64 bit VMs in ESX/ESXi 4.0 that is running as a Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation 7.0.1

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• Are there problems in the creation of a virtual machine in VMware Workstation or Server and then move it to ESXi?

  Hello

  I intend to pass our mailserver's current installation of Windows Server 2003 running on native hardware in a Windows Server 2008 running in a virtual machine on ESXi.

  This is the same machine as we will reuse so I would prefer to be able to create the virtual machine on a different computer and test it before wiping Windows and install ESXi. Are there problems with the creation of the virtual machine in VMware Server and then migrate to ESXi using VMware Converter? I won't if the result is not a 'perfect' virtual machine that performs as well as if it had been created on ESXi from the beginning.

  All our other VMs were created on ESXi from the beginning.

  Kind regards

  René Frej Nielsen

  If you are not sure, you can load VMware Server 2 and then install ESXi in it and test your configuration.  Do all this from your desktop (as it is decent).  You can also do in my computer.  A quick google search should give you all the information you need to get something like this configuration.

• How to make for the Hyper-V role to run on a virtual machine in esx 5

  Hello

  I am trying to run the Hyper-V role on a virtual machine in vmware esxi 5. I'm under eindows Server 20008 R2 datacenter edition and install esx I have on a server dell with 32 GB of Ram and 2 intel Xeon processors. the material is active VT. I get the below error message all the time.

  Hyper-V cannot be installed.

  the processor on this computer is not compatible with Hyper-v. to install the role of HRT, the processor must have a version support for hardware-assisted virtualization, and this feature must be enabled in the BIOS.

  Info

  -the material is active VT and I am trying to nest a virtual machine with the hyper-V role.

  any help is appreciated.

  Please see Running the VMs nested.

• XEN running inside a virtual machine under ESX (i) 3.5?

  Hello world

  I'm still pretty new mV, so please bear with me if I ask is stupid. I have already searched the web, but I couldn't really find an answer to this:

  Let's say we have a VM-certified (for example from Dell) server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5. I understand that the following would be a typical scenario:

  -ESX 3.5

  -VM 1: Windows Server 2008

  -VM 2: Windows Server 2003

  -VM 3: Debian 4.0 (unofficially supported?)

  -Virtual MACHINE 4: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

  Could I now install XEN in Debian of VMS 3 making 3 Xen's Dom0 of VM?

  So what I want is this:

  -ESX 3.5

  -VM 1: Windows Server 2008

  -VM 2: Windows Server 2003

  -VM 3: Debian 4.0 with XEN (= Dom0)

  -DomU 1: Debian 4.0

  -DomU 2: Debian 4.0

  -DomU 3: Debian 5.0

  -DomU 4: Debian 3.1

  -DomU 5: supported an another Linux system by XEN

  -Virtual MACHINE 4: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

  Is this possible? If so, that requires any special parameters on the side of the virtual computer, Debian or Xen?

  Or, and this is what I hope, is the ESX service an fully transparent layer between whats running in the virtual machine (for example. Debian with XEN) and the actual hardware.

  In other words: is the installation of Debian in VM3 "knows" that he is not actually run directly on the hardware?

  Thank you very much in advance for any answers or advice in the right direction!

  Tom

  Depends on the mode of Xen.  If Xen tries to use the VT / SVM instructions, it will not work because these instructions are not virtualized.  If Xen is running a guest paravirtualise it could work - anyone I know has ever attempted.  (So, "no".)  If this does not work, we would like to hear about it.

  Re: Why Debian is not a client supported... it's a problem of bandwidth QA, invited taken in charge to be tested carefully so the number of guests that can be supported is limited.  Debian runs almost certainly - it is very similar to Ubuntu, which is supported - but VMware not QA, if we do not pretend that support.

• ESXi 5.5u1 - serial number physical host in virtual machine

  I was happy to see in 5.5 update 1 release notes that it should be possible to switch the serial number of the host through a virtual machine hardware.

  • Allow virtual machines to display the serial number of the physical host
    Virtual machines cannot reflect the physical hosts ESXi serial numbers.
    • This issue is fixed in this version.

  Does anyone know how to enable this for a new or existing virtual computer?

  I had problems in the past with Apple Push Notification Services expects a Mac serial number. I hope that I can now spend series a Mac Pro to the host through a virtual machine.

  Someone at - it experience or knowledge to implement this? Thank you!

  Hi DJLambertand welcome to the VMware communities!

  If you want a prompt of OS X to use the serial number of the host, you will need to add this option to the virtual machine configuration:

  serialNumber.reflectHost = 'TRUE '.

  or, if you want a prompt of OS X to use the model of host hardware ID (learn "MacPro5, 1"), ID (i.e. "Mac-12345678" ") and the serial number all all aboard:

  smbios.reflectHost = 'TRUE '.

  will take care of all three.  Note that there is no way to understand or control what happens if you have multiple virtual machines with the same serial number and using this external serial number as an identifier.

  Let us know if you have problems with these options!  I'm not sure whether they will solve the problem you face, but... For example, there are more problems iMessage running in a virtual machine...

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Como leer USB desde virtual machine in VMWARE ESXi 4.0?

  A cordial Saludo a todos.

  Tengo wont in a server the Vmware ESXi 4.0 platform, sober cual tengo una virtual machine en Windows Server 2003.

  Necesito UN por favor me indicandome como debo hacer para leer desde the virtual USB devices help machine Win. Server 2003.

  Desde el client Vsphere, ingreso a virtual machine of the Delcourt config, there are added el driver USB (ver imagen adjunta), pero ahun sigue sin funcionarme.

  Quedo muy atento a sus comentarios.

  Saludos.

  Para aquellos con VMWare ESXi 4.0 Estos his los comandos para fornuis 4.1, the gran novedad 4.1 are el soporte para Máquinas Office USB.
   
  De el addition of VMware ESXi en el sitio of mailing package. :

  http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_hypervisor_esxi/4
   
  ESXi 4.1 (change ZIP ESXi 4.0)

  The ultima version available

  A1 knew servidor con VMware vSphere client ESXi.
  Apague (poweroff) todas las maquinas office desde el servidor.
   
  Haga click derecho sober el arbol y poner ESXi a mantenimiento modo.

  UNA vez hecho esto, vaya has the config of VMware vSphere data of the client - datos almacen - almacen click on database "sober" derecho y push-button.
   
  Tenga into account that el anterior are 'SUFFER', haga click en el y luego undergo. Archivo zip en el almacen of data.
   
  El siguiente paso are al por Existing VMWare Server access.

  If ssh without esta en VMWARE habilitada, siga los pasos following in her console server:

  ALT + F1 para as aparezca algo in the pantalla, escriba "sin soporte.

  the root contrasena ingresar

  VI / etc / inetd.conf

  descomentar the line that contains parameters of the SSH los y el archivo save.

  REINICIAR el servidor.

  Ready, con el servidor enable Existing through SSH.

  Comprobacion del archivo:

  esxupdate - package = / vmfs/volumes/datastoreI/upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zipcheck

  If "Check OK", run the change:

  esxupdate - package = / technical vmfs/volumes/datastoreI/upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  NOTE: este 'almacen of datos' are el number of su almacen of datos e caso, I can change number, entonces uno el

  LS / vmfs / Volumes /.

  Y ver el number that in su almacen of datos esta.

  Once completed the change, el servidor is reiniciara, por lo that connect acaba con el client of VMware vSphere, quitar el mantenimiento modo y las maquinas office.

  Important note:

  Run USB, las maquinas office debe ser version para el 7 y add el driver USB en the virtual machine if is is in version 4, the fuera Máquina virtual con simplemente haga click derecho in the part superior su version 7 of change.

• Cannot import Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4.

  Hi team,

  I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to import certain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4, using another Windows Server 2008 R2 as the machine Agent Converter. Well, the agent connects to the Windows VM source very well (I used the net use command to create a line of conduct...), perhaps no chance to connect to the computer target VMware ESxi 4 and make the converter doesn't work...

  Following is the error message:

  "Unable to connect to the host specified" from the converter agent machine. " It is perhaps because the host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on this host services do not react. Check all components of converter to be able to connect.

  So, my question is; is it possible to create a work around (like the net use Windows command above) to make possible the connection of the converter Agent on Linux VMware ESXi 4 machine Windows machine, to directly import the virtual machines of Windows Hyper-V to Linux VMware?

  Thanks in advance,

  It's even easier than that

  Use this: http://www.winimage.com/

  Which will convert *.vhd *.vmdk, so you don't need to do all this... Of course, another way is to start the machines, leaving them on Hyper-V and go through the network and process virtual machine as physical machines and do a P2V on the network...

• Transfer of VMS to ESX ESXi's network

  We have a cluster with two nodes 3.5 update 4 where we have a production VMs.

  Developers have installed ESXi on a stand-alone machine that does not have access to a shared storage used by the cluster, so I have to find a way to move virtual machines from the ESXi host to the cluster on the network; It is okay to turn off the virtual machines while moving them.

  I was thinking about ssh (ftp or any other means, but using ESXi with no service console I don't know what the best thing to do, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a way to do this, considering also that I've never used ssh to move the file so I need guidance here as well.)

  Thank you in advance.

  AFAIK, you can connect to ESXi and ESX and do directly. I use it to copy directly between the ESX servers. I have no ESXi, but that shouldn't make a difference.

  The tool uses SSH as a control channel, but the data is copied using FTP directly between hosts.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• Turn on a Linux 64 - Bit VMS on ESX guest VM

  Hi all

  So I had a Linux based OS (CentOS) of Vmware workstation. I want to put this in my ESX environment. If I try to "Import" of Vmware Converter, I get "Cannot determine the operating system". If I try to P2V, it won't work not (finds it difficult to install the Agent). I then tried to install Vmware Server (later) on one of my virtual machine (guest operating system) to my ESX host and try to turn this Linux 64 - Bit VM and tells me that VT is not enabled so 64 bit is not supported.  Obviuously is not recognize the chip of VT of the guest OS.

  Any ideas on what I can do to get this Linux based virtual computer in my ESX environment?

  Thank you

  Take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1000936

  And http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022152 is interesting to read this way. All that this article applies to a Windows 7 comments, a lot of the concepts are the same.

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1028042 talk about VMDK disk type conversion using the vmkfstools ESX command.

  One solution, you can try is as follows:

  1 copy the files VMDK Workstation on your ESX datastore use WinSCP or something similar.

  2. once all the VMDK files have been copied to all, try converting to a VMDK ESX type by following the instructions in 1028042 KB.

  3. once new ESX-type disks have been created in your vSphere Client, select 'New Virtual Machine'

  4. proceed through the wizard to ensure that you select the option "custom Setup".

  5. when it comes to the section on creating a disc, choose the option 'use the existing drive' and find the VMDK file that you created.

  6. If all goes to plan, you'll have a machine virtual bootable.

  Hope that helps.

• Restarting the management agents on ESXi 4.1 / risk to restart the guest virtual machines?

  Unfortunately, we must restart management on our HP ML350 G6 agents almost once a week (unable to connect with VSphere client more, customers are works well).

  We know this Article -: restart on an ESX or ESXi Server management agents

  and this article useful: http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_restart_agents.php

  How can we avoid the ESXi 4.1 command /sbin/services.sh restart will restart our execution of virtual machines (guests) as well?

  (Our first test shows: it restarts the guests, but it is sure, or just happy coincidence?)

  According to the second article linked:

  ... This will restart the agents installed in /etc/init.d/ and with a default installation that includes: pass, ntpd, sfcbd, sfcbd-watchdog, slpd and wsmand. He is aalso restarting the agent VMware HA (AAM) if that has been activated on the host...

  Each of the agents of this is responsible for our virtual computer operation invited?

  Do we ensure "auto start/stop" to each virtual machine too (as written in "Attention" on the first linked article)?

  I think it was on ESX 3.5 U3 corected. In any case, this happened only if you autostart enabled for VMS - the ability of ESX Server to boot VMs when it starts itself. If you do not need, leave it disabled.

  Each of the agents of this is responsible for our virtual computer operation invited?

  Not at all. Virtual machines running in a very low level of the VMkernel. Even if you lose the COS (which is your main problem here - you should check it...) the VMs will still work.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

  Master virtualization technology

  Globant Argentina

  Review the allocation of points for "useful" or "right" answers.

• Update Manager upgrade of the ESXi host that he is running in a virtual machine does

  That is the question.  Here is some information.  We were a completely virtualized environment for several years.  2 guests ESXi collocated 5.5 to different data centers connected of course by a VPN site-to site.  The VPN itself is provided by VMs and vCenter runs in a VM to one of the sites as Update Manager is to proceed with installing it. If the vCenter and/or VPN VMs are down, we have a very cool backup method to gain access to and manage ESXi and its console.   Some of you who read the rest of the present will be tempted to suggest to architecting our environment differently, but we are very pleased with the way it is thank you very much :-)  Appreciate all the answers but really just responded to this specific question.

  The reason why we want to Update Manager is really just to be able to upgrade easily ESXi in the future without enter in the console and the execution of orders, etc.  I realize the documentation and blogs on this topic that ESXi may need to go into maintenance mode and stop the virtual machines running on it (not a cluster if no migration) how ESXi is lose connection to the Update Manager (if the remote host) or a stop Update Manager (if the local host).  So the question is, is that the process of updating managed by Update Manager an atomic operation at that crucial moment or a sequence of operations depend on continuous connectivity and control of Update Manager.  Ddoes ESXi, then perform the upgrade and restart regardless - that would be great - or he'll just stand there in maintenance mode to learn more about disconnected now / stop Manager update pending.

  Your answers are greatly appreciated.

  Please, tell me if I understand you:

  Ask yourself if you can upgrade the host running Update Manager VM? And you cannot migrate the virtual to another host machine because there is no cluster in place and no shared storage?

  If your answer is YES to both questions, I can tell you that you cannot use Update Manager, since you must put your host in Maintenance Mode and therefore you will need to stop all virtual machines running, including the VM Manager Update.

• ESXi host goes to the State and the virtual machine does not restart on other host does not

  Hi all

  I'm looking for a solution, in which case the host goes to the State and the virtual machine on it does not restart on a different host (they'll just gray) does not not what could be the problem here and how to fix it

  later when the failed host returns upward machines either go to motor off the coast of the State, or they show that under tension

  While the host is down or not responding do not I am able to ping the host ESXi (5.5) and able to ping the default gateway and the DNS servers of the host itself

  Yes AF, the answer to all these questions is Yes, it is a HA and DRS cluster active, I tried restarting mgmt service, we use a shared storage (storage iSCSI HP 3PAR and left hand)

• How to win 2012 Server virtual machine with vmware cluster running ESX 5.1 and ESX 4.0

  Hello

  I had cluster running ESX 4.0 host, I upgrade vcenter 5.1 and added a new host running 5.1

  When I try to create a new virtual machine, it does not give me option to choose win Server 2012.

  I tried to disable fail on etc... but not helped.

  Any thought.

  Thank you

  
  

  Got it, I had to choose the vm hardware version 9

• Can I register the Virtual Machine of VMware player esxi 4 4.1?

  Hi all

  There are a few virtual machines running in VMware player version 4, now I need to migrate on ESXi 4.1...

  It's Possible he just copy and past the files of virtual machines running in vmware player in the data store then register the same in the esxi server and power on... This will not work?

  because I do not V2V method...

  With respect,

  Pascale Vimal

  You run the virtual machine on HW 8, that you will not be able to simply move the ESXi machine.

  The only supported option is to do a conversion on reviews of downgrade the material relating to immigration to vSphere

• How can I change the names of directory of virtual machine in VMWare ESXi data storage?

  I've always used host names, but I have changed several times, since the structure is bigger and I now 25 virtual machines. I started renaming to v, s, w - and then their hostname.

  For now, the data store directory is a real mess without the new structure and it bothers me. Is it possible to rename directories? Perhaps using vcenter? I would like to see a beautiful tree as: DWT-win2003, centos5 tpl, tpl-debian6, s-server01, server02-s, w-exchange01, w-mssql01, just as I renamed it to VMS. I tried the migration option, but it only allows for migration between host data warehouses and not to rename the directory that hosts the virtual machine.

  How can I change the my data store directory structure? I have considered changing the paths and edit vmx files to correct the paths, and then add servers to be inventoried. But I don't really know if this can be done without penalty or if there is a better solution.

  the easiest way, continuously needs storage vMotion of the guest.  It renames the folder and the underlying file for the same as the name of object of vCenter. If you don't have much storage vMotion, then turn off the prompt and do a cold migration.