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Questions tagged [vmware-vcenter]

This tag should be used to request advice on issues involving a vCenter installation issue or configuration problem.

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Replace VMware vSphere infrastructure with open source alternatives?

We are planning a slow migration from VMware (and third party apps) to open source alternatives (free would be great). Basically, we want to start with some little cluster lab, then migrate the production environment (35+ ESX, 1500 VMs) in the…
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Getting a list of all the snapshots in VMs managed by vCenter?

We have multiple ESXi servers managed by a vCenter; is there a way to get a list of all the snapshots in all the VMs?
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How to manage a global VM startup order across the whole datacenter?

Suppose you have a fully virtualized VMware infrastructure: ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, the whole package. Inside, you have lots of VMs, which at any given time may reside on one host or another (that's the whole point of clustering, isn't…
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Find all virtual machines with ballooned or swapped RAM in VMware cluster?

If I were to look at a vSphere cluster or resource pool and see a certain level of memory ballooning or swapping, how do I identify which VMs are affected? I know what to do with them once I find them :) In the example below, there are 65 virtual…
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Setup LDAP services for SSO vCenter

Fresh install vCenter server Server 2008 r2 I installed AD setup a user and when trying to "Add identity source" in vCenter when i hit "test connection" I get an error "The vCenter Single Sign-on server failed to connect to or failed to authenticate…
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Virtualisation management: should Vcenter, Veeam etc be on a physical machine or VM?

I've noticed that a lot of people run vCenter Server on a VM hosted on Vsphere / ESXi. This seems odd to me, because if there is an issue with the host then you will lose both the host and the management capabilities to switch hosts etc. Should I…
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How to change vCenter server appliance IP from command line?

I have installed a vCenter 5.1 appliance (VCSA) on physical server on a particular network, and assigned it an internal IP. This server (Dell R620) then went to a remote hosting location, where it is connected to a network with has a totally…
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Can you change the virtual NIC type after building a VM?

When building a VM, you can select which virtual device type you would like a vNIC to be (E1000, VMXNET3, etc). After the VM is created, can you change the type of vNIC in use on a given connection (eg from E1000 to VMXNET3)? If so, how?
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VMware vCenter/ESXi with FreeIPA instead of Active Directory?

Can vCenter authenticate against FreeIPA instead of Active Directory? If so, how would you set it up? We have a pure Linux environment (CentOS) and need to have vCenter and our VM's have the same users. vCenter is deployed as a Linux appliance.…
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vCenter Server update procedure

In the process of making a decision of implementing a FT storage in your environment that is running vCenter Server 6.0 4541947, I wanted to upgrade vCenter prior to implementing the solution. Our infrastructure is based on 3xR730 with 3x400gb SSD…
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VMWare distributed switch, VMs from different hosts cannot ping one another

I am using ESXi 5.1 in the hosts, I have setup a distributed switch with corresponding uplink and port groups. When migrating to distributed switch, it seems that VMs from the same host can ping one another, but pinging VMs on different hosts…
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vmware esxi 5, cant create snapshots and consolidate fails, how to delete old or consolidate redo logs?

I have a VM that seems to be working ok, but when VMWare DR (or I) tries to create a snap shot, it fails, and when I view the summary page of the VM it has a warning at the top showing that the disks need to be consolidated. So I go to snapshot…
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Any opensource equivalent of virtual center?

We got 10 ESXi hosts running. We don't have budget for Virtual center licenses. Is there some free tool that just gives us consolidated view of all VMs with poweroff and poweron options for each VM.We don't need Vmotion, all other stuff. Thanks
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Is there a way to find out what cluster or vcenter an ESX server is on?

I need to be able to identify which cluster or vCenter instance some ESX servers are part of, but need to get this information directly from the ESX server itself. Is this information available in the vSphere API on the host system? Background: I…
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How do I export/download a VM from vcenter to vmware workstation?

I need to run a VM on my laptop that I created in our esxi5.5 envvironment. I stumbled over ovftool and installed it to my Windows laptop but I don't see it in any menu. Or should I use ovftool on the vcenter server?
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