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A virtual machine (VM) is a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system. It is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine.

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What would be an ideal RAID for this situation? [closed]

We have an end of life Dell VRTX. I am tasked with migrating the VMs to a server temporarily while we transition to the cloud. Should I configure 12 1.2 TB 10k SAS drives into one RAID, or RAID two ...
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Xenserver Template Storage Dependency - VM Creation Issues on Different Hosts

I'm working with XenServer (XCP-ng) and have encountered an issue with VM creation from templates. Here's the scenario: Three storage repositories (SRs) on separate hosts (host1, host2, host3). A ...
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Routing traffic to a WSL2 VM. What am I missing?

HOST_IP = 192.168.0.132/24 VM_IP = 172.30.110.54/20 (different subnets) The HOST computer is able to reach the WSL2 VM, but I don't understand the process that makes that possible. I was assuming that ...
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Safenet authentication client not detecting safenet token in vmware virtual machin

I am trying to add a safenet token to a vmware esxi vm. The token device is showing in device list of windows. but safenet authentication client tool is showing no token is connected. Now need to know ...
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Does accelerated network interfaces gets added after all synthetic interfaces are added?

Have a question with respect to Azure Accelertated Networking. When a virtual machine (VM) is created in Azure, a synthetic network interface is created for each virtual NIC. If the VM is configured ...
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Route internal subnet between openstack instance

Context: I have an openstack where 2 instances are connected to a network (subnet 172.26.20.0/24). This network is connected to a virtual router (gateway 172.26.20.1). Instance 1 ip is 172.26.20.10, ...
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How to log each virtual machine resource usage cpu time, mem etc

Running Apache with mpm_event on a shared linux server with about 5 websites (VMs) I would like to log each VM's usage of the memory, cpu time and bandwidth for each 24hr period and have it email to ...
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Connect two QEMU VMs

I created two QEMU VMs using Ubuntu cloud images. Then, I started them and enabled the ssh port forwarding using the following command: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -smp 4 -hda ./ubuntu2404-vm0.img \ ...
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Windows Server 2019 is no longer activated after switching over to passive node [duplicate]

I am running Windows Server 2019 in Virtual Machine Manager on a Synology High Availability cluster. Today I switched the server to the passive node and now Windows Server 2019 is no longer activated. ...
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VM connected to LAN but cannot reach host

I created a Windows11 VM using cockpit virtual-machine on a ubuntu server. The network is configured as "Direct attachment" and the VM is reachable and can reach internet and all other ...
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No internet connection on Hyper-V virtual machine in VPS

I am running a Windows 10 virtual machine (Hyper-V) on Windows Server 2022 (VPS). I need my virtual machine to be on the same LAN as my Windows Server. To do this, I have configured a virtual switch ...
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Provision/instantiate a VM using pre-built templates versus build/provision from scratch

My systems engineering team is promoting building up a VM template (to include architecture, OS, networking, middleware services (tomcat, jboss, etc.) and possibly some 1st party services & apps), ...
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Why a ubuntu virtual machine hosted in GNS3 can ping but cannot access local services?

I am experiencing an issue where my Ubuntu 20.04.4 virtual machine is unable to access any locally hosted services within the same network. The services are running on various machines within the ...
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Desktop application on vm in a cluster: which windows OS?

We need to run Hec-Ras software (river flow calculations) on a virtual machine in a vmWare cluster. That software will be run by a person at a time and we will put on a vm only because we don't have ...
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esxi virtual machine ’s storage usage exceed 30% than it was allocated

We allocated 0.2 + 10.98 T but the storage usage shows it use 14T why？ 2 disks are both “Thin provisioned”
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