Add production ESX hosts to a cluster

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• Delete an ESX host in a cluster...

  VMware dear Experts

  Please help me I have a cluster (HA/DRS disabled) 2 esx host are members of the same, by mistake I haved added esx bad one in a cluster host. I want to remove the same. is there a way I can do the same thing without any downtime.

  NEED URGENT HELP...

  concerning

  MrVMware.

  Of course, you can do this without Maintenance Mode:

  -Click right host--> disconnect

  -Click right host--> delete

  -Add the host to the cluster

  Furthermore, if you did a search you would have found this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/210959

• How to add an ESX host licensed to vCenter (vShpere4.1)

  Currently licensed for: 3 guests (Advanced vShpere 4)

  Ok.. so, I have vCenter upwards and in the course of execution, have created my 'cluster' with two hosts. I have an ESX host 3rd I was using mode "assessment" within 60 days.

  This 60-day period was close that expires so I moved and the 3rd license added to this 3rd host.

  I would now like to bring this host to vCenter, for my 'sandbox network' and not actually add it to the 'cluster' so that I can run everything a customer.

  Now, it is said that I am unable to bring this host to vCenter, as it says that I don't have a license.

  So, how can I go on the withdrawal of the license, or get this host (already licensed) in vCenter?

  Or do I have to start from scratch and reload this bare metal esx host to return to Mode Eval?

  Since it's vShpere, there is "No license server" by not telling.

  Licensing vCenter says that 'two' licenses during the third host is the 3rd license already.

  Any help appreciated.

  By the way... I have searched for hours on forums, web sites, etc., with no clear solution.

  Thank you

  Howard

  Interesting,.

  of your screen grabs, it definitel; appears as if you have only 2 licenses - as stated above, however, if your license covers only 6 processors, you could have used the additional licenses on them.

  It is really worth to check that, and if it is not the case, get your hands on VMware and ask why the additional licesnse does not appear in your portal.

• Is it possible to add an ESX host less CPU

  Hello

  Currently in my farm, I have four Dell R900 ESX host. They have (4) Quad Core Procs and 128 GB of memory. Can I add an additional R900 server that does that (2) Quad Core Procs? I will strengthen the memory based on the existing, but processors are simply too expensive. HA and DRS will manage the differences in the number of procs?

  It is a statement of official support for the use of the CPUID of the forest SSSE3 mask.  Setting this bit can hide the SSSE3 instructions, allowing you to vmotion vm from a server on the 'A' list to a list of 'B', but is not supported by VMware.  While masking is generally safe, the process only "occult" bits for applications that use the CPUID instruction to generate a list of features that a processor is capable of.  If an application does not CPUID use to verify functionality and use them in any case, then you have a problem, that's why this mask is not supported.  Hope that makes sense.

  -KjB

• Maximum cluster is eight ESX host?

  I just built a demo in our test lab, and everyone thinks it's the best thing they've ever seen. So far so good. Now I need to move to the production very quickly, and I have a problem. In a few months, we head to a new data center. Due to the increase in the demand for virtual machines, we intend to build the new cluster VI 3.5 with new hosts. But all show them documents claims that the maximum cluster size is 8 guests. Why?

  Normally, I would trust the documentation. But this just limit seems weird to me, so I ask: can I really have only eight ESX host in a cluster that is running the view? Is there a way to bypass this limit? I know that I can do everything simply multiple clusters, but I would really like to avoid this.

  That is right. There is a limitation of 8 hosts per cluster due to a limitation of VMFS.

  Blog:

  http://Communities.VMware.com/blogs/Dommermuth | http://www.thatsmyview.NET/

• Add vcenter - I see all esx hosts too?

  Hello!

  I added our vcenter at VMAs, but when I do a 'vifp' mailing lists I see only the vcenter. Should I see all the ESX servers managed by the vcenter too or have to manually add all ESX host?

  You must add'em manually, or search for scipt to do.

  StarWind Software R & D

• Disconnected ESX host cannot add to the CR

  It started with me being unable to power on a virtual machine that I created because of "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for HA" which is great because that's how to configure HA.  I tried to reconfigure the AP to the host by double-clicking on the host and select this option.  Once I did that it failed about 30% with "an error has occurred while setting up the HA Agent on the host" and the networking page disappeared from the configuration tab similar to what a lot of people reported during the upgrade, I think an earlier version.  This is not the case, I did not update anything.  Then I restarted service service mgmt-vmware restart and the ESX host disconnected from the VC altogether.  I can't use the VI client to connect to the host in question, but I am connected via the service console. All VM and the host not to requests ping and everything works. I've disabled HA and DRS and tried to add new ESX host that has not worked.

  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

  I found this article that has the same symptoms as you.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004451

  Check if your esx.conf file is corrupted. Follow the directions in the KB article to restore or recreate.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• The best way to solve this problem (internal vCenter, ESX host external)

  The issue is that we have our virtual Center and our production ESX hosts on our internal network. We have another site of emergency in a remote network, but welcomed a public address with a firewall in front of her.  When I add the host of my vCenter she adds in fact very well and works for 1 minute, then disconnects. This is because the heartbeat may not respond to the virtual Center.  The emergency server will be 3 VMS host, 1 e-mail box, 1 website and 1 backup domain controller.  I only know the basics of networking, so I don't know what would be the best idea of tests.

  I will apply to network engineers after that I know that would work well.

  I should create a nat device for the server vCenter and which will resolve the heart beat question

  I should have a set up reverse proxy, then change the esx host and change the internal address of the vCenter to the public address with proxy reverse?

  Should I make the address pool which esx host has (about 10 external and public addresses) available to route between our internal VLAN?

  Y at - it a sugguestion different with a better description would you recommend to solve this problem and better my future goals with the 3 virtual machines, that I intend to host on this server.

  Any advice is welcome.

  Thank you

  Is it possible to Site 2 Site VPN? If Yes, then it would be much less complicated. Put ESX in DMZ with public IPs is not a good idea in terms of security.

  iDLE-jAM | SC 2, SC 3 & VCP 4

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• Virtual ESX host?

  First of all I must appologise, I tried searching, but my browser gives me a 404 error whenever I press the search.  So if a topic of this nature already exists, please let me know.

  Now to the question.

  I'm looking using Vizioncore vReplicator software, recommends that you have your disaster recovery ESX hosts in a separate group.  Ultimately, this means that your ESX hosts in this cluster will be doing nothing but waiting for a situation of DR.

  Is it not possible to install ESX and then create 2 new virtual machines:

  (1) a production ESX host

  Host 2) A DR ESX

  This way, just host would not be "wasted material" as production VM would BE able to help the production cluster workload, while DR VM would practically nothing (no pun intended hahah)... in a DR situation, the prod THAT VM would eventually not having any VMs to manage (because it would be likely that my just blown SAN) and DR site (with SAN backup) then resume the treatment.

  Any thoughts?  Can I install VMware ESX as a virtual machine in ESX?

  No you can not install ESX in the virtual machine under ESX, but you can under my computer - but ESX running in a virtual environment is not the way forward for DR performance would be catastrophic during a power outage in my humble OPINION

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• Maybe to lock a virtual computer to a host in a cluster?

  Hello!

  We have a virtual machine that will require a special material (to test it). We step only HW in an ESX host in our cluster. Is it possible to lock the only VM in this specific host?

  Concerning

  H

  With vSphere 4.1 DRS host-affinity has been added (see http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Whats-New-vSphere41-HA.pdf), you can set a 'must' rule to ensure that the virtual machine only works on a specific host.

  André

• Two vCenters and mobile from one to another ESX host

  I have an existing vSphere environment where all virtual machines on the local drive. This environment is managed by a physical vCenter Server.

  I've built a WHOLE new environment with three hosts and each has 4 Sockets, 6 hearts with 128 GB of each host. I also created a new vCenter Server and it is a virtual machine. All are connected to the iSCSI SAN.

  I know that the ESX hosts can be managed by a vCenter server at a time. Now, I want to add old esx hosts that have virtual machines on a local drive to the new environment that is connected to a shared storage. When I try to add a host on the new vcenter server, I get a message saying that the host is already managed by the old server vcenter and if I add it to the news that it disconnects. Which is the best way to do it, or should I disconnect hosts from the old server vcenter first?

  Also how I will move the virtual machines on the local disk to the San. I have company over 4.1.

  Thank you!

  I unplug and remove the host from the old environment and then add the host in the new.  This will allow your guests to continue to operate.  Once you have hosts in the new environment, you can use sVMotion (right click to migrate, move the datastore) to move your guests to a shared storage.

• Script to retrieve logs ESX host

  We have a situation where you have to pull up to some log files from each ESX host in a cluster to send...

  log files such as esx.conf, and/proc/scsi/ql/ all zipped... for each individual hosts

  is there a way that this can be done through the ttookit?

  There are currently, as far as I know, no cmdlets in the VITK that allow you to access the local file system of the ESX COS.

  But with the plink.exe and sudo command you can get something that comes close.

  $User = 
  $Pswd = 
  $Computer = 
  $plink = "\plink.exe"
  $plinkoptions = " -v -batch -pw $Pswd"
  $cmd1 = 'sudo -u root cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf'
  
  $remoteCommand = '"' + $cmd1 + '"'
  $command = $plink + " " + $plinkoptions + " " + $User + "@" + $computer + " " + $remoteCommand
  
  $msg = Invoke-Expression -command $command
  $msg | Set-Content "C:\Temp\esx.conf"
  

  In this script, see the esx.conf file and the output is captured and stored in a file on the local file system.

  For the sudo configuration, see my notes in allowing AD authentication

• Add new ESX Server Cluster

  Just a quick question, I installed ESX 3.5 on a new server X 4200 and you want to add the new node to the cluster in our production environment.

  Is it just a case of click with the right button on the cluster Server VIrtual Center and selecting "add host" and then passing by the guests of the wizard? I've never done this before, but it seems that it is very simple.

  Am I missing something and I need to know?

  Thank you

  If you have your new esx Server in the inventory just drag and drop it to your cluster. If you do not add the esx server to your inventory list you can right click on the cluster and just add the esx server there.

  If you want to set this for VCA ESX Server you must disable all the virtual machine on the ESX Server. otherwise, you can add the ESX with virtual machines for your cluster.

  Thank you

  Ernest

• Cannot add the ESX 6.0 host to vCenter Server 6.0

  OK, I'm testing laboratory a vsan 6.0 cluster.

  I have my running 6.0.0 esx hosts and vcenter server is 6.0.0 also.

  I have the services platform on a virtual machine and vcenter on another. I was able to create a data center, then a cluster below.

  Then I went to try to add a host to my group and I get this error...

  Failed to contact the specified host (hostname\IP). The host may not be available on the network, may have a network configuration problem, or that the management on this host services may not respond.

  
  

  Per this KB: KB VMware: Add a host VMware ESXi/ESX from VMware vCenter Server fails

  
  

  I confirmed that my vcenter server and platform services server can see all esx hosts. From the vcenter server, it can ping the host esx and PuTTY can access all of them. I even installed the client and it can connect to all esx hosts. I used the netbios name, IP and FULL domain name and they all work.

  I have only a single subnet, so this isn't a problem. DNS resolution works in all areas of both sides, vcenter esx hosts and host esx to vcenter.

  
  

  I am quite puzzled.
  

  
  

  
  

  OK, after working with VMware on this issue, I think that I thought about it.

  All my hosts are DL360 G6 servers.

  My hosts are run the same build «VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-HP-600.9.2.38-Mar2015.iso» ESX Downloaded from HP.

  All buildings are in trial mode.

  After placing a call to VMware, they had me build some ESX VM, the services of the platform and the vcenter VM on an ESX host. We suspended because it took all day to go upward.

  Once I woke up all the parts (sql server, esx vm, server platform & vcenter) in virtualization nested, I created my data center, then Cluster then added the ESX host.

  The hosts added properly, no error. Then I remembered when I installed ESX inside a virtual machine, I am angry that the iso, I had the habit of HP does not work in my VM nested due to virtualized hardware.

  Then a fire came into my head. We will rebuild all of the physical cluster but NOT use the CV provided the iso file but use VMware provided iso file "VMware-VMvisor-Installer - 6.0.0 - 2159203.x86_64.iso".

  I did it today. I have rebuilt all hosts with the provided iso file VMware ESX...

  Spun SQL Server vCenter, service platform, all VM VM VM you need. My AD & DNS VM are on another server, so he has been upwards all the time.

  Connected to the web interface (yuck!).

  Created my data center...

  Created my Cluster...

  Add all my Cluster hosts.

  All of this worked!

  Therefore, if you encounter the same problem, I'm plan to generate your with the provided iso file VMware ESX hosts and try it. In my case, the provided HP iso file didn't work properly for me.

  I also downloaded the iso file of HP 2 other times to make sure and do a validation test and it did the same thing.

• Add hosts to new cluster HA - downtime?

  Running two ESX hosts v4 - update1. All VM lived on DAS until recently. Implemented ISCSi SAN and reinstalled all VM shared LUN.

  Verified that both hosts have access to the same Lun, same config network and DNS seems to work fine.

  Create a cluster HA with VM followed active and I'm ready to add my two hosts.

  Can I add my hosts to the HA cluster whithout incur no downtime safely? Installing the agent HA requires a reboot?

  Thank you.

  same answer applies. Adding a new host in a cluster CVS can be done online.