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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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Virtualization - Windows guests on Linux host?

Check my previous question. I am now looking at specifics relating to enterprise virtualization. I have done some research into Citrix Xen Server and VmWare vSphere. I need to know whether it is possible to run Windows 2008 guests on linux hosts. I…
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Is vSphere 5 compatible with an OpenIndiana/Napp-it iSCSI datastore?

My hostd.log file on vSphere 5 says that partedUtil is timing out while trying to write the partition table on an iSCSI target being served from OpenIndiana/napp-it. I read that sized over 2TB give problems, so I sized the volume to 500GB. I tried…
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Equivalent of \\tsclient for VMWare vSphere Console

What is the \\tsclient equivalent to access the host hard drive for VMWare vSphere consoles? That is, a network drive shortcut from the vm to the connecting machine. The option to connect a USB drive is useful, but not as useful as the rdp tsclient…
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How many VMs is too many?

I have a server with two 2.6GHz quad core processors and 32GB of RAM (along with pleanty of storage). I have a Django app which I intend to run on this server, and I'd like to set up (using VMWare) 2 DB servers (Postgres on Ubuntu), 2-3 app servers…
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On vSphere 4.1, what permission does a role need to edit the comment field of a virtual machine?

I've created a role with some limited access for my VWware infrastructure that is similar to the default Power User role. It appears that they do not have the ability to edit the comment field that is on Summary tab of the individual virtual…
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Keeping a vmdk's path on vmotion

Situation's a bit complicated so I hope I can make sense here. I have an OpenShift cluster installed on vSphere (managers and workers). It has Elastic configured to gather logs. Elastic has a Persistent Volume attached, and OpenShift is configured…
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How does vSphere DHCP assign IP addresses?

I have installed Ubuntu in a vSphere VM and due to some error, it got the wrong IP address. I asked IT to fix the DHCP entry and they did but the VM kept getting assigned the wrong IP. I could get it the correct IP address running dhclient but this…
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unable to get deployment statu

During VMware vCenter 7 deployment on the second stage of installation, after a reboot, when trying to log in https://:5480/ redirects to https://:5480/configurev2/#/ "unable to get deployment status" at the same time, the center itself allows…
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Adding large amount of storage (500TB) to 1 VM

What is the best way to add a large amount of storage to a single Windows host in VMware vSphere 7? Say 500TB? In the past I've made a bunch of VMFS datastores and split it up per drive in Windows, one 50TB VMFS and one 50TB Windows drive times 10.…
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Copying large file with robocopy during VMWare storage vmotion

if I copy massive files via robocopy during storage vmotion then is there any negative impact ? thanks,
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Cannot extend VMware HDD because of snapshots that I cannot delete

There is a virtual machine located at a machine, which I access through VMware vSphere Client. it has only 200 GB HDD which is quite a bit. it's connected to a domain and a lot of users are using it with domain accounts. it has old snapshots,…
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Host resources management - vSphere Client

I'm using vSphere Client version 6.7, having 2 hosts in a cluster. i want to know before i'm entering one host into maintenance mode, if the other host will be able to hold both servers resources. yes i know, i could calculate it by using free/used…
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Building a VM on the ESX hosts own storage

Why is it recommended to build a VM on the shared storage and not on the storage of the host itself?
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Credentials of Administrator on VMware Cloud vSphere

I got the Default vCenter Credentials which is Default vCenter User Account cloudadmin@vmc.local. There are a lot of configurations which only an Administrator could do such turn ON/OFF vSphere HA. I saw there is an Administrator role, but I don't…
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Can't migrate VM in vSphere

Our Vsphere interface looks like this: So what we want to do now is above the servers folder there is a virtual machine called vvc3 (this is the VMware vCenter server appliance) We want to move that to the ESX6 host which runs at a datacenter…
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