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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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VCenter has failed, DHCP server is down

Our VCenter is crashing and technicians are trying to work on it, however this has resulted in the DHCP server failing, therefore none of the machines on the network can connect to the Domain controller or authenticate (except the people that were…
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Colocation server: where to install ESXi?

Sorry if this is a newbie question. I am colocating a 1U server and want to install ESXi on it. Given that a colo provider likely won't allow a USB key sticking out of the server, what is the preferred way to install ESXi in production cases?
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Is there any relation between VMware VMotion and VMFS?

I was studying VMware's VSphere suite, cloud computing virtualization platform. I could not figure out whether there's any relation between VMotion and VMFS in the suite? VMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one…
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What does the domain in vm host TCP/IP stack DNS config do?

We are pulling an Active Directory server out and modifying DNS settings on all systems. Attempting to update DNS list on a vm host results in a validation error that the domain value is not filled. How could this have been setup originally without,…
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Can ohai retreive the VM name from a node?

I am working on building an inventory using Chef and ohai. The plan is to pull relevant data from ohai and build an inventory "spreadsheet" that gets published on a webpage. Chef and ohai are capable of returning the hostname and FQDN, but can they…
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Vmware Vsphere 5.1 essentials all non administrator roles "not in use" and cannot be enabled

I'm currently testing datadog external monitoring services and I wanted to add our vmware hosts. With datadog you install their windows agent, and then the next step is to add a user in vsphere to the read only role. Unfortunately in my vsphere…
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SQL Express 2012 error when installing vCenter Update Manager 6.x

When installing a fresh VUM 6.0u1 VM I ran into an issue where if you choose to use the free MS SQL Express 2012 DB you get an error that says 'SQL Installation was not successful'. If you try to run the SQL Express installed directing from the…
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VMware licnesing for vdi and server virtualisation

I am planning to virtualise 50 desktops as thin clients(concurrent users). Well i will need 5 servers where 3 will be used for server virtualisation and 2 for desktop virtualsiation.All the servers will be Hexa Core with 2 CPU's.I want to know the…
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Is there something like a VM hardware profile to store VM specifications(vCPU, RAM, Storage) in vCenter?

I am looking for something like a VM hardware specification file in vCenter appliances. A template/file that can be used to deploy VM with the same hardware specifications.
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ESX, migrate hosts hardware to new hardware best practices

I have an ESX farm running the same 4 physical hosts (identical hardware) on vCenter 5.1. I received a bunch of 4 new physical servers with a newer hardware and I have to replace the old ones by these ones. What are the best practices to avoid any…
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Deployment of vCenter Operations Manager failing

I recently downloaded a trial of vCenter Operations Manager to deploy to our ESXi 4 environment. I wanted to test this software to see if it would be useful, but I cannot seem to get it working. First, I tried to import the .ova into VirtualBox,…
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Which hardware gives us better redundancy, performance, and cost efficiency for a large Enterprise Cloud Solution?

We are going to build a Large Enterprise Cloud Solution and would like to know in which configuration we would have a better redundancy/performance and cost efficient. Here are 2 examples which we're considering as good configurations to grow. Main…
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Host resources management - vSphere Client

I'm using vSphere Client version 6.7, having 2 hosts in a cluster. i want to know before i'm entering one host into maintenance mode, if the other host will be able to hold both servers resources. yes i know, i could calculate it by using free/used…
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Can't migrate VM in vSphere

Our Vsphere interface looks like this: So what we want to do now is above the servers folder there is a virtual machine called vvc3 (this is the VMware vCenter server appliance) We want to move that to the ESX6 host which runs at a datacenter…
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How to use the Ansible best practices repository layout with VMs?

I am (relatively) new to ansible and should set up an ansible repository to manage our contiuous integration infrastructure with multiple servers (version control, build, build-agents, ...). After reading about ansible best practices and layout, I…
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