Tag Archives: ESXi

VMware vSphere: Cannot register a virtual machine in inventory: A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered

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a customer had the problem that a virtual machine is shown as invalid or orphaned. After removing from inventory (not from disk) he couldn’t register the vm again: “A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered”

This could have multiple causes:
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VMware: Find VMs by IP Address

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sometimes you want to find which IP Address belongs to a virtual machine. This can be easily done by powercli, provided that the VMware Tools are installed in each VM.
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VMware: Set NTP Server of all ESXi Host conntected to vCenter

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attached to this post a PowerCli script to change NTP Server on all ESXi Servers connected to vCenter.
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VMware: vSphere Logfiles

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short post just for me as bookmark:-)
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VMware ESXi: A (incomplete) list of host commands Part 4

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check if a storage LUN attached to an ESXi supports VAAI
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