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• How to count the number of virtual machines on an ESXi server via command line

  I want to know the number of virtual machines running on ESXi. What is the command so that it...?

  "vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms"

  This order list of the early running of the ESXi Server virtual machine, but I want the number (integer)

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  M@RK! V

  Hello

  You can use the PowerCLI command to get a VM number:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server "ESXi host or vCenter server.

  (Get-VM-location 'ESXi host') .count

  Elodie

• All virtual machines running on ESXi 5.1 statement of Rx packet loss

  Can some of you please do me a favor? Find a virtual machine of yours running on ESXi 5.1, preferably 1117900 and let me know if you see a Rx packet loss in performance stats vCenter provides. Each single VM in my environment records packet loss. Virtual machines running on ESXi 5.0 are not related that at all. This also isn't a problem at the level of the host that there is no loss of package noted it.

  This is a known bug-

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2052917

• Get a virtual machine of the esxi Server 4

  Hello

  I'm trying to get a virtual machine Server esxi for backup reasons, I found no way in the windows of vSphere client.

  Could someone show me how please?

  Welcome to the community,

  one option is to export the virtual machine (in the 'File' menu) as an OVF/EGGS.

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• All Virtual Machines is not responding

  By 2-3 weeks are all the virtual machines on our ESXi Server block. I can connect to the host using the vSphere Client, but cannot perform any actions. I can't restart the host, check the status of the material or any other thing. Any of you VMs can be found either. Still, the only way to get the server up and running is to push the power button and bring it all the way. Once it is restarted it there any errors anywhere, and everything seems normal. This problem happened on 2 of our ESXi hosts, are both Dell PowerEdge R310 server that are 5 months old only. Any thoughts on what could be the cause, or how to solve it?

  Well, this is a really end followed, but which finally solved the question replaced our cards RAID PERC 6i with cards RAID PERC H700 (w / BBU). We did it since (more than 3 years now!) we did not have these problems at all.

• All virtual machines are dead

  Hi, I discovered today that all virtual machines on my ESXi 4 has been arrested.  There are balls I can check what happened?  4 virtual machines are all CentOS 5.5 64-bit and very lightly loaded (IE TOP shows 0.1 for loading).  There is no more validation of CPU or memory.

  You can... How to do this depends on your configuration... For example, if you use vCenter or not. If this isn't the case, then connect to the host, go to the tab "Configuration", under the heading 'Software', ' Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown ' select and then click on the 'Properties' link (top right of this window)... This is where you can select the VM power on with the host country, what order they put under tension, or if they "Manual start" value when the host starts.

  If you do the settings on the host computer, vCenter will extract these settings in the configuration... I would suggest testing to confirm that the auto-start settings stick when you vMotion a computer virtual to another host (if you have more than one host) or not.

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  VMware VCP4

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

• ESXi 4.1 upgrade to ESXi 5.5 while all virtual machines and data warehouses

  We have two servers ESXi 4.1.0 348481 (Essentials) and we need to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 for support of Windows Server R2 2012. We intend to use the interactive upgrade. We want to ensure that the virtual machine is preserved. More precisely VMFarm001 where ESXi is installed in the same data store as VMServer1. VMServer1 is our largest server and cannot be migrated to another data store easily because we are not allowed for vMotion.

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  Thank you

  Yes, that's correct.

  I recently finished the upgrade of lots of stand-alone hosts ESXi 4.1 (with local storage only) to 5.1 and all were successful. The same process applies to 5.5, so you shouldn't have a problem with preservation of VMFS data warehouses (and all virtual machines).

• VCenter Server installed as a virtual machine within a ESXi servers it manages?

  Hi all.  I'm new in the world of VSphere... still in my evaluation period.

  I have only a single ESXi server running at the moment but plans to add a second later for high availability, vmotion, increase general capacity, etc.  They are / will be ESXi running on the internal storage and the virtual machines running on a shared SAN.

  Today, I installed VCenter Server 4 on a server at bottom of range/Office that I was carrying around running XP Pro x 64.

  As I was installing I read the guide installation and to my surprise, it seems to recommend that I have installed VCenter Server 4 as a virtual machine on my ESXi host.

  Now maybe I just spent too much time setting up my without new Lefthand requiring a 'witness' during the failover of one SAN to another... but I was under the impression that VCenter Server is not designed simply to host configuration, but is also designed to act as a 'witness' or to take account of quorum whenever a failure scenario occurred on one of my ESXi hosts.  I also noticed the VCenter Server features of a port "heartbeat", which I suppose one would use for the ESXi server heartbeat, but perhaps it is used for "connected mode" with other VCenter servers (I was intending to use only one since it is a small scale installation) I also felt that it would be useful enough to restore a damaged or shot ESXi host.

  So my question is, if my ESXi host dies and it is where I have VCenter Server installed, then high availability will be unable to work?  I guess there are going to be other issues with me unable to access VCenter Server while I have an ESXi host shot, too, as a greater difficulty to get the ESXi up?

  Maybe I'm wrong understand the purpose of the VCenter server... maybe it's not something that's necessary for HA, recovery, etc. and acts only as a configuration tool until something is wrong?  Or maybe I misunderstood the installation guide and they recommend only installing VCenter Server on an ESX box... they don't want this ESX box to be part of the group that manages the server?

  Finally, if indeed they recommend I install this on a ESXi host manages... would I ideally be install this for local storage on the server (where I installed ESXi) or on the SAN (where all my other virtual machines are installed)... or is it just personal preference?

  Thank you!!

  When you add hosts an active hemagglutinin vCenter cluster HA agent is installed on it.  This agent is what is actually the HA.  While necessary to add new hosts in a cluster and configure some specific parameters of vCenter vCenter's agents HA are self-sufficient and can handle HA failover so vCenter is offline.

  You must install the vCenter VM on SAN storage, so that he can use the vMotion, sVmotion, DRS, HA, functions etc. that require a SAN.

  -MattG

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• 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...

• Close all virtual machines on ESXi

  Hello

  I'm new in the administration of vSphere. I would like to raise our ESXi servers due to updates, but I've read that you shut down all virtual machines that are on it. You have something better to do then close VMs one? I expect a powershell script, but I have found none so far.

  Thank you

  Kralijir, you can do it from the console GUI.

  In the left pane, select the ESX host.

  In the right pane, click the tab "virtual machines". Now, you can select block all virtual machines here and simply right-clicking them stop all, or make other changes in bulk.

  Some changes via selection bulk require all virtual machines to be in the same State; Turned off the power, power, etc.

  If it works for you, please mark this answer as the 'response '.

• Is no vmdk file, but the script says, all virtual machines backed up Ok!

  Hello everyone;

  Please excuse any lack of details because this is the first time that I write. I've scoured internet for days now trying to find no matter how much detail that could help me solve the problem. I'm new in the world of script ESXi and ghettoVCB.

  My intention is to run several tasks on a schedule. Each type of backup (quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and multiple) runs at a specific time. The planning section works very well.

  I'm hoping to solve this urgent backup, I should be able to solve reboot.

  Here is the command I use:

  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB.sh w /tmp/ghettoVCB-work.multiple f/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmlist-Multiple g/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple-l /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB_logs/ghettoVCB.Multiple_Backup.log

  vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple contains:

  # Multiple backups - rotation County 6

  #

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/Vault2-DataSet1/URANUS/Multiple

  DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin

  VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 6

  POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0

  ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0

  ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 4

  POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5

  SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15

  ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  Vmlist-multiple contains 1 server is listed:

  # List all virtual machines that are backed up several times a day

  HEAT

  The log indicates that the backup was successful - but it has not been the case. Backup size should be approximately 8 GB. However, when you look at the output folder, only the following files are here:

  
  

  HEAT.vmx

  STATUS.ok

  Question is now - where are the vmdk files that should be present?

  Output (-d debug) can be found here: http://pastebin.com/hMGphTL3

  So, here is what I observed:

  When you run the script, the snapshot only takes a few seconds to create and delete then. I'm seeing happens on the list of the tasks of vSphere Rencent (screenshot attached).

  If I create a snapshot manually - it will take much more time to create and delete a snapshot. The difference here is 6 minutes, and 4 seconds using the script create a snapshot manually.

  So my presumption is that he is not actually create the snapshot, although vSphere said it is being created. So why is it the case?

  Help, please.

  ADDENDUM:

  If I run the following:

  ./ghettoVCB.sh m HEAT

  The backup is successful.

  Your said he clearly did not config file to back up all files hard.

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  I expect to see something like this if you want all the hard files

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = "all".

• Gwetting a list of all virtual machines and used space

  
  I apologize for my very basic question.

  I need to make a file (better if an Excel file) with a list of all virtual machines in a simple 5.x vSphere infrastructure including 2 VMare ESXi 5.x servers and the disk space used (allocated, used) of each virtual computer.

  The easiest way seems to list the virtual machines from the vSphere client and export the list as a .xls file.

  It seems simple, but when I look at the file I see a lot of missing VMs or a large number of missing values for several virtual machines (just the Runts).

  Is this a problem with my vSphere client?

  I tried to create a PowerCli script using the "Get - VM|" Select-object Name"command, but my limited skills will let me extract the value of the used space.»

  Can someone please provide a sample of PowerCli I can just copy and use?

  Is there another way to get the information I need?

  Concerning

  Marius

  .

  Not knowing that if you have configured a cluster or just stand-alone hosts, here is one simple line...

  Get-VMHost-name | get - vm | select name, usedspaceGB

  From there, you can make formatting, get total usage etc.

• Setting Options such as Hotplug for all virtual machines

  Hello!

  I have about 5 esxi hosts 5 and about 50 virtual machines

  Unfortunately I forgot to select some options like activate the plug-in memory and cpu hot

  I have 2 questions

  1 can I do this without turning off the machine

  2. How do I make a few options like this (or for example another option as vmtools update during the feeding cycle) for all virtual machines in my environment

  It's too much time to go to all virtual machines and turn them off and turn on these options

  Thank you very much

  These features must be enabled before the virtual machine is running.  So, you will need to turn them off and then use something like powercli to enable the features and turn them back on.

  Here is an example on how to do it with powercli: http://ict-freak.nl/2009/10/05/powercli-enabledisable-the-vm-hot-add-features/

  -KjB

• How can I pay for the reservation of memory on all virtual machines to "0"?

  I am trying to write a script that will pay for the reservation of memory on all virtual machines that are invited in a cluster to '0 '.  We have book too much memory, and this setting should allow VMWare facilities manage reserves memory for me.  I have hundreds of virtual machines to update, so I can't do it by hand.  I hope that it is possible via the CLI.

  Can someone help me with this please?

  Matt example work certainly, and I'm sure that he was going to follow up with something similar to this after having confirmed if it worked or not because it is much more serious on the optimization of code for speed, but I'll (try to) save the effort. To test its extract on a cluster of 45 VMS, it took more than four minutes to complete.  The excerpt below took about 25 seconds.  The difference is of course to use the cmdlet "Get-View" and that it can run asynchronously so (it begins a vCenter task and immediately passes the following).  Of course, this will also put more of a strain to your vCenter server, so keep that in mind.

  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $spec.memoryAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo
  $spec.memoryAllocation.Reservation = 0
  Get-Cluster "YOUR_CLUSTER" | Get-VM | Get-View -Property Config.MemoryAllocation | %{$_.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)}
  

• Run a Windows command on all virtual machines

  Using PowerCLI, is it possible to run a Windows command on all virtual machines?  I would like to hiberbation disabled on all my servers as it is unnecessary and take up disk space.  Running powercfg-h off will do, but I really want to do it on all 200 of my VM.

  I can't seem to find the option in group policy, so I was hoping that this could be an option.

  The above posts are excellent resolutions. Here is another possible approach.

  You can do this with a Powershell script. Something like this should work:

  1. The list of virtual machines:

  SE connect-ViServer here VCenter server name

  $vms = get - VM

  1. If you have installed Powershell and PSRemoting enabled on each virtual machine, run the following:

  $vms | foreach-object {Invoke-Command - ComputerName $_.} Name - ScriptBlock {powercfg - h}

  1. If you have not installed Powershell and PSRemoting on each virtual machine, use WMI:

  foreach ($vm to $vms)

  {

  $vmName = $vm. Name

  (\[WMIClass\] ")
  (' $vmName\ROOT\CIMV2: Win32_Process "). Create ("cmd /c powercfg - h)

  }

  You should probably use the WMI method since it is unlikely that all of your virtual machines have Powershell installed and configured for remote access.