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VMware ESXi is a bare metal embedded hypervisor that allows guest virtual servers to run directly on host server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

VMware vSphere Hypervisor or commonly known as ESXi. VMware ESXi is a bare-metal embedded hypervisor that allows guest virtual servers to run directly on host server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. ESXi can or could be managed using vSphere Client and VMware Infrastructure.

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Ansible - The error was: 'item' is undefined

I am new to ansible. I am trying to get info from an esxi about the VM installed on it. No vcentre available. I have created the playbook. Connection is working however I am getting the error in the Task debug. Any help is much appreciated.…
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How to add disk to VMware's VM host more efficiently by using Ansible offical module?

Env OS Version: CentOS 7.5 Ansible Version: 2.8.4 with python 2.7.5 ESXi and VCenter Version: 6.5.2 Purpose I have already completed my code, but I wondering if there are more better way to add disk to VM host by Ansible offical module. My…
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Xcode compile on NFS: unable to rename temporary .o file

I am running Xcode to compile modules on NFS volumes, very occasionally I got this error: error: unable to rename temporary 'foo.c.o-d55a0d36' to output file 'foo.c.o': 'No such file or directory' Frequency: 0.01% (got 1 error after compiling…
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ESXI: Get machine name from the virtual machine itself?

I looked and looked but probably overlooked . I have a vsphere cloud with over 300 virtual machines. Each machine name as it appears in the vsphere client is actually the hostname of each machine (I have done this manually). Those machines sometimes…
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Passing shell script file

I have a linux shell script file which collects various data from linux server. (Services, Process, FreeSpace etc.). From windows to collect the data we are using Plink to connect to linux Boxes and run the shell script plink root@servername -pw…
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VCenter 6.5 installation - internal error

I'm getting an error "internal error" when trying to "Set up vCenter Server Appliance" as shown in the attached screenshot: It starts as shown in the second screenshot and then it throws the internal error, it looks like it's failing to set the…
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Unable to run ansible tasks on ESXi hosts

I am trying to run an ansible job targeting en ESXi host. My playbook is simple. Setup a cronjob/Replace a cronjob. I am 2 different approached :: Approach 1 : --- - hosts: esxi tasks: - name: Deploy cronjobs for CAC 2.0 nodes. cron:…
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pyvmomi Get RAM/CPU Usage VSphere SDK 5.5?

I am trying to get some information from a few ESXi Servers through Python. I found pyvmomi(https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi) which is a great and easy to understand tool for this purpose. However, I cannot seem to find a way to get "real-time"…
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Is it possible to spin up VM using Vagrant and provider as vSphere in free edition of ESXi?

We are using free edition of ESXi. Is it possible to spin up VM using Vagrant and provider as vSphere?
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How to generate a memory shortage using bash script

I need to write a bash script that would consume a maximum of RAM of my ESXi and potentially generate a memory shortage. I already checked here and try to run the given script several times so that I can consume more thant 500Mb of RAM. However I…
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ESXi 5.1 revert to snapshot daily or every night

I'm trying to revert a virtual machine to the previous snapshot every day or night. Unfortunately, I haven't found any way to do this the way I want it. Here are some things I tried and that didn't fit : - snapshot.action=autoRevert --> The VM has…
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Develop application to run on ESXi 5.0

Is it possible to develop 3rd party apps that will be run on the ESXI 5.0 host machine? For example, daemon that monitor the ESXi machine. Is it possible to compile application on Red Hat Linux and then install them on the ESXi machine? Should we…
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Cannot start CUPS service in docker container, cups.socket is missing

I have a docker image (from eclipse-temurin:17-jre-focal) where I install CUPS and start that image via compose file. This image works fine on Azure Ubuntu VM's, but on a physical NUC server running ESXi and CentOS 9 as host OS, the CUPS service…
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Seg Fault when running fgets() in a function outside of main() on ESXi

I am creating a tool for managing my VMs on my ESXi servers. I am parsing the output from popen() from running vim-cmd commands. The issue is when calling fgets() in a function outside of main(). If I call it inside of main() it works without…
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How to run ESXi on Openstack under a KVM VM

We run Openstack with KVM as hypervisor and now need to run ESXi 6 or 7 inside a VM (nested virtualization). This is mainly for converting disks to proper vmdk disks, not really running any VMs under ESXi (that is why we are not using a barebone and…
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