creating virtual machines off templates in Lab Manager

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  Hi all;

  Is it possible to prevent standard users to create Virtual Machines in Microsoft Windows environment?

  Thank you

  Here's the problem I see... as long as the user has the ability to run VMware Workstation, you can't stop creating a VM since everything it takes, it's a TextEditor and a live ISO Image and the other can create a configuration manually, .vmx file that it points to the ISO Image and then double click on the manually created configuration .vmx file and its place and running.  Of course not all users would go to the trouble to create the .vmx file manually but there are scripts on the Internet that do and users have other ways too.

  If you don't have the appropriate infrastructure to control your users then monitor their activities and let them know him will be fired if they contravene the regulations.

• Virtual machines off for more than 14 days

  I so need of report of all virtual machines off the power more than 14 days and that turns off the virtual computer.  I can get the power out of VMs.  I can get that them turned off.  But when I enter the list of the powered of VMs and who fed the, I'm missing the name of the virtual machine.  I guess I'm missing something simple

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• Script to create virtual machines fails when you try to add the disk to the cluster data store

  Hello

  Attached is the script that I used to create virtual machines and it works very well when virtual machines are created to warehouses of unique data, but do not have clustered data warehouses. I think that the reason is that it creates the virtual machine through the esx host (who does not know the cluter) and not via vCenter (who knows about it). Unfortunately I do not know how to fix.

  Thank you

  Astra

  Looks like he needs a store of data for this parameter object. So we need to do a get Datastore cluster I can try to test tomorrow, but try this:

  If ($datastore1 - only 'none') {}

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• Destination area has VMware player 3.1.4. Not possible to run a newly created virtual machine.

  For the first time, I tried to virtualize my machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. The destination machine has VMware Player installed 3.1.4, so I chose, as a destination having VMware 4.0.x instead of VMware 3.0.x as 3.1.4 overflows 3.0.x. The newly created virtual machine does not under VMware 3.1.4. Is there anyway out of this except can create an another VM using VMware player 3.0.x as the destination machine? Thank you.

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• Create virtual machines in a cluster with vCenter Lab Manager?

  Hi, I will be putting in place of Lab Manager in the near future.  I already have virtual machines in the vsphere cluster I want to start dealing with Lab manager. Should I remove these virtual machines before the implementation of labmanger?  I'll still be able to create and host virtual machines outside the sottware to labmanger, on the hosts in the cluster of Lab Manager?

  Thanks for the help

  Raymond Golden

  VCP3, VCP4, MCSA,Net, was DRY.

  Yes, you can certainly mix "regular" VM and VM Lab Manager in the same cluster.  Just Lab Manager server knows nothing about the virtual machines created in vCenter.

  You could also separate them from resource pools... Director of the laboratory can be assigned to just use a pool of resources rather than the entire cluster.

• Create virtual machines from a template

  Hello

  I'm trying to deploy virtual machines from a template, and then select a specific LUN in my cluster data store. How the code below can be changed to achieve this?

  Thank you

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  $SourceTemp = "WIn2k08-R2.

  $DsCluster = "DS-Cluster01".

  $Folder = "Win2K08".

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  If so, you can just pass the datastorename on the parameter data store

• Someone at - it a simple example of creating virtual machine-> the affinities of virtual machine using the PERL API?

  The question just about everything said. Is there a perl extracts to create an affinity between the virtual machines.

  Thanks, Vikas, for example and guidance. Since I am abel to make it work, I thought I'd share the code example:

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  My $cluster_name;    # Name of the cluster to create the rule in

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  My $cluster_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'ClusterComputeResource',
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  }

  My $cluster_view = $cluster_views-> [0];

  My $rule_name = 'affinity for $vm_name_list. "

  # Create the nest of objects required for ReconfigureCluster_Task:
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  operation #-> ArrayUpdateInformation
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  My $array_update_operation = new ArrayUpdateOperation ("add");

  My $clus_rule_spec = new ClusterRuleSpec (operation => $array_update_operation, info-online $aff_rule_spec).

  My @clus_rule_specs;
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  My $cluster_config_spec = new ClusterConfigSpec (rulesSpec-online \@clus_rule_specs);
  $cluster_view-> ReconfigureCluster_Task (spec => $cluster_config_spec,)

  change-online 'TRUE'));

• creating virtual machines in 3.5 format

  Can we create VMs in VMware ESX Server 3.5 compatible format?

  Or is the laboratory director is tightly coupled with vSphere (4.0 formats only)?

  Thank you

  Arkady

  arkadyk,

  When you create a new virtual machine template, you can choose what format will be created in the virtual machine.  (see attachment)

  A virtual machine deployed from this inherits properties and you can improve it to ESX 3.5 format 4.0 after deployment as needed.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  VMware vExpert 2009

  NOTE: If your question or problem has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and awarded points accordingly.

• Creating virtual machine model

  Hello

  We have 3 ESX boxes with individual storatage and 1 Virtual Center. In one of the ESX box have two models in its local storage space. Now, my query is, can I create a Virtual Machine template on another server ESX who not all models?

  ESX - 1 & gt; 2 models (storage room)

  ESX 2 - & gt; No model (Local Storage)

  I want to create a virtual machine on server 2 ESX ESX 1 model.

  Thanks in advance.

  As long as you are not in the data center objects in vCenter, it will work.

  See you soon,.

  / Jon

• Report - create virtual machine usage reports

  Please forgive me. I am very new to Foglight and this might be a ridiculously simple question, but I hope someone here can help me.

  I have installed the plugin VMWare with Foglight.  My superiors are wanting me to run a report that will get an overview of 6 months several servers (5 specific VM) usage of resources (CPU, memory, and disk i/o are the main resources, they want on, but other measures as network can be useful as well).

  I found a report named "Machines use virtual - Detail" which seems promising, however, when I try to run a report, she asks a "service". How can I enter in the name of the virtual machine I want information on? Make a query or a database search? By the way, I tried the data and drilled down to the name of the virtual machine, but it was not selectable.

  Please forgive my ignorance, and I'd appreciate any help that can be offered.

  Hello

  The report takes a "service" as input, which is a way to group objects (for example, virtual machines) in Foglight.

  1 - Start by going to the Services-> Service Builder.

  2 - Click on "Add new category" and fill in the fields.

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  Hope that helps.

  

• Failed to create virtual machine using VMWare Workstation 11 (test)

  Hello people,

  I installed VMWare Workstation on my machine Windows 10 and trying to create multiple virtual machines to test the object. I have done this before on the Windows 7 computer and did not face any problems, but this time, as soon as I gave the location of the file to deploy an operating system it comes up with some fatal errors as error BLK_CACHE IOERR if I have enough space on the HARD drive and everything is not going further. So, my question is if my computer has compatible with Windows 10 problems or there is something else that would cause this problem. Any help or comments would be appreciated on this topic.

  Thank you!.

  Thanks for your answer, Noel

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  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Release Notes

• Reports on the created virtual machines

  Is there a way to use PowerCLI to read about events in a given period and to determine how many virtual machines have been created during this period?  For example, from 15 days to 45 days?

  That sounds about right.

• Creating virtual machines on ESXi 5 and move to ESX 4.1

  Hello

  I need to create and configure computers virtual (with operating system and applications) on an environment with vSphere host ESXi 5.0 U1 U1 5.0.

  After that, I want to move the virtual machine to another environment vSphere, located in a branch office, but this time the version is 4.1 U1 (ESX 4.1 U1).

  Do you know if it is supported by VMware? will be the machine working properly?

  Thank you.

  Andrea

  No, it is not necessary because the tools are backward compatible

• Creating virtual machine with existing data

  Hi all

  I have virtualized my almost all servers except the one and only one file server.  I'm under vsphere 4 with 2 ESXi hosts and a 2000 Eternus model 100 SAN and using Veeam 6 B & R

  Current configuration

  Physical server with 2 network cards

  1 NETWORK LAN card

  1 SAN NETWORK card using MS iSCSI initiator

  Windows 2003

  There are 2 volumes on my SAN which is connected via the MS iSCSI initiator containing the data for the file server.  Server file sharing (NTFS) files stored on the San, and they have a lot of NTFS permissions on files and folders (approximately 1.5 TB of data).

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  1 virtual server

  1 vNIC to LAN

  2 volumes of SAN share via the server

  Windows 2008 r2

  My question

  Can I just add volumes to vsphere, create a virtual machine, add the two volumes of the virtual machine as 2 hard drives, the actions of installation and do with it?  I wonder where the permissions are checked and if these measures can be made without wiping the volumes.  I don't have another 1.5 TB of free space on the SAN.  I have a Netgear NAS I use as a target for backup if necessary but I prefer not to have to move the data if it is not needed.

  I hope that I have covered all my bases to make this easy to understand situation and we hope to meet .

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - Yes, you would be able to present the NTFS on the computer virtual hosted on your server using a RDM (Raw Device Mapping). Permissions on NTFS volumes are stored in the NTFS file system-