Clone the virtual machine between two ESX 3.5.0 servers (low connection)

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• Clone the virtual machine to the local data store

  Hi all

  I'm looking to automate a task daily (or almost) of my friends with a small script with powercli.

  I'm trying to "backup" or to clone a virtual machine, I work in a storage of one of our servers.

  The servers are managed by a 5.1 vCenter and the machine is on a shared storage.

  From time to time, I clean, stop the machine, remove all snapshots and clone the virtual machine to one of the local server as a backup storage. So I put together a small script which almost works. It works as long as the target data store is a shared storage, but not with a local storage.

  I get always an error that claims it can not access the local data store and is not a permissions problem...

  Given that I can accomplish this via the customer without problem I thought it is possible via powercli too, or I'm wrong?

  My Script up to now:

  # Variables
  $VC = "vc.domain.com" #vCenter Server
  $User = "domain\user" #User
  $Pass = 'test123' #User PW
  $VMName = 'scripttest' #VM
  $BackupSuffix = "backup" #Suffix to add the name of VM to mark this as a backup
  $VmHost = "esx2.domain.com".
  $Datastore = 'ESX2-LocalData' #Datastore
  $BackupFolder = 'Backup' #Folder the VM gets classified

  
  

  # Register cmdlets to VMware
  

  If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  
  

  # Connect to the server

  SE connect-ViServer $VC - user $User-password $Pass

  
  

  # Remove the old clone

  $OldBackups = get - VM | WHERE {$_.} {Name: corresponds to '$VMName - $BackupSuffix'}

  If ($OldBackups - don't "")

  {

  If ($OldBackups.Count - gt 1)

  {

  Write-Host "better check! "Found several results:

  Foreach ($VM to $OldBackups)

  {

  Write-Host $VM. Name

  }

  }

  on the other

  {

  Remove-VM - VM $OldBackups - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false

  }

  }

  
  

  # Clone VM

  $VMInfo = get - VM $VMName | Get-View

  $CloneSpec = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec

  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VMInfo.Snapshot.CurrentSnaphshot

  $CloneSpec.Location = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Datastore |) Get - View). MoRef

  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $CloneFolder = $VMInfo.Parent

  $CloneName = "$VMName - $BackupSuffix".

  $TaskCloneID = $VMInfo.CloneVM_Task ($CloneFolder, $CloneName, $CloneSpec)

  
  

  # Check if the task is completed

  
  

  $Check = $false

  While ($Check - eq $false)

  {

  $Tasks = get-job | Select State, id | Where {$_.} State - eq "Running" - and $_. State - eq "pending"}

  ForEach ($Task in $Tasks)

  {

  If ($Task.id - eq $TaskCloneID)

  {$Check = $false}

  on the other

  {$Check = $true}

  }

  Start-Sleep 10

  }

  # Move clone to the backup folder

  Move-VM - VM '$VMName - $BackupSuffix' - Destination $BackupFolder

  
  

  # Disconnect

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Can you show us the complete error message you get?

  BTW, the clone step can be replaced by the New-VM cmdlet with the setting of the virtual machine.

• To access the virtual machines of two different hosts

  Greetings,

  I have a question that I can't find the answer to. I am setting up a virtual machine environment small and need to better understand the architecture behind it.

  2 host servers

  1 iSCSI Equallogic San (target)

  I have installed 35i ESX and runnning on two physical hosts. .205 et.206

  I created a data store on my SAN to host my 'model' VM.

  De.205, I can see the data on the SAN network store and browse the virtual machine I (using VMConverter) moved there.

  De.206, I can see the data store on the SAN, but when I sail, I do not see the same information. I see no. VM.

  MY understanding is that using the SAN to store the virtual machine and that I would make the hosts of this data store to run the virtual machine. But the way in which it seems that I have the virtual machine configured on both hosts, always pointing the data store on the San but again using converter, copy de.205 vers.206.

  What don't understand me or that I don't understand.

  Your help is appreciated.

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.   If you have configured things Ok, you will be able to browse the data from these two hosts store and see the same content.  You can register the virtual computers on both hosts.  For an existing VM on the host from 1, you find the data on the host of the 2nd store, right-click on the VMX file and select Add to the inventory.  Have you thought to vcenter server?  It's going to do it is a lot easier.

• How do divide you a virtual machine between two data stores?

  We just installed a new SAN ICSI and created an ISCSI target on it. We have created a new data store on our server ESXi 4.0 and reminded our Iscsi target. Our virtual machines have two logical drives, for the system partition C: and E: for data. At present, all virtual machines are residing on the 1 data store, which is located on the local hard drives of the esxi server. How pass readers E: of the virtual machine to the SAN and let C: readers where they are?

  Hello

  Or if you don't have a Vmotion, you can use stand-alone Vcenter converter to migrate your VM on the same ESXi host. and during this process on the Advanced tab, you can divide your virtual disks in the desired data store. You can keep the C: drive as it is on the same data store and add new vmdk and select its data store that you want, and then can move E: or D: drive until the new vmdk.

  In this way, you can split your C: and other disks on different vmware disks on different data warehouses.

  Let me know if it helps.

  Kind regards

  Sumit

• Best way to move virtual machines between two clusters: HP and UCS

  Hello

  We move the virtual machines in the cluster UCSChassis: 6 guests ESXi in a Cluster of HPChassis.

  I wonder how do it with minimum downtime.

  Thanks for your help,

  If you have shared storage - expose the storahe where virtual machines are stored to both sets of guests - and the hosts are ocmpatible you can vmotion - or at least - to stop the mover VM's from the environment of the UCS and add it to the HP environment.

  If you can't share the storage you - you can use VMwate Standalone converter and V2V the VMs-

• You can synchronize a file to the virtual machine on two macbook pro

  I have 2 macbook pro I synchronize files with every night. I want to keep the file of the virtual machine the same on both machines. If I run VMWare Fusion with this file to the virtual machine on a single machine, quit VMWare Fusion and then synchronize the file tonight, the other machine will be able to open it without additional configuration steps? Thanks for any help you can give me.

  that would be copy very large files...

  but I don't see any problem other than

  Add
  UUID.action = 'keep '.
  to your file vmx to answer the question "did you copy or move you VM?" once for all time

• Move virtual machines between two ESXI servers

  Hello

  I have a problem with my ESXi servers. First, I'll explain the situation.

  There is ESXi Server1 with the virtual machine A and B and an ESXi server2 with nothing.

  Now, I want to spend virtual machine from server1 to server2. How can I do this and if you have a solution please tell me how todo that?

  Thnaks in advance

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 user's Guide

  found here:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

• Using CLI, I would clone a virtual machine between different data centers

  Hello!!

  We have two data centers.

  We want to clone a virtual of DataCenter1 to DataCenter2 machine.

  We cannot with vSphere.

  Does anyone know how we can do this? any idea?

  Thank you very much

  Jose.

  Cloning is a feature of vCenter Server, not a host ESX (i). You need to connect to vCenter, that's why you get the error because this operation is not supported in a host ESX (i)

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• VirtualCenter is necessary to put in place the virtual machine on an ESX Server?

  Hello! I'm new to VMWare and and I'm trying to implement some virtualized servers. I have a machine I want to run a virtual machine with Windows Server 2008 and a virtual machine with Arch Linux. I have a copy of vSphere 4.0 and ESX Server operating system linux installed correctly on the server computer. I tried to use the Infrastructure Client from my desktop Windows 7 Professional to create the new virtual machine, but I get to the part 'Select the data store' in the wizard and shows me that I have not created from data stores. I have not found a way to create databases in client infrastructure, and most things on the internet speak do with VirtualCenter.

  I tried to install the VirtualCenter on Windows 7 server, and initially, I got the error when he could not find the ADAM directory. Then I installed the version of Windows 7 to ADAM, ADLDS, who created c:\Windows\Adam and seemed to be backward compatible enough to allow installation to get a little further, how it failed and said that he was unable to create an instance of directory services.

  I fought this thing and Googling all the problems that I ran now for more than 48 hours. I was hoping that since I don't have more than one physical server to manage, and I don't have a dedicated machine which can be VirtualCenter Server all the time anyway (my office is dualbooted with linux, where I spend most of my time), it would be possible to do without.

  Any help appreciated,

  Matt

  Hi and welcome to the forum,

  you don t need a vCenter if you have a single server. You can use the vSphere Client to manage the server.

  If I understand you, you have already installed the ESX Server and a local data store.

  Now you can download the vSphere Client by opening the Web page of your ESX Server. Type http://<> address >

  Install the Client and you are able to create Virtual Machines.

  You can also use the ESXi Version.

  But I recommend you read some VMware papers like this

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_esxi_i_get_start.PDF

  Frank

• Looking for examples of Code clone the virtual machine

  Are there any sample code for cloning a virtual machine using the VISDK webservices? I have programming in C++ but a Java / c# application will also help.

  Thank you

  Jan

  It can include both existing and newly added and other disks components.

  It is correct, you must make sure that the unitNumber is unique, I think that if you pass "-1" it will automatically increment the counters for you

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• Running one of the virtual machines on two physical servers at the same time. Server 2012

  Hello!

  I'll admit that I'm not exactly an expert Server nor I claim to be. I could use some help with the installation I build and eventually moving customers to server setup. In an effort to try to describe my question, here is a first draft of what looks like my setup.
  
  Rackstation 1 is therefore a Synology Rackstation, which runs high-availability Rackstation 2. Directly, cabledtogether, Rackstation 2 works passively and constantly updates a copy of Rackstation 1 Rackstation 1 failure.
  Host 1 running server 2012 and therefore host 2. Currently I have 6 servers virtualized on Rackstation 1, using Hyper-V Manager of 1 host. I created ISCSI storage for every server virtualized LUNS and currently have ISCSI targets to be used with host 1 pointing to the LUN. I created another series of ISCSI for Host 2 targets as well.  The idea is to have 2 host run the Hyper-V Manager and be able to connect to the virtualized servers same Rackstation 1 just like host 1 is currently. That way if nothing ever happens to the host 1, host 2 quickly usable for servers. All that seems to be able to do with host 2 is create new virtualized servers, instead of link those already created. Currently, regarding the RAM for virtualized servers, they use host 1.
  So, is there a way for host 2 to have the same virtual servers as host 1?  What I need to change my configuration to achieve this? IM open to ideas and advice on how to reconcile that far.

  Zachary, MS doesn't make it easy to find the Windows Server forum:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer

• Moving virtual machines between ESX environments

  Hello-

  I understand that when you try to move a virtual machine between two servers to ESX 3.5 disparate, one way to proceed is to use WinSCP to move the files to the machine and then 'register' the machine via the data store on the destination ESX navigation area.  I also read, however, that this practice may not be wise because it is better to execute a command to import, I think that vmkfsutil or something similar to this.  Hope to find confirmation on what would be the best practice in this scenario.

  Thank you very much in advance.

  Why not VMware vCenter Converter

• The virtual machine on the logical switch NSX cannot communicate

  Hi all:

  My switch logic has been created and two virtual machines have been added, the virtual computer network are also connected to distributed port group, but the virtual machine of two Ping unreasonable. Two virtual machines can solve their MAC, the firewall is closed at both ends. Who can tell me why.

  Thank you very much

  Two things:

  1 try to run a traceflow between the two involved VMS network cards.  This should show you where the ventilation that is happening.  It might be a rule DFW or VTEP cannot speak for some reason any.

  2. its possible that the netcpa service is hooked on the host.  This is the process that communicates with the controllers.  For the involved hosts SSH and run the following command:

  restart the /etc/init.d/netcpad

• Create the virtual machine by using the file PowerCLI and csv

  I know there is a lot of info out there on this and I think I have a working script prety good.  Much was borrowed from this thread, http://communities.vmware.com/thread/315193 many thanks to LucD.

  My code is as follows:

  # Deploy virtual machines from CSV file
  # Much borrowed from http://communities.VMware.com/thread/315193?start=15 & tstart = 0

  
  # CSV import file
  Import-Csv "C:\guests.csv" - UseCulture | %{
  # Gets the customization information to configure the static NETWORK card and assign the static IP address
  Get-OSCustomizationSpec $_. Customization | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | `
  Game-OSCustomizationNicMapping - UseStaticIP - IpAddress IpMode $_. ""IP address""
  -Subnet mask $_. Subnet - DefaultGateway $_. Gateway - Dns $_. DNS
  $vm = New-VM-Name $_. "" Server name "-model $_. Model-host $_. ' "The ESX host" '
  -Datastore $_. Data store - OSCustomizationSpec $_. Customization"
  -Confirm: $false - RunAsync
  ## .......
  }

  He's going to cross and clone the virtual machine, and looks like he's running of the OSCustomizaitonSpec then it bombards.  It cleans bad VM.  Recent tasks shows "failed virtual machine clone that a specified parapeter was not correct." hostname ".

  The problem is that I don't mean to set a hostname with the OSCustomixationSpec, I try only to IP address info.

  I'm runningn PowerCLI 5.0.1 build 581491

  My ESXi host is 5.0.0 build 914586

  My vCenter Server is Ver 5.0.0 build 623373

  I opened a new thread, because the age of the old thread.  Not sure if this is the best way to do things.

  A very simple and intuitive brake system :-)

  ## Deploy VMs from CSV File
  ## Much borrowed from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/315193?start=15&tstart=0  
  
  $maxJobs = 3 $currentJobs = 0
  ## Imports CSV file
  Import-Csv "C:\temp\TestDeploy1" -UseCulture | %{
  ## Gets Customization info to set NIC to Static and assign static IP address
      Get-OSCustomizationSpec $_.Customization | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | ` ## Sets the Static IP info
      Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIP -IpAddress $_."IP Address" `        -SubnetMask $_.Subnet -DefaultGateway $_.Gateway -Dns $_.DNS## Sets the name of the VMs OS
      $cust = Get-OSCustomizationSpec -Name Test    Set-OSCustomizationSpec -OSCustomizationSpec $cust -NamingScheme Fixed -NamingPrefix $_.VMName## Creates the New VM from the template
      $vm=New-VM -Name $_."Server Name" -Template $_.Template -Host $_."Esx Host" `        -Datastore $_.Datastore -OSCustomizationSpec $_.Customization `        -Confirm:$false -RunAsync
  
      $currentJobs = Get-Job -State Running | Measure-Object | Select -ExpandProperty Count    while($currentJobs -ge $maxJobs){
        sleep 30      $currentJobs = Get-Job -State Running | Measure-Object | Select -ExpandProperty Count    }
  ## .......
  }
  

  You can be more selective about the current jobs. For example, you can check if the name of the job shows that they are actually cloning jobs.

• How is it possible to clone a virtual machine cluster when data warehouses not presented in source and destination

  I did not know that on ESX 3.5, in order to afin de vivre live clone a virtual machine from one ESX host to another, source and destination stores had to be available. However, I'm currently cloning a virtual machine to a host in a datacenter and cluster to one host in a different data center, but the destination store is not available at the source host and visa versa.

  How is that possible?  This is a new feature of vSphere?

  That seems to work on the console port. See this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1475721#1475721

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