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• Migrate the Virtual Center databases

  I'll be moving on my DB Manager Update VM DB, composer DB VM and VM DB license to a new SQL 2005 server, virtual Center. Is it OK just to stop the services on the Virtual Center and DB SQL Server and then migrate the DBs to the new server? And then then recreate ODBC connections?

  Yes, I stopped services.  Also, see this KB, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/7960893 , it may be useful

• How to upgrade from Virtual Center 2.5 + SQL Server 2000 to vCenter 4.1 + SQL Server 2008 (R2)?

  I plan the upgrade of an existing VMware Infrastructure 3 (Virtual Center 2.5 + ESX 3.5) to vSphere 4.1, and I'm stuck in the Virtual Center Server upgrade and its back-end database.

  vSphere 4.1 is released only as a 64-bit software, so he needs a x 64 O.S.; This excludes an upgrade the existing server on-site.

  The plan is to install a new Server Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 (or 2008 R2 if taken in charge), migrate the database and install 4.1 on the server vCenter.

  The question: How can I migrate the database?

  When you perform an upgrade of Virtual Center vCenter 4.0 on-site, the database is automatically upgraded; but this isn't the case when you install a new server.

  VMware provides a utility to clear the existing database and import it into a new server, but it works only for SQL Server Express (which according to VMware must not be used in medium/large production environments); If this is not an option.

  I am unable to find a support procedure to perform this migration.

  Can someone please help?

  Massimo,

  I just went through it and found it to be a little pain simply because I forgot to VMware document simplicity...

  You are right, the 'migration' tool does support SQL Server Express, I don't know why and niether are the two VMware Tech Support Agents I spoke with.

  To anyone reading this. NOTE If you perform the upgrade / migration SQL Server Express via the Migration tool you MUST check the registry DbServerType key FIRST! If it is set on Custom Migration tools will ignore simply stages of database! See this VMware KB article for more information:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1024380

  Yes, it is the States 'failure', what he does not say, it is that the Migration tool will be 'Silencieusement Skip' your database.

  End of Migration tools do call a standard SQL Server T - SQL backup command. YAY! You don't have to upgrade your existing 32-bit vCenter Server, do first just in case backup/snapshot, then run through the upgrade as if you were going to use the 32-bit version in production. This step will apply to any database schema change.

  Build your brilliant new 64-bit server, install all of the bits and then use SQL Server Management Studio to make a backup of SQL Server 32-bit database and then restore it on your new 64-bit server. NOTE: Make sure that all SQL and vCenter services are stopped before proceeding with the backup and restore of the measures.

  After the restoration of the SQL on your new server it reboot and everything will come back to life just as it is only now with all 64 bit!

  Hope this Helps!

  Bill Hilburn, Senior Systems Engineer

  StoneAge, Inc.

  http://StoneAgeTools.com

• Virtual Center server migration, tips

  We intend to move our virtual Center Server out of a virtual machine to its own physical computer. We are tired of weird weird to have VC server as a VM and have decided to give it its own box. Can someone point me in the right direction of how to move the Virtual Center of one machine to another server? I have trouble finding a guide.

  I did a couple of times.  Just build vCenter on the physical server as if you were from scratch (i.e. build a default vCenter facility).  Save your current SQL vCenter database and restore it on the new server.  Fact.

• Virtualize the Virtual Center Database or not virtualize?

  Hi all

  This question might have been asked before but I figure I'll ask anyway... In our environment that we currently use SQL 2005 SP2 as our database server... This is a physical box and want to know what other people do with their DB server? You virtualize them or leaving them physical? Currently we have our Virtual Center Server as a virtual server on our cluster and I followed the guide of best practices, VMware revealed and don't see any problems with it but I am quite hesitant with DB server virtualization... Thoughts? Should do us it or not?  All the virtualized world their database of VC and have not had any problems?

  Thank you.

  See also this page for more specific information - case studies, white papers - on SQL Server.

  http://www.VMware.com/solutions/business-critical-apps/SQL/

• Update Manager and the configuration of Virtual Center database = 1 database or the database even?

  We have a small environment VMware - 2-3 hosts, only 5-6 virtual machines for now, perhaps upward at 10-12 during the 2009 year.

  I looked at VUM and VC sizing spreadsheets and it seems I can do VC and Crossover work of SQL Express 2005 for 1-3 years, I need patch storage etc. and know that I may need to upgrade.

  VC and VUM facilities create their own separate databases or they are combined to form 1 data base?

  Or I would be better to buy 1 license Standard SQL with the 10 Cal instead? (I know that this would put the scale easily.)

  Thank you, Tom

  If you let the VC and VUM installers create the databases on the instance of SQL SERVER 2005 Express (named SQLEXP_VIM), it will create separate databases for each (VIM_VCDB for vCenter) and VIM_UMDB for the Update Manager. It is possible to have both of them use the same database, if you need to specify the database and ODBC settings in the installer.

  Hope that helps! Please, help me by marking my response as "useful" or "correct", if you feel it is useful!

  -Amit

• The virtual Center database

  Quick question, what will happen if you restored an older version of database virtual Center on the virtual Center Server.

  Would you lose all the virtual machines on the server at this point in time?

  Thank you

  Chris

  No, you won't lose all the virtual machines.

• Backup virtual Center database

  Trying to figure out what is the most effective way to save the Virtual Center 2.5 daatabase.

  For SQL Express, you can use Management Studio Express, which is free.

  See also:

  http://social.msdn.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/SQLExpress/thread/95750bdf-fcb1-45BF-9247-d7c0e1b9c8d2

  André

• VMware Clod Migration boot cd for the database Migration SQL Server

  Hi techies,.

  I have a requirement to migrate one of our physical DB server to the virtual machine, it is very important to business so I thought to go with cold cloning with boot cd, but I could not get this cd bootable anywhere... ! can someone help me on this? and also please suggest me there at - it another way, I can do this task successfully with some fails?

  VMware Converter 5.x has the ability work synchronize to power use this run a p2v migration

  (1) perform a P2v full and when its done and you're ready to cut more

  (2) stop the database service and do a synchronizaion and put the virtual machine online

• Virtual Center working with SQL 2005

  Hello everyone

  I'll install SQL 2005 and VC 2.5 on the same server.  Y at - it special "witch hunt" I need to know?

  Also, when I installed SQL 2005 on the same server that run VC, he installed IIS. I know that Apache will

  be installed with VC.  What I do on IIS?

  For the question look at IIS application this post - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1098932;jsessionid=0575DBF4BCDBCEAF1777E067F0ED308B - IIS is installed for SQL 2005 Reporting Services.

  Also note that you can change the port used by Tomcat if IIS uses the default values.

  As for the installation of the server database on the same machine as the VC server, there are pros and cons to do. If they reside on the same server, the network connection between them will be no less a problem, and on the side, as is the VC porbably server you wouldn't create many other databases not VI - therefore you are using a version full SQL license to host a few databases.

  Best regards, was

• Virtual Center can run on SQL Server Express

  Hi, I currently have Virtual Center running on SQL Server 2005 Standard.  I would like to move databases to SQL Server Express.  Virtual Center run on SQL Server Express?  Y at - there any restrictions that I can hit?  We run ESX 4.X and a few 50 VM environment.

  Thanks in advance for your help,

  Terry

  the limitation to Express is 5 guests and 50 VM.  However, the biggest concern may be the restriction of size of 4 GB of your DB.  May I ask why if you are already running on the standard 2005 would return you Express?

• Virtual Center - stop the database server

  Hi friends,

  I have a few questions about if the virtual Center database down. Please help gettting below answers

  -What are the activities I'm *NOT* not be able to perform in virtual Center

  -What are the activities that I will be able to perform in virtual Center.

  -Up to how many days I will be able to use virtual Center, even if the back-end database is down

  -What dates are passed, what is the impact

  Concerning

  Amul

  -Up to how many days I will be able to use virtual Center, even if the back-end database is down

  It's easy... as soon as your database goes down, Virtual Centre will drop.

  -What are the activities I'm *NOT* not be able to perform in virtual Center

  Virtually everything as deploy from models, vmotion, storage vmotion, user access through virtual center, backup solutions environment through virtual center management will not work until that recover you or re-create virtual venter and reattach the hosts.

  Basically things like high availability will work, you will be capable of powering the virtual computer (by connecting directly to the esx host) and to stop (as long as your license server is online). Your VM will also continue to funcrtion normally while the VC is in offline mode.

• From Consiglio Aggiornamento 4.1 to 5.5 con nuovo material (stesso virtual center)

  Buongiorno a tutti,

  NEI mesi dovro'usare has the aggiornamento della mia infrastruttura vmware as dalla 4.1 went 5.5 o 5.1

  Infrastruttura e formata da tre esxi 4.1 update3 che will be con sostituiti 3 nuovi host server. He Server Virtual Center invece continue ad essere current (W2008 R2 STD)

  MI ero fatto UN idea nei passi da seguire, my I wanted UN parere da voi che siete più FSE.

  1. He Aggiorno from Virtual Center 4.1 to 5.5 (non mi è chiaro to sono obbligato ad installare it componente SSO), dopo aggiornamento I miei 3 esxi 4.1 host continuano ad essere are ed andare dalla nuova versione 5.5
  2. Ø new da zero sui tre nuovi host the new version 5.5 e faccio esxi him varies configurazioni di rete e storage
  3. Sposto o magnobeam the machine virtual sul primo host 4.1 che voglio auswechseln
  4. Rimuovo the spento dal Cluster host
  5. Firstly it will accommodate 5.5 tramite al Cluster Virtual Center
  6. Non potendo usare he vmotion (material different) magnobeam the first virtual machine ed effetto of beat.
  7. Sul nuovo host effetto registrazioni delle virtul machine just to - register
  8. Procedo con i punti da 3A 7 per i Tribunali host
  9. Eseguo aggiornamento delle single virtual machine hardware
  10. Aggiorno da file system it VMFS3 a che VMFS5 da quanto ho capito e possibile farlo anche con macchine accese.

  Naturalmente prima di tutto cio, backup di all the macchine con e dei, del Virtual Center database.

  Grazie

  Ho solved it problema era the host name. Funziona tutto Adesso!

• Conversion virtual cluster SQL 2000 to 2 knots to a data center different

  Hello

  I want to use VMware converter to migrate the virtual SQL 2000 cluster of 2 nodes existing to a different data center.

  Existing cluster is on the same ESX Server. A 2-disc shared: quorum disks and data.

  After that, I'll send to synchronize the data in logs.

  can anyone provide details, best practices, concerns on how to do it?

  If this is the only SQL server, I just set up a new SQL to the DR server and then manually import all the information from the database. P2V a server cluster with player quorum and etc is a delicate bif.

• Migration of the Virtual Center of SQL2005 database to a new server running SQL2008

  Virtual Center 2.5 Build 147633

  ESX hosts 3.5.0 143128

  Separate server database running SQL 2005

  We replace our SQL2005 server with a server SQL2008. We will migrate the database of VC on him. What are the steps on the side of Virtual Center. My plan is to:

  1. Backup the database

  2. Stopping VMWare services

  3. Migrate the database to SQL2008

  4. Change the Virtual Center ODBC connector to point to the new database server

  5. Restart the VMWare services.

  Is there anything, I'm missing or should be cautious?

  just note that, as of today, SQL 2008, is not a database supported for vCenter

  https://www.VMware.com/PDF/vi3_35/esx_3/R35/vi3_35_25_compat_matrix.PDF