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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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How to Migrate vCenter Virtual Appliance

I am looking to migrate a vCenter 5.0 virtual appliance to another machine with DAS. Is it possible to do this without vMotion and without breaking anything? If so, could one follow a similar process to migrating a VM without a vCenter server as…
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How do I inform my ESXi 5 host(s) of a power outage?

My APC UPSs all have the APC SNMP card so they are able to communicate over the network. From what I've been able to find the PowerChute program alerts the guest OS that a power outage has occurred but not a VM host. I'd rather alert the host (or…
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What vSphere data/reports would you like that you can't get now?

Bit of an open-ended question here sorry, hence why it's a CW, it's to help inform some toolset writers that I work with what direction to go with their new product, hope you don't mind. If you could create your own management tool for your VMWare…
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VMware Vcenter - benefits for small setup?

I am just starting out with virtualisation, in fact I don't use it for anything business critical because I don't know anywhere near enough about it! I currently have two HP ProLiant DL360's with 4GB ram and two 3GHz processors each. They both have…
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What is the best backup solution for VMware Infrastructure system that hosts a wide variety of VMs?

In a situation where you are running: VMware Infrastructure 4.x with multiple hosts Over 150 VMs with a wide variety of operating systems (Linux in a half dozen distros, Solaris, every MS version, etc.) in multiple languages with almost every mix…
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Updating ESXi, vSphere general questions

I am clearly missing some basic understanding when it comes to the upgrading process for my virtual environment. When upgrading through the virtual stack, I understand that there are multiple components that need to be upgraded and my understanding…
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Impact of adding standalone ESXi host to cluster

We have a vSphere cluster with 4 ESXi hosts; fully automated DRS and vSphere HA is enabled on the cluster. Next to that, we have a standalone host in vCenter which is also running some VMs. Reason for having this standalone host is because some…
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Hot Add feature + how enable the feature without power off the Linux machine

We have a VM Linux server, where the hot add feature is disabled in VCenter. For now, we can't power off the machine, and the feature is disable, so we can't add memory resources to the machine. So do you have any idea how to enable the hot add…
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How to Identify Disk Location on ESXi?

I have a VMWare ESXi 6.5 installed, and this ESXi is managed by vCenter. I recently need to replace some HDD to SSD, but I am not sure how to "blink" the disk so that I can pull it out safely. Update I'm using the HP server, I can access ILO.…
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Failed to get an SSL thumbprint of the target server certificate, when trying to install vCenter 6.5

I am trying to install vCenter 6.5 on windows as a standalone server and I am getting that error message. Does vCenter 6.5 need to be deployed as a VM on an ESXi host? If it can be installed on a physical windows machine, how do I get past this…
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VMware vCPU is the core of physical socket or logical threading?

As the title, My physical esxi has 2 sockets with 10 cores on each. 40 logical cores in total. I have this vm assigned 20 vCPUs, my question is that this 20 vCPUs assigned to this vm are 20 cores or 20 hyper threadings?
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VMware vCenter - Is rebooting gonna break the cluster

We are currently working on updating our infrastructure to the latest versions of everything but now we are stuck with vCenter. I would like to know if it is possible to update the VM appliance then reboot it without disrupting the vSphere Cluster…
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Can't import self-signed CA into vCenter 6.0 for Windows

I have a self-signed CA (root certificate) I use in our LAN to sign SSL/TLS certificates for other things such as pfSense itself, our HP iLO interfaces, and so on. Everything works fine here and we decided it was time to add the vcenter web…
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What data is lost when migrating an ESXi host between vCenter servers?

I am getting ready to remove some ESXi machines from an older vCenter inventory and add them to a newer one. I'm trying to create a list of all data that will not make the migration. Reading through VMware docs, I have already found that historical…
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Stuck increasing VSA storage cluster size

I am trying to increase the size of a VSA cluster in vCenter 5.5.0. I stopped all the VMs running on the VSADs-n datastores, put the VSA cluster in Maintenance Mode and started the Increase wizard in the VSA Manager. Unfortunately it seems to be…
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