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vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. It acts as the cloud computing OS managing a set of VMware ESXi-based hosts.

VMware's vSphere is a cloud computing virtualization platform built around the ESXi bare metal hypervisor. vSphere includes popular features such as HA (High Availability), DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduling), vMotion (live migration of guests), and Storage vMotion (live migration of guests disks between datastores).

See the vSphere product page at vmware.com.

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ghettoVCB issue

I have setup a ghettoVCB script in order to backup three VM. I put it in a crontab but I have an issue. In my backup folder I have 3 different folders, one for each VM. In each folder I have the following files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1263 Mar 17…
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Is vSphere's Data Recover appliance 'production-ready'?

I have a smallish lab environment (16 x ESX4iU1 hosts and VC4U1) that I periodically want to backup. Normally in production we snap to secondary SAN boxes then have disk-based VTL backups via NetBackup which eventually migrate to off-site removable…
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Is there a way to send an ACPI shutdown signal to a VM in vSphere

I have some VMs in vSphere running on several ESXi servers. The guests do NOT have VMWare Tools installed and the tools cannot be installed on the guests. The guest OS can respond and do a graceful shutdown if it receives an ACPI shutdown signal…
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VM with Windows Server won't boot after restoring from ghettoVCB backup

I'm using popular the ghettoVCB.sh script to backup my virtual server, but I have a problem with restoring virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 (VM with all flavor of Linux OS do not suffer this problem). After restoring VM with Windows…
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Performance Manager - what counters?

We're currently looking at moving from a traditional Server environment to a SAN/VMWare environemnt. I've been asked to gather performance statistics for our main servers - DCs, File Servers, Exchange to see if it is feasible for our environment or…
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VMWare ESXI extremely high write latency

I hope you can help.. this is more of a sanity check just to verify my line of thinking at the minute. We've got a VMWare cluster setup that is networked to a high performance SAN. Everything performs nicely, running fio write tests I can get IOPS…
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?

I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot. From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related to a corrupted CTK file and, as I read on this…
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Highly available virtualized SQL Server on 2 ESXi hosts and one SAN storage

I have two ESXi hosts. I am planning on installing a SQL Server instance on each hosts and make them highly available. The two hosts are connected to one SAN storage. The storage is Dell EMC PowerVault and it supports both Dynamic Disk Pools and…
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VSAN: Initialization for SSD Failed

ITNOA I have two SuperMicro servers and install ESXI 6.0.0 on both of them and create vSAN with them and installs all VMs on vsanStorage. and each of them have two SSD storage with RAID 1 and two HDD with RAID 1. after power failure in my data…
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Advantage of installing VMs on dedicated vs native?

If I were to buy a dedicated server, what is the advantage of installing 4 VMs for 4 services (mail, Web, Database, Cache/other) vs installing everything on the dedicated server? Or is it more for reselling?
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NVIDIA QUADRO M4000 vGPU - ESXI 6.0.3 - GPU Passthrough

I'm trying to do a GPU passthrough to a vm (2008 64bit r2) ESXI 6.0.3. After the GPU passthrough and installing the NVidia drivers. I have disabled the VMWARE SVGA. Now in the device manager it shows only the Quadro M4000 enabled with the VMWARE…
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Using a high end NAS as a vSphere/HyperV Storage

I have a project on to replace the storage that our virtual farms are using. We replaced the hosts last year but due to budget constraints we couldn't afford to replace the storages until now. A high end NAS from a well respected company has come…
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How to optimize vCSA Tiny peformance housed over 100 VMS?

vSphere Cluster is 3x HPE DL380 G8 with 128GB RAM on board connected to 3PAR. The total number of running VMs is over 60. Although the vCSA deployment size is Tiny meaning there should be the enough resources to maintain the production, the project…
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Issues adding ESXi host to vCenter Server

I seem to be having quite a hard time adding a specific ESXi 6.5 (enterprise license) host to my vCenter Server (standard license). I currently have two ESXi 6.5 hosts running on Dell PowerEdge servers, and both hosts as well as the vCenter…
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What are the main differences between the vsphere_guest and vmware_guest Ansible modules and which should I use?

The vmware_guest is the newer module. I've been playing around with the vsphere_guest module, but facing some issues. http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vsphere_guest_module.html https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vmware_guest_module.html There is not…
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