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• Is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief not

  Hi friends,

  1. is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief walking distance.

  2 can we perform vMotion and Storage vMotion while ESXi is turned on.

  3. is it possible to extend the VMDK disk while it integrates snapshots in it.

  Best regards,

  Sirot Vijay

  Yes the vmotion and svmotion works but one by one.

  1 - vmotion is posssible to power on State, but you can't svmotion the vm simultaneously. The storage will remain same

  2 svmotion is also possible to power on the State, but you cannot vmotion virtual machine simultaneously. the host will remain the same.

  3 vmotion and svmotion is possible together when the vm is off power. the host and storage can be changed simultaneously on this State.

• Get-Stat and StatType Get with a free ESXi host

  I used the Get-StatType cmdlet to get a list of the values that I can get a free ESXi host and got a long list of values, I can get by using the cmdlet Get-Stat.

  Where can I get an explanation of the meaning of each value I can get?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Under the PerformanceManager in the SDK Reference documentation.

  And you can find a lot of info in VMTN communities and on several blogs (do a Google search)

• How do I cancel the mapping of a data store of esxi host without data loss

  Dear team,

  I want to cancel a data store that is mapped on two cluster mapping (cluster1 10 esxi host and cluster2 esxi 4 guests)

  
  

  
  

  Query1

  What step will be OK

  Disassemble = > detach = > start the activity of storage (storage poweroff) movement = > move the storage = > poweron = > join = > mounting

  or

  Disassemble = > detach = > team san will cancel the mapping = > start the activity of storage (storage poweroff) movement = > move the storage = > poweron = > san team will map the data store = > join = > mount

  Query2:

  Once I sail, I am able to see vpshere ha and dvs folder data, I just want to confirm if I want to take it apart and to separate the data store it will allow me to do it or it will throw an error, please confirm.

  Query3:

  If we remove and detach a data store, before that I have to cancel the registration of all the virtual machines?

  
  

  
  

  concerning

  Mr. Vmware

  Please find the right measures

  Query1

  
  

  before the take-off of export activity VM that are stored on the data store

  
  

  Home-online store of data and the data cluster store => select the data-VMs online store => add all columns => take export VM

  
  

  take the last export RVTool.

  
  

  
  stop all VMs-online you unsubscribe from all models and virtual computers-online RK on Cluster (change the setting-online data store-online here hearbeating we have to choose another data store and click OK)

  
  

  to confirm the new data store is visible as heartbeat data store select Cluster-online Sumamry-online state Custer-online Heartbeat Datastore)

  If we are able to see the new data store, then now remove old data from the heart rate data store store

  
  

  RK on Cluster (change the setting-online data store-online here hearbeating he have to uncheck the data store and click OK)
  

  
  

  disassemble => detach (you will need to perform this step on all esxi hosts)-online san team will be unmap-online beginning of movement storage (storage poweroff) => move the storage-online poweron-online san team will map the data-attach online store ((need to perform this step on all esxi hosts) => set up the data store)

  
  

  Register for all virtual machines

  
  

  PowerOn all VMs if get message (moved or copied) select moved.

  
  

  Query2:

  He doesn't throw any errors, will work flawless.

  
  

  Query3:

  Yes we must cancel the registration of all models and virtual computers before disassembling a data store.

  
  

  concerning

  Mr. VMware
  

  
  

  
  

• Free ESXi: host removed from the inventory... How to re - add?

  1. I created a new local client as a test using the free ESXi and included Infrastructure Client 2.5.0

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  2. I stopped, went to the inventory list and chosen to remove inventory

  

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  3. I can see all the files are still present on the data store...

  

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  3B. this part incidentally is enough 'fun' to understand. There is no option menu anywhere to access the data store. The only way I found is to double click on the small icon...

  

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  4. How can I add this virtual machine in the inventory list and resume using this client I created with only the free ESXi tools?

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  It seems that my only option to get a customer that is running is to make a new, or to "import" a via a weird file called a format *. OVF. Which is strange because that esxi uses not this format of its own client local file, as shown above in the data store.

  So, is the absence of a dialogue "Open existing VM" how VMWare is shooting free users in the foot?  It's the hidden gotcha that they use to force me to upgrade infrastructure for $3000 +, just to get a dialog box "open existing virtual machine"?

  -Melanie Dale

  Hi DMahalko, to add a virtual machine to inventory (re-record with the host country), you select the .vmx file in the window of the data store and click on the button all the way to the left of the toolbar in data store of the browser (the one with the logo of VMware as its icon). Who will start the wizard to add back to your inventory.

  For later use, you can also use the 'Search' tab in the browser of data store to find all the virtual machines in a data store. Simply select "Virtual Machines" in the drop-down and she will show you all virtual machines out there (including those who are already in the inventory). Hope that helps!

  Please, help me by awarding points for a 'useful' or 'proper' response if you think it is useful!

  -Amit

• How to determine the esxi host installation date

  I need to write the installation date of the host all, is it possible to determine the date of installation.

  We use following command to get the host esxi installation date,

  echo - n "ESXi install date:"; " day d @$ (printf "%d" x 0 $(esxcli system uuid get | cut-d \--f1))

  Reference: VMware KB: determination of the date of installation of an ESXi host

• Problem adding free ESXi host of AD domain

  I have previously create the computer object in active directory. I then connect 5.5 ESXi free edition host by using the .net client, from there I can join my domain host name successfully.

  

  But try to do the same to PowerCLI when you are connected to the host as root, you receive an error

  Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Set-VMHostAuthentication -Domain "domain.com" -Credential (Get-Credential) -JoinDomain
  

  Game-VMHostAuthentication: 24/03/2014-16:16:15 Set-VMHostAuthentication

  The current permit or ESXi version prohibited the execution of the requested operation.

  On line: 1 char: 41

  + get-vmhost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Game-VMHostAuthentication-domain

  " ...

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  ~~~

  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [game-VMHostAuthentication], Re)

  strictedVersion

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ViCore_SystemManagementServiceImpl_JoinDomain_Vi

  Error, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.cmdlets.Commands.Host.SetVMHostAuthentication

  ---------------------------------------------------------------

  I see the error indicates "current license or ESXi version prohibited the execution of the operation requested." but it works since the .net client and I have not read anything indicating that you cannot add to esxi hosts free domain. I also used JoinDomain_task method and you still receive the same error

  $ADCreds = Get-Credential
  $Domain = "Domain.com"
  $AuthObj = Get-View -Id 'HostActiveDirectoryAuthentication-ha-ad-auth'
  $AuthObj.JoinDomain_Task($Domain, $ADCreds.GetNetworkCredential().username, $ADCreds.GetNetworkCredential().password)
  

  We the ESXi free license limits is the fact that there not a 'API write. "

  This means no changes through CLI, PowerCLI and other tools that use the API.

• List of ESXi host and data managing paths

  can someone help me with a script to list the ESXi host name, then their data management of path for each data store that they are connected to?

  Thank you

  MikeP

  Sorry, I thought you ment the other script.

  Try it like this

  Write-Host "Connecting to vCenter" $VCent = "10.2.160.250" Connect-VIServer $VCent -user user -password passwd $VMHosts = Get-VMHost | Sort-Object Name Disconnect-VIServer -Server $VCent -Confirm:$False 
  
  $report = @()
  
  ForEach ($VMHost in $VMHosts)
  {
      $HostName = $VMHost.Name
      Connect-VIServer $HostName -User root -password passwd    $esxcli = Get-EsxCli  -VMHost $HostName    $esxcli.corestorage.device.list() |
      where {$_.IsLocal -eq "false" -and $_.DeviceType -eq "Direct-Access" -and $_.MultipathPlugin -eq "NMP"} | %{
           $report += ($_ | Select @{N="Host";E={$hostName}},Device, MultipathPlugin)
      }
      Disconnect-VIServer -Server $HostName -Confirm:$False}
  
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  You can try to change the Where clause to see all the plugins multipath.

      where {$_.IsLocal -eq "false" -and $_.DeviceType -eq "Direct-Access"} | %{
  

• no host performance data

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  Hello, I'm VC server performance data and when I get the perfQuerySpec list, I get 10 managed entities, 2 guests and 8 virtual machines that we have implemented in our VC server. Then when I switch in perfQuerySpec objects in the queryPerf() method to retrieve the performance indicators, my host managed entity magically disappears after executing queryPerf() (that is when I get the [] values of type PerfEntityMetricBase, please see code below). He only managed entities of type mor VirtualMachine, but not HostSystem. The hosts that are configured on the VC server are ESX 4.0. It works very well with VC Server ESX 3.0. Could if it you please let me know what is the problem?

  Please see below for the code snippet.

  Thank you.

  Sushant

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  for (int i = 0; i & lt; mor_hosts.size (); i ++) {}

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  ManagedObjectReference mor_host = mor_hosts.get (i);

  ManagedEntity me_host = getMeHosts();

  PerfProviderSummary pps_hosts = pm.queryPerfProviderSummary (me_host);

  int refreshRate_hosts = pps_hosts.getRefreshRate ();

  PerfMetricId [] metricId_hosts = pm.queryAvailablePerfMetric (me_host, _calendarPerfStart, calendarPerfEnd, refreshRatehosts);

  PerfQuerySpec qSpec_hosts = new PerfQuerySpec();

  qSpec_hosts.setEntity (mor_host);

  qSpec_hosts.setStartTime (_calendarPerfStart);

  qSpec_hosts.setEndTime (_calendarPerfEnd);

  qSpec_hosts.setMetricId (metricId_hosts);

  qSpec_hosts.setIntervalId (refreshRate_hosts);

  qSpec_hosts.setFormat ("csv");

  perfQuerySpec [counter] = qSpec_hosts;

  ++ counter;

  ArrayList & lt; ManagedObjectReference & gt; mor_vms = vmu.getVirtualMachineMORs (inventoryCurrent, mor_host);

  for (int j = 0; j & lt; mor_vms.size (); j ++) {

  ManagedObjectReference mor_vm = mor_vms.get (j);

  ManagedEntity me_vms = getMeVms();

  PerfProviderSummary pps_vms = pm.queryPerfProviderSummary (me_vms);

  int refreshRate_vms = pps_vms.getRefreshRate ();

  PerfMetricId [] metricId_vms = pm.queryAvailablePerfMetric (me_vms, _calendarPerfStart, calendarPerfEnd, refreshRatevms);

  PerfQuerySpec qSpec_vms = new PerfQuerySpec();

  qSpec_vms.setEntity (mor_vm);

  qSpec_vms.setStartTime (_calendarPerfStart);

  qSpec_vms.setEndTime (_calendarPerfEnd);

  qSpec_vms.setMetricId (metricId_vms);

  qSpec_vms.setIntervalId (refreshRate_vms);

  qSpec_vms.setFormat ("csv");

  perfQuerySpec [counter] = qSpec_vms;

  ++ counter;

  }

  }

  PerfEntityMetricBase [] values = null;

  values = pm.queryPerf (perfQuerySpec);

  Hello

  This is a known issue that queryperf returns no data when querying in vCenter Server.

  You can refer to the workaround for this. Please see the KB article for the same below:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1014091

  It will be useful.

• How would you save the whole VM from a free ESXi host?

  As the title suggests the question. How would you do a backup periodic and automatic complete virtual machine (all VM files) that run inside a free ESXi in an ethernet disk located in the network (for example, every night or every week)?

  Is there any script task or program that I could create in the ESXi host for this? Or, is there a free tool I could use to do? Please keep in mind that I use a free ESXi and I do not have anything but the free one.

  Thank you.

  WarlockArg.

  Take a look at this free script: ghettoVCB.sh - alternative free for virtual machine backup of for ESX (i) 3.5, 4.x & 5.x

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  repository scripts vGhetto

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  http://Twitter.com/lamw

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• host performance data up to 6 months in the grid store

  Hello
  
  I see that by default I can only display performance since 31 days data... is possible to modify the grid to store this information for 6 months?

  It is indeed a good question, where deadlines for the parameters of the host - and where they can be changed (in GUI of GC/OEM)...

  When you browse the homepage of a host-> Performance tab-> the CPU-> drop-down list on the right and selecting "Customize...". »
  the OEM/GC shows information ' data available October 18, 2010 12:43:51 CEST-January 12, 2011 16:00:47 THIS "(this is just an example of myself).

  What do you see when you navigate to this info?

  Seems to me that it is not possible to change the value of 'how long keep settings' in the GUI...

• Configurazione su vswitch just free esxi host

  Salve, ho just chance the via by take the VCP - DV5 e certificazione nel laboratorio messomi a disposizione da chi mi fa he corso

  Devo configurare he vswitch knew una macchina esxi bass mid device a 'th superiors sulla macchina nell' inventory e poi mi lo stesso th device known pure gli advanced settings.

  Qualcuno Può gentilemente indicarmi come fare?

  Ciao e grazie.

  Just quello che of the error, this sono attive sia the shell local che remote ssh access. Both represent possibili problemi di sicurezza e quindi andrebbero July spenti. Having default che non sono attivi, o you o chi ti fa he corso li ha attivati. You can disattivarli da - software - security configuration profile, nei li trovi attivi, andrebbero spenti services e messi in manuale d.

  Magari prima keep al docente it boom siano attivi, magari dovevate fare some Member file via SCP.

  Ciao,.

  Luca.

• vCenter Trial - add free ESXi existing Datacenter

  I've been running three hosts with the free version of ESXi. We try to evaluate licenses paid to get additional features (vMotion, etc.). I imported the virtual appliance for the server vCenter without any problem. Now I try to add my existing hosts in the data center, which I created in vCenter. When I do this, I get an error "download the file 10.161.30.3 to vCenter License Server failed because the exception: vim.fault.HostConnectFault". Is it not possible to add existing free ESXi hosts to vCenter trial?

  Cannot add ESXi hosts permitted by the hypervisor free license to vCenter Server. If the hosts 60-day evaluation period have not been achieved, we can use it in trial mode. Apart from this you can ask for the keys to the assessment of your VMware reseller representative.

  André

• Edition free ESXi - limits

  Anyone can answer the questions following pls.

  1. is there a detailed comparison of the differences between esxi and esxi free.

  2 can esxi free shared use of storage as a San or vmfs data warehouses must be on the local disks.

  3. If I use storage san to VMFS - y at - it no problem with sharing this data with other servers store free esxi or the data store cannot access by a host single esxi.

  Thank you.

  1 ESX ESXi vs

  2. Yes, you can.

  3. is not a problem.

  StarWind Software R & D

• Beyond the performance data not available to a host through Virtual Center

  
  Hello

  I have an ESXi host that relates to the ' No Data Available ' under his paw through Virtual Center performance. Fine appears real-time performance data, but the latest data are not appear and give the error as "No Data Available".

  Within the cluster of 4 hosts, alone is to have the point above. Others are appearing fine performance data.

  In another cluster host ESXi too connected to the same vCenter, I see one of the host is to have a similar question.

  I checked:

  • All work Rollup SQL is run successfully the default schedule.
  • Restarted vpxa service connection to the host directly using the vsphere client.

  I followed the KB article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2007388 . as suggested in the article when I run the Sub SQL query I see there is no data within who. 

  exec sp_spaceused vpx_hist_statx

  name	lines	reserved	data	index_size	unused
  VPX_HIST_STAT1	NULL VALUE	NULL VALUE	NULL VALUE	0 KB	0 KB

  The output is similar (no data) if I run these queries:

  exec sp_spaceused vpx_hist_stat2

  exec sp_spaceused vpx_hist_stat3

  exec sp_spaceused vpx_hist_stat4

  Current configuration:

  ESXi 5.1.0 799733

  vCenter Server 5.1.0 Build 1123961

  Please help solve this.

  I actually planned for the downtime of the host and restarted it.

  Although loading performance data now.

  Thank you!