vSphere is VMware's virtualization operating system.
Questions tagged [vsphere]
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Deploy OVA to VCenter with Terraform
I am by no means a knowledgeable VMWare user at this point. I think this might just be a case where I just don't understand some essential concepts.
I'm trying to deploy a VM into a VCenter, I have an OVA (template?) that I want to deploy…

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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 …

Mirel Vlad
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execute command in Windows VM using pyvmomi
I'm using vSphere and I want to execute commands remotely using Pyvmomi. I found a sample which is execute_program_in_vm.py but unfortunately it's only working for debian/ubuntu.
Is there anyway to execute command working for guest Windows…

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pysphere PerformanceManager fails to get statistics of datastores
I'm trying to get statistics of vsphere datastores.
While I'm able to get statistics of hosts, it fails with datastores:
from pysphere import VIServer
server = VIServer()
server.connect(HOST, USER, PASSWORD)
pm =…

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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,…

Nicolas B.
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PowerShell: How to get the name of my ESXi
How to get the ESXI Name?
what I tried:
Add-PsSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue"
$User =
$Password =
$ESXiServer = "IPAddress"
Connect-VIServer $ESXiServer -User $User -Password $Password
$Datacenter =…

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Kubernetes dashboard on vSphere, fresh install gives "no route to host"
This was taken from Github (issue #24407) to Stackoverflow.
Even with the commit from Friday, May 6th 2016 (commit c11229f) to cluster/vsphere, this error
Error: 'dial tcp 172.17.0.2:9090: no route to host'
Trying to reach:…

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Custom dynamic inventory scripts/plugins in Ansible
Ansible allows devs
to write programs (in any language) that will return JSON describing the dynamic “snapshot” of current hosts. I’m using vSphere, which is currently not supported by Ansible OSS, and so I need to write such a "custom inventory…

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How to manage Docker server by multi clients
I want to implement Docker for my project.
Now, my project has an enterprise server (Redhat 6) which is running ESXi. We created many developer accounts and set permissions for them. Our developers use the vSphere Client to manage the virtual…

Tuan
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VmWare vSphere: send automatically mail/notification on event
I'm new on vsphere and I have an important question.
Is there a section where I can set parameters that allow a vsphere to send me notifications/email when a condition happens?
For example when a virtual machine cpu usage go over a value that I…

Michele De Nardi
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Enable Management API in VMWare vSphere Hypervisor
I am using the free version of vmWares vSphere Hypervision 6.
The problem I have is that I want to use the Management API.
I want to start and stop vm's and also take and reset to snapshots via scripts but the API is read-only for the free…

Jakob Auer
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How do I query vSphere for an existing virtual machine?
Using the VMware.Vim library (part of PowerCLI I believe) I'm trying to find a specific machine that exists in vSphere. My code looks like this:
using VMware.Vim;
var client = new…

Paul
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How to compare vm Templates between two VMware vsphere environment?
I'm using two different vsphere environments for deploying my application. I'm using a template of pre-installed RHEL, and from time to time I want to update the template on both environment (usually for security reasons). While I'm updating one…

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Information about VSphere sdk Java Service export several objects.
At the moment I am trying to create a vsphere web service. I have exported all the necessary back - end class as well as some other parsers. The idea is that I need to extend DataProviderAdapter probably to send and receive information from the GUI.…

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How Can I deploy OVA file on Vsphere Client with python
I want to automate deploying OVA image on VSphere with python.
I looked up at some packages viz. Pysphere, psphere but didn't find direct method to do so.
is there any Library I'm missing or is there any other way to deploy OVA/OVF files/templates…

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