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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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Stretched datacenter between cities

We're planning to implement a stretched datacenter between our two sites. The connectivity between them is a single 100mbit QinQ connection. We have about 500 users at site A and 200 users at site B. There is a very low amount of traffic being…
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Single-thread app 50% slower on VMware X5650 than physical E5450

Our application runs 50% slower on a Xeon X5650 under ESX than on a bare-metal E5450. A test task on the physical servers takes 17 minutes. The same task on the virtual servers takes 25 minutes: 50% longer. From everything I can tell, this should be…
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Rough estimate for speed advantage of SAN-via-fibre to san-via-iSCSI when using VMware vSphere

We are in the process of setting up two virtualization servers (DELL R710, Dual Quadcore Xeon CPUs at 2.3 Ghz, 48 GB RAM) for VMware VSphere with storage on a SAN (DELL Powervault MD3000i, 10x 500 GB SAS drives, RAID 5) which will be attached via…
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Connect to ESX Server with vSphere using Port Forwarding

I have an ESX server that I am trying to connect to. I have no way to access it currently other than using some sort of port forwarding. So I am doing it with SSH. I am reaching the other end and have confidence in my port forwarding because if I…
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How bad is it to use a virtual file system with VMWare?

IT is running a series of VMs that we'd like to see optimized further: if the VMs' are Windows XP, storing their NTFS images out to the virtual disk (ext3) provided by Linux/VMWare, how much of a hit are we taking - as opposed to having a partition…
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Slow Read/Write Performance over iSCSI SAN

This is a new setup of ESXi 4.0 running VMs off of a Cybernetics miSAN D iSCSI SAN. Doing a high data read test on a VM, it took 8 minutes vs 1.5 minutes on the the same VM located on a slower VMWare Server 1.0 Host with the VMs located on local…
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Exporting VM as OVA in ESXi 6.5

How can I export a VM in the OVA format with VMware ESXi 6.5? In vCenter (vSphere Client version 6.5) I can only export as an OVF. The same is true for the ESXi web client. The old application (VMware vSphere Client 6.0 and bellow) allowed me to…
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Uploading an OVA to vSphere as template, not VM

I'm interested in uploading an OVA or OVF template on local file storage to vSphere without immediately deploying it as a VM. Some things I've looked into: doesn't seem like you can do this through the Flash or HTML UI Terraform currently doesn't…
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Free ESXI 6.5 and API support

I'm struggling with API access to my Free ESXI 6.5 instance. Based on documentation there should be REST API endpoint on address https://server/rest. Also, there should be api-explorer on https://server/apiexplorer. But I don't have any of these…
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What are the options for attaching DAS units greatly exceeding 62TB Virutal Disks max size limit on vSphere 6.0/6.5?

Our new DAS unit is on the horizon and I'm looking for the best way to configure the storage. We currently use vSphere 6.0 but will have to upgrade to 6.5 when Update 1 is released as all HDDs in the new DAS are 512e (sector size is 4096 emulated…
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Cannot remove passthrough setup on ESXi

I have an ESXi host, but it does not have local hard disk. It use disks which are shared via fibre channel. Afterthat, I setup passthrough for the fibre channel. After rebooting ESXi host, we cannot find any datastores. And I also cannot remove…
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Running All Microsoft products vs VMWare/backup/AV for small network

Recently a company that I work for is getting IT advice to upgrade their infrastructure (for approximately 30 on prem users). We are a not-for-profit and get deep discounts on many products (primarily MS products). So our options are: Pay for VM…
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Anyone using VTL for backups?

I would like to know if VTL is really a valid option nowadays? Is anyone here using it and why actually? Does it have any benefits compared to a regular server stuffed with SATA drives in RAID6/10? Let me explain my curiosity: Our environment…
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Using dnsmasq to service multiple subnets

I'm pretty new to using dnsmasq, and I would like to keep utilizing it in my lab environment. However, being new, I am unsure what commands/files to use. I've spent two days doing research and learning how my environment was configured, and I am…
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Copy VM Snapshot to a new VM Environment

We have 2 separate VMWare environments, one is the main environment which has hundreds of virtual machines across lots of sites. The other is a much smaller one installed on one server, just for archiving old systems. What I would like to do is take…
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