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vSphere is an enterprise level virtualization solution. It acts as the cloud computing OS managing a set of VMware ESXi-based hosts.

VMware's vSphere is a cloud computing virtualization platform built around the ESXi bare metal hypervisor. vSphere includes popular features such as HA (High Availability), DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduling), vMotion (live migration of guests), and Storage vMotion (live migration of guests disks between datastores).

See the vSphere product page at vmware.com.

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How do I copy an image in VMWare?

(I know this is a really noob-ish question, but I'm a noob-ish VMWare user.) I see where there's a function to clone a VM, but that appears to clone its settings (CPUs, memory, disk space). I'm hoping for, essentially, a complete backup including…
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vSphere 4 - how can I cancel a file copy in progress?

VMware vSphere 4 SAN storage with multiple data-stores No vCenter I shut-down a virtual machine and using the data-store browser did a copy/paste to copy the VM to a new datastore with additional space. The file copy performance was very poor, and…
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Migrate a vSphere server without vMotion

Is there a generally accepted way to migrate a virtual machine that runs vSphere from one host to another without vMotion? I have a small two-machine vSphere installation. There is no shared storage, and even if there was, vMotion is not licensed on…
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Updating vSphere 5?

I just got done installing VMware vSphere 5 Free edition on my server. I noticed when I went to install the client that there was no option to install the host update utility. How do you update the server now? For my company we use vCenter, but what…
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Measuring IOPS in VMWare for an entire datastore

How can I get a view of current and average IOPS for an entire datastore in vcentre? Ideally in fact I'd like to see IOPS across an entire sDRS pool.
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2 new servers: vSphere Storage Appliance vs. dual DC VMs and dual file server VMs with DFS?

I'm looking to replace 2x aging servers in a small branch office. 1 is a DC and 1 a file server. I'd like to do high availability on a small budget, and in my mind I have 2 scenarios: Run ESXi on both, with vSphere Storage Appliance. Have 1x DC VM…
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Does the virtual machine in pause mode take resources?

Also, if the computer is turned off, does it take any resources? I searched the web and did not find any result for this.
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vCenter Server power restore

I am putting together a script and documentation to manage extended power outages for my facility. I have a script that automatically shuts down my hardware cleanly. I also have VMware HA configured on my cluster. Ideally when I power back up the…
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Can anyone explain VMware vSphere in layman's terms?

Can anyone provide a brief explanation in layman's terms (as in "management friendly") of just what vSphere is, what can be done with it and why it's better than the alternatives? Also, examples of possible real-world applications appreciated.
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Do we need vMA to convert LUN masking after upgrading to ESXi 4?

This is extracted from the Vsphere upgrade guide ch 12 (attached): "After the ESX/ESXi upgrade, you must convert LUN masking to the claim rule format. To do this, run the esxcli corestorage claimrule convert command in the vSphere Command-Line…
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VMware copy cloned image to external hard drive

I am running into difficulties trying to copy a cloned VM in VCenter to an external hard drive. Currently I am running vSphere client version 6.0.0 build 2502222, and vCenter Server version 6 build 339083. I have 3 relevant hosts (A, B, and C for…
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vSphere upgrade vCenter 5.1 to 6.0 order of operations

We need to upgrade from the vCenter 5.1 to 6.0 Our current vCenter server doesn't meet the hardware requirements or have enough hard drive space. It is a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. The database is running on a separate SQL 2005 server, which…
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Will a vSphere client 5.1 task get cancelled/interrupted if I close out of the client?

I have a 700GB server image copying from one datastore to another on the same host, using the vSphere client version 5.1. I used copy and paste. This created a task, and it's been 5 hours and only 14% of the task has completed. I am using my laptop…
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OVA like deployment of groups of servers on vSphere

I am hoping there's an easy way to create something like an ova template for deploying a set of various vmware servers. Ideally, this would allow, for example, a fully functional AD environment (composted of, again as an example, three routers, two…
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Exclude file storage from VMWare snapshots?

Say we have a Windows Server 2008 with the role of a file server, and 500GB of files on the D drive. Files are backup up to tape. How is it possible to take a snapshot of the OS without the file on the D drive (or delta) being included in the VM?
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