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VMWare ESXi Hypervisor Server OS

VMWare ESXi is a Hypervisor based virtualization platform that installs on bare hardware (no host OS required) that allows running of multiple guest virtual machines simultaneously. ESXi is available freely with basic single-server functionality, but more advanced functionality requires licensing commercial versions of VMWare Infrastructure. ESXi lacks the linux based service console included with VMWare ESX, further reducing install footprint and attack surface.

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Where can I find the VMware vSphere client?

VMware's download site is very frustrating. I am unable to find where the download link to the vSphere client is. Did they rename this tool? How can I get it?
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How to reduce the size of VMware disk

My Ubuntu image VMware disk has grown to 5GB physical file size. It's a dynamically growing disk with the maximum capacity of 8GB. I cleaned some stuff inside Linux distro and now inside it occupies 3GB. Obviously the physical file size didn't…
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Creating User in esxi 6.5 and assigning role

I am using vmware 6.5 and trying to create another user. All KB article on vmware I found are for older version e.g. esxi 5 or 5.5 In 6.5 I have managed to create user and create role, however I do not see any way to assign this role to user. As…
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VMware ballooning state from inside guest

There's tools (e.g. extop) to check VMware ballooning state from VMware host. I'm using VMware to run CentOS 6.3 and when ballooning stars consume memory to reclaim it back to ESX host, my system behaves not nicely under the stress. Is there way to…
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VMware: what are the "vpxuser" and "dcui" user accounts for?

I am using VMware ESXi 5.1, and apart from the root account which I am using to manage my hypervisor, there are two more accounts: vpxuser dcui I don't know what these accounts are for, I don't know what the password is. Can I delete them? I am…
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Running Virtual Box VM inside VMWare VM (Windows Server 2008)

I am trying to run Virtual Box VM inside VMWare VM (Windows Server 2008 64 bit) I am getting below error on booting virtual box vm. Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX) VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL…
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Can I play a video game on an ESXI server with a graphics card?

I have a Dell tower server near my TV at home which functions as a media server, web server, etc. It runs VMware ESXI 6.0. I'd like to be able to install a graphics card in the server, connect it to my TV, set up a Windows VM and play video games on…
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ESXI only 4.7GB RAM available for VMs from 8GB of RAM. why so little?

I have an ESXI 6.0 with 8GB Ram. For some reason I can only use 4.7GB for VMs. I tried using esxtop but didnt see anything using lots of RAM. Below are screenshots from vsphere. Can anyone help me to understand where is Memory going? As you can see…
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ESXi PCIe passthrough of GPU recognized in guest OS but not functional

I have an ESXi server and am having issues passing a Radeon RX 5700 through to a Windows 10 VM. Windows sees the GPU, but reports that it has stopped the device because it has reported problems (Code 43). I deleted the first VM I created for this…
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How do I get audio from a ESXI 5.0/5.1 Windows 7 VM?

I want to run a LARGE Windows 7/XP VM. Like 50+ Gigabytes of ram and 4 cores. I need to be able to console in to this VM, but for alert purposes I need the VM to pass audio either back out to me via the console connection OR by USB speakers or…
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VMware esxi client for linux?

is there a way to connect to VMware esxi 5.1 from a Linux machine? A sphere client version for Linux? I have looked for every where I couldn’t find any answers.
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perf cannot get cache-misses for Linux VM on VMware ESX

I interested on measuring CPU cache-misses parameter and came across this tool called perf. I followed the wiki and able to get the cache-misses when this command is run on physical machine [root@supermicro ~]# perf stat -e cache-misses dd…
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ESXi Move port group to different vswitch

In ESXi, how does one move an existing port group to a different vSwitch? This appears to be an often-desired action, but with no readily-accessible solution: So, I have one large vSwitch with about 8 different port groups (each with 4-6 VMs…
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How to get current snapshot name via vim-cmd on ESXi VMware hypervisor?

I'm trying to get a snapshot id which current machine state connected to. I logged to ESXi server via ssh. Here is an example of vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get : Get Snapshot: |-ROOT --Snapshot Name : first --Snapshot Id :…
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Configuration for public (external) access to ubuntu guest on ESXI 5

I am setting up a demo system on a leased dedicated server. System consists of : ESXI host with 1 NIC assigned (so 1 Static IP) 64 bit Ubuntu guest as server I installed and configured the system and the current network topology has : physical…
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