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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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Independant Disks

Quick question... If the option for Independant disks is selected, and made persistent, does thsi now mean I cannot take snapshots of the disk? Someone has changed the deselected options to delected, so it is now independant and persistent, and I do…
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pfSense - expose LAN to the WAN network

I am at the point I really need some help to configure pfSense. I am getting no support from the IT and half of the time I am not sure things are not working because of me and my limited experience, or because the IT is not allowing them. I have a…
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What can I do with a custom TCP/IP stack in ESXi?

With custom TCP/IP stack, you get following benefits: Separate Memory Heap. Personalized ARP Table. Personalized Routing Table which helps avoiding routing table conflicts that might appear when many features are using a common TCP/IP…
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vSphere70u1 - How can the vCLS agent VMs provide Clustering Service?

vSphere 7 Update 1 added a new "vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS)" and according to the doc: Basic Architecture The basic architecture for the vCLS control plane consists of maximum 3 virtual machines (VM), also referred to as system or agent VMs…
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could not launch vCenter vSphere client

I just installed vCenter on an ESXI host (v7.0 U3): (my storage is only 256GB, so I choose "thin" mode) It seems that "vSphere client service" is healthy. And I can see linking page for vSphere client But the vSphere client could never be…
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New Epyc vmware host slow for .net applications

We have a EPYC Rome 7502 host running vSphere v7.0.3, and for .net applications we're seeing a performance hit of around 50%, compared to the old host which is Xeon E5-2630. The performance hit in the .net app is all CPU based. CPUZ suggests the…
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VMDK disk became read only & how to avoid such this cases on rhel machines

we have Kafka cluster with RHEL 7.6 , all Kafka are VM machines on one of the Kafka machines , we noticed that sdb disk became read only ( when sda is the OS disk ) mount | grep sdb /dev/sdb on /var/data/kafka_DB type ext4…
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ESXi installation PXE boot with GRUB on BIOS (not EFI)

all documents mention syslinux/pxelinux as a way to pxeboot ESXi installation, but I'd like to stay with GRUB 2. How to do that? I'm able, of course, to load GRUB 2 via network (i386-pc/core.0 for non-UEFI host) but then I can't figure out what…
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What is "esxcli network nic attachment add" used for in vSphere 7.0+?

In vSphere 7.0's doc it has a new CLI command: Command: esxcli network nic attachment add Description: Attach one uplink as a branch to a trunk uplink with specified VLAN ID. Options: --branch | -b The name of the NIC to be attached as branch…
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vSphere PortMirror: What does "Source/Destination" mean as in "Remote Mirroring Source" and "Remote Mirroring Destination"?

The following is from vSphere's admin doc: To begin a port mirroring session, you must specify the type of port mirroring session. Procedure Browse to a distributed switch in the vSphere Client navigator. Click the Configure tab and expand…
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Reinstalling ESXi - How to retrieve data

I have lost my ESXi password and I want to reinstall the ESXi server. How can I get the Vms up and running after installing ESXi since I am using Physical SAN to store them (including Vcenter). Please note I have 2 Servers
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ESXi/vSphere how to create nic team

I have essentially zero experience with ESXi/vSphere, sorry in advance if this may sounds obvious for some of you. I have installed ESXi/vSphere 7 on my server and I need to set up a nic team with the 2 10Gb adapters. I have to do this from console,…
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SLES 10 Sp3 VMware tools error on install

I installed SUSE enterprise server 10 SP3 on a Esx 4 server The problem starts with the installation of vmware tools. "VmwareTools-4.0.0-193498.tar.gz" The tools wont start: Unable to start services for vmware tools Paravirtual ISCSI module:…
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is there any deployment automation software that can create an encrypted vm in esxi?

I recently felt the need to encrypt my esxi vms and tried to find some way to do it with terraform but couldn't find an option for that in the documentation so I looked into ansible , chef with no luck. So my question is that is there anyway I could…
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Reasonable VMware Memory Overcommit Ratio?

As a "rule of thumb" what is considered a balanced VMware memory overcommit ratio? I could find official guidelines for vCPU:pCPU ratio but not for vMemory:pMemory.
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