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• Cannot add additional processors to a virtual machine.

  I have a DELL PowerEdge R720 host running ESXi 5.5 1474528 and there are 3 VM.

  I am using vCenter Server 5.5.0 Build 1476327 Essentials accessing via the web client of vSpere

  40 logical processors

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  2 taken

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  4 CPU file server

  RDS 4 CPU

  Veeam DAS proxy server 1 CPU

  I can not add any extra CPU on the third server. I can adjust the CPU count on the other two VM, but not the third.

  License is

  VMware vSphere Essentials 5 more (unlimited cores per processor)

  Hi, have you tried downing the virtual machine and see if you can change the CPU then?

• How can I add a tag to a virtual machine?

  What is the best way to be part of an workflow add a label to a virtual machine? The closest I found is System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.customattribute").setOrCreateCustomField (), but given that the custom fields do not appear in the web client, I need a way to do the same with the tags in place.

  Unfortunately the vSphere API does not yet provide a way to create (vCenter) tags. The only way is to use the provided of the vCO powershell cmdlets.

• Virtual machine running on snapshot but there are no spanpshot on the Snapshot Manager.

  Hi all,

  After a backup with VMware Data Recovery failure (error-3960 cannot suspend virtual machine), I have a virtual machine running on snapshot (see attachment) but there is no snapshot on the Snapshot Manager. Is the command to "consolidate" (I have never used this feature) the solution?

  Thank you.

  Marco.

  OK let me explain.

  As the chain of snapshot is not displayed in snapshot Manager, you can correct this problem in two ways.

  1 engage the snapshot command line. If you are uncomfortable in the command line, follow this KB KB VMware: commit snapshots on ESXi host command line if you are not comfortable follow step 2.

  2. create a new snapshot for this virtual machine (this will create a chain of snapshot, and you can see the snapshot in the Snapshot Manager), once the snapshot is created successfully. You can remove the snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

  Hope this is clear. Let me know if not

• How to add a script to a virtual machine using vmwrae api?

  Hello

  I am trying to add a new disk to an existing VM (Linux).

  To do this.

  
  

  Now to use the new drive on a run a series of commands, like:

  -format the drive

  -mount the drive

  -put this information to disk in the file/etc/fstab

  
  

  My question is how we can automate this task without actually going inside the virtual machine?
  

  This is precisely what my advice is intended to accomplish. There are many examples available online to use Invoke-VMScript to automate actions in a Linux VM.

  http://www.Google.com/search?q=invoke-vmscript+examples

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• retrieve the VM from a dead host (see virtual machine running)

  Hi, I added a new host for my cluster with 3 guests and migrate a virtual computer to new host without any problems, this isn't a VM FT, all of a sudden showed host vCenter disconencted, but VM has increased and runing.

  I managed to RDP to VM for some time, but little VM latter also dead in the water. I have connected to the ESX console he showed a repetitive msg like 'sd0, 0, 0, 0 retry after 360 etc etc.

  So we decided to restart (force) the ESX, VM shows disconencted and ongoing run, I had an another VM in this host but did not work, I managed to remove the other VM inventry and don't add to inventry no problem there, it's now at another host.

  But my problem is with the one who was running when ESX descended, it is yet to see the runnibg but disconencted, I can't delete inventry, but if I navigate to the data store can I add to inventroy, but I hant done this yet.

  Any advice will be appreciated.

  Concerning

  Roy

  (1) try run below console command service, or remotely via putty on running the VM ESX host:

  $service mgmt-vmware restart

  $service vmware-vpxa restart

  (2) if not,.

  $vmware - cmd-l (check the virtual machine registered under the correct ESX host)

  $vmware - cmd /vmfs/volumes/.../.vmx getstate (check whether or not the virtual computer is running)

  $vmware - cmd /vmfs/volumes/.../.vmx stop hard (hard, stop the virtual machine and then try to restart back your VM)

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• List of Cluster and the virtual machines running on this group

  Hello

  I am looking for a way to discover all of the virtual machines that belong to a cluster. In other words, I want a list that maps a cluster to all virtual machines running on it.

  In the documentation of the API, I find that "ClousterComputeResouce"has a managed object to "HostSystem" reference. "

  And "HostSystem" is a reference to managed object to the 'VirtualMachine'.

  So I can do it like this: ClusterComputeResource-> ManagedObjectRefence-> ManagedObjectRefence (VirtualMachine)-> whatever_properties_I_need_from_the_VM (HostSystem).

  However, this would cause a lot of ' Vim::get_views"calls within a"foreach"loop." It would be a deterrent to performance as the vCetner in question has ~ 50 clusters and has ~ 3500 running VMs.

  I think this was going to literally kill the VirtualCenter with so many API calls.

  My Question: is there an effective way to find Cluster and their respective VMs in vSphere SDK Perl.

  In vSphere client, we get the tab 'Virtual Machine' when we click on the Cluster and you can see all the virtual machines that belong to this cluster. So I hope that there must be an easier way.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You don't need the host_view for this action. Why don't you use begin_entity for views of the vm?

  my $cluster = 'cluster1. "

  My $cluster_view = Vim::find_entity_view (view_type-online 'ClusterComputeResource',

  filter => {"name"-online qr / ^ $cluster / I});
  {if ($cluster_view)}
  My $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'VirtualMachine',

  begin_entity => $cluster_view.

  Properties-online ['name']);
  foreach {$vm_ref(@$vm_views) my
  print $vm_ref--> name. » \n » ;
  }
  }

  Hope that helps!

  Greetings, Chris

• Virtual machines, run extremely slow when the console is consulted 2 virtual machines Windows Server 2008 64-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit, 2 VMWare for virtual machine

  I'm in a difficult situtaition here.  I am the daily contact with a new client.  My linux guy, who is also my boss who is very busy, asked me to do some research trying to find answers for what's not on this server. We have a dual Quad Core 2.5 Ghz Lenovo server with 10 GB of ram.  2 500 GB hard drives are Raid 1.  We run Virtual Server VMWare 2 on a Debian with Gnome installation as a user interface for the side of things Linux.  Grub is the boot loader. There are two virtual machines running on the server.  The one machine that serves as a domain controller is a Windows SBS 2008 Server 64 bit, and the secondary machine has no responsibility domain.  The second machine is a Windows Server 2003 32-bit.  the 10 GB of ram 6 GB is allocated to the SBS server and 4 GB to the 2003 server.

  The problem I am running into is that everything is so slow, especially if I connect remotely to do any sort of administration on the network.  Some examples of issues I've noticed is that as soon as I log on the server via Remote Desktop SBS console management Windows Server spike to 80-95% CPU usage and it will not stop unless I close the management console.  Another instance is that if I open Backup Exec 12.5 on the SBS server it will kill the speed of the processor as well.  Long story short, there are a lot of machine to do what we need to do, but something is not configured right and non of us know what it is.  Another point to note is that the server has been in production for about 3 weeks, and the server seemed to have locked up just twice.  My professional guess is that over time, some chose thing is eating causing the crash of the memory.

  Sorry I do not have much technical insight on this topic, but this is the best I have to offer.  Any questions you all have, I'll ask my people and see if I can answer, but I could really use your help here.

  Thank you in advance,

  Heath

  2 things:

  1 you really need hard drives more than 2 in a RAID 1 for proper performance under load. More disks the better. Although I don't think that's what your problem is, he'll probably be the problem Next you will do.

  2. I don't know exactly where the configuration file is on your box of Debian for VMware Server, but you should consider adding the following options in the configuration file (on windows, it's the vmware 'config.ini'):

  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100".

  MemTrimRate = 0

  sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "FALSE".

  mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE".

  If you do some research, you can read about what these options (the largest is the memory page sharing - it should only be left on if you have a bunch of similar virtual machines running on the same box, that you don't have.) I honestly know why this is on by default, he kills the CPU when virtual machines are running different operating systems). These are the options that I now use standard in VMware Server deployments, with huge performance increases after you have added the. Just give a try.

  Edit: Also make sure that you have installed in your virtual machines VMware tools.

  Dimitri Rodis

  Integrita Systems LLC

  http://www.integritasystems.com

• Impossible to reconnect to a virtual machine running

  Hello

  I removed decadent a virtual machine running in the inventory.

  The machine virtual is critical and cannot be stopped.

  When I try to browse the data store the option "add to the inventory" is grayed out.

  How can I reconnect it to the inventory?

  Thank you

  Boaz

  Alternatively, you can try to reboot the virtual machine in vCenter:

  1 vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms

  2 vim - cmd vmsvc/reload xx
  (xx is the VMID provided by the first command)

• Extend a datastore in vCenter with virtual machines running

  We have expanded our Volume and unit number logic on our NetApp SATA VMStore from 2 TB to 4 TB, we now want to expand in vCenter, I'm ok to do this within office hours, while VMS are running on the data store?

  Going via configuration - storage - etc etc...

  It should be good. Off-peak hours are preferable, because you must make playback etc.

  This will not affect the virtual machine running inside.

  Unless there is a particular requirement, why not go with 2 TB Lun? I mean add another 2 TB logical unit number rather than add a measure?

• Large SQL virtual machines running on ESXi

  Hello

  When you decide to run or do not run large SQL VMs on ESXi, what are the points that you take into consideration?

  -How much memory physical RAM more should the ESXi host at least have in relation to the virtual machine? If I have a Go 96 VM on a host of 144 GB, you would use this room for other virtual machines as well? Would you go to bigger hosts? Or that you would a one-VM-host?

  -In a "a virtual machine by host" scenario, is there still a sufficient reasons to virtualize the VM? VMotion, the portability of the virtual machine, adding disks, disks, resizing easy resize memory still reason enough to virtualize this VM?

  -When I add now Microsoft clustering in the equation, killing VMotion and flexibility, it is always possible to virtualize this SQL Server?

  I know how capable ESXi is the delivery of this workload. I have the white papers of performance on HOW to virtualize SQL successfully. My question is above all on: If you...

  Gabrié

  It is like arguing about policy; There are people with all kinds of views and a large part of it boils down to personal opinions. Some things to consider;

  (1) you do not mention how CRITICISM (aversion to downtime) is the database. If it is super important, certainly looking to HA or even fault tolerance. This increases considerably resources on a virtual machine.

  (2) even if you use one approach "a virtual machine by host", you must make sure that the availability on OTHER hosts in the case where HA is triggered.  So you have basically two hosts per VM

  (3) in view of the above, and how this intensifies that you get in redundancy, HA and FT, you can compare the cost a cluster HA environment.

  We personally, it is facing a prior work. We went with material in the physical server cluster.  In my opinion, if the server is simply great, but didn't need to HA or FT, then I would consider virtualization it. If she needs these features, the fresh material support worsen significantly. Size alone is not a huge problem, assuming you have the SAN space or storage. I am currently supports environments with virtual machines that are more than 1 TB and will work perfectly.

  I hope this helps.

• All virtual machines running on ESXi 5.1 statement of Rx packet loss

  Can some of you please do me a favor? Find a virtual machine of yours running on ESXi 5.1, preferably 1117900 and let me know if you see a Rx packet loss in performance stats vCenter provides. Each single VM in my environment records packet loss. Virtual machines running on ESXi 5.0 are not related that at all. This also isn't a problem at the level of the host that there is no loss of package noted it.

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  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2052917

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  Hi Letstub,

  There is no need to evacuate your virtual machines from the vSwitch. Enable or disable CDP has no impact on the communications of the network of virtual machines. The following article that explains how to enable CDP mentions this prerequisite:

  • http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1003885

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

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