Best way to import a new virtual machine?

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  What better way to back up a virtual machine with snapshots?

  I have copied the VM directory to a backup folder, but then had problems to restore.  Just right?

  Not sure if it was because of the way the backup that I did.

  Sorry my English!

  It is recommended to create the snapshot with the VM or disable?

  Snapshots can be created with the virtual machine or not. With the virtual machine running, it may take more time to create the snapshot, and you won't 'lose' disk space, due to the State of memory that will be instantaneous.

  When possible, I recommend you take the snapshot with the virtual machine power off.

  André

• create a new virtual machine with the default settings?

  I was wondering if there was a way to create a new virtual machine with the default settings.

  For example, let's say I want all new Lion VM to have 2 CPU cores. Is there a way to set this automatically? There are other parameters I want a new machine to inherit automatically, I was wondering if there is an automatic way to do this, or is it a feature request...

  Thanks in advance

  lerker wrote:

  Just for my clarification, when you say a vm model, basically I would execute a finder copy then drag back to the VM library, right?

  Yes.

  On the orders of spcirpting, it would be unix commands or are there specific vmware controls that make your job easier (in Applications/VMware\ Fusion/content or elsewhere)...

  IIRC, VMware Fusion 3 and later versions has an AppleScript dictionary, but it is not yet officially supported and may not be able to do what you want so, basically, only Unix Shell scripts, that's what I was referring to.  For an example, see my script attached to the following response: Re: vmware - script of the creation of the vm and the operating system installation process

• best way to specify a folder for a new virtual machine

  Hello

  I am currently working on a system that has the following file structure:

  DC1

  Prod

  Linux

  Windows

  Other

  Dev

  Linux

  Windows

  Other

  Beta

  Linux

  Windows

  Other

  What is the best way to specify a specific folder for a new virtual machine. At the Moment so I just say Linux it is said that there are several files with the same name. I discovered a way to get the good record, but it's very nearby. Any comments would be much appreciated.

  Kobus

  Perhaps the function in my folder through post might help?

• OsCustomizationSpec and OSCustomizationNicMapping they are a good way to set up the new virtual machine for the model

  I build a script to generate auto magicly VM when I have import information from a csv file. I have the latest PowerCli, I am trying to build servers r2 Sever 2012 model.  I tried several OsCustomizationSpec (OCS) of in the hope of getting something to work, but I had no luck so far.  In VCenter, it shows that it applies the OCS, but is not apear to have an impact on the server.  I have disabled UAC since the last time that I tried it so maybe that will make a difference.  I am under ESXi 5.1 update 2, just to try to give all the necessary information.  Ideally, I'd like Sysprep, the value of intellectual property, change the computer name and join the server to the domain.  That's all! lol I have the book "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reffernece, automating vSphere Administration, I walked through step by step.  The new version of PowerCli seems not have the x 86 limitation as earlier versions of PowerCli.  I tried so many different things, I'm not sure what to put in place as a starting point.

  # Save the object credentials with permission to join the domain.
  $DomainCredentials = get-Credential "domain\testername."
  # Clone our Spec by adding the domain information.
  $Spec = get-OSCustomizationSpec "Windows Server 2012 R2"
  $Spec += get-OSCustomizationNicMapping - Spec $Spec
  #$Spec | Select *.

  # Get our VM
  # Change network settings
  Get - VM BigServername | Get-NetworkAdapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName nic - 172.16.25 - VLAN225 - connected: $true '
  -Confirm: $false | out-null
  # Close the comments to make change.
  Stop-VMGuest - VM $VM - confirm: $false | out-null
  # Wait while feedback stops
  While ($vm. ExtensionData.Runtime.PowerState - not "poweredOff")
  {
  Start-Sleep - seconds 1
  $vm. ExtensionData.UpdateViewData ('Runtime.PowerState')
  }
  # Apply Spec customization to apply the new network settings
  Get - VM "BigServername" |
  Set-VM - OSCustomizationSpec "R2 Windows Server 2012" - confirm: $false |
  Start-VM

  I can rebuild the model, or something else, we must do this work.

  OR - is simply not the best way to configure the VM?  If not, what Sysprep?

  Good news, but first, I would really like to know where the log files are on which server to the OsCustomization process.

  I decided to reverse engineer and create a CSOS within vCeneter and once I got to work, I kept creating new CSO via PowerCli until I could get that to work, create a new virtual machine.  Once I got this to work, I have tryied to apply on a cloned vm, with no parameters. I got it works too.  I tried to go back to my original image, but I couldn't get this to work.  Something's wrong with this picture.  He wrath that the problem was related to the permissions on the local client.

  New OSCustomizationSpec - OrgName company OSType - Windows - ChangeSid-Server "vcenter.dom.com" - name PowerCliOnly4 - persistent administrator-Type FullName - AdminPassword! password123 - zone "Eastern (USA and Canada)" AutoLogonCount - 3 - domain dom dadmin - DomainUsername - DomainPassword! password123 NamingScheme - vm-Description "PowerCli Use only" - confirm: $false

  Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping - OSCustomizationSpec PowerCliOnly4 | Game-OSCustomizationNicMapping - Position 1 - IpMode UseStaticIP - IpAddress 10.10.10.98 - 255.255.255.0 - DefaultGateway 10.10.10.1 Dns subnet - mask "10.10.10.10","10.10.10.11" "-confirm: $false

  This seems to be very picky.  Because the area is one of the parameters, you cannot put it in the DomainUsername, no dom\dadmin. The part that I really want to know how to get more, is what happens if your vm has a different local administrator as the administrator account.  It turns out that FullName - is not the account that it to connect locally with tires. When I created the vCenter Medtronic Chondroitin, I put 'me' in the name and information of the Organization and that's what was settled in the FullName property:

  Name: PowerCliOnlyM
  Type: persistent
  ServerId: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443.
  Server: vcenter.dom.com
  LastUpdate: 24/09/2014 13:33:19
  DomainAdminUsername: dadmin NO dom/dadmin here!
  DomainUsername: dadmin
  Description: PowerCli use only, done manually in vCenter.
  AutoLogonCount: 3
  ChangeSid: true
  DeleteAccounts: false
  DnsServer:
  DnsSuffix:
  Domain: vsi
  Full name: me
  GuiRunOnce:
  NamingPrefix:
  NamingScheme: Vm
  OrgName: CompanyTU
  OSType: Windows
  ProductKey:
  Time zone: (USA and Canada)
  Working Group:
  LicenseMode: NotSpecified
  LicenseMaxConnections:
  EncryptionKey: {-126, 3, 48, 108...}
  ExtensionData: VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpecItem
  ID: PowerCliOnlyM
  UID: /VIServer = vsi\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationSpec = PowerCliOnlyM /.
  Client: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient
  AdminPassword: w
  DomainAdminPassword: N
  DomainPassword: N

  DNS: {10.10.10.10, 10.10.10.11}
  Wins                  :
  SpecId: PowerCliOnlyM
  Spec: PowerCliOnlyM
  SpecType: persistent
  NetworkAdapterMac:
  Position: 1
  IPMode: UseStaticIP
  IP address: 10.10.10.98
  Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  DefaultGateway: 10.10.10.1
  AlternateGateway:
  VCApplicationArgument:
  ID: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationNicMapping = OSCustomizationNicMappingImpl-PowerCliOnlyM-persistent-1.
  UID: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationNicMapping = OSCustomizationNicMappingImpl-PowerCliOnlyM-persistent-1.
  ExtensionData: VMware.Vim.CustomizationAdapterMapping
  Client: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient
  Version: 1

  I think that it is good to know that the virtual machine reboot 4 or 5 times as it goes through this process.  It breaks is you try and do something for the virtual machine that interrupt the process.  I don't know that I'll think more questions in a second.

  In addition, it cost he had some problems with the put between quotation marks, single or double around the password, but I did not check this again, I just know that once I took them, he began to work.  I ran on other issues while testing as I was using a single IP address, so if I do not disable the test VM, the following would not work because of the conflct network, maybe I shouldn't admit that... lol

• Assessment of Windows has expired the vcenter - how to recreate in a new virtual machine?

  For reasons I won't go into detail, the Windows evaluation period has expired for a VM running vCenter server for a project I'm working on that.  They have the license key is not the media that they installed, so once they have the appropriate support, they will create a new virtual machine with the installation of operating system licensed correctly and install vCenter Server/MSDE on it from scratch (the same way the other VM was built).  What is the best way to get over as much information as possible from the old instance of vCenter?  (We can not do related modes because we cannot connect to the old VM more.)

  > Is there a good way to replicate this info from the old DB to new DB

  Well don't know if you want to say that Oracle or SQL.  If it is easy SQL, simply move the entire file *.dbf VC points currently on the new server of DB.  That's why I love SQL server, easy migration.

• Best way to import images

  I'm looking for the best way to import pictures to my Mac. I currently use iMovie to import my images, because I come from the end of 'consumers users', but I'm looking for more professional way.

  All of my cameras use SD cards and put all the images in a folder/quicktime file called "PRIVATE". It's all my research, AVCHD. When you import into iMovie, it seems what I push in 60 fps down to 29.97, that's why I was looking for another way. -Another question is also, when I import iMovie, which makes the 'Mac' images only until his change, that sucks. I need a good way to import images in case I ever need to use a Windows machine. iMovie puts the icon (AIC) on the files.

  One of the cameras with which the footage was shot was a JVC GZ-HM35BUSD. (Some cheap Wal-Mart camcorder), but the other (same AVCHD Formate) images were shot using a really expensive sony camcorder. ($600). (Not sure of the name)

  Thank you

  David

  I have directly from AVCHD editing all the time and it works fine for me on several systems, including an older macbook pro. I suggest avoiding if possible the transcoding. It takes a lot of time and if you don't do this right, you could surcompresse and a generational loss.

  I would not go and delete unused items after I'm done editing, just to save space. Also, if it's projects, I don't care, I sometimes export final movie into something easily playable outside the Organization (like mov or mp4) and then delete all the media source. This is NOT recommended if you work in a professional manner. In this case, you must check in all. But for prosumers, there may be a lot of projects where you just want to put together a quick edit and then export it as a final movie for viewing online or elsewhere. In this case, you cannot hold on to all your layer to always source footage.

  It really varies by user, but like I said, if you work professionally, or aspiring to, you'll need a way to archive and back up these archives. If you work from the band, then comes the labelling and store the tapes are an acceptable backup for the media associated with a certain project (of course, you will still need to save and save the project itself). But if you work from tapeless formats, then you will need several hard drives with lots of space, archive and everything back up. The good news is that hard drives get less expensive, bigger and stronger all the time. I had two lacie 1 TB hd for a few years now with zero problems (before there 2 lacie 500 GB for many years, also with 0 problems). But I'm still parnaoid that #1 will go while #2 is still in the Act of saving. Or they'll both go at the same time. Ouch.

• Install the new virtual machine as a guest of the installation of boot CD

  Hello

  HOWTO install new virtual machine as a guest of the boot installation CD?

  first of all can I mount the CD drive?

  Best way to do is to download the CD image on your server ESX with WinSCP or FastSCP.

  Connect the cd player to the guest for this ISO image and make sure that the option "Connect to PowerOn" is selected.

  If you hav access your esx host you can also insert the cd in the CD drive, ESX host and connect the guest to the host drive. Check the option "connect to PowerOn.

  Start your virtual machine and it should start from CD.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• Create new virtual machine of the model that have two hard drives in the different data store

  We do VM deploy automation with PowerCLI.

  There is already a model created with at least two hard drives to one side and each hard drive belong to difference datastore,

  In the model's operating system is Windows server 2008 R2 already installed VMware Tools and other software in the second (other than C: driver) driver

  We can successfully deploy a new virtual machine with this manually with vSphere client model.

  But when we try to make the deployment with PowerCLI, can not find examples of similar scripts in the document of reference,

  and we also google this question, still no similar question was found.

  Is this possible with PowerCLI? If it's possible could you give me some advice or an example of script, thank you!

  Best regards.

  I already found the solution.

  With the vSphere SDK .NET API, we can create the new virtual machine to the model

  Mainly used API listed below, sorry because I can not give the source code here.

  • VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  • VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  • VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  • VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  • VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
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  For reference, you can take a look at this post and this post

  LucD , thanks for your help!

• New virtual machine on a VLAN different from existing virtual machines

  Hello

  I am trying to replace one of our physical servers with a virtual machine which must be on its own VIRTUAL local network.  This virtual machine will get channelled through our network to a router belonged to the client who resides with us.  I created a new group of VM ports for the new virtual machine on the standard vSwitch as the rest of our virtual machines are on with id VLAN by default of 0.  I was unable to create an id VLAN for the port group.  I have the virtual machine is set to the tag on all ports of the physical switch that the host is connected to the VLAN.  With this configuration I still can't even ping to the IP address of the physical switch for this vlan.  I feel that I'm missing something simple, but I'm pretty new to networks on vSphere.  If any information let me know.

  Hello

  Have you tried directly to type the VLAN ID in the drop-down list box. This is how to specify the VLAN ID for the virtual machines in a group of ports in the case of Virtual Switch Tagging (VST). By design, you can select a predefined VLAN ID or directly start typing the code.

  Best regards

  Iliana

• URGENT! After installing 6 Fusion and creation of new virtual machine with Windows 7, I get a message "VMware Fusion cannot enter the unit". WHAT SHOULD DO?

  After purchase, installation and activation Fusion 6 with the license key, I had a library of VMS showing 2 Boot Camp partitions. It's strange that I only have 1.
  I tried to activate them but received a message that it is out of date in 2 cases. (see annex 1)

  I started a new virtual machine with a Windows 7 installation disc directly on my HD. I have provided a way to do this and followed the instructions of Fusion to the screen.

  Apparently, everything went well and after several restarts, the installation appears to be over (see annex 2) I tried to open and run the installed Windows 7. I had however a window with the following message:

  "Pending the unit.

  "VMware Fusion cannot enter the unit. Please wait until the unit starts automatically, or interact with the virtual machine below. ' (see annex 3)

  Here Windows 7 seems to start but after a while with the home screen and of the Øresund finishing this window closed and open a new window called library Virtual Machine on the left showing the partitions of Bootcamp and the Virtual Machine Windows 7 x 64 and in the middle gray a representation of what is supposed to be the Windows 7 desktop. (see Exhibit 4). When I opened the settings button a window with different setting options pops up. This mark means to me that Windows is installed but the final opening isn't the case

  When you quit Vmware Fusion indeed Windows seems to be close (see part 5)

  What is going on? What has gone wrong? What should I do? I don't know how to solve the problem.

  I should f.i. remove the virtual machine from Windows 7 and is free automatically made partition on my HD as the reboot with the Windows installation disc? or y at - it another way to enter the UNIT?

  Help, please!

  Thanks in advance

  Your virtual machine is running. It is in the unit - which each windows gets its own window of Mac - and you have no application Windows running, there is no visible windows. You can start a Windows application in the start of Fusion menu in the menu bar at the top right, or turn on the Windows task bar on the view menu and start applications from there. Or use the view menu to switch to the Single mode or full-screen, which puts all of your Windows desktop in a window separate from Mac.

  You do not have two partitions to Boot Camp on your Mac, you have two virtual machines named "Boot Camp partition".

  The message about it being unable to enter the unit arrives while the merger is pending for the tools begin to run, because the tool is necessary for the unit.

• VMware Fusion 6 Professional - where is the possibility of locking VMware using a single virtual machine and do not allow the creation of new virtual machines?

  This is a quote from the VMware Fusion Professional 6 product page:

  VMware Fusion 6 Professional comes with IT administration tools to help you deploy VMware Fusion using Apple or a management solution third Mac as of JAMF's Casper Suite. Further reduce the cost of support of Windows desktop using the mode of single virtual machine that limits user access to the library of the Virtual Machine, the ability to create virtual machines or migrate PCs and reduces the options of the menu.

  Where can I find these IT administration tools?  I want to block my VMware users to a single virtual machine so that they can not blow by creating new virtual machines, etc.

  How can I do this?

  Thank you!

  Glitch004,

  You could follow the steps to activate the single mode of VM:

  1. turn power off all running VMS and out the merger.

  2. Add the following line to/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion / config

  installerDefaults.simplifiedUI = 'TRUE '.

  3 restart merger and you will find:

  . VM library is hide in the VM menu.

  . only one virtual machine can be used, while click second VM Fusion of the reports ' Unable to open document. "

  Best regards

  Shanghai

• Suggestion on Vcenter DB migration on the new virtual machine and enhancement vcenter server

  Hello

  I'm looking for any suggestion/plan with Vcenter DB migration steps towards the new virtual machine, and then upgrade the server vcenter

  4.1 for Update1/2

  My plan will be

  (1) creating new virtual machine.

  (2) fresh install 64-bit OS

  (3) migration Vcenter DB of the physical server to the new virtual machine.

  (4) upgrade to Vcenter Server 4.1 update 41 4.1 Update1/2

  Anything else missing then please let me know.

  Thank you

  vmguy

  Hi vmguy

  I agree with this approach

  (3) migration Vcenter DB of the physical server to the new virtual machine.

  As long as you leave the old DB in tact and simply detach and copy the DB to the new Victoria Cross.

  Before you run the upgrade on the new VC and DB.

  This way, you have a restoration plan in case something goes wrong with the upgrade.

  Just to add:

  You must migrate the ADAM database so to maintain the specified permissions vCenter

  See: Migrateing vCenter new host

  Please allow points if you find this useful/correct

• need to migrate data to a new virtual machine

  Currently I have a W2K3 off warranty, physical file server. I created a file in Vmware VM W2K8 server which will replace previously mentioned W2k3 server. My data for hosts vSphere 4 and all the physical servers are stored on a CF CX 410 San. My questions are: how to get the data to my new virtual machine? Do I need to migrate? Redirect? Present it? Is there a tool in VMware? Perform this at the level of the logic unit number? I can restore from tape to complete backup using the backup software?

  To say the least, I am a little confused and would appreciate any ideas, I'm sure there is more than one way. Thank you.

  You have a few options.

  Use RDM using the link to the Tunis above.

  Create a new virtual disk in virtual machines and use robocopy to copy the data from the physical server to the virtual machines.

  If the has an option of CIFS SAN then use it directly to files on the server.

• Could not start the new virtual machine or VM remove a data store

  Hi guys,.

  I'm not new with ESXi, but my knowledge with vCenter and Clustering must be improved, so here's my problem.

  We have a Cluster of 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts on a San with 2 VMFS.

  My first problem is when I created a new virtual machine and try to start it, I got an error message similar to the one included with this post.

  My Second problem is more picky. Since I am unable to start my new virtual machine, I had removed from drive and I had created a new. But when I took a peek in the data store where was deleted VM, the directory with all the files are still there. When I try to delete it, I got an error message telling me that it is impossible to proceed.

  Q please?

  Best regards

  Stéphane

  82% of failure can be other issues.  The article below

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1006052

  Also, I saw, where bad records DB for your ESXi hosts can cause weird problems as well.  The host with the problematic guest, can you do a right click on it and "disconnect"?  Try to get out of the bunch at the data center level.  If you get an error vCenter, that means return folder DB.  From there, while the host is in a disconnected state, remove the host to vCenter, then "add host". This will update the DB record.  Maybe worth it?