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How to open firewall ports for vSphere?

I need to open ports on a firewall, so that a client can access his VM console through vCenter server's Web Client. I had a look at this page about port description, but I am a little confused. I already have a port open for the client on a…
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VMware Guest VM console have trouble with symbol keys, e.g. -.[]\'

I access Ubuntu 20 Guest VMs that I installed from .iso on a ESXi server. I access the console via VSphere HTML Client. Everything seems normal at first until I started doing more serious work via the web console. That is when I realize certain keys…
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Attaching disks on vSphere VM with govc

I am having issues attaching an existing disk (vmdk) to a vSphere VM without an initial harddisk via govc. I uploaded a vmdk which was tested with VMWare Player to the datastore on the ESXi datacenter without any errors. The command used for this…
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Clarification on how VMWare VM CPU usage is calculated

Primarily I have two questions relating to VMware/virtual machine's CPU usage: How is it calculated? Which numbers under which tabs of vCenter (vSphere client) window are referenced? Please also clarify if my understanding summarized below is…
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CPU stolen time by VMware Guest SDK does not match CPU ready time

I'm using the VMware Guest SDK library to figure out the CPU ready time of the virtual machine running my application. According the VMware documentation, the method VMGuestLib_GetCpuStolenMs of the vmGuestLib provides this value: The time (in ms)…
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Linux VM Size show very high in vsphere

We are using vsphere for running our VM environment. Issue Some of the Linux VMs show that their size is more then 300GB in the datastore. But when we checked the dir within the linux systems its show us only 2 directory which are around 50GB each.…
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Virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

I have a Virtual Machine that is currently configured with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and 8 cores are being allocated to the machine through Vsphere. (8 virtual sockets and 1 core per socket). I know the OS only supports 4 cores, so does this…
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iDRAC 5 on home network?

So I bought a second hand Dell Poweredge 1950 R3 and I bought it with a iDRAC 5 interface card. I am going to use it for college this year and use it as a vSphere host as my college course requires a lot of different operating systems. I am…
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I added 500MB vdisk and it's showing 524MB at fdisk -l, Why?

I added via vSphere 5.5 a new Hard Disk of 500MB to a virtual machine and the server sees it as 524MB. Any idea why? fdisk -l >Disk /dev/sdg: 524 MB, 524288000 bytes >64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 500 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 =…
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Virtual SAN not recognizing any disks

I'm trying to set up a virtual san but can't seem to add any disks. I made a cluster and added the hosts. Here's what I get when I go to disk management in the cluster: https://i.sstatic.net/jP9xx.png However, when I view the storage on the host…
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VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5 recommended guest system architecture

I am currently setting um VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5 on a DellPowerEdge2900 and since it's an older server the following question came to my mind: Considering performance should I install guest systems as 32bit or 64bit versions? Or doesn't it make…
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Need help setting up pfsense in ESXi

I've been having this trouble for a while. I've tried several times to get it to work, and I cannot find the solution online so I figured I would need to ask. I have a box running ESXi, and on it I have a few VMs. They all use the same on-board NIC,…
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vSphere 5.5 Can't tick "connect" for VM Networks

We are using vSphere 5.5.0. Using the vSphere Web Client, when I create a new VM or add a new NIC to an old VM, if I tick "connect" for the VM nentwork, the task is completed without error. But when I reopen the settings window the checkmark is…
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Does VMWare let you upgrade host system while guest stays up?

My college uses VMware. To what extent I am not sure. The issue is that they have the main student access website down every night from 12am to 6am for upgrades. To my understanding using VMware will allow you to keep the site up while upgrades are…
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vSphere client connection to vCSA 5.5 fail to connect

vSphere client connection to vCSA 5.5 fail to connect remote server. I work with this machine for over 3 years but now I get this error when I trying to connect to vCSA to manage my ESXi(s): vSphere client could not connect to "192.xxx.xxx.xxx" An…
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