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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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Getting a list of all the snapshots in VMs managed by vCenter?

We have multiple ESXi servers managed by a vCenter; is there a way to get a list of all the snapshots in all the VMs?
leeand00
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vCenter Server update procedure

In the process of making a decision of implementing a FT storage in your environment that is running vCenter Server 6.0 4541947, I wanted to upgrade vCenter prior to implementing the solution. Our infrastructure is based on 3xR730 with 3x400gb SSD…
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How do I export/download a VM from vcenter to vmware workstation?

I need to run a VM on my laptop that I created in our esxi5.5 envvironment. I stumbled over ovftool and installed it to my Windows laptop but I don't see it in any menu. Or should I use ovftool on the vcenter server?
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Unable to Change vCenter Server Appliance IP

I am trying to change a vCenter Server Appliance static IP address. If I follow VMware documentation here I get the following message IPv4 configuration for nic0 of this node cannot be edited post deployment. Logging in through console doesn't…
minus8
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Stuck increasing VSA storage cluster size

I am trying to increase the size of a VSA cluster in vCenter 5.5.0. I stopped all the VMs running on the VSADs-n datastores, put the VSA cluster in Maintenance Mode and started the Increase wizard in the VSA Manager. Unfortunately it seems to be…
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VMWare VpxClient AxQuickMksAxCTL/Object Not Set NX/DEP - without turning off DEP

VMWare VpxClient.exe has an issue with Data Execution Prevention (DEP), which results in quite a lot of the functionality of the client being…
Ben
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VMware vCenter Server Standard and Foundation Editions

Wondering whether anyone could advise as to the differences between these two products, from my understanding the difference is the latter allows control of more than 3 hosts. What I really wanted to know was, the (cool) features like chargeback and…
ToreTrygg
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vCenter is hosed, and I want to set up a VCSA server

I have a vCenter server that is hosed. I cannot get the service to start, and if I do get it to start, I cannot connect to it via the thick or web client. So I am considering setting up a VCSA server in replacement to my windows based vCenter…
Litzner
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Is there an (official) API to get information from vCops?

For a reporting tool I will need to grab the generated information from vCops (vmware vCenter Operations Manager). Therefore I am searching for an official, or at least well supported API. For me it looks, like there is nothing official, right?…
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vmWare and maintenance mode on primary HA (DRS) host

I have to make a change to all my esxi hosts in a cluster that has DRS enabled, one of the hosts is the primary host for HA. As far as I know a host is selected by the system during an election process, what will happen if i put the primary host in…
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VMware vCenter Server Appliance VAMI (https://vCSA:5480) stuck on "Getting Started - vCenter Server" after upgrading from 6.7 -> 7.0

This vCSA was recently upgraded from 6.7u3 to 7.0. The vCenter is 100% operational from a vSphere perspective. However, we cannot get into the VAMI (vCenter Appliance Manager Interface) at https://vCSA:5480 This is very bad because we cannot…
SamAndrew81
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Evaluating VMware view

We are in the process of looking at different desktop solutions including view. After reading the documentation there are a couple things I am not clear on. In order to use offline desktop you can't have a linked clone, but from what I understand…
ToreTrygg
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vCenter 6.7 High Availability. How to priortize host restart

We run a VMWare data center with vCenter 6. We recently enabled High Availability on a 3-host cluster in our test environment. If one cluster fails, the other 2 don't have the resources to take on all of the failed-over VMs. Some of them will…
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Expand Datastore Question

I added storage to my LUN and want to expand the datastore in vCenter. Is it as easy as running the Expand wizard? Can it expand on the fly with VM's running? Do I need to backup my VM's before I do this? Will I lose and data? This is a production…
ToreTrygg
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vCenter Appliance IP address and it's gateway are not in the same subnet error

I am trying to deploy a vCenter Server Appliance on a OVH ESXI 6.7 For those who know, OVH ip addresses and default gateways are at different subnets. for example, if your dedicated server has an ip of 172.172.172.172 then the default gateway must…
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