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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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Regex select between nth special character and a string

I have an ESXi host that failed and I am trying to grep the guests that might have been running on the host at the time of failure. I found some logs where the VM failed to load after we've powered back on the ESXi host, this could possibly give me…
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How to correctly set up permissions in VMware ESXi?

In VMware ESXi (the FREE version) there is a built-in user functionality (manage > users) which gives the ability to create roles as well. When I in the host (host > actions > permissions) give the permission "no access", it gives the user no…
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Installing pip on ESXi Host

I would like to extend my ESXi Host with some more python modules. Easiest way for this would be if pip would be available. Anybody knows how to install pip on an ESXi Host?
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what is the linux file location where the cloud-init user-data is passed to?

what is the linux file location where the cloud-init user-data is passed to? And how does cloud init use that, is it passed as kernel parameter for proc commandline? Can explain in atleast level 2? How cloudinit works on bare eSXI?
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How to expose the Devstack floating ip to the external world?

To this project, my hardware configuration is a host ESXi 6.7 (OS boot USB 8GB), i7, 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD and 500GB HDD. And I created a single vm (7 vCPU, 15GB RAM, 100GB SSD, 1 NIC) and I installed Ubuntu 18.04 (LVM filesystems). I…
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ESXi command to get all running services on host

Could anyone please give me the command to get the list of all services running on an ESXi host?
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How to find ESXi host serial number using pyvmomi?

Previously for VCenter software version 6.0.0 I was using vim.host.SystemIdentificationInfo which was giving me the desired value inside identifierValue But for VCenter software version 6.5.0 vim.host.SystemIdentificationInfo is returning me an…
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"Incompatible hardware version" error when running DPDK on VMWare with VMXNET3 interface

We're trying to run DPDK example apps in a guest machine running Centos 7.5. The host is ESXi version 6.5. I'm building dpdk on the guest machine where I'm trying to run it. I've tried both DPDK versions 18.05 and 18.08. We have created five…
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ESXi web client auto-fill credentials

I'm trying to write a greasemonkey script that autofills ESXi login web page with credentials. The following code fills the input fields and enables the submit button: // ==UserScript== // @name ESXi autofill credentials // @namespace …
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How to find ip addresses assigned to virtual machines in an esxi server?

I tried to find ip addresses assigned to vms in an esxi server? either from terminal or vSphere Client.
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VMware ESXi6.5u1 client support

I know VMware has provided the support for HTML5 based client to manage the VMware host. We want to use vSphere client6.0 to manage VMware ESxi 6.5u1. I have one vSphere client with version 6.0 and two ESXi server with version6.5 and 6.5u1. I have…
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How to determine total, free, available memory on ESX hypervisor via pyvmomi or cli?

I am looking for ESX/ESXi specific commands/samples pyvmomi APIs to determine system memory information on the hypervisor - free/total/used.
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Can packer with vmware-vmx connect to esxi?

Is it possible for the vmware-vmx provisioner of packer to connecto to an esxi server? The documentation (https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-vmx.html) does seem toe lack the variables remote_* which are available in…
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SOAP for ''esxcli storage core device detached list''?

I have an ESXi 5.5 installed. After some time, I noticed that there were multiple detached disks. Running the command esxcli storage core device detached list returns: naa.6000eb3b4f9264d90000000000001d6a off naa.6000eb3b4f9264d90000000000001d98 …
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VMWare pyvmomi 6.0.0 : Operation not supported

I am using VMWare's pyvmomi to manage my ESXI's virtual machines I'm using : pyvmomi-6.0.0 with python 2.7.5 to clone a VM on VMWare ESXi 6.0.0 Update 1 which is managed by vCenter Server 6 Using pyvmomi, i can successfully retrieve vm objects,…
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