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• Add hosts with existing virtual machines for 'Greenfield' active DRS Cluster

  I'm currently involved in a project for the hypervisor 5.5 and vCenter. Existing are 2 physical servers with redundant everything and 8 SAS hot swap hard drive bays. Initially, 8 bays only 4 have been populated with hard drives. Hard disks have been removed, ESXi 5.0 has been loaded, 4 virtual machines created on each server and all lived happily ever after.

  Now, I would like to upgrade these servers to 5.5... as follows:

  I filled the remaining 4 bays on each server with some hard disks and created a second strip of sufficient capacity (twice the capacity of the 4 original disks). I'm stop servers, past the stripe for starting a new band of readers and installed ESXi 5.5 on the new band. The old Strip also remains in tact, so that I can start to ESXi 5.0, if I set to boot from the original soundtrack or boot to ESXi 5.5 if I boot to the new band (two operating systems starts very well, are properly networked, configured vCenter, etc.).

  When booting in 5.5, he sees his own, new band and is also the soundtrack which is listed as a second data store attached (I think actually I want to make possible migration of the simple VM from the old to the new data store), both are disk space of LSI, Non - SSD, Type VFMS5.

  Panic sets in when I start both computers in 5.5 and the time comes to add 5.5 hosts in a cluster (I also want to test the vStorage DRS and HA) and I've reached the setting of the, "choose Resource Pool." I'm scared to death that choose the first option, "all of the virtual machines in this updated host in the cluster resource pool root. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "will mean not only a reformatting of the new band which I would like to add to the cluster, but also the still attached old band that includes the data that I want to keep. I don't want to lose data or virtual machines on the soundtrack, but to migrate them in a cluster of 2 servers ESXi 5.5. I was really hoping to migrate data to new tapes on new hosts and then re - purpose boards 2 original (on both computers) as a third table vStorage.

  Issues related to the:

  1. If I choose the option "put all the virtual machines from the host in the pool of resources of the root cluster. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "with all the drives connected, all my data will be lost?

  2. If I pull the 4 original disks (5.0) and use the option 'put all virtual machines from the host in the pool of resources of the root cluster. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "that with the new arrays connected (5.5) and then reconnect the old paintings after that the hosts are added to the cluster, will be only the re added still get sucked into the tables and data deleted?

  3. choose the second option, "create a new resource pool for virtual machines from the host and resource pools. This preserves hierarchy to pool resources in. the host' a safe option? If this option works, no matter if I have my original array attached when you add hosts to the cluster?

  Last point: by reading all the documents I found it seems strongly suggested to set up guests who have not a deployed virtual machines, that's why I'm going to great efforts to try to keep the new hosts as empty as possible and with 1 port base networking while waiting to complete the configuration. Does it matter if I migrate virtual machines or add them as guests to the ESXi 5.5 before or after I have add hosts to the cluster?

  Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

  I'd go with option C.

  VSAN I would agree has some stupid requirements, but that they were aiming for is almost class company SAN at a decent price by using the SSD as caching tables, but as you said if you don't need not good I would continue to go with a NAS NFS solution.

• Closing and reopening the workstation with running virtual machines

  I have recently upgraded to 10 Workstation and I am having a strange problem. In preferences, I have checked option which says "continue to VMs run after the closure of workstation. In workplace planned 9 this option worked exactly, but workstation 10 seems that partially works as expected. In Workstation 9 I could close my computer, and then open then in from the tray icon to always see my virtual machines running with the small green icon play on them. However, in the 10 workstation I close the workstation and all my virtual machines continue to run, but when I reopen it workstation all my virtual machines appear in the workstation as if they are off; but they run because I can RDP for them. If I right click on one of them all is grey with the exception of mark it as a favorite and delete. I can't power off, change the settings, see the console, or anything like that. The shows the icon that VMs are being run, but even suspend, stop or suspend tray icon options or background open VMs do not work either. The only way I found actually to get my computer working again is to use the Task Manager to kill the task of vmware - vmx.exe. As soon as the task is killed for each workstation running, they operate again in the workstation.

  If anyone has encountered this problem, or know a fix for this? I have run several virtual machines and never have any idea that vmware - vmx.exe is for what VM when needing to change something on one of them. I make sure that I can kill them all in order to make a change to one of them.

  David Moore

  Ok. I have this problem. However, the fix has been an awareness in desperate need of repair. I ended up uninstalling the VMware Workstation and then remove all references to the registry with REGEDIT. I then restarted the computer and reinstalled VMware Workstation again. After this heavy treatment, it works again the way it should work. It seems that the upgrade to the latest version of Workstation 9 to the latest version of 10 break something somewhere.

  By the way, Dayworker, it was and is version 10.0.3.

• Unable to connect to the internet with my virtual machine

  Hello

  I use vmware workstation 10 Windows 8, I run the machine virtual windows server 2008 R2. I have configured the apdater network of the virtual machine on the NAT to share the ip address of the host address, but I don't have access to the internet! When I check my network apdater it shows that no network apdater is connected? help please

  you're hard coding of the IP address of the virtual machine or to an address must be assigned by DHCP?

• Join the domain with existing VM

  Hello

  How can I join a domain with existing virtual machines? We have a couple of VMs that we want to join a domain via the command (PowerCLI) file. etc name should stay as it is, only a domain join must be made.

  Thanks in advance.

  CU

  Rainer Friedrich

  You can try to create a new OSCustomizationSpec (New OSCustomizationSpec) with only the domain (domain, DomainUserName, DomainPassword) join.

  Then, apply the OSCustomizationSpec to the VM (s) with the Set-VM cmdlet (and the OSCustomizationSpec parameter).

• Get use of the resources of all virtual machines in a cluster

  Hello

  I have developed a measure of capacity management report that collects all the use of the resources of the virtual machines in a datacenter. The function that collects it looks like this:

  def hostMemoryConsumed =]

  def memoryConsumed = 0.0f

  def memoryGranted = 0.0f

  VMs. each() {}

  VM->

  try {}

  memoryConsumed += vm.host.memory.consumed.current.average / 1024.0f<----- how="" to="" do="" this="" to="" get="" from="">

  memoryGranted += vm.host.memory.capacity.current.average / 1024.0f

  }

  {} catch (NullPointerException e)

  }

  VMS is a function of type parameter VMS VMW

  The works above for virtual machines in the data center, but I need it to be after cluster. I can find a cluster of virtual machines, but I'm having trouble with referring to specific values for example consumed memory and capacity.

  If I change the type parameter: VMW Cluster how the metric reference would look like (see the try {})?

  I don't think that a query will help me.

  Thanks in advance

  Erik Alm

  If you want to do for a cluster, you can just get the list of virtual machines in a cluster of first and passing in your script.  If you have a function for a VMWCluster you can add a parameter for "vmwCluster" that is underneath and it should give you a table (topologyObjects) that has all the virtual machines in the cluster.

  QS = server.get ("QueryService") / / query Service

  tquery = qs.createStatement("!) (' VMWVirtualMachine where esxServer.parent.name = "+" ' "+ vmwCluster +" "" ") .setQueryTopologyObjects (true);

  topologyObjects = qs.executeStatement (tquery) .getTopologyObjects)

• Oracle cloud virtual image, I was able to create the database using DBCA (virtual image) oracle cloud. I understand with the virtual image, we won't have a lot of tools like on DAAS cloud... But could please at least use us dbconsole?

  On oracle cloud virtual, image I was able to create the database using DBCA (virtual image) oracle cloud. I understand with the virtual image, we won't have a lot of tools like on DAAS cloud. But could please at least use us dbconsole?

  
  I tried to start dbconsole, and it did not work:

  [oracle@ltutest ~] $ emctl start dbconsole

  OC4J Configuration problem. /U01/app/Oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/OC4J/J2EE/OC4J_DBConsole_ltutest.compute-aulatrobeu83140.oraclecloud.internal_ORCL not found.

  
  

  According to the oracle help doc center - "creating a database on an instance of virtual image service" (http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/dbcs_dbaas/CSDBI/GUID-29290A81-8798-4988-848E-77A1BE0CF08A.htm#GUID-4851560B-D4B6-42...)

  database was created with the option as:

  emConfiguration - NONE - storageType FS

  
  

  I guess we have to manually configure the em console, but when I tried to create it, he told me that "' Dbcontrol repository already exists." "

  When I try to start it, it exports the error

  [Oracle@ltutest ~] $ emctl start dbconsole

  OC4J Configuration problem. /U01/app/Oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/OC4J/J2EE/OC4J_DBConsole_ltutest.compute-aulatrobeu83140.oraclecloud.internal_ORCL not found.

  Could someone could give me help with this problem?

  
  

  Thanks Brian. I tried your command, and it works. Now I've encountered another problem, how can I browse the URL?

  I created the access rule for access remote on port 1521 and 1158. but when I try to browse the EM console URL, it does not work. all the configurations that I need to do?

• Can join a Cluster of storage disk out of Maintenance DTS Mode to set up the profiles for a virtual machine storage policies?...

  Can join a Cluster of storage disk out of Maintenance DTS Mode to set up the profiles for a virtual machine storage policies?...

  
  IE can you define the rules of affinity DTS depending on how the rules of storage of profiles are configured for a virtual machine?

  In my mind it seems there is disconnect from the DTS and storage profiles.

  Thank you.

  = NOTE =.

  My lab at home, 2 organizes running ESXi 5.0

  Dv01 has

  Of startup vmfs 7200 RPM 160 G = dv01-BOOT

  Vmfs 1 TB 7200 RPM = VM02-VMFS

  VM02 has

  Of startup vmfs 7200 RPM 160 G = VM02-BOOT

  Vmfs 1 TB 7200 RPM = VM02-VMFS

  Vmfs 5900 RPM 2 TB = VM02-TV01

  I have (3) facility profiles of storage using 'User-defined storage Capablity' as shown below:

  (160 @ 7200 RPM SATA) boot > Boot

  Fast (160 7200 RPM SATA and 1 TB @ 7200 RPM SATA) > fast

  Slow (2 TB @ 5900 RPM SATA) > slow

  Then, I set up a storage Cluster with my local disks on dv01 (only to date)

  LocalVM disc dv01-BOOT and dv01-VMFS disk of the 'cluster of storage.

  I have a computer virtual called DC01 (HardDisk1) want to live on 'Boot' profile storage drive
  His "Non-compliant" poster according to the storage profile, it should run on drive 'boot' on dv01

  To get to this point, I put the StorageCluster in Mode of Maintenace 'DTS' and forced a sVmotion of all virtual machines off dv01-BOOT

  No disks are IO or claim of space.

  But once I take the 'DTS Maintenacne mode' STARTUP dv01 floppy is now get the DTS to return him to satisfy the storage profile (rule) I install... IE do the 'storage profile' VM complient (without doing a few externall API, the PS script or the 3rd party software calls)... ??

  Seems weird it is (or may be) such disconnection of a memory of the profiles and the StorageClusters and the DTS?

  Thank you...

  At this point, I think that storage DRS and storage profiles are two technologies to separate and work independently, but what you suggest is a great idea-

• Find all the unique ID associated with a virtual machine

  is there some sort or any command that I could find all the unique ID associated with a virtual machine?

  I mean like ID: ID hardware, CPU ID, UUID, MAC address and etc...

  This should help you

  https://psvmware.WordPress.com/tag/VM-UUID/

• How do to activate 'VAPP Options' on an existing virtual machine, and then add the properties that will be passed down through the OVF - ENV. XML

  
  
  I'm trying to understand vSphere PowerCLI how to activate the "Options of VAPP" on an exsiting VM (in this case a model freshly cloned) then add properties and select cdrom of the FVO data access such as when the virtual machine is running the FVO - env.xml contains the properties in the CD-ROM drive.
  
  If I use the vSphere client and open the virtual machine settings and click on the tab 'Options' and then select "Options of VAPP" and change the setting to "Enabled" and then select 'VAPP-> Advanced Options' and click on the button 'Properties' on the right, I can add the properties and then I can change them vsphere PowerCLI, but given that these actions are not retained if I clone the virtual machine I need a way to put these in place of vSphere PowerCLI without using the vSphere client to do.
  
  Thanks in advance for the help!
  
  

  Mike

  You can use the vSphere API to activate the 'Options of VAPP"on an existing virtual machine, and set properties. For example:

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $spec.vAppConfig = new-Object VMware.Vim.VmConfigSpec

  $spec.vAppConfig.property = new-Object VMware.Vim.VAppPropertySpec [] (1)

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0] = new-Object VMware.Vim.VAppPropertySpec

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0] .operation = 'Add '.

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0] = new-Object VMware.Vim.VAppPropertyInfo .info

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.key = 0

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.classId = "Property1ClassID".

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.instanceId = "Property1InstanceID".

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.id = "Property_1.

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.category = "Property1Category".

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.label = "property 1.

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.type = "string".

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.userConfigurable = $true

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.defaultValue = "Property1DefaultValue".

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.value = «»

  $spec.vAppConfig.property [0].info.description = "Property1Description".

  $vm = get-VM-name vm3

  $vm. ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task ($spec)

• The former "cannot change the power state of virtual machine: the process has exited with an error: end of the error message" thing again (Fedora 8/Server 1.08)

  OK, this problem beautifully undescriptive I've seen caused by what seems to be dozens of things happening for me.

  I made the mistake of horrible update my FC8 kernel to the latest one (2.6.26.8 - 57.fc8).  Mind you, that's all that's changed.  It was with a 1.06 server with happiness and perfectly good computers running virtual in use before the upgrade.

  After the new kernel and reboot, I had to rebuild vmmod.  I had to get a fix of any - any later that I used with my previous kernel (116 does not solve the problem of compiling) so I used all-any117d.  Update like a champion.

  Try to turn on a VM and Ihanta!, the above error.

  Nothing else was changed.

  I tried the upgrade to VMware Server 1.08.  Used all-new any117d - update OK.

  Error again.

  I have re-run the compilation, this time to say 'yes' to what the installation script to "adjust the permissions of all virtual machines in xxxlist" or whatnot.

  Error again.

  1. status of /etc/init.d/VMware

  Networking networking on/dev/vmnet0 is running

  Invited only on/dev/vmnet1 network is running

  Network invited only on/dev/vmnet8 is running

  NAT networking on/dev/vmnet8 is running

  Responsible vmmon module

  Loaded module Vmnet

  FWIW, I compile as long as root, but have always run VMware server from my UID nonroot.

  What now?

  I'm in the same boat.  Fedora 8 2.6.26.8 - 57.fc8 #1 SMP

  I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling v1.0.6 thru 1.0.8 with all 116 updates and 117d.   117D compiles with every version of server but when I try to turn on a virtual computer I get this error.

  Cannot change the power state of virtual machine: the process has exited with an error:

  vmxvmdb: name of the Index generated by the configuration file

  POST (no connection): Version mismatch with vmmon module: expected 138.0, obtained 168.0.

  You have a bad version of the module kernel "vmmon.

  Try reinstalling VMware Server.

  POST (no connection): failed to initialize the surveillance apparatus.

  Failed to initialize the virtual machine.

  End of the error message.

  I found several posts other people have this problem but

  they are months with no recent activity and nothing that solved the problem.  I found appeared

  to get a fix, one updated the all an update that corrects the problem for

  2.6.26 performing several nuclei, but the link for the update on TI-psycho appears to be dead.  Here is the link to the discussion

  http://Fedoraforum.org/Forum/showthread.php?t=199026&page=2

  Of course, I would like to know how to solve this problem as well.

  Thank you

• Sharing the drive between several virtual machines

  Hi all

  We have a configuration with a SAN (Dell Compellent) and use vSphere 6 to host a number of Windows servers. We now have a giant machine of Windows with a large number of small files for a particular application.

  Now, we would like to create a cluster with a LoadBalancer in front of him, so that we can handle more load. To do this, we want to create a disk that is shared between 2 (or more) of windows machines.

  One of the problems is that NTFS is not a supported clustered file system. So, I did a lot of research on Google to see what my options are. In my opinion, they are the following:

  1. set up a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Microsoft (use SMB if I read the documentation)

  2. the user Windows shares on a separate file server

  3. the user NFS (depreacted under Windows)

  4. switch to Linux and use NFS

  The problem I have, is that they use all the network traffic. For example, option 2 is ridiculous slow. NFS under Linux is also a way slower than the local drive (managed by VMWare iSCSI) disk access and NFS on windows does not appear to be

  support very well.

  I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?

  Or maybe there are other solutions to set up a shared drive?

  I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?

  VMFS is a really clustered file system and allow access of multiple virtual machine the same amount of storage (data store) which is different from that to create a virtual disk (hard) and present to multiple virtual machines. You can do this, BUT the guest virtual machine should take care of several accesses to the hard, for Windows, you must turn on the feature... without this clustering with failover data may be corrupted.

  I think the best and supported solution for you is to create another cluster with Failover Cluster functionality and create a resource sharing files with files that will access your NLB nodes.

• vSphere 4.0u2 activate VCA with running virtual machines?

  Hello

  We are in the process of upgrading/migration of 4.0u2 ESX to ESXi 4.1.

  vCenter has been upgraded to 4.1 and we have received a couple of new hosts, which we are in the process of ESXi 4.1 installation on.

  We would like to put the new 4.1 hosts in a HA/DRS cluster's existing capabilities while we improve the hosts in a cluster.

  However, a difference between processors in the old and new guests two-way vMotion (Opteron 2435 vs. Opteron 6174).

  -I'm guessing that the new AMD - V 2.0 feature is to "blame"?

  It seems that the option activate CVS for Opteron Gen 3 is available on the cluster's existing ESX4.0u2 - even if the virtual machines are running.

  But will it work? And it is supported? (Seems at least that it was not possible in v3.5)

  I tried direct CVS on a test cluster containing two new hosts ESXi4.1 and a test of running VMs - this has worked.

  - And afterwards, I was able to vMotion on the 'old' cluster ESX4.0u2.

  But I'm a little reluctant to do a direct to CVS on our existing production cluster.

  Any input/experiences?

  Best regards

  Martin

  VCA goes through the same process of validation that vMotion don't - so it will not let you do if he won't have to work. I did not work with AMD chips in this configuration, but I did it with intel (and recently) and it worked very well and in production.

• Workflow to edit an existing virtual machine

  Hi all!

  I just wanted to ask if someone can give me an example of a workflow that can be used to modify an existing virtual machine.

  I guess in order to change the virtual machine, you will need to power off, edit and it turns on again.

  I would like to modify CPU, RAM and maybe add/remove a disc. I looked in the workflow to create VM and I see how the settings are made, but I don't know how to edit on an existing virtual machine.

  Thank you

  Take a look at this post:

  http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10543 for adding memory to a virtual computer.  The same area http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/mgmt/orchestrator/?view=documents has another workflow for adding cycles CPU.  Cycles adding CPU or memory to new or existing VM are the same call as you add really, but instead, you set how much memory & cpu you want.

  There is a workflow that you can use to add a disk in the library.

  Let us know if you need help with anything that anyone else.

  SIA

• cloning of an existing virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to clone an existing virtual machine. Is this possible with VMware Server 2.0. I want to avoid the hollow will creat a whole new machine virtual process since what I need is already here with the exception of a patch to the version of the JVM.

  Hi, yes you can do it.

  Close the vm to be cloned (cleanly).

  Copy all the files that make up the virtual machine to a new directory in the same or a new data store.

  the web UI, click the host, then select 'Add the virtual machine to inventory' Browse warehouses of data in your vm copied, then select it.

  Start the new virtual machine, when prompted answer that the virtual machine has been copied.

  make changes to the virtual machine (sysprep if you can) change the name of the computer, static ip, license etc. According to os

  Start the original virtual machine

  This should be it.

  Good luck