ESX3.5 u4 and esx 4.0 coexist in a same set of cluster

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• Update Manager 4 and esx 3.5

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  I plan to upgrade my 3 infrastructure to vsphere.

  I will modernize the virtual Center 2.5 to vcenter server 4.0. The problem is, I can't upgrade all of my ESX 4.0 servers in the near future.

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  Most of the features are available in available in ESX ESXi. In order to get the full functionality of ESXi, the host must be managed by vCenter Server.

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  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/VMware-high-availability-deepdiv/

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• Issue between Cisco and ESX switch

  It is a small deployment with an ESX Server running a Windows Small Business SERVER 2003.

  ESX server has 2 network cards, previously a NIC was connected to a small FastEthernet Switch netgear and all workstations have been working on it.

  I replaced the netgear with a Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-S and the field still works fine, the problem is that I can't connect to the service console or the VI client from a computer connected to the switch.

  I can't ping the IP switch ESX service console and also can not ping the switch since the service console.

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  I don't know what the problem is, but it sounds a lot there is a problem with the configuration of port / vlan on the cisco switch.

  Can a Cisco expert help out me here?

  Here are some details of the configuration.

  Port group service Console and the port Vm group do not use no matter what config VLAN on the ESX Server.

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  # esxcfg - NICS - l

  Name PCI Driver link speed Duplex MAC address MTU Description

  vmnic0 0b: 00.00 bnx2 up to 1000Mbps Full 00: 1a: 64:b6:06:92 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vmnic1 0b: 00.01 bnx2 up to 100 Mbit/s Full 00: 1a: 64:b6:06:94 1500 Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T Corporation

  vusb0 nickname cdc_ether Up 0Mbps 02: 1a: 64:b6:06:99 half 1500 unknown unknown

  # esxcfg - vswitch - l

  Switch name Num used Ports configured Ports MTU rising ports

  64 6 64 1500 vmnic0 vSwitch0

  Name PortGroup VLAN ID used rising Ports

  PORTS 0 1 vmnic0 VM GROUP

  0 1 vmnic0 Console service

  Switch name Num used Ports configured Ports MTU rising ports

  64 3 64 1500 vmnic1 vSwitch1

  Name PortGroup VLAN ID used rising Ports

  BIG POND ADSL 0 1 vmnic1

  # esxcfg - vswif - l

  Port Group/DVPort IP IP family name address Netmask Broadcast Enabled TYPE

  vswif0 Service Console IPv4 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255 true STATIC

  # ifconfig

  Lo encap:Local Loopback link

  INET addr:127.0.0.1 mask: 255.0.0.0

  RACE of LOOPING 16436 Metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 1310258 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 1310258 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:0

  RX bytes: 4531037961 (4.2 GiB) TX bytes: 4531037961 (4.2 GiB)

  vmnic0 Link encap HWaddr 00: 1a: 64:B6:06:92

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 94579247 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 99834049 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 127899970453 (119.1 GiB) TX bytes: 19056702095 (17.7 GiB)

  Interruption: 209 memory: 92000000-92012100

  vmnic1 Link encap HWaddr 00: 1a: 64:B6:06:94

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 3585973 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 3018690 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 2304776001 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes: 1021855293 (974,5 MiB)

  Interruption: 217 memory: 94000000-94012100

  vswif0 Link encap HWaddr 00:50:56:45:43:6 C

  INET addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 mask: 255.255.255.0

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Dropped packets: 367248 RX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped packets: 126300 TX errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 33905320 (32.3 MiB) TX bytes: 154760077 (147,5 MiB)

  vusb0 Link encap HWaddr 02: 1a: 64:B6:06:99

  RUNNING BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 metric: 1

  Fall of RX packets: 341442 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 frame: 0

  Dropped TX packets: 0 errors: 0:0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0

  collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000

  RX bytes: 26973918 (25.7 MiB) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)

  CISCO SWITCH CONFIGURATION

  Port on which the ESX nic is connected to:

  interface GigabitEthernet0/1

  switchport mode trunk

  switchport nonegotiate

  switchport port-security

  aging of the switchport port security 2

  security violation restrict port switchport

  inactivity of aging switchport port-security type

  macro description cisco-computer desk

  spanning tree portfast

  spanning tree enable bpduguard

  !

  ******************************************

  CONFIGURATION OF VLAN

  !

  interface Vlan1

  IP 192.168.0.253 255.255.255.0

  !

  interface Vlan2

  Description management Vlan

  no ip address

  !

  interface Vlan10

  Test description Vlan

  IP 192.168.121.253 255.255.255.0

  !

  Default IP gateway 192.168.0.1

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  I think I've seen this before. I'm not super familiar with this switch, but I think that the problem is with cisco-computer office macro.

  Try using the macro switch cisco instead since you are addressing a vSwitch on the other end. You can always check the mac address table and see if your Mac to the vswif (service console) make their appearance. If they are not then appear this is an inconsistency in the port between the Cisco Switch and vSwitch.

  Louis

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  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.

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

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  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.

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  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.

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

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  • 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.

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  Hello

  I want to know the differences between ESX V.2 and 3 and ESX 2.5 and 3.5. can someone help me on respect.

  Karthik.

  Hello

  The biggest difference between ESX 2.x and 3.x is how the virtualization of the boots as well as configurations of network virtual host.

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  In ESX 3.x VMware started then place the unit of management within a virtual machine started.

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• VC4.0 usable vmotion between esx 3.5 and esx 4.0?

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