have an old 5.5 esxi host (same vcenter) Out of need due to resources on another host I had to build an exchange server on it.  It didnt' have much in the way of diskspace and because of the swap file taking up 50gb I only have 400mb left on the local storage, my mailbox databases reside on an iscsi volume. OS on local.  I can't even backup because of the low space on local. I want to move that OS drive to the Iscsi Volume. Is it as simple as turning VM off, migrate and powering on?

What is the difference between tags and attributes? At least in the vSphere world.

Thank you.

I need to move several VMWare Workstation Pro VM files from one drive to another due to space issues.

What steps must be followed to perform this migration?

Hi,
I am using ESXi 6.0
I see a warning "vSphere HA failover operation in progress in cluster XXX in datacenter DC YYY: 1 VMs being restarted, 0 VMs waiting for a
retry, 0 VMs waiting for resources, 0 inaccessible Virtual SAN VMs". Apparantly, all VMs are up&runnig (according to our monitoring), so I assume this is cosmetic.
Anyway, how can I identify which VM is restarting?
Thank you

I'm looking for websites, references and training to learn about VMware Datastores & Datastore Clusters.

Dear All


             I have a esxi 6.5 server and inside running a centos, and I have added additional 10Gb to one of the partition, and I have no idea where I can expand the 10G inside centos, any help would be appreciated





keith

Dear All

           I have a esxi 6.5, and i'm trying to expand HD storage on one of the vm centos 7, but after I applied ok, it shows below error message, and I checked my vm host client, its up to date, any help would be appreciated
 




keith

VM won't boot on esxi 6.0 host. I uploaded the installation media iso to run a repair and the command prompt is showing me it found no Operating Systems when running the bootrec /rebuildbcd command.

I aslo tried SFC.EXE /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows      ...which said corruption was detected?

We converted this vm from a 6.5 esxi host using vmconverter.

We don't have the vm it was originally converted from.

Using Azure Backup in a vSphere 6.0 Essentials environment

Daily customer has been getting messages virtual machine consolidation needed for the ASR virtual machine

I consolidate it and it completes successfully for that day but getting recovery point creation failed for their vCenter

Is there a best way to tidy this up, is it related to adding to adding more space\changing the backup time of the ASR vm?

What does "Maximum Size" under each Hard Disk in VMware VCenter 6.5 "Virtual Hardware" Reflect?

I see different Maximum Sizes under each Hard Disk which is associated with different DataStores.
Does it reflect the Maximum available space in Each DataStore?? If its  Thin Provision or Thick Provision, will the reading differ??

If I want to increase the MAXIMUM Size, do I have to increase the Volume in the Storage Array First?

There is a "Consolidate Virtual Machine Disk Files process that is stuck and i need to kill it ASAP.

Cannot stop/cancel a "Consolidate virtual machine disk files" Process in VCenter  The option to cancel is grayed out.

The process is running from our Backup server service account.  It is running a backup job on the VM and it first takes a snapshot of the vm and then consolidates.  But it is stuck on "Consolidating Virtual Machine Disk Files"  and i already tried to cancel the job in our backup server and it does nothing.  


There are two processes currenlty running on the VM

Process 1 = "Consolidate virtual machine disk files"

Process 2 = "Clone Virtual Machine"

Need help to force kill the Process 1 = "Consolidate virtual machine disk files" process only.  

The process is holding up all of our Backup operations on our Arcserve UDP Server.  It is critical that we are able to kill that process immediately

I have tried running several commands via ESXi SSH to identify the process and kill that process only, but it is not clear what process ID it is!

i tried the command "esxcli vm process list" and i get the following:


i tried the command "ps | grep <VM_NAME>  and i get the following:

Not sure which process is the "Consolidate virtual machine disk files" process which is the one i want to kill.  

I absolutely cannot kill the Process 2 = "Clone Virtual Machine" as it has been running for over 24 …

tried to add vcenter 6.7 to 2016 domain. received error : "Idm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [31], user [admin@corp.local], domain [corp.local], orgUnit []"

tried different administrator account and checked both domain admins, also used "username@domain" as the user to add the vcenter to pdc.
This is in a VMware 15 workstation lab.
The firewall is blank on vcenter and disabled on pdc.

Can ping ok the domain from SSH connection to vcenter, can ping esxi host ok and PDC.

I tried to add an esxi host that was added to a datacentre on vcenter. Success!
So why cant I add the vcenter to the domain ?

I am trying to expand a disk on a virtual machine which is hosted in VMware.  The option to expand is greyed out.  Upon examination the disk name is appended with .00001.vmdk.  As I researched it appears that this is caused by having a snapshot.  I was getting a message that consolidation was required.  I did this and it completed successfully, however did nit resolve the problem.  I also created a snapshot and then “deleted all” - with the same result.  I have found a couple of posting which talk about lost or corrupt snapshots, but I don’t seem to find a clear way to resolve this issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.