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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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Is it possible to remove storage that's been added to a VM, but is not yet allocated to a disk?

As you can see in the screenshots, the VM has been assigned 250GB to a drive (Hard disk 2), but has been unallocated in disk management within the VM (Disk 1). Is it possible for me to remove that storage, or unassign it from the VM and add it back…
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How do i increase space on my vSphere Ubuntu Client?

So i want to increase the HDD of my Ubuntu 16.04.7 (where Redmine is running) What i did was in my vSphere client under Settings -> HDD -> i pumped up the gb from 20 to 100 Hit ok and vSphere started working, now i says that i have 100gb of HDD…
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VMWare ESXi remote syslog format

I've followed the documentation, host can connect to remote log port using nc, but no logs are received. As a remote syslog I'm using Loki and Promtail which only supports RFC 5424. Does ESXi ship this format? How the format can be changed?
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Salt Cloud Map File to Map Data

I'm trying to deploy a server using Salt cloud and the VMWare provider and I have developed a profile and a map file that works fine. I see however that there is a salt cloud module that might fit my use case better and I can call salt…
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Hands on lab/testing with NAS

My company has acquired a VMware system with 4 hosts and unfortunately i have no experience with NAS. Can anyone recommend a method to play with or learn how NAS works? The system is a production environment, and id like to know how to work on this…
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Migrate VM Proxmox to Vmware

I have a VM on proxmox with a vmdk harddrive on a IDE controller (it's a Windows Server 2019 VM) I want to import the HD into a VM on Vsphere (ESXi 7). I just copy the vmdk into the VM folder of the VM on ESX, clone the hardrive with the…
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Relativy slow transfer speed in vSphere

My configuration is: IBM X3850M2 with 4 Six Core CPU, 128 Gb RAM, 3x dual port network Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller For testing I created only 2 VM (Server 2008) which are both using the same vSwitch ( witk vmnic1 and…
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Adding vsphere storage provider to a running k8s cluster

We followed the k8s documents to create Highly Available clusters with kubeadm https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/. Our cluster is built with 3 masters & 5 workers using VM guests and RHEL as an…
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esx 4 - c7000 - cisco 3020

I have 4 blades with esx 4 installed in a HP c7000 enclosure. They have 6 cisco 3020 for hp switches in the backend. The plan was to use 2 switches for iSCSI traffic and the other 4 for data traffic. I am having a problem trunking the switches to…
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How to increase the free space in a Volume Group in LVM after expend VM disk size

We want to increase the space in a Volume Group in our VM centOS server For example from pvs we see pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VLwol lvm2 a-- <100.00g <5.09g the main target is to have under PFree the value - …
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ISA 2006 Ent with NLB configuration

We have created to virtual machines and installed ISA 2006 Ent and enable NLB configuration, each machine has two NIC one connected to LAN and other connected to DMZ, we are not able to ping DMZ subnet IP of ISA from another machine which is on same…
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How long has a snapshot been running?

Assume I made a snapshot of a certain VM one week ago. Today I revert to that snapshot, I think this means the delta.vmdk gets deleted (e.g. everything after the snapshot is lost). I think this also means that a new delta is created, from that…
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Esxi data stores showing as guid in shell, but not accessible in vSphere client

I tried installing an update to a 6.0 host and it appears to have failed. After rebooting, 2 of the NFS data stores are inactive (unmounted). Right-clicking them only offers to unmount. When I ssh into the host, though, I can see the shares in…
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Can a Docker Volume plugin be installed via Global Service in Docker Swarm?

I'm currently researching ways to provide stateful storage to docker containers in Docker Swarm. I've come across the vsphere storage for docker volume plugin (https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vsphere-docker-volume-service/installation-6/)…
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VMware + how to limit the balloon memory on linux machine

We want to know if we can't limit the balloon memory on a Linux machine by tuning the value of - Mem.CtlMaxPercent for example is it possible to set 20% for Mem.CtlMaxPercent instead the default of 65%? The target is to give more available memory…
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