5.1 ESXi, VLAN and vmotion

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• Configuration of VLAN for vMotion (ESXi 5.1 update 3)

  Hello

  We use a cluster of ESXi 5.1 updated 3 guests with Enterprise Edition.

  Finally, our network is being upgraded and VLAN will be created for vMotion.  Currently, we use the local network for the management and vMotion (I know that's not good).

  Network administrator asks me to provide information concerning the requirement of the VLAN for vMotion.

  Is there any Document KB I can refer to mentioning that the administrator must put in place in the physical switch and I need to change in each vSwitch for vMotion on all ESXi hosts?

  Thank you

  Belong to your network administrator if it can link your vmotion IP to the same vlan that he will provide den it's possible.

  Otherwise, you will have to go to the configuration of your network administrator. so it can provide you the IP for the ports of vmotion.

• Configuration guide for ESXi 5 (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) with NIC 2 network

  Hello

  I have 4 NIC in Server Blade 7 (ESXI 5), would like to dedecate 2 NIC for (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) & NIC (iSCSI traffic) 2 with equallogic SAN.

  I equallogic guide to configure ESXI with it, but how do I configure (Vmnetwork, management and vMotion) with NIC 2, my priority is excellent speed for my virtual machine, and then nothing else.

  Then just go for classic switch.

  The configuration is a lot depend on existing infra, the trunk, the physical switch for redundant network & balance, 100 or network 1GbE, no.. virtual machines and etc. If there is a new configuration, I suggest you trunk 2 x available vmnic (the vm network) to balance the load and better performance.

• Advanced features of ESXi 4.1 - vMotion, HA and DRS.

  Hi all

  I have a dell poweredge 1950 with 2 processors dual core, 8 GB ram and 2 hard drives. I would like to install a virtual laboratory for features in advanced practical such as vMotion, HA and Drs I know I need 2 ESXi host and storage San iSCSI shared to implement.

  I have only 1 physical box that has 1 ESXi host installed. I have the vCenter, iSCSI SAN (openfiler) installed in a virtual machine. I have a laptop that has vSphere client to connect to the ESXi host through vCenter.

  Is it possible to install 2nd ESXi host in a VM on the ESXi host 1 and perform advanced functions as mentioned above. I'd appreciate your suggestions and advice.

  Thank you

  -rmshah5050.

  Can't do anything as an automatic resource pools configuration.

  How much memory assign you to virtual ESXi hosts. To properly configure HA you must assign at least ~2.5 GB to hosts.

  André

• Management and vMotion have the same IP address

  Being quite new to ESXi I have spent hours to deceive and reading and do not understand why my management and vMotion interfaces have the same IP.

  The configuration is the following:

  Cisco UCS blades

  8 cards per blade

  vmnic0 and 1 - management

  vmnic2 and 3 - vmotion

  vmnic4 and 5 - IP storage

  given the VM vmnic6 and 7-

  I installed and the management network has migrated to a DVS without issues.

  Now when I create the DVS/port group for vmotion and assign the IP address I met 2 problems as you can see in the screenshot attached the blade/network.

  Thanks for any info.

  P.S., Management and vMotion are on different networks.

  Yes, the ESXi host may have a default gateway. It is used only when a vmkernel must be routed traffic.

  In the case of vMotion - as long as your vMotion enabled vmkernels are all on the same subnet and VLAN, the default gateway will never serve.

• vLAN: vm - vMotion - Shared Storage

  Hello. I set up a test lab, set up as follows:

  ESX01 (ESXi v5) - HP-DL380-G5 (Dual GB NIC)

  ESX02 (ESXi v5) - HP-DL380-G5 (Dual GB NIC)

  I have installed OpenFiler on a third G5 and have configured the shared storage iSCSI. This hangs together on a layer 3 switch extremes (10/100 but vMotion always works well).

  I would like to create virtual networks to improve my knowledge in this area. I know how to create them at the level of the switch, tag etc but I'm not familiar with the concept of full use in VMware. I am also limited by the number of NIC on the host computers.

  In my production environment (set up by third party), each host has 4 NETWORK cards. Two vSwitches are configured as follows:

  vSwitch0

  vmnic1

  vmnic0

  VMkernel Port

  vMotion

  vmk1 (ip x.x.x.x. VLAN ID 100)

  VMkernel Port

  Management

  vmk0 (ip x.x.x.x. VLAN ID 200)

  vSwitch1

  Virtual Machine port group

  Production

  All virtual machines use its option

  Any advice on configuring vSwitches + addition of virtual networks within my appreciated Limited NIC Test Laboratory.

  Phil.

  You can duplicate your production environment with two virtual switches on each host and simply connect each vSwitch with a NIC physical you will have no redundancy, but this may be acceptable, since it is a laboratory.

  If you want redundancy you will need to create a unique vSwitch, with two connected physical network cards. You create all your interfaces VMK and groups of comments on this switch ports and allow all the VLANS on the two trunks to the extreme switch.

  In order to separate your traffic MGMT and VMotion of your comments traffic, you will need to go into the properties for each VMK or port group and select the option "overide switch failover order". I had put the active Vmotion on physical NIC1 and NIC2 watch. I put all other active traffic on Eve on NIC1 and NIC2.

• To work with a SAN and vMotion virtual servers configuration

  Hi all:

  I apologize in advance if this discussion is too much like another.

  I intend to use the following configuration (not yet deployed) and would appreciate your comments and input:

  2 physical host servers running VMware ESXi

  1 SAN Fiber Channel

  high availability and vMotion

  I just have a few questions:

  (1) then I keep all the VHD on the SAN files?  (I intend to have VHD files separate OS disk and DATA drive for each virtual computer).

  (2) is it recommended that I have all the hard drives the on host computers physical (to run virtual machines or anything else like swap files)?

  (3) how much space I have on the SAN?  I guess too much for the readers of the OS and DATA readers of all virtual machines... it's any additional space recommended for anything?

  (4) everyone would be able to direct me towards guides describing how to set up?

  Sincerely,

  Kahn

  (1) then I keep all the VHD on the SAN files?  (I intend to have VHD files separate OS disk and DATA drive for each virtual computer).

  Yes you can, and just a tip, on VMware world the virtual disk is called VMDK :-)

  (2) is it recommended that I have all the hard drives the on host computers physical (to run virtual machines or anything else like swap files)?

  You can use the same physical host computers without the hard drive, because you can boot from SAN, or use features such as automatic deployment, but it is the facility for the virtual machine, my recommendation is to use disks (volumes) of your San and share this volumes between your hosts to be able to configure High Availability (HA). Without shared storage, you can not HA.

  (3) how much space I have on the SAN?  I guess too much for the readers of the OS and DATA readers of all virtual machines... it's any additional space recommended for anything?

  Space on SAN depends on the size of your virtual machines and little extra space to make room for Exchange and snapshot files.

  (4) everyone would be able to direct me towards guides describing how to set up?

  The documentation will have everything you need: VSphere 6.0 Documentation Center , but if you want some guide step by step and with video/screen, see this one: BackToBasics | Mike Landry...

• Can we have different default gateway for MGMT and vMotion?

  Hello

  We run vSphere 5.1 update 3 Enterprise Edition. VLAN is implemented in our site recently.

  Network administrator assigns 3 VLAN to MGMT and vMotion VLAN10.  It also gives me different for these 2 DG VLAN (there is another local network VIRTUAL for VM).

  When I set up the IP address of vMotion, can I change to a different DG of the vSwitch MGMT?

  Thank you

  vSphere 5.1, no, you can't.

  vSphere 6, yes you can, here vmware now gave us separate stack TCP/IP for vMotion and contributes to the vCenter vMotion cross too.

• VMWare ESXi 5.5 - VMotion & HA supported MDM physical or virtual

  Hello

  Hope someone can shed some light on the survey below:

  1. can you VMWare ESXI 5.5 HA and Vmotion supported with vmdk files located in front of multiple vmfs datastore 3/5? I have problems with VMotion or HA?
  
  2. can you VMWare ESXI 5.5 HA and Vmotion (not storage Vmotion) support with a VM scenario below:

  3 three nodes with iSCSI SAN storage

  VM1
  -Drive C-> vmfs Datastore1
  -Drive D-> RDM (is this support on a physical or virtual compatibility mode)
  

  VM2

  -Drive C-> vmfs Datastore 1

  -Drive D-> vmfs Datasore 2

  
  IV ' e seen these link below no mention if need pyshical or virtual mode
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1005241
  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.VMware.vSphere.storage.doc%2FGUID-D9B143D8-9F93-41D1-A32F-9FF4DE4CDF14.html
  
  3. can you multiple access by 5.5 ESXi host the same data store (located on a San) vmfs using the free version of ESXi 5.5?
  Can I use this in a production environment? I have seen some companies test this on a non-production environment. Technically, it works.
  
  Thank you
  Paul

  Welcome to the community-

  (1) as long as the DRS HA cluster hosts see data even warehouses there will be no problem

  (2) once more, also longer than the nose can see data warehouses including the LUNS as the RDM it home should be without issue.

  (3) Yes multiple instances of the free version of ESXi can access LUNS shared - Yes it can be used in a production environment, but remember you can not handle the free hypervisor with vCenter.

• Need to move virtual machines and power over the other ESXi HA and issues of Configuration of power

  Dears

  Need to move virtual machines and power on ESXi others using the HA and Power Options

  So what are the Options I need activate and deactivate:

  Turn on Vsphere HA

  Activate the tracking host

  Admission control (disabled)

  VM Machine Options

  VM restart priority (medium)

  Response from the host of off the power isolation

  VM monitoring (people with disabilities)

  Monitoring of (high) sensitivity

  Heartbeat of data store (select one of cluster data warehouses taking into account my preferences) of the data store is checked

  On each:

  Start/stop of the virtual machine is turned off

  Please indicate the required Options and on virtual machines, we are not turning on?

  Just to be clear, that VMware HA will only restart the VMS if ESXi hosts fails - or surveillance of the VM is turned on which will be monitors VMs will they crash or suspend and restart the virtual machine affected.

  and just to be clear, that the response of insulation parameter has nothing to do whther THAT HA will work or not - it does come into play if the ESXi host is isolated of the HA - Cluster

  xMotion works only between active ESXi hosts that can communicate with the server vCenter - and if the ESXi host broke down or became isolated and vMotion may not work.

  vMotion is automated with DRS that vMotion will a VM who need more resources to an ESXi host with enough reosurces.

• several subnets by VLANS and ports link

  Hello

  I need some clarification.

  Our iSCSI SAN storage (Dell MD3660i0 requires a separate subnet by port.

  We require paths multiple access and balancing in VMware.

  To achieve this in ESXi 5.1 we need binding ports... BUT the binding of ports is supported only if the vmks are all in the SAME domain in accordance with these two KBs broadcasting

  VMware KB: Considerations for use binding software iSCSI ports in ESX/ESXi

  VMware KB: When the use of several VMkernel ports with port required to access the storage of two or more tables on different br...

  OK... probably so I simply put my all subnets in ISCSI storage in one VLAN and everything will be ok (one VLAN is after all a broadcast domain, both are stuff of L2)... This would respond to the requirements of KBs... If VMware means "area of distribution" in the true sense of the term.

  So my question is can you configure the port in this way binding? It is supported by VMware?

  VMware has come back to me (in fact the author of one of the kb/s I've referenced)

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2038869

  He confirmed that the terminology used in the KB is misleading and "broadcast domain", it actually means "subnet" so not layer 3 layer 2.

  This means that you can NOT have multiple subnets in a broadcast domain (VLAN) AND use the SW iSCSI port binding.

  BUT

  He told me (he is very familiar with the Dell MD3660i iSCSI kit), you don't have to have binding of ports to achieve several Multipathing and load balancing. If you have a requirement for several subnets of your iSCSI SAN provider then just create multiple vmks on different subnets, and DO NOT make the port binding. The fact that they are on different subnets will be enough to achieve the multiple paths

  It updates the KB to make this much clearer.

  I hope this helps someone

• ESXi hypervisor and DMZ

  I troubleshoot my church with a new configuration of ESXi Hypervisor.    They would like to implement a DMZ so that their web server will be limited there.  However, given that the budget is limited, they cannot have the hypervisor edition for now. It will be converted to a full version of ESXi4 next year.    Next year, they will be budget to get Essentials more and get another host for a second Setup ESXi.

  For now, it's a single ESXi hypervisor but they need to protect their network and place their web server in a DMZ.   The server they use has 2 NETWORK cards physical, 4 GB of RAM and a 1 TB hard drive.

  I'm looking for some advice on the best way to configure their DMZ.

  I guess that would mean that the switch of the DMZ would have one and the other network adapter would be shared with management and the port VM group?   I know that sounds not very sure... I probably need a 3rd nic to separate the management side offshore on its own vSwitch but I don't have that luxury right now.

  You're right but the size of the environment, I don't think that should be a problem-

  I view this arrangement, 2 physical switches do not need to connect to the rising of the host.  We don't have one right now... that is the problem with non-profit organizations.

  Yes except if the switches support tags vLAN - and then separate you the traffic via the tagging vlan-

• How to move virtual machines from one host to another without full VI and vMotion?

  Hello

  could you help me with a question?

  I have two installed hosts with ESXi 3.5 U5, which are connected to the shared iSCSI (Openfiler) - VMs storage are installed on the storage disk. My requirement is to have a cheap solution of DR - in case of failure of a host, I need to move and start VM on the host of work. How to achieve without going through VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and vMotion?

  I found this article:

  http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/04/how-to-move-a-VM-without-vCenter-or-storage-VMotion/

  but RCLI needs Infrastructure of VMware ESXi does not have default CLI So, how to move VMs between hosts (of course I mean "cold" move) without byuing any additonal VMware SW? It is generally possible in my situation?

  Thank you.

  ARO

  Danas

  If the virtual machines are running in shared storage (two guests see the same storage iSCSI or NFS) then it's simple. If a host goes down, then look for the data store on the ESXi host work. Navigate through folders for each virtual machine, right-click on the VMX file and add to the inventory. You will then be able to turn on the virtual machine.

  To move a virtual machine from one host to another, as long as both hosts had the same processors, you can pause the VM on the single host, browse and add the virtual machine to the inventory on the second break host and the United Nations.

  If the virtual machines are on local storage, but the two hosts are connected to the same shared storage, clone virtual machines on a daily basis from local storage to shared storage. Use something like ghettoVCB http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 make the clone. In the case of a server failure, you will be able to browse the data store, add to the inventory on the shared storage and switch the cloned machine.

• HA Cluster and vMotion CPU compatibility

  Will be the following servers and work of the processor all in a HA Cluster with ESXi embedded 4.1 with vCenter 4.1 vSphere?

  Reference Dell 2950 III Xeon E5410 @ 2.33 GHz

  Reference Dell R610 Xeon X 5550 @ 2.67 GHz

  Reference Dell R710 Xeon X 5650 @ 2.67 GHz

  Or will I have to activate the VCA Mode on the Cluster?

  Is there a chart that shows you what processor works in a HA Cluster and vMotion?

  You need a CPU mask on the VM vCenter migrating to the EVC cluster and adding one would require a reboot.  You can do instead.

  (1) create new cluster with appropriate VCA setting.

  (2) (2) migrer migrate virtual machines from one host, put it in maintenance mode and then move it to the new cluster.

  (3) stop vCenter.

  (4) connect to the host that was running with the vSphere client vCenter.  Unregister the virtual machine.

  (5) connect to the host in the new cluster, to save the VM vCenter and turn on.

  Dave

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• Attempt vSwitch configuration change and now the ESXi host and virtual machines offline

  So I have no doubt, I have myself to blame for this one. I was trying to change my vSwitch from 100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps when an 'operation timed' error out jumps-to the top and my vCenter Server lost connection with my ESXi host. I tried to restart the host manually, but that did not help. The host is not the ping requests and all the virtual machines on that host are offline; None of them vMotion off to my other ESX Server.

  I tried to reconnect the host computer in vCenter, but it is obviously does not connect because it can't ping it. I logged the ESXi console and all the network settings appear to be correct. I'm used to connect to the ESX console where you can execute commands, but it's my first ESXi host, so I don't know what I can do.

  Any help is greatly appreciated!

  -D.

  If you had your management port and VMs on different vSwitches / NIC leave on framework would eliminate a false positive. As in your case the management port reportedly follows the cable / about speed, but the virtual machine network would be intact (and I'm assuming that your storage space as well).  In this case the VMs system would have worked very well even if the management port did not work.

  Dave

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