Automatically power on virtual machines

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• Install ESX 2.5.5 - installs require licensing to allow power on virtual machines?

  Install ESX 2.5.5 - installs require licensing to allow power on virtual machines?

  I am part of an exercise in DR for ESX 2.5 installation. If ESX 2.5 requires serial numbers on install to allow power on virtual machines?

  Or does the time where the vms turn on for the trial period?

  The doc of admin ESX 2.5 says that he must have licenses in order to on the VMs.

  Can the production ESX 2.5 serial numbers be used for the exercise of the DR, or is related to the material serial number. (I think it could be used).

  All points will be awarded.

  Thxs

  VMware, even in the early days has provided a 60-day evaluation license - worth ESX 2.x and VC 1.x - the same limitations that apply today apply to the ESX 2.x, once that period eval runs out - you will not be able to on the VMs.

  licenses are not related to the material. -.

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• BAT file automatically launch several virtual machines

  I try to use the automatic VMware.exe software from starting my VMs (three) when restarting my Windows desktop computer.

  I have created a. BAT file creating three lines of code in the startup of the host folder.

  Each line is similar to:

  "C:\Program Files (x86\vmware\vmare workstation\VMWare.exe"-x "c:\users\admin\Documents\Virtual Machines\vm1\vm1.vmx".

  Each line calls the next VM to start.

  My problem is that the batch file runs the first line (i.e. - start the first virtual machine) but will not progress to the second and third lines (so from the second and third VM)

  Each line of code works perfectly if entered manually and individually in the command RUN in the host.

  What I'm missing here?
  
  

  Hi WoodZ and jmtella

  A big THANK you.  The vmRun command was the answer.

  The attached file renamed as StartVM.bat works for me...

  I welcome your critical comment

  See you soon,.

  Michael

• can not power on virtual machine after activating the VR

  This is the error I get after activation of the replication of Vsphere and turn on/off the machine. I say feeding because allowing the VR blocks virtual machine. If I disable the replication, the machine starts correctly. The Bayt thing is that I can reproduce a 80 GB drive on this machine, but the minute I have activate the duplication of a 2 TB drive, I have this problem.

  Any idea?

  "An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM Novastor.
  Unable to start the virtual machine.
  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.
  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:1, ' / vmfs/volumes/4ffda1f1-22a39f8e-bd7d-e61f13f6d8ff/Novastor/Novastor.vmdk'
  Impossible to attach the 'hbr_filter' filter to scsi0:1: limit exceeded (195887110). "

  I guess that's under the limit of 2032GB of Vsphere replication then why make this mistake when I enable replication for this disc?

  2 TB is equal to 2 048 GB that exceeds the maximum size supported 2 032 GB (= to 1,984375).

  André

• Can not power on virtual machines "cannot access the file because it is locked.

  Virtual machines have been working well - then the storage system is down.  After the storage system returns upwards that I can't turn on a number of virtual machines.  Get this error when I try to turn it on:

  Cannot power on vmname on esxhostname.xxxxx.com. Unable to access file < unspecified file name > because it is locked
  error

  1. To check the locks on the Service Console on non ESXi servers, run the command:

     lsof | grep

     COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE SIZE NŒUD NOM_PERIPHERIQUE
     71fd60b6-3631 root 4r REG 0.9 10737418240 23533

     Note: If there is no Console of Service process the locking file, you should receive no printed output. If you receive results, however, file a support request to identify the process and to determine the causes.  If it is a third-party process, however, contact the appropriate provider to determine the cause before you kill the process ID, because it can happen again in the future.

     Stop the process and the lock ID using the kill command. In the example above, the process ID is 3631:

     kill the 3631

     After the termination of the process, you can try to turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  2. To check if the virtual machine is always a world ID assigned, run these commands on all ESX/ESXi hosts:

     CD/tmp
     VM-support - x

     Available to debug worlds:
     WID =

     On the ESX/ESXi host where the virtual machine still works, kill the VM, which releases the lock on the file. To kill the virtual machine, run the command:

     VM-support - X

     Where the is the ID of the world of the virtual machine with the locked file.

     Note: this command takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Answer No to "can I include a screenshot of the virtual machine", and answer Yes to all subsequent questions.

     After the termination of the process, you can turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  Deleting the file .lck (NFS only)

  The virtual machine files can be locked via NFS storage. You can identify this as reported by .lck files. # (where # is the ID of the world that holds the lock file) at the end of the file name. It is a NFS file lock and appears only when you use the ls command as it is the hidden file.
  Beware: they can be removed safely only if the virtual machine is not running.

  Note: VMFS volumes have no .lck files. The locking mechanism for VMFS volumes is managed within VMFS metadata on the volume.

  You must kill the process that is locked, if it is not the case, you probably need to restart the VMware host.
  I tell you from experience most likely end up rebooting it.

• Force automatic startup of virtual machines

  I'm attemprint go configure virtual machines for automatic start. I chose the inventory - & gt; Configuration - & gt; Computer startup/shutdown virtual - & gt; Properties and I see "Startup" disable for all my virtual machines and that the "Edit" button is disabled.

  I am logged in as root.

  Do I need any specific authorization to change the startup parameters?

  I have to take any additional action?

  Concerning

  Marius

  He must choose the virtual machine and her you will have to use move up, so the maschine goes into the group for the automatic start

• Having trouble getting the power of virtual machine state

  HI I have a problem with the addition of the Powerstate VM to the following code:

  Get-data center $DC | Get - Vm | Get-View |

  Select @{N = "VM"; E={$_. Name}},

  @{N = "#NIC"; E={($_. Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard]} | Measure - Object). County}},

  @{N = "#MAC"; E = {[string]: join (",", ($_.))} Boulevard | where {$_.} MacAddress as ""00:50* "} |" %{$_. MacAddress}))}},

  @{N = "IP addresses"; E = {[string]: join (",", ($_.))} Boulevard | %{$_. Ip_address}))}},

  @{N = "Power status"; E={$_. PowerState}} |

  Export-Csv $FilePath - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  What I am doing wrong?

  Thank you

  Why it doesn't work it's because this property does not exist on the object SDK your get when you do Get - VM | Get - view. If you use just Get - VM it would work, but it may break some other information you want to recover. To get what you want with the least changes would probably change "$_.» PowerState' to ' $_.» Runtime.PowerState ".

• Automatic shutdown of the virtual machines in the Update Manager

  Is it possible to automatically stop the virtual machines as part of the Update Manager?  We have our virtual machines configured for auto power off/start with the host.  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Any way to automate that? Thank you!

  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Lol WHA each fails to accomplish is ESX is an enterprise product, it must be used with vMotion.  If the Update Manager is designed to make this easy and pain free, so if you have the shared storage, your VM will migrate to another host, maintenance is done, and the virtual machine back.

  ESX is essentially a hands on environment.  I know everyone can't afford a SAN, but ESX caters to these large enterprise systems that do not have SAN.

  By making a patch, so we are now toward the Windows stand alone everyday server where you have done EACH server, or do it manually power off / closure of EACH virtual machine is EVEN easier to do this 1 by 1 on EACH physical host.

  Consider so it cannot be the best option, it isn't that hard to select ALL VM under tension and click "shut down guest.  Besides that if you plan for a breakdown, you can stop the VM remotely (if windows) by using a shutdown script.

  There are a lot of options to do this, but there is no stopping the VM before update, you must do it manually.

• Returns automatically instant at the start of the virtual machine

  Hi all

  I configured my ESX Server to automatically launch a virtual computer to booting the ESX Server. How can I configure a specific snapshot in ESX server to automatically restore the virtual machine?

  Thank you

  Concerning

  
  Davide

  VSphere Center, it is not possible, but if you know the condition when vm should go back to the snapshot, you can use vSphere powercli.

• Do not allow the virtual machine to power on if the host memory usage over 75%?

  Hi all

  I'm looking for a way to do not allow the power of virtual machines on if the clutser average memory usage is greater than 75%, or if its corresponding host memory usage is greater than 75%.

  Any idea.

  Thank you very much

  Hey Valot,.

  One way to achieve this is HA admission control that does not allow a virtual machine to be turned on if the availability constraints are not met

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vmware_ha_wp.PDF

  Also chwck on http://www.yellow-bricks.com

  Concerning

  one

• Can not power on a suspended Virtual Machine

  When I try to turn on the virtual machine, I get a screen that says:

  "Recommendations for [VMname] home".

  Right of priority recommendation
  * Place [VMname] host [ESX host name] power on Virtual Machine
  * Place [VMname] host [ESX host name] power on Virtual Machine

  
  I select the host on which there are currently on and hit 'Turned on' in the lower right

  Once the virtual machine attempted to power on it gives an error in the pane "" recent tasks "" "a file is not found.

  Then I look in the events for the virtual machine and I see that this warning was generated after power on the operation and before the error "file not found":

  Migration [VMname] of [ESXhostname] to [same ESXhostname] [DatacenterName]: back to the snapshot may generate errors (warnings) on the destination host.

  
  The State of the virtual machine is "suspended".  I can try to hit again "Power On", but exactly the same thing happens.

  I tried to remove the virtual machine from the inventory and time, and it's the same thing.

  It is an environment 3.5 3.5 ESX and a Virtual Center Server 3.5 hosts.  The material of the virtual machine is version 7.

  Thank you for your ideas

  Doesn't sound very promising.

  To find out what we can do I need more info. Please attach:

  • a list of files in the folder of the virtual machine (on the console, run ls-lisa in the virtual machine folder)
  • all the header files vmdk (small dish or delta in their names)
  • the vmsd file
  • the vmx file

  Have you ever taken a peek at all the other files on the data store, where the files were accidentally moved?

  André

  PS: How much free disk space you have on the data store?

• You cannot power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine

  Hello

  Only, I converted a physical blade to a virtual machine running on ESX4 using VMware converter 4. The converted virtual computer is running VMware server 1.0.5 and machines virtual option 2. After the P2V process, I am unable to power on virtual machines in VMware server. I get the following message:

  You cannot power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine

  I see there are some entries that I can put in the vmx file

  monitor_control.vt32 = 'TRUE '.

  monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = 'TRUE '.

  However, this does not solve my problem. Is it possible to edit a VMX VMware Server so the virtual prompt runs in a virtual machine of ESX4

  Thanks in advance

  Oli

  VMware Server 1.x does not support nested virtual machines.  Workstation 7 is the first product with the official support of virtualization nested, although other recent VMware products should work, with some constraints.  See nested running VMs.

• Virtual MACHINE starts in EFI environment after crash

  Hello world

  I'm breaking my head on something that looks like a bug to me.

  A few weeks ago, the ESXi host on that I was running VMs crushed (power fail) and after powering back and from virtual machines on this stand-alone host, one of the virtual machines did not start correctly.

  This machine virtual runs Windows Server 2012 and booted up this time in the EFI environment.

  After some research, the EFI configuration is gone. When opening the Boot Manager Maintenance upward and choose 'Start configuration Options', no options are listed. When you add a new boot option and using the backup function, the settings are lost instantly. When comparing the parameters with any other SMV 2012 I have running, Miss me a lot of configuration such as startup options and some driver options.

  These two options will not save after closing the menu for adding these options. When you choose 'Start from a file' I can start the virtual computer by using the 'VOLUME LABEL\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi No.' file. After the virtual machine restarts, it will be to the EFI environment.

  It is very difficult to find information about the EFI BIOS so I hope anyone here have experience with it.

  I even tried to restore the VM about 2 weeks before the accident, but even with the files of the virtual machine will start in EFI environment with no settings at all. So maybe the problem caused earlier; very weird! Also not to be able to save the new settings in the environment EFI seems very strange to me.

  Thanks for the replies! =)

  Hi René,.

  Hmmm... There is something of very, very wrong with this file NVRAM.  Looks like that the power failure has corrupted the file NVRAM in a way that confuses the firmware irreparably.  I consider this new next week (next year!) when I'm back in the office and will introduce an internal bug report if I find something that we can make it more robust.

  Although I generally recommend it not for VMS EFI, in your situation, your best course of action is probably the virtual computer power off, remove the file .nvram to the directory of the virtual machine (or rename it to something else, if you want to be extra careful), and power then it powered.  A fresh .nvram file will automatically create the virtual machine starts.  For the most part, reasonably normal Windows installations, the virtual machine must then be started automatically in the operating system installed.

  (For the benefit of other readers of the forum who may come across this thread, I repeat: do not delete a virtual machine EFI NVRAM memory, unless you understand the consequences!)  "It seems that there is rather than remove the NVRAM in this particular situation and very few others.)

  Please let me know if that gets things going again!

  And I'm going to one of our regulars of the forum, WoodyZ, avoid having to make his regular situation comment: If you haven't already done so, you can consider investing in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to keep your system running through power cuts or to allow at least a normal instead of a hardware failure stop.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Migration of virtual machines to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 6.0

  As the title eludes to, we are standing up a new physics 6.0 Server vCenter Server and need to migrate virtual machines of 4.1 6.0 guest hosts.  I'd love to take the time to create a script that does the following; However, before heading down this path, I wanted to do a ping of the group to see if someone has done something like this before or have pointers to scripts that perform some of these actions already.  Some background and concept:

  • Running 4.1.
  • A new physical Center of vCenter 6.0 will be deployed side-by-side with 4.1.
  • The existing configuration of vSphere HA allows for 1-2 guests down without impact to the virtual machines.
  • The two environment and will be Cisco N1KV, SAN access shared for the same data storages.
  • A new vCenter will be lifted.
  • A single host is identified and VMs evacuated to the remaining hosts.
  • This host will be in maintenance mode, removed from the cluster and close.
  • A clean install of ESXi 6 will be done and set up spec.
  • N1KV will be deployed.

  To digress on the details at the moment... Now markets PowerCLI desired.  This idea is ad hoc and on the fly, so as I write this.

  • identify all the virtual machines associated with a specific data store - will need to work with the local client to schedule downtime for virtual machines
  • Stop the virtual machine
  • Remove the VM of the vCenter 4.1 inventory
  • to connect to vCenter 6.0
  • Add the virtual machine to the vCenter 6.0 inventory (and once we have passed the first host in the new cluster, automatically place the virtual machine by using the DRS)
  • Reconfigure the vmnic with the new Cisco 1000V dvs (will be the same name on both sides, but has a different ID)
  • pull in the keys and the values to a CSV and advancedsetting set to harden
  • Turn on the virtual machine
  • Perhaps a test of ping for the NETWORK card to check connectivity

  The order in which the steps are performed can be switched around, as long as the desired end result is the same: migration effectively virtual machines between two disparate solutions with single medium sharing as a data store.  In which I realize will always be VMFS3.  New data stores VMFS-5 is another task for another time.

  Thank you for your time, suggestions, links, etc...

  @LucD - hi.

  These steps are quite possible with PowerCLI.

  See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements

  $dsName = "xyz".

  $vm = get - VM - $dsName data store

  Stop-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false

  Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server vc41 - confirm: $false

  $vc6 = Connect-VIServer-Server vc6

  $newVM = $vm | New-VM - DiskPath $_. ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName - confirm: $false

  # Suppose a CSV file with

  # Key, value

  # key1, value1

  # key2, value2

  $advSettings = import-Csv - UseCulture advSettings.csv

  {foreach ($obj in $newVM)

  $advSettings | %{

  Get-AdvancedSetting - $obj entity - name $_. Key |

  Game-AdvancedSetting - value of $_. Value - confirm: $false

  }

  }

  Start-VM - $newVM VM - confirm: $false

  $newVM |

  Select Name,

  @{N = "Available"; E = {Test-Connection - ComputerName $_.} Guest.HostName - County 1 - Quiet}}

• Looking for a scritp details on virtual machines

  I prepare a report of inventory for all virtual machines to the details below.

  (1) power on virtual machines

  (2) vCPU

  (3) vMemory in GB

  (4) space configured in GB

  (5) space in GB

  (6) the name of the data center

  (7) details of OS that should get inside the server

  I also created three annotations in the vCenter as App name,owner of the App, Classification,environment. I also need to get this details the annotations and he must send me an email.

  Get - VM | Where-Object {$_.powerstate - eq "Receptor"} | {foreach}

  $Annotation = $_. Get-Annotation

  $AppName = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq "App name"} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $AppOwner = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq 'Owner App'} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $Classification = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq "Classification"} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $Environment = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq 'Environment'} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $report = "" | Select-Object vCPU, MemoryGB, ProvisionedSpaceGB, UsedSpaceGB, Datacenter, OS, AppName, AppOwner, Classification, environment

  $report.vCPU = $_. NumCpu

  $report. MemoryGB = $_. MemoryGB

  $report. ProvisionedSpaceGB = [math]: tour ($_.) ProvisionedSpaceGB)

  $report. UsedSpaceGB = [math]: tour ($_.) UsedSpaceGB)

  $report. Datacenter = $($_ |) Get - data center). Name

  $report. OS =  $($_ | Get - View) .guest. GuestFullName

  $report. AppName = $AppName

  $report. AppOwner = $AppOwner

  $report. Rating = $Classification

  $report. Environment = $Environment

  $report

  }