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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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Why is vCenter 5.1u1 exiting hosts from maintenance mode?

This vCenter server was just upgraded to 5.1 update 1. I'm going through hosts and bringing firmware up to date, then upgrading them from various versions of 5.0 to 5.1u1. vCenter 5.1u1 seems to have an interesting new behavior: it's removing hosts…
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VMware Distributed vSwitches (VDS) - Design, theory, *real* use cases and examples?

I'm starting to explore VMware Distributed Switches (dvSwitches or VDS) for use in existing and new installations. Assume VMware version 5.1 and newer with Enterprise Plus licensing. Prior to this, I've made good use of standard vSwitches defined…
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How to manage a global VM startup order across the whole datacenter?

Suppose you have a fully virtualized VMware infrastructure: ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, the whole package. Inside, you have lots of VMs, which at any given time may reside on one host or another (that's the whole point of clustering, isn't…
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VMware ESXi - vSphere - Can't exit VM console access

I'm running ESXi 4.1 on a Dell T110 Server I connect to ESXi using vSphere vSphere is running inside a Windows 7 VM The Windows 7 VM is running in VMware Fusion on my Mac OS X system When I'm in vSphere and I've selected a VM and I click the…
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VMware ESXi: help downloading large ISO

I'd like to download a large OS install ISO directly to my datastore. I used to be able to SSH to the ESXi terminal and use wget to download large files directly to the datastore, but it seems that wget can't handle https links anymore (wget: not…
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"Unballooning" RAM that's been ballooned by VMware

Given the constrained RAM situation described in this question, what is the cleanest method (manual or programmatically) to: Identify VMware virtual machines whose RAM has been reclaimed by the VMware balloon driver. "Unballoon" the RAM. Assume…
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Disk shrink does not work on ESXi guests

EHLO everyone! My first post on the StackOverflow network :) We're running some ESXi 5.0/vCenter infrastructure to host mainly Debian 6/amd64 guest systems with ext3 partitions and open-vm-tools compiled from source per debian bug 471784. Got an…
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VSphere Client - Console missing bottom and right of screen

I just recently installed ESXI on a server for some basic tasks, but now I'm having a problem with my windows VM. The thing is, the bottom and the right-hand side of the screen go beyond what the VSphere Client is showing me (This happens with an…
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Hot-remove memory in a Linux virtual machine

Linux supports hot-adding memory when running as a VM guest, in VMware for example. (Sometimes you need to manually inform the guest OS.) Is there a safe way to do the inverse operation — reducing the amount of memory allocated to a virtual machine,…
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Find all virtual machines with ballooned or swapped RAM in VMware cluster?

If I were to look at a vSphere cluster or resource pool and see a certain level of memory ballooning or swapping, how do I identify which VMs are affected? I know what to do with them once I find them :) In the example below, there are 65 virtual…
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Is there a vSphere client for Linux, or will there be?

I have searched every corner of the internet (well, I searched really hard...) for a proper vSphere client for Linux, but it seems that the answer is the same everytime: VMWare tells users to use Windows. Is there any information on a vSphere…
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Do I need VMWare vSphere?

I'm planning use vmware to upgrade some of very aged server instead replace with all new bunch of server. VMWare vSphere sounds great but because of low budget I can't afford for both licenses and SANs. Without SAN, is vSphere worth the price? As I…
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esxi 6.5 how to turn off autofit window / automatic display resolution change

after I installed VMware Tools on virtual machine its resolution adjusts to the console window size automatically. It is not what I want - I want that the resolution of my virtual machine stays the same. It is VMware ESXi 6.5, where is only web…
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Vmware - Consolidation is needed, but I want to revert

Last night I took a snapshot of a VM before adding a new disk and running an offline defrag of Exchange (using the newly added disk as the temporary path). When I woke up today the server was offline, and when I opened vSphere I saw the message…
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Linux high RAM usage for unknown reason

after searching around for this and only finding posts of people who do not interpret the "cached" figure correctly, I decided to ask this question. I have some servers at hand, which act strangely. Namely, their RAM usage is very high, for no…
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