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• Deletes a virtual machine of vCenter possible?

  Hi all.

  We used to be a Horizon view manual pool composed of virtual machines
  from vCenter server. In a single operation for removal of VM in view, we

  wrong selected pool and confirmed the deletion. The

  operation put merrily and when we realized the error, we

  find vsphere client that all VMs funds (a lot of them

  were running) in the manual pool view both were removed from the inventory

  and from the disc in vCenter server.

  This offends and confuses us. It is commonly accepted that it is
  Cannot delete a virtual machine running of vCenter: vSphere client no
  won't give you a possibility to do so, and doing so in a CROWD ends by default.
  But the view above disaster might suggest otherwise.

  I have two questions:
  1. is it possible to delete a virtual machine running of vCenter?
  2. If so, how to prevent in vCenter?
  3. (somewhat off topic) is it possible to come up with any hacking or

  This makes it impossible to remove vm disk Office while being

  able to manipulate the view of the pool? We prefer to rather in vCenter.

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  The mistake that we made to remove all the Horizon view desktop VMs:
  1. login to VMware view Horizon administrator.
  2. based on the inventory, select the pool.
  3. in the view of the pool, select the tab "inventory."
  4. Select and right click on a desktop PC, select 'delete pool... '. »
  5. confirm the deletion.

  Software used:
  vCenter Server: 5.5.0, 1945274
  View of the horizon: 5.3.1 generation-1634134

  Kind regards
  Nathalie Sun

  Post edited by: sunrenjie6

  Hello Sun Nathalie,

  Finally, I was able to create your question on my test bench, but as I said earlier, it is not possible to remove a power on the virtual machine, which was true. When I deleted the pool which consists of power on VM, I saw in the VC that VM were power off first and delete.

  I also talk to the team from the horizon and they said that this device is designed this way to support several other features. To save accidental deletion of the s VM that they introduced the warning message.

  Sorry for your loss.

  Thank you

  DJ

• Import virtual machines from vCenter to vCAC 6.0.1 failed

  Hello everyone.

  I'm trying to import existing virtual machines to vCenter 5.5 vCAC 6.0.1 with the organizing Infrastructure option but I got an error that says: Source VRM Agent. Instance name: Server IaaS. Username: vCAC user admin. Message: error while processing [RegisterVM], details of the error: value cannot be null. Parameter name: the name of the virtual machine has not been specified.

  And verification of the server log, all parameters have the correct data, except name = "VirtualMachine.Admin.Name". This one is empty. And the following line in the newspaper wrote:

  Message = [value cannot be null. [Name of the parameter: the name of the virtual machine has not been specified.]

  Everyone?. The solution works fine, I can deploy machines, their administration, destroy, etc..  I have only two users now, vcacserv (vCAC tenant admin, admin of fabric, all admin) and mrocebal (my user, user role only). The same error if I select any user as the owner of the machine.

  I have a user called vmadmin, who is admin vCenter.

  Thank you in advance.

  Hello everyone.

  Updated this thread and close it, let me tell you what happened.

  I opened a ticket with support Services and they told me that there is a problem with the development of the application. They increased the ticket with the Department of development in India. It has been 2 weeks later. We decided internally to install the 6.1.1 version and that solved our problem.

  Hope help you all.

  Miguel Romero.

  Mexico.

• Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Hi all

  My question is quite simple:

  -Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Let's say we have two data centers:

  vcenter1

  -vm1

  -vm2

  vcenter2

  -vm3

  Is it possible to migrate vms between vcenter2 and vcenter1 programmatically? (or vice versa)?

  Also, I'm assuming that the appropriate VLAN and data warehouses across the different vcenters!

  Thank you

  Luis

  It is not possible, vMotion or migration live is in an instance of vCenter, it cannot be covered through two even if you have the data store accessible both vCenters and sets of the host. At best, you can unregister the virtual machine of vCenter 1 host and re-save as on vCenter 2 host, but once again, it is while the virtual machine is turned off.

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• Moving the virtual machine containing vCenter to another host ESXI

  I am currently learning/building my first setup of virtualization. I made the mistake of letting the size of the block of the data warehouses to 1 MB. Now, I need to rebuild one of my stores of data.

  I could use vcenter for all my other VMS out migrate to another server esxi. I do not know how to move the VM vCenter, because he must be stopped to be moved, but I need to use the tool of migration/converter to move, which seems quite accessible from within the virtual machine.

  Any ideas?

  Stop vcenter Server and unregister (remove the inventory) of the inventory of the ESXi host. Then use example of Veeam FastSCP to copy some files/folder of the virtual machine to the other hosts data store and register the virtual machine to the inventory of the ESXi host by right-clicking the file vmx (add to the inventory). Make sure that there are no snapshots on the server vCenter Server!

  André

• Check if all tasks are running against a virtual machine in vCenter?

  I need to write some powercli to see if a virtual machine is being switched, vmotioned or possibly another operation.  How can I check if a task is running on the VM specified in vCenter?

  I know how to get the tasks running in vCenter:

  $task = get-task-status Running

  But how to determine what the target is tasks?

  Try something like this

  Get-job | where {$_.} {ObjectId-match ' ^ VirtualMachine'} |

  Select StartTime,State,@{N='VM'; E = {Get-View-Id $_.} ObjectId-the property name. {{Select - ExpandProperty name}}, Description

• vcenter feature will work properly if my virtual machine to vcenter fail?

  Hello

  1 if my vcenter server machine was stopped or failed and in this time if my esxi host does not HA will or not?

  2 - if a month my judgment of the vcenter server or not will work work vcenter features such as HA and drs and...?

  Best regards

  Yes, if vCenter descends from VMware HA master node will take care to restart virtual machines from the host failed to other hosts that are running.

  DRS will not work if the vCenter server is not available.

  If you keep your vCenter down for a month, then that certainly creates questions about virtual infrastructure management.

  See this URL for the list of features that works and that will not work if vCenter isn't available.

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/wp-content/uploads/VC.PDF

  What happens if my VirtualCenter server goes down? -Yellow brick

  vCenter is low - impact VMware infrastructure. | Settlersoman - a colon in the world SDDC.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

• 2 network K1 but only 4 GPU cards appear with nvidia-smi and no share option of PCI device to add virtual machine hardware

  We run Dell R720 servers with 2 cards NETWORK K1, ESXi 6.0 Update 1 b and that you have installed the NVIDIA drivers vGPU-vGPU-Kepler - 352 VMware_ESXi_6.0_Host_Driver, 70 - 1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 NVIDIA VMwareAccepted 2016-01-29.

  Why only 4 GPU appear not when I run the NVidia-smi command?

  Why don't I see "Shared PCI Device" when I change the settings of the virtual machine in vSphere?

  Screenshots below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  

  NVIDIA-smi

  Thu Jan 28 22:40:50 2016

  +------------------------------------------------------+

  | NVIDIA-SMI 352.70 driver version: 352.70.

  |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  | GPU name persistence-M | Bus - Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

  | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage / Cap |         The memory usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

  |===============================+======================+======================|

  |   0 GRID K1 on | Off 0000:06:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 36 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   K1 GRID 1 on | Off 0000:07:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | N/A 37 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   GRID 2 K1 on | Off 0000:08:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 31 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   GRID 3 K1 on | Off 0000:09:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 33 P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  | Process: GPU memory.

  |  The name of Type PID GPU use process |

  |=============================================================================|

  |  No common process found |

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  After the removal and reinstallation of the vib a few times it displays all the 8 GPU - there are 2 installed with 4 GPU cards each.

  Also, when I upgraded the hardware in the virtual computer to version 11 I could choose the "Shared PCI Device" and add the K1 GRID of NVIDIA.

  Thanks for the reply.

• Dummy data (txt file) in a virtual machine (ESxi, vCenter 5.1 5.1)

  I created a dummy text file by using the command fsutil file createnew test.txt 1000000000 in my Windows VM, with prov space 500 GB. After I run this command, I do not see that the virtual machine has filled with 485 GB of data. But in vCenter space used is still the Prov. as 20 GB space that is taken by the guest operating system. No idea why its not reflected with the VMDK. Checked the datatstore (in navigating the VMDK) is not reflcted. Has also had the same problem with LInux VM. It was conducted to make a larger VM to run some tests. Any response is appreciated.

  Thank you.

  The createnew option you use "Creates a file name and size, with content that is composed of zeros."

  With a thin virtual disk put in service, blocks of data but which are composed of binary zeros are not actually allocated, only a NULL pointer is created which - if the data are read re - returns binary zeros again. If you want to allocate disk space on the data store (i.e. cultivating the hard file) you need to write values non-null. For Linux, you can for example use the shred command.

  André

• vCAC 6.0: failed to add Virtual Machine to inventory

  Hello

  Some problems with my infrastructure. In computing resources, I can't retrieve my virtual machine hosted on my vCenter in order to create a new action plan.

  I tried to import with the organizer of the Infrastructure, but my VM is not detected. Try to restart the collection of data on the computing resources, same problem. Try to stop/start the collection of data... again and again

  VCAC Journal, I have:

  Machine virtual "W2K8R2' has been updated after the start time of the inventory data collection. The update is ignored.

  "W2K8R2" is a virtual machine with a snapshot, I want to use with the linked clone mode...

  With model VM without problem, I can import and create a plan of action associated with clone mode...

  With snapshot in VM, a huge problem... He has worked well with vCAC 5.2...

  Problem solved, I had two objects with the same name in the inventory vCenter (1 VM and 1 model with the same name).

• Add virtual machines to a data store while changing the name?

  I am trying to create a virtual machine in standby (or more, I do not have a final number) in a second datacenter.  The goal is to have a copy of a group of virtual machines updated once a week as a relief.

  I'll use our SAN replication to keep them up-to-date, so once a week, I stop all virtual machines in the data store, remove them from the inventory and remove the data store.  Then on the side of SAN, I'll create a new copy of the data store, then add this data store to vSphere.  We will do a few rounds of network to ensure we have not any change in the network that should be taken in the virtual machine.

  The only changes to the virtual machine that needs to be done, are changing the vSwitch is logged in, that I understood, and to rename the virtual machine, either before being added, or when it is added.  Since it is a copy of a virtual machine running, I'm not able to add all virtual machines to the new data store.  I need either change the name of the virtual machine before being added, or when it is added.  All I have to do to change the name is add something like - backup at the end of the name of the virtual machine.

  Is it reasonably simple way to do this?  It seems that he was promised that we could do that and now I need to find a way to make it work.

  Thank you

  You can search the data for the VMX store you want to register a script like the one you'll find in VMX Raiders revisited.

  To change the name of the virtual machine, you will need to replace the line that contains the New - VM cmdlet with something like this

  $newName = $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath.split('/')[1].Split('.')[0]New-VM -VMFilePath $path -Name ($newName + "-backup") -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder -RunAsync
  

• Locate a virtual machine without vCenter?

  We run ESXi 4.1 with vCenter 4.1.  Our vCenter server as its backend SQL are located on the virtual machines.  Recently, our SQL Server went down vCenter rendered useless.  I rose all return successfully logging into the host of the SQL Server virtual computer with my client vSphere and restart it.  However, without vCenter, I was connecting each host and verification of inventory search of the virtual machine.  Fortunately, we do not have many guests, but y at - it a script or tool I can ues to know about what a particular VM host lies when vCenter isn't available?

  Thank you-

  Al Gaspar

  If you are looking for a particular virtual machine, you can use a script like PowerCLI below

  $hostlist = "esxihost1", "esxihost2", "esihost3".

  $hostlist = Read-Host "enter the name of the virtual machine:

  $hostlist | %{

  $dummy = connect-VIServer-Server $_-username-password

  If (Get-VM-name $vmName - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {}

  Write-Host "VM" $vmName "found on" $defaultViServer - ForegroundColor Green

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  breaking

  }

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  }

• How to recover a virtual machine without vCenter

  Hello

  My setup is that, currently, I have 5 physical host (esxi 4.1) and I'll take backup using vmware datarecovery. my environment works fine. I deploy vcenter as a virtual machine, and also take the backup via VDR applicance. now, I'm a bit confused, if my vm vcenter's crash how to retrieve, as VDR is integrated with vcenter. any solution in this regard?

  Kind regards

  Muhammed Mohsin Khan

  If VC crashes

  Install the VDR plugin on the system you are goping VI client make for guests

  Once the plugin is installed to conenct to the host directly where the VDR unit is in place and functioning, rest are the steps that you normally VC.

  Concerning

• Migrate a virtual machine Fisical VCenter

  Buenas,

  Hello.

  I need to migrate a Vcenter 4.1 running in a virtual machine (with the default installation) to a physical machine.

  I know the process is like this:

  • Stop the Vmware services
  • Open SQL management studio and make a backup a Vmware DB.

  My doubts are:

  Should I install separately located in the Vcenter ISO Sql create a DSN pointing to this SQL instance, create DB, restore it from the backup and installing vcenter, choose this DSN and "keep existing DB" or similar.

  or

  What can I install Vcenter in default mode (then then finish etc. ), automatically install SQL Server, DB, and the DSN; and restore this DB form the backup (in other words, crushing the fresh new DB created automatically)
  

  In the first option, I'm afraid because according to this file official http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf , vmware provides that if you use SQl express (as the default installation), you will have a 5host and 50 VM limit, but I am runnig 6 guests right now without any problem! Any comment on this?

  Another problem is to create the DSN. In data sources, I see that sql server and client installed nativle, but I get a timeout of the connection when I try to set up the system DSN. I have the firewall turned off, etc., but it's like there is a missing configuration... Do I have to install the native client anyway?

  On the second option, I do not know if restoring the backup would be an adequate procedure...

  PS: care of the machine: Win 2008 R1 x 64, Vcenter 4.1.

  Thx a lot.

  Yes it is possible.

• Add Virtual Machine Port Group vSwitch (network and Vlan ID tag) by Script

  Hello

  I want to add a port group of VM for about 200 guests vSwitch. This can be done manually, but if anyone can help me to do it with the help of Powercli. We have guests organized on the basis of clusters.

  Virtual machine port group.

  Tag network:-XYZ

  VLAN ID: XYZ

  Thank you

  Pranab

  You could do something like that

  $clusterName = "cluster"
  $pgName = "test2"
  $vlanId = "1111"
  $vSwName = "vSwitch1"
  
  Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName | Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwName | New-VirtualPortGroup -Name $pgName -VLanId $vlanId
  

  It will add the portgroup to the vSwitch on all hosts in the cluster

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