Best method to upgrade/migrate vCenter 4.0 to 4.1?

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• 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!

• Best practices for upgrading from 2.5u5 to vCenter 4.1

  Hello

  We are currently running a vCenter 2.5 5 update on Windows 2003 32-bit Standard that we need to upgrade to vCenter 4. Unfortunately the latest version 4.1 needs a 64 bit OS...

  What is the best practice to update our vCenter 4.1 and keep all performance data? I suppose we ought to do it in severalsteps or not?

  (1) vCenter 4.0 Update 2 update

  (2) a copy of the updated vCenter database backup

  (3) to perform a new installation of Windows 2008 64-bit

  (4) to perform a new installation of vCenter 4.0 Update 2

  (5) to restore the database

  (6) update for vCenter 4.1

  Is this correct or am I missing something? Is there a more easy/better way?

  Any help appreciated.

  Hello.

  KO 1022104 contains best practices, and the Upgrade Guide is also a great resource to use for this upgrade planning.  Follow the steps in the Upgrade Guide and everything should go smoothly.

  This is a really difficult list of steps, confirmed by the Upgrade Guide:

  01 build of new VMS 64-bit for vCenter

  02. prep new vCenter VM for connectivity / SQL dependencies

  03. backup of the existing database.

  04 data backup current vCenter using Data Migration tool

  05 use the data migration tool to start the setup of the vCenter server and restore the configuration of the server vCenter to the destination machine.

  06 turn off from the old server vCenter.

  07 restore the vCenter Server Configuration and installing vCenter Server on the new server

  08 updated vCenter Server name of Plug-Ins (if the new vCenter has a different name)

  09. test cycle

  Good luck!

• upgrade to vCenter and related methods

  Currently, I am planning on upgrading my vCenter 4.1. I am currently running on Windows 2008R2 4.0u1. I have 5 vCenters that are in bound mode. What I have to do all the updates in a single session or can they be carried out for a month or two?

  Yes, you can link 4.0 4.1.

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/280846

• What is the best method to do a clean install of El Capitan (currently using Mavericks).

  I want to do a clean install of El Capitan. I am currently using Mavs 10.9.5 and my time machine goes back to 2010. I don't want to migrate everything. I want to start cleaning up. I read a few methods, but I'm curious to know if there is some consensus as to the best method.

  Make sure that you have a Time Machine backup.

  Download El Capitan and do an install from USB.

  Start the installer from USB and install it.

  (Ref - this :)

  http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/01/clean-install-OS-x-El-Capitan-Mac/

• Best way to upgrade of domain Active Directory from 2003 to 2008

  I have a specific situation.  I need to upgrade an AD 2003-2008r2.  We are not comfortable making the leap for 2012.  Basically, the original design was 5 offices of each with a domain controller.  Each domain controller has a file share, but also the "Users" folder  I thought up starting with the new servers side by side.  DCPromo the 2008r2 new servers to domain controllers.  What is the best method to move the file shares and files users in this case?  Once files are moved I can then DCPromo down servers 2003 and raise to the 2008 field.  All IP addresses are static throughout the environment.  He didn't design this way... but having to deal with it.

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home
  http://social.msdn.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home

• Upgrade to vCenter 5.1 to 6

  Hello

  Received a customer request to improve environment vsphere 5.1 to 6. Upgrade include below.

  Please suggest what is the best practice for upgrade. Should I put the host to vcenter first level, then vclient, Update Manager. What things should be verified/backed up before upgrading.

  1 Vcenter

  2 Vclient

  3. Update Manager

  4 host

  Thanks in advance.

  Manky

  Your order of upgrade look OK and I recommend that you take a look at these KB articles for some best practices:

  VMware KB: Upgrading recommended vcenter Server 6.0

  VMware KB: Best practice to install or upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.0

  If you have any other VMware products installed, take a look here for the update sequence: VMware KB: update of the sequence for vSphere 6.0 and their compatible VMware product

• I'm looking for help to share best practices to upgrade the Site Recovery Manager (SRM), if someone can summarize the preparatory tasks?

  I'm looking for help to share best practices to upgrade the Site Recovery Manager (SRM), if someone can summarize the preparatory tasks?

  Hello

  Please check the content below, you may find useful.

  Please refer to the URL: Documentation VMware Site Recovery Manager for more detailed instructions.

  Important

  Check that there is no cleanup operation pending on recovery plans and there is no problem of configuration for the virtual machines that protects the Site Recovery Manager.

  1 all the recovery plans are in ready state.

  2 the protection status of all protection groups is OK.

  3 the status of the protection of all the individual virtual machines in the protection groups is OK.

  4 the recovery of all groups of protection status is ready.

  5. If you have configured the advanced settings in the existing installation, note settings you configured before the upgrade.

  6 the vCenter local and remote server instances must be running when you upgrade the Site Recovery Manager.

  7 upgrade all components Server vCenter Site Recovery Manager on a site until you upgrade vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager on the other site.

  8 download the setup of Site Recovery Manager file in a folder on the machines to be upgraded the Site Recovery Manager.

  9 make sure no other facilities-\no updates windows restarts done shoud

  Procedure:

  1. connect to the machine on the protected site on which you have installed the Site Recovery Manager.

  2. backup the database of Site Recovery Manager by using the tools that offers the database software.

  3. (optional) If you upgrade of Site Recovery Manager 5.0.x, create a 64-bit DSN.

  4 upgrade the instance of vCenter Site Recovery Manager server that connects to vCenter Server 5.5.

  If you upgrade a vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager 4.1.x, you upgrade the instances of vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager server in the correct sequence until you can upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 5.5.

  a upgrade vCenter Server 4.1.x to 5.0.x server.

  b Update Site Recovery Manager of 4.1.x to 5.0.x.

  c upgrade server vCenter Server 5.0.x to 5.5.

  Please let me know if it helped you or not.

  Thank you.

• Upgrade to vCenter 5.0 to 5.5 - agent backward compatibility?

  I'm moving from 5.0 to 5.5.  As I did this is that I have a VM vCenter standalone.  I cloned it (run sysprep, etc.) and then upgraded the clone to not touch anything we have in production.

  When asked to upgrade the agents on the hosts, I chose that I have them will modernize manually at a later date.

  So first of all the question, are backward compatible with 5.0 agents?  Or once that I upgrade, only vCenter 5.5 will be able to connect?

  What is the best way to return to agent 5.0 if I have problems after upgrading to 5.5 agent?

  In my client web vCenter 5.5, I'll try to add the hosts when even just to see if there is a connectivity (understand an error message could say that much) but I don't see a way to add them manually.  It appears when I select hosts, he starts searching for them (and can't find anything that is what I expected).

  I want to just make sure that what seems to behave correctly because there is no agent 5.5 host out there.

  Thank you much for the help.

  vCenter Server 5.5 supports the hosts of version 4.x and later... There is no need restoration agent and you can still run the vCenter Agent pre-upgrade Checker host before upgrading the server vCenter Server.

• Upgrade to vcenter server 5.1 without interrupting display connections

  Dear Experts,

  We need to upgrade the server vcenter to 5.1. VMware Server connection view won't

  The ESX servers become 5.1 as well

  Work with

  -vmare vcenter server 5.0

  -connection to the server view vmare 5.0 (no linked clone, automated pool)

  -ESXi 5.0

  Plan:

  -In place move vcenter server 5.0 to vcenter server 5.1

  Question:

  -Could we perform the upgrade from vcenter without interrupting the view vmare machines?

  -Is that I have to restart the server view connection manager

  -During the upgrade, will be the loose connection to their machines?

  -During the upgrade, the user will be able to authenticate, start their machines?

  Thank you for your support

  Wines

  [email protected]

  Dear Experts,

  -Could we perform the upgrade from vcenter without interrupting the view vmare machines?

  -Is that I have to restart the server view connection manager

  -During the upgrade, will be the loose connection to their machines?

  -During the upgrade, the user will be able to authenticate, start their machines?

  Thank you for your support

  Wines

  1: Yes

  2: no

  3: no

  4: depends on what policies of power you are using.  Since vCenter is going to be offline you won't be able to start and stop machines.  The best thing is to change your feeding strategy for always under tension and ensure that all machines are available during the interview of vCenter.

• The upgrade to vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 to 5.1 error

  Hello

  I'm trying to upgrade our vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 device and continue to operate in the following error message:

  Export DB error

  Thu, December 6, 2012 08:47:33 + 0000 * ERROR: cannot run command ' / etc/va/upgrade/pre-scripts/02_embedded_db.sh' 8 *.

  This error is located in upgrade.log.

  I'm following the steps in upgrade as outline here:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2033990

  Has anyone encountered this problem?

  See you soon.

  Hello

  I couldn't find a solution and ended up in the development of a new device and the migration of guests on.

• Best method for SRM

  With 5 guests and replication of VM 75 which method is preferred for best practices

  (1) deploy vCenter SRM

  (2) deploy SRM in dedicated VM (uses vCenter, database)

  (3) deploying MIS in dedicated VM (separate database)

  Hello

  Second option is the best option that is deployed in dedicated SRM VM (uses vCenter Database) because

  The MRS Server works as an extension to the vCenter Server on a site server. Because the MRS server depends on vcenter Server for some services, you must install and configure vCenter Server on a site before you install SRM.

  SRM benefits of vCenter services, such as storage management, authentication, authorization, and personalization of comments. MRS also uses the standard set of vSphere administrative tools to manage these services.

• Error while upgrading to Vcenter 5

  Hello

  See atatched error - I am trying to upgrade vCenter4 U4 to version 5.

  The vcenter is a VM on the host ESX (32 bit)

  Any thoughts?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Please check below links to help you solve your problem.

  Minimum requirement of vCenter installtion 5.0:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2005084

  Best practices for installtion fo vCenter 5.0

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2003790

  Kind regards

  KO

• Best method of automation by adding a value in the comments advanced options

  I need to add a value in the advanced options in all my virtual machines, which means I have to turn them off, change the configuration and turn on again them.

  I was wondering what is the best method if automate this since I did not intend to do it manually (if this is a bit special virtual machine).

  The environment is vSphere with vCenter 4.1 4.1 and VMs are Windows Server and Linux SLES.

  Somebody had to do something similar?

  Hello, caddo-

  A way to add a setting to a virtual machine is to use a VirtualMachineConfigSpec and the ReconfigVM() of a VirtualMachine object method.  So, for the advanced option that you mentioned, you can use something like:

  ## the name of the VM to reconfig$strMyVMName = "someVM0"$vmMyVM = Get-VM $strMyVMName
  
  ## create a new ConfigSpec to configure the VM$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec -Property @{    extraConfig = New-Object VMware.Vim.OptionValue -Property @{        Key = "monitor_control.disable_mmu_largepages"        Value = "TRUE"    } ## end new-object OptionValue} ## end new-object ConfigSpec
  
  ## reconfig the VM with the given ConfigSpec$vmMyVM.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM($spec)
  
  ## update the VM's View data$vmMyVM.ExtensionData.UpdateViewData("Config.ExtraConfig")
  
  ## check the advanced option setting (ExtraConfig item)$vmMyVM.ExtensionData.Config.ExtraConfig | ?{$_.Key -eq "monitor_control.disable_mmu_largepages"}
  

  This establishes the additional configuration for a virtual machine.  You can adjust easily to many/all virtual machines (date you probably pass by using the ReconfigVM_Task() method, which runs asynchronously).  Enjoy.

• What is the best method to move from an iPhoto from one Mac to another library?

  What is the I best method for export/transfer my iPhoto on MBP to the iPhoto library library on my iMac? I prefer to keep my metadata intact; I guess that to do a package contents 'show' of my iPhoto and AirDropping the 'masters' library, I won't lose it? I'm under El Capitan 10.11.4 on Mac.

  I just want to explain my situation because maybe I'm missing something. I have SUMMER will use the photo library iCloud for synchronization on all my Apple devices and as a backup off-site. Fortunately, I realized soon as enough it would become a management NIGHTMARE. I downloaded everything from iCloud to my MBP and want to get it all on my iMac, so I can clean up the mess of duplicates and others.

  I couldn't synchronize with realism of the iCloud photo library to my iMac because I would have had to download about 150 + GB of data, so that I can download the 30 or GBs who were on my families iOS devices iCloud and the MBP. ICloud photo library interface is NOT well designed or easy to use - download directly from the cloud is heavy at best.

  All tips are appreciated, thanks.

  Simply connect the two Macs together and drag the library in the pictures of the new mac folder - or use an external hard drive to the Mac OS extended (journaled) format and drag through - then launch iPhoto on the new system

  Move the masters moves original photos and metadata exactly as they were imported without organization

  And iCloud library isn't an option for iPhoto - it requires OS X 10.10.1 and photos 1 or later version

  LN