ESX is VMware's bare-metal hypervisor and forms the basis of its enterprise virtualization platform.
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SNMP disk usage reporting in different OIDs
I am trying to use SNMP to monitor disk usage for a particular filesystem on several servers. Each server is the only Ubuntu 16.04 guest on a dedicated ESXi host. Each server is configured with two virtual volumes provided by ESX. One volume is used…

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It takes forever to start a build in Jenkins and to find an idle slave for it
We are operating one Jenkins master and about 70 swarm slaves with various operating systems. All machines are virtual running on a VMware ESX server.
For some months we are faced with these issues:
When you manually trigger a build using the web…

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Create VM by REST API without vCenter
Is it possible to create VM (or any other tasks) by REST API with a server running ESX without vCenter?
Or it is essential to install vCenter on the server?
I checked these links but they use…

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remove Bootable CD from VM programatically
I am doing automation of installation of OS(Custom Linux) on a VM on ESXi by plugging in bootable iso of the OS. After the installation of the OS is done, a restart is required of the VM to proceed with the normal OS launch.
I need to automate this.…

Hitesh Bajaj
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Error on deploying Vmware Integrated Openstack 3.0.0 on vSphere 6.0
I am trying to install VMware Integrated Openstack 3.0.0.0-4345506_OVF10.ova through vSphere client.
But as soon as i load the ovf its giving me the below error:
This OVF package uses features that are not supported when deploying directly to and…

Ashutosh Yadav
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VMware ESXi 6 Free License
I came to know that VMware ESXi 6 are providing free license with some limited features. I also explored it. Those features are sufficient for our organisation. I am little bit confused whether it can be used in our organisation or not!!!
Can…

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How to control ESX VM via C#?
I am trying to control my virtual machines by C#.
Using ESX 5.5 and windows 7
I found these 2 wrappers:
VMWareTasks
vixcomwrapper
With both DLLs I can connect to the ESX server and power on my machine.
But after power on, the code gets stuck…

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Does vmware-tools restart have to be done in ESX as well as guest?
When restarting the vmware-tools service on the Linux Guest is it necessary to also restart the vmware-tools service on the ESX? I ask because I have 2 other guests running on this ESX/blade.
I'm trying to resolve an obscure issue with SNMP traps…

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How to get a content of a hidden file over https?
Now I am successfully using WebClient.DownloadString to get file content from ESX server. My URI is something like:
https:///folder/?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=
But how can I get a content of a hidden file (e.g.…

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VMWare Fault Tolerant Benchmarks
We are looking at deploying high availability VMs using VMWare Fault Tolerant. Has anyone got any real world benchmarks? I'm only after relative performance of running a VM conventionally in ESX v's running in FT mode.
I assume there must be some…
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Getting the IP of a VMware ESX host through vijava
I'm trying to get the IP of the hostsystems managed by our vCenter. the host.getName() only returns the DNS name of the host. What might be a way to get the IP address that you get when you ping the given host name?

Adithya Das
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VMWare vSphere Powercli Get-Stat does not work on some host
I'm trying to do some capacity planning on my VMWare host and would like to extract cpu/memory stats for each host.
I'm able to run a command such like this:
PowerCLI C:\> Get-VMHost -Name "192.168.1.14" |Get-Stat -Stat mem.usage.average -Start…

Yannick Bergeron
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Get VM IP addresses eth0 ... ethn with ESX commands
I need get all IP addresses that a VM has it. I only can use ESX commands, no PowerCLI.
If I use, with or whithout grep:
vim-cmd vmsvc/get.summary 1 | grep -i "ip"
I only get the first vNIC IP address, I need all :-(.
If, it is possible...
Thanks to…

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how to set network configuration for vm in esx host through command?
I am trying to automate setting network configuration(setting IP address, netmask, gateway) to already created Linux VM in an ESX host.
I need a vSphere CLI command to automate it.
Can you please help me out?
Thanks,
NagaPavan

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Is there any way to restart ESX management network through python PyVmomi
I am trying to restart an ESX management network through Python Pyvmomi.
Even after Google search I did not find any relevant API to do so.
Please help me if there is any API which can restart/stop ESX management network which is managed by VCentre.

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