vSphere is VMware's virtualization operating system.
Questions tagged [vsphere]
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How to assign variables to a Powershell script from a file?
I am trying to deploy 20 vms in vcenter using vsphere powerCLI, instead of prompting for vmname/hostname again and again or passing params for 20 times I am looking for passing the 20 vm names from a file.
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esxi detailed Information
I want to get all the information from ESXi. I extracted the information in different CSV files, but once I want to merge them, it does not show all. But I would rather to create foreach to gather same information.
Add-PsSnapin…
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How to get started with vSphere 6.0 and set up the web client?
Linked from here
I've been tasked with setting up some VMs. I've been given some admin details but no further guidance. The server is a fresh install.
My problem is that I'm on Linux/OSX and don't want to run Windows aside from setting up after…
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VMware vCloud Air Security
How do I make my vCloud Air account secure? It was really easy for me to handle this when I was on vSphere but not sure how to do this for my organization on the public cloud of VMware. I have some 30 employees who would need access to my vCloud Air…
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Vmware - change vm's hostname (not the name we see in vcenter's gui)
I want to be able to use either a power-cli cmdlet, or the vsphere api (i'm writing in C#) - to be able to change a vm's hostname. I don't mean the name of the vm we see in the vsphere's gui - but the one we see when we use the command line…
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How can i get a vSphere VM's workgroup and list of users?
I am trying to do so both via the API ("VirtualMachine" class, in C#) and via power cli commands - without any luck.
Can someone please help me?
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vSphere Cluster creation requirements
I've been searching around but haven't found a clear answer on this.
We're using VMware ESXI with vSphere to manage a handful of VMs (about 15 right now)
However, these are all spread over three separate machines. I'm looking for a way to cluster…
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no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
I am new to python. I was trying to execute a simple py file to draw up simple gui application. However I got following exception.
_tkinter.TclError: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
I was accessing remote workstation (redhat OS…
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Can I delete a parent snapshot?
I am trying to maintain different builds of my code in different snapshots of the same virtual machine.
Right now, this is my current view in the snapshot manager (vsphere) for that particular VM:
[-]Base environment
|__Version 1.1
|__Version…
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Binding portgroup to a vm in ESX manually
how can I bind a portgroup to a vm in ESX5.5 manually without the using of vSphere client?
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How to unrar with the ESXi Shell?
I have root acces on a vmware vsphere esxi shell
just downloaded a bunch (108) sequence (parts) RAR files and need to unrar these.
apt-get install or yum and so don't work to install unrar.
How can I unrar with the esxi shell?
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Unable to retrieve slot information for clusters with admission failover level control policy enabled
I'm experiencing some problems when trying to retrieve the slot information for VMware clusters with admission failover level control policy enabled. I use the VI Java API.
When calling the following…
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How to change network configurations of VMs without using RDP?
I want to change guest VM's(Windows) IP address on ESXi. One way I have known is using RDP to connect to the guest OS and modifying the network configuration.
However, I wish to make the process automated. Hence, does vCenter or ESXi contain similar…
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How to correctly setup a small network of workstations to access VM's on ESXi servers?
For a small project I am working on to better my virtualisation skills, I am planning to set up an IaaS for a "small business" and have defined the following specifications:
A small IaaS service for a small/medium business with 5-10 cloud users,…
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vSphere SDK - create VM with NIC connected to a non-existent portgroup
Is it possible to create a VM with a virtual ethernet card connected to a non-existent port group? In my project there are two components one responsible for creating VM (VM Manager) and one responsible for creating port-groups and other n/w related…
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