Additional storage allocated to VCenter Server

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• How to change the memory allocated for VCenter server, which is a virtual machine

  I'm trying reclassification of 3.5 to Vsphere 4.1 and I improved VCenter first, making it a virtual machine.  However, when I created the server I did not allocate enough memory for it and I'm getting errors.  How can I allocate more memory for the virtual machine while it is stopped?  I can not allocate more memory, except if it is closed, but with it being the VCenter server if I stopped him so that I can access with the Vi client.  Is there a service console command?  I searched for a few hours and found nothing.

  Thank you!!

  Discover what the vCenter ON WHAT VM ESX host is marked (e), connect directly to the ESX host and find the vCenter VM and make the change.

• Update/migration - vCenter Server 5.0 on windows-> vCenter Server Applicance 6.0.0 U2?

  Hello, I'm trying to upgrade vSphere for a customer of 5.0 to 6.0.0 U2. I don't foresee any problems with the upgrade of the host, but I'm having a terrible time to vCenter Server upgraded. SSL problems, inventory Service won't start/db issues, etc. This is a very simple configuration with only two hosts, a DS3524 for the shared storage and a vCenter server running on a windows virtual machine. I am simply considering implementation installation vCenter's existing disposal and replacement with a new device. What, exactly, would I lose, do this? vMotion, HA and DRS is put to the top, but nothing fancy or automated.

  Thanks in advance.

  -arthur

  Because your environment is small, I think that a better option is really build a new vCenter from scratch and then guests are leaving the former vCenter to the new... of course, you will lose all historical data (statistics, task, events) of the old host and you will need to re - create clusters on the new vCenter configurations.

  Here is a KB showing how to move an ESXi to one vCenter to another: VMware KB: move a managed ESX ESXi host to a vCenter Server to a different Server vCenter

• vCenter Server 5 install in a virtual machine or not?

  Hi all.

  We have a health care environment small assisted living with a dozen sites/servers

  A server has 3 VMw4 vms on it.

  We received two new servers ESXi installed 5. They will host several virtual machines of Windows Server for most of the migration of the current VMw4.

  I want to install vCenter Server 5 to manage.

  My book of VMware by Lowe, he mentions that install the vCenter server in a virtual machine has limits.

  It mentions cold migration, cloning and editing material are not available.

  He also mentions the considerations with the help of a distributed virtual switch.

  Ufortunately that he won't go into details.

  But there seems to be benefits such as the backup server and fast food when you use a virtual machine.

  Any thoughts?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  It is one of the common design decision. now VMware recommended is to use a virtual machine.

  some of the benefits you can get are: -.

  The vCenter Server system can be revived in a cluster of high availability of vSphere

  VM resources CPU and memory can be easily resized. The vCenter Server system also benefits from vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster workload balancing.

  You can easily save or create a virtual machine as needed.

  him as a physical Machine will be some disadvantages such as:-

  To ensure availability, you must purchase and use additional software such as vCenter Server Heartbeat or a third-party clustering solution.

  You must properly size the physical machine's resources.

  You must have a separate system and use imaging software to take a snapshot of a physical machine.

• iSCSI storage presented to the hosts managed by different vCenter Server - questions?

  I currently have three hosts (esxi 5.0) that are managed by vcenter server 5.5 U2. The hosts are attached to iSCSI LUNS (data warehouses) 10.

  I'm migrating to esxi 6.0 U2. For this, there are three new hosts have esxi 6.0 installed and managed by vcenter server 6.0 U2 U2.

  The plan is to detach/remove 5.0 5.5 U2 vcenter esxi hosts. Then import it into vcenter 6.0 U2 (a new cluster will be created). Once imported, uninstall the 5.5 vcenter u2. Then turn off the resident VMs imported esxi 5 hosts and move them to 6.0 esxi hosts.

  My query is regarding regarding storage.

  At present, three new guests see all storage the old 5.0 esxi hosts to see (guests are not in the cluster. "I'm still trying to put things up). That's because the new hosts were deposited to the same group on the side iSCSI initiator storage. Now things, data warehouses are visible by the hosts with esxi 5.0 (managed by vcenter 5.5 u2) and also the esxi hosts 6.0 (managed by vcenter 6.0 u2). The only VMs residing in esxi environment 6 is vcenter 6.0 u2 and update manager 6.0 u2. These are in a data store that is not any other virtual machines.

  That's no problem during the migration? I have not created a cluster for the esxi 6.0 hosts yet and plan to do after obtaining your entries.

  Thank you!

  No problem whatsoever, regardless whether if you do or that you add no vSphere 6 hosts in a HA cluster.

  If you temporarily enable EVC on the vSphere hosts 6, once all hosts are connected to the same vCenter you can VMotion all VMs to new hosts even without any stop. Clear CVS once the migration is complete.

• Pass VCenter Server 4.1 local storage a SAN?

  This can be a bit of a lame question but here goes anyway.

  I have a virtual installled VCenter Server 4.1 on the ESX 4.0 host server's local database. We do not have all the features HA or vmotion, just the basics. Due to incompatibility with the new MD3220 iSCSI SAn us just installed, I need to upgrade ESX 4.0 host to ESXi 4.1 which will need a rebuild. I'd like to rebuild the vCenter server if possible.

  We have a server ESXi 4.1 production and (2) iSCSI San. Is it possible for me to move the vCenter server in one of the pools of shared iSCSI San storage and if so, can I I attach to the vCenter from the host ESXi 4.1 existing?

  Or am I the vCenter Server to scrubbing and start over?

  Stop the VM vCenter.

  Then use the vSphere client to connect to the host.

  Remove the vCenter inventory VM.

  Browser data store allows you to move or copy folder vCenter.

  Then re-save again the vmx file.

  Turn on the virtual machine and say I_moved.

  André

• Displacement of vCenter Server Local to SAN storage

  I currently have vCenter server running inside a virtual machine on ESX. Today, I realized that it is on a local storage instead of SAN storage, which means I'm in trouble if this host ever goes down. Has anyone left VC local stroage for before SAN? What is the best way to achieve this? I want to keep on the same host, I want to just move the storage. Any suggestion would be appreciated!

  Thank you!

  Well, your DB is running on the same VM?  See cloning is a feature of vCenter, but if stop you your VM vCenter, you lose the ability to clone. You can probably copy the files using something like WinSCP, but you'd have to power down your instance of vCenter, make a note of which hosts its operation on.  Remove the vCenter VM for local stocks, do not delete yet.  Take the new files you have copied during a shared storage, navigate and do a right-click on the .vmx and add to the inventory, and follow the prompts.  Once your instance comes back online, you can delete the files from local storage.

  Another suggestion would be if DB is separate, create a new instance and point to your existing DB

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/5850444

• Moving vCenter server off local storage to SAN

  I crossed the VIC and connected directly to the ESX host that the vCenter server is alive on and use the move option to move the folder to the SAN.

  Is there anything else I need to do after moving there before turning it back on?

  If you used the data store Navigator to move your vCenter server by the window / CIV of the local esx server.   You must remove the inventory and then add it back while it is saved with the new location.

  If you have found this device or any other useful post please consider the use of buttons useful/correct to award points

• VCenter server virtual installation vs. physical

  Could Hello everyone, you give me advice on how to implement Vcenter server in Vsphere 4.1? Physical or virtual Vcenter server installation? Thanks for your help

  I used vCenter virtualized servers in environments of production for a couple of years now... I did first minus 3.5 and did in 4.0 and 4.1 with no problems at all... Performance of the vCenter Server (in production environments) has never been a problem due to using enterprise grade, powerful host servers storage and put them in place properly (all the environment too)...

  Beyond the benefits already mentioned to go with a vCenter Server virtual (that I've seen in action) I'll second the mention of make it easier to administer all of your environment... The savings are not to be rejected either... Not only can you save by not having no no need to have another Canon of material (even if it's the one you had in hand and simply re - purpose it) you save on power and the breakdown of costs (not a small amount per year on the old boxes)... There is also the added benefit of the higher speeds of communication (VM for VM networks run very fast)...

  With respect to the complexity that it could bring your network... Not really... Unless you are about to run out of IP addresses on your network (which would require either expand your subnet to allow more addresses or add another subnet within your DHCP server) you can just assing the IP address of the virtual machine (really simple) i.e. the vCenter Server... Unless you have hundreds of servers, you should not need to another range of VLAN / subnet for the virtual environment...

  I think you're really too complicate the coast network of things too... Think of it this way... Your host servers are intellectual property will 10.1.1.x, if you place the vCenter Server on the same IP range (a single system more on this beach)... You place your VM on the IP range, they are too (can be the same, may be different) linking the port of Machine Group virtual host NIC to physical switch ports correctly. Depending on your storage/SAN, you plug these host ports to correct physical switch ports...

  Do not plan things for how things are going to interconnects. That being said, it is not a surgery of the brain here... I advise you intend having redundancy at the physical level of switch NIC and host for all connections... As two NIC for the management of the network, x 2 NIC / ports for traffic of the VM port group (depending on the size of the cluster/County of VM, you will need to have enough connections to support the claim), x 2 NIC / ports for SAN connectivity, etc... This is why I generally 8-10 NIC / ports in each host I've implemented (production level hosts)... This includes (in general) the four s Integrated NIC, so adding a pair of dual-port, or a quad (always class Intel server NIC is there), or a combination, to each host.

  If you're having trouble designing the configuration of your network, view information such as the physical switches (and how the ports are configured so divided into several VLAN) for regular traffic and SAN connections, host configurations (include the two how many ports on board and through additional cards), SAN brand/model (and how which many network/controllers there how many ports per controller) etc... See also how you plan to put it all and will help people here making sure what did it right (or even better for the environment, in which it is to enter)... If the network is already installed, works well, and looking just to put more things in place (within the cluster) is something else...

  VMware VCP4

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

• Call 'HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions' of object 'datastoreSystem-281"on vCenter Server"example"failed.

  Dear friends;

  I increase my SAN storage, and I get this error:

  Call 'HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions' of object 'datastoreSystem-281"on vCenter Server"example"failed.

  Is - everyone gets this error?

  Thank you

  Saman Salehi

  I am not sure the MSA2000, but I do not think that it supports a narrowing of a LUN.

  VMware has its own type of partition (VMFS). If you sign such a LUN on a Windows host, it will be will the LUN and change the type of partition that is not what you want to do. In addition to this Windows cannot read a VMFS partition.

  What you could possibly do (I have never myself) is to create a new logic of at least 1.6 to unit number (best 1.8 to), then mount this LUN as LUN resized a Linux host and use "dd" to copy the contents of the disc (the first to 1.8) for the new LUN. After that, you may need to repair the partition table on the new LUN to make it work. However, as I said it's just a good. Maybe someone else has a better idea.

  André

• Adding additional drives to the content server

  I intend to order the model of the device of the TCS (TCS-C220- PROBUN-K9).  But the condition is to have more than 2 TB of Hard drive in this server.  Model of the device comes with 600 GB of hard drive capacity (2 x 600 GB in RAID 1).  I would add 6 slots to over 600 GB hard drives that there are 6 free on the server.  Is this possible.  If so, may I know the part number for the HARD drive.  Thanks in advance.

  Although you are able to do this, it is not a supported Cisco configuration.

  The way to achieve additional storage available for a content server is to store the data on the external NAS.

  Refer to the section Setting Up Media external storage of Executive Guide.

  Wayne
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• How to allocate disk space for vCenter server logs

  Hello

  I plan to level 4.1 to 5.5 U2d vCenter on the customer site. One of the conditions set out in the vSphere upgrade guide is:

  "In vCenter Server 5.x, the default size for vCenter Server connects is larger than in vCenter Server 4.x. make sure that the disk space allocated for the log folder is sufficient for this increase 450MB."

  My question is how to allocate disk space for the log file and where can I find the disk space allotted to file papers to vCenter 4.1 existing?

  Just see the free space on the partition where the vCenter server logs are stored. If it is insufficient, increase the size of the virtual disk and then increase the file system to the guest OS.

• vCenter Server install Question

  Hello fellow professionals of computer science,

  My question is based on 1 single step in installing vCenter. The part of the installation that I have a question about is the destination directories. In this step, it gives you the option to use the default directory or change the directory where the server vCenter Server is installed. Then just below that is the ability to change the directory data for the vCenter Server server are installed too. My question is when he says data do you mean virtual machines? I ask because I have little space to work with the vCenter Server alone. If the data for the vCenter server means computer virtual vhd then I can change that to a SAN that has at least 5-6 to a value space.

  Hello

  The vCenter Server allocates any virtual machine inside the disks.

  This means installation vCenter only data. You point where the virtual machine is preserved when you create a new virtual machine (normally on storage)

• While add ESXi 6 existing hosts, vcenter server 5 std and esxi host 6 cann't add to AD

  Hello

  Greetings. !

  We have seen vCloude 5 Enterprise edition and vCenter Server Standard 5.5

  at the moment all my existing hosts ESXi 5.1 are managing through vCenter Server Standard 5, now recently we buy vCloude 6 Enterprise edition

  (1) I found the following problems all add ESXi 6 hosts (VMware ESXi - 6.0.0 - Update1-3380124- HPE) to AD sales thru of sphere, it is read error.

  

  I have already set up network, DNS, make sure firewall ports, Ping - are all OK.

  (2) Moreover, while trying to create new CD, add the cluster, then add hosts, is giving following error.

  

  I can add new Hosts 06 ESXi Existing vCenter Server 5.5 Standard or I have to buy updated additional license for vcenter server 5 std vcenter 6 standard / enterprise.

  Thanks in advance.

  ESXi 6 cannot be managed by vCenter 5.5 or earlier.

  He needs a same version or higher of vCenter server.

• Is vMotion road data via the server vCenter Server?

  Hello

  I need help to solve a query I have.

  We currently have a vCenter server that manages certain clusters, but also some stand-alone hosts with local storage (not shared). Stand-alone hosts are physically located on remote sites. Some sites have more than one of these stand-alone hosts. We have an obligation to move a VM to a standalone host guest to another independent host on the same remote site.

  As there is no shared storage the VM should be stopped before trying the vMotion.

  The virtual machine in question has a 4 TB thick VMDK accrued that is migrated between the physical host computers.

  I think when the vMotion is launched the data will be limited to the subnet that the two physical hosts are connected and therefore use the bandwidth available via local network equipment and will not let the physical site. My colleague suggested, however, that data travels through the vCenter server. Of course, this would cause a problem to try to move the data so much and would effectively mean that this 4TB would leave travel via the vCenter server, remote site, then return to the remote site. Not only this would be very slow, it could also have a negative impact on bandwidth to and from the site.

  So my question is who is correct? (Assuming that one of us is!)

  Thank you

  When you start migrating cold from a virtual computer by selecting migrate both (host and storage) where your hosts are based in the same place, it will happen with esxi source and target host, it will not go all the way to your host to vCenter.

  If your environment is vSphere client of web use 5.1 or higher, and you can move VM while it is powered on and residing in the local storage of the host. This feature is called Cross-host migration. available only by using the web client.