ESX4i host migration of one virtual centre to another

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• Try to copy one virtual centre to the other clusters

  Hello

  I'm new in the world of windows and have to migrate a virtual centre 5.1 older than 5.5.  I'm running into a problem with the copy of the clusters of the virtual center more a new using powercli and hoped someone on this list can help you.  Here's what I'm trying to do:

  (please let me know if there is a way better to clone the cluster information to one virtual centre to another)

  --

  $SourceClusters = get-Datacenter RWC - vc01 Server | Get-Cluster-Server vc01

  {foreach ($SourceCluster to $SourceClusters)

  New-Cluster - name $SourceCluster.Name - location "RWC" - Server vc02 - DRSEnabled - DRSautomationlevel "PartiallyAutomated" - confirm: $false

  }

  --

  However when I run the present I get the following error messages:

  (a) not found VIContainer with name RWC - which I know exists and is my Datacenter name

  (b) setting New-Cluster VIContainer: did not find any object specified by its name.  I know that the first command get-data center returns valid cluster name so don't know why it shows as empty.

  All that I'm missing here.

  Thank you

  SIM-

  Hey Sim,.

  They is a so-called "adventure", named InventorySnapshot, that does exactly what you want: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/inventorysnapshot

  It is worth the visit.

  Tim

• One migrated from my virtual machine to another host VSphere and it does not start

  I have a virtual machine that I've initially converted to Hyper-V to host VSphere. After I did it would start very well, but I got up two errors when starting.

  "An IDE controller is found but the VM does not support the option" and

  "A plate supporting the option not found."

  When I looked at the hard drive in the settings it looks like it is not supported. Is it because I badly converted to Hyper-V to VSphere using VMWare Converter?

  But now, I configure VCenter Server and tested a migration of these machines to another host and using the VSphere Client. It does not start now. I get an error message that says.

  "Device 'drive hard 1' uses a controller that is not supported." This is a general limitation of the compatibility of the virtual machine with the selected host ESXi version. »

  Remember that it is the same VSphere host it is running on initially. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  If it works now - is that correct? n ' forget not to award points useful and/or correct

  I removed these entries;

  ide0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  IDE1:0. Present = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0.clientDevice = 'TRUE '.
  IDE1:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
  IDE1:0.startConnected = "FALSE".
  ide0:0. Redo = «»
  IDE1:0. FileName = ' / usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso '.
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-passthru.
  scsi0:0. FileName = ' / vmfs/devices/cdrom/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 '.
  scsi0:0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "FALSE".

  And added to them;

  ide0:0.clientDevice = 'true '.
  ide0:0. DeviceType = "cdrom-raw"
  ide0:0.startConnected = "false".
  scsi0:0. FileName = 'PIC-JVM-v0001 - 000001.vmdk ".
  scsi0:0. DeviceType = "scsi-disk" hard
  scsi0:0. Redo = «»

  Although there is a high probability that the other six you have to do will be similar to this, they will have to be assessed individually and modified accordingly.

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• Migrate a physical virtual centre to the virtual center unit?

  Hi guys,.

  Hope you can help or point me in the right direction. We have currently a physical Server running Virtual Center 4.1 (standard version of sql on the same box). I'd like to migrate this form and start using the new VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1. Is there for me to migrate / upgrade all 4.1 physics Unit 5.1?

  I need to first update the 5.1 physical and would do them a kind of migration.

  Any help is greatly appreciated?

  Thank you

  Ryan

  
  

  Will fundamentally the vCenter device requires a new installation. I'm not aware of a way to migrate existing SQL data.

  BTW. are you aware of the current of the device, as 5hosts/50VMs limits, no Manager Update...?

  André

• Move the VM from one data center to another domain controller

  Hi all

  I have a machine virtual Windows 2008 R2 64-bit with 2 GB of 32 disks each and I need to migrate from one data center to another data center. Everything can agree with the approach on this movement of server? Thanks in advance.

  Summary: -.

  Source VC1-VM

  Target the VC2:-need to migrate to VC2

  Thank you

  vm2014

  As you move between two different vCenters, you can export the VM as OVF and then import them into the second vCenter.

• Port Console of moving Service from one v-switch to another

  I have a server VMWare ESX 3.5 with 2 v-switches. I would like to move the port vswif0 to one virtual switch to another console. The reason is I plan to use iSCSI and will change the subnet that will experience the physical NIC. See the attached picture to see my current config v-switch.

  When you set up a 2nd service console interface, it usually does not affect a default gateway.  What is usually left with the 1st service console.  If you have a gateway on the 2nd, and remove the console interface 0 service, your connection will be lost.  You should be able to fix the entry door and have connectivity again.  In addition, the name of the server is identified as that's what the vi client will try to connect to the remote console.  Make sure that DNS points to the new address and update your registration to the virtual Center, if you have a.

  -KjB

• one or two virtual centres?

  Some information went around that there is a limit of computer virtual in Virtual Center of about 2000 vm. Not sure if this is true or not, but if we consolidate the two virtual centres, we currently we will be well on this brand of 2000, if it's a real limit.

  someone has an opinion, if we had to keep two virtual centres or consolidate one if the number of vm will have more than 2000 servers?

  Yes it's true

  200 ESX and VM 2000

  vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html

  "Management of up to 200 guests and computers 2000 virtual-VirtualCenter 2.5 can handle more hosts and virtual machines than in previous versions, the ease of management of the virtual data center scaling to up to 200 hosts and VMS 2000. [vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html |] http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html]

• Only one virtual host can reach the door at the same time?

  I installed ESXi 6 on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 and got an operational virtual host. But it seems that no matter what I do, one host can reach the door at one point. All other grandis hosts can ping other virtual hosts and ESXi hardware, but can not get any further than that. And the same is true of outside: I can reach ESXi and a host of outside this subnet, but others are inaccessible.

  I checked that each host is configured correctly and in the same way, and they have different MAC addresses and is even went up to clone a virtual machine that has access to the network, without success.

  The upstream network hardware is not under my control, but they swear everything that should be the cause of this behavior. The ProLiant server has a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719, 1Gbps full-duplex. The guests are CentOS 7 x 64, with adapters vmxnet3 (but Intel E1000 adapters exhibit the same behavior). All hosts are on the same port group.

  Any ideas?

  Welcome to the community,

  It sounds as if the physical switch port is secure port, which generally limits the number of MAC addresses that are allowed to 2. Depending on the switch model, this may be named "desktop" mode. Change mode of the configuration of the port to access (or trunk) should solve the problem.

  André

• Migrate a virtual machine to another host

  Hey all, I have 3 VMs on a host and 1 on the other.  I tried to move one of the virtual machine to the host with one virtual machine, but every time I move the machine moves to the host, it's on.  Any ideas on that?

  Do you have any installation of DRS rules to separate the VM?

• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André

• Cannot move the virtual machine to another host

  Here's the situation... I am running 3 ESX 4.0 host in a cluster and I upgrade the memory on these hosts.  I put one day and now I want to use vmotion to move a virtual machine to host more memory, so I can then turn off host 2 to add more memory.

  When I try to migrate the computer to another virtual host he said "the virtual machine must be powered down for that purpose."

  I did it before with success when I first created this group with the HA and DRS settings are enabled.

  Now, I can't do this and I don't know what setting or what changed to cause it to not allow me to manually migrate a virtual computer on one host to another.

  If I wanted to put an ESX host in "Maintenance Mode" thinking that it will automatically move all VM for 2 other hosts in the cluster is not it either... I get a message saying that ' a host into maintenance mode does not any virtual machine functions... blah... blah... and continues to complete the entry into maintenance mode, all virtual machines must be closed or moved to another host. "  Manual intervention may be required.

  Again, I think that if a host is down these VMs would be move... that of the whole point of a cluster but doesn't seem to put in maintenance mode to allow them to go unless I turn off the virtual machine

  Any ideas?

  Go is one of the requirements of vMotion. The message after you had corrected the condition, I'm sure would be erased after awhile.

• Needs to migrate a computer virtual from ESX3.5 to ESXi 5.0

  Hi team,

  Needs to migrate a computer virtual from ESX3.5 to ESXi 5.0.

  Please give me the steps.

  A note, hence the machine virtual vmx file is on your storage space.

  Right-click on the virtual machine, and then select 'delete inventory '.

  On your new host navigate to store data with the vmx - right-click on it and select "add to the inventory.

  Now you should be able to update your tools and your hardware,

• Is VMware 4.1 - possible to do automatic VM on host migration when LUN is near full capacity

  Hi all

  We have VMware 4.1 - is possible to do automatic VM on host migration when LUN is near full capacity.

  Suppose I have configure if a logic unit number is nearly 85 percent of capacity, I can do a configuration that VM will be moved to another host without any manual intervention.

  Thank you

  Saurabh

  Welcome thr community - first question I have is how you configure your virtual disks - you're thick or thin provisioning - if you use thick Provisioning, the size of the virtual disk won't grow - if you use Thin Provisioning disks will develop as spaced is used in order to run in a situation where you run the risk of cluttering the VMFS datastore - this risk is the reason why best practice is not use Thin Provisioning for machines of production

  Now, to answer your question - first thing to keep in mind vmotion does not move when the virtual machine is stored it simply moves the execution instance of the virtual machine to an ESXi host to host anotherESXi. You take advantage of Storage vMotion - but in vSphere 4 storage vMotion is not automatic.

  With vSphere 5, that you would be able to use Stirage DRS and that will automatically pass the virtual machine as the disk fills up.

• Migrating from a virtual computer between two numbers of data center

  Hello!

  I just finished a muddy migration of a virtual machine from one data center to another.

  VMotion was not possible, so do not manually move the files was the only option.

  After downloading and uploading files to separate data warehouses, I have now a running virtual machine with the file to a folder named "TSV-forum", hard and the .vmx file and the working of a folder named "TSV-forum_2" directory

  The reason is that I downloaded the files to a new folder on the new data store named "TSV-forum", and when I created the new virtual machine and set the option to file on hard drive to use the vmx downloaded from the new 'TSV-forum' folder file, it automatically creates the "TSV-forum_2" folder and put the rest of the files for the new virtual machine in this folder.

  How to solve this problem?

  I should, perhaps, created the virtual machine in a different way, in the first place.

  How?

  Hello

  Connection via vSphere Client on the Vcenter server and

  Right-click on this particular VM-> go to change settings of-> click on hard disk and check the DiskFile tab (where is the VMDK file located on what data store)

  After that who go to the inventory-> warehouses of data, find the data for this particular VM store, right click and click Browse data store.

  you will find a folder with your VM file, click the folder where your file VMDK is located in the upper tab

  Find the underside of wink

  After clicking Move he will ask confirmation Move

  

  After you click YES the move items tab will appear

  Click on the data store, then select the Destination folder where you want or create a new folder for this particular VM with naming and click on move.

• Import/export script alarms between VC or synchronize alarms between 2 virtual centres

  Hello:

  I wonder if there is a way to sync alarms between 2 virtual centres?

  Or for example, how to export all the alarms of a VC and their import to another? Is this possible?

  Any help would be really appreciated.

  Thank you very much!

  The following script will remove all alarms on al visible features

  $alarmManager = Get-View AlarmManager
  $alarms = $alarmManager.GetAlarm($null)
  $alarms | %{
       $alarm = Get-View $_
       $alarm.RemoveAlarm()
  }
  

  Note that this does not remove the alarms on the entities hidden like data centers, the host and the vm.

  And please test in an environment out of production first!

  There is no way to recover a deleted alarm.

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