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ESX is apparently derived from "Elastic Sky X" and is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware.

VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware's larger offering, VMware Infrastructure, and adds management and reliability services to the core server product. VMware is replacing the original ESX with ESXi.

VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are bare metal embedded hypervisors that are VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for guest virtual servers that run directly on host server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. The basic server requires some form of persistent storage (typically an array of hard disk drives) that store the hypervisor and support files.

A smaller footprint variant, ESXi, does away with the first requirement by permitting placement of the hypervisor on a dedicated compact storage device. Both variants support the services offered by VMware Infrastructure.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX

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Grub installation failed with fresh installation 14.04 on VMware ESX 5.1

I'm trying to install server 14.04 on VMware ESX 5.1 and received grub installation failed error grub-pc package failed to install into /target/ I used normal BIOS, not EFI. Tried only installing OpenSSH service did not help. Tried with and without…
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Ubuntu 17.10 hang while running as VM on ESXi 6.5

I have a question regarding running Ubuntu 17.10 (with open-vm-tools) as a VM on ESXi. I installed ESXi on my PC then install Ubuntu 17.10 as my virtual machine. Below is a screenshot of my VM settings: What my problem is, the ubuntu desktop will…
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How to prevent Xubuntu 16.04.3 to hang on ESXi 6.5?

I've just installed Xubuntu 16.04.3 on a VMware Vsphere ESXi 6.5 system but at random moments the system hangs for which I can only perform a hard reset to be able to reconnect. I already played with the RAM and video memory but no real change.…
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VMware ESX / vSphere Alternatives Supporting Linux Clients

I want to setup a VM server and by my previous experience, the first thing that came to my mind was the "VMware ESXi" hypervisor. To use ESXi you need the client application, called "vSphere" to connect and manage your VMs remotely. Unfortunately…
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Ubuntu server 16.04.03 goes to sleep on esx

My freshly installed Ubuntu server on version 16.04.03 goes to sleep after some time, I believe when I log out of the webserver. I tried already many answers to questions I have found on this website but none of them seem to work or I do not have…
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Ubuntu Server 16.04 iSCSI to ESXi

I've recently moved my storage out to a SAN which runs Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. The SAN and ESXi box each have two NICs: one for management, and one for iSCSI. The iSCSI NICs are 10Gbps and configured statically as 10.11.1.1 on the SAN and…
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Nested virtualization on Windows

For the last few weeks I have been reading a lot about OpenStack, Cloud Computing, virtualization, VMware tools and I have decided to try it. I would like to install, configure it and try it to see how it works. For the last few days I have had…
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NTP time always wrong after reboot. It sync with ESX even with NTP setup

I've installed NTP and internal NTP server peer is stratum 2. But every time I reboot the server, the VM time is synced with ESX instead of ntp. I did run ntpdate -s x.x.x.x and corrected it. But after reboot its hours behind again. Why doesn't NTP…
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16.04 stuck in login loop after installing CUDA toolkit 10.1

Preface: I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (kernel 4.15.0) in an ESXi virtual machine (version 6.7), and using PCI passthrough for a GTX 1080Ti. I am attempting to install the CUDA 10.1 toolkit, with Nvidia-418 drivers. I have tried 384 as well, and using…
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Ubuntu Desktop systems freeze very often

I have 2 ESXi hosts for 2 years dedicated, mainly, to VDI desktops. I have worked with Ubuntu Desktops from version 16.04.1. From 2 weeks ago to now every VM I installed Ubuntu Desktop on freezes very often, especially when I browse any web page via…
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Different behavior of KVM running status on physical KVM host and VM based KVM host

I have an automation script that checks the running status of a KVM and does some action based on it. When I installed KVM using virt-install on a physical host the initial status of KVM ("Trying_a_nw_one" in this case) is "running" :- $virsh…
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routing for vlan

I'm trying to setup a virtual interface on a 20.04 instance that can route to the internet. vlan 66 is working and is accessible by other devices that are strictly on that vlan. VLAN 66's Gateway is 192.168.66.1 (pfsense) and is a /24 network. This…
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Wrong ESXi disk size

Newbie question - our sysadmin added a virtual disk to our Linux server using something called ESXi of which I am not familiar. When I do fdisk -l I can see the new disk: Disk /dev/sdb: 300 GiB, 322122547200 bytes, 629145600 sectors Units: sectors…
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Ubuntu 18.04-Vmware Worksation 15.5.2 networking issues

I have networking issues with vmware workstation v15.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. I installed ESXi and Openstack on vmware worksation with NAT, Host-only and Bridged adapters each time, then I set up a vm inside the ESXi/Openstack VM, I could ping the Vm…
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ESX 5.5 and Virtual Ubuntu, no internet connection

I have a hpe blade system c3000 with 8 blades. On a number of blades, right now 4, I run ESXi version 5.5 I can easily create virtual Windows Server / Windows 10 machines and get proper access to the Internet and the other network. But this does not…
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