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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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CBT Soap Fault from VMWare when runnnig Veeam backup

We frequently see errors like this in our backup jobs: 10/05/2013 12:21:18 :: Cannot use CBT: Soap fault. Error caused by file /vmfs/volumes/781f6afc-ea228458/VDED-CIT-010(Exchange EX01)/VDED-CIT-010(Exchange EX01).vmdkDetail: '', endpoint: '' In…
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Random Delays backing up VMWare Servers with Backup Exec 2012

Since upgrading to Backup Exec 2012 we have been experiencing a significant increase in backup times. The data throughput is about where it was before, the problem seems to be random delays between each server's backup. When the delay occurs,…
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VMware vSphere DRS affinity rules for more than 2 guests

I've received a request to add disaffinity/anti-affinity rules on a set of virtual machines in a VMware HA/DRS cluster running VMware vSphere 4.1. The client has four hosts and wants to keep certain virtual machines from running on the same host in…
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Benefits to private networks between virtual machines on an ESXi host?

I'm planning this development environment with a few database servers, and originally thought I would have a few private networks. I then thought it might be unnecessary as the ESXi cluster already provides redundancy with 4 NICs (in my case) and…
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How stable is the VMWare vCenter Server OVF and is there a better way to get HA features?

I am considering pruchasing Vsphere solely for the HA feature, however, in order to do this, I will also need vCenter Server. I am not keen on purchasing a copy of Windows especially for this and have seen the vSphere server OVF which is available…
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How does VMware vCenter Server work and what are the benefits over vsphere client

I bought vSphere Essentials which I've installed on 2 physical machines, and set up the servers using vSphere client. This part is working well, and there is 1 VM on each ESXi install (esxi 5.0.0) But I've noticed that my license also includes…
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Reboot Virtual Machine every 20 minutes

We need to be able to create a way to reboot virtual machines in the lab every 20 minutes automatically. Is there any way this can be done in vSphere 5?
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Linux: How to Press Sysreq Key in VNC/Vsphere Client?

I'm using a Vsphere client on Windows XP over a VNC link (Vinagre) from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop running WindowMaker. It all works pretty well, but I can't find any way to press the Magic SysReq key (used to reset Linux hard). Neither Vinagre nor…
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Inconsistency between LUN ID's

I just added a few LUN's to our new EMC VNX, and the LUN ID's are not consistent.. Screenshot from EMC Unisphere Screenshot from VMWare vSphere If you study the two screenshots carefully, you'll notice that the Unique ID is identical, yet the LUN…
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Updating vSphere 5?

I just got done installing VMware vSphere 5 Free edition on my server. I noticed when I went to install the client that there was no option to install the host update utility. How do you update the server now? For my company we use vCenter, but what…
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*nix CARP or VMWare Fault Tolerance?

We're experimenting with what VMWare called a "Fully Collapsed DMZ" on blade centre. Basically our DMZ goes straight into a vSwitch and all the security appliances are virtualised. I've spent days reading up about why this is a good idea and why…
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Monitor ESXi hosts with Nagios

Does anyone recommend any methods for monitoring ESXi 4.1 hosts with Nagios? I have looked into SNMP but it seems to be in a pretty sorry state. Net-SNMP does not seem to be included and there is a built it SNMP daemon that I set up. However from…
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What is VMWARE vSphere?

I am not a sys-admin but a programmer by trade. I know what ESX server is and how it works, I also know and use VMWARE Workstation products. But what is vSphere? From the marketing material it seems to be something to do with cloud computing. …
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Advantage of using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) compared to VMWare?

I intend to do some virtualization with either of the two technologies: Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and VMWare. I would like to know the advantages (e.g. main features missing in the other one, long-run, financial advantages, support...) of using the…
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Free alternatives to vSphere for ESXi (if one exists)

Am feeling a touch confused and overwhemled. From what I gather even though ESXi is free I will only be able to manage my VMs (create or power on etc) for 60 days unless I buy a licence for vSphere. This is somewhat frustrating. As I am looking…
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