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ISCSI connectivity problems

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I have 2x ESX hosts (DL360 Gen9s) Running vSphere 8, Each has 2x 10Gbps NICs

I'm direct cabled (DAC

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Veeam Endpoint Recovery

HOW TO: Perform a Physical to Virtual (P2V) Conversion the easy way from a computer backup (image).

In this article, I will show you HOW TO: Perform a Physical to Virtual (P2V) Conversion the easy way from a computer backup (image).
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Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern …

Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern Hybrid Cloud
vSphere 7 is here! Experience…
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VMware Hypervisor ESXi 7.0.0 Installer

HOW TO: Install and Configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0)

HOW TO: Install and Configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0), Step by Step Tutorial with screenshots. From Download, Checking Media, to Completed Hypervisor Installation. Please check the Hardware Compatibility list before installation.
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Restore a Virtual Machine

HOW TO: Backup (Export) and Restore (Import) virtual machines to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 for FREE

In this article we will show you HOW TO: Backup (Export) and Restore (Import) virtual machines to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 for FREE. This procedure can be followed to backup (export) and restore (import) any virtual machine hosted on the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 host server.
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Multiple iSCSI Connections to two ESX hosts?

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

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VMware Converter

HOW TO:  P2V a Windows XP computer to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0)

In this article, I will show you how to perform a Physical to Virtual conversion of a Windows XP computer to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1
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New host to exixting cluster

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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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vSphere 6.7 Web Client Login

HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) using the vSphere (HTML5 Web) Host Client 6.5

HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) using the vSphere (HTML5 Web) Host Client 6.5, and perform a simple configuration task of adding a new VMFS 6 datastore.
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VMs are shutting down by themselves in vSphere 7.0 Lab

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I am running 3 ESX Hosts in my vSphere 7 cluster and about every 20 minutes all of my VMs in the

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Re-create the missing VMDK File Descriptor

How to: Re-create the missing VMDK File Descriptor.

byRAFA
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The following article describes how to recreate the VMDK file of a virtual machine. It is important that this file is always in the datastore where the VM is stored, because if the VM is not present, it will not be able to turn on and an error I hope it is very useful for everyone.
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Upgrading VMware Tools?

byStan J
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Looking into updating VMware Tools to 12.3.5 on VMs that are on a closed network


Currently on vSphere

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Old school vSphere Question

byStan J
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Back in the day, I worked with vSphere 5 Essentials Plus (no shared storage) on different test and

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Calculate CPU usage on ESXi Host prior to starting a  VM?

byStan J
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We have a potential issue with some customer VMs we received.


The customer sent us (6) OVFs to deploy

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Cannot ping nested Hyper-V VM from another VM on the same vSwitch

byStan J
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We have a set of nested Hyper-V VMs running on our vSphere 7 cluster that were provided to us by a

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