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  If I go to ODBC data sources administrator and test the Data Source, the test completes successfully.

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  The database is probably fine.

  The vCenter Web Management Service running?

• Isolate the port on a vSphere standard switch traffic

  Hello

  I deploy an environment where I have a pool of 100 virtual machines that live on a switch standard vSphere isolated. The virtual machines to communicate with the rest of the world through a virtual double-NIC machine. This configuration does not work as expected, but I would go a little further and to isolate the connectivity network, such as each virtual machine can communicate with the system of double-NIC and not each other. The switch standard vSphere, the pool of 100 virtual machines are all located on the same VLAN and group ports. I spent some research time through documentation, but I did find a clean way to implement what I want. The best I can get to each of the virtual machines 100 puts their own VIRTUAL LAN, but it is ugly and will be difficult to maintain. Is there something easier that I missed?

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• vSphere Licensing

  I am a student doing a project where I need to develop a virtual infrastructure. I chose VMware since I am more familiar with their products.

  The project includes two sites and a total of 15 people. In the beginning, I chose the vSphere Essentials Plus kit. I have 2 servers on the main site and 1 to the other site. I was going to buy an additional vCenter of license and 2 licenses SRM server. Basically, with the configuration of the infrastructure with the ability to replication on the other site and raise all reviews virtual machines on the server in the other site as a form of DR. The more research I do, the more I see how it is not extensible in the future. I also wonder if it is still possible given the licensing restrictions.

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  Hi Welcome to the communities,

  you need a single vSphere Standard/ORL/Ent + per socket/physical CPU license, Yes.

  About MRS. you should take a look at vSphere replication. It is included in all standard vSphere licenses and of better quality. Perhaps it meets your needs, as a SRM license for up to 75 VMs would cost about $7000, I think.

  As you said you are a student, you're doing this project for a University? You may get lower prices then.

  I would contact the commercial service of VMware for the best info:

  Contact sales | United States

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  Tim

• Licensing vCenter and vSphere/installation

  I have some difficulty to consolidate the vm for a client versions.

  vSphere Essentials Kit includees vCenter Server and Agents for up to 3 guests, but the hosts did not have vMotion/HA

  http://store.VMware.com/store/VMware/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.126843700?RESID=TdLD3AoBAlkAAA1YCNoAAAAO & = 1306272327419 rests

  vSphere Standard license includes support for vMotion and HA

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

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  The answer is no, vSphere Essentials only can be used with the host Essentials license license and may not be used with another license.

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• Put a host in maintenance - it will automatically move virtual machines?

  Dear all,

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• Cannot save the Management Pack Configuration in VROPS

  Hello

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• Drivers Intel P3700 for VSANS?

  I worked with our VMWare team to design a VSAN out and it included some Intel P3700 PCIe cards like the layer flash supported by about 1.2 TB of Seagate sas disks 10 k for storage.  Unfortunately, even of the P3700 disappeared not on the HCL, and I am currently "chasing my tail" with latency, and i/o pending.  I opened a SR, but recommended for the H730 drivers do not seem to do anything.  And I'm fairly certain that's not the issue (deactivation does not seem to be a problem).  I understand that the P3700 didn't HCL yet, but it is still ongoing and so many white papers were written with this card as part of the architecture.

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  SAN traffic exceeds 2 uplink (with uplink 1 standby), everything else is plus 1 uplink (with uplink 2 as before)-working on a plan to spend LACP, but it is still under construction

  
  

  The current workload is very low.  It is only about 6 Production VM running on that cluster to the repositories of the project and kicking the tires, with the idea that 500-1000 VM will be launched upward in the coming months.  For the majority of virtual machines, the performance is not essential, but some of the problems I see currently are a bit a showstopper.

  
  

  Problems:

  If I run "bonnie ++ u root" on a virtual machine single, I can see the latency time to go up to 65, 000ms (Yes, really 65 k ms) and the virtual machine is basically responding (100% iowait and very rarely is able to write i/o because of the huge latency).  The write buffer is never very full during this period (stuck at 30% and deactivation does not start even during the race.)  Similar issues occur ATTO Disk Benchmark running on a windows system with a disk queue high (4 seems to be well, 10 kills of the VM)

  
  

  I can get very high write speeds (500 - 800 MB/s or more), but as soon as the latency time leapt to a few 100 ms, it's all downhill.

  
  

  Even with a fairly simple recording VM with all our guests directed to these, I get occasional spikes of latency (1400ms +, with an average of 15ms, which seems high even).  This box just works a lot of entries to logstash and a hint of elasticsearch with occasional when bed kibana someone shows something.

  Y at - it no rider special I read somewhere for the P3700 Intel?  Another thing that I really should look into?  I'm tired of chasing my tail and want to start the actual load of the migration to this new cluster.  I tried RAID0 on a small cluster of 4 boxes, but that wasn't much better and is much more boring.

  I use the 1.6 and 2.0 TB P3700 cards in my VSAN without problem. I have a similar setup, except using r730xd, the same with the same firmware + drivers raid card, also on 6. 0b. When I originally put in place, I could see peaks of latency high 200-400 + ms, it was resolved by updating the drivers of NETWORK card for me. I use a NIC (Intel X 540 - AT2), different, but the firmware upgrade + the driver for my NIC brings my latency ~ 3ms avg and blip occasional peak at ~ 15ms. Probably worth to update any firmware on your X 710 and use the appropriate driver on VMWare HCL VMware Compatibility Guide: search for i/o device

  I've also seen really bad latency problems out of network configuration problem. In our case that we had a link to 1 GB failover in case our 10 GB failed, but instead things are started to be load-balanced and performance/latency was very poor until we noticed that the 1 GB has been fully utilized.

  Also try to use the Inbox NVME driver, I ran on it without problem before Intel released the driver 1.1 you use now. In my limited testing, Intel drivers are slightly faster performance but nothing majorly different.

• Best configuration/license esxi 5

  I'm new to Vmware and I have to deal with 6 guests in my environment. Currently, the hosts are set up with the esxi license 5.0 free stand alone.  I have no shared storage and I wonder what would be the best configuration/license to manage these hosts without shared storage.  Thank you

  To use vMotion without shared storage, you must run vSphere 5.1 or newer with at least 'Essentials Plus' licenses. Remember that the Kits Essentials can manage up to 3 guests, so if you want to manage all six guests in a unique environment you need at least the Standard vSphere licenses.

  André

• Director of the laboratory: how much is

  Hi guys,.

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  It is just like in this page:

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  For the portion of the price, the best if you call the seller serve you on VMware (partner or VMware).

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• LACP now supported in vsphere 5.1?

  Hi all

  I tried to lacp on my cisco switch 3750 put lacp on vpshere (channel-group xx active mode) 5.1 5.1/esx, it did not work.  I have lacp on my openfiler two nic I can see the policy is it works.  When I tried on my esx5.1 my dvport of switches (I) update status, which is the simple mode, which means that it does not work it's supposed to be (P).  My esx5.1 is currently connected to the later.  My dvport or standard port will still work with the compatible link aggregate which is channel-group active xx on and ip of the hash. My quad nic is Intel 82576 Gigabit.

  comment, you can add is very appreciated.

  Thank you.

  LACP is supported.

  Maybe the blog article below will help you

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• LACP y switch virtual Standard

  Hola

  Sabeis if is pueden configurar a virtual standard switch con back tarjetas para as funcionen in el switch fisico configurado con LACP aggregation?

  decir, if tenian el grouping?

  Gracias.

  Hola compañero,

  a Día de hoy solo supports vmware's para el uso en version of vSphere 5.1 LACP solo VDS (VMware vDistributed rocking):

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalID=2034277

  In the rest of scenarios, para hacer NIC teaming is debe usar (para cisco switch) Etherchannel con el LACP (802.3ad) desactivado. Modo in "static mode WE:

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/902563#902563

  Te dejo par UN of vmware as explican muy KB well el tema of NIC teaming en vSphere:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1001938&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=675078772&StateID=1%200%20675098848

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1004048&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=675078772&StateID=1%200%20675098848

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• vSphere 5 and iSCSI LACP

  Hello - this is my first post here so please, be gentle.

  I tried to find information about configuring LACP in vSphere, ESXi 5. Let me give a brief overview of my environment and the objectives that we strive to achieve. We use NICs 1 GB on 6710 VDX Brocade fabric switches.

  We have a small cluster of vSphere, ESXi 5 standard edition. We have 6 physical network interface cards in each host - 2 are associated to the network of the VM, 2 are associated for vMotion/management, and the last two are vmKernal ports one two separate subnets connected using MPIO to our Compellent SAN iSCSI. This has been our test bench and we use the nic teaming in ESXi 5 running "Route based on the originating virtual port ID" with no specific switch-side config. We have other servers only using LACP 802.3ad configured on the host and the switch that work very well - gives us a better failure protection that we use two switches and plug in a link in each switch. We would like to do the same with ESXi hosts.

  Our new project is coming to virtualize a larger number of systems we currently serve. We want to do is expand our use VM to include a large (30 - big for us) number of SQL servers. The basic functions of these systems require a decent amount of e/s SAN backend. The physical servers we would be virtualize emballerions a density close to 4 / 1 or up to 8:1 with this conversion. We are concerned that having just the 2 iSCSI nic MPIO paths will not be sufficient to support the increased load of I/O.

  We would like to know if you are using LACP on the two subnet iSCSI connections and join 2 + NIC for each connection is viable in ESXi 5 and with iSCSI technology and what configuration parameters that we set up to do this.

  In addition, this project would be to use Enterprise Edition VMWare vSphere 5 - DRS or distributed switching introduced other complications or benfits for this configuration?

  Thanks for any helpful input or direction of already published documents.

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  I find using LACP / etherchannel is rarely effective or useful in VMware environments.

  For iSCSI storage, my standard configuration is to use 2 uplinks with binding of iSCSI ports. Here are the screenshots of the configuration.

  

  

  

• vSphere 6.0 license Standard downgrade then upgrade

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  I was wrong. I just checked and you can select 'Upgrade quantity'. I learned something new today.

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• Uppgrade free vSphere to vSphere Standard

  Hello

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  Any KB for this positve step?

  Simply enter the license key to unlock new features. There is no need to re - install the ESXi host or install anything else.

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  See these documents/articles for reference:

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