VMWare

  • Space Reclamation Requests from Guest OS

    ESXi supports the unmap commands issued directly from a guest operating system to reclaim storage space. The level of support and requirements depend on the type…

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  • Force Unmount temporary datastore used for vSAN traces from vSAN cluster ESXi hosts

    >> Disable vsantraced startup by running this command: chkconfig vsantraced off >> Stop the vsantraced service by running this command: /etc/init.d/vsantraced stop >> Change the…

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  • vSAN SDKs

    The vSAN Management SDKs bundle language bindings for accessing the vSAN Management API and creating client applications for automating vSAN management tasks. The vSAN Management…

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  • Guest and HA Application Monitoring SDK Programming

    You can download the Guest SDK for monitoring guest virtual machine statistics, and with facilities for High Availability (HA) Application Monitoring. The SDK version number…

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  • VDDK 6.7.1

    The Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.7.1 is an update to support vSphere 6.7 Update 1 and to resolve issues discovered in previous releases. VDDK…

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  • Failed to lock the file

    Powering on a virtual machine fails. Unable to power on a virtual machine. Adding an existing virtual machine disk (VMDK) to a virtual machine that…

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  • APD and PDL

    Permanent Device Loss (PDL): A datastore is shown as unavailable in the Storage view A storage adapter indicates the Operational State of the device as…

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  • Filtering Virtual Machine I/O

    I/O filters are software components that can be installed on ESXi hosts and can offer additional data services to virtual machines. The filters process I/O requests, which…

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