ESX is VMware's bare-metal hypervisor and forms the basis of its enterprise virtualization platform.
Questions tagged [esx]
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ESX 5.5 VM deployment
Is it possible to deploy vm's using a csv or something similar? I want to automate the install of about 100 servers. The only option I have found is using powershell. I would really like some other options though. Thanks.

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Using python pysphere to retrieve ESX vApp properties
I am working on a set of Python scripts that are supposed to manipulate ESX virtual machines vApp properties. I've found pySphere and I was able to add/edit the key/label/value properties, however, I cant seem to find a way to retrieve those in any…

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can a VM sniff plaintext network from another VM on the same VMware ESX host?
can a VM sniff plaintext network traffic from another VM on the same ESX host? we are concerned about a rouge VM sniffing traffic from our app VMs that will be communicating between themselves over http and JDBC.

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Error when i deploye OVA in my ESX
I get this error when I try to deploy my OVA into my ESX:
line 33:
Virtual Hardware Family
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What are the places in which date-time format might be set on the following server configuration?
I am trying to do a deploy of an old (i.e. I did not write it) application that is not locale or date-time formatting agnostic. Fixing the code of the application is not an option at the moment.
We are encountering issues moving this application…

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Can ESX handle multiple File Manager instances?
This might be a simple question, but can ESX handle multiple File Manager instances in multiple threads? Or must I queue file tasks to work in series?

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How to Add VM to Inventory?
I'm writing a code for VMware ESX to add a .vmx file to the Inventory. This action should be the same as going in the GUI to the Datastore and right-clicking on a .vmx file --> Add to Inventory.
I believe I am supposed to use the method…

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Difference between ESX,KVM and QEMU
What are the major differences between ESX, KVM and QEMU?

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ESX Server VmWare - Disable virtual port attached to virtual switch
Background:
When working on a physical network we come across a typical environment where storage boxes (NSM) are connected to switch port. We can enable or disable switch ports using putty.
Objective:
Similar fashion on ESX Server virtual machines…

avishkar polekar
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How to deploy mofs and regs file to SFCB in ESX 4.x correctly,
I am working on one cimom based solution in ESX. ESX4.x uses sfcb as a default cimom daemon and sfcb gives specifications (sourceforge) on how to develop MOF and reg files for the providers in the sfcb.
WE have already developed the MOF and REG…

Rohit Srivastava
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How to get VMWARE ESX 3i Image from infrastructure client using script
I've download the SDK to try to copy the image to my PC from the server but no cmdlet for copy just get info moving etc
any help?
unknown (yahoo)
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es_extended/server/functions.lua:401: attempt to index a nil value (local 'item’)
So everything was working just fine until earlier when i imported some items into my sql, but now everytime someones using the ak-47 drug script it doesnt finish the function, also giving the two errors i gave above for both the scripts they…

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Showdialog error for fivem projector script
`Can anyone help me figure out why this script is not working? I bought the A5 projector script and been getting this error:
client/cl_projector.lua:122: attempt to call a nil value (global 'showDialog")
And here is the line in question:
local…
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esx five m inventory string issue
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Please can some one help, i have attached 3 images of all code need for this…
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missing ; after for-loop initializer in Javascript
for (var i = 0; i < vms.length; i++){
for (var [key, value] of Object.entries(vms[i])){
System.log(key, value);
}
}
So here is my code, knowing that "vms" is a list of dictionaries.
I'm getting the "missing ; after for-loop…

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