Addition of storage on server ESXi

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• Addition of storage internal to ESXi host

  Hi all

  I have a Dell server that accepts SATA drives (no RAID configuration).  Currently, I have a 1 TB in this drive and plan on adding a second 1.5 TB drive.  I've never added storage to ESXi and wonder if I should wait no problem.  It is fairly simple to get ESXi to see the new disk and use it as a supplementary data store?

  Thank you

  Additional storage should be detected. Use the vi client and go to the configuration tab select storage and analysis for new storage LUNS. Select the discovered storage. Once added, you should have a new data store.

• Local storage and multiple ESXi hosts

  Hi, I was wondering how vWorkspace manages local storage in an environment with a single server Vcenter and two ESXi, with a local data store each.

  If I store a 'master' (I mean the gold statue) vm on the local storage of an ESXi, can replicate vWorkspace this virtual machine to the local storage of the other ESXi as Citrix VIAB?

  If not, how can I use both my ESXi servers with local storage and maybe provide some sort of HA?

  Am I forced to use a storage shared, if I want to be able to deploy clones related both to my ESXI?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Use vSAN, or no matter what virtual SAN Appliance as an iSCSI SAN storage to prosecute two storage facilities... You can replicate between the two servers and same LUNS are used by vWorkspace.

  • StarWind free iSCSI Solution A
  • OpenFiler
  • vSAN
  • Open-e iSCS SAN

  Quick search... www.unixarena.com/.../Top-10-Storage-appliance.html

• Configuration of Vlan SG300-20 for the desktop and server ESXi

  Hello

  I'm fairly new to network so please, be gentle.  I'm setting up a number of VLANs for my lab at home.

  I recently moved jobs and took an Oracle Apps of the Middleware & role has therefore need to start picking up the Apache, e-Business Suite, etc. of the load balancers so need to segragate my network to allow different configurations, I want to install in my lab ESXi.

  My setup is detailed below:-

  I have a router of dryatek 2860n which is my entry for the installation of the internet on IP 192.168.1.1

  My Cisco switch has been set to 192.168.1.2 and the installer to use the 3 layer.

  I have a number of PCs connected to my switch I want to use to administer my ESXi server and have access to the different VLANS.

  VIRTUAL LANs, I need are the following

  VLAN 1	192.168.1.x/24				By default / Internet Uplink
  VLAN 12	10.0.12.x/24				Workstations
  VLAN 13	10.0.13.x/24				Server management interface
  VLAN 14	10.0.14.x/24				Public Interface Server
  VLAN 15	10.0.15.x/24				Private server interface
  VLAN 20	10.0.20.x/24				Storage

  My esxi server has two network interfaces that will have traffic MGMT, Public and private configured as virtual interfaces in ESXi and one that runs my traffic of storage/nfs mounts on a QNAP NAS, I want to make it work on my network

  Here is how I have the ports

  A Port VLAN membership
  G1	VLAN1
  G13 - 20	VLAN 12		Need to access the VLAN 1, 13, 14, 15, 20
  G9	VLAN 13, 14, 15
  G10	VLAN 20
  G7 - 8	VLAN 20		LAG configured to QNAP NAS

  G13-20 are my workstations that need to be on VLAN 12, but must also be able to connect to 13, 14, 15, 20, SSH, RDP, NFS

  G9 is the Interface of MGMT of ESXi who need to have traffic on VLAN 13, 14, 15

  G10 is ESXi storage Interface that needs to access the VLAN 20 only

  G7/g8 are connect to QNAP that ideally I want to configure as a LAG.   When I get more interfaces in my ESXi Server I'll finally the team to match.

  I set up an ip interface in my CISCO switch to 10.0.12.1 as gateway to my workstations and created a static route in my router to allow traffic to the switch.  This does not quite yet.

  I also installed a default route to 0.0.0.0

  I followed a number of guides, but struggling to get my head around concepts and how to achieve the above configuration.

  Ideally, I want to configure this through the CLI as Ive had no end of problems with the web interface of the Cisco switch.

  I believe need g9 of trunk, and other ACCESS is it exact.

  How the workstatations to access the other VLAN?

  Any help would be appreciated

  Thank you

  Paul

  Hi Paul, to break it down a little.

  Host A connects to port 13.

  config t

  int gi0/13

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan 12

  ESXI connects to port 9

  config t

  int gi0/9

  switchport mode trunk

  switchport trunk allowed vlan add 13-15 (keep in mind this vlan 1 is unmarked here and is the IP of your server interface)

  This translates

  ESXI = 192.168.1.x 24 gateway 192.168.1.2

  interface vlan 1

  IP 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0

  no ip address dhcp

  Host A = 10.0.12.x 24 10.0.12.1

  interface vlan 12

  name of the workstations

  10.0.12.1 IP address 255.255.255.0

  With this basic host configuration at shall communicate to ESXI (no other config on the switch)

  If please try to get the connectivity of base first, then can work on the roads and DHCP.

  -Tom
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• Update Server esxi

  Hi all, I'm new to vmware.

  I can see most of my esxi hosts are version 5.5 and few are with version 5.1.

  How update 5.1 to 5.5.

  I need to put in the mode of maintenance, and after that please guide me. If I put in maintenance mode the esxi host is removed from the cluster.

  Screenshots would be appreciated.

  2. I am using HP Proliant Servers. one of my server esxi does not support version 5.5 until I update its firmware. With the help of HP ILO I put firmware update, but I have to put in maintenance mode when I update the firmware on the server

  Hello

  1. download the required ESXi image.

  2. Select the host required in the vCenter > Update Manager

  3. click on view images Admin and click on ESXi

  4 import image ESXi and navigate to the directory where is this image > download

  5. the wizard asks you to provide a database name, to give a base name (for example, host_upgrade)

  6. go back to the view of compliance and enter the host in maintenance mode. If the host is in maintenance mode, no VM must reside on it. The host be removed from the cluster when it is in maintenance mode.

  7. click on join, and then select only this base line created containing 5.5 ESXi ISO

  8. click on Scan, compliance status must come as non-compliant. If she starts as incompatible then restart this ESXi host and perform the analysis again

  9. click on take and give a name to the task and keep the default values and complete the upgrade.

  Two things here:

  You must ensure that your ESXi 5.5 is supported on the hardware. You can use Vmware Hardware Compatibility List to verify that

  VMware.com/go/HCl

  Once the hardware is compatible for ESXi 5.5, then you can proceed to the update above.

  In addition, you must put the host in maintenance during the firmware update mode.

  Suhas

• Specialization on a new server ESXi 5

  I want to set up a new server ESXI 5.x for a customer and would like to clarify certain points, if you will allow me.

  1 ESXI 5.x supports up to 32 GB of RAM, correct?

  2. If I have a server with a processor image, I, from point of view of the ESXI, four CPU available is to allocate to the virtual methods, correct? And two quad-cores I'd have 8 CPU is to allocate to virtual methods?

  With ESXI 4.1 I found work two logics CPU very well support a CPU heavily used on a new HP Server as long as my other virtual methods are virtual demand as storage of data or Symantec Antivirus servers servers, etc..

  3. I asked earlier but it's not kosher to overallocate computer CPU? If I have a Quad Core processor and assign 8 Virtual CPU I overuse. Is it always a bad thing with 5.x?

  Thank you very much for the friendly help continues I go out here.

  Mike Gallery

  The backup, you can certainly manually save or use in comments like Windows backup backup. I just wanted to talk because many people don't think that.

  Regarding commissioning, it depends on the workload as I've mentioned before and also depends on how to configure the virtual machines. If you have a 4 core CPU and configure the virtual machines with 4 vCPUs you may soon face questions. However, if you configure the VM with 1 vCPU (or maybe two for individual virtual machines), it would be possible to run 10 virtual machines or more without problems. Everything that you, remember that the host must also some resources.

  André

• Transfer of virtual machines from a server ESXi 3.5 to new ESXi 4.1 server. What is the procedure.

  I read on how to transfer a virtual machine from one server to another using VMotion. Not 100% clear on the process again. What I see or read is when you do this since an ESXi 3.5 Server ESXi 4.1 server, I do not see any information on, if possible. In addition, I have not read if I need to convert or upgrade the virtual machine until I use it on the new server. So, my question is, are there any special instructions, conversion tools to convert a VM created 3.5 to use on the new Server 4.1? Is there a detailed procedure that I have not yet found or read best describes this process. Like I said up to now I'm not 100% clear on the procedure. Thank you.

  ESX 3.5 VMs can run without modification on a host ESXi 4.1 - VMotion between the two hosts, you will stiil need to ensure CPU compatibility between the hosts.

  Maybe it's the best guid for upfrading to vSphere - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf

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• How to connect to the server ESXI vSphere Client side WAN?

  How to connect to the server ESXI vSphere Client side WAN?

  through firewall

  I tried to open the ports 902 903, 443... and so on...

  and I tried several sites to find the solution but...

  nothing works...

  connectivity works on local network

  Help, please...

  Source Destination Port

  ESXI 443/TCP client

  ESXi 902/TCP client

  ESXi 902/TCP Client

  ESXi 902/UDP Client

  ESXi 903/TCP client

  Edit: Also check if the firewall ESXi all IP addresses are allowed to connect:

  Example:

  See attachment...

• vCenter Converter Windows 2003 Server ESXi VM keeps failing

  I'm trying to convert a Windows 2003 server to a virtual machine on a server ESXi. I use the option of VMware Infrastructure. My Server works well, and the authentication is successful. However, 1% it still fails with the error:

  FAILED: A general error occurred: server closed connection after 0 bytes of response read. < io_obj p:0x03f32124, h:

  804, < tube "\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap" >, < pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap' > >

  Also, here is the log file

  Help out me?

  I had done. It seems that if you have any software running on a computer backup, it is best to remove or disable. I also cleaned the registry with ccleaner. After all this, the converter has exported the disc in a VM ESXi without problem.

• Add a new table to the server ESXi 4.1

  Hello

  I try to add a new table on a server ESXi 4.1.0. Is it possible to build the table and add it without restarting the host? The server is an HP ML350 G5. I installed ESXi 4.1 on a hard drive, but I did not install HP driver packages. Is there something I could install from ESXi that would give me the features of configuration of the berries, etc. ?

  Thanks for any help,

  Stem

  Although it is possible (but unsupported) to install tools RIAD on ESXi (see VMware experience before: how to run the CLI of the ACU online HP for Linux in ESXi 4.x) you might have to restart the host still. Reading messages earlier, it would be also better to add the new table by using the ACU (Array Configuration Utility) rather than the ORCA (Option ROM Configuration for arrays). Of these posts, it looks like ORCA could possibly reorganize RAID sets, resulting in a non bootable host.

  André

• Single server ESXi on CPU with &gt; 6 hearts

  Hello

  As far I understand count max core for server ESXi (free edition) is 6. What happens if I install it on a box of HP DL385G7 with an AMD 6136 (8 cores) CPU? The installation will fail, or only 6 of the 8 cores will address work? The box is listed in the HCL. With the new range of G7 HP servers, it isn't an AMD based DL385 server processor that uses a processor with a basic under 8 account.

  Thank you!

  Julian.

  > I don't think County processor or core are limited to free ESXi.

  CPU do not count, but free ESXi is still limited to 6 hearts. It will work on 8 or 12 core processors, but use only 6 on each physical processor. 12 cores are only available for Advanced and Enterprise Plus.

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• Need to remove a server ESXi

  I have a test server ESXi who accompanies me through and want to install top W2K3. What can I install on W2K3 on ESXi or I have ESXi delete\remove first?

  Delete all partitions with windows install and create one for NTFS. Of course, this will destroy all the ESX information you had on the machine.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

  Technical Support Engineer

  Globant Argentina

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• 2 Server ESXI and 1 storage

  Hello

  I have ESXi Server (HP) 2 and 1 storage (promise VTrackE610F). Is it possible to put the two server on a single storage and a partition? ESXi should be used on storage.

  Do I have to follow some important and necessary steps? Does anyone have experience in it?

  Hello

  As has already been said the best to do is install ESX in the internal disks of each server and then sharing a logic unit between the 2 servers number, just formats the data store in a server and do a new analysis on the other node.

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• USB or HDD space for new server ESXi 5.5 updated 3 current enforcement?

  Hello

  We get a new DELL server to run ESXi 5.5 update 3.

  Just find out there is an embedded version of ESXi 5.5 update 3 on a USB is connected.

  We would like to know what meaning it is best to run ESXi - USB or Local HARD disk?  I think that if she runs on the Local HARD disk, we can remote access via DRAC card.   In addition, we do not use any local HD (i.e. no VSAN) and so there is no loss if VMware runs on the HD.

  Your opinion is requested.

  
  Thank you

  Hello.

  With ESXi on USB/SD is supported by VMware, so no problem here. Remember that if you use these devices, you'd probably set the partition scratching at some storage 'persistent '. I personally use one of the data stores for all guests, I have it in one place.

  I don't understand why you assuming that through a port USB as a boot device will not provide access to DCUI via the DRAC? Boot device has no importance here...

  So, to answer your question: you

• NAS Server esxi local?

  Hi all

  I'm kinda new to ESXi, even if I'm running a server with it for a little over a year now. I use a HP Proliant ML350 G6 with a P410i raid (on-board) controller. I'm running a VM Windows Server 2012 R2 I want to use as an IIS server, but also as a file server. For a starter, I had 2 1 TB sata discs I have work in raid 1 (for storage) and 2 300 GB scsi drives in raid 1 (for the OS). When I go into the VM options, I click on add a device and under hard drive I see raw device mapping, but it is grayed out.

  I heard that it's a bad idea to use vmdk for storing files (discs virtal) because it may be corrupted on the 2 discs. I was wondering if there is a way to ungray raw device mapping and map of the Bay of Windows server VM 1 TB HARD drive? I heard I could buy a NAS box and plug it in, but I don't want to waste money if I can do this directly from the ESXi.

  Thank you very much!

  > because it may be corrupted on the 2 discs.

  Who said this? Both disks are presented to the ESXi hosts as a single logical volume, and the RAID1 is maintained by the controller P410.

  I see no reason why you should not create a VMFS data store and use a virtual drive for the file server. Don't forget to leave a free space on the disk on the data store if you want to use snapshots or change the settings of the virtual drive to "independent" persistent in order to exclude the virtual disk snapshots.

  BTW. local disks and volumes are not supported in the ROW, so they are filtered by default.

  André