The Book - virtualization:vmware

7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-02T07:33:38+00:00

VMware 7 tips and tricks * How to run VMware ESXI 7.0 on hardware with unsupported CPUs

8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-03T11:45:53+00:00

VMware 8 tips and tricks * How to enable CBT manually for a virtual machine

components

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-29T10:03:32+00:00

VMware Workstation 5.5 What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine? You may never need to know the file names or locations for your virtual machine files. Virtual machine file management is performed by VMware Workstation. If the behind the scenes file structure is not interesting to you, skip this section.

docs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-05-17T05:45:56+00:00

error_01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-08-02T19:17:44+00:00

Failed - File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed 1. Enable SSH access to your ESXi host and login 2. Check the main .vmdk file if it corrupted or not vmkfstools -x check /path/to/your/machine.vmdk 3. To repair the file type:

esxi_files

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-09T08:13:46+00:00

ESXi files File Usage Description ____________________________________________________________________________________ .vmx vmname.vmx Virtual machine configuration file .vmxf vmname.vmxf Additional virtual machine configuration files .vmdk vmname.vmdk Virtual disk characteristics -flat.vmdk vmname-flat.vmdk Virtual machine data disk .nvram vmname.nvram or nvram Virtual machine BIOS or E…

hearthbeat_datastores

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-19T08:58:35+00:00

HA error: "The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2" (2004739)

host_cnfg_bckp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-03-14T09:12:56+00:00

How to back up ESXi host configuration (2042141)

intro

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-02T08:11:14+00:00

VMware * Numbers Workstation * VMware Workstation 5.5 What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine * VMware Workstation host cannot ping VM on bridged network Infrastructure * VMware 8 tips and tricks * VMware 7 tips and tricks * VMware 6 tips and tricks * How to Upload VMware Workstation VM to ESXi Server * 6.7 * Upgrading ESXi * VMware 6.0 Documentation Links * Enabling support for SSLv3 in ESXi * Change password complexity requrements * How to back up ESXi host configur…

noping

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-02-04T22:40:34+00:00

Virtual Machine (VM) is configured with "bridged network" but cannot ping host (host cannot ping VM also) and at the same time both can ping IP addresses on Internet. The problem is that you cannot ping to <-> from host and guest. Other networking is fine.

numbers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-06T10:58:11+00:00

Download link VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus for 1 processor (VS6-EPL-C) : 4421L-4Y382-J8V8U-0KA00-3TRMJ 5 CPU(s) VMware vSphere 6 with Operations Management Enterprise Plus for 1 processor (VS6-OEPL-C) : MJ693-4821H-18K9K-091U4-1D03N

passwd_complexity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-07-15T17:34:52+00:00

Change password complexity requirements

sslv3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-19T20:24:46+00:00

Enabling support for SSLv3 in ESXi (2121021) Details The SSLv3 support for ESXi 6.0 is disabled by default for all services and ports. You may encounter these errors due to lack of SSLv3 support on these ports: CIM - Port 5989 The CIM server (sfcbd) stops accepting HTTPS connections and when you run a wbemcli query. You see the error similar to:

upgrade

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-05T06:22:30+00:00

vcenter_appliance_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-03-14T10:54:08+00:00

Troubleshooting the vCenter Server Appliance with Single Sign-On login (2033338)

vcenter_appliance_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-03-14T11:53:14+00:00

Installing vCenter Appliance 6.5

vim-cmd_01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-07T17:43:24+00:00

Powering VM from CLI List the inventory ID of the virtual machine with the command: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep Note: The first (leftmost) column of the output shows the vmid. Check the power state of the virtual machine with the command:

vmware_esxcfg_01

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-12-20T18:15:13+00:00

Mount VMFS Datastore Using ESXCLI We can list all detected VMFS snapshot volumes with the following command, even if for some reason we aren't able to mount the volume from within vSphere client (it was my case in a lab recently…). This command will list the names of the VMFS datastores and their UUIDs.

vmware_powercli

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-20T16:16:15+00:00

VMware PowerCLI Install Start PowerShell as Administrator Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI

ws_to_esxi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-26T06:44:52+00:00

How to Upload VMware Workstation VM to ESXi Server