Battle of pool of resources for production

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• New cluster or new pool of resources for tier 1 applications?

  Hello

  I have an existing cluster 5 node blade Esxi HP that I put in place for resource pools containing loads of pre-production and production work.  Now, we want to welcome applications from level 1 (Oracle DBs, Weblogic and middleware VMs servers).  Is there a best practice in the establishment of tier 1 workloads?  Should I add additional nodes to the cluster (until 8) and create a separate pool of resources for tier 1 applications, or should I implement a cluster 3 separate node (and generation) devoted entirely to the only level 1 workloads?  What are the advantages/disadvantages of each method?

  Thanks for your comments.

  M

  It depends on.

  (1) that you're going to develop this group even more tomorrow, or after you have added the hosts you have in mind who will be the end of the work?

  (2) how the negative risk is your boss or your client?

  (3) do you run your environment oversubscribed?

  (4) you understand the fundamentals of Resource Pools?

  Since I'm pretty risk adverse, I am tempted to create a new cluster with 4 nodes, where each node spans at least 2 or 4 chassis. Resource pools can resolve the problem of conflict of resources, but adds an extra layer of complexity to an environment that is not always welcome, and can make the diagnosis of difficult performance.

  Since you mention that you run ESXi on blades, please see the following article. I found it very informative regarding the problems of redundant N + 1 with blade configurations;

  http://longwhiteclouds.com/2012/05/13/when-should-N1-not-equal-1-host-with-VMware-HA/

  Kind regards

  Paul

• Pools of resources - from scratch

  Currently our resource pools are useless, we have 2 in each cluster, but they have been configured with the default settings. I need to come up with a plan to create a cluster and redraw the pools of resources for it. What are the Commons enterprise resource pool configuration best practices? A major component is that we want to be able to guarantee some VM resources that they need, and we must be able to demonstrate that the client so they can be charged appropriately.

  Maybe you want to follow the Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.x your initial configuration, monitor the performance of the environment. Fine tuning in the event of any dispute. vSphere Resource Management is the documentation that explains the impact of each option available to vSphere.

  Material resources to specific virtual machines sometimes defeats the purpose of virtualization, but it can be done through features such as booking and affinity and anti-affinite CPU article.

  Finally, usage and cost reports is usually done with vCenter Chargeback Manager.

• "The memory resources available in the pool of resources of the parent are insufficient for the operations." ... Really?

  Hello

  We have three virtual machines on a host computer. They need to be pinned to this host and with reserved memory: 1 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB.

  We are talking about 13 GB of RAM on a physical server that has 16 GB of physical RAM.

  When I Power On last VM, I get the following error:

  "The memory resources available in the pool of resources of the parent are not enough for the operation."

  I have a second host with the same size of memory and use reach 14GB of memory.

  I know that each virtual machine wants more memory than what we have configured, but I would like to know if it's a "bug" or

  something we can fix via vCenter configuration, or we really need more physical memory.

  Please find attached the config of memory for the virtual machine and the host State.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Host needs some memory as well for things like vmkernel, drivers and other components and you will not be able to touch this area with reserves of VM. It is not a bug, more like a fuse. You will not be allowed to book all of the physical RAM to VMs and / or resource pools.

  In your case, you should either decrease the reserves (why are you booking 100% memory for your virtual machines? What you're trying to achieve with this setting? Is it an obligation of the seller to App?) or increase the amount of physical RAM on the host.

  Of course this depends on your specific requirements and management policies of the resources, but in most cases I've seen, reservations are only affected when there is a heavy statement memory and using actions alone is not enough. Even so, reservations are usually configured only for very high priority / criticality VMs and not 100%, but rather a little before "stable / persistent peak memory Active" value. F.x. If a particular virtual machine has more mem use regularly on Wednesday 1-3 PM and memory active value for this period is 3 GB, a reservation is usually set to something like 4GB.

  I hope this helps.

• Creating views portals based on Pools of resources

  Hi all

  I'm trying to create portals customized for each of our clients. We have customers grouped into resource pools. What I'm trying to accomplish is to add all the systems within a resource group in the portal display. If I drag on the resource pool, it displays the metric only for the pool of resources in a holistic manner. I want that all the systems within the list of resources to display and show the memory, CPU, and other measures that I specify, individually, without having to add each machine individually. I don't want to have to add each machine individually, because there are hundreds. But in addition to this, I want to be certain that if new guests are added to these resource pools in the future that they are automatically added to the portal for visibility as well.

  It seems that I did once already, but I can't understand how I did it. Points of view. data, feature etc. for the portal view are almost overwhelming amount of data that are available to monitor and customize. And it is easy to forget.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can get a view of 'Service' to all your virtual machines by using the Services or Service generator. Create a service, you can add virtual machines to the new service using the rules when you add components.

  Is that what you are looking for?

  Kind regards

  Kevin

• Deploy the FVO to a pool of resources

  Hello

  Ive read the pdf file and have tried several different ways but he couldn't understand. I was curious if someone could give me a deployment of an ovf example syntax in a pool of resources on the target.

  Thanks for the help.

  Ray

  Hello, naabers-

  By the documentation of the OVFTool (at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/ovf20/ovftool_201_userguide.pdf), it seems that you should be able to deploy an OVF to a resource pool by using something like:

  ovftool.exe -ds myDatastore01 testAppliance.ovf vi://myVCenterServer/TestDatacenter/host/esx-host1.example.com/Resources/SmallResourcePool
  

  You do not use the correct values for the vCenter server, data center name, host name and the name of the resource pool.  The other key words, 'host' and 'Resources' need to stay, because they are static components of the path.  The document addresses the Party on the path to the list of resources on page 19.

  And, through my tests, I found that if you deploy all right to a host (vs through vCenter), the syntax would be something like:

  ovftool.exe -ds=myDatastore01 testAppliance.ovf vi://esxiHostName.example.com/myResPool0
  

  which excludes the path to the list of resources and just uses the name of the list of resources, probably due to the different 'context' when it is connected directly to a host.

  How to make them for you?

• Question about the use of sharing with several pools of resources

  The design of our environment vSphere has several pools of resources at the root, each series 'Normal' value stocks, and if the resources tab shows that each resource pool '% of the shares' value of 3%.

  However, some resource pools have 50 + VM and others have only 1 or 2.

  Is someone can confirm that this is wrong and that should have a pool of resources with more than VM have a proportionately higher value of action?  This assumes of course that all the resource pools are of same priority (be they makes me wonder why we use pools of resources at all... but that's another issue)

  The reason why I ask is that the 'worst deal allocation' is for memory and CPU is much higher on the pools of resources with multiple virtual machines, so it's obviously something in the algorithm of resource allocation that is aware of the total number of virtual machines in the pools. Resource pools are defined as extensible and I'm assuming that this "worst case allocation" would go down considerably as the cluster approached his ability, but I wanted to check before starting to change things...

  Welcome to the Forums - you are right to worry about this situation - check on http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/02/22/the-resource-pool-priority-pie-paradox/ for description - but don't worry Duncan also has a solution - http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/02/24/custom-shares-on-a-resource-pools-scripted/

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

• MAX hosts per Pool of resources?

  Hello

  Looking ate Lele Maximums of Configuration doc for vSphere4 Update1, I can't find information like the number MAX of ESXi hosts perresource pool.

  Ask because we just added 8 ESXi hosts in the default pool and our broker began broadcasting the following error message:

  Event type: WARNING

  Event source: VMware View

  Event category: VMware View

  Event ID: 104

  Date: 12/07/2010

  Time: 15:10:25

  User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

  Computer: CDEVBROKER01

  Description:

  Pool cn = 3cf943ec-9879-45dc-92b5-c8fbe919b1c8, OU = virtualcenter, OU = propriΘtΘs, dc = vdi, dc is vmware, dc = int::Unable to create the new VM - VMware.Sim.Fault.TooManyHostsInComputeResourceFault: pool of resources me = resgroup-152, cluster me = field-c7, numHosts = 15, maxHosts = 8

  Then within the administration Web page VIEW data warehouses were more visible, non of them!  We then removed the new 8 hosts and now everything is fine. So my question is:

  Is this a limitation of resource pool or the host of MAX 8 for the limitation of the view?

  The limitation is around composer, and you can have a maximum of 8 hosts per cluster

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/view40_admin_guide.PDF

• I can list pools of resources via a command line tool?

  I'm trying to find out if I can understand if a virtual computer is in a resource pool by using a line of remote control. This could be easier than getting a list pools of resources available on a host, or if a virtual machine is a member of a pool of resources. Any ideas anyone?

  I tried the tools provided with vmware-viperl (guestinfo.pl and vminfo.pl) and vmware-cmd (as well as other tools that were not even close).

  Thank you.

  Take a look at this script that retrieves this information without having to use the unsupported ESXi console: getVMsResourcePools.pl

  You will need to install the vSphere SDK for Perl OR use [vMA | http://www.VMware.com/support/Developer/Vima/index.html ]

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  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

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

• How do we identify a single pool of resources

  Hello world

  How do we identify a single pool of resources? There is term called Id of the Pool where he is in the MOB browser.

  Could you please help me on this issue

  Thank you

  Tejas

  You're looking to identify a pool of resources only in inventory that has the same resource pool names?

  A type of managed object is a data structure on the server side. In order to use it on the client-side, a reference is obtained. A particular instance of a managed object of a feature in the server reference, encapsulates the State and methods of this object on the server side. This specific instance has a value called ID managed objects. So, for different managed entities, you can see the id of the virtual machine resource Id, pool, etc.

  In the CROWD, when you select a resource pool, the header will display the "Managed Object Type" and "Managed Object ID". This is referred to as the id of the resource pool for an object of the Resource Pool.

• "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.

  A computer virus hit the machine so that the operating system must be reinstalled. In order to save the programs installed, I don't have a format and reapplied just windows + service pack. I saved the data user as shown in this link: http://pcworld.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http :// www.pcworld.com/howto/article/1, aid, 111652, pg, 4, 00.asp

  The office and programs are correct, but when I go to launch some programs (such as Excel, Word, WordPerfect), I get "this action is only valid for products that are current installed. I found a MS fix, but it doesn't install it stating that the level of the OS already contains the fix. I also found a pointer to move to the word 'Detect and repair' but Word does not start, so I can't have this option.

  I suspect I am missing some link between the old installation of windows and the new facility. I do not have the older Office CD so I can't reinstall. Did someone knows something I can check to try to get the Office to acknowledge that it is valid for this user. Betsy

  You are missing a lot of the associations. You need to reinstall your programs from the CD or the installable executables. I'm sorry that you do not have your Office CD-ROM, but you cannot reinstall Office without it. You can:

  1. try to contact Microsoft:
  How to replace lost, broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

  2. buy a current version of Microsoft Office to your shop online/brick & mortar favorite.

  3. download/install the suite free OpenOffice to http://www.openoffice.org . MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• Mr President, I have vista preinstalled and I formatted now it asks for product key. What can I do now?

  Mr President, I have vista preinstalled and I formatted now it asks for product key. What can I do now?

  The sticker that contains the product key is turned pale as I bought it 3 years ago and I have not written the key anywhere elsewhere.
  Please help me.
  I need the key to activate my windows vista.

  Hello

  If you use the manufacturer or their recovery disk recovery partition should not be required to have an entry of product key when reinstalling back to factory settings

  We cannot help you find a now non-existent product key

  I suggest you contact the manufacturer of the computer

• How to create the file .bar for production mode?

  Hello

  How to create a file .bar for production mode?

  When Flash Builder, I configure my project for the mode of Production, he asks me a RIM certificate that must be registered (and then need a CSI file?). Where can I find this file?

  Thank you

  Signature of application information has not yet been published.  You can submit your application unsigned.  In addition, in FB4, in the Properties window of the project, under the Flex compiler, you can add

  -debug = false

  to compile without debugging information.

  Otherwise, .bar file creation is done in a regular compilation with BB CLI package.

• Error of groups based on MAC "it has no resources for this range.

  Hello

  I have a SG300-52. My goal is a facility, where a client can connect to all ports and is automatically placed in a vlan are dependent on its MAC address.

  For this I put up some VLAN.

  Ports created by virtual local network name

  ---- ----------------- --------------------------- ----------------

  1 1 article gi1-46, gi48-52, Po1-8 D

  10 10 article gi1-46, gi48, gi51 S

  20 20 section gi1-46, gi48, gi51 S

  30 30 article gi1-46, gi48, gi51 S

  All ports where customers can connect the VLAN configured as unmarked.

  I have about 40 MACs, I want to put in the VLANs dynamically. So I've set up a group of Mac mapping vlan:

  conf t

  Serial section gi1-46

  switchport mode general

  switchport map General Mac-group vlan 5 5

  switchport map General Mac-group vlan 10 10

  switchport map General Mac-group vlan 20 20

  switchport map General Mac-group vlan 30 30

  Now, I want to add addresses MAC Mac-groups:

  mac 0000.0000.2222 Mac host card - group 10

  But after a few Mac added, I get an error "there are no resources for that interval.

  Is there a limitation on the number of MAC addresses in a group of Mac?

  Please advice how to proceed or if there is another way to achieve the goal.

  Tobias

  Hello Tobias,.

  There is a limitation on the number of MAC addresses could be added to the mac group and applied to interfaces. Each entry/MAC interface contains a single configurable AAGR resource (max allowed is around 500 I think). So, if you have addresses MAC 10 applied through 48 ports, it's 480 entries AAGR. This assumes you have no any other rule (ACL, MAC ACL etc.) configured. If you have a large number of MAC addresses that need assignment of VLAN static, the best approach would be to use the dot1x base assignment authentication vlan. It would be an evolutionary approach.

  I hope this helps.

  Nana

• uninstalled Java, try t re-in-stall, cannot because of "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed Windows 7.

  Having Windows 7 Service Pack 1.  Had to uninstall Java/Pogo games but when you try to reinstall Java a window pops up saying, "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed.

  I used Revo UN-install, but when I checked the Panel he showed Java with a folder instead of the Java icon.  I tried to find what file or folder, it is the case, find nothing.  Please help if you can.

  Thank you.

  This sounds like your problem? - http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=104537&hl=This+action+only+valid+products+that+currently+installed+Windows

  It lists the reg keys his looking, then you might check to see if you put them before doing anything.

  Back up your registry and set a restore point before taking any action - assuming that is your problem.

  Also, if you download and run the file, AV check it before running it - just in case.

  NOTE: the above was found by google, I have not tried that I have not had the error. I can't say if it works or not.

  
  

  PS - Also, FYI, while the research I found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893048 , but it seems specific to XP - SP2. Don't know if there is an equivalent W7.