Data centers and Resource Pools

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• Script to create multiple [pooled VM specified data store and resources

  I tried to make the following... writng a powershell script to perform the following operations

  (1) create a resource pool named reservedly set to unlimited

  (2) create 4 Virtuall machines in the yellow resource pool named DB-yellow, yellow-APP1, App2-yellow and yellow-bk

  Yellow-DB

  Yellow-App2, App1-yellow and yellow-bk

  (3) Vrtual all machines must be created in the Datastore YELLOW-OS

  (5) Yellow_DB shoule have a second virtual 8 GB of drive size in the YELLOW-PF data store

  Yellow-App1, App2-yellow and yellow-bk should all have a second virtual 5GB drive size in the YELLOW-PF data store

  Any ideas?

  Kind regards

  (1) create a virtual computer

  Hi Gboskin,

  Take a look at the following doc:

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-6972

  The script can deploy vm in resourcepools, clusters and on esx hosts. You can specify warehouses of data, ip etc.

  On the site of the doc, I have an older version of the script, I will update as soon as possible.

• Get data center or resource pool by using script vRO

  I am trying to build a service plan, but don't want the user to have to enter the information pool or a folder of resources.

  How to retrieve the objects as a data center pool or resource using the vRO scripting language?

  I'm trying to use var myDatacenters = VcPlugin.getAllDatacenters (); to retrieve a list of data centers to go, but I'm back zero results.

  Are there tricks to do this?  Should I connect to vCenter?  VCenter may not communicate with vRO?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  I solved this by running a configuration in vRO workflow that adds an instance of vCenter vRO.

• DRS rules and Resource Pools

  Is it possible to assign the DRS rules to Resource Pools instead of creating groups of DRS and adding to the DRS group VMs and then creating a rule
  I ask this question because of a problem that I currently have
  I am far from being an expert as you'll see soon and back to the use of support groups
  If it I'll give you my scenario
  I have 4 ESX host in my test group
  2 hosts are connected to zFCP
  And all 4 are connected to independent contractors
  I have a resorce pool call FC and another called ISCSI
  We constantly evolve around VM between these 2 pools
  The highest availability VM remains on the rest on ISCSI FC
  I would like to create a rule that States if a virtual machine is in the RP FC then he must reside on host A and B, and if it resides on ISCSI it can reside on any host
  I realize that there is still other issues involved here as data themselves warehouses
  but it is another matter that he owns the rights
  We migrate VMs and the data store when we leave the virtual machine to another RP 1
  If the rule would be always true
  I would like to hear from you
  on this topic
  for now I just use rules and groups of DRS
  Thank you

  I don't think this is possible from the point of view of rule affinity DRS, as he has no relationship with resources or VM disk pools. This seems to be a single-use resource pools.

  You could probably do with a set of scripts PowerCLI who would check two resource pools and ensure that the virtual machines to the breast have their records on the correct data store and if not do a svMotion.

• Clone between data centers and through the firewall?

  I have a VC that manages 8 virtual data centers.  Some of these data centers are on a dish network, and some are in a demilitarized zone.  Even if the storage is NOT shared between data centers, I am able to clone a VM between data on food networks centers but I cannot clone between a data center on a dish network and the other in a demilitarized zone.

  Is there a specific port that must be open to clone through a firewall, or I wouldn't be able to do this.

  ________________________________

  Jason D. Langdon

  The file copy occurs using port TCP/UDP 902, as all communications from ESX.

  Do you have any NAT between the servers ESX and vCenter?

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

  Master virtualization technology

  Globant Argentina

  Review the allocation of points for "useful" or "right" answers.

• Actions and resource pools

  Hello

  We meet the following "problem":

  We have created 2 resource pools: one with the actions 'CPU and memory' defined as the default value counter 'low', the other with the default value is 'normal '.

  So far, no problem.

  The question is this:

  When we look at the actions for each virtual machine, on the tab of the resource allocation to the title of the list of resources, we see a lot of action, defined as 'custom '. But we never put these customs.

  So my question:

  How can we explain all our virtual machines should only be managed by our pools of two resources (low and normal), and we see "customs" for many of them?

  Thank you.

  I confirm that I saw the same thing when I upgraded from 3.0.2 to 3.5.  The upgrade keeps the value of the action at the time and applied to the virtual machine, rather than keeping the parent value.  If you do some research, you will see the posts for this purpose.  A bit boring.  In fact, I used a powershell script to run through all the vm and put them back to normal.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Question: Are there risks or considerations when you rename clusters and data centers?

  Question: Are there risks or considerations when you rename clusters and data centers?

  We have the intention to rename our data centers and groups today to more meaningful names naming conventions. We intend to do so without problem and during production hours.

  Comments, warnings, or known reserves?

  All points will be awarded.

  Thank you

  If you have any scripts or tools that analyze currently based on the name of the Cluster, it could be affected.

• vCenter security - limiting the devs to a Resource Pool

  I want to set up a role limiting a team of developers to the resource pool.  I would like that they are able to create virtual machines and modify, download files to data warehouses, and all the devs thing is usually necessary to do, but keep them in a sandbox is limited to a pool of resources.  I don't want them to be able to play with virtual machines in other pools of resources, or have admin access stuff in vCenter data centre.

  Is it possible, or should I create a second data center and use it for developers?

  I'm fairly new to vCentre, so feel free to correct all incorrect concepts in my mind

  Hello

  Yes it is possible. I do it myself.

  The key is to make a record that matches your resource pools that the permissions on the resource pools don't always translate permissions on the virtual machines. Since you talk about virtual machines and resource pools you need of several buildings.

  The first is to limit what resource pools, they can even see, that by placing a role and permission on the specific resource pool.

  The second is to limit what VMs, they can even see/affect, that placing a role and permissions on the specific folder that mimics the resource pool.

  In addition, you want to apply the network and other permissions, restricting what vswitches what they see when they create a VM, etc..

  Everything is possible but complex quite quickly.

  Best regards
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• Merger of two data centers separated with a different license.

  Due to the fusion of the IT departments, we have two data centers and vCenter servers.  The IP network is a network of flat class.  ISCSI are on two physically separate networks.

  Data Center 1 (DC1)

  vCenter Foundation 5.5

  3 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (6 cpu)

  1 series 6200 Equallogic SAN

  Data Center 2 (DC2)

  vCenter 5.1 Standard

  2 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (4 cpu)

  1 SAN Equallogic 4000 series

  We would like to:

  1. move the Standard of DC2 on DC1 and the license to the Foundation from DC1 to DC2 (Swap licenses)
  2. import of DC2 in vCenter on DC1 and then unmold on DC2 Foundation license.
  3. Finally have two data centers operating from DC1 vCenter running Standard Edition 5.5

  Is this possible at all?  How would we do this.

  Thanks in advance

  With licenses owned by the same company, the steps you mentioned should be ok.

  However, from a technical point of view, you can plan the migration according to the features you use. A few things you can do is to disable HA and DRS on DC2 environment before migrating the hosts to DC1 (just to avoid potential problems), and you can also make sure for example on DC2 data store names do not match the names on DC1 to avoid confusion after the migration.

  Unless the special functions are used on DC2 which must be supported before the migration, you can simply unplug the hosts of DC2 and add them to a DC1 with operational virtual machine. Host CPU licenses must move automatically with the hosts.

  André

  PS: TheSMO: licenses are based on major versions, i.e. 5.x., so there is no need to up - or their decommissioning in this case.

• VM / resource pool Configuration

  Now that I've answered my own question, and the little light in my head is enabled, I have a better understanding of the relationship between the virtual machines and Resource Pools.  But a follow-up question that I hope that experts can answer that for me is this: after I have create a pool of resources and define the limits of the resources, what I have to change anything on the virtual machines?  In other words, if the virtual machines are configured for unlimited CPU and memory, they are limited by the amount of correct pool?  What would be the reasoning to restrict the VMs and the memory, if I can control it by a pool of resources?  At least for me and please correct me if I'm wrong, if I put limits on virtual machines why I would put in resource pools?

  limits/actions/reservations for the virtual machines are now applied to resources being provided by the resource pool - for example - if you have 10 GB limit set for the pool of resources out of 64 GB of the bunch, it's-if you have a limited memory set to unlimited for the virtual machine in this resource pool the maximum amount of memory for the virtual machine will never be able to get 10 GB is However if the resource pool memory limit has the unlimited value of the virtual machine will be able to go to 64 GB

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• How can I restrict a resource pool to a single data store?

  I am setting up an environment to exercise for different groups of users and you want to limit/permissions to users in each resource pool so that they see only the data store where their enclave of virtual machines.  I was able to configure the actions of CPU and RAM correctly, but access to storage is stumping me.  Clarification: I'm not worried about storage i/o, just permissions/quotas on the data store itself.  Did anyone done this before?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

  Exactly what I need.  Thank you very much.

• Where information on permissions, folders, and the stored resource pools?

  Hello world

  Lets guess a virtual Center 2.5 with some ESX 3.5, resource pools, clusters of somes, folders with permissions for some users

  I would like to know where is the information about files, resource pools, permissions and other stored data. In the registry in VC in .ini files?

  The fact is that we are going to migrate to a new Virtual Center but we want to preserve the information on the Organization to avoid retyping all the data again.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello Luis_F,

  Files, Resource Pools, etc. are stored in the database to the virtual Center. Here is a link to a diagram of the U2 virtual Center 2.0.2 schema. There are of course changes in 2.5, but the diagram can help out you.

  Diagram of U2 virtual Center 2.0.2

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  Kind regards

  Harley stagnate

• Question about Lab Manager and ESX Resource Pools

  Hello world

  I was wondering if I can get feedback from some of the members of the community.  We used Lab Manager very strongly in our support organizations and it has proved to be a valuable tool.  Recently, we collaborated with the Department of technical training and started hosting online seminars and classes for them using Lab Manager.  Last week we had a fairly large class of users (approx. 45), each duty deploy 2 rather Beefy VMs that were very intensive resources (Jboss, SQL, Mail to name a few).  My colleague and I went through a lot of trials and planning to ensure that our infrastructure can handle the load while allowing our users to date at the same speed and reliability, so that they are used.

  Our Lab Manager ESX server pools made up of the following:

  5 HP DL380 G5 servers with 2 x Quad Core 2.8 GHZ processors (8 cores each) with 32 GB of RAM each

  2 HP DL580 G5 servers with 4 x Quad Core 2.8 GHZ processors (16 cores each) with 128 GB of RAM each

  When the class is running and everyone has made their 2 machines, we noticed for some reason, he was all on ESX2 and 3 deployment (380 s).  Then came the ESX alarms, use of 90% of memory, then more than 100% bringing the disk page.  The CPU usage was at a all time high.

  I look at the 2 580 s and there are about 4 virtual machines deployed on them.

  So my question is...

  How does he know where to launch a Virtual Lab Manager machine?  There's no sense 2 servers have been brought to the red zone, and almost overloaded when the 2 most powerful servers in my farm are nearly dormant.  I noticed sometimes in the past, but not this bad.  Normally, we have about 45-50 computers deployed at some point and it seems to spread them out properly.

  This group of training has access to the same LUN and ESX server with Betclick as any other organization that we have.

  We have decided hosting several sessions of training may be greater than this one and would like to know that the virtual machines will be distributed properly.

  I would like to know your opinion on this

  First to answer your question, then make guess what happens.

  As indicated in response Ilya, LM distributed VMs differently with active DRS resource pools and pools of resources without active DRS.

  LM place VMs when the DRS is not used.

  When DRS is used, we use the DRS admission control to select the host to place virtual machines.

  DRS is turned off, LM uses its own placement routine:

  For each virtual machine, LM filter all managed servers that cannot run the virtual machine. A complete list of patterns are:

  • The managed server has not enough memory or quota for virtual machine to run the virtual machine.

  • The host is not connected to the data store that is the virtual machine.

  • The virtual machine has active state (suspended) and the CPU of the server managed by the waking state has been captured is not compatible with the managed server currently considered.

  • The virtual machine has been a guest on 64-bit and the managed server is not 64-bit capable.

  • The virtual machine has more processors than the managed server.

  • The managed server is not accessible or is set to "prohibit deployments." Not reachable may mean that the lm-agent or its not to ping queries is not answer (this is visible in the list of managed server page).

  Once we have the complete list of eligible servers, we place the virtual machines on the host including the smallest (MemoryReservation % + CPUReservation %). By default, we reserve not CPU on LM VMs, this internship will be largely due to the memory on the host computers if you have not changed the settings of reservation of CPU on your virtual machines.

  For closed deploy to the PF3, force us all virtual machines to go on the same host, so if any virtual machines have any special data store / CPU type specification, all virtual machines is forced to go on this host. If there are conflicting requirements between different virtual machines in the same configuration, deployment will fail. Closed VMs also have another condition to check that is rarely achieved in practice: number of closed networks available on the managed server. By default, this is 20 and you will need more than 20 different configurations closed running on a managed server before you who will strike.  (LM4 allows Cross fencing host, so this does not apply in LM4).

  To make a guess blind because of your distribution problem - if you use the saved state and fencing, it's probably the type of processor.  Processor type can be checked on the host properties page.

  If you not are not I would check that the images can deploy on the 580 s by disabling the 380s and trying to deploy them.

  If you use DRS (which you're not), it could be due to deployment of virtual machines too fast for the algorithm of control for the entrance of VC.  An easy solution for this is to extinguish the DRS on the cluster manager of laboratory.

  We tested load internal repeatedly, the product QA in different laboratories, we run (LM has been used in VMworld Labs for the past couple years and internal systems of training and demonstration for our Organization implemented SE), so no need to worry about this.  I assure you that the first 'real' performance problem you will encounter will be almost certainly due to an overload of your storage array (too many IOPS / s)... and for that you have to distribute content in data warehouses and use techniques of creating paths to balance the load.

  Kind regards

  Steven

  Another thread on this: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1258902.

• Can clone us VM on the data centers with downtime, is this possible in ESXi 5 and above?

  Can clone us VM on the data centers with downtime, is this possible in ESXi 5 and above?

  No, they can be in different subnets.

• Sort by creation date Resource Pools

  Hi all

  First of all, all the PS newbie here...

  I'm trying to figure out a little PS code to extract that information from our vCenter server.

  If I use:

  Get-ResourcePool | Sort-Object ID - descending

  I got the list based on the prime number, so, for example:

  RP01 ResourcePool-resgroup-99

  Healrp02 ResourcePool-resgroup-881

  Healrp02 is mentioned after 01, even if it was created at a later date, all simply because the first number (9) is greater than 8.

  Is there a way to list by the real resource pools, multiplication, so I can have at the end of the list based on the creation date?

  Thank you

  Luca.

  Although I don't know that he'll give the resourcepools sorted by date of creation, you can sort on numbers in the id resourcepool with:

  Get-ResourcePool | Sort-Object-descending - property {[int] $_.} {Id.Split("-")-[1]} | Select-Object - Property Name, Id