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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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Install ESX4 on Intel board S5500BC, using board's SW raid?

HW System is Intel SR1630, based on Intel board S5500BC + Two 320 GB Sata drives. Drives are installed, configured and initialized as Raid-0 (mirror), using Intel's server deployment sw. When trying to install ESX4 (either b164009 or 4.1 Beta) on…
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Google Anthos setup with VMware on premise

I am working on proof of value implementation for Anthos on premise. I went through the VSphere requirements and found a standard requirement stack on the docs which frankly is Little high (on price n size) to implement just a concept. Is there a…
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Google Cloud Platform not checked[VMware Engine API]

I want to use VMware Engine API on google platform, but I could not select the checkbox of the attached image . How can I get the checkbox to be pressed? I'm just getting started with GCP, so I don't know much
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NFS Datastore for Vmware high IO

Currently we have many 1U data-stores that are running a 10Gbps copper. Each box pretty much saturates its line (700gbps-900Gbps sustained) they all have 300GB SAS drives x8 in a raid 10 so about 1 TB total per box. (inherited this setup) We need…
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Vsphere 6.7 disable plugin (NetApp Virtual Storage Console)

I have inherited a VMWare installation that has an old version of the NetApp virtual storage console installed (it actually claims to be a "HTML5 technical preview, only for lab environment" when opening the overview). This plugin doesn't appear to…
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Disconnected NIC on customized & deployed Ubuntu 18.04 templates

Within my vSphere 6.7 U3 environment, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 template generated by packer which I am then using Terraform to deploy two copies of. I am running into an issue where the deployed VMs come up with their NIC's disconnected, preventing…
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vSphere HA: Automatic shutdown of VMs to free up resources

Assume we have 2 ESXi hosts with these machines: ESX1: A1, B1, C1, D1 ESX2: A2, B2, C2, D2 A & B VMs are the most important VMs for us. We have configured vSphere HA in a test environment. The two hosts have been included in an HA Cluster. By…
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Cannot access VM after running "systemctl isolate rescue.target"

I have a VM running on VMWare. OS is RHEL 7. I ran the following command and the ssh session also terminated. systemctl isolate rescue.target Now I cannot access the server. Even ping doesn't work. How can I log into the server?
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VI3 upgrade to vSphere4.0

I am planning to upgrade our VI3 infrastructure to VSphere 4. The VI3 consists of the following: esx servers 3.5 U2 running on Dell PE1955 blades with Intel Xeon Quad core E5335 CPUs Virtual Centre 2.5 running on Windows Server 2003 as a VM The VC…
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Snapshots could fail if VM are running delta files?

On VMware 6.5, VMs are running on CTK Delta files, could this causes inconsistency on storage level snapshot?
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What options for specifying IP addresses exist in VSphere compared with NSX?

What knobs are available for configuring the IP Addresses of VMs in vsphere, without NSX, as compared to with NSX? I see in my VSphere clusters that VMs have multiple IPs These presumeably are randomly assigned by a DHCP host somehow Is there a…
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Strategies to compare between 2 virtual machines

I am writing a set of codes with Ansible/Terraform to deploy the same VM which I am already deploying using Bash scripts that interact with VMWare (vSphere 5.5) API. I have searched around how I could compare the final result: the VMs itself, but…
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Unable to upload a VM from VMware Workstation to Esxi

I have been trying to upload a VM from VMware workstation to VMware ESXI server (Esxi 6.7 A01) I edited the hardware compatibility of the VM to ESXI 6.5 and created a clone. When trying to upload the VM to esxi server i get the following…
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The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure

my vm backup job is failing with **Job Error**: Failed to create snapshot for LUN NL_Raid6b Details: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. **VM Error**: Failed to prepare VM for processing from storage snapshot,…
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How to create IPv6 port group on vSwitch VMware ESXi 6.5

I was wondering how to create a IPv6 port group on a vSwitch in ESXi 6.5. I have IPV6 enabled on all the hosts in my cluster, and when creating the port group it does not ask me if it is IPv6 or not. Any ideas? Thanks!
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