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Paul MacDonald
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IT guy with something like 40 years in the industry.  I'm a generalist, and so have had my hands in just about everything to some extent.

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VMware License for BE7M-M5-K9 Servers

byTechno Savvy
14

Hello Team


We're ordering two Cisco BE7M-M5-K9 servers for UCS applications. We have been informed

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VMware Workstation or Hyper-V for Windows 11

byJerry L
8

SYSTEM:
Lenovo 7i Laptop (Personal)

Windows 11 (Home)

16 GB RAM


BACKGROUND:
I want to try out some new

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Multiple iSCSI Connections to two ESX hosts?

byPete Long
8

I have 2x ESX 8.x Servers, currently they have iSCSI software adaptors and are bound to 1Gbps NICs

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Firmware Updates on ESXI server

byWellingtonIS
2

I'm upgrading my ESXI host Dell R630 to a newer version.  I want to take this opportunity to upgrade

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New host to exixting cluster

byJan Nielsen
7

I have a VMware cluster with 3 hosts running esxi 6.0

Now I will add the 4. host (esxi 6.5) and have

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Import content library from exist datastore

byTal Wolberg
2

Hy Gurus

Hows you?

I had vCenter (8) that crashed.

I reinstall a new copy and its run fine.

But the

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VMWare Microsoft 2016 essentials restore physical hardware raid controller boot inaccessible bootdevice

bythisis_it
23

Created a backup for WIndows 2016 essentials VMWare virtual machine with Synlogy active backup. The

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RAID & SSD

byPLCITS
4

I just want some advice, make sense to create a RAID with SSD?

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Run esxcli software sources profile list ...  using PuTTY, get [MemoryError]

byMike Broderick
3

When I run:

esxcli software sources profile list -d

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vCenter - different admin permissions per cluster within same vCenter?

byVjz1
1

I have a single VMWare vCenter server (currently v7 but soon to be v8) that runs multiple clusters,

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VMWare Vcenter Converter P2V process fails when converting a physical machine into a VM guest on VMware ESXi 7.0

byDamian Gardner
14

VMWare Vcenter Converter P2V process fails when converting a physical machine into a VM guest on

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Failed to vmotion with SCSI controller engaged in bus-sharing problem

bykeith li
5

Dear All, 


          I have a vm host on window server DFS cluster with disk shared, when i do the

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Migrate Windows 7, Office 2007 pc into a VM on new computer

byDale Fye
5

I recently purchased a Windows 11 pc and upgraded my VMware Workstation to 17 Pro.  My old pc is a

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Proxmox for Home Virtualization with RTX 4000 GPU Passthrough - Seeking Advice

byAlex  Jenkins
7

I have been using VMware for quite some time, and I am now considering a switch to Proxmox for my

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Windows 2016 vm sysprep error

byepmmis
6

I have a Windows 2016 VMware vm on which sysprep is failing.  The sysprep attempts have been done

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Single DC or Multi DC setup, VM backup for SMB with DC and File Server combination

byziceman
51

We had inherited a couple of hospitality customers with that have aprox 35 workstations and 2

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I need to migrate 5 Windows servers in Azure from VMware.

bySAM2009
4

Hi,


I need to migrate 5 Windows servers in Azure from VMware.


I never do that and we don't have

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Can increase the disk on a VM?

bySAM2009
2

Hi,


I try to increase the disk in this VM but it doesn't let me change the value. There is a red rond

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Set ESXi Firewall to Block a specific IP

bystrivoli
3

I'd like to set ESXi Firewall to Block Any Traffic from a specific IP. My Net is 192.168.0.0 -

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No internet in win11 VM after VMware workstation 17.5 update .

byRam
18

No internet in win11 VM after VMware workstation 17.5 update .

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