Questions tagged [vmware-server]
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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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Version of the guest operating system in VMware ESXi/vCenster
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Why are some Linux distributions in VMware ESXi/vCenster differentiated by version numbers when creating a VM and others are not?
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If you create a new virtual machine on a VM host VMware ...
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VMWARE ESXI 7.0.1 don't recognize RAM installed after upgrade
I have a Oracle Server X6-2 ESXi 7, I installed with two(2)x32Gb ram DDR4(for 64 in total), but recently I upgrade the server to 128GB, with other 2x32 Gb modules. The BIOS and ILOX recognize the ...
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Run NAS in VMWare ESXi to share datastore
Is there any official NAS software to be run inside VMWare ESXi to use datastore as a NAS withalong Plex?
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Copying only the difference between VMDKs
I saw this question, but it passed 9 years, so something might changed.
I have 10 VMs in VMWARE server-A, and automatically every day I want to transfer those 10 VMs to VMWARE server-B.
Those 10 VMs ...
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vsphere cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password
When I try to login to my vsphere environment, I get the following error: "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password." I am certain that I am using the correct login information ...
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How to force VMware ESXi to reclaim memory (manually with script)
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We have a VMware ESXi Server with 512GB RAM and we have 25 VMs with 64GB RAM with "0GB" reservation memory for VMs. They don't use all of their resources but we need to do this because they ...
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Unable to deploy .ova file format, getting transfer failed when using ovftool
I'm getting a "transfer failed" error message. I tried manual and Ansible automation.
"Transfer Failed",
"Error: File (SLESOS-disk1.vmdk) could not be found.",
"Completed with errors"]}
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Comms between uplinks on same vSwitch on ESX
I'm driving myself crazy thinking this should work, but it's just not!
I have the below setup in ESX.
The vubuntu VM has an IP of 10.0.10.99/24 as do the VMkernel interfaces (I have two as a backup)....
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Unable to upgrade esxi to 6.5u2 due to dependency issue
I am receiving the error message below when trying to upgrade from 6.5 to 6.5U2 via escli. I have tried the upgrade process with the auto download and have tried downloading the zip file to the ...
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VMware can't start or stop Virtual Ethernet
Legacy system running CentOS 5 with VMware Server 2.02 (build-203138).
Things were working (relatively) well until recently, when a different machine hosting DNS and DCHP services crashed for ...
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Loading Google Compute image onto VMWare
I'm trying to load a Google Compute image onto a VMWare (6.5) server.
The image is a .raw file.
However, I can't find .raw mentioned in any VMWare instructions, and more importantly, the ext HDD ...
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Should I enable SR-IOV and/or ASPM in bios, on my ESXi server?
Relevant server setup is a SuperMicro X10SRi-F with the VM store via iSCSI LUN (not internal disks). I'm running desktop VMs (among others), so I have an nVidia Quadro 6000 + ESXi 5.5, the latest that ...
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VMware workstation pro 12.1 server/shared - VM drag and drop support
I have a remote shared Windows 7 VM (Windows 10 host, VMware workstation pro 12.1) that I have connected to with VMware workstation pro 12.0 from a Windows 7 machine.
How do I make drag and drop ...
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VMware guest static IP keep changing to DHCP [duplicate]
I inherited VM server with two guests (with Debian) running with static IPs (they work fine).
I created new guest (Debian 8.5) and configured it with static IP through /etc/network/interfaces in ...
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