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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 export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter?

How can I export List of all VMs ( VMs network VLANs id ) in Cluster from Vcenter ? I don't see there any network details option. Using Vcenter 6.5 I tried this option. I only replaced Get-VirtualPortGroup to Get-VDPortgroup, but not works for me,…
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VMware vRealize Operations: super metric syntax issue

I have an issue with a super metric I am trying to build on vRops 8.6.2. The super metric is meant to be applied on esxi hosts, its purpose is to process the number of active lun paths that host should have, based on the number of datastore…
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Changing the disk type of vsphere VM using Rest API

I am looking for a way to convert my Vsphere VM disk type using REST API calls, like "Dependent" and "Independent-Nonpersistent". i was searching in the documentation for Sphere 6.7,could not find a way to perform this operation Can someone please…
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How to connect to VMs on VMware ESXi using physical connections

My site is using the V sphere client to manage the VM, and there is a KVM switch attached to the hosts(VMware ESXi, 7.0.2, 17867351). I'm wondering if I can use the KVM switch to access the VMs inside each host?
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Both C and D drives behave as non-persistent, even though i have set C drive as "non-persistent" and D drive as "Persistent"

Is it the disk, which behaves as persistent and non persistent or the VM? I have a VM on my vsphere with two disk drives ( C and D ), Both Drives are marked as THIN PROVISIONED. this machine is being used as a CI/CV node. C drive has the OS…
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vCenter "Recent Tasks" pane: How to make "Pick columns" customization persistent

Everytime I login to vCenter the first thing I do is uncheck a few columns in Recent Tasks > Pick columns. The vCenter just cannot remember my choice which is quite frustrating. Is there any way to make the customization persistent?
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Packer build with Ubuntu 20.4 and autoinstall with vSphere 7.0

I am trying to build a packer image with packer 1.8.1 and Ubuntu 20.4 My HCL manifest is correct but I always get the prompt with " Continue with Autoinstall ? Add autoinstall in kernel command line to avoid this" I tried many configurations without…
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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster

I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s. Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can be seen in the iDRAC logs and front LCD screen…
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ovftool import succeeds but VM is not able to be found

So I am importing a VM using the following command: ovftool.exe --name="test_VM2" --datastore="vsanDatastore" C:\Users\testuser\Desktop\VM_Exports\test_server.ova "administrator@vcenter.com/TEST/host/GPU Cluster" Opening OVA source:…
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http error 403 for vsphere login page

I am running a vcenter server, and created a desktop shortcut for the vsphere webclient login, it works well, but after a certain time, around 2 weeks the desktop shortcut will no longer work, and instead display a http error 403, if i mnually enter…
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Migrate Kubernetes storage from vSphere to NFS with StatefulSets

I'm trying to move all my persistent volumes from vSphere to NFS, I managed to do it for many applications that use Deployment kind. All I have to do is: Mount the NFS volume to a different path (/tmp for example) Copy the data from vSphere volume…
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vSphere Enhanced Authentication Plugin for SSO

I have recently configured a vCenter Server to monitor our companies virtual machines, and would like to use the Windows Sessionauthentication. The vCenter is already joined to the AD Domain, and i can log in with my domain credentials no problem,…
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Why should I enable promiscuous mode?

I'm currently using an environment lab for testing ESXi so I run nested ESX(two ESX are installed on ESX) The problem is I was trying to install vCenter on both of my lab ESX and at the end of stage 1 of deploying vCenter, I got an error that says…
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VMWAre OVFtool export fails with error "Failed to create directory"

I am trying to export a VM using OVFtool running on a windows server ovftool.exe --allowExtraConfig --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify "vi://xx.xx.xx.xx/myVM" "c:\myPath" Enter login information for source vi://xx.xx.xx.xx/ Username: myid Password:…
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Resource Pools and VMTools Best Practices

Are there any published (or non-published) best practices with using Resource Pools in a View environment? Using Shares/Limits etc...Also, when installing the VMTools on a desktop, are there any best practice configurations with running the tools…
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