Copy/Clone virtual computers to one ESXi host to another

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• What is the interval of time between the virtual machine Linux and ESXi host synchronization?

  I have ESX5.0 with a centos6 installed on this linux virtual machine.

  After the installation of vmware for Linux virtual machine tools, I activated the time synchronization between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host through vmware-toolbox-cmd.

  I wonder what is the interval of time between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host synchronization? If I quickly time OS system, when the OS system time will sync back to the ESXi host?

  According to http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf:

  By default, the demon checks the guest only once per minute operating system clock.

  However, depending on whether the guest is behind or in front of the result is different. So, please read the section "periodic synchronization" (at least) in the document mentioned above.

  André

• Trying to copy a virtual machine from one server to another

  Hi all

  I'm new to ESXi 4, although I used VMWare Workstation for years.  I am trying to copy a virtual machine from a Windows system (Sysprep) from one host to another.  The two hosts are identical systems with the exact same ESXi host configuration.  Same hw, same version of ESXi, same setup, same size of the partition.

  When I use the Vsphere data store browse to 'download' the vmdk and vmx files to a local drive (Windows Server 2003), I get the following 3 files: the same vmx file, a tiny vmdk file and a file huge filename - flat hard.  The file vmdk on browser to store data from the source host is about 23 GB.  The flat on the local system vmdk file is almost 63 GB.

  Can I reopen Vsphere on the destination server and "load" the 3 files in a directory that I created in the data store.  Once there, I use the browser "Add to inventory."  When I try to turn on the virtual machine, I get the error message "not enough space on the data store."

  Any ideas of what I could have done wrong?  Again the data store configuration is identical:

  Local disk to VMware: 62.95 GB, Total formatted capacity: 62,75 GB.  1 VMFS 3.33 MB block size it's the only VM on the system.

  Thanks in advance,

  Mark

  What you see is by design.

  When you try to copy a disc loaded end service, with the browser data store or FastSCP, the virtual disk will be inflated. Use the converter such as recommended by AlbertWT.

  Since the virtual disks of destination must already 60 GB of disk space you may not able to power on the virtual machine, because there is not enough disk space for the swap file, which is the size of the configured RAM (less reserve, if necessary).

  André

• How to copy a virtual machine from one bank to another bank without storage vmotion?

  Hello

  How can I copy a virtual machine disk local to a data store if I don't have storage vmotion? We bought vSphere Advanced... :-(

  Can I migrate a powered off power VM from local drive to SAN datastore?

  Thank you!

  or you can just power up the virtual machine off the coast and make a migration.  One of the options will be to move the disc as well.

• How can I move an ESXi host to another?

  Hello

  I have 2 ESXi hosts running on similar hardware. SSH is enabled on both hosts. I need to move all the VMs from one host to another. What will be the most effective way to do it?

  Most average effecitive: buy vSphere Essentials, configure vCenter, connect the two hosts, virtual machines turn off, do a right click and "migrate." 1 k$ for 3 hosts and vCenter.

  Less effective, but cheaper way: turn off virtual machines, copy VMs to an another ESXi, search for all data, made store .vmx files right-click and "add to the inventory.

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  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

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• How to keep a virtual machine on a different host to another load balancing virtual computer

  I have two virtual computers (servers) that I use for the application load balancing and I don't want nor server/VM to finish on the same host at any time.   Balancing of the DRS is used in our vSphere environment.  What is the best way to implement?

  Yes that's what I was talking about-

  You can control the placement of virtual machines on the hosts in a cluster using Affinity rules.

  You can create two types of rules.

  VM HOST affinity - specify affinity or anti-affinite between a group of VMS and a group of guests. An affinity rule specifies that the members of a selected group virtual machine DRS may or must be running on a specific host DRS group. An anti-home rule specifies that the members of a selected group virtual machine DRS cannot run on a specific host of the DRS group members.

  Affinity of machine VM-virtual - specify affinity or an anti-affinite between each of the virtual machines. A rule specifying the affinity causes DRS to try to keep the specified virtual machines together on the same host, for example, for performance reasons. With a rule anti-xxx, DRS tries to keep the specified virtual machines, for example, so that when a problem arises with a host, you do not lose the two virtual machines.

  Agic, the Guide to management resources - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-resource-management-guide.pdf Page 75 for more information-

• Best way to migrate virtual machines to new ESXi hosts with a different configuration of networking.

  We currently have a cluster of 6 Dell machines that move VM 120 or so on ESXi 5.5. Networking consists of a dVswitch with 6 uplinks that map to 6 x 1gig physical NETWORK adapters on each host ESXi... These are grouped into 3 trunks / gal, so we have 2 GB by SHIFTING of the bandwidth and failover. The LAGS are configured as follows:

  LAG1

  Traffic to our (NFS) shared data store and management of ESXi. (vmk0)

  LAG2

  Access to the network of the VM - groups of different ports on different VLANS

  LAG3

  vMotion (vmk1)

  We just bought 6 new Dell machines that have connections fiber 2 x 10gig each. The idea is to bring together in a 20Ggig LAG by machine that will handle all of the traffic, so traffic NFS data store, network traffic from the VM, vMotion and traffic management ESXi.

  
  

  What is the best way to migrate the virtual machine in the cluster existing to the new machines? Many of the virtual machine are essential, so we cannot stop time.

  
  

  Can I create the new DELAY on existing dVswitch and put it as an auxiliary card? I'll be able to do it for all 3 of the above both above LAGS?

  
  

  Thanks for the info Alistar, it's almost here. The bit that was me stumping was that after establishing a new dVswitch I received messages that the new dvSwitch was not reachable on the old host, when I tried to migrate the virtual computer.

  The solution (with the permission of VMware Support) was that I need to add the two dVswitches to one of the old hosts, then assign a physical alternative on this host uplink to a temporary 3 uplink on the new dVswitch. I then tag all the relevant VLAN that uplink.

  This way I can first migrate the virtual machine to the new dVswitch networking so I can move the computer to the new cluster.

  Obviously I can only migrate from old to new cluster with a single host. each virtual machine must be a double for the host with 2 switches, and then to the new cluster. I also had to have the two dVswitches to the same version.

  Fortunately, I had a physical rising spare on the hosts of the old, otherwise I would have had to break one of the trunks and re-use of one of these uplinks.

  Oh and be aware, impossible to use the same names for groups of ports 2 DV switches, they must be unique!

  Nick

• Can not copy VM UM VCenter para outro sem desligar a uma machine virtual (I can copy a virtual machine to one vCenter to another without stopping the virtual machine)?

  Pessoal, boa is late,

  Hello

  Gostaria of sabre to e possible copy of VM uma um VCenter para outro sem ter as desligar a Máquina. Is a possibility?

  I wonder if it is possible to copy one Virtual MACHINE a vCenter to the other without power off duty the machine. There is a possibility?

  Obrigado desde ja

  Thank you

  My brother, fazer o um escopo clone or por exemplo um deploy um model e no mesmo vCenter, or seja, por vias normais, voce nao do clonar OU fazer deploy model vCenter para um um o outro.

  Very, sempre exists uma saida, e no seu caso, você pode fazer o seguinte:

  1 cloned an atual VM (as pode ser feito com an origem watch VM);

  2 copy os archives da VM clonada para o outro datastore vCenter;

  3. no data store don't do novo vCenter, service one pasta da VM e clicar com direito button no land e .vmx selecionar didn't add to the inventory.

• Unable to start the virtual machine after Migration - ESXi hosts

  Last night I wanted to move a virtual machine to a host of test to a production cluster.  All hosts (test and production) have shared access to the same LUN, so I usually am able to simply remove the virtual machines of the inventory in the test environment and add them to the production environment by accessing the .vmx on the data store file.  Two of the 3 hosts migrate perfectly and are running in the production environment.  However, the third server, while the migration starts.

  First he gave me errors that it was missing some files.  The only thing I did was different to rename the folder for the virtual machine on the data store.  It was called 'New Virtual Machine' for a reason, so I renamed it to "Antivirus."  However, something strange happened.  Instead of renaming the folder, it seems was created a new folder named "Antivirus" and the old folder 'New Virtual Machine' was still there.  In addition, the renamed folder 'Antivirus' had only SOME of the files needed.  So I just copied from the old folder in the folder "Antivirus" and he hung up the virtual disk of 20 GB file.  So I closed the VI client and checked the vdmk 20 GB folder and back this morning is in the folder with other files.  However, when I try to start the virtual machine, I get the "cannot access a file because it is locked" error message.

  I've done some detective and I noticed that in my second datastore where was the other folder vdmk, the file was now .40kB in size.  Looks like I've lost my other vdmk folder.  What happens here?

  It looks that the virtual machine was still running when you tried to change the name, so the old folder could not be renamed because of the lock. That's why a new folder has been created instead, and why your vm hung on the vmdk file until the lock has been released. Don't know what happened to the 2nd vmdk file, but the file vmware.log in virtual machine directory must have some info as to why does not start the virtual machine. If the 2nd vmdk is gone, this might be a reason.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

  Post edited by: kjb007: changed vm in vmdk

• Displacement of the unit number logic from one ESX host to another

  I am a newbies VI3. Are there opportunities to move a unit logic of an ESX host number to another?

  I can't find any guide. Help, please.

  Thank you.

  You don't need to remove the LUN from the host of the first.

  It is enough to present the second ESX host storage, don't know how you do it for the EMC storage.

  If you have virtual center then you just select the host, go to Setup and select storage adapters and then rescan the HBAs. This storage should appear.

  If you do not have virtual Center, then you should be able to do it from the host.

  The main thing to make sure, it is that you present the LUN with the same ID for all guests.

  If you really need to delete a logical unit number not used, check that no virtual machines are using, use the management of storage to anyone there and then rescan the HBAs as above.

• What is the best way to copy all the files from one hard drive to another?

  Old disk 60Go new 320 GB drive.  I want to do the new replacement for the old disk drive.

  Old disk 60Go new 320 GB drive.  I want to do the new replacement for the old disk drive.

  Use disk cloning software.

  The safest way is to use an external hard drive enclosure to maintain the new disc during the cloning operation.  These come with interfaces USB or e-SATA to IDE or SATA interfaces for the drive and the computer.  Be sure to get the correct type.  If you have an available internal drive Bay, you can put the new drive it for the cloning operation, but do NOT restart with two connected drives.  After everything was settled down, you can mount the old disk of 60 GB inside, format and use it for storage of backup.

  Cloning (copy to disc) software may have been bundled with your new drive or may be accessed free of charge from the manufacturer of the new command.

  Otherwise, here are a few apps cloning that I have used myself or have been recommended by members of the community:

  Acronis True Image Home
  Casper
  Paragon Drive Copy
  EASEUS Partition Master

• How to copy photos of LR from one hard drive to another?

  Hi, LR peut the photos to copy a hard drive to another?

  
  

  I need necessarily ...

  
  

  The first hard drive I'm a messand I would like to that If LR has copied all the pictures for the second hard drive and created a folder by date.

  Peut it?

  What would be you have me or recommended by another program?

  
  

  Thanks Tomas.B
  

  
  

  Tanuj Sandal said

  Please visit the following links: How to copy files to an external hard drive in Lightroom | Adobe evangelists - Julieanne Kost. Adobe TV

  Despite the title, this video explains how to MOVE pictures, not how to copy.

  There is no way to make copies of the photos using Lightroom, you can move the photos using Lightroom.

  jakubn26183962 said

  The first hard drive I'm a mess, and I would if LR has copied all the pictures for the second hdd and created a folder by date.

  Lightroom will result in no records per day, except when you import photos. If I could make a suggestion, leave your files in the same "mess" they are in now and use the keywords and other metadata to allow you to organize and search.

• Convert VM residing on host to another host ESXi ESXi - impossible to get hardware information for the selected VM

  Hey guys,.

  I was wondering if someone came across this yet, but I amtrying to move a virtual machine to one ESXi server to another with converter. The virtual machine is powered OFF and when I select the virtual machine, and then click Next, I get this error "Unable to obtain information on material selected VM." I could always use FastScp but I want to resize the partition of hard drive on the virtual machine before I move it.

  Thank you!

  Hi Jonathan,.

  Can you send me the list of contents in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\logs"?  As you have noted that these services are running that they are very likely to produce newspapers in this directory.  Also can you send me the following files as it is possible that logging can be disabled in them:

  "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\converter - server.xml" and "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\converter - agent.xml.

  You can make sure that you connect to the server local converter by going in "Administration > to connect to another server...". "in the main window of the converter.  This is different to connect to the ESX Server.  Just to make sure that the flow is clear, when you go through the wizard, it communicates with the converter server to which you are connected.  The converter server will contact the appropriate converter officer who is responsible for the collection of information from the source and run the conversion.  In this case, the appropriate converter agent is one running on the local computer. This converter agent then connects to the esx server you specified in the wizard to get the necessary information machine.

  -Ryan

• Migrate the virtual machine for Exchange 2010 from one host to another

  Dear members,

  Please let know us if the migration of a virtual machine for Exchange 2010 is supported to an Esxi host to another, the Esxi version is 5.0.

  There are unique Exchange environment with the role of hub, CAS and mailbox on the same virtual server. We have a maintenance window and we think moving exchange virtual machine from one host to another, but before that I need to be sure if it's supported my MS and do not want to have problems after, because I have also gotten to know here in the forums this snapshot for Exchange 2010 is not supported by Ms.

  Please notify.

  Kind regards

  I'm not aware of any limitations with VMS Exchange migration. Anyway, you can consider running the migration during the low workload.

  André

• Poor performance during copy/clone a VM disk

  Hello

  for several days, we try to find a solution to improve performance when the computer images virtual of one ESXi (free) to another.

  Our situation is as follows:

  We have 4 different servers ESXi running, must benefit from all the material according to the compatibility of the VMWares guide. Connected via gigabit, all virtual machines network has stopped, nothing else running on the network. All virtual machines are stored locally on SATA drives.

  Now we wanted to spend a bunch of computer images virtual of one ESXi for others - but regardless of what technique, we used, we have reached a maximum. Speed about 10 MB/s (which would take several days to transfer everything).

  We tried the following:

  -Enable SSH and SCP allows you to copy the files directly between servers (using several different encryption algorithms)

  -Use Veeam FastSCP for copy files directly

  -Connect through SSH on both sides and has used a combination of tar and netcat to push raw on the network files

  -Install ProFTPD and copy files via FTP

  For all of these methods, the write speed was never over the ~10MByte/s (often it is still slower). So we thought that the networking might have a problem, that's why we tried a few transfers the.

  But even a local "dd" to transfer data of 1 local disk to another was just as slow as the transfer of network... We tried this on all the different materials of ESXi we have, with the RAID on, off, etc.

  After some googling, we discovered that this should be a problem with the VMFS that really does not support the use of "standard" file system tools That's why we tried to find a way to use the ESX-internal tools to copy/clone VM images.

  We installed a NFS server 'between' 2 ESXi servers, i.e. both have the NFS share accessible. Copy of ESXi to NFS is incredibly fast (via vSphere client, operating at gigabit full speed) - but the copy of NFS to ESXi is slow again (as before ~10MByte/s). The last test we did was use the vmkfstools command line utility to clone from the NFS share on the local disk of VMFS. This seems to be a little faster (difficult to measure due to missing statistics, seems to be ~20MByte/s), but far from a quick fix.

  What is the mechanism to move a virtual computer image on a server ESXi? Is there a way to improve the transfer speed?

  Yes, he does. As I said, this problem (poor local disk IO performance observed in ESXi, but not in the virtual machine) can be eliminated only by 'mature' raid-controller with large onboard cache, usually 512 MB - 2 GB (or storage network, of course, but now we are talking about local drives).

  It does not matter if you have a local drive attached to the controller chipset or raid - without performance cache controller is just as bad. In fact, it can be even worse on raid-controller (without cache) If you use raid5/6 to parity calculations...