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• Questions about the displacement of 4.0 to 4.1 (move to the new facility, not upgrade)

  We have an existing installation of VMWare with blades 11 HP running VSphere and VCenter.  Everything works 4.0 with SQL 2005 Standard installed locally on the VCenter server.  We have the blades in a cluster with HA active and have made some "adjustments" on the alerts and configuration, but installation is pretty basic.  We have only 5 members of staff who come in the VCenter system and really only two "primary" VMWare administrators

  We seek to upgrade to 4.1.  I've been watching the steps we would need to back up the database, restore it on x 64 machine, installing VCenter, upgrade the database, etc..

  What I thought was that since our installation is very simple, instead of "redevelopment" of our VCenter, what about just install a new VCenter & SQL Server, and then manually delete each blade in the old VCenter and add it to the news.

  One of the advantages I can see for this is that we would go to a nice, clean configuration and the database.  Our system was installed about 1-1/2 years ago when we first bought ESX 3.5.  Since then, we have done several updates, software patches, VMWare and Microsoft, configuration changes, etc.  We are new to VMWare at this time there, so we made various changes to the configuration that we have learned.

  What I found on the net, we can extract a knife of the 'old' VCenter and then just add it to the new VCenter 4.1 without interrupting the VM running on this blade, is this correct?  When the blade is added to the new VCenter, it will automatically add all virtual machines to the new VCenter inventory?

  Another question I have is licensing.  We currently have our existing VCenter Server VMWare VCenter licenses.  Same license key can be installed on the new VCenter system while they are still active on the existing VCenter?

  If not, can we install the new VCenter and migrate the blades using the trial licenses, then after moving the last blade, remove the old VCenter licenses and install them on the new VCenter?

  After we get everything on the VCenter 4.1, we will then go back and reinstall VSphere 4.1 on each blade.

  Am I missing something?

  Your comments would be appreciated.

  Mike O'Donnell

  Should be good to do this way. Disable HA and DRS - disconnect the old vcenter - attach to the new. In the end, run ESX update process.

  You can test the move with a few virtual machines. Once HA and DRS disabled, evacuate sensitive VMs of the host that you want to test and move it.

  Good luck!

  Franck

• iSCSI SAN availability before VSphere install

  Hello world

  We are a small company with about 30 users but are developing new technologies.  I have a brand new installation of VMWare for months.  I have one, I hope, a simple question for anyone.

  potentially relevant hardware configuration:

  -2 servers ESX ESX 4 Update 1 (essentials more)

  -SAN of Dell (EMC) AX4 - 5i 1 full 420 GB 15 k SAS drives

  -redundant gigabit switch topology BPMH

  My purchase SAN Dell included a remote installation.  This includes cutting upward the LUN, configuring for iSCSI availability and possibly connect your existing servers to their designated targets.  Dell makes their sound installation process as many customers have their ESX Servers ready to go before you install the regular remote SAN.  Initially, I was counting on having the SAN installed and ready to go before I went on my 2 servers ESX installation/configuration.  I thought it would be better than the SAN available to connect to during the ESX installation process.

  Is there a reason to take one path on the other?  All observations would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance!

  -Jordan

  I would definitely installed and fully configured servers with all your IP addresses of port service before installing the San.

  Also, I don't think you need to BPMH for this type of installation.  This is mainly just cut the switches in the right configuration of VLANS to separate iSCSI traffic, production and management.  With the installation of this small tree covering weight is not really necessary.  You probably don't have anyway two switches.  You'd be better just setting up a trunk of ethernet grouped together for redundancy and get the advantage of having the largest bandwidth full time.  You can even use more than two ports then if traffic warrants the addition.

  Steve Puluka

  JNCIA-ER enterprise routing

  Enterprise JNCIA-EX switching

  Senior network administrator

  Liberty Dialysis

  http://puluka.com/home

• Process of update for vmware infrastructure esx 3.5 u2 U4

  Hi currently I m using in my Vmware ESx 3.5 Update 2 environment. now I want to upgrade esx 3.5 Update 4. Currently, we use 50 virtual machine in windows 2008 and 2003 operating system. I installed with the VC Manager Update server.

  Please tell me the process through withich I can update my inffrastructure with a time stop or errors.

  Please tell me the process of update for VC.

  I have 2.5U2 and U3 upgrade to U4, both with SQL Express or SQL Server without any particular problems.

  Simply select the existing DB (instead of creating a new).

  Some time (with SQL Express) the first time post reboot "Virtual Center Server" service does not start, in this case just start manually.

  André

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• ESX and VMware scripting Backend process...

  Hi all

  I look forward to hearing the internal processes that continue on the street within the ESX Server. For example:-that the ESX actually did when the user fires rescan command esxcfg-rescan & lt; vmhba. & gt;. Is there any script is triggered on commanded this shooting? and even on the backend to another ESX processes orders too. I want to update my self on these things. Hope someone here could give me a helping hand.

  Concerning

  MRM

  If you are interested about how ESX (i) and some of the inner workings, you should take a look at some of the documents/charts architecture, this is available on VMworld if you have an account, and the majority of it should be free of previous years, less the recent VMworld Europe / U.S..

  Here is another good site for a collection of documents to help: http://vsphere-land.com/top-10-list/top-10-list-index.html

  If you are only interested in some of the esxcfg-* commands, a good way to learn what it is doing and the parts of the system it touches is to download the vCLI/RCLI: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_rcli

  These commands are similar to that of those on the classic ESX which are used to manage/configure remote both ESX(I) hosts and they use the VI API http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html

  You can open each of these scripts and get a good understanding, most of the classic esxcfg-* commands are compiled binaries which makes internal calls to the system, but some are normal Perl/bash scripts such as esxcfg-rescan or vmware-cmd and you can open these and take a look at what he does.

  So it really depends on what you're trying to understand and explain how you want to enter.

  I hope that gives you an idea of where to go.

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  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

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• Require a process step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new VMware ESX hypervisor

  Hello

  I'm looking for the method step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new host ESX Migration both cold and hot.

  Scenario - I have two data centers running ESX host stand-alone (with VM) in Europe. I need to build the new ESX host in new Dataceter to Singapore.

  Need prerequisites, the methods available for migrate VMWARE virtual has new host ESX (in the new data center) with minimum downtime.

  It will be great if you can enumerate the markets or redirect me to documentation that I can use to create detailed steps as the target host compatibility check on VMs and so on.

  Please advice

  Concerning

  AVI

  The steps are correct. The virtual machine must be turned off (step 3).

• Slow down the process to boot ESX 3.5

  I had a problem with a generator and the power lost to one of my data centers.  When the site is back the ESX 3.5 server started before the SAN be ready to present LUNS to the ESX Server.  Therefore ESX server could not automatically start the server VM to comments from the data store was not available.  I was able to just scan the HBA, and then put on the server hosts with no problems.  If this happens again I want the ESX Server to wait an additional 5 minutes at start-up to allow the SAN compleley come and do the avialable LUN auto start the guests.  Does anyone know how to change the default timer on the initial splash screen in ESX to allow extra time for other devices to come online before the start of ESX?

  Thank you

  You can do your ESX waiting a little bit more time before it start to begin your kernel by setting the timeout to config(/boot/grub/grub.conf) GRUB bootloader. By default must be within 10 seconds. Just simply wait for your San is ready.

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  Zen Systems Sdn Bhd

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• ESX 4.1 to 5.5 upgrade process & path

  Can someone point me in the right direction regarding the upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5.  Is there a direct upgrade path?  Or should I first put to 5.0?

  Also, what are some of the common questions admins have met?  Bugs and workarounds?

  Any comments would be much appreciated.

  Artemis

  You can go directly to the version of vSphere, ESXi 5.5, this is a path entirely supported, see: VMware product interoperability Matrices

  Here is an article with the methods that you can use to do this update: VMware KB: methods of upgrade to ESXi 5.5

  Note that if your ESXi hosts vSphere are managed by vCenter Server, you must upgrade your vCenter Server server to version 5.5 before upgrading your hosts.

• Cisco ACS 5.2 VMware 'Management' process hangs

  Hello

  We recently purchased the Cisco ACS 5.2 VMware must be installed on VMware ESXi 4.1.  However, after commissioning the virtual machine with the requirements set out in the Cisco installation guide, GBA is unable to start properly.

  We don't get messages visible error, but when checking on the process of the CSA, I see that the process of 'management' is suspended in the "initializing" State

  Any ideas how to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  Gilbert

  ESX 4.1 is not supported with ACS 5.1

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.2/device_support/sdt52.html#wp75825

  Virtual Machine requirements

  The minimum configuration for the virtual machine must be similar to the hardware configuration of the server series CSACS-1120.

  Table 6-1 lists the minimum system requirements to install ACS 5.2 on a VMware virtual machine.

  Table 6-1. minimum system requirements

  Type of requirement	Minimum requirements
  CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT	Intel Core2; 2.13 GHz
  Memory	4 GB OF RAM
  Hard drives	500 GB of disk storage
  NIC	1 GB NETWORK interface
  Hypervisor	VMware ESX 3.5 or 4.0

  Installation of ACS 5.2 on VMware

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.2/installation/guide/csacs_vmware.html#wp1057864

  Kind regards

  Jousset

• 6 ESX access no VM network to vCloud

  Hello

  I am a student in the Netherlands. I study and learn more about ESX, VDI, RDS etc. we use vCloud to provide a test environment to install these applications and hypervisors.

  Because I have no homelab I use vCloud to learn more about VDI. The process that I took was install ESX in a paralytic with Open-E DSS as iSCSI storage. ESX installation is complete as it should be and the Windows Server 2012 VM in the TIME that I was trying to push vCenter as a virtual machine on an ESX host. Is installed as it should and I got an ip address + port number to access the page. Unfortunately I couldn't access the vCenter page nor could I ping the virtual machine. I can access my ESX through enforcement of a vSphere.

  What I tried:

  -Install multiple NICS on the virtual machine. I used different network adapters E1000 or VMXNET3 but that did not work.

  -Install a Windows 8 VM to see if it was a problem of vCenter vCloud 6. Neither the VM W8 got access to the network.

  I think it's a restriction on vCloud network administrator does not yet know. It's the first year, they used vCloud as a working environment for all students.

  Does one of you, smart people have a suggestion on what goes wrong here?

  ESXi nested on Air - VMware vCloud Air Blog - Blogs VMware vCloud

  This could help you understand a little better.

• Adding data to the ESX host store

  Hi all

  We are automating the process of adding data to the esx host store. We have all the necessary inputs as a host, Cluster, data center, data store name, store (VMFS) Pat data.

  Do we have the cmdlets to get the result? What is the data store should be added after the configuration of the network?

  We need confirm that the data store must be there in vcenter/Cluster?

  Please help explain the process.

  Thanks and greetings

  Riyas Hussain has

  If the LUNS on which these data warehouses are defined are zoned and correctly configured as a shared, they become automatically visible on the ESXi node.

  Do you see the LUN on different nodes of ESXi under storage adapters?

• ESX 4.1 help

  Hello

  I am very new to VMware and have recently tried to help in the restoration of several virtual machines on ESX 4.1. We have no functions remotely at this stage, so everything must be done via command line. In short, almost everything has been configured to use a SAN (which is a failure) and I'd be interested in getting help copying the VM to run local storage. Can anyone help me started with the commands needed to achieve this? The boot process gets stuck on «Restoring s/w iscsi volumes...» "Activation software iscsi ', but eventually time out and continues. After that there are non-stop "sd 3:0:4:0: always retry x after 180 s" messages that occur. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

  The questions that we have lived is due to a defective material SAN. We go with a different gameplan at this time. Thanks for all the comments.

• ESX computer object in Active Directory - pwdLastSet and horodateurs lastLogon

  Hello

  I am trying to determine the regularity of changes of account password and logons to the ESX host when added to Active Directory.

  The attributes Active Directory I am referring here are pwdLastSet and lastLogon timestamps.

  The ESX host will regularly change the password and thus update the timestamp?

  A process runs on the host to raise an event for the opening of the regular session to Active Directory and then update the lastLogon time stamp?

  Would appreciate a point in the right direction for documentation.

  See you soon,.

  Jeremy

  Hello

  I think that this is governed by your GPO settings on how often computer accounts to change their passwords. If your business has not changed this setting (GPO_name\Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options - domain member: maximum age machine account password) then it should be 30 days by default. Your ESX host must comply with this setting.

  If you wish to arrive here's how:

  1 enable SSH on one of the hosts joined to the domain (vCenter-> Configuration-> Security Profile tab-> properties-> launch SSH (above services)).

  2. type 'cat /etc/likewise/lsassd.conf' (WITHOUT ' ')

  That must return a great performance, but you will need to scroll to the top and find where it says:

  # Lifetime machine password expiration

  # Default: 30 d

  # Minimum: 1 h

  # Maximum: 60 d

  machine-word of past - life duration = 30 d

  I hope this helps.

• Question ESXi 5.5 with turn a virtual computer: "an error was received from the ESX host turning on VM" '22 (Invalid argument)"'DiskEarly on a power Module failed.'

  Here's what happens when you try to turn it on one of my virtual machines (see also accessories):

  Error stack:

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM vzilla-ws2012r2e.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_3.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  Power DiskEarly module has failed.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_4.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  This circumstance may be linked to a sata cable issue, with the possibility of temporary loss of connectivity, which could result in data loss/corruption, I realize.  It is a laboratory box.  Especially say that the 2 VMDK he complains (trying to light) is both on the grounds of a single physical disk. Data, read and written to the speaker, since the problem are very good (which indicates the wiring problem was resolved, and the VMFS5 file system seems to be in good health).

  No photos.  No related clones.  Just a 2012 Windows Server based VM, with several drive letters in, with those underlying files VMDK residing on different stores of data VMFS5.  Implemented end (these drives aren't really so huge), but far from running out of physical space for the data either. Everything is working great for months, until today, trying to it turns on again.

  You are looking for:

  "Failure error disk beginning module lit" results in this article:

  error disk on start module failed

  which indicates the .lck files may be present.  It does not exist.

  Then upwards, of a variety of other items:

  Re: Unable to start the virtual machine: invalid argument on *-flat.vmdk

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004232

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true & userid = & ContainerType = & Container = & q = module + DiskEar...

  error disk on start module failed

  but alas, none of them seem to relate directly, or exactly.  My vmware.log file is attached below, as well as some screenshots of to show the structure of the unity of this virtual machine.  Hoping that this post proves fruitful, if anyone has had a similar situation.  The data at stake here are (mostly) redundant, but I would rather understand my way of it, in the case where it happens to me again, or can help others.  Many preferred rather than give up, reformat the VMFS and start again.

  Thank you!

  Good news, the best result I could hope. No data is lost. No corruption of the VMFS or NTFS don't drive in the virtual machine. Nice!  Saved me a few terabytes of data restoration and learned a little more on file system of troubleshooting along the way.

  It took a technician of VMware Service excellent, attentive, methodical remote 2 hours in a WebEx previously to resolve problems with these 2 files vmdk manually, because he found that there is a lock on them. I opened a request of Service (SR) # with VMware by following the instructions here:

  VMware KB: Cannot access certain files on a VMFS datastore

  To resolve this problem, apply for support from VMware Support and note this ID (1012036) Knowledge Base article in the description of the problem. For more information on the filing of a request for support, see How to submit a support request.

  I'll cover this saga and the exact process for collecting and downloading of newspapers, through to my TinkerTry.com, including the ride video.  I even captured much of the technical work that has been done. That said, it is true that little of the magic that was made to resurrect the metadata will remain a mystery, given that this piece is VMware.

  I'm ok with a bit of black box, considering how I'm happy that I got all my data, and time savings that the quick recovery represented.

  By clicking on the button "answer".

• Use of the Task Manager physical memory is not not to use processes

  I have seen this topic discussed it before, but I did not understand what is happening here.

  -J' have one windows server 2008 with 8 GB or ram configured, with the limit set to unlimited and booking made 8 GB.

  -When you look in the Task Manager, I see the physical memory to 88% and the bar bed to 7.10 GB.

  -Adding all process memory usage, it is only about 2 GB.

  -In another thread, that I read that it was because he had a deadline, and hot air balloon began.

  -J' I monitor the server via SNMP and have alerted all the time that this server joined more than 90% ram usage.

  -The Guest server is correct use of the physical memory Task Manager?

  -If it is not, and is caused by the ESX host, how can I fix it to properly monitor the comment server.

  

  

  The question here is how windows works,

  You reserve memory and don't have no limits, so there is no balloon showing VMs to appear that they have high memory use when they are not actually in some cases.

  Processes that Task Manager displays is not all that is running or being eaten, I know when working with SQL, you have FEAR that can use a ton on memory, but there is no process to show.

  Best thing to do is to run RAMMAP a sys internals tool that will show you exactly what is using the memory in windows.