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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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VSphere connect guest os to internet

Having a VSphere 6 host which is installed on machine in our private network. VSphere 6 host IP is 192.68.0.40. Our getaway router to Internet is on 192.168.0.1. I can connect to VSphere 6 host from other computers on network (for example from…
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How can migrate ESXi to the paid version

I'm new to ESXi/vSphere and hope someone can help me. We bought vSphere and need migrate from our free ESXi installation. I have searched a lot about process but cant find about. We are still thinking about if we will keep the host profiler or…
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What is the difference between host created with vmotion enabled and normal one

I want to know what is the difference between hosts created with vmotion enabled and normal one (Apart from live migration). How does it work? any directions will be appreciated.
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Does VMware ESx server run a operation system of its own to manage the the hardware(like a host OS) inside of VMware ESx server

Does VMWare ESXi software run a host operating system in itself (bare metal hypervisor). I know that the vSphere client is used to manage the VM's created inside of the server but what about the management of other things inside of the server.
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Copying template from SAN Datastore to local datastore

I want to copy a template from SAN datastore to local ESXi datastore. How is that possible. Underlined VMFS for both source and destination datastore is 5.33.
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Bulk creation of VM guests in VMware

Is it possible to create a number of windows VMs from a template e.g. 15. I was going to create one VM without IP address etc and just clone it 15 times then configure the ip addresses, is there an easier quicker method.
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Adding a existing (raid) harddisk to esxi without data loss

My previous install was an Ubuntu-Server 12.04 installation without VMWare. There i had 1 OS disk with 750GB and 2 other disks (both 2TB) in RAID1. I decided to virtualize my server so i can add more vm's and also have more controll over them. So…
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ESXi 5 licencing

I have dedicated server with one physical CPU (socket) and 64GB RAM. I have ESXi 5 installed trial for 60 days (I didn't apply any licence and it is coming to an end). I have 5 virtual machines using about 50GB of RAM. Now I need to apply some…
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Hidden and best new features in VMWare ESXi/vSphere 5

I am relatively new to VMWare and I am completely new to ESXi 5, which is what we now run in our production environment. I couldn't help but toy and peek around in the Host and Cluster settings to find a wide array of options that were not really…
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Vsphere image backup software recommandations?

I'm new to image back up and I'm looking for a back up software for VSphere. Any recommandations?
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ESX / vSphere Maximum Cores per CPU

What is the maximum number of physical cpu's (and more importantly, cores per cpu) that ESX 5 supports? Use Case: 1 Server with 2 Intel 8 core cpu's. Will all 16 cores be utilized?
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Recovery VM VMware vSphere

Please, tell me how to recreate correctly Virtual Machine, if I have following files on my hard drive: X.nvram X.vmdk X_1.vmdk X-flat.vmdk X_1-flat.vmdk.
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Upgrade vSphere 6.0 standard to 6.5

I have several ESXi hosts that running vSphere version 6.0 standard licenses. Now, I have a plan to upgrade all of that to vSphere version 6.5. I'm not sure to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 for free. Can I upgrade to 6.5 for free?
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Is it possible to use a ftps server (NAS) to use as a virtual hard drive in VMware vSphere Hypervisor, if so, how?

The title explains most of it. Basically, let's say I have a NAS(I don't). I want to allow another computer to use it as storage for a virtual machine on VMware vSphere Hypervisor. The software on the NAS will most likely be QTS by QNAP.
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How to get started with vSphere 6.0 and set up the web client?

I've been tasked with setting up some VMs. I've been given some admin details but no further guidance. The server is a fresh install. My problem is that I'm on Linux/OSX and don't want to run Windows aside from setting up after which I hope to be…
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