Questions tagged [vmware-vsphere]
vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. It acts as the cloud computing OS managing a set of VMware ESXi-based hosts.
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mokutil certificate not importing
I am trying to use mokutil under Rocky 8.6 hosted on VMware to trust a certificate. I am able to do this on many systems but not others, and I'm having trouble figuring out what the difference is.
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vSAN Reports Partitioned Cluster but Full Communication is Present
I am building a vSAN cluster consisting of 2 racks each with 3 nodes (This will eventually be a stretch cluster). Each rack is in different subnets as listed below:
Rack 1:
Management: 10.73.8.0/25 (...
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No vMotion Connectivity Across L3 Networks
I am building a 6 node cluster spread across 2 racks (This will eventually be configured as a stretch cluster with a separate Witness). Everything is ESXi 8.0U1. Each rack is in a different L3 ...
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PowerCLI: How can I enable SSH on a vCenter Server Appliance?
Through the management interface served on port 5480 by default, you can enable SSH access to a vCenter Server Appliance. How can it be done programmatically using PowerCLI?
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vCenter HA against site failure
How can I prevent vCenter 7 HA across datacenter failure? What is the best method against vCenter site-failure? We have 3 Datacenters and a Enterprise plus license.
Is setting up separate vCenter for ...
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ESXI vSphere cannot set CD/DVD drive to "Connect after power On"
some time ago I was troubleshooting how to add passthrough PCI device to VM, in vSphere 7.0 (ESXi) Since that , I am unable to "Install VMWare tools" to any VMs (even those I did not touch)
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ESXi - Cannot delete datastore folder
I was uploading a Ubuntu ISO file to datastore in a lab environment and power failed and corrupted the folder.
I can't delete the folder anymore and I can't upload anything to that folder either.
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Intermittent GET Request Timeouts with Basic Auth on VMWare NSX V 6.4 API
I am working with the VMWare NSX V 6.4 API and encountering an issue with intermittent timeouts when making GET requests to https://{NSX-MANAGER-HOST}/api/4.0/edges/edge-10/ipsec/statistics using ...
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Determining average compute and memory utilization, per user, on RDS server farm
trying to determine how I might go about doing this.
We have 6 RDS server vms hosted in an esxi environment. I've gathered average utilization for each server vm and each esxi host (in vSphere ...
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Docker for Debian on a VMware ESXi VM frequently crashes
About a month ago I installed the latest version of Docker on Debian 12 on a VMware ESXi 8.0U2 virtual machine (latest vSphere version).
I tried to get VNC running but other priorities took over, so ...
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Recommandation / best practise for site to site replication as cold standby with ESXi Cluster
I have two ESXI clusters at location A, each consisting of 2 ESXi servers. 1 cluster is in the DMZ and one cluster is in the LAN. Various virtual machines are running on them. In total, there are only ...
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How do I increase Threads per core for an Ubuntu VM in VMware?
I recently purchased a VMware dedicated server and I created my first VPS on it with Ubuntu 22 server OS . Using lscpu in Ubuntu , I'm seeing the following :
steam@steam:/root$ lscpu
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How can I powerdown VMs to enter Maintenance Mode to apply vCenter component update in vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images when vCenter itself is running
My basic question is: is it possible to use vCenter to apply a component update to the host, seeing as how I would need to shutdown the VMs in order to do it, and crucially 1 of them is a router VM ...
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ESXi 8.0 host not detecting USB devices
I've got an ESXi 8.0.1 production host (Dell PowerEdge R450) that I'm trying to attach a USB device to. I've tried a USB external HDD as well as a USB licensing dongle. These devices have been ...
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One of machines on esxi vsphere stops working without any errors [closed]
I have some virtual machines on one of my servers. One of them has stopped working a few days ago with a cpu error on esxi, so I upgraded the machine's cpu from 4 cores to 10 cores. And it has 20 GB ...
