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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 eSXi 5.1 on Dell R420 Poweredge

I am very new to VMware and its setup. Recently, my company purchased a Dell R420 server which has VMware eSXi 5.1 factory installed. It comes with 2 LOM NIC ports at the rear and from the Dell brochure it says: LOM 1 - VMWare management network LOM…
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What time of virtual machine when using VMotion from host to another host?

Nomarlly, virtual machine get time from host, but when vsphere using VMotion to change virtual machine to new host. What's time of virtual machine when it in new host ? Old host time ? new host time ? or time sync from another source ? .
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GRE tunneling in vmware vsphere guest

Is it possible to make a GRE tunnel between a dedicated linux machine and a vmware vsphere guest VM (running debian wheezy)?
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VSphere cannot free up unused space

Currently there are Drivers on Vms that have a lot of unused space. I tried to edit the settings and reduce the number of unallocated space and the space that is free. However, The value that I am typing does not get stay when I click Okay it…
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Transferring Windows user profiles from a VMware vSphere VM to a physical PC

Currently we have a VMware vSphere virtual machine and we are thinking of moving away from it and using a physical PC instead. Is there a quick and easy way to transfer the Windows user profiles from the VM to a physical machine?
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Testing a Virtualisation of a Debian Server (vmWare vSphere probably)

I'm soon getting access to a powerful root-server (quad-core, 16gb ram, 1gbit connection) where gameservers (like minecraft,counterstrike etc.) for different customers should be setup. My plan is to use programs such as vmWare vSphere to create some…
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Should backup necessary before upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1?

We are using ESXi 4.1 and we need to move to ESXi 5 as we need VMs for Windows server 2012 and Windows 8. Our servers are already having VMs. So we want to upgrade without reinstall. Some people advised to have backup before initiating the…
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Infrastructure Storage Recommendations: Backing up a SAN with VMs

We are going to be moving our current physical server infrastructure to a VMware solution with 3 nodes (The Essentials Plus Kit). I need recommendations for storage. From what I've read, an iSCSI SAN device is the way to go. What's the best way to…
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Does vSphere ESXI Virtualization needs to be installed on root server or is it an application which can be installed inside an OS?

Recently I've bought Dell PowerEdge R620 Server. I am interested in running Windows Server 2022 as well as I am interested in running virtual machines using Virtualization. Now I know that Windows Server 2022 does support Hyper-V using which I can…
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"resize the virtual machine and the window" not working

The VMware Remote Console is not resizing the virtual machine to fit the window, even though I have that setting set. Does anyone have any suggestions to make this work? VMware Remote Console version 12 vCenter 6.5 VM version 10 VMware Tools is of…
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VMWare device mapper size smaller than parition size

I am trying to understand what is going on with my VMWare instance. I have had 50GB partition that I extended to 150GB and resized the partition. However, the partition still shows that it only has 50GB size. Here is a screenshot from GParted: Here…
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Are there any VMware ESXi virtual memory limits?

When using vSphere 6.0 Enterprise Plus Edition, are there any memory limits (virtual RAM per virtual machine)? I am refering to the vRAM entitlements.
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2 ESXI hosts, only one with WAN incoming, no physical switch: how to have pfsense in Host #1 provide LAN to Host #2?

This might be a very beginner question, but wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. The following is a diagram of the physical servers (questions below it): Both computers have ESXI and #1 has pfsense running in a VM. There no…
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Is it allowed to use VMware integrated containers without enterprise plus?

We use a VMware VCenter installation with a Essentials Plus license. The official VIC Documentation says the following Get vSphere Integrated Containers To obtain the latest official release of vSphere Integrated Containers, go to the vSphere…
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Assigning user a virtual machine

Is this possible? I started a new position, and in one of the environments, logging in through horizon view, a user randomly logs on to one of four machines when they login. Many of the users get frustrated because all of their data and documents…
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