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Both C and D drives behave as non-persistent, even though i have set C drive as "non-persistent" and D drive as "Persistent"

Is it the disk, which behaves as persistent and non persistent or the VM? I have a VM on my vsphere with two disk drives ( C and D ), Both Drives are marked as THIN PROVISIONED. this machine is being ...
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is there any deployment automation software that can create an encrypted vm in esxi?

I recently felt the need to encrypt my esxi vms and tried to find some way to do it with terraform but couldn't find an option for that in the documentation so I looked into ansible , chef with no ...
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How does terraform ssh to virtual machines in vsphere if It didn't set a password before

I am trying to deploy a linux VM on Vmware ESXI using terrafom but I don't understand how in the documentation they use a given username and password to ssh to a machine without having set this ...
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Disconnected NIC on customized & deployed Ubuntu 18.04 templates

Within my vSphere 6.7 U3 environment, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 template generated by packer which I am then using Terraform to deploy two copies of. I am running into an issue where the deployed VMs ...
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Terraform, specifying location for vms on datastore

I was wondering as I couldn't find it in the documentation or I've missed it a lot. I am using Terraform 0.12.9 with newest vsphere provider. My goal is to do a clone from a template and it basically ...
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Terraform: How to set guestOS in terraform vsphere VM

I try to create some VMs with terraform, with different guest OS. But all are created as "Other Linux (64-bit)". AS soon as the vm's are created they pxe boot -> this works fine. this is my instance....
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Add second network to vsphere terraform plan

I would like to add a second network to my vsphere terraform plan, but I cannot seem to figure out how this is added. My vsphere terraform plan has the following: network_interface { label = "${var....
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Setting VM Notes in VMware via Terraform

We've started using Hashicorp Terraform to manage provisioning in our VMware environment but we're having difficulty modifying the Notes for a VM. It seems we need to use the ...
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