Best practices of ESXi 4.1 installation

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• Best practices Networking ESXi 5

  Good afternoon.

  Hate me help, docks as best practices para uma infraestrutura of rede receber o Vmware (ESXi 5 + vCenter vConverter) autonomous.

  Switch, VLAN, NIC?

  Obrigado

  Olá amigo, good afternoon.

  Leave aqui um trecho do livro "Virtualização - Central Datacenter do Componente" em than comenta, sober os conceitos uma rede virtual cloud:

  An e VMware a Savvis sugerem some measures Segurança interesting than sao Speaker aqui operacionais:

  Lado provedor:

  • Manter as redes for sao to leave da infraestrutura virtualizada isoladas. Insulation pode ser feito com os rocking or utilizando segmentacao through VLAN. Outro Método PODES use uma want Kanada Doi methods e o conceito of virtual switch.
  • Manter as redes of members isoladas. Manter as redes of members e isoladas interfaces controlled devidamente.
  • Manter as redes used para verificaram maquinas e tolls IP isoladas em redes roteaveis nao. Estas redes precisam ser rapidas e ao mesmo tempo sao suscetiveis an attacks.
  • Manter as redes back clients isoladas. Estas redes should ser isoladas das redes e members should divertir firewall between as redes para avoid security problems.
  • Fornecer seguro aos recursos nuvem client access. Client OS usually precisam ter access has recursos dentro da e nuvem para isto e Chipre o provedor disponibilize um Portal com encriptacao para Segurança effect.
  • Backups to maintain E restores seguros e consistent. Provedor deve to maintain this appearance basico realize e recursos back to maintain backup um processo rapido restore.
  • Autenticacao strong mechanisms, auditoria e autorização. OS provedores should please has autenticacao segura, access so aos recursos waiting rooms recursos providenciar e.
  • Use models seguros e configuracao gold images do sistema operational e das management. Estas reduzem os problemas com configuracoes inadequadas measures. Also o provisionamento maquinas tolls deve obedecer an entrar em being Produção antes criteria preestabelecidos.
  • Members of recursos para avoid attacks do tipo back.

  Client side:

  • Practices of mercado Seguir para a Segurança sistemas operacionais back. OS administradores should seguir as mesmas rules used no ambiente interno relativas to back sistemas operacionais, como manter os last Segurança no patches of Segurança configuracao gold images.
  • Following to encrypt data. Dados follows sistemas important should mantidos encriptados forse ainda but os possíveis ataque para ser to rede.

  Espero ter helped.

• Best practices of ESXi.

  I'm trying to find out if I implement best practices correctly on ESXi 4.1 U1. Our facility has two on-board NICs and a quad card NETWORK to use for data and management networks. We have fiber for the side storage. If I understand the latest practices should I trunk 6-port then use port groups to manage traffic VLAN where going.

  My question is this does not put excessive pressure on the network card that is used for the traffic of vmotion/vmkernel? If I put the switchport in one VLAN specific datagrams wouldn't get inspected and abandoned by the switch asics as opposed to the ESXi host to have to deal with them? I don't know if traffic would have a significant impact, so be it, but wanted to check before the implementation...

  Thank you
  Froggy

  I guess that you are concerned about air on the ESXi host performance, because it must deal with VLAN tags.

  Don't worry about this. The overhead is minimal and modern NICS also have material unloading of functions for VLAN that will be used by ESX in many cases of handling.

  However, remember that you have no safe the uplinks on the physical switch! Just create a virtual switch and add all the rising physical their. ESXi them then use all function of the active/standby/unused attribute that you can set by group of virtual ports.

  Andreas

  - Blog of experience front of VMware

• Best practices for ESXi system saves location

  Hi all

  What is the recommendation of VMWare for the storage location of the ESXi logs? Of course, if a VMFS path is not configured under software > advanced settings, then the papers will not be stored on a persistent storage. We have installed 5.5 ESXi hypervisor on a 16 GB USB, newspapers can be stored there?

  Thank you!

  You must configure partitions on the USB key, which is a bit complicated. One for ESXi and the other for logging. If the host has local storage (our not, that is why we are doing the extra work) it may be better to just write logs in the data store.

• Best practices for vsphere 5.1

  where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

  Hello

  Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

  Best EqualLogic practices ESX

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

  If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

  If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

  Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

  KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

  Kind regards

• Best practices for vCenter 5.1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

  I am looking for a best practices or really any documentation on configuring vCenter 5.1 with a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. I see that SQL Server 2008 R2 is supported, but that's all. Any help is appreciated.

  Unless you have a huge (and I mean huge) environment, the vCenter database in general is not that big of a deal or go-getter and was apparently not deemed worthy for some secret magic tips because of this.

  Standard SQL "best practices" and observe the standard installation documentation when deployment vCenter and you should be good to go.

  Some documents on the vCenter more in-depth database are here:

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/TechResources/10162

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/TechResources/10302

  Also, I highly recommend you watch this recording of VMworld:

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=5Ly64_ca7-I

• New to ESXi ESXi installation USB or local disks operation best practices?

  I'm new to Vmware and run a small store, what is the best practice or best method to install the OS ESXi.  I currently have a few that I have installed on the usb stick on the server Board.  After some research it would be better to have two small drives SSD that I can raid with the operating system, then another RAID for the VM data store.  USB is a single source of failure.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Hello

  Having the internal hard drives in RAID1 for the o/s will certainly to avoid a single point of failure, as you pointed out correctly. At present the death of your USB key, your host problems quite quickly, and you will need to get a new one and re-install again. You could save your good host configuration and realistically - it does take too long to rebuild a crowd if he dies. Lose other stuff like network configurations and others would however be a pain!

  I think I have two SSD internal drives in RAID1 for the o/s is probably overkill. You will have an advantage any speed of startup, but realistically most of the servers restart everything often and once that ESXi is in place and operational it is very little activity on the disks, a config updates every so often and so on. I'd be inclined to use a SSD to create a Cache of the host for the swap drive, like that you can actually use the SSD and get more performance for your money.

  Many manufacturers (like Dell) use internal SD cards in RAID1. While SD cards are not known to be very robust, because of the congestion of ESXi and the minimum number of necessary paperwork once installed initially, it makes a less expensive alternative to business class for the o/s disks.

  In regards to your data warehouses, having an internal RAID your local disks is best if you use a stand-alone host with no storage attached to the network. You always have the problem of failure of the host if.

  See you soon,.

  Ryan

• The ESXi 4.1.0 to 6.0 upgrade. -upgarde and best practices

  Hi guys,.

  We are a small business with a single physical server, ESXi 4.1.0 installed with approx. 8 VMs. We plan on buying Essential Kit 6.0 ESXi because that's all we need right now. However, as VMWare says that 4.1.0 to 6.0 upgrade is NOT supported (matrices of the interoperability of products VMware), how we improve our host and VMS?

  I guess the correct way will be upgraded from 4.0. 5.5 U3 first, then to 6.0. However, if we buy the 6.0 license essential Kit, that we will be able to always download and install and upgrade of the host and all VMs to U3 5.5, and 6.0. Essentials?

  In addition, what are the best practices to upgrade a single host with multiple virtual machines? What I did research, we should back up important files from virtual machine, all critical data, etc. All recommendations are welcome. My understanding is that the upgrade also virtual machines will be upgraded automatically, that's correct - methods of upgrade to ESXi 5.5 (2058352) | VMware KB

  Best regards

  D. Stanchev

  Hello

  As you said, you cannot upgrade host ESXi 4.x to 6.x, you must first upgrade 4.x to 5.x and then switch to 6.x

  Before moving to 5 or 6, make sure you ESXi host is compatible with ESXi 6.

  Check cheque and VMware hardware compatibility list if your server is listed.

  Although you'll have a 6 ESXi license kit, you can download ESXi 5.x and use it to upgrade process.

  Only if you need to use 5.x permanently, then you need to get your license keys downgraded to 5.x, otherwise once you upgrade host to 5.x, go ahead and level to ESXi 6.x

  Backup-

  Before you begin the upgrade, make sure that you have backup of all VMs critics.

  Either you can download/export all VMs as OVF, or you can use Veeam's free edition to make the backup of virtual machines

  -Update

  You can join the server ESXi ISO Installer and boot server form ISO and update.

  During the Installation process make sure to select ' PRESERVER VMFS and upgrade ESXi host '

  If you do not keep vmfs, all virtual machines will get deleted during the installation/upgrade process.

  Once you get ESXi Host upgrade to Upgrade VMFS 5.x version so that it can support 6.

  Then finally the ESXi host to 6.x upgrade, yet once make sure PRESERVE you VMFS during installation.

  If you have vCenter Update manager, use update reach the average upgrade easy it is to upgrade.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

• Best practices for storing the Logs of the system for all newly improved ESXi hosts?

  Hi people,

  What are the options and best practices for the Logs of the system for all newly improved 5.1u1 ESXi hosts?

  Do I need to have the Syslog server or it can be safely ignored?

  Thank you

  Evening,

  Syslog is preferred, but VMware has provided a collector of syslog on the vcenter installation disc can be installed on any windows host or your vcenter. I can't count the number of times where I had guests CMTF or newspapers lost... Fortunately for the syslog which collects up to the accident.  It is not necessary, but it's really a good idea without any real cost since you can use your vcenter host.

  Here is an article on how to install it:

  Set up Syslog ESXi collector | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

  Thank you

• Best practices ESXi Install/Config

  Hi all, first of all I am noob VMware, my apologies. I tested Esxi internal 4 in recent months. Without going into details, I would like to adopt the solution Dr. Esxi 4. We are a small company with a large parent company that can provide the space for the equipment and the employee must strike DR.

  I would buy a sever adaquite to deploy three virtual servers which would be W2k3 or W2k8. One would be a file server / print, the other an Exchange 2007 server and the last would be a server terminal server. Looking for a guide or a best practice document that talks about the allocation of memory/recommendations, equipment practices, sharing practices, etc... For example I want to go with a configuration Raid 5 vs Raid 1 or Raid 1 + 0. During the installation of w2k3 would I created a partition c:\ and d:\... Etc...

  If any of you have recommendations or guidelines that you can share with me, it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance to all!

  If it is strictly intended to DR, I suppose that high performance is not what you need in the first place.

  Then I'd go to a server with 1 CPU Quad Core 2.5 GHz or more, at least 8 GB RAM 2x300GB SAS HDD as RAID1, make sure you have a RAID with battery buffered controller cache write (otherwise you won't be very happy). Make sure that the server and the components are the VMware HCL

  The servers will run probably with 2 GB of RAM, but ESXi will have too little RAM.

  Configure the virtual machine as you would with physical HW.

  For Windows 2003, you can partition alignment.

  André

  EDIT: Please use only 1 vCPU per VM.

• Linux and oracle database installation best practices windows

  can anyone recommend the guide of best practices for the installation/design of windows/Linux oracle database servers.

  Microsoft, sql Server, provide a number of useful resources on the evolution of the default parameters that can die of hunger the operating system of resources, where to and where not to store the data in files/logs etc etc, but I've yet to find a similar guide for Oracle. Research on best practices during the installation/initial design in order to avoid the risk of recovery/redundancy later on any line, reliability, availability, performance. Guidance most welcome.

  See following note metalink on system requirements for the different versions:

  (Doc ID 169706.1) - database Oracle (RDBMS) Unix AIX, HP - UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64 Unix OS Installation and Configuration requirements checklist (8.0.5 to 11.2)

  Online Oracle Database Documentation 11g Release 2 (11.2)

  -Som

• Machines and ESXi ESXi virtual memory best practical considerations

  We have a new Infrastructure built current and capacity planning that happens. It would help if someone can provide me with best practices on the hardware requirements while building ESXI hosts.

  See the technical white paper for a bit more on this topic below.

  https://www.VMware.com/PDF/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.PDF

• Best practices for backup of vCenter device and ESXi hosts?

  Hello

  I have a new VMware environment based on 5.5 ESXi and vCenter Server Appliance. A few questions:

  • What is the best practice to perform the backup of the vCenter Server Appliance? I set up the camera with the embedded SQL Express database.
  • It's recommended to backup the ESXi host or is it easier to any re - install failure?

  Best regards
  ,

  Thor-Egil

  Hello

  You can use VMware VDP to backup your device of vCenter. It is included in essentials, standard, enterprise, and enterprise as well as licenses.

  I won't have backups of ESXi servers. Restore the backup would take more time that the deployment of a new ESXi.Only thing, you may want to consider is to enable logging remotely, so you can see why the hosts failed.

  Concerning

  Tim

• vSphere 5 ESXi host - RAID config best practice?

  Hi all

  I'm pretty new to VMWare and wonder what's the best Setup for RAID

  I have a HP DL380 G7 with SAS 4 x 600 GB discs.

  It is a simple server lab/DR, and I intend on creating a RAID-5 volume with no hostspare. Can I partition the RAID and put the ESX software on a small partition and use the other partition for the data store? If possible it is best practice?

  I imagine there will be a performance by having the same RAID volume, making of the reads/writes on the ESX software and storage at the same time. Would I be better to throw some 72 GB in RAID 1 on the server so just for the ESX software and maybe to store some ISOs?

  Thank you!

  B

  Don't worry ESXi. It works entirely in memory and only stores the configuration changes and logs on the HARD drive. I'd go with the RAID5 configuration that you mentioned.

  André

• Client Server installation best practices

  Hi all
  
  I wonder about this, searched and found nothing relevant, so I ask here:
  There are all best practice/State of the art when you have a client application installed on the same computer as the database?
  I know that the client application uses the binary of the server, but I have to avoid?
  Can I install a client Oracle home and the setting for the client application to use the client libraries?
  
  In 11g it of not more changeperm.sh, make - it prove Oracle agrees that the client applications using Server libraries?
  
  Precision: I am on AIX 6 (or 7) + Oracle 11g.
  Client application will be an ETL tool - explaining why he is running on the machine of the DB.

  Unless the client application has some specific needs, there is nothing wrong with using the part of binary files on the Oracle server for customer use.
  For example, there is a demand I'm working again on which requires 32-bit client. The Oracle Server binaries are 11 GR 2 64 bit (for the database side). 11 GR 2 having no more than the 32-bit part, a 32-bit client installation is required.
  It is mainly the certification application version matrix.

  Nicolas.