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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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What is the recommended way to version VMware Templates?

Assume that you're in an organisation with numerous data centres, each with their own private clouds running on VMware vCenter 5.5. There are VMware templates for different Operating Systems, including Windows, Redhat Linux etc. Lets assume there…
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Can I add an ESXi host to more than one vCenter server?

I have a situation where I need to add a host to two vCenter servers. The vCenter servers are divided into two different networks and are not in a linked mode i.e. the other vCenter server belongs to a partner company of us and the host is a shared…
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vSphere 5.1 U1 Client - "The command has timed out as the remote server is taking too long to respond"

The Problem: What we are trying to do When trying to log into vCenter using the VMware vSphere Client we are greeted with the following error when using both Windows Sessions credentials or manually supplied credentials (DOMAIN\Username): The…
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Mirroring 2 Host with their own local storage

I'm trying to decide between 2 infrastructures. 1. 2 Servers host that point to a NAS 2. 2 Servers that mirror each other with their own local storage. Infrastructure Requirements: 50 TB of storage, Active Directory, SQL Server, Remote Access, able…
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Joining VMware VSCA with separate PSC to the Microsoft AD

I am considering an installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance for our pretty small production environment. After some time playing around it, I have narrowed down a number of questions that I need clarifications with. Can I somehow integrate my AD…
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VMware / SQL - physical vs logical cores - how many vCPUs to assign when HT is enabled

We have a ESX host: It has 2 CPU x 8 cores each, and HT enabled. So, total 16 physical cores or 32 logical cores. It has a single dedicated SQL VM on it (no other VMs run on this host), and it has 16 vCPUs assigned: and the SQL NUMA config looks…
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VMware vSphere 5.5 any authentication attempts fail

In a VMWare vSphere 5.5 Windows based environment, any authentication attempts fail (taking some time). The logs mention lines like: ERROR [IdentityManager] Failed to find solution user by subject DN…
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ESX 5.5 Maximum File Size

We have a ~24TB Datastore (a single LUN mapped via a DAS) which has a VMFS5 Datastore. My understanding was with ESX 5.5 and VMFS5 you can have file sizes up to 62TB (as per this article:…
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Can I let my users create VM's as they wish?

In my dev team now, there has risen a request to be able to create/run VM's on demand. What they are asking for is a system/method/tool that they can select the following: CPU's, RAM, OS , Hard disk etc. They want to create them and destroy them on…
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Modify VM attributes from VMware CLI

There has to be a way to do this that I'm missing. I'm trying to modify attributes on a whole bunch of VMs at the same time from the CLI: Look! 24 VMs: $ vmware-cmd --server 10.91.1.1 --username root --password vmware -h 10.91.1.3…
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How is it possible to clone a running VM consistently?

We have a sysadmin who is cloning one of our production servers, which is a VMWare VM. The total time to clone it seems to be about 2 hours. The server is still running (serving web apps) while he does the clone. Obviously, things are changing on…
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Should VCenter be a VM?/Can it be external hardware

We have 6 ESX servers running +150 VMs. Currently our VCenter server is one of these VMs. The other day we had a hardware failure in our DC (caused by a naughty UPS) which took out two of these servers. The first server it took out was running our…
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What are the options for attaching DAS units greatly exceeding 62TB Virutal Disks max size limit on vSphere 6.0/6.5?

Our new DAS unit is on the horizon and I'm looking for the best way to configure the storage. We currently use vSphere 6.0 but will have to upgrade to 6.5 when Update 1 is released as all HDDs in the new DAS are 512e (sector size is 4096 emulated…
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Copy VM Snapshot to a new VM Environment

We have 2 separate VMWare environments, one is the main environment which has hundreds of virtual machines across lots of sites. The other is a much smaller one installed on one server, just for archiving old systems. What I would like to do is take…
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VMware Vmotion 5.1 fails at 51% , Between two identical new vmware servers

We've been trying to deloy two new CISCO UCS C220 M3S servers ESXi Hosts. the installation went smooth en perfectly. We added both servers in a ESXi (5.1 update 2) cluster. this to perform vmotion and auto migration of vm's between 2 esxi hosts. But…
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