Best method to move virtual machines Linux of VC 2.5/ESX 3.5 to 4.0/ESX4 vCentre

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• Best way to move virtual machines between two clusters: HP and UCS

  Hello

  We move the virtual machines in the cluster UCSChassis: 6 guests ESXi in a Cluster of HPChassis.

  I wonder how do it with minimum downtime.

  Thanks for your help,

  If you have shared storage - expose the storahe where virtual machines are stored to both sets of guests - and the hosts are ocmpatible you can vmotion - or at least - to stop the mover VM's from the environment of the UCS and add it to the HP environment.

  If you can't share the storage you - you can use VMwate Standalone converter and V2V the VMs-

• I want to move virtual machines to a folder called Linux name, but we have several file of the same name in our Datacenter, please give me PowerCLI Script to move exactly

  I want to move virtual machines to a folder called Linux name, but we have several file of the same name in our Datacenter, please give me PowerCLI Script to move exactly.

  I tried to use for the function FolderByPath below, but don't know how to use it and have worked. Please help me in this.

  Function Get-FolderByPath {}

  < #.

  . Records of recovery SYNOPSIS by giving a path

  . DESCRIPTION the function will retrieve a record by its

  path. The path can contain any type of leave (folder or)

  Data Center).

  . Author NOTES: Luc relaxing

  . Path PARAMETER

  The path to the folder.

  This is a required parameter.

  . Path PARAMETER

  The path to the folder.

  This is a required parameter.

  . PARAMETER separator

  The character used to separate the leaves in the

  path. The default value is ' / '.

  . EXAMPLE OF

  PS > Get-FolderByPath-path ' Datacenter/Folder1/Folder2 ".

  . EXAMPLE OF

  PS > Get-FolderByPath-path "Folder1 > Folder2"-separator ' > '

  # >

  (param

  [CmdletBinding()]

  [parameter (Mandatory = $true)]

  [System.String []] ${Path}.

  [tank] ${delimiter} = ' / '.

  )

  {in process

  If (((Get-PowerCLIConfiguration).)) DefaultVIServerMode - eq "Multiple") {}

  $vcs = $defaultVIServers

  }

  else {}

  $vcs = $defaultVIServers [0]

  }

  {foreach ($vc to $vcs)

  {foreach ($strPath in $Path)

  $root = get-file-name of the server data $vc centers

  $strPath.Split ($Separator) | %{

  $root = get-inventory-name $_-location $root - server $vc - NoRecursion

  If ((Get-stocks-localisation $root-NoRecursion |)) Select--ExpandProperty name)-contains "vm") {}

  $root = get-inventory-name "vm" - location $root - server $vc - NoRecursion

  }

  }

  $root | where {$_-is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.FolderImpl]}|% {}}

  Get-file-name $_. Name - location $root. Parent - Server $vc

  }

  }

  }

  }

  }

  You can try to retrieve the object file by steps as well.

  Something like this for example

  $folder = get-data center-name 'LTX01-G8 | Get-file-name "LTX-servers | Get-file-name "LTX servers 0000 - 0299. Get-file-name Linux

  I guess the first qualification in your path was the data center.

• Put a host in maintenance - it will automatically move virtual machines?

  Dear all,

  We have a cluster with 4 guests and we would now like to upgrade each 5.50 to 6.0 ESXi ESXi host. I understand that we need to put the host in maintenance mode. He will automatically move virtual machines to other hosts? I read DRS is necessary. I see that our guests are permitted for Vmotion and HA. We have standard Vsphere license.

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode? In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Thank you

  Edy

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode?

  Yes, since the Standard edition doesn't include DRS, you must manually move virtual machines to other hosts.

  In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Yes, this would be the case with the DRS in place.

  André

• What is the interval of time between the virtual machine Linux and ESXi host synchronization?

  I have ESX5.0 with a centos6 installed on this linux virtual machine.

  After the installation of vmware for Linux virtual machine tools, I activated the time synchronization between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host through vmware-toolbox-cmd.

  I wonder what is the interval of time between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host synchronization? If I quickly time OS system, when the OS system time will sync back to the ESXi host?

  According to http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf:

  By default, the demon checks the guest only once per minute operating system clock.

  However, depending on whether the guest is behind or in front of the result is different. So, please read the section "periodic synchronization" (at least) in the document mentioned above.

  André

• Need to move virtual machines and power over the other ESXi HA and issues of Configuration of power

  Dears

  Need to move virtual machines and power on ESXi others using the HA and Power Options

  So what are the Options I need activate and deactivate:

  Turn on Vsphere HA

  Activate the tracking host

  Admission control (disabled)

  VM Machine Options

  VM restart priority (medium)

  Response from the host of off the power isolation

  VM monitoring (people with disabilities)

  Monitoring of (high) sensitivity

  Heartbeat of data store (select one of cluster data warehouses taking into account my preferences) of the data store is checked

  On each:

  Start/stop of the virtual machine is turned off

  Please indicate the required Options and on virtual machines, we are not turning on?

  Just to be clear, that VMware HA will only restart the VMS if ESXi hosts fails - or surveillance of the VM is turned on which will be monitors VMs will they crash or suspend and restart the virtual machine affected.

  and just to be clear, that the response of insulation parameter has nothing to do whther THAT HA will work or not - it does come into play if the ESXi host is isolated of the HA - Cluster

  xMotion works only between active ESXi hosts that can communicate with the server vCenter - and if the ESXi host broke down or became isolated and vMotion may not work.

  vMotion is automated with DRS that vMotion will a VM who need more resources to an ESXi host with enough reosurces.

• Move virtual machines to the directories.

  Hello

  I've recently updated to vc4

  I notice that when I right click on a virtual machine, said one of the options move virtual machines to directories.

  What excatly does that mean?  I looked through the installation and administrative guide and he found

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  "Move the virtual machine files" option has been renamed to "Move VMs to the directories" in VC 4.0.

  Thank you.

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• Move the virtual machine Linux from AMD to Intel

  Hi, I'm running several CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 virtual machines on an AMD64 based host ESXi 4. I need to replace the AMD ESXi 5 host and move the VM to host Intel based host with an Intel-based.
  
  I did it with a VM test (cold migration), and it seems boot, but I read that I might need to change the kernel for Intel.  Is this necessary?  If so, can someone point me in the right direction on how to do it?  Thank you!

  If the test computer worked then no there is no need to replace the core.

• Best way to migrate virtual machines to new ESXi hosts with a different configuration of networking.

  We currently have a cluster of 6 Dell machines that move VM 120 or so on ESXi 5.5. Networking consists of a dVswitch with 6 uplinks that map to 6 x 1gig physical NETWORK adapters on each host ESXi... These are grouped into 3 trunks / gal, so we have 2 GB by SHIFTING of the bandwidth and failover. The LAGS are configured as follows:

  LAG1

  Traffic to our (NFS) shared data store and management of ESXi. (vmk0)

  LAG2

  Access to the network of the VM - groups of different ports on different VLANS

  LAG3

  vMotion (vmk1)

  We just bought 6 new Dell machines that have connections fiber 2 x 10gig each. The idea is to bring together in a 20Ggig LAG by machine that will handle all of the traffic, so traffic NFS data store, network traffic from the VM, vMotion and traffic management ESXi.

  
  

  What is the best way to migrate the virtual machine in the cluster existing to the new machines? Many of the virtual machine are essential, so we cannot stop time.

  
  

  Can I create the new DELAY on existing dVswitch and put it as an auxiliary card? I'll be able to do it for all 3 of the above both above LAGS?

  
  

  Thanks for the info Alistar, it's almost here. The bit that was me stumping was that after establishing a new dVswitch I received messages that the new dvSwitch was not reachable on the old host, when I tried to migrate the virtual computer.

  The solution (with the permission of VMware Support) was that I need to add the two dVswitches to one of the old hosts, then assign a physical alternative on this host uplink to a temporary 3 uplink on the new dVswitch. I then tag all the relevant VLAN that uplink.

  This way I can first migrate the virtual machine to the new dVswitch networking so I can move the computer to the new cluster.

  Obviously I can only migrate from old to new cluster with a single host. each virtual machine must be a double for the host with 2 switches, and then to the new cluster. I also had to have the two dVswitches to the same version.

  Fortunately, I had a physical rising spare on the hosts of the old, otherwise I would have had to break one of the trunks and re-use of one of these uplinks.

  Oh and be aware, impossible to use the same names for groups of ports 2 DV switches, they must be unique!

  Nick

• Move virtual machines

  I have 4 servers more alumni who have ESXi 4.0 installed on them with the free license to test.  All virtual machines are installed on the local hard disks.  My company has decided to turn this test environment into a production environment before you have the right hardware.  I now have my production environment with servers connected to a SAN and Enterprise license.  They run ESXi 4.1.  What is the best way to move my virtual machines of the old test environment to the new?

  Welcoem to the Forums - I watch FastSCP and copy the directories holding virtual machines to the new environment and then add the virtual machine to inventory.

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• Best method to move vCenter VM to another ESX host?

  Update Manager has refused to allow us to stage an update for our ESX host our vCenter VM running on. So we have to move the other host our vCenter ESX just update this ESX host. But as we use vSphere Standard that does not come with vMotion and storage vMotion, we must stop vCenter and make a manual transfer.

  Did you guys a better method to do that in order to copy files from local storage ESX VM vCenter to the PC running the VI Client on and then copy the file vCenter VM from the PC to the local storage of the other local ESX storage? Because we do not have a usable for the moment SAN storage.

  BTW, we tried Storage vMotion with the year evaluation license last to move vCenter and it failed.

  We use mainly use the converter for the conversion or 'movement' of VMs from one region to the other because it is a GUI based process.  We have quite a few movements/conversions per week, so we have standardized on the converter.  If we have problems with converter (several failures, etc.) we will perform a dorsal scp of the actual VM files.  I agree that this method is faster, but in our case, we did not want to open the console for jobs like that, it seemed a more dangerous process from the console (deleting files etc...).  We used the converter to convert physical movement to virtual, virtual virtual clone, convert virtual from one version to another (workstation to esx for example).  I also like that the sysprep process can be automated in the process, but also some virtual machine configurations.  If we say PCS had a virtual machine to another location and we created a clone in the new location, we would have to scp, starting the virtual machine and then treat the sysprep (Windows) and rename, configuring ip etc...

• Best method to move the VCenter server on new server

  I need to move my VCenter server to a new machine.

  The computer name and the IP address will be different from the original.

  1 should I use the existing database or there will be too many references to the old server vCenter Server?

  2. should I start from scratch on a new server and import my 5 ESX servers?  (Story not so important for me)

  If I start, unplug the old and add it again or just to add again and it will automatically remove the old?

  Best methods out there?  A document any?

  Thanks for any help in advance

  Brian

  Hello.

  See KB 5850444.

  Good luck!

• Can configure HA, but he doesn't move virtual machines

  Greetings,

  I have 3 ESX host configured with HA in the CR.  No errors are reported during the configuration.  During missions, at some point, I see an error of not having enough resources in the cluster... so it would appear that HA is followed at least of resources.  The problem is, when I reboot all servers, virtual machines do not move.  After a minute or two, the server displays disconnected virtual machines powered with the unknown state.  There is nothing in the events & tasks Panel in the CR.  No sign of the HA agent is same didn't go down.  I tried to look through the logs of vpx and Mao, but I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.  Here looks like that which seems to be errors with ft_gethostbyname but I don't know if it is a problem DNS check back very well.

  Of the vpxa.log:

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Command to call is/opt/vmware/Mao/bin/aamPerl /opt/vmware/aam/ha/aam_config_util.pl - z - shortname = usbvt10pesxhost02 - uname = Linux - cmd = listnodes-domain = vmware

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke percentage of task completed is 100

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Out of order: aamPerl script

  The definition of environment in/opt/vmware/Mao/config/agent_env. Linux

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL cmd: listnodes

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEYS: z - VAL: 1

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL uname: Linux

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL shortname: usbvt10pesxhost02

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: field VAL: vmware

  27/07/09 13:49:51 CMD: / opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ft_gethostbyname usbvt10pesxhost02 | grep FAILED

  27/07/09 13:49:51 STATUS: 1

  27/07/09 13:49:51 RESULT:

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  27/07/09 13:49:51 command is "/ opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ftcli - area vmware port 8042 - 15 - cmd listnodes timeout"

  27/07/09 13:49:51 CMD: / opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ftcli-area vmware port 8042 - timeout 15 - cmd listnodes

  27/07/09 13:49:51 STATUS: 0

  27/07/09 13:49:51 RESULT:

  27/07/09 13:49:51 State of Type node

  27/07/09 13:49:51 -.

  ---

  -

  ---

  -

  ---

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost02 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost03 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost04 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  VMwarenodestatus = usbvt10pesxhost02, primary, AgentRunning, usbvt10pesxhost03, primary, AgentRunning, usbvt10pesxhost04, primary, AgentRunning

  27/07/09 13:49:51 VMwareresult = success

  27/07/09 13:49:51 total time script complete: 0 minute (s), and 0 second (s)

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Command returned successfully

  Unexpected return the result. Wait 1 sample, receive 2

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  Define internal stats for VM: 2 (vpxa VM id), 158 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 3 (vpxa VM id), 160 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 4 (vpxa VM id), 162 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Audit of the resources of the node

  CheckThreshold of stored values: (20795,29001,20795,29432) - retrieved: (20795,28999,20795,29430)

  CheckThreshold changes in percentage (0,0,0,0) - threshold 5

  VpxaAAM::PollForVMAPCommands FtExecute running

  Unexpected return the result. Wait 1 sample, receive 2

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  Define internal stats for VM: 2 (vpxa VM id), 158 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 3 (vpxa VM id), 160 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 4 (vpxa VM id), 162 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  I did many DNS controls to ensure that the DNS has been configured correctly.  It seems that it is.  I am able to ping/vmkping guests without any problem.  Also did remove the full HA, delete the cluster, manually remove agents HA each host and reconfigured does not.  One thing that come to mind is FULL of these servers domain name & gt;. 30 tank.  I read that it was a problem at some point, but should be resolved.

  When I configured HA I selected all the default values:

  -activated followed host

  -prevent the energized if they violate constraints of availability of VMs

  -cluster host failure tolerate... 1

  -3 customers on host1, 2 clients on host 2, 1 guest on host 3

  -admission control enabled

  -capacity guests 2 current failover

  -configured host capacity 1 failover

  I don't know where to look.   Does anyone have any other suggestions?

  Thank you

  Brian

  I am genius, and we have identified a problem.  I want to confirm that the problem is you are having.

  If the management network (Service Console on ESX management checked for group of ports on ESXi) is on a public network, and there is no other service network management console or on a private network, this can lead to a false conclusion that the failed node is always online, preventing a failover.

  Please let me know if this matches your configuration. If so, a workaround would be to define a private network for management.

  A KB article addressiing this issue is in preparation.

  Feel free to write me with any questions.

  Marc

• Best way to backup virtual machines?

  I'm under Fusion 2.0.4. I recently acquired an external hard drive and I want to backup my virtual machines. I watched the tutorial of Fusion which suggested using Time Machine, but I read that restoring a virtual computer from a TM backup could cause problems. Is this true? If so, should I simply create a file duplicate and save that to the external hard drive? What is the best way to back up the virtual machine?

  Note: I use shared folders to save the documents, photos, etc., but would like to save the entire guest operating system.

  First AutoProtect is not the same, nor intended to be a copy of backup of the virtual machine and Time Machine knows a lot of backup and restore of Virtual Machines under certain conditions and should not be relied on as the only method of recovery.

  While Time Machine can back up and restore a virtual machine with success there are a number of conditions that can cause this to fail and without warning, and therefore it is not considered reliable for backup of Virtual Machines under normal conditions.

  AFAIC backup is valid that a virtual machine is when it is done with stop the Virtual Machine, not suspended and closed merger and the entire Virtual Machine is copied to another location in which one has a little bit duplicate of the complete set of the VM total at this point in time and nothing less realized by Time Machine by manually and not separate and apart from the files of the time Machine.  Note: The script process is providing that the conditions are met.

• Migrate the Virtual Machine Linux to ESXi

  Hi all

  I have VMware Server 1 base on CentOS as operating system with a few VMs, VMS spot on my map of storage with NFS.

  I start converting those VMs with vmware converter 4.0 beta, I convert ESXi virtual machine move to storage even but with iSCSI.

  So far I have only converted machines Windows without problem, now, I try to convert the Linux (ContOS 5),

  After the conversion, I try to turn on the machine, but get a "Kernel Panic"

  Impossible to mount the SYSROOT.

  Please see attach.

  Until I find a solution I return to this virtual machine to the old vmware server 1 and then it works.

  Any idea?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  I don't speak of computer virtual SCSI controller, you can get to know that this process.

  (1) select the virtual machine.

  (2) right click go to properties.

  (3) select the Hardware tab, check for SCSI controller entry there you can see if it's the logic Lsi logic or bus controller.

  Once again something that I want to confirm, during the conversion, you had a SCSI disk for this virtual machine.

  Thank you

  Samir

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