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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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VMWare - VM won't start - 5 (Input/output error) - failed drive

Basics: Server with 4 drives, 2 solid state. One of the solid state drives appears to have failed. Running VMWare 5.0 We tried to distribute the VMs over several disks and using RAID, but I'm not sure if it was setup incorrectly. We tried to ensure…
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Colocation server: where to install ESXi?

Sorry if this is a newbie question. I am colocating a 1U server and want to install ESXi on it. Given that a colo provider likely won't allow a USB key sticking out of the server, what is the preferred way to install ESXi in production cases?
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Unable to Re-Attach / Remount a 5TB Hard Drive with Datastore to Esxi 6.5

I have an esxi host that recently had some drives fail, so in the process of backing up the data on the host to recover it all to a new array I attached a 5TB Seagate Drive, Blanked it & created a new datastore on it and it was all happy and working…
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vsphere to install on ubuntu desktop

we have some servers that Vmware workstation installed on them. there is no problem controlling Vmware via Vsphere in windows. but since we use Linux , we could not find a graphical UI to work on our servers Vmware. is there any free application…
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Is there any relation between VMware VMotion and VMFS?

I was studying VMware's VSphere suite, cloud computing virtualization platform. I could not figure out whether there's any relation between VMotion and VMFS in the suite? VMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one…
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diagnose purple screen of death ESX 6.0

Our server keeps crashing with a purple screen of death. I have tried interpreting the crash dumps but to no avail. I have an HP Proliant DL360 G7 with ESXi 6.0 running on it and I have other identical servers with the same software with no issues,…
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Network Boot via Ansible

Environment - I've installed Ansible and using its vSphere_Guest API. This is connecting to my vSphere and successfully creating a virtual machine. I already have a satellite server with kickstart, configured with cobbler, which perfectly installs…
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NetApp .Snapshots wont delete

I am working in VMware Vspere client, I am an sys administrator taking over for an Admin who has left. Many users were complaining about space in our Mounted Linux shared drive. So I did some digging and found many .snapshot files which are rather…
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Getting VM metrics from Vcenter

Is there a way to get VM information like resource utilization metrics from Vcenter server via an API ? I want to query them from a python script and I don't want to get them from powerCli. Vsphere version - 5.5
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Configure vSphere uptime alert for linux servers

I was wondering if there's any way to configure a vSphere uptime alert for a linux server. For example, when the server has 168 hours of uptime we want an alert to generate indicating this fact. I've searched through the alerts that I could possibly…
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linux + how to verify VM defintion disk after redhat installation

We have couple of Linux servers all them are VM red hat Linux ( and they created by the Vsphere client , ) I want to know how we can capture on the Linux OS the following 1.Thick provision lazy zeroed 2.Thick provision eager zeroed 3.Thin…
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Where is the right place to install the ESX vSphere?

I have one server with 6 hotplug 300G SAS HDD. Where is the right place to install the ESX vSphere? 6 HDD RAID10 for datastore and ESX vSphere together -------- OR -------- 2 HDD RAID1 for ESX vSphere 4 HDD RAID10 for datastore Thanks to all…
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Vmware Vsphere 5.1 essentials all non administrator roles "not in use" and cannot be enabled

I'm currently testing datadog external monitoring services and I wanted to add our vmware hosts. With datadog you install their windows agent, and then the next step is to add a user in vsphere to the read only role. Unfortunately in my vsphere…
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VMware ESXi 5.5 black screen on all guests after services.sh restart

I'm using VMware ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with a eight Windows guests. Sometimes I can't connect anymore via vSphere Client to the host. A restart of the hostd and vpxa doesn't resolve the problem. So, I need to restart the services with the command…
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1 NIC and 2 different IP on 2 VM on VMWARE

I have a test server which has single NIC and I have 2 VM on that server. What i need to do is assigning different IP address to those VM. So the host is located at 192.168.100.67. would that be possible to assign 2 different ip address from a…
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