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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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How does the vCPU align with the CPU? (VM with more cores than the CPU has)

I have a VM running on vSphere 6.5.which has 24 vCPU's. The server has two physical cpu's (xeon e5-2699 v4) which have 22 cores and hyperthreading is enabled. How exactly are the vcpu's running on the physical cpu's? Would it be better to reduce…
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ESXi - Multiple Separate Concurrent Uplinks on vSwitch?

I currently have an ESXi server hosting a PFSense guest which is being used as an internet-facing router. This ESXi server is set up with two vSwitches (each with an associated port group): WAN - 1 physical uplink LAN - Connected to a few other…
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How do I set a password on an Ubuntu cloud image?

I'm trying to start on .ova with VirtualBox and want to import the same image later in vSphere. Ubuntu cloud images don't have a standard password anymore. I'd like to edit the .ova to configure a password. (and later SSH keys) The downloaded .ova…
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Shared storage options for ESXi HA cluster

I am seeking recommendations for shared storage options to support ESXi HA cluster (note I'm NOT asking for product/brand/model recommendation - I know this is against the rules here). I am asking for technology recommendation. The company I work…
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Is it possible to deploy VMware vSphere 5.5 without Windows?

I ran into an interesting client requirement recently. I needed to perform a greenfield deployment of VMware vSphere 5.5. This was to use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)... The main issue with this customer was that there was…
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High Availability Solution for VM on local Storage

Hi I have the following setup for using vSphere with HA: My problem with this is the finding some kind of reasonable HA for the database server. The IOP requirements of the database server are very high, as such the database files are spread across…
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Enabling VMware EVC on Westmere E5645 CPU only accepts "Nehalem" mode

Take the following system, a Supermicro VMware ESXi host with Intel Westmere E5645 CPUs. Part of our deployment process is to set the appropriate Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC) level for the vSphere cluster to avoid problems during possible…
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How do I copy an image in VMWare?

(I know this is a really noob-ish question, but I'm a noob-ish VMWare user.) I see where there's a function to clone a VM, but that appears to clone its settings (CPUs, memory, disk space). I'm hoping for, essentially, a complete backup including…
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Setup of HP ProCurve 2810-24G for iSCSI?

I have a pair of ProCurve 2810-24G that I will use with a Dell Equallogic SAN and Vmware ESXi. Since ESXi does MPIO, I am a little uncertain on the configuration for links between the switches. Is a trunk the right way to go between the switches? I…
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vSphere P2V Conversion without converting an iSCSI disk

I have a physical Windows 2008 R2 server that connects via iSCSI, over ethernet, to a SAN. I need to convert the server to virtual, but I don't want to convert the iSCSI volume to VMDK, because I don't have the storage space required. Rather, I'd…
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How to reclaim deleted storage from VM in ESXi 5.5 server

I have some VMs in ESXi 5.5 server. My ESXi server reached its maximum storage.It is showing 4 GB free space. I deleted useless data from one of my VMs about 300GB but ESXi 5.5 server still showing 4 GB space. My all disk of VMs are thin…
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Is there a dynamic inventory for VMware in Ansible?

The documentation for Dynamic Inventory makes mention of so many dynamic inventories, but none for VMware. I really liked the feature of tagging servers in Amazon EC2 and was hoping to re-create a similar system in our VMware environment. Fetch all…
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How to recover from "Invalid Drive Movement" (HP SmartArray P411)

Due to hurricane Matthew, our company shutdown all servers for two days. One of the servers was an ESXi host with an attached HP StorageWorks MSA60. When we powered things back up today and logged into the vSphere client, we noticed that none of…
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Is there a way to find out what cluster or vcenter an ESX server is on?

I need to be able to identify which cluster or vCenter instance some ESX servers are part of, but need to get this information directly from the ESX server itself. Is this information available in the vSphere API on the host system? Background: I…
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Issues customizing a RHEL7 VM deployed from a template on VMware

In compliance with VMWare's VM customization matrix, I am testing this out on vSphere 5.5 Update 2d. I create the template with a RHEL 7.1 DVD and point anaconda to a kickstart that looks like this: #version=RHEL7 # Ref:…
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