I tried to import the .ova into VirtualBox,…
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Which hardware gives us better redundancy, performance, and cost efficiency for a large Enterprise Cloud Solution?

We are going to build a Large Enterprise Cloud Solution and would like to know in which configuration we would have a better redundancy/performance and cost efficient. Here are 2 examples which we're considering as good configurations to grow. Main…
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unable to get deployment statu

During VMware vCenter 7 deployment on the second stage of installation, after a reboot, when trying to log in https://:5480/ redirects to https://:5480/configurev2/#/ "unable to get deployment status" at the same time, the center itself allows…
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Host resources management - vSphere Client

I'm using vSphere Client version 6.7, having 2 hosts in a cluster. i want to know before i'm entering one host into maintenance mode, if the other host will be able to hold both servers resources. yes i know, i could calculate it by using free/used…
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Can't migrate VM in vSphere

Our Vsphere interface looks like this: So what we want to do now is above the servers folder there is a virtual machine called vvc3 (this is the VMware vCenter server appliance) We want to move that to the ESX6 host which runs at a datacenter…
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How to use the Ansible best practices repository layout with VMs?

I am (relatively) new to ansible and should set up an ansible repository to manage our contiuous integration infrastructure with multiple servers (version control, build, build-agents, ...). After reading about ansible best practices and layout, I…
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Changed Network Label on VCenter Server VM now Unable to Connect to Reset it Back

I didn't think it through, in vSphere on my vCenter Server VM I changed the Network from VMNetwork to VMotion. I did this with the intention of changing it back immediately, I sometimes do this as a trick on other VM's to fix an issue, however…
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Cannot get vCenter installed in VMware Workstation using OVA file

I am testing in a lab environment with the following setup: I have a Windows 10 laptop with VMware Workstation 12 Pro installed. I have create a virtual machine in Workstation running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have set up AD and DNS on it. This…
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Trying to understand vCenter Server 6.5 Installation

I am a bit confused as to how a vCenter Server 6.5 installation works. I am testing in a lab environment with the following setup: I have a Windows 10 laptop with VMware Workstation installed. I have created a virtual machine in Workstation running…
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How to assign ip address to machine in ESXi?

I installed ESXi 6 as a main OS on my dedicated server and want to create some machines on it now, but in virtual machine creation wizard I got an error about "Warning - this host does not have suitable virtual machine networks,...". So I checked my…
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How to install vCenter on ESXi host where both are on different IP?

I need to install vCenter server on ESXi host, but there is a constraint that- vCenter and ESXi host are required to be on different IP ranges, i.e vCenter server is on one machine and ESXi host on other.
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Deleting a .lck file in vCenter to release a VM lock?

I'm working on migrating VMs from esxi 4.1 to esxi 5.5. I was wondering if deleting the .lck file of a VM in the 4.1 datastore would let the 5.5 (connected to that same datastore) take ownership of the VM (by importing it)? It would allow me to…
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What do I need to download and how to I upgrade my vmware in order to get VDP?

EDIT: I leave the question as is. Apparently I missed the part that it was only announced, and was sure it's released, and I can't find it on my.vmware.com VDP [vmware data protection] was recently launched Assuming this is my Vcenter version When…
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