5.1 VSA running vCenter and VSA cluster service

Similar Questions

• Update hardware VM virtual machine running vCenter and VUM

  Curious to know how to upgrade hardware VM (from 4 to 7) of a computer virtual running vCenter 4 and the Update Manager.

  you will have to do it manually.  Connect to the host ESX (i) in which the virtual machine is hosted on, arrested, upgraded and on material (after the VMware Tools) power.

• VSA 5.5 warning increase VSA Cluster storage capacity - at a standstill

  I work on a VSA cluster to increase the storage capacity, but have hit a snag.

  The wizard of storage increase all the SBA has traveled each off, expanded the size of storage on local server data warehouses and looked like there finish but got stuck in this 'warning' and does not increase the actual sizes of VSA data store.

  "Increase storage caution: finished the VMDK extension and waited 300 seconds for storage entities to come online." Please stop i/o to data AUV for the increase in storage warehouses continue. »

  I have the opportunity to literally close all VM to stop all i/o over the weekend, but he didn't need to take a breakdown to make this work. Is it possible to do the work to finish?

  I'm not too entrust all e/s was arrested, would take right up and finishing, so looking to see if there are other options.

  Anyone running something similar or have ideas on how to help (services to bounce, if it is safe, etc.)?

  Just an update:

  After spending some time with the technical support of VMware, we determined how fast was 'clean' and involved no resolution and window of failure of the whole environment was just rebuild the ASB. Fundamental cause was never determined, but he questions when fsck was the race, if possible corruption any.

  I spent the time to move the virtual machine to local disk space, shoot the ASB and rebuild and it seems OK. However, an increase in storage has been attempted not again.

• VSA 5.5: Storage increase VSA Cluster fails

  Hi all

  I'm new with VMware Virtual Storage Appliance 5.5.

  I installed a Cluster environment only 2 knots with two HP DL 380 Gen 8 with 3 TB of Local storage.

  ESXi hosts are in Version 5.5 and newly installed.

  After the Installation of the two ESXi hosts, I installed the VCenter 5.5 on the Local storage on servers.

  After successful installation and configuration of the new VCenter, I installed the VSA-Manager on the VCenter and perform a brownfield industrial-Installation of the VSA Cluster.

  This works all that very well and once the configuration is successful I migrating the VCenter to the local database of one of the among databases VSA ESXi host.

  Now, I want to increase the storage capacity of Cluster VSA with available space of the database local after the migration of VCenter.

  I now get the following error message:

  ATTENTION: Extension VMDK on VSA - 0 and waited 1 200 seconds for storage to online entities. Please stop i/o to data AUV for the increase in storage warehouses continue

  I'm not able to stop the action of the increased storage capacity.

  Can someone help me with this problem?

  Thank you

  Hello

  first: sorry for the late reply.

  Yes, the solution solves the VMware Support.

  Of more the Strorage stopped working, because the jobed wrote the journal in the database and does not illuminate.

  The cancelled Suppprt EIB job remove the log of the database.

  I moved the VCenter in another data store (QNAP), which should initially be used for backups of Veeam.

  After moving it in another data store, the work of increasing the data store has worked well.

• Cannot create the VSA cluster: Cluster subnet is invalid. Should not be "network address".

  Hello world!  I had two questions on a configuration current VSA that I'm doing for a client.  Installation of urban contaminated sites brownfield version 5.1.1 = Live, running Virtual machines.     Have everything configured, I'm facing 2 problems that may be a common issue throughout the community.

  1. in the configuration of the cluster initial when you are ready to configure the drives of VSA, the wipeout disc around or just what has been configured space wise. My guess is he running virtual machines on the local data store that it will not write on this part but still format how much disk space has been used.

  2. I received, during the vsa cluster configuration, the error message:

  Cannot create the VSA cluster: Cluster 192.168.12.0 subnet is invalid. Must not be 192.168.12.0

  Now, I saw the article on what it could probably be.  The gateway appears and is correct.  The problem is that I know that the default gateway is not the ping requests.  I corrected it but have not begun installation because of the question #1 above.  Since the gateway is now who responded, what would be the possible resolution.  Thanks in advance to all those who support!

  Hey Nate,

  You're right about the behavior of the cluster wizard.  It does not consume space and leave the space used by the existing virtual machines.  Once that adjust you network settings (an adresse.0 may be the entry door?)  You should be able to proceed with the creation of cluster.

  IKE

• Add the VSA Cluster storage

  Hi all

  I read somewhere that its does not seem possible to upgrade the size of storage for the cluster of VSA in ver1.0? For example, if install us with HDD 6 and thereafter wanted to add another hard drive 2 or more to enlarge the data store, it is not possible?

  It looks like the poster others updated the link to the correct article KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2001339

  VSA 1.0 does not support add more storage to a VSA cluster after installation. You cannot add additional hard disks to the ESXi hosts and you cannot add multiple members of the cluster VSA. Make sure that your VSA cluster has enough storage to meet your needs of environment before you install the cluster VSA.

  To increase the capacity of its VSA 1.0, you must re-create the cluster.

  André

• Have trouble getting this script runs on the 1 cluster and not others

  Hello

  I'm trying to get it to run on a single Cluster, currently I run it on a single host, but I would like to run on a specific Cluster.

  Get-vmhost host1.lab.local | Get - view). EnterLockdownMode() | Get-vmhost | Select Name,@{N="LockDown; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.adminDisabled}} | FT-auto name LockDown

  I tried this, but this error message:

  (Get-Cluster 'Local' | get-view). EnterLockdownMode() | Get-vmhost | Select Name,@{N="LockDown; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.adminDisabled}} | FT-auto name LockDown

  Error message

  The method call failed because [VMware.Vim.ClusterComputeResource] contains a method named "EnterLockdownMode".

  On line: 1 char: 51

  + (Get-Cluster 'Local' | get-view). EnterLockdownMode < < < < () | Get-vmhost | Salt

  ECT Name,@{N="LockDown"; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.adminDisabled}} | FT-auto N

  SOUL LockDown

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (EnterLockdownMode:String) [].

  RuntimeException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: MethodNotFound

  How can I run this for a single cluster and not the other clusters.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Try something like this

  Get-Cluster local | Get-VMHost | %{    (get-view $_).EnterLockdownMode()    $_ | select Name,@{N="LockDown";E={$_.Extensiondata.Config.adminDisabled}}} | ft -auto
  

• Different results of the property 'configManager.snmpSystem' of HostSystem executing vCenter and when run directly from host

  We are seeing different results for the property of the HostSystem 'configManager. snmpSystem' from vCenter and when you access from host.

  I think that the result should be no different. Is this another known issue or am I missing something here?

  To confirm this behavior, we tried to show the property to the host through the Explorer managed objects (MOB) and also by the VMware Remote CLI scripts. Join the results of the CLI script that was running on our test systems.

  Best regards

  Damodar

  Greetings, I just wanted you guys to know this problem that you are experiencing is a known problem with VMware and our engineers groups are working on it.    Sorry for the inconvenience to you.

• vCenter and View Manager running together?

  The following questions ask about vCenter and View Manager...

  -& gt; Can I install vCenter in one of my virtual servers?

  -& gt; Their problems using vCenter within a virtual server?

  -& gt; Can vCenter and View Manager be installed on the same system and run together?

  -& gt; View Manager can be installed on one of my virtual servers, once again all the problems?

  Thank you

  Marc

  Yes

  No, it is fully supported by VM

  Yes, but I do not recommend

  Yes. No problems.

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Migration of one vCenter to another cluster

  Hello

  We have a cluster under A vCenter which runs on the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch distributed. This cluster (all hosts of ESXi and VMs) must be migrated to VMs vCenter B keeping alive if possible.

  I know that this host can be removed form the VirtualCenter with VM direct and added a new vCenter but not sure a distributed switch

  Looking for options / advice

  Our vCenter is 5.1

  Thank you in advance,

  Arkady

  The switch really makes this difficult process.  You prefer to bet on it to make the following process:

  1 take a source host network adapter and connect to a standard virtual switch

  2. move all the VMS to the switch stanard

  3. remove the second 1000v virtual switch interface (DISPLACEMENT market out virtual switch management)

  4. move the hosts with vm to new vCenter

  5 Migtate of virtual machines to new switch

  I know that this process sucks but the virtual switches are a construction of vCenter and will not go through vCenter.    The other option is to wait for vSphere 6.0 and new vMotion allows to solve this problem.  With vMotion new this should be a right click and wait for the process, assuming that the source and target ESXi host have the same VLAN.

  Let me know if you have any questions.

  Thank you

  Joseph

• VM list name and the cluster that it flows in a CSV file

  Hello

  I want to have a created CSV file that will conaitn 2 fields: vm_name, vm_custer

  Which means, I want to list the name of the virtual machine and the cluster is running in a CSV file.

  Here is the code I wrote:

  #! / usr/bin/perl - w
  use strict;
  Use Data::Dumper;
  use VMware::VIRuntime;
  My % opts = (data center = > {})
  Type = > "s =",
  help = > 'enter the name of the data center. "
  required = > 1,
  });
  OPTS::add_options (%OPTS);
  OPTS::parse();
  OPTS::Validate();
  Util::connect;
  "open (my $FH, ' > ', 'final.csv') or die" cannot opne final.csv: $! » ;
  print $FH 'VM_Cluster, VM_Name, \n ";
  my $dc = Opts::get_option ("data center");
  My $dc_view = Vim::find_entity_view (view_type = > 'Data center',)
  filter = > {name = > $dc});
  My $clu_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type = > "ComputeResource")
  begin_entity = > $dc_view);
  my $cluster foreach (@$clu_views)
  {
  My $clu_name = $cluster-> name;
  my $hosts = $cluster-> host;
  foreach (@$hosts)
  {
  My $host_hash_ref = Vim::get_view (mo_ref = > $_);
  My $vm_view = $host_hash_ref-> virtual machine;
  foreach (@$vm_view)
  {
  My $vm_hash_ref = Vim::get_view (mo_ref = > $_);
  My $vm_name = $vm_hash_ref-> name;
  $FH print $clu_name. ", ".  $vm_name. », «. "\n" unless $clu_name = ~ m/0bld0 /; "
  }
  }
  }
  Close ($FH);
  Util::disconnect;

  Now, I get the CSV file created as I wanted to, but the question is, there are 3500 + VMs in vCenter and this script side took 50 minutes to complete. It is therefore a huge performance impact. Also, I don't like the concept of 3 layers netsted foreach loops.

  Therefore, there is an effective way to get this information?

  Thank you.

  Your welcome.  It could be made faster, but the complexity of the additional code is probably not worth if the runtime you have now is enough.  No doubt, you can add additional data to your report without too slow.

  You can also find the script works faster or slower depending on what is happening in your virtual center system.

  Thanks for the update on the success!

• Migrate from vCenter to a cluster of a nonclustered Member

  Work on a new environment and I'm stuck with something sorta here. I have 3 guests, 2 are new material (r.620) and 1 is more old (1950). The 1950s was presented today, the R620s have been about 2 weeks now.

  Now that the 1950's the mix so I created a new EVC cluster limited to Penryn, r.620 1950 and one are in the cluster. I want the other r.620 in the cluster, BUT my vCenter is running on it. Cannot migrate the vCenter for memebers cluster because it is exposed to the extensions of the processor beyond the limit of Penryn from the pole...

  A little lost on what I can do here? Is there a 'stop invited, migrate to host X, boot prompt' type function I can use?

  Assuming you are using a shared storage accessible from all hosts, vCenter Server VM power off, remove it inventory of the current host by connecting it directly to the host (using the vSphere client), and then connect to the host of the 'target', add the server vCenter back to inventory and turn it on.

  André

• VCenter 4.1: cluster it?

  Hello

  Is it possible to Vcenter 4.1 cluster (2 nodes for example)?

  It was ok with VirtualCenter 2.5, under MSCS, but I don't see anything to do this for Vcenter 4.1...

  Thank you

  Concerning

  In our environment, our mandate is HA or not go.  Clustering is always a must... but for some odd reason, this does not applies to vcenter because it is a virtual machine that is running in a Cluster HA.  As for heart rate its good only to have a standby vcenter server and accessible. It is not mirrored DB, which can still be a single point of failure depending on your configuration.

  A few good insigts thereon:

  http://virtualfuture.info/2009/01/VMware-vCenter-SQL-Server-best-practices/

  Official KB in this issue:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1024051

  VMware, said "Yes you can do it... but.

  «You can choose to protect VMware vCenter Server with third parties including, but not limited to, MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Services) and VCS (Veritas Cluster Services) clustering solutions.» VMware does not certify these third party solutions. VMware will support all of the problems with an environment that uses third-party solutions from VMware vCenter Server downtime protection. However if your problem is considered to be related to the third party, clustering solution, VMware will send to our policy of third-party software. »

  And of course yellow bricks Duncan has something to say about it as well:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/07/16/MSCS-clustered-vCenter-Server-4-x-not-supported/

  Now Vmware HA - heartbeat is the method of SUPPORT ONLY...

  See you soon,.

  Chad King

  VCP-410. Server +.

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/cwjking

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Is it possible to run vCenter 5.1 or 5.5 without SSO

  Hello

  My question is in the title: is it possible to run vCenter 5.1 or 5.5 without SSO?

  I do not want to install AD because I need him. It was not necessary in vCenter 5.0 and I would like to continue.

  Sometone knows a solution?

  Best regards

  Hello

  Thanks for your replies!

  OK my vCenter must be 5.5 or later version, it is tested and it's good.

  My mistake, I took two actions:

  -On the vCenter, it was that two network cards. Is the main map (DNS name of the vCenter with his IP) is the second position. I moved upward on the network at the first position Manager.

  -J' disabled IPV6 how caused me a few problems.

  Now it's ok.

  I did a test cut to see if it was the first action or the second that solved my problem but it works. For me the network card number is the problem a nuber. It seems to me I read something about it somewhere (vmware documentation or...?)

  Thanks again!

• Some servers are build via VCenter and these servers do they appear in the VRA. How can we solve this problem?

  Some servers are build via VCenter and these servers do they appear in the VRA. How can we solve this problem?

  Please perform data collection and create a fake blue print.

  Go to infrastructure Organizer select the cluster and in the next tab filling details such as blue print and other information, click Finish.

  You can manage these servers through vRA.