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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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NFS Datastore Appears Empty!

I've got an NFS server problem. The datastore connected and seems to be a valid datastore in both the vSphere client and under /vmfs/volumes. The issue is that it appears to be empty! I can create files (eg: touch /vmfs/volumes/nfs_common/thefile)…
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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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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 create templates in vmware esx 6.7

In the esx 6.7 version, there is no template creation option. I tried this link, but no options available as shown. This is for creating templates, these options also not visible. Please suggest. FYI, I am using the root account and it is a licensed…
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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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Creating a VSAN datastore

I am trying to set up my first HA cluster and I have some hard time digging into VSAN datastores. I have two ESXi hosts both with two 480 SSD hard drives in RAID 1 Can I add the existing hosts' disks to VSAN datastore? As far as I know, the ESXi…
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ESXi Passthrough hard drive to use ZFS on VM

I have ESXI 6.7 installed on my r710. I have 1 2TB drive that's being used as the boot drive for ESXi and the VMs. I have 3 4TB drives that will be large storage. I want to send the 4TB disks directly to the VM so the raid can be handled with…
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Standard vSwitch static LAG with iSCSI hardware initiators - impossible configuration?

In one site, we have vSphere hosts with 2 10G NICs. Both NICs are in one vSwitch failover policy IP Hash for static LAG (this is to balance/failover VM traffic) Both NICs (HPE 534FLR-SFP+/QLogic 57810) have hardware iSCSI initiators enabled Each…
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vsphere network design for vsan and ft-enabled cluster

I am looking for some recommendations on the network design for my ha-ft and all-flash-vsan-enabled vsphere cluster. I've planed around vsphere a bit, but newbie to vsan and ha/ft. I've Googled and searched here on StackExchange, but I just can't…
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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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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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Deploy OVF Package Fails

Using vSphere client I am trying to import a VM that was exported from VirtualBox. I exported an .ova file from VirtualBox, I then used VMVware OVF Tool to modify the file .ova and create the following three files; myVm.mf myVm.ovf myVm.vmdk When…
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PowerChute for VMware ESX4

I am looking for a free way of installing PowerChute for VMWare. The 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 Linux versions do not support VMWare ESX even though I think prior versions did. APC is now charging $100 for the install CD which I think is a joke considering…
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How to remove inactive datastore from vSphere 6.0?

I followed this vmware guide to remove a storage device and replace with another. Everything worked fine apart from the fact the the datastore still show on the list as inactive. During the procedure I'm supposed to: unmount the datastore detach…
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