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Re: independent persistent and non persistent

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1- i can get snapshot from vm with independent-disk when is power-off

No, if a disk is in Independent Persistent mode, you cannot take a snapshot of it regardless of its power state. Try it for yourself. Set the disk to Independent Persistent and power it up. Now take a snapshot. The snapshot operation completes, but if you edit the VM's configuration you'll see it is not referencing any snapshot file. Browse the datastore to confirm. So if there's no snapshot, everything is persisted to disk immediately and is "permanent".

 

2- when i create  an independent-non-persistent mode in my vm after restart or power-off vm it will be delete my virtual disk from OS but in article i read that when create a virtual disk with independent-non persistent after restart vm just data on disk will be delete but now after restart my virtual disk will be remove and had to add it manually from disk managment

This English is difficult to understand and I don't entirely follow you. There is no "delete my virtual disk from OS" when you restart or power cycle a VM which has Independent Non-Persistent mode set, however it will roll-back any changes made from the time you powered it on to the time you power cycled it. This is how that mode works. If you had to add the disk manually again (assuming Windows) from Disk Management, then something else was going on. It doesn't affect whether disks are unmounted or mounted from the guest's perspective.


Re: Upgrade ESXi installed on a SD drive.

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If you got an error when upgrading, you need to first check the compatibility of your hardware against the HCL. If you're coming from 5.1, there's a chance your hardware isn't suitable to run on 6.x.

How/where does vm tools query a VM to obtain Guest OS info

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Hello,

 

I was just curious on how/where vmware queries a guest VM and obtains the guest OS.  The reason I ask is I have two Windows 10 VMs and in the summary tab vmware reports that one is Windows 10, however on the other it is reporting that the guest os is Windows 8.   On the options tab both VMs were set to Windows 7 64 bit.  So just wondering if anyone knows where to look to see why this is happening.

 

Thanks

Re: Nested Virtualization vSphere, WorkStation.

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If you already own server-class hardware, I'd recommend you skip installing Windows OS and then Workstation and go straight to ESXi. With ESXi installed on bare metal, you can create vCenter and other nested instances of ESXi to test in a similar fashion, but with better peformance and more options.

Re: How/where does vm tools query a VM to obtain Guest OS info

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This information isn't queried in the guest OS, it is an OS description set by whomever initially created the VM. You can see this in the VMX file itself.

Re: How to convert Raspberry Pi IMG to VMware format? It doesn't work if I convert it with Starwind.

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Hi,

 

Not possible.


Raspbian targets an ARM processor while VMware must run on x86/x64 processors.

But you can just download kali for x86/x64 and use that instead.

 

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Wil

Thanks for a direct answer! A couple of clarification questions, if I may:

 

1. Can you briefly explain why they can do this (run Raspbian as a vm) using "Virtual Box" (the claim is here)?

 

2. What does Kali Linux have to do with it?

Re: Certificate considerations for data collector nodes

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I will go through a LB for UI access and all the data nodes will be in the certificate SAN (tbh, I'm gonna add a couple of extra ones just to have room for growth), however my question was about remote collector nodes (apologies, I wrote data collector nodes in my OP), do you know if remote collector nodes are required to be in the certificate SAN as well?

Re: My thoughts on vrops 6.7

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I have been advised by the vrops product team not to upgrade to 6.7 if you use the allocation based capacity model. This has not been included with 6.7 and will be added with an update later.

 

I must have missed the memo


Re: How to convert Raspberry Pi IMG to VMware format? It doesn't work if I convert it with Starwind.

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Hi,

 

The torrent file that they suggest to download in http://ediy.com.my/index.php/blog/item/52-virtualbox-raspberry-pi-emulator  is a special version of "raspbian", it is not a normal version of raspbian.

 

That special version has most likely been compiled for an x86/x64 processor, not the processor that is used on a raspberry pi.

As such you can't run it on a raspberry pi, but you can run it in virtualbox "to have Raspberry Pi experience before you own one of the boards" as they mention in that article.

Note that if it isn't compiled for an x86/x64 processor that it also won't work in virtualbox.

 

Technically it is possible to run a raspberry pi native raspbian image under QEMU, but you're likely to bump into some issues. I have read in the past about people doing that and they had a working image but also a rather instable experience.

 

re. Kali. The first question on this thread specifically mentions running Kali on a raspberry pi image.

 

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Wil

Re: Upgrade ESXi installed on a SD drive.

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I don’t remember the error but ir wasn’t related to hardware because is compatible (Dell R420).

SD-WAN Hands on LAB.

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Hi,

 

    It will be great help. If anyone can point me for Velo Cloud Labs or any pointer to start with it.

Re: Snapshot general system error: can't delete

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Hi ,

 

How many 0000x.vmdk there ?

 

Space Left on Data store ?

What is the Total Size of VM ?

Re: Nested Virtualization vSphere, WorkStation.

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Hi ,

 

For Nested Setup please find the below setup

 

Nested Setup on Same Network

 

Install ESXi on Your Dell Server

Configure Management Network with 2 Nics -  ( Active - Active)

Deploy vCenter on the ESXi

Create New 3 VM with  2 CPU and 2 Core and 12 GB each and Install ESXi on that

For  4 Network Adapter on Each ESXi VM (you can use that for  Management , vMotion ,iSCSI etc)

Add all ESXI to vCenter

 

Nested Setup on Independent Network

 

Install ESXi on Your Dell Server

Configure Management Network with 2 Nics -  ( Active - Active)

Deploy vCenter and Later Move to independent Network

Create VM network without up link and map all VMs over there

Create Windows Server - AD and DNS ( and Two Nics one for Independent Network another Public to access through RDP )

Create New 3 VM with  2 CPU and 2 Core and 12 GB each and Install ESXi on that

For  4 Network Adapter on Each ESXi VM (you can use that for  Management , vMotion ,iSCSI etc)

Add all ESXI to vCenter

Re: Unable to install ESXi 6.5

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Hi ,

 

Since 6.5 is not officially supported in the hardware  , You can Try to Create VM with esxi 6.5 inside a vmware work station .

Re: vMotion of a VM using VSAN + local storage

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Hi ,

 

You can do svmotion in powered on state if you have required licence else power off and do svmotion.


Re: vSAN disk error

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Hi ,

 

Is any failure on physical Raid occurred ?

vcenter 6.0u3 and ballooned graphic

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hello

 

For test i have esxi 6.0u3 with 32gb ram and two virtual machine vm1 and vm2 with with 20gb of configured ram

vm1 : 20gb ram

vm2 : 20gb ram

esxi can not support the full ram consumption load of both vm1+vm2

For the test I turned off shared memory and compressed memory on virtual machine, working only balloned+swap

Now I'm going to use 15gb of ram on vm1 and 15gb of ram on vm2, so esxi must find free ram.

Vmware start ballooned on vm to try to free ram from vm.

On graphics = vcenter - virtual.machine.1 - monitor - utilization - guest memory : appear yellow graphis for ballooned to 5gb

 

now the question!!

this metric on VM1: guest memory - balloned - 5gb ram --->>> is memory that vm1 did release to the esxi after vm1 has received a "command of balloon" from ESXI? to give the ram to vm2

OR

this metric on VM1: guest memory - balloned - 5gb ram --->>> is memory that vm1 have received to esxi who released through a Balloned run "command balloon" over vm2?

thanks

Re: How/where does vm tools query a VM to obtain Guest OS info

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Makes sense other than these VMs were built as Windows 7 VMs and then upgraded to Windows 10.  So theoretically the VMX file should still reference Windows 7 right?

Re: How/where does vm tools query a VM to obtain Guest OS info

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It should, yes, if that was the case.

Re: Mouse freeze after loading virtual machine

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AJazz Rayeagle, it's a chinese one, but it works with my other virtual machines, it works fine under XP, W10 and even W98

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