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• Problem with VMTools & backup of virtual machines

  Hello

  I can't back up some virtual machines with installed VMTools. Once I have remove VMTools machine virtual back ok.

  I get the error message is as follows for virtual machines with VMTools installed:

  e000954c - an error occurred while executing the command "vcbMounter" of VMware to save a virtual machine. See the backlog for more details.

  I use VCB 1.5 update 2 & Backup Exec 12.5.

  I tried uninstalling VMTools & reinstall but no joy yet!

  Any ideas?

  Thank you as always.

  P

  Have you tried to disable the SYNCHRONIZATION driver in just by using VSS and VMware tools or vice versa?

  How do you do that?

  The installation of VMware tools on a virtual machine and choose the option 'Interactive '.  Choose the option "Edit", and then expand the section "VMware device drivers.  On the Windows Server 2008, simply look for the "Volume Shadow Copy Service Support" option.  On the Windows 2003 server, locate the VSS and the SYNCHRONIZATION options or file system synchronization driver.

• Photos of virtual machines with multiple disks on different LUNS - Question

  I have some questions on how to manage the snapshots of virtual machines with multiple disks on different LUNS.  First of all, the LUNS are VMFS.  We are just starting to add virtual machines with dedicated for data storage format VMFS LUNS.  I don't think an extra space must be made for snapshots, as well as at least 100 GB LUN is required to store the data, and then say, add about 25 to 50% of this amount?  Set the 100 GB vmdk file but have the GB from 25 to 50 additional disk space for snapshots, if necessary (rather than just to get a unit number logic needed 100 GB of data and devote all of the 100 GB to the vmdk file).  In addition, if a virtual machine has several files vmdk on different LUNS, which will be a problem to take a snapshot, and is it possible to do just a snapshot of a disk of a virtual computer (as the volume of the BONE)?

  Thanks for any help.

  Snapshot files are created in the home folder of the VM by default for all virtual disks, no matter on what data store they are. You must make sure you have enough free disk space on the data store for snapshots.

  If you want to exclude a virtual disks of taking snapshots, you can set it to 'Independent' - 'Persistent' machine virtual settings to the HARD drive.

  André

• Run a virtual machine with a graphical interface on a host without GUI

  Hallo

  I want to install a simple Windows 7 for some tasks bit where I need Windows on my server Ubuntu 14.04. This server has no GUI (no X) and should have any.

  Already, I've installed the virtual Windows machine on my workstation to 12, so I would just copy the vmdk on my linux server and run it, maybe put something in the vmx file.

  But I do not know is that it's all means possible.

  Is it?

  Is there any player or any application for ubuntu VMware when there is no X system (on ubuntu), where I can run virtual machines with GUI inside?

  Maybe another virtualization tool, vmware not?

  I think that this exact question already somewhere, but I haven't found much question where comments lacking a GUI, but not the host.

  I need a guest-gui on a host without gui (where I have only the terminal).

  So maybe it's not possible at all, so please tell me a 'no', so I won't expect more

  Thank you to

  Frank

  EDIT: oh, this seems to be another question unanswered it is too difficult or too stupid?

  Hi Frank,.

  Now that would be stupid, having a text Installer, and then not allow the virtual machine to run. I think it should work, but you must pass the nogui option.

  Vmrun help:

  beginning

  (Supported only on teams

  Workstation.)

  Starts a virtual machine (.vmx file) or team (file .vmtm).

  The default graphical user interface option starts the machine in an interactive way,

  What is necessary to display a user interface of VMware.

  Nogui option suppresses the user interface,

  including start-up, to allow dialog box not interactive

  writing scripts.

  [gui | nogui]

  refer to the manual of vmrun: VIX API Documentation

  Edit: hmm... Now, I see that you have already tried the nogui option. You might be able to install the package libxinerama, but he could hang out in a lot of dependencies.

  FWIW, vSphere is pretty much what you describe a system not GUI to run GUI invited, so it shouldn't be a problem at all.

  Unfortunately, I don't have a host linux without X installed handy here, so can't test here without the implementation of a server without head myself.

  You can also try to run the client via the command vmware:

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Documentation Center

  --

  Wil

• A list of virtual machines with type of controller of

  Hi guys,.

  Sorry for the dummy question, but I have new noob in powershell I can not understand how to get the list of virtual machines with type of controller of

  I would like to hva something that looks like this:

  controller name

  Mega-vm IDE

  Super-vm paravirtual

  lsi Tester-vm

  Get - vm mega-vm | Get-ScsiController shows which scsi controller is in the vm, but indicated a virtual machine name and do not watch IDE at all (do get-scsi ))

  Try something like this

  Get - VM |

  Select Name,@{N='Controller'; E = {(Get-contrôleur SCSI-VM $_ |)} {(Sélectionnez Type-ExpandProperty) - join ' |'}}

• Commissioning a virtual machine with vCAC

  I'm embarrassed to have to ask the question, but here goes.

  How to configure a virtual machine with vCAC?

  I have install the application.  Created the plan of action.  Has created the service.  Created the Group of companies.  Create the law.  Has created the catalog item.

  As far as I can tell, I did everything what to do to allow a computer virtual be put into service, but I can't find where in the application to access the catalog and run provisioning.

  Would be the logical place to do https://FQDN to vcac/shell-ui-app/org / < tenant > logged in as a standard user who is a member of the Business Group with access to appropriate and rights catalog items to the.

  What Miss me?  I'm sure that the answer is right in front of my face, but I can't.

  If you are a member of the right to the service and a member of the Group of companies, you should have a catalog tab when you log in. All the plans that you access it will be...

• Using filters and Get - view to find virtual machines with a specific guest operating system.

  I have the following code snippet to find all virtual machines with the updated OS to ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux * "prompt. It does not work. If the filter is left out, I find myself with all virtual machines.

  The immediate question is the specs for the game ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux. " Originally from the "Performance Difference between GET - VM and GET-VIEW")

  http://www.batchworks.de/performance-difference-between-get-VM-and-get-view/ ).

  $ClusterFilter = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{“Name” = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRef

  $VirtualMachines = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter

  
  The biggest problem for me is to understand for Get-View filter. I was capable of a bit of insight to gleen from the URL below, but I think what Miss me is the reference (Microsoft) for what is happening to the right of the equal sign. What is the correct terminology for this type of query expression / where the syntax is 'left' = 'straight' and keywords such as "-match" are not allowed.

  http://purple-screen.com/?Cat=3

  VMware vSphere 5.1

  http://Wannemacher.us/?p=259

  Regular expressions with Windows PowerShell

  Right in the filter expression is an RegEx expression, please allow for characters before and after the word Linux.

  And the name of the OS is Config.GuestFullName.

  I corrected the entries more early as well.

  $ClusterName = "^MyCluster$"$ClusterFilter = get-view -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{"Name" = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRefWrite-Host $ClusterFilter
  
  $VirtualMachinesNoFilter   = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter $VirtualMachinesWithFilter = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter -Filter @{"Config.GuestFullName"=".*Linux.*"}
  

• Create the virtual machine with the ISO mounted CDROM

  Community of hell!

  Working on the vmcreate.pl script to add the creation of CD-ROM with iso data store, I got stuck on the error

  ' Invalid device configuration: ' VirtualSCSIControllerOption.numSCSICdroms '.

  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, or this option but may not understand how to deliver this.

  I created a cdrom as follows (below test I create any CDROM, no iso file to reduce the number of layers):

  my $ BPPRR m_backing_info = VirtualCdromRemotePassthroughBackingInfo->new)

  deviceName = > ' '.

  exclusive = > 0,

  );

  my $description = description->new(label = > 'CDROM', summary = > 'cdddrom');

  my $connectable = VirtualDeviceConnectInfo->new(allowGuestControl = > 1,)

  connected = > 0,

  startConnected = > 1,

  ( State = > inmates ' / ' );

  my $ BPPRR m = VirtualCdrom->new(backup = > $BPPRRm_backing_info,

  connectable = > $connectable,

  controllerKey = > 0,

  deviceInfo = > $description,

  key => 1,

  ( unitNumber = > 1 );

  VirtualDeviceConfigSpec->new(device = > $BPPRRm,

  operation = > VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation->new()'add'));

  Did anyone have working example to create the virtual machine with CDRom?

  Andrey

  If someone will find this useful I followed this route Re: vmreconfig.pl add the device CD/DVD fails if the virtual machine created with vmcreate.pl

  and also I found good examples of what I need to in VMUtil.pm in cmd vmsphere libraries.

  Andrey

• How to export/import a virtual machine with ESXi 5

  I use the free version of ESXi 5 and have created a virtual machine that is configured with the software for our project. I would like to share this virtual machine with other members of the team, some of whom are in other places and have slow network connections.  I want to pack the VM in a reasonable size file or a set of files I could ftp (or put it on DVD for people in areas of slow network) that they could then import into their ESXi hosts. The virtual machine has a 60 GB drive that is implemented by using the option 'thin', so it contains only 6 or 7 GB of real data right now.  Is it possible to export the image to a file or set of files that can be imported to another people ESXI host?  Before when I used VM Player we could do this by upgrading backup files in virtual machine directory and copy them to the new machine. With the ESXi data store, I don't know that something like this can be done.  I used vCenter Converter to convert to ESXi Infrastructure VM in VM Player format (and vice versa), but it is extremely slow. I think I might point the Source to my ESXi host and the Destination to a co-workers ESXi host and run a 'conversion' to transfer the files, but I think it would be very slow and impractical for some people to 'slow-network '.  I tried with vSphere Client navigation data store and I see the download options, but when I tried to download a VM directory it just hung.  I enabled ssh on my server ESXi and I found the store of data under/vmfs/volumes and when I look in the folder that contains my VM, there a file myvmname - flat hard which is 60 GB in size, so if I tar the contents of this folder to move elsewhere it will be huge.

  Can anyone suggest a solution?  The licensed version of ESXi would offer better alternatives?

  You can watch export OVF available in the Client vSphere for this function.

• Backup of virtual machine using iSCSI Server

  As the title says.

  I (MSA 2312i) iSCSI storage and Im going to do install a backup on a virtual computer product.  To achieve LAN free backup, I think I need to create the virtual machine with two network cards.  One on the production of LAN and the other on the iSCSI network?

  I have a NETWORK card physical free that I can create a Virtual switch with a VMKernel port and then add it to the virtual machine, it would be the best solution?

  Thank you

  Yes the iscsi network, where by it would also be the LAN backup.

• Doubts about sound in the virtual machine with w2k3

  Hi all

  I have the following question on the sound:

  • In my lab I have an ESXi 4.1 without sound card.
  • I create a virtual with Windows Server 2003 computer.
  • When I connect to my VM via Remote Desktop, I hear the typical sound of logon of windows acroos the speakers of my laptop. Why, if my VM doesn't have a sound card?
  • What kind of sound can reproduce via Remote Desktop if the server has no sound card?
    

  If anyone can clarify on this, I'll be very grateful

  Thank you

  Hello febsa

  The virtual machine with W2003 used your computer speakers.

  What kind of sound can reproduce via Remote Desktop if the server has no sound card? Only the default Windows 2003 sounds

  
  

• Pre-built virtual machine with OBIEE and APEX

  Hi all
  
  I searched for a virtual machine with OBIEE and APEX pre-installed, but I can't find it... or information messages on this subject. Does anyone know if y at - it a selection of pre-designed developer programs VM with these two tools?
  I currently have the "database App Development VM' with APEX in there, but I can't understand how to install OBIEE inside.
  
  Any help will be appreciated.
  
  Please, if this is not the right category where I should ask the question, let me know and I'll move it.
  
  Thank you.
  Elena.

  PL see deployment guide in the link above - the model of computer virtual includes version of database 11.2.0.3, which should be the APEX installed by default in it. If this isn't the case, it will be much easier to install the APEX in the VM OBIEE.

  For sharing files between the host and the guest, pl see the Virtualbox documentation - http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders

  HTH
  Srini

• Backup of virtual machines really necessary?

  Hello

  I have a few virtual machines running with Windows. I save the machines under windows in the form of images. From the images, I can possibly restore the entire machine or single files.

  So, when my machine goes down I could create a new machine in ESXi and restore from my backup image.

  Does make sense to make a parallel backup virtual machines with free solutions described in this community, because if I would back up my data twice.

  Is that not wrong? What is your opinion?

  Concerning

  Peter

  There is only one hardware requirement, in the new virtual machine u must use the hard drive of the same size or more, but not smaller than the disk of the failed computer, performance differences are few

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• Migrate a virtual machine with snapshots.  Works?

  In the past, moving VMs between databases or host with snapshots was deadly.

  It still happens in ESX4?

  ESX4 does not throw the warning, as did ESX3.5.

  You can migrate a virtual machine with snapshots, you can just see a different question.  You try to make a vMotion in vCenter?

  What is the symptoms you see?

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1005228

• How to create a virtual machine with apps to play in VMware player?

  I know that this question was probably asked several times before. I searched for the answer and just shot to the top of threads that have a few years. I know a few things have changed since then and I didn't know how that would influence the answers. I want to create a virtual machine with specific applications that will play on VMware player. What is the best way to do it and it is possible for the weak or no cost? If someone knows a tutorial or blog etc I can follow that would be great.  Thank you

  See the article by Alessandro on that... http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/Guide-to-create-VMX-files-for-VMware.html