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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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Virtualisation for Public Library PCs with vSphere Hypervisor

I'm working at a public library, we have 20 or so Windows 7 PCs available for the public to use. At the moment they use Deepfreeze to maintain the base state of the OS so that users can't mess things up. We use Clonezilla to deploy a sysprepped…
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How can I track down the cause of ext3 filesystem corruption?

We have a VMware vSphere 5 environment running CentOS 5.8 virtual machines. In the past two weeks we have had five incidents of virtual machines having a filesytem become corrupt, requiring an fsck to repair. Here is what we see in the logs: Nov 14…
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Is there a faster way to deploy an OVA template?

I need to deploy vSphere Server Appliance 5.1. I have vSphere Client running locally and my internet upload is capped at 3 Mbps. It says it's going to take about 200 minutes to upload. When selecting a URL as opposed to a local file, does vSphere…
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How to switch between Linux's virtual consoles?

I am using vSphere and would like to change to a virtual console in the guest OS. The problem is that when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 my desktop (Ubuntu) changes virtual console and not the guest OS in vSphere. Does anyone know to do this?
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bridged network problems running VirtualBox appliance inside VMware server

One of our hardware vendors supplied us with a virtual appliance that they said needed to run inside VirtualBox. That's non-negotiable - as it's designed to run as an appliance, they need some way of accessing the host server for support and…
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Booting Linux 2TB+ partitions

I am using VMware ESXi vSphere 5.0.0 and mounting a 6TB LUN from my Dell EqualLogic SAN. I am presenting the LUN using RDM (Raw Device Mappings) so as to be able to see all 6 TBs. So far, so good. Then I use Gparted to create multiple partitions,…
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Converting our budget-strapped dev environment to ESXi - how to maximize availability on the cheap

We've already run through the process of virtualizing our production servers and now we want to do the same with our dev environment. However, our provider took care of all of the ESX host and cluster configuration (SAN, physical switches, host…
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Will vmotion work between two servers of different cpu cores/clockspeeds?

I have a set of hp servers that are HP dl380 E5620 G7s that are used as ESX 4.1 servers. I have them set up to do vmotion and to do fault tolerance. I've just received another set of servers, however they are E5649s. The E5620s are 8 core dual proc…
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VMware VM with more than 2TB of disk space

I'm a VCP 4 so I'm aware of the configuration maximums for LUNs/RDMs/VMDKs in vSphere 4, but say I want to create a VM that has a logical drive bigger than 2TBs. The only ways I can think of doing this are: Creating the VM with multiple VMDKs each…
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vSphere ESXi 5.0 hosts syslog to Graylog2 - Mangled log entries

I'm just setting up graylog2 (which is awesome) to be a syslog server for my virtualised environment. All my hosts and switches are happily logging away to graylog2, which is drawing some pretty graphs. So far, so good. However, when it comes to…
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Best practice in deploying SQL Server 2008 failover cluster over VMware ESX

I am now in the process of building SQL Server 2008 Enterprise failover cluster for use with 3rd party server monitoring application (which also do some OLAP analysis for trends). Since this project will be using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise over…
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PowerCLI: Run commands in virtual-machine

We have several view-desktops and I need a script to be performed once on all desktops. Sadly, WMI is disabled. These desktop are all running Windows XP SP3 I thought I read about the possibility to execute commands in a guest-vm via VMwares…
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What does the vSphere 8 core maximum mean?

I'm configuring software that will need about 12 cores to run, but I am running it on a vSphere virtual machine, meaning that at most 8 (virtual) cores can be configured.[1] The physical machine that this will be running on has 24 cores available,…
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What's using all my memory?

SOLUTION: There's a lot of stuff to read in this thread, so i'll just summarize here to help. The problem is the VMWare ESX balloon driver which "inflates" the amount of memory "in use" that the OS sees in order to force the OS to dump caches and…
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vSphere NIC Teaming - Any reason for Active/Standby?

We're using ESXi and I'm wondering about the "NIC Teaming" options for our vSwitches. On a particular vSwitch with 2 NICs, is there any GOOD reason for configuring a NIC as Active and the other as Standby?. I always use Active/Active scenarios…
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