Questions tagged [esxi]
VMWare ESXi Hypervisor Server OS
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Ubuntu 24.04 virtual machine on VMWARE ESXI very slow
I installed a virtual machine on an IBM server with a fair share of computing power using VMWARE ESXI. The virtual machine has Ubuntu 24.04 as guest OS and has allocated 100 GB of RAM and 12 vCPUs.
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Issues with VM crashing when migrating to a specific host
We have had a long standing issues in our environment where when sometimes a virtual machine migrates to a specific host in the cluster, the VM becomes hung and is no longer available. When it happens ...
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Cannot Expand Datastore in ESXi 6.7 of a 4TB RAID1 Drive Configuration
I'm running ESXi 6.7 on a Dell R720 with 96GB of ram, and 2x 8-core processors. I have two 4TB drives configured in the BIOS as one disk, RAID 1.
I had a Linux VM that was utilizing about 75% of the ...
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How to add driver to ISO or bootable USB flash drive?
I'm trying to set up an ESXi (newest version) on my old Gaming Computer (HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-0050ng) (HP: 9CJ26EA#ABD).
How can I add a driver to my ISO or bootable USB flash drive?
If it ...
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Trying to add hard drive to VM on ESXI 8, .vmdk file not found?
Using ESXI 8.0 update 2.
Have a VM I am trying to add a hard drive from an existing .vmdk file. Had some issues doing this through the web UI as noted here and we had more luck using VMWare ...
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DELL R720 Server's esxi6.7 is not pinging after installing the ubuntu server on separate HDD point to same NIC1 in Home Lab
Dell R720 server has hypervisor ESXi 6.7 running eve_ng Lab for networking Lab. Recently I installed an Ubuntu server on a separate HDD pointing same NIC1 in DHCP mode, Now Idrac 7 does not show the ...
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Cannot create VM on ESXI - insufficent space - but that doesn't seem true?
I have a ESXI Server with 211 Gigs free
Today I bought a Windows 10 license key and downloaded the ISO from Microsoft. I created a VM of this directly on VMWare, turned that into a OVA and that I ...
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Can't connect USB 3.0 storage device to my RHEL 8.8 VM
System details:
RHEL 8.8 VM
ESXi 6.5
Problem: Attaching my USB to the VM as a storage device.
The USB port on my laptop is a 3.2. The USB key is a USB 3.0.
When I try attaching it to the VM, I get ...
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Splitting large .vmdk disk roughly 3 TB in size into several small ones
As mentioned in the title, I need to split large .vmdk file which contains a Database into several smaller (4) ones. I don't actually need them to work, just need the 4 separate files with roughly the ...
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Facing Error while connecting to VMware VNC Console Access via HTML Console SDK
I'm facing a challenge with accessing the VNC Console through VMware's HTML Console SDK and would really appreciate some guidance. Here's a rundown of what I've done and the issue I'm encountering:
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How to "sysprep" a Linux VM from inside that VM?
I need to prepare a Linux VM to create a template hosted on a VMware ESXi.
So far I found this german virt-sysprep procedure that syspreps the Linux VM but from outside the VM.
It says I need a Linux ...
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How to increase the hard disk space of thin provisioning virtual machine?
Created thin provisioning VM (Suse Linux) with 100 GB hard disk. Now due to space requirements, I need to increase the size to 200GB. Can someone please tell me how to increase the space of the "/...
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Error trying to get disk space usage from discovered VMS using Zabbix
I am trying to create a trigger on a template called Template Virt VMware Guest in order to extract the % of free space of the VMWARE VM that has the template inherited.
What I did was:
Going to the ...
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"Active directory users and computers" are duplicated in my Windows Server 2019
When I click tools from server management I find that.
“Active directory users and computers” are duplicated in my Windows server 2019 and this happened after I used vCenter to move my physical Domain ...
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VMWare ESXi VM's pinging
I have 2 VM's in the VLAN18 in my VMWare ESXi 8.0
I wanted to ping the other one but it doens't find it. Now I turned off the firewall and it worked if they are in the same VLAN, now I want my 1 VM to ...
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