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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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Mirroring 2 Host with their own local storage

I'm trying to decide between 2 infrastructures. 1. 2 Servers host that point to a NAS 2. 2 Servers that mirror each other with their own local storage. Infrastructure Requirements: 50 TB of storage, Active Directory, SQL Server, Remote Access, able…
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Can a big VMware snapshot be deleted this way?

I heard that if you have a big snapshot to delete (keep the modifications) you should take a small snapshot again and then "delete all" so that the consolidation takes place in background. Is it a good way to manage big snapshots?
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copy live vmdk disk

Fairly new with vmware. We need to copy 2 vmdk files from the data store to a USB storage (Mounted on a VM on the host in question). The vmdk files are not the vmdks on which the OS resides; they simply make up a spanned volume on a windows 2003…
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How do I tune windows server 2012 R2 to handle NTFS file structure with 50 million files?

I have a developer utility that I will use to generate 50 Million files. The directory structure goes four levels deep. The top level contains 16 directories (years 2000-2016), next level - months (1-12), next level - days (1 - 31) and then finally…
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VMware vSphere 5.5 any authentication attempts fail

In a VMWare vSphere 5.5 Windows based environment, any authentication attempts fail (taking some time). The logs mention lines like: ERROR [IdentityManager] Failed to find solution user by subject DN…
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Transfer large amount of small files

I've to do a migration of two servers with large SAN attachments to our new VMWare environment. EDIT: I have to supply some additional intelligence as I have good answers regarding VMWare solution. Ok so, I can't attach a previous EMC LUN on the New…
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ESXi network setup for isolated internal virtual machines

Using ESXi v5.1 and vSphere, my networking is setup like so: One standard Switch: vSwitch0 vSwitch0 has one uplink physical adapter (Internet connected) vSwitch0 VM Network has 3 virtual machines (Web Accessible) I'd like to add several "internal"…
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Best way to provide redundant switching/links to server

We have 3x ESX hosts and 2x SANS that we wish to move to a redundant 10G networking infrastructure. We have 4x Dell PowerConnect 8024F's to provide our backbone and are configured as so (only core switches relevant to this question): So the…
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How to reliably map vSphere disks <-> Linux devices

Task at hand After a virtual disk has been added to a Linux VM on vSphere 5, we need to identify the disks in order to automate the LVM storage provision. The virtual disks may reside on different datastores (e.g. sas or flash) and although they may…
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Modify VM attributes from VMware CLI

There has to be a way to do this that I'm missing. I'm trying to modify attributes on a whole bunch of VMs at the same time from the CLI: Look! 24 VMs: $ vmware-cmd --server 10.91.1.1 --username root --password vmware -h 10.91.1.3…
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Setting a VM boot CD via PowerCLI

I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be a bug, but I'm definitely willing to entertain the possibility that I'm doing things wrong. I have a VMware virtual machine in $vm, and I'm trying to assign a boot CD for it. $vm is powered off. The…
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How do I delete ESXi vm snapshots using the least additional space possible?

We have a tree of about 15 snapshots of a virtual machine that runs Win2k8, as you may guessed our datastore is soon to run out of space. My objective is to delete all the snapshots, as it seems it was a huge mistake to use snapshots for backup…
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How to export a VMware ESXi 5 VM into a file to restore it later?

As I've bought a server it had a RAID controlleer which was not supported by VMWare ESXi 5, so I had to install it in a bare non-RAID configuration. Now as I've bought a supported RAID controller I am going to install it and, reconfigure all the…
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Migrate a vSphere server without vMotion

Is there a generally accepted way to migrate a virtual machine that runs vSphere from one host to another without vMotion? I have a small two-machine vSphere installation. There is no shared storage, and even if there was, vMotion is not licensed on…
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Which BSD best suited to run as VMware guest?

I want to deploy a VM to serve DNS and files (via NFS) to other *nix systems in my infrastructure. Due to reasons beyond my control, I need a very light OS, so I naturally choose the *BSD family. Can you recommend which *BSD is the best VMware…
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