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• How can I configure Socialcast on ESXi 5?

  where can I get the free download?

  where is the documentation on the configuration it under ESXi 5?

  Thanks for any advice/answers/tips

  Please take a look at the KB below.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2008607

  I hope this helps.

• Newbie Question: What should I put in for "Hostname" in the DNS Configuration during install ESXi

  Note: I'm not a professional but rather an amateur trying to test the power of virtualization technology. I understand the IP addresses and how to configure my router, Setup static IP address and build my own computer, but I have some limited knowledge when it comes to the configuration of the servers. All I want to do is use this ESXi server locally in my house to run several operating systems on one physical box. I really don't want to have a server on the internet, I think that Comcast doesn't let me run the servers with dynamic IP package I have. In any case, here's my problem:

  I followed with the installation of the link video tutorial ESXi in the intro email vmware sends you after registering. I'm around the 14:30 mark minute now where we are the management network configuration in the configuration menu of DNS.

  The tutorial guys sets its hostname to something he obviously installation but mine appears as "localhost.hsd1.ca.comcast.net". I do not understand what I do when I set up a host name - and as I said above, I don't want to be put in place a server on the comcast network.

  I think I'm a bit confused and don't know what to put in host name. I tried "localhost" and also "localhost.hsd1.ca.comcast.net" but hen t when I chose "network of test management", I got a message of failure for hostname.

  Sorry if it's a super newbie question, but I will not continue to implement virtual machines or what then if this setting is incorrect. I appreciate your time in reading this / to help me. Thank you.

  UPDATE: Ok, so since I'm impatient, I tried just letting the host name to what it was and continues with tutorial and realized that I could simply type the address static IP address from my ESXi server in my web browser from another computer on my home network to get the VI of the esxi Server client , then I typed just 192.168.1.50 which is that I put it was and it was successful! Is there a reason to set a host name then?

  So, my next question becomes: can I run my windows XP 64 OS at the same time as the ESXi Server? Each are installed on different disks in the same physical box, but this computer is one of my main computers that I work on in windows every day so ideally I would have ESXi running but also be able to use the base operating system. Is this possible or am I just dreaming / confused?

  Your welcome hardnesses, I think you can try to re-insalling ESXi with the hostanme you want, or you can connect to the existing installation with an unsupported option and try the same thing.

  Concerning

  Anil

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• ESXi licensing question

  I have ESXi 5.0 upwards and running with a new installation, leva Vsphere client and go and I cannot figure out where to put my license key.  In 4.0, it is under the administration, but in 5.0, I just roles and newspapers, no license.  If someone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated

  I feel like this is a stupid question and miss me just something, but for the life of me, I can't find where to put the license.  And, Yes, I searched on the community.

  1. Connection to the ESXi 5.0 directly using vSphere Client host.
  2. Click host ESXi 5.0 in the inventory, and then choose the Configuration tab.
  3. In the configuration tab click allowed under the software features.
  4. On the right side you will see change the hyperlink, click on it.
  5. Click on assign a new license key to the host, and then click the Enter key
  6. Enter the license key, and then click OK twice.
  7. Now you should see all the features of the product in your license.

• ESXi 4 - questions RAID - ASUS RS700-E6/RS4

  I have dabbled with virtualization for a few years now, but he must admit from the outset that I am new to the world of ESXi.

  Our company is you want to replace the 4 servers of aging with a new beefier configuration running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x 64.  After doing some research and making reference to the list of ESXi 4 HCL, decide us pick the server next stop of the HCL:

  ASUS RS700-E6/RS4

  2 x Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26 GHz LGA 1366

  8 x CORSAIR 2 GB 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC

  3 x Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1 TB 7200 tr / MIN SATA 3.0 GB/s

  The server hardware is not bad.  I know that's not the greatest, but it's more than enough to meet our needs.

  So here's the question: I can't get the ESXi software to detect the matrix RAID which has been implemented.  I tried to use RAID 5/10 configurations and for the life of me, cannot get the software to detect the hard disks as a single disk.  When Setup runs, it asks that one of the physical install disks to, rather than install them in the table.  This is quite annoying, because we need this configuration for redundancy (in the case of a tragic failure.  The server uses the following controller technology:

  SATA controller:

  Intel® ICH10R:

  6 300 MB/s SATA2 ports

  Intel Matrix Storage Manager (for Windows only)

  (Support RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5 software)

  LSI MegaRAID® (for Linux/Windows)

  (Software support RAID 0, 1, 10)

  SAS controller:

  Optional:

  Card ASUS PIKE 1064E 4-port SAS RAID

  Card Asus PIKE 1078 8 ports SAS HW RAID

  Currently, I am using Insider Software RAID (on board).  Is it necessary to use hardware RAID for correct detection?

  Does anyone have experience with this?

  cipacs wrote:

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  Not that I wish not to take your word on it, but is there a document which confirms that the hardware raid levels is necessary?

  Not that I know, but everyone down here can confirm that it has NO software RAID supported in ESX, it has never been argued.

  He's already happy that you can even use your built-in chipset ICH10 controller.

  Hardware RAID is expensive for a reason, there is an additional processor, which unloads the CPU. Software RAID uses your hosts, a CPU CPU already, you normally want the additional tax that you need for your virtual machines.

  Regarding your card RAID Pike, it doesn't seem like the HCL, so I would say that this is not supported.

  Or wait, it seems that the RAID Pike map is a LSI controller renamed with a chipset 1064/1078 who expected to work. However, in your case I make sure and get confirmation from ASUS that it works with vSphere before ordering.

  While you're at it, get a sustained unit (BBU) battery with the controller as it makes a huge difference in performance that you can then activate the write back cache.

  --

  Wil

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  VI-box tools & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

  Edit: added note on the LSI

• ESXI 4 Questions

  Well, I got installed ESXI which was the easy part... The hardest part so far is to find things that... I went to the server via another computer and download the tools, he said. The tool is the thing of vsphere that apparently is not free or ESXI is not free I can't really say that because it indicates just that theres a 60 day trial... anyway, my questions are the following:

  1. the only way I could get one of these virtual machines to load from an ISO file image is I have is to run the virtual machine, let it do the verification for remote loader, then reset the machine and pressing f2. This gives me enough time to go and click the cd-rom, load my iso and then exit the bios to load successfully Setup for windows/linux... Is there an easier way to do this? I really don't understand why you can't just mount the image...

  2. how exactly do you go about restoring and backup of stuff... ? & lt;-I'm mainly testing such things for my work and his between Hyper-V and this... I read theres other tools or something but you I have to pay for them, and my job is unwilling to cough money up until a final decision is rendered. It is the first virtualization server that our work will have and I head the project. The only thing is that everyone is incomplete on that and wants to be shown how this all works. I used vmware things before, but it has always been a workstation configuration. Client/server thing quite new to me.

  3. I figured out how to get the "images" on the server, but exactly how to download stuff to it? & lt; -I've read yet still theres a jump, skip and jump around it, but is it not a function inside this program vsphere that does? I activated the SSH but the server does not support ftping through the ssh tunnel.

  4 are free tools for this free ESXI and ESXI server are itself? I was under the understanding but its either the server or the vsphere program which is not free. & lt; -the only thing is that it doesn't show anywhere to enter a key for the server or the vsphere program, that is why I am confused which one is really...

  5 is this really all that useful and more telling me that my VM machines are work/letting see me them & control machine vsphere virtual machine "hardware"... So far, I have not found all the features besides that...

  The server it is all running on is also a dual opteron quad with 32gigs of ram and 8 x RE3 1 TB Raid 5, but this raid is only temporary and will probably soon be promoted to a 16 x Raid 6...

  6. is it really strong enough to run a small sql, old print server, old server ts server and a little other sql server?

  (1) you can, if you download the ISO in a store, you can change the configuration of your virtual machine and set the CD rom device to ISO. This makes persistent between restarts, rather than fix the console level. Just like a physical machine if there is already an image of the operating system at this time where you need to go into the virtual bios and set the boot order.

  (2) several different ways according to your storage and your products, you have access to. The simpler conceptualy is to simply treat it as a physical node and install your backup application to it and save them in the same way that you would with a physical. Alternitivly there are products vmware and other products for backup (VCB (now DPM)) which will take a 'snapshot' of the virtual, consolidate the disc and turn off the ESX Server. Some of them have a cost associated with their good

  (3) when it is connected to your host with CIV simply select a store of data (via configuration or in your inventory) right click and choose 'Browse the data store' you FTP as options in there like folders and load and download files/folders

  (4) ESXI is free just sign up for a (free) key and Server license and you are good to go at this time. The Vsphere Client is free, no worries.

  (5) more than enough, most of the time ESXi is a fully functional virtualization platform, we run 300 + virtual machines (150-200 running loads of production, Primarly SQL and Exchange) If you have the right configuration and the equipment you will be good to go. Don't forget your hardware bottlenecks and plan them for the future if virtualization is an impressive tool, but it can be a challenge for 'rat hunting' Performance issues there are many links in the chain. I would like to emphasize that the bottleneck of disk and CPU contention has been more difficult to wrap around the action and determine both maintain good your ratio and don't forget that a shared storage (pin count) are your friends for good performance

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• ESX and ESXi - OS Question

  I understand that ESXi is OS independent due to the removal of the "Service Console", which is based on Linux.  My question is "until this means I don't need Linux to install ESXi? and what does it need to be installed on the physical host computer or it could be a VM as well? and finally is - anyone know where I can get a video of how on this configuration?

  ESX (i) are two metal blades installed.

  Documentation can be found on

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35u2_3i_i.html

• ESXi network question

  I have an ESXi server with 2 VM. The server has 2 network cards. What is the best way to configure these for the most effective. Can I assign a map to a virtual computer and another card on the other virtual machine? Also, these servers talk to each other much. That's why I have them grouped together on the same server ESXi. Will this configuration Dungeon local traffic on the server rather than on the network?

  I guess my question is what is ideal and best practices of this situation?

  Thank you.

  For a host NIC 2, this configuration is fine.  ESXi will be outbound connections to balance and for communication between 2 virtual machines that traffic will not even hit the natachasery.   According to your physical switches, you can configure incoming load, thus balancing, but you will probably be fine.

• Dell power edge T620 configuration RAID and OS install Question

  Hi all

  Thank you for taking the time to read my post. My company recently bought a new server Dell T620 and I'm the one assigned to operate. Unfortunately, I do not have to configure a server with a RAID5 configuration.

  My question is, I'm following the directions to Dell that says opening the lifecycle controller, select deploy the operating system. Where I'm stuck is to put the virtual disk. It's my first RAID configuration, and I think that the VD is what windows uses to read total disk space? We run 3 - 1 TB NLS 6.0gbps 7.2 k RPM.

  I know 1 TB HARD drive to shows only 930 GB in windows. But for some reason any it offers me a virtual disk up to 1800 GB? I think I need to settle this at least can Go 930?

  I can give more details if necessary. But currently, I am stuck on this part and will not go forward unless some.

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello acslacker

  All you need to do is choose RAID 5, select the 3 disks and accept. It will automatically use all available space.

  With discs hard 3x1TB the maximum available space will be approximately 2 TB. Some will disappear in the conversion to binary. It is announced that 930 GB instead of 1 TB. RAID 5 1 HARD drive is used for parity, then you will immediately lose 1 TB. This space will not appear in the usable space. The 1.8 to which it is automatically the list looks correct.

  Thank you

• Supermicro onboard Intel and Adaptec RAID configuration unrecognized in ESXi 5.5 U2

  Hi, I have a supermicro X7DAL-E r1.1b motherboard has integrated Intel and Adaptec sata raid controllers. To enable raid controllers, I go into the BIOS and enable the raid configuration for intel or adaptec. I tried two raid controllers and created a configuration raid 5 by going through the bios of each controller. However, when I start to go through the process of installing ESXi 5.5 U2, I see not a logical drive, all I see are hard drives that I thought were configured as a logical drive in raid 5.

  I know that I am using an old motherboard which is not on the HCL, but I just haven't the money to spend on equipment. I really want to make it work if possible. I tried to download ESXi 4 but it is no longer available . I understand I tried to use an older version to see if it contains the necessary drivers for it work and attempt to port these drivers in ESXI 5.5.

  I was wondering if someone actually got this similar problem with supermicro Board and whether a solution or workaround has been found in which ESXi 5 can recognize the raid configuration? If this is impossible, it can't be done, that's what it is. I'll deal with it or put in place.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  Not sure about this 'r1.1b' version, but original X7DAL-E has no onboard hardware raid controller. What he has is i5000 chipset, which offers the raid software-(aka bios-, faux-, etc.). This is not supported by ESXi (for very good reasons). And even if it were, no cache, you would get terrible performance...

• Como configurated red en Esxi environment?

  Saludos a todos estoy iniciandome in el tema virtualizacion. Básicamente mi problema creo are simple: to Estoy instalando UN servidor desde cero, a proliant ml310 con tarjetas red back. De imagen del Esxi 5 para ese servidor y lo instale una ip static way has the card 1 black entrar desde otra pc despues instale el vsphere, the instale than the version of ubuntu 12 y hasta Aquí todo good. Ahora are mi con confusion the red, como can than mi Máquina virtual ubuntu internet tenga? decir esta Máquina virtual goes a funcionar como servidor para toda red samba y tengo than fijarle una ip led a una tarjeta y otra than sea as obtenga ip del manera dhcp router del servicio proveedor.

  Saludos AlbertoDente, lo mejor're lo do como in the imagen that editor, as he prepared to para you entorno:

  • Crearemos back vSwitch.
  • Cada tarjeta red lo asignaremos a UN distinto vSwitch
  • In cada vSwitch crearemos a virtual machine Port Group, this can be uno llamado LAN, en vSwitch0 y otro en WAN vSwitch1, pero make of Quebec cada tarejta of Red will donde debe ir, osease how a LAN of uno y otro o al. switch router al del router.
  • En VM, crearemos back vNIC (virtual network card), una con cada PortGroup.
  • Dentro de Ubuntu is configuras cada una como Trin

  

  UNA guia como crear cada group of ports, puedes encontrarla aqui - Knowledge Base | VMWare Knowledge HUB

  I hope you sea of utility, if asi fuera, marca el tema como completed

  A greeting

• How do I configure Openfiler for ESXi 5.0 (on which has been installed in the workstation).

  9.0 pre-installed VMware I installed in my laptop. I created a 5.0 as a VM ESXi in workstation. And I installed vSphere client 5.0 in my laptop. And I am able to access ESXi from my laptop through the vSphere client.

  Now, I created a VM with Windows 2008 R2 on top of ESXi. I installed vCenter 5.0 in Windows 2008 R2 Machine. I have just to connect to vCenter using vSphere client (which has been installed in my laptop) and added ESXi as host in the inventory.

  Now, I created a VM with Openfiler. Everything is fine. I want to use this Openfiler as a storage array, and I want the SAN with ESXi and Openfiler configuration.

  I think I need to create a VMkernel port group and attach that Openfiler VM who. And if I want to access the Openfiler web interface, do I need to have internet access? We can access the Openfiler Web interface without having access to the internet?

  Can someone let me know how to connect this Openfiler as a storage Bay for ESXi and configure a San.

  Openfiler does not need Internet access and you do not require an additional VMkernel port for access.  If it's production, you share the management and traffic on NIC iSCSI physical separate and thus vmkernel ports.  In this case, it is not necessary.  Did you do the initial installation of Openfiler to create a LUN for the ESXi host access?

• SSH configuration view RAID ESXi 5 command

  I have several ESXi 5 servers that do not have hard drives. I want to confirm that the disks are in a RAID configuration before I hot swap drives since they are critical production servers and cannot be taken offline. Nobody knows what the command SSH ESXi 5 that will show the RAID configuration? I know there are the vendor specific tools that can help to manage these servers, but I just wanted to confirm quickly the RAID configuration, so I can replace the drives.

  Thank you!

  If you have HP servers (and the HP bundles installed offline) then you have the hpacucli tool to manage the Smart Array controllers available in a shell.

  It is also available through esxcli (esxcli hpacucli).

• Configure Passthrough in ESXi host for USB Dongle?

  Hello

  You have to connect a USB dongle to a virtual machine specific.

  On the web, we find that we can plug the dongle to 5 ESXi host.  For this particular virtual machine, add USB controller and then add the USB device.

  We wonder if we were to "Configure Passthrough" in "Advanced settings" of the ESXi host?  If so, is there an easy way for us to identify the particular USB port used?

  Thank you

  Post edited by: TonyJK

  Hello

  If you want to only connect the USB dongle to a virtual machine, add a USB controller to the virtual computer is simpler. Once you have added a USB controller, turn on the virtual machine. Plug the dongle on the ESXi host. Open the page change the setting of this virtual machine, add a USB device and you should be able to find the dongle in the list. Save the settings and your virtual machine can now access the dongle.

  Martin

• Kickstart ESXi 5 question

  Hello

  I am trying to automate the process of installing my ESXi servers, but I encountered a problem that I can't solve.

  I am currently pxe boot the installation media and passing a startup script to configure the basic settings. In the kickstart file I have a % POST section that comes in contact with a Web server to tell me installation is complete. This action then unstages the PXE environment, so it does not work through Setup again.

  But by default, it appears that port 80 is open outgoing and not port 443 in the vmkernel.

  My problem is that I have to do a HTTPS GET (not a HTTP GET) of the % of the ks script message part, but the traffic never leaves the server. At first, I thought it was a matter of ssl because of the preinstallation environment, but I changed the https port 443 to 80 on the Web server and everything works as expected and traffic is sent over https (port 80) as you wish.

  I tried to run esxcli to clear the firewall rules, but I get an error of local connection, so it does not appear that I can

  Does anyone know if it is possible to make a https outbound connection during the installation % POST section?

  My current post section:

  % post - interpreter = python

  Import os, httplib

  Mac = os.popen (\'esxcfg-nics-l | grep vmnic0 | awk \\\'{print $7}\\\'\').read ())

  H1 = httplib. HTTPSConnection ("192.168.3.10")

  H1. Request (\'GET\', \'/rest/server/unstage/\'+mac.replace (\':-',-'--'))

  H1. GetResponse()

  firstboot % - interpreter = python

  Import os, httplib

  Mac = os.popen (\'esxcfg-nics-l | grep vmnic0 | awk \\\'{print $7}\\\'\').read ())

  H1 = httplib. HTTPSConnection ("192.168.3.10")

  H1. Request (\'GET\', \'/rest/server/activate/\'+mac.replace (\':-',-'--'))

  H1. GetResponse()'

  I hope that all this is logic, and thank you guys!

  Try to use localcli (instead of esxcli) to disable the firewall.