Compatibility of EVA from HP and VMware SRM

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• HP EVA Business copy and VMware

  Hello

  did anyone of you using HP EVA Business copy (snapshots SAN) with VMware?

  What happens if you create a snapshot of a VMFS LUNS? Present you this snapshot to the ESX' are? Do you need tuning to get this working? I think San resignaturing and allowing snapshots of SAN...

  Or is it better to only instant RDM LUN? Which will work? Introduce an instant LUN to a virtual machine?

  Best practices on this usage?

  TIA.

  Hello

  did anyone of you using HP EVA Business copy (snapshots SAN) with VMware?

  Yes, people use it.

  What happens if you create a snapshot of a VMFS LUNS?

  You make a consistent copy of the crash of all the data on this LUN. Check if VMware SRM will work with Business Copy to make the best copies.

  Present you this snapshot to the ESX' are?

  Yes.

  > Do you need tuning to get this working? I think San resignaturing and allowing snapshots of SAN...

  Yes, you need to authorize instant SAN, etc.

  Or is it better to only instant RDM LUN? Which will work? Introduce an instant LUN to a virtual machine?

  6 of these half dozen of those. Yes, you can provide a snapshot of the RDM to a virtual machine.

  Best practices on this usage?

  Treat Business Copy in the same way you use any mirror of SAN LUN/snapshot.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

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• Can I migrate existing Win7 Pro VM since the VCenter for MAC OSx 10 using the Migration Assistant from PC and VMWare Fusion 4.0 and

  I have a P2V to ESX virtual Center successful and is not passed to my MACBook Air with Lion 10 and using VMWARE Fusion 4.0?

  I keep getting errors of failure while trying to use the PC Migration Assistant within the virtual machine and the MAC is using the Migration Wizard in the Fusion 4.0 and MAC begins the process, it keeps saying that it is impossible to write the file to the folder I chose on the local Documents of the MAC hard drive.

  Please inform, all the firewall settings are disabled on both sides, and file sharing is enabled on the MAC, including Windows SMB for the profile folder / I am tempted to write to...

  Simply copy the vmx and vmdk of this virtual machine via scp or any equivalent to the mac

  you don't need the Migration Wizard

• IntelliPoint from Microsoft and VMware 7

  I have a Windows 7 VM built and installed the IntelliPoint software.  The VM sees the software and allows me to set the options, but they do not work.  The mouse is wireless.  The virtual machine has no see the IP software with v8, except tell me to install an earlier version.

  I have re-installed VM Tools, but that did not help.

  He told me that I couldn't use v8.x, so I went back to v7.  A virtual machine see things as a wireless mouse?  Strange, since the mouse works but not the 'options '.

  Is there a fix here?

  Kind regards

  Chuck bobo

  What you see, it is normal and expected.  The virtual machine is always presented with a wired mouse PS/2 button with scroll wheel vertical two.  The Intellipoint software would not detect any "peculiarities" of the mouse, so, no options.  IIRC, on some of my Microsoft mouse & trackballs which were PS/2 USB combo &, while it is plugged in the mouse PS/2 port, I had no access to all the 'extra' features of the mouse.  The only way to get all the features of the mouse in the virtual machine is directly join the virtual computer by either USB or Bluetooth mouse.  But of course, doing so "unplug" the host mouse so you need another mouse for the host.

• CUCM 8.6 and VMWare ESXi 5.0 compatibility

  Hello guys.

  I intend to install CUCM 8.6 on VMWare with 5.0 ESXi hypervisor. On the wiki page of cisco on virtualization for UC I found that information on the compatibility with the hypervisor, ESXi 4.0 or 4.1.

  So my question is:

  -Does anyone know about the compatibility between 8.6 CUCM and ESXi 5.0?

  S ' there is no document on installion CUCM 8.6 on ESXi 5.0 you can send me a link?

  Thanks /.

  He did not complete the test again, this is why you don't see it on the DocWiki. You must continue using ESXi 4.1.

• "The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway" while matching Protected Site VC and recovery Site VC in VMware SRM

  Hi all

  I am trying to Setup VMware SRM 4.1 groups. I had configured hitachi usp vm storage based array replication in both sites.

  Now when I try to pair the two sites vCenter, I get an error at the end of the phase of matching as message "the remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway ' on the protected site. But surprisingly, I am able to match both the vCenters on the recovering site.

  Please help me to get the problem.

  Thanks in advance,

  Sanjeev

  Run telnet server vCenter/SRM protected site to the recovering site server vCenter/SRM:

  Telnet IP_ADDRESS 80

  Telnet IP_ADDRESS 443

  You succeed?

• VMware Fusion 7 and VMware Tools - leak memory in Debian comments

  At some point during my updates from Mac OS X to Yosemite, VMware Fusion to 7.x and my Debian a guest to 8.0 "Jessie" on my 2012 Mackbook Pro, leaking memory of the Linux kernel is developed.  If I follow these steps, then I'd lose soon about 3 GB memory of the core area.

  1. Install Debian Jessie in a new machine virtual de VMware Fusion
  2. Install open-vm-tools or VMware Tools bundled.
  3. Perform an intensive IO as operation simply cat/dev/zero |-c 1000000000 head >/tmp/test.txt.
  4. Smem - wtk and see ~ 3 GB memory under the dynamics of the kernel memory, benefit.

  I opened the 15709682007 assistance request and the representative said that they will fix the problem in a future release. In the meantime, I have what seems to be a workaround for someone else that is affected.  Basically, pulling packages from backports jessie seems to have solved the problem.  This is based on the comments added to open-vm-tools.

  1. Add the Debian repository -backports jessie in /etc/apt/sources.list
  2. sudo apt - get update; sudo apt - get install t Jessie-backports open-vm-tools-dkms open-vm-Tools-Office
  3. sudo apt - get - t jessie-backports dist-upgrade (install kernel 4.1)
  4. Restart comments

  A few quick thoughts:

  1. If you have several virtual machines (or other programs) running on your computer host and VMware Fusion detects that there is memory pressure on your host computer, it uses the "balloon" (vmw_balloon for the latest distributions of Linux) Guest pilot to fly some memory of the guest OS.  This memory "stolen" would appear as memory Dynamics non-cache kernel inside the guest.  Running "sudo rmmod vmw_balloon" should release all memory climbed to the guest OS.  Note that using the balloon driver generally improves the performance of the guest and host, despite the appearance of fear "used memory" inside the guest-"used memory" is just a thing of accounting that we had to use in order to change the priority of the memory between the host and the guest.  It is not "used" in the conventional sense of the term.

  2. I believe that recent versions of virtual hardware non-cache dynamic kernel allocate the necessary memory for SVGA and 3D features (display RAM, texture RAM, etc.).  Disable graphic 3D acceleration or by reducing the amount of graphics shared memory if you are using a new version of virtual hardware (both in the VM > settings... > display) might help.  Decommissioning of a virtual equipment as early (in the VM > settings... > compatibility) can also help.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• VMware SRM Reprotect fails with Peer table ID provided in the SRM of entry is incorrect

  I have the following Setup

  Site-a.

  VMware vCenter 5.1 U1

  VMware SRM 5.1.1

  NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2

  FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4

  Site-B

  VMware vCenter 5.1 U1

  VMware SRM 5.1.1

  NetApp SRA 2.0.1P2

  FAS3140C - Data ONTAP 8.1.2P4

  I created a Protection Group based at the A Site containing a single VM with a single vmdk disk on an NFS volume.

  The NFS volume is synchronous to the Site-B

  I can perform a migration scheduled to Site B, and then reprotect an another planned migration back to Site A, but then when I try to restore the reprotect again so that I am ready for an another Site-B recovery fails in the first step, configure storage for reverse Direction with " " - Failed to reverse the replication for impossible on the devices. SRA command 'prepareReverseReplication' failed. Peer table provided in the entry MRS. ID is incorrect check the newspapers RS to verify the correct peer array ID. "

  I see nothing on the files or the newspaper of SRM server logs to indicate that it is.

  This occurs for each Protection Group, I create this is not isolated to just this one volume.  I also tried with VMFS iSCSI volumes and get exactly the same results.

  If I create a Protection on the Site-B group I can get back to the Site-A and will not restore to fail to Site-B.

  Initially, I look that the issue I saw is that I could do a backspace, but could not perform a second reprotect because the SnapMirrors were left in the State of evil, but now I see that the problem is that I can't make a reprotect from Site A to Site B.

  I completely uninstalled SRM in both places, removed from the SRM database on both sites and started again but always get the same question.

  I actually IBM N series-N6040 controllers and uses IBM Data ONTAP and SRA. brand got a call open with VMware and IBM but not very far.

  Has anyone seen this problem before and got a solution?

  Now, I've identified what causes this problem and can work around it until there is a fix of NetApp.

  The issue was the name of the file on the recovering Site Server had the same name as the file server on the Site protected with a prefix to the subject, which in my case the recovering Site go was named NSERIES01 and the protection of the Site was DRNSERIES01.  Don't forget that I had already performed a failover and restoration for the protection of the Site was my original recovery Site, so yes give it the site protected for this Protection Group is DRNSERIES01 and the recovering Site has NSERIES01 on this.

  Using the task Reprotect is the first step is to call the SRA with the command prepareReverseReplication, which calls reverseReplication.pl, which is trying to verify the SnapMirror is broken.  It gets the status of all the SnapMirrors run on the recovering Site, which in this case NSERIES01.  It then goes through each of them looking for a match of the local-spin-name section: volume-name of the source of the snapmirror, for example for my test group was trying to match NSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test, at this stage of the source of the SnapMirror is DRNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test which is correct, but because the script uses a pattern matching test it corresponds to NSERIES01 : NFS_VMware_Test to DRNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test as NSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test is contained in DRNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test. It then checks if the destination of the snapmirror corresponds to the peerArrayID (that is, in this case DRNSERIES01) he does not like the destination, properly, is NSERIES01, and then reports that the peerArrayID is incorrect. If there is no match on the local-spin-name: volume-name of the source of the snapmirror, then he continues to check the destination of the snapmirror, and when it finds a match, it checks if the peerArrayID is the source of the SnapMirror, and if it checks the State of the SnapMirror is broken off.

  I've never touched the issue with the first reprotect because DRNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test is not contained in the source of the SnapMirror (NSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test) and so it will be the next test of verification of the DRNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test in the destination of the SnapMirror, that he finds and then checks the DRNSERIES01 against the destination which is also to and finally confirms that the relationship of SnapMirror is broken-off.

  I had changed the volume on DRNSERIES01 a while ago because I thought that the question could have because of the volume being names the same, but I had changed with a suffix of _Repl on the end and so the script was always corresponding to NSERIES01:NFS_VMware_Test to _ReplNSERIES01:NFS_VMware_TestDR.

  I have now set my group of test as follows:

  Protected site

  Name of the file server = NSERIES01

  Volume name = NFS_VMware_Test_HMR

  Recovery site

  File name = DRNSERIES01

  Volume name = NFS_VMware_Test_EWC

  I can now get on the Site recovery, Reprotect, restoration, Reprotect and Fail-over again and continue achieving recoveries and reprotect again and again as often as you can re - save on VHS of Scotch tape!

  If the file on the Site B server had a suffix on its name instead of a prefix, for example, it was named NSERIES01DR, or had a name completely different then I would never hit this bug in the SRA.  I'll wait for NetApp fix SRA.  In the meantime I will be renaming all my volumes on the site of recovery as well as to avoid this problem.

• Veeam and Vmware replication

  Hi guys

  We are a data center that provides services with replication of Veeam, now a customer is thinking to reproduce their site but using Vmware replication...

  you see nothing wrong with having two different products, reproducing in our Datacenter or say 1 vCenter?

  Important Veeam replicates a group of virtual machines and Vmware replication will replicate another different group of virtual machines

  Thank you very much

  Hi Escapem2,

  Yes, it should be possible. There is not no problem if you use two sellers for a data center or 1 VC from the point of view of replication. You'll have to make sure all the configuration requirements are met.

  In the replication of VMware, you will need to install the unit of replication vSphre, Sami is managed based on using the web client. On the other hand, Veem replication has their console where you add your ESXi or VC.

  Both these replication technologies are at VM level, there should be no problem until you choose a different set of virtual machines for setting replication job. (There will not be any conflict)

  Prospect management VMware replication helps as it is managed by the same web client that manages the entire VMware infrastructure. But there will be a difference from the point of view feature set.

  I suggest you first zoom before why customer wishes to go for VMware replication and make the right decision. But you can use the two together.

  Please see:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/17/back-to-basics-install-configure-and-use-vSphere-replication/

  http://www.vmwarearena.com/2013/07/adding-esxesxi-host-or-vCenter-server.html

  KB1522:

  P.S.: Award points if it's useful/correct.

• SAN replication vs VMware SRM on?

  Hello

  I wonder when should we choose as VMware SRM on the owner SAN replication method?

  for the moment, I see a plan of the DR site that would be well if my production environment data can be reproduced by the SAN in the DR site.

  Thank you

  SRM is nice, because it gives you a a (wonderful) DR failover button

  Of course, the disadvantage is the cost and the fact that once you have switched, you will need to reconfigure to backspace.

  SAN is generally cheaper (because the assumption is that you should replication stoarge for SRM anyway), but requires scripts on measurement or manually export and import of virtual machines to operate. It's also a bit harder to work around the question if your VLAN don't is not strained between sites and if the INVESTIGATION period.

  If you're used to the script thouhg, it shouldn't be a problem, so your decision simply come sdown to ease of use, cost and skills,

  Personally, I scripted before and would take the same approach again (even if the SRM is a very good tool) - but I think it is different for a lot (more) like not everyone a) the script, b) trusts their scripts.

  Finally, if you pay someone to adapt, it will be easier to understand what is happening with MRS with a bunch of custom scripts and SRM allows 'dummy runs', which scripts cannot do.

  Good luck and post with your final word please.

• Cannot import the license key for VMware SRM

  Hi all

  We have 2 sites and have ESX4.0 3 for each site. We use VMware SRM for the DR solution, I managed with 'Recovery Plan Test', I want to import the license key for SRM, I now go with SRM Administrator's guide but I can't look for the text Licensing.LicenseKey box in the navigation pane of the window advanced settings (see attachment for details). Please give to recommend me

  Thank you & best regards

  Pham Duke of

  He's gone, the place has been changed. I had this problem myself. I do not have access to SRM right now, but I think I could just enter the key in vCenter / Home / license. Hope I remember this right.

  Best regards, Poort

• Server 2008 and VMware issues

  I just heard a rumor that there may be some

  problems with Microsoft Server 2008 and VMware version 4.0.   We are in

  the planning process of a move from Novell to AD and I need to check

  If there is a problem.

  in fact, there is a problem (again), involving most of the time the upgrade of virtual hardware version 4 virtual hardware version 7, and she is related to the way Windows 2008 handles the mounting of 2 or several disks (standard windows 2008 t - it a way, Windows 2008 Enterprise made the opposite effect)

  Carefully read this KB: 0 45642524 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1013109&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=45826554&stateId=0

  hope this helps you

  Jose Ruelas B

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• Licenses of Microsoft and VMware data center

  Hello

  You have a question regarding Microsoft Licensing and VMware ESX hosts.

  We have a Microsoft School Agreement and a lot of our windows servers are running standard edition. One is business running. All about the physical servers.

  We are virtualizing some of our Windows servers and schools prices are very favourable if we buy a license of data center. Its about £70 and it means that we can run an unlimited number of Microsoft server VM in VMware. relation to the enterprise which is only £5 cheaper, but only allows you to run a maximum of 4 people.

  Question, I realized that a Windows license for data center would be per processor, so if I have 2 physical processorsin each esx host, I need to get 2 X Datacenter license per ESX host, is - that correct?

  If I bought 6 data center licenses (3 ESX host with 2 physical processors in each), what version of Windows server can be used, I understand his only standard or Premium, can anyone confirm this? It also covers Windows XP?

  Thank you

  > Question, I realized that a Windows license for data center would be per processor, so if I have 2 physical processorsin each esx host, I need to get 2 X Datacenter license per ESX host, is - that correct?

  Fix.

  License from Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to run with Virtualization Technologies

  Page 13:

  Instead of license servers with enough licenses Windows Server 2008 Standard to satisfy the greatest number of simultaneously running instances of Windows Server, the processors in servers could be allowed with Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Edition. This would allow an unlimited number of instances of Windows Virtual Server to run simultaneously in operating systems. Because the servers have two processors, two licenses of Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Edition for each server should be. Licenses of Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Edition provides the flexibility to move instances of Windows Server without concern to maintain the license compliance.

  > If I bought 6 data center licenses (3 ESX host with 2 physical processors in each), what version of Windows server can be used, I understand his only standard or Premium, can anyone confirm this? It also covers Windows XP?

  Anton is correct - Datacenter license covers only the OS Server.

  Some info about OS desktop VMware licenses - FAQ VMware: licenses Microsoft Windows Vista on a VM for VDI.

• ERROR: Unknown error returned from Agent of VMware Converter

  I have a XP box with a few applications I want to do in a virtual machine.  I have ESXI free running with several local and virtual machines and the data of the network store.   I installed the converter version 4 and could not convert the PC, so I uninstalled and installed version 3 with the same results.  I have attached customer newspapers and converrter of the last run.  If I look at the process on the area of conversion and customer ESXI, I can briefly see the vm name pop up in the list, and then he disappeared when the error in the conversion box

  This is the output of the conversion

  15:16:33 step 1: connection to VMware Converter Agent on localhost

  15:16:33 step 2: creation of target virtual machine and the conversion of the data

  15:16:35 configuring the settings for the virtual machine target...

  15:16:37 WARNING: decline of additional parallel ports

  15:16:37 WARNING: fall of extra serial ports

  15:16:37 WARNING: down the audio device

  15:16:37 creation of virtual machine target...

  15:16:43 ERROR: unknown error returned from Agent of VMware Converter

  VMware Converter Agent logs are located on the local host to C:\WINDOWS\Temp\vmware-temp\vmware-converter*

  VMware Converter Client connects to this computer can be exported, or found in "C:\Documents and Settings\superuser\Local Settings\Temp\vmware-temp\vmware-client."

  VMware Converter logs is stored on a temporary basis and should be retrieved as soon as possible.

  Any ideas?

  PDK

  PDKNY,

  Welcome to the VMware Community Forums!

  > Root user authentication

  > Connected!

  > Using a specific location DataStore3 to disk: 0

  > Using the data store DataStore3 for VMX

  > Waiting for creation of the VM finish...

  > Waiting for a task to finish...

  > job [error] CreateVm failed: cannot access the file.

  You seem to be getting a failure when creating the virtual machine.  Converter 3 and 4 work the same way, that they submit the request for vCenter/ESX to create the virtual machine, as required.  I have seen where an initial conversion has failed once before or another conversion was at the same time, and we had to restart the running converter (Server source and converter) before the lock system was released on the data store.

  Kind regards

  EvilOne

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• VI Client and VMware Server 2

  Can someone explain the relationship between the client native windows VI and VMware Server 2?  At the present time, I am not able to login to VMware Server 2 product outside the Web access.   Agent VI does not provide any real comments on why it cannot establish a connection.  Usig VMware Server 1.X console I can generate an error of "" 501 overall GLOBAL server agent nonhost command targets not supported. ""  With the VI client I get connection error... From a shell, I can telnet to the server on port 904 (the port I have set up on) and get the connection. I tried to put in hostame.domain.com:904 in the VI client IP/name field and the ipaddress: 904. I don't know what is the version of the VI client, because there is no indicator.

  You must log in via hostname:8333 in the VIClient.