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How to Properly Remove Datastore or LUN from ESXi
Pre-ChecksbeforeunmountingtheDatastore:1.IftheLUNisbeingusedasaVMFSdatastore,allobjects(suchasvirtualmachines,snapshots,andtemplates)storedontheVMFSdatastoreareunregisteredormovedtoanotherdatastoreusi
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vmkfstools change disk format or extend share disk
Enablingclusteringfeaturesforanexistingvirtualdiskbyconvertinginplace(1035823)clustering通过就地转换为现有虚拟磁盘启用群集功能(2062869)请添加链接描述AttemptstoextendthesizeofanEagerZeroedThickVMDKfromthevSphereClientmightresul
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Configure SNMP Settings for vCenter
ConfigureSNMPSettingsYoucanconfigureuptofourreceiverstoreceiveSNMPtrapsfromvCenterServer.Foreachreceiver,specifyahostname,port,andcommunity.PrerequisitesToconfigureSNMPsettings,thevSphereClientmustbec
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How to change vCenter log size
LoginvCenterserverasadministratorOpenWindowsExplorerandgotoC:\ProgramData\VMware\VMwareVirtualCenter\Backupthevpxdfilecopyandpastevpxd.cfginthesamepath,renameittovpxd<YYYYMMDD>.cfg<YYYYMMDD&g
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Autochk program not found - skipping auocheck
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004505Powerdownthesourcevirtualmachine.BootthevirtualmachineusingtheWindowsServer2008R2.isofile.IntheInstallationWizard,selectRepairyourComputer.SelectCommandPrompt.Ru
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Set the Round Robin IOPS limit from 1000 to 1
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2069356http://www.enterprisedaddy.com/2017/02/set-round-robin-iops-limit-default-1000-1-using-powercli/1,QuerythepathsoftheLUNesxclistoragenmppathlist--devicenaa.600009
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Differences between RDM Virtual and Physical Mode
Rawdevicemapping(RDM)isamappingfilethatprovidesdirectaccesstoaLUNonaniscsiorfibrechannelstoragesystemforavirtualmachine.RDMisbasicallyaMappingfileactsasaproxyforarawphysicalstoragedeviceplacedinaVMFSv
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Differences between RDM Virtual and Physical Mode
Rawdevicemapping(RDM)isamappingfilethatprovidesdirectaccesstoaLUNonaniscsiorfibrechannelstoragesystemforavirtualmachine.RDMisbasicallyaMappingfileactsasaproxyforarawphysicalstoragedeviceplacedinaVMFSv
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Datastore Mount/Unmount Detach/Attach functions
A set of functions to allow you to unmount/mount and detach/attach datastores from multiple hosts. List all datastores and their mount/detach status by passing your datastore object(s) into the G
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Remove a VMFS datastore using powershell
Recently I had to remove a lot of VMFS datastores from our VMWare infrastructure as we had migrated to new storage and no longer needed them. In order to remove a datastore from your vmware infrastruc
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How to Properly Remove Datastore or LUN from ESXi 5.x hosts
This post might be sounds simple that removing datastore from ESXi host but it is not actually simple as it sounds. VMware Administrators might think that right-click the data
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VM appear as invalid
1) Please check the Hardware version
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Difference between VMFS 5 & VMFS 6
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VMware P2V Permission to perform this operation was denied fix
Just the other day we had a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard physical server that needed to be P2V’ed, and after trying to use VMware Converter Standalone 6.1.1 we ran into the error message “Permissio
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Restore a VM using the {vm}-flat.vmdk file
A couple days ago I was asked the question “An admin deleted the vmdk file associated with a VM, there are no snapshots or backups of the VM . Can we restore this VM somehow?“. I believe in backups, I
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Server 2012R2 VMware Guest Customization (Sysprep) not starting
After deploying a Server 2012 R2 from a template, the VMware guest customization (sysprep) fails to start.In the events (vSphere Web Client 5.5/VM/Monitor/Events) of the new deployed VM I found the fo
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3 Ways to Generate vCenter Support Bundle in vCenter Server Appliance
1.Generate vCenter Support Bundle using Web Browsera.Log into any Windows machine on which you want to download the vCenter Support bundle.b. Open any web browser such as Internet Explorer or Google C
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How to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP Command
How to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP commandEnable SSH and allow SSH in ESXi firewallOnly prerequisite to copy files between ESXi host using SCP command is that both source and destination E
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Create NFS Datastore For Esx In Windows 2008R2
前段时间配置vSphere，写到了《VMware vSphere 主机无法挂载Windows 2008 Server R2 NFS的解决办法》但这个并不是最完美的解决方案，事实证明，接下来的权限是不完善的。经查证，是卤煮对于Windows 2008 r 2开启nfs的姿势不对……so，这里做一个总结，即《如何使用Windows2008r2为vSphere配置nfs服务器》准备工作首先，要为vSph
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Fixing Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for HA
http://geekswing.com/geek/vmware-cpu-and-ram-reservations-fixing-insufficient-resources-to-satisfy-configured-failover-level-for-ha/This post comes from a few days of poring over manuals as well as so
