DRS Rule - separate virtual machines

I have a DRS rule to separate the 2 virtual machines, but when I vmotion two virtual machines on the same host, it allows him to do. Why is this?

I need to separate VMs on separate hosts at all times

OK, I had the level of automation to manual, so he won't move the virtual machine. Once I changed it to automatic, its moved the VM on the host.

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I have created a rule for the two VM:s that they must run on separate computers (I have rules that work, but they are "run on specific hosts"). But when testing this again can I put them on the same ESXi.
All seen this?
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NBV

Do not forget the rules of affinity VM - VM are mild by its design and for example, if you create a rule to separate virtual machines, you will always be able to vMotion VMs to the same host.

To keep the virtual machine running on different hosts, you can try creating a VM host rule and select "Needs" rule that will make the rules.

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Jocelyn,

Which is correct in both cases. You can leave DTS place it for you (which is my suggestion), but I thought you wanted it to go to a specific data store. That being said you can reactivate the DTS for a virtual machine under the SDR change settings if you do not ever clear for a virtual machine

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If you use the DRS, then you can use a rule of DRS 'separate virtual machines. Go to the Cluster settings, change, then see the VMware DRS-> section to implement rules.

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Hello

I had the same problem as you and I solved it with the help of host DRS Group Manager. So vCenter Server and the database server is still running on a dedicated host.

I've published a how-to post on my blog http://www.vmworld.net/?p=1240, but it is written in German - voicie so a little explanation:

.) make a VMS DRS group - member vCenter Server + Server DB

.) make a host group of the DRS - Member ESXHost where you will the vc to run

.) make a rule of Virtual Machines to the host where 'VM Group'-> 'should run on hosts in the group'-> host group

Important: use "should run on the hosts in group" and NOT «must run...» "because he's so HA and DRS know.

So every time will know where your CV is running...

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I just started to evaluate the vFoglight to monitor our infrastructure VMware and so far, I really like the product, but there are a lot of things to take.

Y at - it a predefined alarm that will enhance and alert and send me an email if a virtual machine crashes or goes offline? The default rule "VMW Virtual Machine power status change" will do that? I feel that this will tell me if the virtual computer is shut down or restarted, but could not workout if it marked the top if a virtual machine has frozen or crashed.

In the past I did using the base "no heartbeat Mike" in vsphere.

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Dan

Hi Dan,.

The Virtual Machine VMW power state change will do as below:

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http://eDOCS.quest.com/vFoglight/671/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/HTML/frameset.htm?context=cartridge&file=vFoglightCartridge/reference.66.3.php&single=true

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Windows XP mode virtual machine does not start after the upgrade to Windows 10

Hello
After the upgrade to Windows 7 Pro for Windows 10 Pro, my virtual Windows XP machine (which was created from the "XP" mode in Windows 7) no longer starts.
It shows:

This system is not allowed to run "Windows XP Mode". Now, the virtual machine will be turned off.

How can I activate the Windows XP Mode in Windows 10 Pro? I mean, I have not lost my right to run Windows XP Mode, just because I've upgraded to Windows 10, right?
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How can I activate the Windows XP Mode in Windows 10 Pro? I mean, I have not lost my right to run Windows XP Mode, just because I've upgraded to Windows 10, right?

I fear that the statement is pretty much on the mark.

Microsoft caught only supported XP Mode in Windows 7, it has been since Windows 8.

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https://support.Microsoft.com/en-us/KB/2724115

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What HA refusing to try to start a virtual machine?

I'm trying just to clear on how this process works. If HA is enabled, there is a failure of the host, and he's trying to restart the virtual machines on one or several other hosts, when the host will refuse to restart (failover) a virtual machine? Assume that there is no reservation other than the default 37 MHz CPU and some booking fees calculated generals for RAM (these are the default values, right?). A host would continue to attempt to restart the virtual machines as long as there are at least 37 Mhz and a few hundred MB of RAM available for the moment he is trying to restart? And if so, there are algorithms maintains the host master to decide where to start these VMs? I just think that she should try to startups VM alternately between the available hosts and wait a little bit to make sure that there are still some available resources before you start the following, or something like that.
Also, if there is fragmentation of resources (for example, 8% of availability on each of the 15 hosts), but HA needs to start a virtual machine that requires 15% of host resources (I realize that there is a reserve in order to decide this question of the requirement, even), would automatically make migration of VMS to other hosts (if the DRS is also enabled) or he'd just sorry cannot start this virtual machine, even if the group as a whole has space for him. [in this case, must not make large reserves because without a reservation, the virtual machine would start upward and like CPU or memory has increased its use would cause some DRS force other virtual machines out of the host, and perhaps that would work.]
vSphere 5.1 (vCenter and ESXi)

The master knows where virtual machines are running and try to balance where virtual machines are started. Reservations and overhead costs are the only things taken into account from a point of view of its use (not the actual resources consumed on a host) because HA does what VMs restarted (and if they have reserves prompting these resources, they need to have to start).

If the DRS is turned on and available, HA will work with DRS to move workloads so that the largest VMs can begin. If you have virtual machines more the thing to think about is what admission control policy you use. It may be wise to use the location function if all your virtual machines are large and close to the same size, or dedicated host of failover so you won't have to deal with shuffling DRS of workloads. Everything depends on your environment and your needs.

Does that answer your questions?

How to get a list of the DRS rules and their virtual machines.

If I try the following, I get no output. (PowerShell 2, vCenter & ESXi 5.1, PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1)

()get-cluster ). ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group |? {$_.vm}
or
()get-cluster ). ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group
I know that I have a DRS rule because when I try the following I am able to see it in Object Explorer in PowerGUI and I created it just in the Web Client.
$Clusters = Get-Cluster

The problem is that you have DRS groups who do not have vms - possibly accommodate groups of DRS. If you want only vms something like this should work and does not give the error:

foreach ($cluster (get-cluster)) {}

write-host "$($cluster.name)".

foreach ($drsGroup in $cluster. ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group) {}

write-host "$($drsGroup.name)".

{foreach ($vm to $drsGroup.vm)}

If {($vm)

$vmname = (get-vm-id $vm) .name

write-host "$vmname".

}

}

}

ECHO «»

}

If you want to get the VMhosts and the VirtualMachines then try this:

foreach ($cluster (get-cluster)) {}

write-host "$($cluster.name)".

foreach ($drsGroup in $cluster. ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group) {}

write-host "$($drsGroup.name)".

write-host "VMHosts".

{foreach ($vmhost to $drsGroup.host)}

If {($vmhost)

$esx = (get-vmhost-id $vmhost) .name

write-host "$esx".

}

}

ECHO «»

write-host "Virtual Machines".

{foreach ($vm to $drsGroup.vm)}

If {($vm)

$vmname = (get-vm-id $vm) .name

write-host "$vmname".

}

}

ECHO «»

}

ECHO «»

}

Is there a limit of virtual machines, you can put in a rule of DRS?

I know, it was once, he had a VM 2 on DRS rules limit even if you could put 10 virtual machines inside.

I use ESX 5.0 and was just wondering if this limit is always enforced or if you could place as many virtual machines as you like within a rule and it will work.

Thank you

Yes...

Must first create VM group and add the virtual machine

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Srikanth

How to modify a Virtual Machine DRS existing group?

Hello

I use DRS-rules to place virtual machines to a host selected in a Cluster group.

The poblem is that I did not find methods to change (add new virtual machines) to an existing group of DRS 'Virtual Machine '.

As far as I know, the configuration is stored in $ClusterView.ConfigurationEx.Group

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Hi Willibald,

I did some research in the VMware vSphere SDK and made two functions Get-DrsGroup and VmToDrsGroup Add to add one or more virtual machines to a ClusterVmGroup. Some examples of how to use these function exists in the code. If you have added these features to your PowerCLI session, you can use Get-Help to get information about these functions. And also for the examples. For example Get-Help add-VmToDrsGroup-full.

Function Get-DrsGroup {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Retrieves DRS groups from a cluster.

.DESCRIPTION
Retrieves DRS groups from a cluster.

.PARAMETER Cluster
Specify the cluster for which you want to retrieve the DRS groups

.PARAMETER Name
Specify the name of the DRS group you want to retrieve.

.EXAMPLE
Get-DrsGroup -Cluster $Cluster -Name "VMs DRS Group"
Retrieves the DRS group "Vms DRS Group" from cluster $Cluster.

.EXAMPLE
Get-Cluster | Get-DrsGroup
Retrieves all the DRS groups for all clusters.

.INPUTS
ClusterImpl

.OUTPUTS
ClusterVmGroup
ClusterHostGroup

.COMPONENT
VMware vSphere PowerCLI
#>

  param([parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]$Cluster,
        [string] $Name="*")

  process {
    $Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name $Cluster
    if($Cluster) {
      $Cluster.ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.Group | `
      Where-Object {$_.Name -like $Name}
    }
  }
}

Function Add-VMToDrsGroup {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Adds a virtual machine to a cluster VM DRS group.

.DESCRIPTION
Adds a virtual machine to a cluster VM DRS group.

.PARAMETER Cluster
Specify the cluster for which you want to retrieve the DRS groups

.PARAMETER DrsGroup
Specify the DRS group you want to retrieve.

.PARAMETER VM
Specify the virtual machine you want to add to the DRS Group.

.EXAMPLE
Add-VMToDrsGroup -Cluster $Cluster -DrsGroup "VM DRS Group" -VM $VM
Adds virtual machine $VM to the DRS group "VM DRS Group" of cluster $Cluster.

.EXAMPLE
Get-Cluster MyCluster | Get-VM "A*" | Add-VMToDrsGroup -Cluster MyCluster -DrsGroup $DrsGroup
Adds all virtual machines with a name starting with "A" in cluster MyCluster to the DRS group $DrsGroup of cluster MyCluster.

.INPUTS
VirtualMachineImpl

.OUTPUTS
Task

.COMPONENT
VMware vSphere PowerCLI
#>

  param([parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $Cluster,
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $DrsGroup,
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)] $VM)

  begin {
    $Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name $Cluster
  }

  process {
    if ($Cluster) {
      if ($DrsGroup.GetType().Name -eq "string") {
        $DrsGroupName = $DrsGroup
        $DrsGroup = Get-DrsGroup -Cluster $Cluster -Name $DrsGroup
      }
      if (-not $DrsGroup) {
        Write-Error "The DrsGroup $DrsGroupName was not found on cluster $($Cluster.name)."
      }
      else {
        if ($DrsGroup.GetType().Name -ne "ClusterVmGroup") {
          Write-Error "The DrsGroup $DrsGroupName on cluster $($Cluster.Name) doesn't have the required type ClusterVmGroup."
        }
        else {
          $VM = $Cluster | Get-VM -Name $VM
          If ($VM) {
            $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterConfigSpecEx
            $spec.groupSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterGroupSpec[] (1)
            $spec.groupSpec[0] = New-Object VMware.Vim.ClusterGroupSpec
            $spec.groupSpec[0].operation = "edit"
            $spec.groupSpec[0].info = $DrsGroup
            $spec.groupSpec[0].info.vm += $VM.ExtensionData.MoRef

            $Cluster.ExtensionData.ReconfigureComputeResource_Task($spec, $true)
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Best regards, Robert

I changed the error handling logic in the Add-VMToDrsGroup function.

Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk

Roles of server separate from the virtual machine on a server?

Hello

I'm currently learning the server admin so please forgive my ignorance.

I bought a server and got Win Server R2 2012. Im trying to focus by trial and error and so want to install multiple roles - that I know is not recommended because some may conflict or cause additional problems etc etc - I am not in an operational environment, but trying to imitate such.

I've read elsewhere that you can put different roles of server on the individual virtual machines - say, for example, the print server role is on a VM that is separate to a file server role, and she needs to be restarted or goes down for some reason any you loose a single service.

My questions are the following:

Is this possible?

Is this desirable?

Whats software is used to implement this if yes?

Hyper-V can be used?

Thank you in advance.

Fethimidou2006.

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Is it possible under the EULA to have several virtual machines on a single physical hard disk while using the same OS license or do I need a separate license for each virtual computer?

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