ESX to ESXi using host profiles
I was wondering if anyone has tried to use the host profiles to facilitate the migration?
That is to say take a profile of a host ESX and then install ESXi and then apply the profile of the host that you just do to this host?
I think it should work.
Stephen
Note also that Host profile does not apply tweaks, like frames.
And that vSphere 5 you can upgrade an ESX 4.x (but it have a previous update to 3.x) to ESXi 5 with most of its parameters
André
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Hello
I'm busy trying to learn a little more about Auto deploy. I'm trying to figure out what is the best practice when it comes to the part host profiles of the automatic process of deploy. The way I see there are two ways to use host profiles.
(1) for each host, I create a separate host profile and create necessary deployment rules, one rule per host.
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It is usually done through your supplied option 2.
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Documentation on the profiles of the host.
Here a documentation to Auto deploy
I am a big fan or Pluralsight and Nash did a great job in this series.
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I hope this helps a little.
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You reset the content of the table $Results on each iteration of the baseline.
Try like this
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2. install ESXi host with no VM
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The guys you see no problem with that?
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http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMW-host-profiles-tech-overview.PDF
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"General system error" when you try to create a host profile
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Specified value is out of range. Range: 0 to 16
Specified value is out of range. Range: 1 to 256
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Specified value is out of range. Range: 1 to 256
Specified value is out of range. Range: 0 to 16
Specified value is out of range. Range: 1 to 256
Specified value is out of range. Range: 0 to 16
Specified value is out of range. Range: 1 to 256
Specified value is out of range. Range: 1 to 256
Specified value is out of range. Range: 0 to 16
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$LowLevel.InvokeOperation ("set", $Params)
}
}
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Except I can't think of a logical reason to use on ESX ESXi... Any ideas please?
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We just upgraded a 4.1 ESX ESXi 5 host host.
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Thank you
Post edited by: TonyJK
collection of newspapers is most important in that ESX ESXi, because if no SCRATCH partition configured newspapers will be emptied after a reboot.
For the collection of newspapers
1. as indicated in the commentary after use Syslog collector to collect newspapers of ESXi.
2 redirect syslog to a folder in volme VMFS.
For the collection of backup/etc, you can use the command of vCLI vicfg-cfgbackup
http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.VCLI.ref.doc_50/vicfg-cfgbackup.html
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I am trying to use apply a profile host through powershell script that will add an esxi host to my domain active directory.
$vCenter = Read-Host "Enter vCenter.
$esxhost = Read-Host "enter the domain the ESXi host's FULL name.
$ADdomaincreds = $host.ui.PromptForCredential ("Enter Credentials", "Please enter your user name Active Directory and password.", "", "")
$hostprofile = Read-Host "Enter HostProfile to apply"
SECURESTRING #CONVERT
$CONVERT_AD_PASSWORD = http://System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal: SecureStringToBSTR($ADdomaincreds.Password)
$AD_PASSWORD = http://System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal: name ($CONVERT_AD_PASSWORD)
SE connect-VIServer $vCenter
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Game-VMHost - VMHost $applyhost - State "maintenance".
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It runs without error, but when I look at the esxi host he always says that he uses local authentication. If I apply the host through the VI Client profile, it works without problem. Is this what I need to put in the variable?
I also tried using the Set-VMHostADDomain of LucD function. This works, however, if I then apply the profile of my host to complete the configuration of the other components such as syslog, ntp, etc., authentication gets restore local authentication after a reboot.
Hello
There is a bug in the Apply-VMHostProfile cmdlet that is already filed in our bugtracking system. The fix will be available in a future release.
The problem is caused by using an incorrect version of the API (4.0) which is not taken in charge of operations active directory.
Here are possible solutions:
1. join the domain without using the host profile feature. Here's a simple script that can do for you:
function JoinDomainWithAD ($vmhost, $domainName, $domainUser, $domainPassword) { $vmhostView = Get-View -id $vmhost.ID $authenticationManagerView = Get-View $vmhostView.ConfigManager.AuthenticationManager $hostActiveDirectoryAuthenticationMoRef = $authenticationManagerView.SupportedStore | where { $_.Type -eq 'HostActiveDirectoryAuthentication' } $hostActiveDirectoryAuthentication = Get-View $hostActiveDirectoryAuthenticationMoRef $hostActiveDirectoryAuthentication.JoinDomain($domainName, $domainUser, $domainPassword) }2. apply the solution profiles host with direct API calls (Get-View)
Let me know if you need anything that anyone else.
Kind regards
Nedko Nedev
PowerCLI development team
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