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• Create an alert n for disonnected/on which the virtual machine

  Hey guys,.

  I am running vCenter 4.1 and I want to create an alert for disconnected or no response from the virtual computer.  I havea hoe from basic idea to create the new detector of definitions, but I can't seem to find one that does what I want.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you.

  You'll probably have to create a new alarm "monitor for specific events on this object...". "Alarm type must be the virtual machine.  Add a trigger to the disconnected event 'VM.  Next, configure your actions.

• Can't access file system host (MAC) shared in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client when wanting to create a VMware image (Windows 7 in Parallels virtual machine running on a MAC) for the option of machine Powered On.

  File HOST (Mac) system is currently shared in the Parallels virtual machine and is accessible through Windows Explorer and works correctly in the Virtual Machine environment, however, after installing vCenter Converter application on the Windows virtual machine these shared folders are not accessible from the conversion tool in the selection of the target destination of the file VMware (s). I can't select an existing folder on drive "C:" to write the image so that there is not enough space available for the VMware image and it must be written in a different file system, while the image is being created.

  Anyone know a way around it to show the target to write the image on the host (MAC OS) file system or is it a bug?

  Thanks for the reply.  It seems that the maps are not displayed if they were created as actions by the hosts.  When I created a mapping directly from Windows, then this mapping appeared and the conversion worked fine.

• script to summarize the use of the total disc of virtual machines

  How can I summarize sizes total vmdk (not thin) of a list of virtual machines in vc?

  Hello, once again-

  I see your second post.  Yes, you could go that route, too.  You are close to, simply add in a Measure-Object call.  A little cleaned up, it would be like:

  $machines = Get-Content c:\servers.txtGet-VM -Name $machines | Get-HardDisk | `    select @{N="VMName";E={$_.Parent.Name}},@{N="Capacity(GB)";E={[math]::truncate($_.CapacityKB / 1MB)}},Filename | `    Measure-Object -Property "Capacity(GB)" -Sum
  

  How does do for you?

• Plan for the creation of new virtual machine with 3 TB data drive

  We have an old server, we need to virtualize, and one thing that we need is a lot more storage. We have approximately 3.25 TB of available for this machine (250 GB for the OS and 3 to for the data drives), but I'm going in circles trying to find the best approach for this server. It is not possible to separate the data between several players because of the way the files are indexed. I have created a virtual machine with 2 TB of disk space (for the readers of OS and data) and added 1.25 TB of disk space I want to add on the data reader, but it does not seem possible to add 1.25 TB without destroying the data on the first disk of 2 TB. What is the best approach? Create a single disc for my virtual machine that is 250 GB and then add in two separate disks of 1.5 TB for storage and combine them within Windows?

  Thanks for your suggestions.

  Hello

  Unfortunately, the maximum size of virtual disk to a virtual computer is 2 TB - 512 bytes. In you case it should create two or three separate virtual disks and combine them (disks RAID 0 or concatenate). Another way (IMHO besser way) is to create several virtual drives and mount using NTFS mount points.

  An example:

  C:\Data is a folder on one of the virtual disks. Create a second virtual disks and create the C:\Data\Data2 folder. Rather than assign a drive letter for the newly created disk, you can mount it in the Database2 folder. This gives you the ability to move the largest files on separate virtual drives without lose you the structure of folders.

  Kind regards

  Patrick

• Create Cluster after SAN is already filled with virtual machines

  Hello

  I have just joined a company that ESXi installed on a couple of data centers, they have invited running on these boxes already and use Fibre Channel SAN for data warehouses to store all the VMs on.

  Considering the virtual machines are powered and are run on the SAN is it possible to create a cluster in this data centre including all the boxes of ESXi and SAN, without data on the San be wiped?  I'm afraid that create the cluster can clear the LUN and start over.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community!

  If I understand your facility, you have vCenter in place and all the ESXi host is managed by vCenter.

  Now you want to create a cluster and add the host to the cluster, yes it is possible to add the host to the cluster without impact to the data store.

• Confused over the upgrades and full versions for Windows 8 on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I am wanting to legally install Windows 8 or 8.1 on a virtual computer. When I look at the Microsoft pages only, they seem to offer Windows 8 one update and I can't find a way to the purchase of a previous version either. Is anyone able to point me to an explanation in plain English what I should buy.

  Thanks for your help.

  If you need to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine, you must purchase the full version of license OEM System Builder. If you need to install Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine, you can buy the license of retail sales (which is a full version) or OEM System Builder License.

• How to check disk space total used by virtual machine

  Dear team,

  I rec was a demand of the customer, he ask us to share the total disk space used by a virtual machine. I don't have any credentials to the total used space of control to verify. Is there a way I can check the disk space total used by the virtual machine offline.

  Note: we have implemented a virtual machine with the thin disk.

  concerning

  Mr. Vmware

  When you say that you have no credentials, I guess that this is designed for the guests, rather than to the ESXi hosts/vCenter Server operating systems! You can see the disk space used in the data store browser, executing CLI ls-lisa or by using a tool like RVTools third 3rd.

  André

• Looking for a scritp details on virtual machines

  I prepare a report of inventory for all virtual machines to the details below.

  (1) power on virtual machines

  (2) vCPU

  (3) vMemory in GB

  (4) space configured in GB

  (5) space in GB

  (6) the name of the data center

  (7) details of OS that should get inside the server

  I also created three annotations in the vCenter as App name,owner of the App, Classification,environment. I also need to get this details the annotations and he must send me an email.

  Get - VM | Where-Object {$_.powerstate - eq "Receptor"} | {foreach}

  $Annotation = $_. Get-Annotation

  $AppName = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq "App name"} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $AppOwner = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq 'Owner App'} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $Classification = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq "Classification"} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $Environment = $Annotation | Where-Object {$_.} Name - eq 'Environment'} | Value - Select-Object-ExpandProperty

  $report = "" | Select-Object vCPU, MemoryGB, ProvisionedSpaceGB, UsedSpaceGB, Datacenter, OS, AppName, AppOwner, Classification, environment

  $report.vCPU = $_. NumCpu

  $report. MemoryGB = $_. MemoryGB

  $report. ProvisionedSpaceGB = [math]: tour ($_.) ProvisionedSpaceGB)

  $report. UsedSpaceGB = [math]: tour ($_.) UsedSpaceGB)

  $report. Datacenter = $($_ |) Get - data center). Name

  $report. OS =  $($_ | Get - View) .guest. GuestFullName

  $report. AppName = $AppName

  $report. AppOwner = $AppOwner

  $report. Rating = $Classification

  $report. Environment = $Environment

  $report

  }

• Default directory for the creation of new virtual machines

  Is it possible to change the default folder for new virtual machines in the data store? Then, instead of esxi always create virtual machines directory under / you can have create the folder in a subfolder.

  Must be removed. I just watched ghetto HA script a lamw to see if she could be easily adapted to do. I don't think it would take a lot. It would automate the task of the cancellation of registration, travel and re-entry.

• The easiest for the owner of the virtual machine for heel of workflow?

  I'm trying to shoot and use the owner of the virtual machine in one of my workflow and it doesn't look like vCACVirtualMachine has these available goods.  What is the best way to get in my workflow for later use?

  You can try that... but there might be a problem of synchronization on the creation of an entity.

  (I think that there is a vcacvm.getEntity () method to get the actual entity.  I can't check right now).

  var ownerEntity = virtualMachineEntity.getLink (vCACHost, 'Owner') [0];

  Name of owner var = ownerEntity.getProperty ("UserName");

  I think I have other methods as well.  You have reason to assume that the applicant is not always the owner.

• Create a new vsphere environment 6 and migrate virtual machines to esxi existing 5.1

  The current environment has a cluster with 5.1 esxi hosts and vcenter server 5.5-controlled.

  I would like to create a new environment vsphere 6 with new hosts. Again I mean a clean install of vCenter server 6 and esxi, implementation of the new cluster, etc.. So I won't be able to migrate virtual machines running in 5.1 esxi hosts to the new environment.

  What would be the appropriate steps to make this right?

  Thank you.

  Take a look at this KB on how to move an ESXi host at another vCenter vSphere: VMware KB: move a managed ESX ESXi host to a vCenter Server to a different Server vCenter

  And if you are using vDS, you should look here: KB VMware: ESX/ESXi host with vDS passing a vCenter Server to another

• Is there a setting for auto-start on the virtual machines on the blackout?

  I was wondering if there is an auto on when the server has no juice because of a power failure. I do not mean the actual physical vm server, but the VM themselves on the physical server. Power outages happen always when I get to a computer for vpn in the VCenter.

  Thank you

  Gary

  Yes, it is possible

  -In the vSphere client, select the ESX/ESXi host,

  -Go to the configuration tab.

  -Select in the software section, the option to start/stop the virtual machine.

  -Click on properties on the right of the screen.

  -Activate the option "allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system."

  -Select the virtual machine and move the virtual computer in the correct startup group.

  I have attached a few screenshots.

  Best wishes / Saludos

  -

• Comments operations are not allowed for anonymous users on this virtual machine

  Hello

  After a lot of trying, I finally managed to connect to a virtual machine in VMware Server 2.0.2

  However, I get the error "comments operations are not allowed for anonymous users on this virtual computer" when I try to run notepad.exe. I think that some permissions must be set. So I put comments and guests of user group to be able to administer the object (VM); but still this error comes.

  Can someone help me pls with getting beyond this error.

  Thank you very much.

  This has come up before on this Forum. Be default, Windows does not allow for remote log-ins for accounts without password, which prevents the VIX to perform log-ins comments in this situation.

  You can follow the steps described in the following thread to enable remote log-ins for accounts without password or change the account to have a password.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/910606

• Failed to create snapshot - now I can not start the virtual machine.

  Hi guys,.

  I took a snapshot of my VM and got the error:

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxx.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  Reason: Invalid drive string: cannot mix ESX and hosted style discs in the same chain.

  I deleted the snapshot in the Snapshot Manager, but my VM will always start (same error)

  Can anyone help? Its a vanilla install, just 1 VM on it.

  Thanks in advance

  Always pointing the Flash disk VMX configuration file. Whenever you remove the Flash disk, the drive-VMX configuraiton must be updated correctly. In your case it does not somehow. Anyway, lets get a work around.

  1 take the backup of the VMX configuration file

  2. edit the VMX file

  3 scsi0:0.fileName = "QFES_1.2.25 - RHEL52_x86.vmdk" (Please check the VMDK file name correctly it)

  4. save the file

  5. turn on the virtual machine

  Check your luck now