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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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VMware FT, App HA: What happens if vCenter Server is offline?

I am interested in the two features named "Fault Tolerance" and "App High Availability" which are part of some VMware products. As far as I understand the vCenter Server instance is needed to perform administrative tasks. Therefore, a crash of the…
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Export virtual machine list

I'm doing an inventory of both our physical and virtual machines. I'd like to export a list of virtual machines from vCenter instead of having to type everyone into a spreadsheet. Anybody know of an easy way to do this in vCenter 5.5? I've seen…
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Flash on EL6 for accessing VMware vCenter Appliance 5.5

Has anyone succeeded in connecting to a vcenter 5.5 appliance with a RHEL6 workstation? If so, what's the magic incantation and ritual keystrokes? Made the mistake of upgrading to esxi 5.5 without fully researching the fallout. My bad. I know…
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Configuration Defaults for VMWare vSphere Virtual Machines

We have a number of hosts running VMWare ESXi 5.5 all attached to a vCenter instance. We access and manage all of our VMs with the vSphere Web Client. A number of people who do not necessarily have a lot of VMWare experience create VMs on a cluster…
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vCenter Cluster CPU utilisation data inaccurate

We have quite a reasonably sized vSphere 'estate', with 80% of our Windows/Linux servers virtualised, running across six Datacentres. One of my challenges is medium to long term capacity planning, ensuring I get enough money into the annual Capex…
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SNMP - Value of CPU processor load not reflecting reality

Trying to plot CPU load on my server, with the following hardware: ProLiant DL360p Gen8 (same behavior on ProLiant DL360 G7). The machine is running VMWare ESXi5.1 To create a CPU spike I run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null, and I know the CPU is…
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How to release a VMware unused license from a host? New licensing scheme?

I own VMware Essentials license (6 CPU's) One of the hosts is going to be replaced with a new one. I am having trouble removing/changing the license on that host. As you can see on the image: the option to select the evaluation mode is grayed out…
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With a vsan issue where you cant access vcenter, should you ssh into all machines and power them down prior to restarting esxi host?

So I have a vsan cluster, 4 esxi hosts all contributing to vsan as well as compute. Vcenter lives in esxi01. Esxi01 is not responding and I cannot open the web gui. I can still ping every vm and ssh into most. I believe esxi01 is out of file…
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VM stuck at boot - delete CTK file even if snapshots are present?

I am tasked with recovering a VMWare 6.5 cluster that, after an unexpected power failure, has a VM (the most important one...) stuck at boot. From the vmware.log file, it seems the problem is related to a corrupted CTK file and, as I read on this…
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Exporting VM as OVA in ESXi 6.5

How can I export a VM in the OVA format with VMware ESXi 6.5? In vCenter (vSphere Client version 6.5) I can only export as an OVF. The same is true for the ESXi web client. The old application (VMware vSphere Client 6.0 and bellow) allowed me to…
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VCenter 6.5 Permissions not being applied

I have created a local user using the SHELL, gave it a password and then added it to the Read Only admin group using the UI. I'm a bit clueless as to why the permissions are not being applied though as I cant login using that user.
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Cannot login to restored domain controller unless NIC removed

We have four DCs (Windows 2008 R2) running on VMware, backed up with Veeam. Currently doing some DR testing. If I restore a DC (full VM) from backup (obviously isolated from our production environment) I cannot log in. I receive the error…
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Unable to connect to MKS: Could not locate vmware-authd executable

i am glad to be part of this community , wanted to stop by , say hello and share my sadness. i have installed a vcenter applience 6.0 with a hope to manage some of my old 5.0 esxi servers , everything went smoth ,but the main feature that i was…
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How to optimize vCSA Tiny peformance housed over 100 VMS?

vSphere Cluster is 3x HPE DL380 G8 with 128GB RAM on board connected to 3PAR. The total number of running VMs is over 60. Although the vCSA deployment size is Tiny meaning there should be the enough resources to maintain the production, the project…
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Issues adding ESXi host to vCenter Server

I seem to be having quite a hard time adding a specific ESXi 6.5 (enterprise license) host to my vCenter Server (standard license). I currently have two ESXi 6.5 hosts running on Dell PowerEdge servers, and both hosts as well as the vCenter…
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