ESX is VMware's bare-metal hypervisor and forms the basis of its enterprise virtualization platform.
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Identify why Nagios call is taking longer than identical root call
I'm monitoring ESX.
When I call the command being root, I get the answer in less than 2 seconds. When I call it from the Nagios user, it takes almost 4 minutes to get the same answer.
How can I determine why the Nagios user call is taking longer to…
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Is there any ways to get drive information of each vmware in Vmware ESX via Vsphere SDK with Java?
In my vmware esx server, I have four vmware such as Window 7, Window XP, Window Server 2008 and Window Server 2012. And drive information for each vmware:
Window 7 -> drive C
- Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB
Window XP -> drive C
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Can the vsphere apis be used on esx server without connectiong to the vsphere client
Using the vSphere Web Services SDK can the hard disks be added to the VM on a esx server without using any vsphere client.
Any links for the sample code to add the hard disks to VM would be very helpful.
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Find if disk space is available before creating VM using ESX shell
I have two storage disks on a ESX host with the names data and data1.
If i do a df -h|grep -E 'data' on an ESX shell it gives the disk size of both the storage disks. Is there a grep command in ESX shell command for exact word match?
Note grep -w…
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is it possible to deploy OVF on ESX using Python?
is it possible to deploy OVF on ESX using Python ?
I looked at PySphere but i couldn't find how to deploy OVF with it, does anyone know ?
thanks,
Eyal.
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ESXi 5.1 Multipathing Polciy - Script to change all policies at once
I'm looking to create a script to change all of the multipathing policies from MRU to round robin. I realize you can do it the following…
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My VMware ESX server console volume went readonly. How can I save my VMs?
Two RAID volumes, VMware kernel/console running on a RAID1, vmdks live on a RAID5. Entering a login at the console just results in SCSI errors, no password prompt. Praise be, the VMs are actually still running. We're thinking, though, that upon…
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Vmware powercli on win2008r2 get-stat empty "string"
when I am getting statistics from ESXi using vmware powercli on windows7 it gives me responce
Wondows7
command: PowerCLI C:\temp>
Get-VMHost -Name "hostname.inc.com" | Get-Stat -Stat
cpu.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-1)…
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Why does vSphere think I moved or copied my VM, when I have not?
I'm running ESXi on a server and managing it with vSphere client, both v5.0.0 ...everything has been fine for a while, then suddenly today when I booted from a powered-off state and tried to start my VMs, vSphere stopped 95% of the way through…
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Is it possible to run a program (java\c\etc) under these situations?
Scenario 1: I have a test server that gets OS reinstalls on a frequent basis. Is there any way to add a program to the server that will remain and execute even if the OS is reinstalled? (I know it's a stretch, but had to ask)
Scenario 2: I have…
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Will VimService be supported for future SDK Release?
We are planning to develop an application for monitoring the performance counters from various ESX servers. The two options available are vimService and esxtop. Esxtop may cause extra CPU consumption at the ESX server being monitored (as mentioned…
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Get Datetime of ESX server in C#
I'm looking for an easy way to get the date and time of an esx server in c#.
This has to be the hardware time, so I think this is the BIOS time. When a VM reboots it normally gets the time of the BIOS time. It is that time I want as a datetime…
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VMWare - Error 500 from Server when trying to upload on a VM
Say I have 2 "physical" ESXs which are both headed by a vSphere Server. What I am trying to do is to run a script which would upload a file to a specified VM. So basically, I use the VIFS.pl script provided by the VMWare community, the documentation…
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Common API for ESX, Hyper-V, Virtual Server?
ESX, Hyper-V, and Virtual Server all have their own, non-interoperable APIs. Do you know of any library that unifies these?
Thanks, J.
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LUN Id and Target Id mismatch on vSphere Client and ESX 4.1
I am fairly new to SCSI and storage. I have few LUNs exposed from a array to the ESX host. When I run sg_map -x on ESX 4.1 I see the LUN Ids shown as 0 for all the LUNs.
[root@SRESX41 ~]# sg_map -x
/dev/sg0 4 0 0 0 0 /dev/sda
/dev/sg1 4 0 1 0 0…
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