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VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters. The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension.

From VMware Wikipedia Article:

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are bare-metal embedded Hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

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Large number of host emulation

What would be the best way to emulate (or really to instantiate) a large number of hosts / virtual machines / docker containers in the cloud? Assume I want to run a scenario where 10,000 hosts are running the same application. Is there a cloud…
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Rename VM in VMware Fusion via command line

Is it possible to rename a VM in VMWare Fusion via command line? (ie not clone and then name the new VM and delete the old VM). For example, Parallels has the prlctl tool, and the process would be something like: prlctl stop oldname prlctl set…
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Azure Powershell DSC or Ansible

I wanted to find out what are you using for Desired State Configuration on your end. I am thinking to start introducing Azure Powershell DSC or Ansible for DSC of our on-prem environment and cloud environment. Would you have any recommendations? I…
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Deploy Vm Vmware with simple Ansible playbook

I try to test one simple playbook with ansible. My goal is to create a new VM with it. --- # create a new VM from a template - name: VM from template hosts: localhost gather_facts: false connection: local vars: vcenter_hostname:…
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Error starting cloned VM in Vsphere Client

I cloned a VM in Vsphere Client as described here. When I try to start it, it unexpectedly reboot over and over itself. I get this error in console: Call "EnvironmentBrowser.QueryTargetCapabilities" for object "45-envmgr" on ESXi "192.168.100.172"…
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Unregister a VM within VMware Fusion from command line

Is there anyway of unregistering a virtual machine on OSX using the command line with VMware Fusion (so that the VM can then be deleted)? I've looked around, and found this thread, which suggests manually remove the VM from inventory before…
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Creating a custom alpine iso - including open-vm-tools

I want to create a custom Alpine Linux image. I want to take the Virtual ISO version (https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.20/releases/x86_64/alpine-virt-3.20.1-x86_64.iso) extend it with some packages and do some configuration stuff. Then I…
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Managed MySQL cluster - similar solution for a private cloud

Is it possible to build a similar solution to managed MySQL cluster on a private cloud (VMware vSphere / Hyper V). Even with Kubernetes. A solution which supports auto-scaling, auto-upgrade, multi-master and similar to the largest public clouds…
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How to filter vmware_vm_facts

I'm trying to pull out the "uuid" from facts returned by ansible's vmware_vm_facts module. There is a solution to a similar question posted on Reddit, but when I try that, it fails with 'ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy.AnsibleUnsafeText object' has no…
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DevOps Newbie - How to automate windows infrastructure deployment?

DevOps newbie here, so bear with me. I have a project where infrastructure deployment and application deployment is done using powershell and it is tied to VMWare vCenter. For every client deployment, a deployment VM is created manually on their…
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How to dimmension VMWare VM linux servers to run kubernetes container clusters?

I'm designing a web apps and web services hosting platform using kubernetes clusters of VMs running docker containers (web services, web apps, databases). This application hosting platform will be set on top of an existing VMWare infrastructure. We…
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Deploying nested VMware on AWS for testing

Has anyone deployed nested VMware/ESXi on AWS? I'm getting conflicting answers from what I've seen online. This answer says yes it is possible. This answer says it is not--although this person is a VMware rep so I would expect that he's required to…
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What causes a VM provisioned by Terraform to not acquire the IP address specified in cloud-init?

I am learning Terraform and would like to provision a VM in vSphere that uses the static IP address specified in the Terraform configuration. I am using this template and here is my Configuration: main.tf provider "vsphere" { api_timeout …
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How to setup Mac Studio to host multiple Jenkins agents

I am responsible for the administration of a Jenkins and its infrastructure. We have several software projects that rely on specific Xcode versions and with that rely on specific macOS versions. Now I have a quite powerful Mac Studio with 24C CPU…
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Reaching a Docker environment running in VMware from LAN

Here is my setup: I have a Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS machine running in VMware (vSphere client). On this machine, I have a local Drupal website running in Docker using Wodby Docker4Drupal https://github.com/wodby/docker4drupal The website can be accessed…
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