Can update VMware ESX to ESX 4.1 U2 U1 4.1?

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• Updated Vmware ESX 3.5u4 to u5 - VC 2.5 u2

  Hello

  I want to update my ESX 3.5u4 to update 5.

  I would like to know

  I just download it

  * Image of the CD ESX Server 3.5 Update 5 *.

  File size: 616 MB

  File type: .iso

  and restart the next next next server?

  and what about Virtual Center, I had VC 2.5 Update 2 and I want 5 update to update is the same? Just run the installer again and he will find an existing instance of CR?

  * VirtualCenter DVD Picture - English version only *.

  File size: 824 MB

  File type: iso

  Thank you very much

  If VUM does not work well, I suggest to remove and the relative DB and then perform a new installation of own.

  Maybe directly with vCenter Server 2.5U5.

  André

• VMware ESX server update CD & 3WARE CONTROLLER

  VMware has a cd ISO labled the following: VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 3 driver for 3ware 9650SE and 9690SA SAS HBA controllers GCCA CD.  The URL is: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/drivercd/esx350-3w-9xxx-2.24.08.021vm35-146309.html#InstallESX

  QUESTION: Anyone know if this drive works with ESXi 3.5?  The downloads of the installation, update 3 or 4, I tried to load do not work for me.  If this does not work, can you me where the download is that he asks?  If this is not the case, the ISO EXSi can be modified to work.

  The disc is for ESX only but if necessary you can extract the driver and use with ESXi.   I had check ESXi was last updated yesterday and there is no 3ware with her driver.   See the instructions here to create an oem.tgz file - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php.  There is also a link to the 3Ware Update1/2 site of 3Ware driver.  I check which driver is more recent and use it.

• Y at - it an update for VMware ESX 4.1 update 1?

  Dear friends;

  I heard that VMware releases update for VMware ESX 4.1 update 1. Could you please tell me if this is correct?

  And would you please reference me this article?

  ESX will not available in vSphere 5.0. It will be always supported in the same way that VI 3.5 is still supported, however. Here's an official blog stating that ESX 4.1 is the latest major version of ESX.

  With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1, we announced that 4.1 will be the last version of vSphere to support the ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures.

• VMware ESX Server 2.5.0 build-11548 - licenses can be centralized in vCenter 2.0.2?

  VMware ESX Server, version 2.5.0 build-11548

  VC V. 2.0.2 Build 50618

  My current mission is with some legacy equipment and versions.

  When I add an esx host to vCenter (see versions above) - I don't get any options to add the 'module' of license to vCenter. The 3.0.2 host works well with a license from the local host and Add-ons vcenter. Version 2.5.0 host has a configured host license. I figured I could use a license for the host of the server and add vMotion, HA, DRS & as Add-ons of vCenter. Selecting the host 2.5 licenses tab is not activate 'configuration of the host' link or it lists license config below.

  Also, if I should not just use vCenter 2.0.2 for esx 2.5.x guests... please chime in with the grounds.

  Can the server vCenter 2.0.2 licenses treat the add-on (vMotion, HA, DRS) licenses for a range of esx 2.5.x with a local host (Server/SMP) license (s) OR even just centralized? It does for 3.0.2 without effort.

  No - vmotion, HA and DRS is not possible with ESX 2.5 - even if it was possible to use the license server centralized with VC 2.0.x these features of VI - 3 can have be used with older versions of ESX.

  If this is not the case, can I change esx 2.5.x to open ports or to start a service allowing the centralized license mgmt?

  The only way to manage centrally ESX 2.5 license is with VC - 1, x -.

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• Update disk in VMware ESX 3i

  Hi all

  I recently replace the SATA 7.2 K six drive in my PowerEdge server for six SAS 15 K disks. Previously, I did my VM then restored for the new RAID volume 50 and backup. But when I start the virtual machine (centos 5) and run ' dd if = / dev/zero of = testfile2 bs = 8192 count = 12207 "the almost the same result I had with the SATA disks. My question is: VMWare ESX 3i immediately recognize the new SAS drive? Or maybe it's write the disc with the previous speed?

  Thank you and best regards,

  Amedina

  DD may be not the best tool to test the performance. In theory, the SAS drives, if you get more IOPs, dd wrote only (sequential).

  RAID 50 with only six readers isn't a really good choice either.

  Depending on your RAID controller (Perc xx? with battery backup cache write?), the bottleneck is not the disks, but the controller itself (calculation of parity on the two RAID5) and striping on the RAID50.

  Think about another provision RAID (8 disks RAID10?) and another test tool.

• How do you know what was the latest patch installed on VMware ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 207095

  Hello guys,.

  I've been running an old server that was installed in a test system on workstation DELL - Optiplex GX620 (32 bit).

  During installation, I had to confirgure the file: /usr/lib/vmware/installer/Core/TargetFilter.py to change the following line:

  "interface returned. GetInterfaceType() == ScsiInterface.SCSI_IFACE_TYPE_IDE' as follows:

  "interface returned. GetInterfaceType() == ScsiInterface.SCSI_IFACE_TYPE_ISCSI' this is it worked and I used it for 3 years now. However, right now, I was hoping to be updated with the latest patches and updates and I do not know if I just ESX or ESXi, or what was my last update, and what it takes then.

  I used this command to get the following result:

  # vmware - v

  VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 build-207095

  ... I think that the 3i says I have an ESXi 3.5.0 but build 207095 the buid even as ESXi 3.5.0 patch 5?

  If this is not the case, how should I do to update? What is the KB # I should download?

  I can manage using vSphere Client 5.5 and I can't SSH using PuTTY.

  Note: When I run... "# esxupdate - bundle = ESXe350-201302401-I - SG.zip updated ' of in the folder where his property in the data store, nothing happens... just a new line scrolls.

  Also...

  # esxupdate query

  <? XML version = "1.0"? >

  <>request-response

  < installed packages >

  < package ID = "ESX-207095" >

  firmware < name > < / name >

  < version > 3.5.0 < / version >

  < rel > 207095 < / rel >

  < / packages >

  < package ID = "ESX-CLIENT-204907" >

  < name > viclient < / name >

  < version > 2.5.0 < / version >

  < rel > 204907 < / rel >

  < / packages >

  < package ID = "ESX-TOOLS-207095" >

  < name > tools < / name >

  < version > 3.5.0 < / version >

  < rel > 207095 < / rel >

  < / packages >

  < / packages installed >

  < / request-response >

  # /vmfs/volumes/525300ce-5ff6ad3d-e2ed-0014222aedb7/patches/ESXe350-201302401-O-SG

  ... is there any update for this system? I therefore believe that the patch software etc was not around when I was installing this server in 2010.

  Based on KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014508 you run ESX 3.5 Update 5.

• Close VMware ESX 3.5 &amp; 4.0 hosts... What about the DRS?

  Hi experts,

  Here I begin this discussion to know the following:

  Facts:

  Farm with guests VMware ESX in u5 versions 3.5 and 4.0 U2

  DRS configured as entirely not automated, no rules.

  Issues related to the:

  What happens with DRS to deploy new virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 7?

  They will receive only on ESX 4.0u2 hosts?

  Could cause instability on the other virtual machines?

  I raise this because I have no experience in mixed environments, and I expect the DRS feature so smart that moves and power on virtual machines on hosts that are able to manage virtual machines with virtual hardware that is compatible with, I'm so innocent?

  Virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 4 can be moved throughout of these clusters 3.5 or 4.0, but what happens with VM with the newest virtual hardware?

  If they had moved in any case on a host ESX 3.5, what will be the behavior of this virtual machine?

  Last, but not least important, what do guys suggest to bypass this until I have all migrated hosts?
  (Migration of all hosts will take more than a month, support and SLA issues, so I need a workaround solution)

  Thanks in advance for your time and answers this!
  Kind regards
  RaMorn

  Hello

  1. what happens with the DRS to deploy new virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 7?

  2. they will receive only on ESX 4.0u2 hosts?

  3 could cause instability on the other virtual machines?

  1 VM' with HW v7 will be migrated only between vSphere 4.X nodes in a cluster

  2 VM with HW v7 will be only on vSphere 4.x nodes

  3 nope

  1. I raise this because I have no experience in mixed environments, and I expect the DRS feature so smart that moves and power on virtual machines on hosts that are able to manage virtual machines with virtual hardware that is compatible with, I'm so innocent?

  2. the virtual machines with Virtual Hardware 4 can be moved throughout these clusters 3.5 or 4.0, but what happens with VM with the newest virtual hardware?

  3. If they got anyway moved on a host ESX 3.5, what will be the behavior of this virtual machine?

  4. last, but not least important, what do guys suggest to bypass this until I have all migrated hosts?
  (Migration of all hosts will take more than a month, support and SLA issues, so I need a workaround solution)

  1. Yes, the DRS will be

  2. see comments of mu above

  3. nothing will change on the behavior of the virtual machine, only VMware tool will be updated

  4. all depends on how your is configured, how is use, VM how you would deploy during the month?

  See you soon

  Artur

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• Upgrade suggestions to replace euipment in a cluster VMware ESX 3.5

  Hello everyone. I have a Cluster VMware coming off lease 3 years and I'm looking looking for some suggestions to upgrade for the following rental equipment:

  • Cluster VMware ESX 3.5

  • 3 x blades HP Proliant BL460c G1 acting as hosts (2 x Xeon E5345, 12 GB of Ram

  • 1 x EMC Clariion CX3 - 10 c iSCSI SAN with 4 TB Raw (15 x 268,4 GB SAS)

  • Currently hosts 12 Windows Server 2 k 3 VM

  We our currently buying the blades since the acquisition of the fair market value was less than $200. I am currently exploring the following options to present to the owners of the company for more how it will go to the best situation of DR

  1. Stay with current equipment

  • Upgrade to vSphere 4.1

  • Updated all the VMS to Windows Server 2 K 8 R2

  • Acquisition by SAN and blades

  • Re - up the support of at least one year, return to upgrade next year

  • Increase the capacity of SAN

  • Search for Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure failure possible

  2. Stay with blades, buy new SAN with additional capacity

  • Upgrade to vSphere 4.1

  • Updated all the VMS to Windows Server 2 K 8 R2

  • Blades of redemption

  • For new SAN buy either:

  • Celerra NX4

  • HP Lefthand SAN

  • HP Storage Works Smart Array

  • Search for Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure failure possible

  3. Buy new knives and the new SAN, send old blades to a failover data center

  • Upgrade to vSphere 4.1

  • Updated all the VMS to Windows Server 2 K 8 R2

  • 3 new knives to HP to help purchase

  • Intel Xeon E55XX family

  • AMD Opteron 41XX family

  • For new SAN buy either:

  • Celerra NX4

  • HP Lefthand SAN

  • HP Storage Works Smart Array

  • Send the old blades off site with a cheap SAN (DRoBo maybe?)

  • Work on a failover system

  Sorry for the long details, I can clarify anything if necessary. Thank you!

  I would also tender hand to International Computer Inc.. to see what they can do for you... I asked a friend I have who work there, and cover the area PA... They are among partners VMware major/main companies in the northeastern part of the United States, in order to get a quality of their own work (regardless of what you get)... I would also tender hand to GreenPagesto see if they could work with you... I don't know if they cover PA, or Phi, but worth a phone/email to find out... Both companies are major players in the VMware partner space, so I don't think you could go wrong anyway... I worked with people of GreenPages on some projects, a couple of different companies and have always had good experiences with the people of their engineers and sales...

  Most quality partner rep will work with his engineers on the solutions until they present it to you. I know that GP for this, and I do not know what IC is also...

  VMware VCP4

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• several doubts with vmware esx 3.5

  guys, I had many doubts on VMware ESX. can you please answer me if you know the answers to any of the sub questions

  In the meantime thanks for all those who respond to my questions.

  (1) how to install ESX on the SAN to start on the SAN?

  (2) how to back up the database to the virtual Center Server? is it something that supports a SQL DBA or do we do as a VMware administrator?

  (3) for the installation of VCenter server, its request for the installation of the apache tomcat server. Why is this? It is with ESX 3.5

  (4) do we need a separate license for VCenter server apart from the licenses that we buy for the ESX servers?

  (5) if 2 virtual machine port groups are on two different VLANS, to send it, we need to configure a vyatta router. How can we do that if we are not a guy from Cisco?

  (6) we give only the IP numbers for a console Service and Vmkernals but not the virtual machine port groups. If so, how these virtual machines on these virtual machine port groups know what are their IP numbers? If we want a static IP number for a virtual machine, we inside windows from a virtual computer configuration?

  (7) is the Virtual Machine power off a soft stop?

  (8) what happens when we make one pause a Virtual Machine? I think that there is no option in a machine physical windows original. so, what does this mean VM break?

  (9) how many vsphere client can simultaneously access the vcenter Server?

  (3) for the installation of VCenter server, its request for the installation of the apache tomcat server. Why is this? It is with ESX 3.5

  Don't know why VM Ware chose Tomcat, they SAY THEY is not secure... No matter what.  It's just another Web server and its an option that VM Ware has chosen to work with vCenter.  It's not good or bad, just different... many people THINK apache is better, it is a matter of opinion.

  (6) we give only the IP numbers for a console Service and Vmkernals but not the virtual machine port groups. If so, how these virtual machines on these virtual machine port groups know what are their IP numbers? If we want a static IP number for a virtual machine, we inside windows from a virtual computer configuration?

  It is a way, you will realize quickly that will be a major pain.  I do like DHCP, reserve of the INVESTIGATION period.  Unless you know a way to connect to hundreds of virtual machines and change their IP remotely, this is probably the simplest method.  Unless you like make manual updates... then knock you out.

  (7) is the Virtual Machine power off a soft stop?

  Not as the name suggests it is a POWER-off.  Comments stop is a soft stop.

  (8) what happens when we make one pause a Virtual Machine? I think that there is no option in a machine physical windows original. so, what does this mean VM break?

  Confusion in the name.  It simply means 'suspend' and there is an option on physical machines... probably no servers, in the form of profiles of power are generally disabled, but it IS possible.

  (9) how many vsphere client can simultaneously access the vcenter Server?

  no theoretical limit... or I do not think that someone took the time to discover.  You will grow up to the moment where you have too many users connected to vCenter vCenter anyway... So the connections will not be reached.

• How update of ESX 4 Update 1

  Hello all, I need help for the upgrade of our ESX servers.

  We have 7 ESX 4 Server (Advanced) and a (Advanced) Vcenter server. I moved the virtual machines of 2 ESX servers to other servers and installed

  the news using the iso file to update 1. There is therefore 5 left ESX servers to update, but I don't want to do this by the migration of virtual machines to others

  servers and installation of the host with iso update 1.

  So I downloaded ESX - 4.0.0 - update01.zip and Vmware Vsphere Upgrade Guide. What is the good guide? Chapter 14 (update an ESX/ESXi host using Offline bundles with the vihostupdate utility) is the right one for me, OK?

  I don't really understand how to upgrade hosts with the vihostupdate command. I installed the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance on any of the ESX host and now?

  ESX 4.0 U1 server upgrade is not supported with vSphere Host Update Utility. You can use vHUU for the upgrade to ESXi 40-U1 with online portal.

  : +: VCP, RHCE, EMCPA.

• Update Server ESX 4.0

  Hello

  I have ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 and downloaded ESX400 - 200907001.zip. Do I need to install the patch?

  I have the file/var/updates on the ESX Server Ed.

  1. esxupdate query

  Installed bulletin ID summary

  1. VMware - v

  VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009

  1. Unzip ESX400 - 200907001.zip

  1. LS

  ESXi ESX ESX400 - 200907001.zip metadata.zip

  Can somone if you please guide me. Thank you very much

  A few commands you can try are:

  esxupdate - analysis of beam ESX400 - 200907001.zip - it shows applicable to your server bulletins

  esxupdate - ESX400 - 200907001.zip info bundle - this shows details on the ballot within the overall

  esxupdate - bundle ESX400 - 200907001.zip - update the < ID newsletter > newsletter - This installs the specified newsletter. The newsletter may be discovered from the first two commands

  esxupdate - updated bundle - installs all the ballots inside the whole

  esxupdate query - displays the information of installed newsletters

  esxupdate info - shows the server hotfix information

  VMware - v will still show the same result even after installing the ESX400 - 200907001.zip. To find the version of update server, connect to the server using VI client/VC, which will give the updated version.

  Thank you

  CS.

• How to enable SNMP on a VMWare ESX servers

  We have a couple of vmware esx 3.5 update 2 hosst and look at the upgrade to vSphere before the end of the year. However, we have an obligation to enable SNMP traps SNMP can be captured for performance monitoring.

  Is this just a cse of

  .1 login as root

  (2 edit the snmpd.conf file and add "rocommunity xxxx" where xxxx is your read-only community string). The file is usually located in the/etc/snmpd.

  3 restart the agent SNMP - /etc/init.d/snmpd restart

  Hello

  Implimentation SNMP in vSphere 4.0 differs from ESX 3.5.x.

  You need to download a zip file containing all of the SMIv2 (RFC2578/STD58)

  compliant MIB modules for use with ESX/ESXi and vCenter with

  related application notes. These MIB modules support all ESX, ESXi

  and vCenter product releases through version 4.0.

  For SNMP configuration information, see Chapter 5 (configuration of hosts and vCenter Server: SNMP and vSphere)

  in the vSphere Basic System Administration guide.

  Link to Ref: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/managementapi

  Thank you

  Kabre

• Cannot find device write VMware esx server 3i image support to.

  Hello

  I'm fairly new Virtualization.

  I downloaded: VMware ESX Server 3i Installable U4, Refresh Version 3.5 Update 4 | 153875-30-03-09 on the site and it burned on a disc. at the start of the disk and following the instructions in the installation guide, I get the following error:

  The installation operation failed!

  The installation operation has encountered a fatal error!

  Cannot find device write VMware esx server 3i image support to.

  The following system information will help the forum of VMWare support with your problem. Please note the information before proceeding.

  Information System

  Manufacturing: abandoned

  Model: abandoned

  Service etiquette: abandoned

  BIOS Rev: SGP4510H.06A.0083.2008.0819.1026

  OK, I can tell that you are new to this sort of thing, using windows XP, it is the best guide I have found for you should you walk through all the way.

  http://www.Symantec.com/connect/articles/how-create-your-own-bootable-ESX-3i-USB-stick

• VMware ESX does not recognize the local RAID volume

  Hi all

  We are running VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 on a G4 HP Proliant DL 380 with a Raid Smart Array 6i controller (this is our test platform).

  Since the VI Client, it is not possible to add a data store that corresponds to a local 200 GB Raid5 volume.  I can see this disc in the "Storage adapters" section (path: vmhba0:1:0, LUN ID = 0).

  We have updated the firmware on our server is no problem of conformity between VMware ESX and such old material?

  Thank you very much in advance for your help

  Connect directly to the server and try to create this VMFS volume?  I noticed on VC 2.5 that whenever I have create a server and try that he does not see the space when I try to add storage.

  Direct connection to the host ESX with the VI Client works every time...