2 guests on 1 physical server (running ESXi 5.5)?

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• VMware Converter error conversion physical server running CentOS 4.7

  I'm trying to convert a physical server running CentOS 4.7 to a virtual machine (on an ESX 3.5 server) using VMware converter - 4.0.0 - 146302.  The server is powered and I start the converter customer and go through all the steps to convert the server.  The process starts and hangs at 1 percent.

  I have exported and reviewed the logs and see what follows in the agent log:

  GetEvent (taskID = task-3) task converter

  impossible to detect the State of comments like 'running', will try again 1199 times...

  could not get the print server digital certificate. Retries 284 times...

  obtained the help server footprint: 1 has: F9: DA: D5:BC:E5:8 C: FD:22:CC:7E:6F:11:5F:3 A: FC:DB:4 B: 42:0 C

  Connection to VIM to 10.9.10.246...

  Reuse the existing connection of VIM to 10.9.10.246

  Unable to obtain the IP address of GuestInfo, will try again 299 times...

  In addition, the newspapers show gui Converter:

  UpdateTask

  {(converter.task.TaskInfo)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3."

  task = ' converter.task.Task:task - 3'.

  name = "convert."

  descriptionId = "Convert.P2V."

  userName = "root."

  source = "10.9.10.201"

  target = "10.9.10.246/brsauth.bigrocksports.com"

  State = "error"

  canceled = false,

  cancelable = true,

  data = & lt; unset & gt;

  error = {(converter.fault.HelperVmFailedToObtainIpFault)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  MSG = "Cannot get the IP address of the virtual machine to help."

  },

  result = & lt; unset & gt;

  progress = 1,

  estimatedTimeRemaining = & lt; unset & gt;

  transferRate = & lt; unset & gt;

  queueTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.293159Z.

  startTime = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.553563Z.

  completeTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:34.277239Z.

  eventChainId = 29,

  vcTask = & lt; unset & gt;

  logBundleInfo = (converter. DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) {}

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3-diag-20090226144333 - MQFAUK.zip."

  timeCreated = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:33.438212Z.

  format = "zip."

  content = (converter. [DiagnosticManager.BundleContent)

  "agentLogs."

  "serverLogs.

  ],

  size = 706251,

  CRC =-1155030952,

  },

  }

  I can convert Windows servers on the ESX Server without any problems. Can someone translate this myself and I would like to know how to work around errors?

  Thank you

  Shannon

  On the Linux server you are converting.  When the converter reaches step 3 Options display/change the last option is called Helper VM Network.  You can change this option and add an ip address.  The ip address must be on the same network to your default gateway on your Linux server.

• Hot cloning - let the physical server running then?

  I have a question for the Vmware Converter. If I understand correctly, you can use hot Clone to clone a physical server while it is running. Of course, that seems very well so you don't get no downtime during conversion.

  But, if the reason for this conversion is to migrate from physical to virtual, what happens if the physical server continues to operate after the conversion? Even just a minute can be enough to have changed the original system, perhaps a database or other stuff, that will make the new virtual instance "incorrect."

  So how does this normally? If you want to virtualize a server that has a system that interacts with users either or other servers, how will stop instantly change?

  OK, even if you are in your downtime window it would be preferable to perform the validation of the server application.

  What we normally do, is check the event logs and do well for sure there no new errors that are produce after the p2v (physical 2 virtual), especially application or system related event.  We will also perform a few reboots of the (virtual) system and sometimes we also had to remove some old drivers.  We have sometimes came across problems with NETWORK cards keeping the old ipconfig when migrating.

  When supply us the new VM give us it a whole new value of intellectual property and test it with the other physical system down.  After correct validation go us ahead and leave the virtual running.  We usually have to master the physical machine in the datacenter for about two weeks and then begin the process of decommissioning.

  One thing most definitely, you want to do is make sure to install vmware tools on the virtual server.  I know it's probably obvious, but many people forget.

  Hope this helps,

  Chad King

• Monitor a server HP ESXi 4 u1

  OK, I know that this topic was a million times, but after reading through those millions of messages - I don't see an answer.

  I have a HP DL380 G4 running ESXi 4 u1 and ten VMs virtual development perfectly.  I would like to monitor this server through our HP SIM 6 Server, but I don't know how.  I read on the filling of the WBEM credentials on the side of the SIM card, what I've done.  I retrieve useful but limited information about the material.

  I saw a download on the HP site for "HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 1.

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en & cc = us & prodTypeId = 15351 & prodSeriesId = 3884082 & prodNameId = 3884083 & swEnvOID = 4040 & swLang = 13 & mode = 2 & taskId = 135 & swItem = MTX-07332f4bc3544ecd901f5019a3

  I guess (no jokes please) that would give me more details on the server running ESXi.  But many positions at HP say that there are NO agents for ESX/HPSIM and just use WBEM.

  Can someone help me here please.  I want to get as much information that can be done on the HP hardware I run ESXi.

  As usual, thanks for all your time.

  -Dave Claussen

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• vCenter Appliance physical server, 3 guests, small environment size

  Hi all.

  I'm trying to move a vCenter device to a physical server.  This is a small facility with only 3 guests.  I'm a bit new to VMware.  If I put in place, single sign - on again and add the hosts once again, this isn't a problem.  I did not put groups in place and yet it is a new installation. In fact, there is a cluster but DRS and HA is lit.  I want to remove the cluster but not the hosts.  We have a small Windows 2008 R2 AD domain.  The vCenter Server is member of the domain, as are ESXi hosts.  This is version 5.5.

  Is it OK if I simply remove the vCenter device by stopping and removing disk and inventory, then install the physical server and add hosts, delete the server appliance of AD and add the new physical server to AD and set up SSO again on the new server - that will work?  Did I meet problems questions?

  I would point out that the reason behind my fact that must implement vSA on the 3 hosts, and from what I read, I can't launch the vCenter on a VSA host device, and 3 guests must be guests of VSA if each should share its space with the other 2. I also read that I can't add VMS to guests until the VSA cluster has been created.  So I need to ditch the current cluster and take the guests out of it.  That a host is always under the existing cluster.  I'm hoping that by performing these steps above that I can add my hosts to the new server physical vCenter once it's running and just delete the old a.  If this is not the way forward on this issue, if you please point me in the right direction and you will be worth your weight in gold as far as I'm concerned.

  Thank you very much in advance,

  Sam

  Just a quick note on the ASB. You can read the new features of vSphere Storage Appliance version 5.1, which explains the added features, including a brownfield facility.

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• Cannot install the 64-bit guest computer in runing Server ESXi on VMware workstation.

  Help expensive,

  I have my doubts with the installation of Microsoft windows server 2008 64 bit in my ESXi server running on WMware workstation. And my physical OS is windows 7 64 bit.

  When I created guest computer already and I'm starting to be able to on, the followning of pop-up windows and I say Yes. It can start my .iso file but after he boot, says Windows error.

  And it's the screenshot.

  So that means I can't install guest PC 64 bit in my ESXi Server?

  Thank you

  Best regards

  nested support 64 bit on ESXi running on top on workstaiton is not supported. you are better off creating this virtual machine as a virtual machine on my computer...

• multi ESXi 4.1 in 1 physical server

  Hi all

  I need to be confirmed, that I can install only 1 ESXi host on 1 physical server and I can always install multi VM inside the esxi host as long as the physical server disk is not exceeded, but this means that I can't fully use vmware HA

  Hello

  If I'm wrong a lot, your statement is correct.

  ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor, and you can have only a single host-by-physical material.

  Of course you can install a lot of guests from the virtual computer within this host.

  Yes, with one host, you may not HA (after all, a single physical box may not be highly available!)

  NK

• Web server on ESXi terribly slow! same fee install works uber quickly on a single physical server.

  I have created a virtual machine and allocated 4gig of RAM, 2 cpu and no limit on the CPU usage.

  Freshly installed Centos5 and LAMP. Installed joomla with default content.

  Browsing the site is TERRIBLY slow... I'm talking molassas.

  Now, until people start blaming joomla, I had exactly the same fees installed on a physical server with less specs (only 1 GB of ram and 1 cpu) and it is lightning fast.

  Both are on the exact same network. And the ESXi server has only a current PBX VM to run other then the Web server. I have hordes of resources left and available on the ESXi server.

  I can not quite understand what the problem is or could be. She has available resources and doesn't have 1 million waiting to go through the server process. My Network (2) cards are defined in tandum (I guess that the combination of network cards?) this should not be a problem?

  It's just the way the esxi manages the inbound and outbound traffic? Is this normal? The only thing I can reduce to is 1) the esxi way itself works. (2) the esxi way treats my network cards and or traffic

  What are the specifications of the ESX Server - hardware and CPU? Are there other virtual machines running on ESX Server? Have you tried running with one virtual CPU virtual machine?  It is advisable to start with a single vCPU and add vCPUs only if it is necessary, or if you have empirical evidence that it is necessary - it has to do with how the virtual processors are programmed.

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• Purchase / construction server to run ESXi - hardware compatibility

  I need to buy or build a platform of 64-bit server running Windows 2008/Exchange 2007.

  I would like to run on VMWare / ESXi for the independence of the material.

  Please direct me to a hardware compatibility list to make sure that I don't end up with a hardware configuration, I can't use!

  Thank you

  Here is a link to the official list form VMware - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.

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• Service NFS server running on an ESXi host.

  I was able to set up successfully with "Services for Unix" NFS server on my Windows 2003 server.  I would now be able to set up an NFS server and NFS client on a pair of ESXi servers. This would allow me to copy the guests of virtual computer through the ESXi host servers using NFS mount points.

  Engineer accommodation

  ModusLink Open Channel Solutions, Inc.

  Short answer is that you can give to this.  ESXi doesn't have access to the console, without access to the consoles, that can't do.  Even with Console cannot yet be done, ESX is bare bones but single server, not Linux.

  You don't want to use your ESX Server as a device.  It's a bad habit to enter.  ESX is a VM host, simply.  Not a general-purpose, file sharing / FTP / sharing NFS GNU / Linux.

  If you think NFS, set up a Linux VM on this host, and use it.

• Conversion of physical server into a virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to take a physical server and convert it to a virtual machine on the same box.  I'm new to VMs, so please tell me if this is possible and if yes, what is the best way to do it. Right now, I think these are the basic steps:

  (1) take operating system image current (2003 Server STD) using Acronis.

  (2) wipe server and install ESXi 4.

  (3) use the free VMware Converter to convert the Acronis image to a guest VM on the ESXi host.

  Will this work? Am I missing something? The traps that I should look out for?

  A few questions more to go with this:

  -J' currently have an ESXi 3.5 on a desktop host. Wouldn't be better to convert this machine on the fly to a guest on this 3.5 host, then move the guest to the new 4.0 host once it is ready?

  -This server is now an application server and has a few databases, such as WSUS and Kaspersky Administration kit and maybe something else I can't think right now. Is that causing trouble with the DBs in the transition from the physical to the virtual?

  -The machine has also acts as a file server and is connected to our iSCSI SAN. Will be a problem or I would be able to remap the LUN to the virtual machine quite easily just like I did to the physical machine?

  Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  As long as you can take decisions associated with the image with Acronis and then convert it to a virtual machine, I think this is a good approach.  You can convert the server in a virtual machine running on your ESXi 3.5 environment but I would not run a server database production on class workstation hardware.  The performance would be probably pretty bad if you had a large number of users hitting that database.  As for using Acronis I know that it is supported but in the past I have never tried to convert an Acronis image for a virtual computer by using converter.

  The databases themselves should not have any problem on a virtual machine.  SQL runs in a virtual machine and saw complex databases even accomplish a lot.

  Reconnect to your iSCSI SAN shouldn't be a problem either.  You must ensure that the networking on the newly built 4 ESX host is configured to allow you access to all the VLANS required (iSCSI VLANS, server VLAN, etc.).  It is an important step to ensure that you have right or you will not be able to reinstall your iSCSI LUNS, once the server is converted.  Once the networking is configured the process of reconnecting to the iSCSI LUN from inside your virtual machine is the same as if it was physical.

  Good luck!

• Network on the VMS problem guests on nested Hyper-V on ESXi 5.5

  Nesting of virtualization is already complicated, now, I hope that my subject of this discussion is not too complicated.

  Server: Dell PowerEdge R730 double E2640

  • External hypervisor: ESXi 5.5.0u2 (Dell custom image, installed on the server), 4 (NIC0, NIC1 in use) network interface cards
    • Management IP address 10.200.200.9/ subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 / Gateway: 10.200.200.1
  • Inner hypervisor: Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, using 2 network cards virtual x E1000E
    • IP 10.200.200.10 (for BONES)
    • IP 10.200.200.11 (for guest virtual machines)

  
  

  Basically, I followed the instructions to create a new virtual machine with Virtual hardware version 10, edit the vmx file, allocate and reserve the 64 GB of RAM with 8 vCPU for Windows Server,

  VHV. Enable = "TRUE".

  Hypervisor.CPUID.v0 = "FALSE".

  MCE. Enable = "TRUE".

  At this point, everything works fine- I am able to install the Windows server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V feature. I also installed VMware Tools on this 2012 Windows Hyper-V, datacenter arrived at the field, ran iSCSI to connect to our NAS and restarted the hyper-V without problem on ESXi.

  
  
  

  But when I try to install a new guest VM in Hyper-V, the network does not work properly.

  I install a Windows Standard 2012 on Hyper-V (the inner hypervisor) without problem and the guest that OS Gets a 10.200.200.86 IP address (assigned by DHCP on the same subnet)

  This guest operating system, I am able to ping it's computer Hyper-V host 1st layer (10.200.200.10 and 10.200.200.11) and 2nd ESXi host (10.200.200.9), but the impossibility of joining as a result of gateway (10.200.200.1).
  

  And of course, I received an exclamation sign on the network icon in the taskbar of the 2012 Windows standard saying 'no internet connection '.

  * I was always able to join this Windows 2012 Std comments to the domain.

  No existingon the same subnet is an another Hyper-V on server physical hosting multiple virtual machines of comments including the controller of field and the DHCP servers, etc.

  
  

  I tried using PCIe with the Dell Server NIC3 pass through, but it crashed the ESXi and gave me an IERR (CPU 1 error) error message on my screen front of server Dell

  I ended up not using pass-through PCIe (although I really want to use if this solves my problem), because I learned that it can cause problems with other discussion threads Intel processors.

  Also, does anyone have similar problems? What did you do to fix this? I have been stuck for days not being is not able to connect guest VM in internet...

  My goals for this configuration are

  (1) simplify my strategy of VM backup (backup only the Hyper-V 2012 to capture all the parameters of the virtual machine)

  (2) maintain the real guest VMs on the NAS.

  (3) use this new Hyper-V with another Hyper-V (on another old physical server, are not nested) to provide high availability

  Andrew

  You have activated the Promiscuous Mode on your ESXi host vSphere vSwitch? Have a look here: http://vblog.is/?p=94

• How to virtualize a physical server

  Hi all

  im just wondering a little the steps involved in virtualize a physical server. (I have an esxi in place). So basically I have a server on the network physically and I would run some test on it (but want to be sure where im planing to virtualize physical and run the test on the virtual server).

  My question is

  1. how to start virtualization... I use Vconverter then bind to Esxi?

  2. after virtualization, since the physical and virtual server will have the same host name - it will be right conflicts?

  3 should I remove the physical network? -If Yes... DNS pick will see the virtual as physical?

  Thanks a lot guys

  You can find all documents related to vSphere here

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-pubs.html

  See Add a Virtual Machine port group

  Check if the videos here help http://vmwarelearning.com/

• Physical server VM disaster recovery

  Hello

  Today, I meet some customers who would ask the site of recovery after a disaster. They would like to use all physical servers to the recovering site.

  Here's the scenario. In the production site, they will have 3 host to ESXi 4.1, with BL460G6 (the Server Blade HP), 2 Proc Intel X 5600 series, 48 GB RAM. Storage use is NetApp with iSCSI (NETAPP FAS2040) options.

  All their (converted from physical) virtual computers will consume about 4.2 TB, for most of the Linux server, multiple windows, according to. The growth of data every day is 1.6 GB. They will invest the same storage (FAS2040) on the site of DRC. Will of replication occurs every 15 minutes. They had a very good bandwidth

  Now they're using the standard replication method, they transfer file to the DRC to their server (Linux, replication, automated with script-based) and until now its works very well.

  Because they will migrate to Virtual Server, after all migration, they all want their server used in the DRC Site. My point is to know how to do it. Pouvez VMware replicated on the physical server? They will not invest more than license VMware or upgrading their equipment. They want to use the server as is.

  I thought to use RDM, create a LUN, attached to the virtual machine with the physical/virtual compatibility, then use the NetApp replication method to replicate the DRC site. Then, in the DRC, all the physical server mapped to the same LUN. Restoration, then, just reverse the replication. But then, the implementation will be difficult, because each server has a specific LUN (it had more 20 + server).

  A guy had an idea?

  Thanks for your help.

  From what I understand so far, they virtualized or not their systems and virtual machine files are stored on NetApp storage synced to the DRS!

  In this case, with the environment of virtualization (VMware Essentials) in place at the DRS, they would have only to add the virtual machine to inventory and them lights disaster on the production side. This doesn't mean no reconfiguration of drivers (for the merger to the physical hardware), up to date systems (synchronizes every 15 min.) and very little time to have the environment running on the DRS.

  The advantage of the Essentials package on the free version is management, which equals the production site and the possibility of use for example, backup software, which usually requires a licensed version.

  André

• Converting a physical server to a host

  I'm new to VMware and I'm unable to find the right strategy.

  I would like to convert a physical server to a computer computer ESXi host and migrate existing BONES from the server (Windows Server 2003 w/SQL Server 2005) to a virtual machine on the same machine. This host will be the first on my network. What I've read, it seems that the Converter requires a destination host must be specified during conversion. Because the machine will become the destination host, how should I do this?

  Is it possible for me to convert the existing operating system and store, install ESXi and then import the old OS as a virtual machine?

  Thanks in advance,

  Adam

  Hi Adam,.

  Welcome to the forums.

  You can virtualize your server as a workstation or VM Player that you will store on a PC (possibly use a disc of removable storage for conversion). Use Workstation or Player to start the virtual machine and verify that everything is OK. When you think that your application is running virtual, install ESXi on your physical server and a copy of the virtual machine, or make another conversion of PC to ESXi.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck