ESXi 5.5u1 - serial number physical host in virtual machine

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• install serial number not accepted on virtual machine

  I wonder if anyone can help.  I spoke with tech support and they are not "trained" to answer this question and said that I have to post on the forums.  I'm trying to enter my serial key for Adobe CS4 software installed on a virtual machine running on a new macbook pro.  I am running windows 7.  It install correctly and works as it should in the mode of trial, but he will not accept the serial number.  I get the red next to the serial number 'X' when I get it, he did the same thing when we tried other series numbers we have.  I hope that this is a solution for this so I can use my software.  Customer support has tried to delete the cache.db file and a few other things.  Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance!

  David

  in case the problem... at least as much as we could understand, anyone trying to solve this problem, has been linked to the image that we have created from our DVD media.  Under the leadership of a certain support advanced Adobe, we uninstalled the software from the computer and then downloaded the software with the help of Adobe.  By using the downloaded software, we were able to enter the serial key and install and use the software as intended.  Hope this helps someone else.  Thanks to the Adobe support!

• Difference between the hosts and virtual machines

  Happy new year!

  I guess that's a stupid question, but I don't know the answer to it.

  I created pools from VM. Some jobs in the pool are hosts and some virtual machines. What is the difference between the hosts and virtual machines. I thought I could only create virtual machines, but I guess I could create hosts as well. -What happened?

  Thanks for your help.

  where does say desktops are hosts?  A host is usually referring to an ESXi server.  A virtual machine is just the guest OS running on the host computer.  A pool is a group of VMs that can extend over several hosts.

  Gunnar

• Question about the location of a host of virtual machines

  I work on temporarily to change the behavior of the DRS for a particular VM (in VI Perl), but my question is more general research of the root 'to host' for a particular virtual machine.

  The installation of the infrastructure program:

  + Folder1

  - + Cluster1

  -

  ---

  + Esx1

  -

  ---

  + VMs

  -

  ---

  + Esx2

  -

  ---

  + VMs

  .. .etc

  There are several clusters on different servers in this configuration.

  In order to manage the DRS by VM, I find the cluster that hosts the virtual machine.  The $vm_view - & gt; parent returns one 'value' (other than the name of folder) folder.  It seems that the only way to match the virtual machine to the cluster of accommodation is to do a brute force search, open multiple views and retrieve the values of each until I have a match, and then looking through each cluster in the corresponding folder to find the one that contains the virtual machine.

  Am I wrong?  It is an ugly and ineffective way to find the host for a virtual machine.  If I am not mistaken, are there plans for the addition of the hierarchy of the path to the view of the VM?

  A $view - & gt; config - & gt; value of path containing something like: file - & gt; Cluster - & gt; ESX Server - & gt; VM would be useful.  In addition, a function which maps values of resources to names of resources would be very helpful (with a code depend on a 'value' of the 'field-c125"and any other code that depends on a 'name' of"Cluster1"creates a lot of extra work).

  Thank you

  -David

  You can determine the Cluster that host a virtual machine by browsing through the ResourcePool of the virtual machine. Owner of the ResourcePool is the ClusterComputeResource who manages the virtual machine.

  $vm_view-> resourcePool->owner

  Also, to get the HostSystem that contains the Virtual Machine, you can follow the path

  $vm_view-> run-> home

  Regarding your suggestion to have a predefined path to access a managed entities, we have after explanation.  There are different paths through which you can access to the different managed

  entities of your inventory according to its hierarchy. Virtual Infrastructure gives you the flexibility to design your inventory. You can add a folder or host or a Cluster directly to your data center.

  Then it still allows a folder to have three objects as its child entity. If the path for any entity depends on the structure of your inventory. If a path can be set.

  All managed objects are uniquely identified managed objects ID. Name can be dupilcate for few entities in a data center, you can have two Resourcepools with the same name in different groups. Similarly, you can even named so that each entity is mapped using an object ID, and not a property 'name '.

• go esxi hosts and virtual machines in one vCenter to another

  I built a new vCenter (Windows vCenter), I intend to move on ESXi hosts the old vCenter (Virtual appliance vCenter) to the new vCenter. I don't know if it's feasible, please notify my step is correct or not: 1) build a new vcenter 2) create a cluster with two esxi hosts first 3) Mount data (NetApp Filer Storage) to the new vCenter warehouses 4) add an empty host for the new vCenter VMs) 5 download then upload to the host in new vcenter

  Hi friend

  Its doable without any problem.

  Please follow the procedure below.

  1 build a new vCenter (your first step is correct)

  2 creating a cluster (because it is new vCenter there will not be any available host.) That is why cluster creation wizard will not get to add in the new cluster host). While initially empty cluster would be created.

  3. once the cluster is created, immediately do a right-click on the cluster and add your hosts one by one. Not necessary to cancel the registration and the VM. Virtual machines will automatically be added who were there on the data store available with all guests.

  Don't forget,

  1. we do not mount any store data in vCenter, we assemble the data store on the host.

  2. If you mount the new data store (which did not exist before), you can mount once the new hosts are added to the new cluster. (Your SAN admin help)

  3. If you want to move your virtual machines from data store before the newly added/mounted data store, please SVMotion these virtual machines (by right-clicking on the VM > migrate > data store > select the data store that is new)... Please follow the same procedure for all virtual machines.

  4. you don't need to add empty hosts to the new cluster, add just as soon as all guests without you register VMs. Later, you can migrate to other store of data according to the requirement. NO need to download or download the VM.

  5. Please make sure that your ESXi hosts will be compatible with the new vCenter. Old version of ESXi always compatible with the new version of vCenter. Just check if you have all valid licenses.

  Please let me know if you need any clarification

• Attempt vSwitch configuration change and now the ESXi host and virtual machines offline

  So I have no doubt, I have myself to blame for this one. I was trying to change my vSwitch from 100 Mbps to 1000 Mbps when an 'operation timed' error out jumps-to the top and my vCenter Server lost connection with my ESXi host. I tried to restart the host manually, but that did not help. The host is not the ping requests and all the virtual machines on that host are offline; None of them vMotion off to my other ESX Server.

  I tried to reconnect the host computer in vCenter, but it is obviously does not connect because it can't ping it. I logged the ESXi console and all the network settings appear to be correct. I'm used to connect to the ESX console where you can execute commands, but it's my first ESXi host, so I don't know what I can do.

  Any help is greatly appreciated!

  -D.

  If you had your management port and VMs on different vSwitches / NIC leave on framework would eliminate a false positive. As in your case the management port reportedly follows the cable / about speed, but the virtual machine network would be intact (and I'm assuming that your storage space as well).  In this case the VMs system would have worked very well even if the management port did not work.

  Dave

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• ESXi 4 hosts and virtual machines with domains and different IP addresses

  Hello, I hope someone can shed some light on this problem.

  I have an ESXi host.  It is in the 'AREA A' and has an IP address like 204.75.225.6.

  Is it possible to use the tool VMware P2V Converter some servers that are located in one field other than ESXi host and have different IP addresses?

  Example: VM candidate: in "AREA B" with IP address 192.168.1.56.

  Both domains trust each other.

  Y at - it a tip to configure the network settings on the host to allow that?

  I currently have 2 vSwitches.  One for the management network and the other is for the traffic of the virtual machine.

  Firewall?

• Message serial number - already used on 2 Machines

  I bought Adobe Acrobat 9 from an internet business in May.  I am now receiving a message that serial number has already been used to set up and activate Acrobat Standard on 2 other machines, which is the maximum allowed.  I don't have the used on all other machines, so how can I solve this problem?  How to buy a serial number?

  I installed it on a machine.  I didn't buy the Adobe web site.  I paid $115.00.  My problem has been resolved thanks to Sumit on line customer service chat.

• Windows 2000 Pro system/disk physical conversion into virtual machine

  Fairly new to the world of the VM and was directed to VMWare for possibly a problem for us.

  We have a gentleman with an older system running Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) with a ton of software installed.  We put in place a new Win7 Pro system for him, but he won't Cross and reinstall everything (in addition to the time involved, some of the software is older and Win7 compatibility is probably a problem).

  We were originally at a switch KVM allows you to switch between systems, but then I found in the converter and thought this would be a great solution for him.  My thoughts are to use the converter to create a virtual machine from its old system/hard drive and install Player on its new Win7 system, it can fire up to his old Win2000 environment when he needs to work - and we can empty the old physical system.

  I have scanned through the documentation for converter and understood that I would need a version of Converter before 4.3 (like, 4.01 or earlier?).  Now, what should I install on it have to happen?

  Do I need to set permissions on its legacy system to expose the discs on the network?

  Can I get the old HD and connect it to the new system and convert this way?

  Do I need to install something on the source and the host system to do this?

  Once I can understand this point, we may need to conduct a number of other older systems, it keeps alive for the same reasons.

  I guess I should ask first - is that what this application is designed to do?  Or it fits into another software solution?

  Thank you very much for any information/guidance someone can provide - greatly appreciated.

  (PS.  Please don't just live/link me to the documentation.  As mentioned, I went through that, and I'm not real familiar with the setting/process, so that really helped a lot.  Thank you once again.)

  VHDs are used by VirtualBox and VirtualPC
  VMware uses the vmdk files

  You start converter on the Win2000 and tell him to "convert THIS machine.
  It then creates a vmx file plus a vmdk file.

  On the Win7 host you install VMplayer or workstation, and then simply double-click the vmx file... If everything works as expected

• Research in migration Exchange and SQL from physical servers to virtual machines... thoughts?

  Hi all, I use VMs for several years now, however back to the use of VMWare. I am currently running ESXi 4 on 2 servers separate host, with about 16 small resource type of the applications without any problem. I heard years keep intensive stuff like Exchange and SQL out of a VM guest, for reasons of system, but now I see a ton of articles from VMWare and windows push the thing to do. I have a relatively small environment compared to what they are touting... I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has any experience/thoughts on this? If I go this route I would probably look to buy some of the nicer features instead of using just the free version of ESXi.

  My current Setup uses HP DL360G5 servers that are coming out of warranty early next year, with the disk subsystem provided by a built environment of Equallogic iSCSI, on an isolated GB network SAN. I thought rather than buy 2 replacement servers that I can put the money to the full version of vSphere with some other goodies it offers.

  My Exchange environment is a relatively small number of boxes letters, but larger in size, running 2003 currently with 200 mailboxes to about 300 GB of space. I intend to switch to 2007 or 2010 next year as part of the migration of VM. I have to go to the next version will include likely standing another server, so I might be looking to buy 2 servers instead of 1.

  My SQL environment is small to begin with, a single instance of SQL 2005 with about 20 DB 120 GB in total size.

  2 guest machines I have are two Quad-processor Xeon dual socket with 16 GB and 24 GB of RAM, with less than 50% of RAM use each... and the processing power is hardly be affected at all.

  Sorry that it's a lot of info, I hope it makes sense for someone...

  Fix.

  You just need to do some analysis of storage before you virtualize servers in order to understand the needs of e/s. But if you move storage to local disk then any loss of performance, you can get to virtualize the server is offset by the gains in terms of the solution of SAN - faster storage & drives high-performance, virtual RAID, active\active controllers, cache... etc.

• Script to collect some statistics on hosts and virtual machines

  I'm trying to accomplish to get the following statistics, put into a script.

  When I run this script, it must be run by "vcenter" and result the following items.

  The cluster name / number of hosts / number of computers models and virtual / assigned the total memory of all the virtual machines on the cluster (not what is actually to be in use)

  Thus, for example, in the XYZ group with 4 guests, if I have 20 MV that I have 4 GB of RAM for each virtual machine, the output should be 80 GB

  XYZ 4 20 80 GB

  I suspect that you forgot the Select at the end in order to recover the amount.

  @{N = 'CPU'; E = {}

  Notice-EEG-Id (Get-View-Id $_.) ExtensionData.Host - VM property | %{$_. VM}) - property 'Config.Hardware.NumCPU ' |

  %{$_. Config.Hardware.NumCPU} | Measure-object-sum |  Select - ExpandProperty sum}},

• SSD as Cache host or Virtual Machine Swap or both file?

  I recently acquired a 80 GB FusionIO card for my 5.0.0u1 of ESXi server. I've done some reading on how to correctly configure the SSD and I'm still unclear on how to proceed. It seems that there are two configuration options to be considered, host Cache Configuration and location Swapfile Virtual Machine. I don't want to use the SSD as a VM data store. Instead, I would use it to improve the performance of the VM.

  (1) may, and I use the SSD to the host Cache and swap file?

  (2) if so, did I have to attribute some of the SSD for the host Cache, say 40 GB and leave the remaining space for the swap file? Or I allow the Cache of host to use 100% of the SSD space then also allow the pagefile for all virtual machines?

  Thank you

  John

  You should be able to use any SSD so it is detected by ESXi.

  If you use this in production, make sure you first check the HCL.  If this isn't the case, as long the drive is recognized, you can use it.  Some time, SSDS are not automatically detected as an SSD.  In this case, you can label manually using the procedure, it is indicated in literature vSphere storage.

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.VMware.vSphere.storage.doc%2FGUID-C56B9994-24BF-4260-Baba-BAE38FFDCCED.html

  You can then add it as a store of the host Cache database.

• Restarting the management agents on ESXi 4.1 / risk to restart the guest virtual machines?

  Unfortunately, we must restart management on our HP ML350 G6 agents almost once a week (unable to connect with VSphere client more, customers are works well).

  We know this Article -: restart on an ESX or ESXi Server management agents

  and this article useful: http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_restart_agents.php

  How can we avoid the ESXi 4.1 command /sbin/services.sh restart will restart our execution of virtual machines (guests) as well?

  (Our first test shows: it restarts the guests, but it is sure, or just happy coincidence?)

  According to the second article linked:

  ... This will restart the agents installed in /etc/init.d/ and with a default installation that includes: pass, ntpd, sfcbd, sfcbd-watchdog, slpd and wsmand. He is aalso restarting the agent VMware HA (AAM) if that has been activated on the host...

  Each of the agents of this is responsible for our virtual computer operation invited?

  Do we ensure "auto start/stop" to each virtual machine too (as written in "Attention" on the first linked article)?

  I think it was on ESX 3.5 U3 corected. In any case, this happened only if you autostart enabled for VMS - the ability of ESX Server to boot VMs when it starts itself. If you do not need, leave it disabled.

  Each of the agents of this is responsible for our virtual computer operation invited?

  Not at all. Virtual machines running in a very low level of the VMkernel. Even if you lose the COS (which is your main problem here - you should check it...) the VMs will still work.

  Marcelo Soares

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  Master virtualization technology

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• Required physical server Vs Virtual Machine memory

  Is there a white paper explains why we we need less memory in the Virtual Machine as compared to the physical Machine.

  The problem is that my boss wants to know why this is so. It is very difficult for me to explain this to him, he wants to see a white paper OR some article on the internet.

  As long as a VM administrator, I know that we can add and remove a virtual computer memory but it will be not that simple when it comes to physical servers. I suggested to him that we must follow a standard, and if there is a requirement for business we can increase or decrease is according to the needs. So when the salesman comes in they give us specifications for the physical server and not the virtual and there is always an argument that why should have 6-8 GB memory VM from the outset. In order to avoid everything that the arguments it needs more proof.

  Thank you

  Here is a simple explanation of why VM need less memory.  Transparent page sharing.

  If you install a virtual of Windows 2008 SP2 single server machine, lets assume that it uses 500 MB of RAM while sitting idle.  It's basically all running components loaded into memory.

  If you then put a same VM, the new machine virtual don't re-charge not the exact same components in memory.  ESX will see the same exact memory block has been loaded into the memory of the host Server1 (phyiscal material) and then simply point the virtual machine to the component already loaded into memory.

  After the virtual machine has been loaded and GST has kicked, you will probably find that for 2 identical virtual machines you use not only 650MB of memory (not 1000 as expected).  This is because 80% of the components has need of the new virtual machine, it only uses the existing memory blocks, instead of duplicating.

  Now, repeat this operation on 10 VM and assume only 50% of the memory is the same between them... it is still a huge economy of memory.  In this case, since each VM Windows is really loading only 250 MB of itself in memory and split the rest, technically you don't need to allocate 2 GB of RAM for each virtual computer... you can easily get away with putting 1 to 1.5 GB on this server and I have always the same ratio of available memory for the programs that you would do if it was a physical server.

• You can enable CDP on a host with virtual machines running?

  I want to activate CDP on my 3 hosts vShpere 4.1. Each host has about 20 guests on this subject. If I activate CDP via putty will affect the network connectivity of the virtual machines running on the vSwitch? Can I move all the VMS hospitality first?

  Hi Letstub,

  There is no need to evacuate your virtual machines from the vSwitch. Enable or disable CDP has no impact on the communications of the network of virtual machines. The following article that explains how to enable CDP mentions this prerequisite:

  • http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1003885

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck