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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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couldn't communicate with windows server 2016 from outside the network, but inside everything is ok

I have some virtual machines on the esxi, such as windows server 2016 and one windows 7 ultimate. On the windows server, I have one active directory and it runs dhcp on it so it has a static ip address which I set. windows 7 ultimate gets its ip…
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Changed Network Label on VCenter Server VM now Unable to Connect to Reset it Back

I didn't think it through, in vSphere on my vCenter Server VM I changed the Network from VMNetwork to VMotion. I did this with the intention of changing it back immediately, I sometimes do this as a trick on other VM's to fix an issue, however…
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Cannot get vCenter installed in VMware Workstation using OVA file

I am testing in a lab environment with the following setup: I have a Windows 10 laptop with VMware Workstation 12 Pro installed. I have create a virtual machine in Workstation running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have set up AD and DNS on it. This…
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Trying to understand vCenter Server 6.5 Installation

I am a bit confused as to how a vCenter Server 6.5 installation works. I am testing in a lab environment with the following setup: I have a Windows 10 laptop with VMware Workstation installed. I have created a virtual machine in Workstation running…
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How to assign ip address to machine in ESXi?

I installed ESXi 6 as a main OS on my dedicated server and want to create some machines on it now, but in virtual machine creation wizard I got an error about "Warning - this host does not have suitable virtual machine networks,...". So I checked my…
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Windows firewall blocks port connection even it's allowed

I have setup windows firewall rules to allow port 443 and 9000 to be allowed though inbound and outbound connections, and allowed the apache httpd.exe though the firewall as well. But as shown by my firewall log, you can see that both ports are…
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Why does my NAS server not work on both Production and Isolated Lab Subnets?

In our VMWare infrastructure, I have a production network (10.1.1.0/24 subnet) and an isolated virtual lab network (also 10.1.1.0/24) which is created by Veeam, with the Veeam proxy appliance sitting between them. I created a NAS VM (FreeNAS 9.10)…
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ESXi: Running the same VM multiple times

I installed the vmware ESXi (6.0.0) to a dedicated PC, client computers use vmware workstation 11 to access the virtual machines and to upload them. Right now, If a user uploads and starts a virtual machine and another user would like to use the…
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Does these servers answers the requirements for vSphere Hypervisor

Can you please tell if any of these servers are answering to the requirements of vSphere Hypervisor. Here are the requirements: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003661 Here are the…
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User profiles for ESXi

I have configured active directory with my ESXi Server and all is great. I created User Profiles for this experiment within Windows 2008r2. Logged in with a windows 7 VM within Vsphere, and all works. My suspicions solely believe that Vsphere is…
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OS X Mavericks (or Yosemite) on new VM in Vsphere?

Am I able to install OS X on a VM in VMware VSphere Client? I've already got ESXi 5.5 installed on my testing environment at home on my Dell PowerEdge server with 4 VMs running windows OS's accessing them via Vsphere Client from my…
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After domain rename - can't connect to vmware server

I have renamed our domain (server 2012) - the entire process passed successfully. I am trying to access our VSphere - with no success. The error I receive is: Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service -…
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Upgrade vmware tools issue

I try to upgrade vmware tools on a VM (Red hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.1) the package I try to install is VMwareTools-8.6.10-913593.tar.gz. In a step of installation I get this error : No X install found. Creating a new initrd boot image for the…
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Store VMs on the same Stick as ESXi

I've a HP N54L Microserver with an ESXi, which runs from the 16GB USB Stick. In vSphere client I can't see any volumes, where I can store my VMs. And I think that ESXi never needs 16 GB to work. Is it possible to repartition my stick so I have some…
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Using a NAS as a vSphere datastore

I have an IBM server x3850 M2. It has SAS drives that are too small for all of my Virtual Machines. I also have an entry level Netgear ReadyNAS unit. Can I use this as a datastore, and what kind of performance issues will I have?
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