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ESX is VMware's bare-metal hypervisor and forms the basis of its enterprise virtualization platform.

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How to replace vmdk files in a ova file

I have a ova file, i want to replace a disk.vmdk from it with disk2.vmdk How i can achieve it, what are the steps and procedure to be done like changing values of it in .mf file and .ovf file ....etc Thanks in advance
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Web Service URL for a ESXi Server

I am trying to run the Java samples from Vsphere Web Services SDK and for many of them it requires URL of the Web Service. What is it for an ESXI Server and How to find it? I have already tried with url as…
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'Connection aborted.', error(32, 'Broken pipe')

I am trying to 'POST' several ~512 MB vmdk files to an ESX host, however, after first file is POSTed my program starts failing error with the following error: 'Connection aborted.', error(32, 'Broken pipe') I have tried increasing the request…
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command line on esxi cant get date X day ago

I'm currently working on an ESXI and want to get the date X day ago I have this command line working on other linux : now=`date +"%Y/%m/%d"` earlier=`date -d "$now -15 days" +%d/%m/%Y` but when i try to use it on my esxi server the line…
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ESXi: Convert a pvscsi drive to a scsi drive

I have a machine on my ESXi server that has a PVSCSI disk. I'd like to convert it to a SCSI disk. Is there a command line that does that?
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Golang: How to find disk attached to a virtual machine using govmomi?

I want to find vmdk files attached to the virtual machine using govmomi. I can find it managed object store, but programmatically not able to do so.
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Mapping VM Drive to Corresponding VMDK file

Problem: Lets say i have a VM with three storage LUNS attached to it through SCSI VMFS stores each drive as a individual VMDK files. C:(one_c.vmdk) D:(two_d.vmdk) F:(three_f.vmdk) In ESX host these there vmdk files are stored in…
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Unable to connect VNC to ESX during packer build

I've been attempting to use the vmware-iso builder in packer to generate a base Centos 7 image that I can build other images off (using vmware-vmx). Unfortunately, the build keeps failing when attempting to find an open VNC port to connect to. I've…
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Finding VMWare ESX host name from within a guest

this question has been asked before several times, but never anyone brought up any reasonable solution. ? Is there any way, from within a Windows guest, to find the hostname or IP address of the ESX host ? The scenario is as follows: I am working…
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Error when I try to execute a script: ImportError: No module named tools

I am playing arround with pyvmomi and I managed to get the "sample" script (getallvms.py) working. I am now trying an other script that I found…
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Getting error while converting VMX to OVF format

I am trying to convert .vmx to OVF format using OVFtool. I am following the below steps: Copying .vmx and .vmdk file using "scp" command from ESX server to one linux box. On linux box, executed command [# ovftool myVM.vmx myOVF.ovf] from the…
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How to profile MVC4 application, send multiple get requests to Web site for testing

ASP.NET MVC4 shopping cart application runs under Debian using Mono, Postgres, Apache and mod_mono in VPS server in virtual hosting with 8 GB RAM. Sometimes application works slowly. top and free shows that all memory is used but ESX hypervisor …
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Slow performance during maven build on VMware ESX Virtual Machine

In my company's CI environment we have two build servers - ubuntu server 14.04 and windows server 2008 R2 - both deployed on VMware ESX VM, with the best resources available (cpu, memory and SSD storage). However, when we build our java code using…
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Lost ESXi root Password - How to reset it from iDRAC (v.7) at Hetzner

How to reset ESXi root password from iDRAC (v.7) for Dell PowerEdge R720? Is it possible?
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Programmatically add VMware ESX host to vCenter during kickstart

I'd like to have my ESX hosts add themselves to vCenter during the kickstart process (or in a script that runs after the first boot). I can't find a method for doing this; is there one?
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