Convert ESX 3.5 in 4.1 virtual machines

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• ESX 4.0 - cannot start a virtual machine?

  I have recently install ESX 4.0 evalution in mode. We stopped for the licenses of our distributor who will take 3 to 4 days.

  ESX 4 installs successfully on DL 360 G5 and I use 30 MSA with 7 discs (1.6 to total) as a storage device. It detects the local drives and 1.6 to datastore perfectly. But when I create a simple virtual machine and start reading the BONES of CD ROM it does not start. Is it because I use eval mode. I think ESX 4 is fully functional and active for 60 days. When I start the virtual computer it concludes with the message "Operating System not found" and not even boot from the CD ROM After two or three configurations of chaning of VM, I'm still not able to understand. Can someone tell me where I am doing wrong. In ESX 3.5, I ran the virtual machine correctly but in ESX 4, I'm not sure. This is a new server and ESX 4.0 is also new facility. I also appreciate if someone tells me a guide that shows step by step how to create a virtual ESX simple machine. I have not yet install VC 4 as I have not yet received the licenses.

  Thanks in advance

  Please check the following things

  1, "to connect to the power on ' should be checked for the CDROM in editing parameters

  2, Goto VM BIOS and check if the CDROM is the first boot device.

  3, check the CD-ROM drive to start a physical machine

  4, check if you connect the CD-ROM drive to a remote location.

• Convert a physical Wins Server in a virtual machine for redundancy

  Hello world

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  We have just set up an emergency operations center and run thrus by an optical fiber (so, technically, it's the same network but with some redundant internet). And we would like to set up the servers to replicate all the production servers (wins, sql, apps... etc) at end of failover/redundancy. The best is to reproduce in live all the time... but less than a number of days can be very well. If something happens, systems can be "reactive" or better proactively kicks in.

  Running on SAN cluster could be a solution... but we cannot have enough $ to build a San now.

  I would like to ask if VMWare provide all product that can take a snapshot or perform replication from all Wins servers to a virtual machine by a calendar environment. I think that virtual machine, because we don't have to buy new hardware while double set.

  Vcenter is for this?

  Any suggestion would be great.

  Thank you very much.

  Takami Chiro

  Software double-take doues not need to be run on a cluster - it can be physical or virtual, and yes it can replicate a server on a virtual machine - vmware converter will allow you to P2v physical machine, but it will be a manual process.

• Help converting a physical server 'live' in a virtual machine VMware VirtualCenter Consolidation 2.5.0

  Hello, I read the manuals and understand the process as much as I have not actually started the consolidation. I have a Compaq ML350 server which has a default of fan cooling and want to make a virtual machine as a starting point. It will be important for the virtual machine to have the same computer name and be a member of our domain. The only question which does not seem to be addressed has to do with the old server. I need to have the available printserver. I know that you cannot have two SID, names of computers or IP addresses on a network domain at the same time. There is an option to change the name of the virtual machine before you start building. It would be wise to use a temporary computer name while doing my first consolidiation/conversion. Once completed, I could stop the printserver, remove the domain, start the virtual machine, rename it, join it to the domain, and then set the IP address to match my old material printserver. I guess correctly? I can't wait to leave the company without a printserver for more than a little bit. I guess additional servers, I wanted to convert should be treated in the same way? If I posted in the wrong place, please accept my apologies. If there is other material that I may have missed that might also be useful, but I have about 4 different PDF so far. Thank you. brand

  I forgot an important step - sorry, you must add the converter

  plugin - in the menu there is a plugins to manage - it's here where you

  can add the client plugin

  Once you do this, you should get this option

  January 28, 2009 at 15:08, 'rsxsr' [email protected]

• Accident of ESX 3.5 but virtual Center did not perform vMotion on virtual machines

  Hello

  We have 3 ESX servers on Virtual Center 2.5. One of the ESX Server suddenly restarted due to hardware failure. There were 5 virtual machines on this particular ESX host.

  When we check all the VMs who resided on the ESX host touched, he has just restarted and didn't vMotion for the rest ESX servers

  The question is why don't the vMotion VMs to the rest of the other servers. The rest of the ESX host have more than enough CPU and RAM to accommodate all 5VMs

  My understanding of vMotion would be when an ESX host is down, all the virtual machines will be migrated to other ESX hosts on the cluster.

  When an ESX host is down, the migration of all virtual machines to other ESX hosts in the cluster is not a VMotion functionality, but this is a feature of VMware HA. The vSphere availability Guide:

  "VMware HA offering high availability for virtual machines by pooling their and the hosts they reside on in a cluster." Cluster hosts are monitored and in case of failure, the virtual machines on a failed host are restarted on alternate hosts. »

  Therefore, enable HA of the cluster to achieve the desired result.

  Best regards, Robert

  Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk

• Confused by the strategy of allocation of ram ESX virtual machines

  Hello

  I have a "MS SBS 2003 R2 premium" production virtual machine running on ESX 3.5.0 build 123630: VM has 4 GB of allocated RAM.

  On this virtual machine, all processes are running (IE exchange, sql server, antivirus, antispam, mail, archiving,... etc.) and some of them are performing badly (especially exchange and sql mail archiving database); While working on the optimization with the machine to a single application they analized the use of resources within SBS 2003 and told me that there is not enough RAM (only 300 M. By the way it seems to me that on an OS Server using a lot of free ram is a waste of resources, but it is another point...).

  Looking at the windows Task Manager (see attached screenshots) is confirmed, but control use of RAM for RAM usage average VM (with infrastructure VI client) is between 1 and 1.5 GB during working hours (09:00 - 20:00).

  I'm confused: If there are so many processes within the VM asking for memory, why ESX gives only a third of the RAM allocated to the VM? And as all the other 3 GB, are they paged to disk?

  Thanks in advance to help my understanding.

  Guido

  Don't forget the vmkernel activiely tries to save on the memory usage - the tool is Transparent PAge Sharing - ability to the vmkernel to identify identical memory pages and store it once read only memory - so you could very easily have guest o/s of the virtual machine showing that it is using 4 GB but the esx server is only show that vm use - less

  Now on your poor perfromance - what is the configuration of your server ESX - memory, CPU? How many virtual machines are hosted, and what are the respective configurastions - mem, # viretual UC? With a large file of the PAge check the performance graph and see how much memory ball is active, if any?

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• What is the best way to backup of virtual machines on a standalone ESX with the data store local

  Hello

  I want to save the virtual machines on a host ESX autonomous. and all of these virtual machines is the local data store.  What is the best way to save these virtual machines in this situation?

  And probably we don't provision VTL on the local data center, so it is possible to use VCB to backup? And VCB is a good choice compared to the traditional method that installs the backup client in each virtual machine?   Because I think that in this situation with the data store local, it cannot not reduced the load on ESX hosts and network overhead can be avoided.

  Thank you!

  LAN

  > 1. VCB usable remote tape library? I mean it's not local library and uses the tape library to another network data center.

  VCB is completely unrelated to the tape library, it is a framework, not a backup solution. If your standard backup software can work with the remote tape library you can try it to ungrateful with VCB.

  > 2. what the difference bwteen hot - added NBD and modes if there is that an ESX host with store data local and want to use a virtual machine like VCB proxy? I think that they are the same: the VCB proxy read data through the I/O of the ESX host stack in this situation.

  NBD works on network and the backup traffic goes through the service console connection. Hot add uses special machine for assistance to connect vmdk to and uses of e/s disk stack instead of e/s network.

  > 3. Veeam Backup is free software?

  No, it isn't.

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• Can I convert a server disk to a virtual machine?

  I have a number of OS X 10.5 servers running on hardware that is incredibly underused.  Since the Fusion 3 supports running OS X Server virtualized, is it possible to convert a live server disk to a virtual machine to the BootCamp to VM? I could run all 5 of my server on a single Xserve systems. I dug around, but everything points to a new facility to achieve this.

  Thank you

  Tim

  Yes, it is possible to convert physical machines to Mac OS X Server VM. I've posted instructions on how to do this in the following thread: Re: Snow Leopard Server VM existing?

  In your case, the only thing that needs to change is the version of the OS - pick instead of 10.6 10.5. I tried this with one of my machines so far, I would be interested to comment on the question of whether instructions to work for you. I'll probably convert this post into a document at some point...

  I also thought the ability to hire only the OS X physical disk partitions without copying the data (like Fusion for Boot Camp). However, Fusion currently only supported the MBR partition tables to access raw partitions, and most Macs are partitioned GPT (or hybrid MBR + TPG). You can try to use Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator to see if it recognizes the OS X partitions. If so, you should be able to create a virtual disk that references the partitions and boot from it as you would for a machine virtual Boot Camp.

  It is also possible to use a physical disk full (instead of individual partitions), but you would need to have partitions not mounted before using virtual machines that reference the physical disks. If you are interested in, there is a link in this thread as well.

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

  Hi all!

  I have two ESX 3.5.0 servers that are managed by a vCenter servers one have just the connection of 32 KB.

  I need to clone one of my virtual machines from one to the other ESX is W2k8 created with 40 GB HARD drive. I tried to start it clone trough my low connection, but the task is about 86% for 4 days :|

  Is it possible to clone virtualmachine on one of my ESX for its local storage and after that, get it by vCenter for example an external HARD drive and then copy them all to my second ESX? How to run copied virtual machine on my second ESX? Maybe I can do it with another way - ideas?

  Two ESX are the same versions and machines, only the names and the ip addresses are different.

  Thanks for the tips

  Kris

  I don't think it is possible since the virtual disk will be 40 GB in size - I was suggesting using a laptop as a server NFS ESX sees and access the virtual machine for this storage clone - it take the first vessel of ESX host it to secondary site attach NFS datastore on the second ESX Server and using the browser of data store you navigate to the cloned VMX of VM file and to him the second ESX host - you can cold migrate leaving the second host and then move the cursor above for the storage you want.

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• Virtual machine does not start after completing a physical machine coversion

  I used VMWare Converter 5.5.3 to create a virtual machine from an existing, Windows Pro 8.1 laptop from work.  The conversion process has indicated no error.  When I try to start the virtual machine on a different host, however, he died almost immediately.  I'm using VMWare Workstation 9.0.4, my host OS is Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) and the guest operating system is Windows Pro 8.1 (64-bit).

  When it comes on, I see 'VMware' logo instead of loading and after a few seconds, the computer virtual turns off with no visible error message.  I tried to run the virtual machine on multiple machines, and both have the same results.  Host machines running all other virtual machines I tried without problem.

  I tried to change some of the parameters of the virtual machine via the GUI, but nothing seems to affect behavior.  I ran the other VMs Pro 8.1 of Windows on this computer before host, it's just this particular virtual machine.

  I attached the zip file management tool of data collection to support, as well as the vmware.log file.

  Can someone point me in the right direction of a cause or a resolution to this problem?  Thank you in advance.

  I was able to do some additional research after I posted and found the relevant error in the log:

  PCIXHCI: Cannot save the PCIe xHCI hardware

  I found this vmware KB article that describes the problem:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2041591

  Once I set the VM to use USB 2.0 (instead of 3.0), it starts as expected.

• Returns automatically instant at the start of the virtual machine

  Hi all

  I configured my ESX Server to automatically launch a virtual computer to booting the ESX Server. How can I configure a specific snapshot in ESX server to automatically restore the virtual machine?

  Thank you

  Concerning

  
  Davide

  VSphere Center, it is not possible, but if you know the condition when vm should go back to the snapshot, you can use vSphere powercli.

• Best way to import a new virtual machine?

  Hi all, I used the standalone converter to convert a SCO Unix .tib in a virtual machine image and upload it automatically to the server ESXi 5. An image of 8 GB, took 6 hours.

  Strange, I thought, so I run the converter again on the same file, but this time just saved locally on the same computer, Windows converter was turned on, it took 15 minutes. If for some reason it takes ages and ages of transfer on the server ESXi 5.

  Is there a faster way to transfer it on? I'm going to live soon (test right now) and have the server offline for so long seems unreasonable. Is there a way to manually copy the converted during the first virtual computer, and then add it to the inventory? I'm a little new to this!

  Have you used VMware Converter 5 with the installed server option?

  In this case, take a look at for example Re: poor transfer rate using Converter standalone 5.0 compared to the 4.3 to find out how to speed up the converter by disabling SSL encryption to see if it changes anything.

  André

• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• Automate virtual machines with VIX api

  Hello:

  I m automation of virtual machines on an ESXi host using the vix api. I try to turn it on and make the virtual machine, but the script returns error 3008:

  VIX_E_CANNOT_CONNECT_TO_VM

  What the problem ´s?

  Thank you!

  With ESX 4.1 and higher, VIX 1.10 is required, with a full license. ESX 4.1 does not manage virtual machines with a free license.

  ESX 4.0 provides that, if you use 1.6.2 but version not higher.

• Virtual machines using 90% or more of memory comments

  I have improved recently (4 guests) two clusters of 3.5u2 ESX ESX 4.

  Almost all virtual machines report now that they use a very large amount of comments.

  The clusters are identical and have the available 268, whose 135GB is used in one, and 70 GB in another

  An example is a Windows 2003 Server (SP2, R2, x 32) VM is no longer used. I have 4 GB assigned and has no service running or anything of your RAM to the virtual machine (it reports 362 MB used in the Task Manager), but in vSphere is recorded as using 4185 MB memory of the host (i.e. more than him), and 98% of the comments in the vSphere client memory. The machine works normally and the consumption of memory continues even after a reboot.

  I've updated the VMTools and the VMHardware at 7, and this has not solved.

  Why almost all virtual machines (in two groups) are this high memory use, when they were not under ESX 3.5? I have also some identical virtual machines (taken from the same model, similar running tasks) that reports correctly their memory usage. About one-third of the VMS correctly report its use, the rest are incorrectly indicating they use 90% + of memory comments

  How can I dagnose and solve this problem?

  Just visited this Ko this morning and it is perhaps related to your problem.

  Patch link

  vcbMC - 1.0.6 Beta

  Lite vcbMC - 1.0.7

  http://www.no-x.org