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Can someone explain what is the difference VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere to me?

We are currently looking to implement a Geo Spatial Infrastructure (see below) that will include a number of servers and we are planning to run each server on a different virtual machine. At the very early stage we will be using two physical servers…
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VMWare vCenter Solutions and Applications Icon Missing - Update Manager

I just recently installed vCenter server and the update manager and in the docs it says that I need to go to the 'Solutions and Applications' icon on the homepage. But it is not there. I have checked that the service is up and running and that the…
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Creation of Virtual Machine fails using 'VMWare vCenter Convertor Standalone'

I am trying to convert my Bootcamped Windows 7 partition to a VM using VMWare's vCenter software. The idea being to move the VM to an external drive and reclaim the bootcamp partition. The conversion progresses till 98% and fails with two warning…
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Clarification on how VMWare VM CPU usage is calculated

Primarily I have two questions relating to VMware/virtual machine's CPU usage: How is it calculated? Which numbers under which tabs of vCenter (vSphere client) window are referenced? Please also clarify if my understanding summarized below is…
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Virtual SAN not recognizing any disks

I'm trying to set up a virtual san but can't seem to add any disks. I made a cluster and added the hosts. Here's what I get when I go to disk management in the cluster: https://i.stack.imgur.com/jP9xx.png However, when I view the storage on the…
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Why I can't see "thin" option in VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone?

The help and many web pages shows me screenshots of VM conversion process. But I can't see disk resize options when run it. VM's power is down. No snapshots. VM compat is Workstation 9.0 virtual machine. Disk now contains 40G allocated + 40G…
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vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition

I'm looking to migrate a physical machine to my ESXi cluster with vCenter Converter but actually I got this following error : There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Mount…
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Accessing vCenter Server from Internet (remote network)

I have this topology: And I would like to be able to give my users access to the vCenter Server through the Internet (I will use VPN here, but security is not the main concern here, at least not now). On vSphere Doc (Required Ports for vCenter…
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PowerCLI without vCenter

I am new to VMWARE PowerCLI, but I am looking to take a serious dive into it. Looking to just set up new hosts and VLANs on a single server running ESXi. Can this be done using powercli or esxcli - WITHOUT using vCenter? I do have a…
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Virtualize an old MS-DOS machine to VMWare

There is a very old workstation at a power plant running an MS-DOS system based HMI, I need to recover this and I believe the best way is to create a virtual machine from the old physical machine. Anyone knows if this is supported by VMWare vCenter…
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P2V fails on Windows 7 machine with vmware vCenter Converter

Today I started to convert my physical x64 Windows 7 laptop to using the tool vmware vCenter Standalone converter for my mac book pro. The progress failed at the level of %98. The error is : FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration…
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It is possible to add esxi5.5 host into vcenter6.5?

The purpose is that we have vCenter6.5 and we also have some of the esxi5.5 hosts and we want to migrate it to vCenter6.5
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Not able to power on vm because hypervisor is not running, this is VM running in vcenter server

i have vcenter server 5.5, create VM having windows server 2019 os installed. install Hyper-V Manager but now not able to power on VM tried many things but not able to. *Already enabled CPU virtualization in VM. * Hypervisor services are up and…
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What are the necessary Privileges to connect via PowerCLI to a VCenter?

First off: Using an Administrator account works, but it is not desired. We have a VM which needs to be reset once a week. We added a ScheduledTask to the VCenter Instance which runs these three lines: VMWare.VimAutomation.Core\Connect-VIServer -…
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Disconnect NIC on powered off VM

I'm using ESXi 6.0 and PowerCLI. I've created a clone of a production VM: $Source_VM = Get-VM -Name "MyProductionServer" $Target_VMHost = Get-VMHost -VM $Source_VM $Cloned_VM = (New-VM -Name "MyPreProdServer" -VM $Source_VM -VMHost…
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