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• ESXi 4 on an ASUS P5N - D numbers pre/post installation

  Hello community.

  I have weird questions som pre and Post install on a motherboard Asus P5N - D and ESXi 4U1

  Basic specifications:

  Chips inter Dual Core E5300, 4 GB of RAM and the 4 500 GB drives (running on the SATA Configuration in a RAID 5 on board giving 1.36 TB of space)

  In any case, on the baord BIOS indicates that the hard drive is a RAID 5 1.36 TB hard drive and the RAID report at startup shows as a table in good health.  However when I boot from the disk 4 of ESXi to install, when choosing the installation path, I see all 4 players for the RAID array each as opposed to a singular disc.

  Everyone fell on this? I missed a command at the beginning that I should put in manually?

  Also.  To try to solve, I then used a 1 GB USB key and installed ESXi on it.  Works fine and starts the machine, but when I go in the VSphere client, under the Summary tab for my box of ESXi, I see Datastore2 and the Datastore1 listed and being 465,50 and 461.50 sizes respectively.  It shows all 4 disks, but worse still, he is not showing them as a singular drive in an array.

  Everyone does this experience with this motherboard, or something similar?

  all necessary information or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

  ESXi does not support this type of integrated RAID controller (often called fakeraid). The best you will get is individual disks. You can view the hardware compatibility list for a supported hardware raid controller.

• Necessary for ESXi 5.0 RAID?

  Hi all

  I am quite new to this VMware and it's our first test of society on the implementation of the VM solution to our test environment.

  So please be generous if my question is redundant or I'm a bad advice.

  Our server is HP Proliant DL380 G5 server, and we bought the license VMware Essential Kit.  (installing ESXi 5.0 planning)

  As most of you already know, HP servers have this thing SmartStart which helps the user RAID disks before installing so that cases of dysfunction of a disk, the mirror will do its job until the fix.

  But when I was reading the other articles, it is said that esxi will not recognize software RAID?

  Also, no ESXi have some type of built in resources distribution system that allows virtual machines to function even if one or two hosts readers a malfunction?

  Corrections, suggestions and questions are welcome.

  Moreover, since it is the test environment, HP box is the only host (about 3.8 TB) and we intend to run about 4 ~ 5 VMs.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community,

  most of the DL380 G5 models come with a built in P400 SmartArray RAID controller, which is a hardware RAID controller supported. The RAID functionality is completely transparent for ESXi in this case (for example, rebuilding after a fialure). So nothing to worry about this controller

  Regarding the size of disk/RAID you mentioned, you may need to divide the RAID in several logical volumes using the ACU (Array Configuration Utility) as a result of a problem with the currently used driver (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006942). I would recommend that you create a logical volume of 10 GB for ESXi and divide the disc space remaining in two logical volumes for use VMFS data warehouses.

  BTW. the controller has BBWC (battery backed write cache)? This is very important and makes a HUGE difference in the performance of the disk.

  André

• Upgrade to ESXi 4 Questions

  Hello

  I'm looking to upgrade a few customers ESX version 3.02 and 3.5 and ESXi 4.0. All stand-alone servers have the operating system installed on local mirrored disks and are virtual machine hosted on a different set of RAID, RAID 10 or RAID 5 array. I have a few questions about it.

  1. some of the systems are autonomous, and as such I am aware that the virtual machine will be must be saved using the converter and then proceed to a clean install of ESXi 4. This applies in the case where virtual machines are hosted on a different picture with the stand-alone server? I thought that installing ESXi will be only on wright the partition is installed on.

  2. are there procedures or install documents for installation to a disc of ESXi ESXi USB (currently in production). I had a few problems with the devices USB HP and believe the disks option searched local an avenue a lot more reliable., unfortunately, there is a slight power increase.

  Thanks in advance for any response.

  Concerning

  Joe

  Because the virtual machines are hosted on a different RAID level, you don't bother to reinstall ESX/ESXi.

  Install ESXi on the first LUN where you do not have virtual machines. While the installation format the second LUN where you have VMs. Once installation is complete, you will be able to access virtual machines using the VI Client or Virtual Center.

  To transfer the ESXi from a USB on the DISC, the only thing you must make sure that is who do not have the same facilities of ESXi on USB and DRIVE in parallel. This will cause PANIC when you try to start in one of the facilities.

  I think you have two LUNS in this case also so that you can preserve a LUN to the virtual machine and use it to install ESXi.

• ESXI 4 Questions

  Well, I got installed ESXI which was the easy part... The hardest part so far is to find things that... I went to the server via another computer and download the tools, he said. The tool is the thing of vsphere that apparently is not free or ESXI is not free I can't really say that because it indicates just that theres a 60 day trial... anyway, my questions are the following:

  1. the only way I could get one of these virtual machines to load from an ISO file image is I have is to run the virtual machine, let it do the verification for remote loader, then reset the machine and pressing f2. This gives me enough time to go and click the cd-rom, load my iso and then exit the bios to load successfully Setup for windows/linux... Is there an easier way to do this? I really don't understand why you can't just mount the image...

  2. how exactly do you go about restoring and backup of stuff... ? & lt;-I'm mainly testing such things for my work and his between Hyper-V and this... I read theres other tools or something but you I have to pay for them, and my job is unwilling to cough money up until a final decision is rendered. It is the first virtualization server that our work will have and I head the project. The only thing is that everyone is incomplete on that and wants to be shown how this all works. I used vmware things before, but it has always been a workstation configuration. Client/server thing quite new to me.

  3. I figured out how to get the "images" on the server, but exactly how to download stuff to it? & lt; -I've read yet still theres a jump, skip and jump around it, but is it not a function inside this program vsphere that does? I activated the SSH but the server does not support ftping through the ssh tunnel.

  4 are free tools for this free ESXI and ESXI server are itself? I was under the understanding but its either the server or the vsphere program which is not free. & lt; -the only thing is that it doesn't show anywhere to enter a key for the server or the vsphere program, that is why I am confused which one is really...

  5 is this really all that useful and more telling me that my VM machines are work/letting see me them & control machine vsphere virtual machine "hardware"... So far, I have not found all the features besides that...

  The server it is all running on is also a dual opteron quad with 32gigs of ram and 8 x RE3 1 TB Raid 5, but this raid is only temporary and will probably soon be promoted to a 16 x Raid 6...

  6. is it really strong enough to run a small sql, old print server, old server ts server and a little other sql server?

  (1) you can, if you download the ISO in a store, you can change the configuration of your virtual machine and set the CD rom device to ISO. This makes persistent between restarts, rather than fix the console level. Just like a physical machine if there is already an image of the operating system at this time where you need to go into the virtual bios and set the boot order.

  (2) several different ways according to your storage and your products, you have access to. The simpler conceptualy is to simply treat it as a physical node and install your backup application to it and save them in the same way that you would with a physical. Alternitivly there are products vmware and other products for backup (VCB (now DPM)) which will take a 'snapshot' of the virtual, consolidate the disc and turn off the ESX Server. Some of them have a cost associated with their good

  (3) when it is connected to your host with CIV simply select a store of data (via configuration or in your inventory) right click and choose 'Browse the data store' you FTP as options in there like folders and load and download files/folders

  (4) ESXI is free just sign up for a (free) key and Server license and you are good to go at this time. The Vsphere Client is free, no worries.

  (5) more than enough, most of the time ESXi is a fully functional virtualization platform, we run 300 + virtual machines (150-200 running loads of production, Primarly SQL and Exchange) If you have the right configuration and the equipment you will be good to go. Don't forget your hardware bottlenecks and plan them for the future if virtualization is an impressive tool, but it can be a challenge for 'rat hunting' Performance issues there are many links in the chain. I would like to emphasize that the bottleneck of disk and CPU contention has been more difficult to wrap around the action and determine both maintain good your ratio and don't forget that a shared storage (pin count) are your friends for good performance

  Jered Rassier

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• ESXi is not RAID 1

  Hello.

  I'm a newbie teach myself using the free version of vmware. I'm not a linux guru but can navigate my way around. I'm having a problem when I use an Intel Server with a raid 1 configuration that includes two sata drives. See ESXi both drives but not the raid 1 which I configured. When we look at the raid configuration, I see that the virtual disk has been initialized. I know it works because I used to have windows from there. Any advice or ideas will be appreciated.

  My environment

  Server: Intel S5520HC

  RAID controller: Intel Embedded Server Raid II (this is the default raid built into the server and I think it's using a LSI chip).

  ESXi version: 5.5.0

  More chips on board offer only software RAID, likely to keep prices low motherboard. In any case, I just searched the Intel website and found https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18265/Intel-ESRT-2-SATA-SAS-Software-RAID-driver-for-Windows-.

  André

• ESXi and local RAID 1 - do not know if it works

  I have setup a RAID 1 (2 discs) on my box of ESXi. Now I loaded ESXi and registered in with the vSphere client. In "The memory", is to show both of these drives. Should it only showing a?

  

  I thought that ESXi should see 'one' in the car for me to put on.and data warehouses, then the RAID controller would just reflect. But when I try to create a data store, it allows me to opt for the second time either of these discs on first, then the other drive. Is this job right? This doesn't seem to be just if I can just add warehouses of data on each disk individually.

  which means that you are not using the controller RAID HRDWARE and using your software RAID. in esxi software RAID is not supported

• Configuration 5.1 ESXi SNMP question

  
  I have several 5.1 ESXi hosts and I wanted to compare the configurations of snmp on each server that each server has been configured by another technician. I really need to see what are the old configurations. I searched but did not find anything.

  Thank you!

  I was able to answer my own question, I simply ran this command to see SNMP configuration:

  esxcli system snmp get

  Output:

  ~ # esxcli system snmp get

  Authentication:

  Communities: public

  Activate: true

  EngineID: 00000063000000a10a00163a

  Hwsrc: signs

  LogLevel: info

  Notraps:

  Port: 161

  Privacy:

  RemoteUsers:

  SysContact:

  SysLocation:

  Objectives: public localhost@162

  Users:

  V3targets:

• ESXi 5.0 RAID recognizing not together.

  In preparation for the deployment of vSphere/ESXi (awaiting benefits) on Dell R815 (from the approved list).

  I work with a trial 60 ESXi 5.0 on a Dell R5400 and T3500, w / RAID1 enabled through the BIOS and set Raid built (2 x 250 GB, Vol01 = 500 GB disks), but when installing ESXi is not defined but RAID see 2 individual readers.

  If another operating system is installed Win7, Linux, etc. the RAID set is recognized.

  Any reason ESXi would not see the defined RAID?

  It sounds as if you are using a RAID controller in software embedded or false. ESXi supports only the real hardware RAID controllers.

  André

• ESXi licensing question

  I have ESXi 5.0 upwards and running with a new installation, leva Vsphere client and go and I cannot figure out where to put my license key.  In 4.0, it is under the administration, but in 5.0, I just roles and newspapers, no license.  If someone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated

  I feel like this is a stupid question and miss me just something, but for the life of me, I can't find where to put the license.  And, Yes, I searched on the community.

  1. Connection to the ESXi 5.0 directly using vSphere Client host.
  2. Click host ESXi 5.0 in the inventory, and then choose the Configuration tab.
  3. In the configuration tab click allowed under the software features.
  4. On the right side you will see change the hyperlink, click on it.
  5. Click on assign a new license key to the host, and then click the Enter key
  6. Enter the license key, and then click OK twice.
  7. Now you should see all the features of the product in your license.

• Card mother Question Raid

  Nice day!

  Y at - it a motherboard that is ready for ESXi 4 raid. I prefer the INTEL® motherboards.

  Kind regards

  drkconan

  You are much further come find a server of the HCL. Dell, HP, IBM, etc. often have real business on the end of short manufacturing, customer returns, or re certified servers. You can save money to withdraw the guarantees on the site of 3 years and choose the single processor versions. There are also off servers lease (local technological cheque, leasing companies). At the time you add all the pieces to a Desktop Board you finish not too far from a real server.

• Should install us ESXi 4 on RAID 5 SAN?

  We get a server with 2 internal SAN Disk Array.  One is 70 GB RAID10 SAN and another 480 GB RAID5 SAN.  When we buy this server, we do not expect to use it as an ESXi host.

  We are new to ESXi and would like to know is there any problem installing ESXi on SAN RAID5?  Is it possible for us to make use of the RAID10 SAN (like creating an another VMFS Volume for VM execution)?

  Thank you

  Tony

  Once installed ESXi you connect with the vSphere client. There, you can create the volume VMFS, you need to store guests.

  Find the details here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40u1_i/server_config/t_add_local_storage.html

  Consider to reconfigure you're RAID. Maybe you want to make the smaller ESXi OS...

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• vSphere/ESXi licensing questions

  I have improved my Foundation 2.5 Server vCenter to vSphere 4.0. The Foundation Server managed a single host VMware ESXi 3.5. After I updated, I added a HP ESXi 4.0 host. ESXi 3.5 host gets its license to a central license server. ESXi 4.0 host has a 60-day evaluation license. I looked at the license for the HP ESXi host tab and noticed that the only licensing option is to enter a key. My first question is, ' is it possible to use a centralized with vSphere 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 license server? I downloaded the distribution for the ESXi 4.0 HP host so that I can get for my HP hardware monitoring agents. I have to go back to HP to get a key for this host?

  Thank you

  Greg

  The license server is necessary unless you continue to use 3.5 hosts.

  ESXi 4 can be a free license - sign up for vmware for a free license code - but it can then be managed from vCentreServer, only the direct vSphereClient, which has characteristics of low-cut.  Having said that there are many uses for the features single and manage only one host at a time by the customer.

  Please aware points to any useful answer.

• ESX and ESXi - OS Question

  I understand that ESXi is OS independent due to the removal of the "Service Console", which is based on Linux.  My question is "until this means I don't need Linux to install ESXi? and what does it need to be installed on the physical host computer or it could be a VM as well? and finally is - anyone know where I can get a video of how on this configuration?

  ESX (i) are two metal blades installed.

  Documentation can be found on

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35u2_3i_i.html

• ESXi network question

  I have an ESXi server with 2 VM. The server has 2 network cards. What is the best way to configure these for the most effective. Can I assign a map to a virtual computer and another card on the other virtual machine? Also, these servers talk to each other much. That's why I have them grouped together on the same server ESXi. Will this configuration Dungeon local traffic on the server rather than on the network?

  I guess my question is what is ideal and best practices of this situation?

  Thank you.

  For a host NIC 2, this configuration is fine.  ESXi will be outbound connections to balance and for communication between 2 virtual machines that traffic will not even hit the natachasery.   According to your physical switches, you can configure incoming load, thus balancing, but you will probably be fine.