Copy 700 GB of virtual machines directly to ESX 4.1 data store

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• Can a virtual machine cause several discs in separate data stores?

  I have 2 data warehouses, each on their own RAID array.  The intention was to put the VM OS in a store of data and secondary VM disks in the other data store.  For example, we would be a small OS disc in datastore1 and there will be a secondary drive that the OS could use for storing files or databases in datastore2.  However, once the first drive is created, and I'm going to create a second disk, I have no option to specify where we created/located.  By default, it is automatically in the same location as the first disc.  I see that I can move it to datastore1 2 using 'Browse the data store', but the virtual machine is not aware that the disk has been moved.

  Is this scenario possible or each VM disks remain in the same data store?

  You can specify a different data store for vdisks, but it is not recommended to place different vdisks in different data stores for the same VM. Things like vMotion and HA do not, or will not function properly if you do this.

  IF you do not have other choice, but to do this, duing her 'create disc' step by adding a secondary/additional drive on the virtual machine, you will see the location section. This is where you use the Browse button, or enter the path, to the another data store where the disc files will reside.

  I would advise against using the data stores different/double for the same VM. From a point of view logisitical she can make management a nightmare. I did once, and try to consolidate the various files in a single data store (later) was a bitch and a half...

  VCP4

• How to copy or move a virtual machine to one vCenter to another?

  In the near future, we will have a HA cluster in a foreign vCenter, connected to a dedicated line. As far as I know, we are able to integrate the HA cluster in our vCenter, but are not able to copy or move a VM in our vCenter to another because there is no direct connection between the storage.

  What will be the simplest possibility to copy or move a virtual machine to the other vCenter?

  Thanks in advance!

  Concerning

  Burkhard

  Through the OVF export vcenterA.Then copy VM module the OVF vcenterB file deploy.

  THX!

• Cut short Linux to start the virtual machine directly

  Hi, I want to make a shortcut on the desktop to start a virtual machine directly

  Host: Edubuntu 10.10 64 bit

  Client: Windows 7 64-bit family (called: "'Educatieve netwerk.vmx" ")

  Working directory:/ home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk

  The virtual computer name: Educatieve netwerk

  Full path to the virtual machine:/home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx

  Location of VMS and the default teams: / home/zml/vmware

  I'm using VMWare Workstation version 7.1.3

  I tried the commands of mutiple, but still without success...

  VMware x/home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx

  didn't work...

  Could someone help me?

  Maarten

  Try the following:

  VMware x ' / home/vmware/zml/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx.

  Make sure you put quotation marks ("" ") for the computer virtual access path.

• Clone a virtual machine directly from single ESXi host

  Hi, I want to clone a virtual machine with all the related feathers which the Associate ID (CPU ID, UUID, BIOS ID, etc.) and redeployed on another single ESXi host. It could help me how can I do?

  Hello

  without vCenter server you can accomplish this by check script PowerCLI this useful post below:

  Tools of HL - part 1 - clone a virtual machine without vCenter - notes LucD

  If you want to clone individual disks check this KB:

  VMware KB: Cloning of disks to the individual virtual machine through the ESX/ESXi terminal host

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• I have a virtual machine that is resident on two data warehouses, and I need to move

  Okay, I'm trying to reconfigure the storage on a cluster of ESXi to software development, and I fell on a virtual machine that is resident on two data warehouses.  Somehow, the user has configured this thing to have most of the VM files on the data store 5 while all the vmdk but the residence on the data store 1 boot drive.  He probably did it because of the size of the old warehouses of data and the many VMs older than his colleagues left sitting.  Well, now I just reconfigure data warehouses so that there is more usable space, but I can't move this machine a virtual so that I can reconfigure the rest of storage.  (For reference, the old warehouses of data have been implemented in 4 sets of three disks in RAID 3 and a set of four disks in RAID 3 with two drives hot spare.)  For the record: not my idea.  I am reconfiguring them now to be a set of 15 drives in RAID 6, divided into two LUNS on both controllers, with a hot spare.)

  Well, now I need to figure out how to get this VM is spent at one of new data stores.  The data migration store feature does not work.  Any recommendations?

  Hi Dangingerich,

  You can move the VMDK individually with the advanced functionality of storage vMotion allows you to ask the data disk on your new storage space and then have the OS disk track.

  YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhdmdcMmvas

  Screenshots

  

  When you svMotioning click on the Advanced button

  

  Here you can select the individual VMDK and move.

  All content comes from the video by Paul Braren, I annotated only his work.

  Have fun

  @iiToby

• Get the list of virtual machines on an ESX host specific and dumping of .csv in a specific format

  I have problems to find a way to get a list of virtual machines on an ESX host specific and then he dumped to a .csv in the following format

  I use the get-vmhost esxhostname | Get - vm

  but everyhting else after, it is where I am lost...  I think the closest I had been posting the output with a goofy header and format 'vm1, vm2, vm3 "...

  name

  computer 1 name

  computer 2 name

  name of the machine 3

  to use for later use.  Any help would be appreciated.

  You must use the Select-Object cmdlet to specify more precisely the properties you want.

  The Export-Csv doesn't know how to manage the virtual computer object.

  Something like that

  Get-vmhost esxhostname | Get - vm | Select name. Export Csv.\report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

• ESX as a virtual machine on an ESX host

  Currently, I am installing ESX as a virtual machine on an ESX host. I have a couple of hosts potentially put this VM: two 4.0 in the course of execution, one running 4.1. I would like to run this VM on the host running 4.1, and the virtual machine must run 4.0. Thanks to my documentation and research of compatibility, I found that it is not supported as an operating system to run in a virtual machine under ESX ESX, but it's for the workstation and fusion. I read on some blogs that ESX install as a virtual machine on an ESX host is possible (at least on older versions), but comes with a few problems, which have no workaround. I found (external) positions regarding do all this with the 4.0, but my preference would be to do with 4.1 on the host and 4.0 on the virtual computer. I can't find something to do with 4.1, which is not surprising given that the upgrade became available less than two weeks ago. Does anyone tried it yet? Is there anything, you have found or recommend as I approach to do this? (I read that the virtual computer must be configured as a computer virtual running RHEL 5 with 2 GB of RAM http://when all this is done with version 4.0, but I was not able to find much more.) Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions!

  Hello

  Yes, I tried last week and it worked for me. You are on the right track, we must select RHEL 5 64-bit as OS and assign the 2 GB of ram, and in addition to sound, you will need to use E1000 NICs for the installation to complete.

  FYI, this configuration is not taken in charge/tested/certified by VMware.

  Hope this information helps

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• A virtual machine created in ESX 4 can be converted to run an ESX 3.5 Server?

  The subject says it all.  Our main office has created a virtual machine on their ESX 4 server running.  They want us to use the same but we are running ESX 3.5.  We have no time to upgrade our server to 4 again.  We get an error when we try to start by saying this is not not compatible because it was created with a version with more features.

  If a virtual machine created in ESX 4 can be converted to run an ESX 3.5 server using converter?

  most important:

  change

  virtualHW.version = '7' to '4 '.

  in the vmx file

  then change

  ddb.virtualHWVersion = '7' to '4 '.

  in the vmdk file

  the other changes are optional - for example, you need to remove the lines that start with pciBridge and all the lines making reference to... .pciSlotNumber

  also take care of not to use more then 6 PCIdevices in 4 virtual material - i.e. the sum interface cards scsi controllers + network + video cannot be greater then 6

  If you have a time that is very simple and much much much faster then converter - post an example if you want

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• List of virtual machines on an ESX host

  Is there a method in the sdk that lists all the virtual machines on an esx host?

  Simply get a reference to a HostSystem and it has an array property called vm http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.HostSystem.html that gives you a reference to a matrix to all virtual machines on this particular host.

  Here is a sample Perl script that shows how to retrieve all the virtual machines for a specific host and certain attributes of the VM: getAllVMGuestHostname.pl

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

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• VMWare Fusion 6, after upgrade cannot copy and paste between virtual machines, desktop missing files

  I upgraded from VMWare Fusion 5 to 6, and after the upgrade I can't copy/paste between virtual machines. In addition, the files that are on my desktop Mac are now missing and inaccessible on my Windows desktop.

  Tools update or reinstall?

• vSwitch ESXi 5.1 workaround to virtual machines (direct access to the network)

  Hello world!

  I have a server running properly the 5.1 ESXi hypervisor and got inside the physical grid active router with DHCP. How can I configure the vSwitch on ESXi 5.1 work not managed on the network, without VLAN and have direct access to the network?

  Just to clarify, I would like to first of all virtual machines VMware Workstation works - if it is possible to run several virtual machines and define all NICS (Network Interface Card) as connected by a bridge, that is to say. Each VM gets the specific configurations of IP to the external router.

  Since now, thank you very much for the help!

  Best regards

  Eduardo

  With ESXi the vSwitches work comparable to Bridged networking, so there is really nothing special to do.

  André

• Can I remote in virtual machines directly?

  I run vmware player on windows 7 and have a few virtual machines from CentOS 6 for Windows Server 2008.  I know that I can access virtual machines by remote access in the host operating system, but it's kind of messy.  I can remote directly in virtual machines? I know I would probably mess with some network settings to make it work, but before that I just want to know if it CAN be done with virtual machines running on VMware player or if I need another (non-free) version or what.

  Thank you

  Access to a Virtual Machine, everywhere, is not fundamentally different, then access to a physical Machine act accordingly and correctly configure makes directly accessed remotely if you want.  The value of the Bridged network adapter, set up your router correctly to the packages before him and you're in business.  It can also be done with the virtual machine Network Adapter the value NAT however this technique requires additional configuration and another layer of process so the bridged configuration and physical router configuration is easier and more direct.

• Copy Virtual Machine on the ESX Server windows file server (files)

  I made a copy of a computer virtual with Vmware converter and it is sitting on the windows file server, is there a way to copy the files to the server, ESX4?  Something like a copy and paste?

  Thanks in advance!

  Simply right click on the data store you want to place the files on (Summary tab when selecting one of the hosts connected to this data store), select "Browse the data store" and then use the button "transfer files to this data store. You can use it to download a folder or file from a target, that you access from your system. It might make things easier if you create a folder in the store of data first, and then download the files one at a time. Make sure that the virtual machine is turned off when you do.

  Another option might be to vMotion/migrate it from current storage to a data store in the ESX environment. I did not the same type of migration before, it will or will not be, works correctly. I moved files VM from a source, see my workstation, up to a data store that the ESXi host has a connection to before without problem (with the virtual machine powered off course).

• Connect virtual machine directly to LUN

  Hello.

  We have a physical (Windows 2003 R2) file server that connects to a SAN logical unit number.

  Is is possible to connect the virtual machine to the same LUN and be able to read the data?

  Thank you in advance!

  Yes, the rear drive even picked up by its E:\ status and everything was perfect.  I was a little worried at first as well, but it works so that I do not even stop thinking about doing more.