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• Controller RAID HP and ESXi - em RAID HP Controladora e ESXi

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  Tenho um projeto em vista para servers virtualizacao na empresa wave trabalho.

  Para isso estou orcando um servidor DL380P G8 com uma controladora controller HP Smart Array P420i w/1 GB FBW, saber como validar gostaria to essa controladora powerful RAID com o ESXi 5.x, tive problemas com outros servidor o ESXi nao aceitava RAID por but that voce climbed chart os controladora o ESXi so enxergava o disco.

  English for Google

  I have a project in mind for servers in virtualization at the company where I work.
  So I'm budgeting for a server DL380P G8 with a controller, controller HP Smart Array P420i w/1 GB FBW, I wonder how validate if this controller supports RAID with ESXi 5.x had problems with the other ESXi server did not accept that the RAID higher you climb the array controller in ESXi saw only the disc.

  Yes, this controller is fully supported - confirmed list HCL.

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=IO&ProductID=20949&deviceCategory=IO&partner=41&keyword=P420i&page=1&display_interval=10&SortColumn=partner&SortOrder=ASC

  Probably just the drivers installed on your host computer. You can download the latest VIBs here;

  http://vibsdepot.HP.com/

• Cheap construction and Simple Home ESXi Server to test

  I think building a desktop computer (you can call it home server) for VMware vSphere Hypervisor to test at home for educational purposes.  I am currently using a > 6 yr old Dell laptop which does not support VMware vSphere hypervisor.  I have no luck in my workplace to have hands on VMware.  Course VCP5 is expensive here in Malaysia, about 3 times salary for a fresh grad. If you have savings of 1/3, should be save to just sign up for the course of 9 months.  Also I would need to take leave of 5 days on the course, they have no weekend class.

  My plan is to set up for lab test (VCP5 test) and possibly configure 4 virtual machines.  What are the best way to build that ESXi server to test?

  Processor - AMD FX-6100

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16819103962

  Motherboard - ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX [Micro-ATX]

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813157323

  RAM - 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 240 - Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820231606

  Adapter - Realtek 8111E (shipped with Mobo)

  HARD drive - WD Green WD10EZRX 1 TB IntelliPower (do not plan for any RAID installation)

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16822236070

  Box - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16811119068

  Power - COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus 500W or COOLER MASTER GX 450W RS450

  I have experince in the building of my own office back in the years of the pentium - pentium 4.  But I certainly have no experience in the construction of a system as complicated as, I am a total newbie to VMware.  I need your need help and tips to avoid buying machines bad for my setup.

  my budget would be RM3000, which is about USD1000. (Now I think I can get USD600 below after opt for AMD on Intel Core i7)

  Thank you

  * Some links that I found

  Hardware configuration

  http://wahlnetwork.com/2012/03/13/building-ESXi-5-whitebox-home-lab-servers/

  http://vdestination.com/2011/01/19/building-a-home-lab-101/

  Configuration (configure lab environment, do not apply to me)

  http://professionalvmware.com/2012/05/vSphere-5-autolab/

  http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/virtualization/VMware-Lab-Setup---a-virtualized-lab-for-testing-HA-and-DRS/

  http://www.VMwarevideos.com/video-my-home-VMware-vSphere-lab

  You don't need a San to install ESXi, but if it's under consideration for the VCP that a SAN would be beneficial, as would a second host ESXi - in this way you will be able to test vMotion, DRS, HA-

• ESXi see raid 5

  Hello!!

  I have a server esxi on a hp x 235. She saw by partiton two of bios Setup. RAID 1 (two disck) for the system to install esxi and raid 5 (4 discs) to install the virtual machine.

  I installed my esxi and later, I checked only have a data store, and do not appear datastore2. Only appear the first and I don't know how I have to do to see this partition on my viclient.

  I need to explain a bit.

  Excuse my expression.

  What RAID controller do you use in the servers for the RAID-5?

  Are you able to see the physical partition to RAID-5 at the start of the server?

• Budget ESXi Server installation?

  Hello!

  I know this question has been asked many times but not recently.  I'm looking to use material of desktop/workstation class for a budget ESXi server.  We are looking to run virtual machines that need 4 GB of ram each, and pretty decent CPU speed.  Ideally be able to run 3 simultaneously.

  Preconfigured servers are too expensive for what we want, considering that we can in place something ourselves for 2/3 of the price.

  What I'm really wondering is what CPU / mobo combination people recommend.  I know that people swear by Intel, but you get a lot more hearts of AMD these days that seems to be more important.  I also prefer to have incorporated net and especially SATA/raid who works with ESXi, but we can add - it if necessary.

  The official hardware support list practically only covers server-class hardware, but I know a lot of people run on class office equipment.  I looked on the Ultimate White Box guide and see a large number of options here - but most seem to be more than 1 year old.  So what people indicate?

  The Asus M4A78 seemed to be a popular series, but you can't buy it new is more - the series of M4A88 or M4A89 just as good?

  For example, the Phenom II X 6 seem to be pretty cheap ($200) and a variety of motherboards to $100.  Addition of 16 GB of ram and a few hard disks with a raid card network card and intel, and we should have a powerful system for well under $ 1,000.

  Thanks in advance!

  I suggest that you try http://vm-help.com or http://ultimatewhitebox.com

  Good luck

• Hereditary ESXi Server - needs more storage. Where to start?

  I inherited a Dell PowerEdge R710, 2 x Intel Xeon 2.13GHz16 GB memory 2 x 1 TB SATA (7200 RPM) drives in RAID 1.

  The server is full with existing images, so I ordered 4 x 1 TB drives that just arrived. The server will be 3 TB RAID1 after I installed new readers

  Now my question is:

  How can I save existing server?

  How to reconfigure with new storage?

  How to migrate images again ESXi server.

  Thanks in advance, T

  How can I save existing server?

  If you do not already have a backup I place, it's time to think

  How to reconfigure with new storage?

  In your case, I just plug the new players and create 2 other sets RAID1 with 2 hard drives. You'd have to divide the size anyway because of the limit of records ~ 2 TB of ESX (i). Once you have created the new RAID1 sets, introduce them as 1 TB logical volumes to the OS (ESXi) and create VMFS data warehouses. That way you will end up with 3 stores of data on which you can place virtual machines, which IMO is a better approach than the construction of 1 large data store.

  How to migrate images again ESXi server.

  If you create additional data warehouses there no need for migration. If you want to distribute the existing VM.

  André

• ESXi: SAS Raid 1 Boot w / SATA for backup?

  Situaltion:

  • There is currently no effective backup strategy.  Download that data over a slow WAN link can be used to restore or install timely.

  • 2 units of each SCSI 146 GB for $100 / month.  2 each 1 TB SATA disks for $100 / month, provider supplied NAS 300 GB for $150 / mo.  Seller provided iSCSI for 300 GB to $200 / month.

  • Cost per GB SCSI is not yet close to that of SATA.  Two 146 GB drives would be very marginal.

  • I intend to load balancing and cluster two sites on servers with something like CARP.  I am open to any suggestion using NAS and iSCSI.  The main things that matter are mysql used by http, http and email.  Sites are dynamic and use PHP which requires the session data.

  Mission:

  • Store copies of virtual machines, store ISO images, make backups of the operating system and perform backups of application server to provide access to the required software and backup and highspeed images.

  • Retain the ability to balance the load and 2 cluster sites.

  Equipment available:

  • Two ESXi servers run SuperMicro X7DWU motherboard (Compatible with ESXi) Adaptec RAID 31605 controller RAID-1 running. (http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?device_cat=io & device_id = 9051)

  • Each server has two network cards integrated, private one on the network, eth0 and the other on the public network eth1.  (Intel Corporation Intel 82575EB Gigabit)

  • Other controllers on the motherboard are: controller RAID Intel ESB2 SATA 3.0Gbps.  Others got this controller to work with ESXi on the same motherboard on this forum.  (http://communities.vmware.com/message/891637#891637)

  Execution:

  I need your ideas to develop a good strategy.

  1. Yes.  You can assign to ESX directly and create a VMFS out of it, and then give that space for the virtual machine that you use for the backup.  You have to be careful and make sure that go you through the HCL (vmware.com/go/hcl) to get a SATA controller supported.  Not all controllers will work and be recognized by ESX.

  2 Yeap.  You need not necesarilly CYGWIN for NFS, there are tools of $ M that can be loaded as well Windows services for unix, either will endeavour to provide an NFS server.  The downside is you need a windows license, but the customer is handy to have.  You can use a virtual linux machine, and even if you can't use the vi client, you can use the remote cli tools that are available for Linux.  Vima (VI Management Assistant) unit is a device based on linux with the remote cli installed, might want to take a look if you have not already.  You can use samba on it and be able to map a drive as your windows machines.

  3. Yes, absolutely.  If you have an NFS server, you can also use it as a data store NFS for the 2nd Server.

  4 VCB is very convenient and it will allow you to skip creating a server and the export of the step of the vm, but you will still need to configure vcb proxy, which will need a windows server.

  -KjB

• How to count the number of virtual machines on an ESXi server via command line

  I want to know the number of virtual machines running on ESXi. What is the command so that it...?

  "vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms"

  This order list of the early running of the ESXi Server virtual machine, but I want the number (integer)

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  M@RK! V

  Hello

  You can use the PowerCLI command to get a VM number:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server "ESXi host or vCenter server.

  (Get-VM-location 'ESXi host') .count

  Elodie

• ESXi server (5.1) level access & manage by ROLE in centeral vCenter server (5.5) instead of diff-diff / Datacenter location

  I want to manage the server vCenter 5.5, with 7 data center and each data center with 2 * 5.1 Esxi servers and each server Esxi with amendments of VM, all data centers-> server Esxi in diff-diff place and managed in one main place, all Esxi datacenter servers / VM in a field.

  vCenter Server - worm 5.5

  Data Center 1

  ESXi Server1 - 5.1

  VM1-> vm10

  ESXi Server2 - 5.1

  VM1-> vm10

  Data Center 2

  ESXi Server3 - 5.1

  VM1-> vm10

  Server ESXi 4-5.1

  VM1-> vm10

  .

  .

  ..

  7 data center

  ESXi Serverx - 5.1

  VM1-> vm10

  ESXi - 5.1 servers

  VM1-> vm10

  I would like to give access to database role on all esxi servers

  (1) each location access and manage esxi servers / VMS than by its user admin - own data center / Esxi servers / VMs

  (2) is not access any other server Esxi / VM - no access to the other data centers / Esxi servers / VMs

  (3) a super user access and manage all the server vCenter / Esxi Server / VM

  Kindly give best solution , requirements to implement highest point of reference.

  Thanking you in advance.

  Anand

  (1) each location access & manage esxi servers / VMS than by its user admin - own data center / Esxi servers / VMs

  Select your data center to host & cluster inventory, go to the Manage tab, under you will find authorization tab, where you should add authorization with spread to children, by selecting the account user/group and appropriate role (create custom roles if necessary).

  (2) is not access any other server Esxi / VM - no access to the other data centers / Esxi servers / VMs

  Suppose that the user is given with permission only on Dataceter1 in your inventory, that account has no default on any other data centers, so when permissions that the user will be able to see these inventory items where he or she has permission.

  (3) a super user access and manage all the server vCenter / Esxi Server / VM

  Select your vCenter Server server in host & cluster inventory, go to the Manage tab, under you will find tab permission , then you must add the permission with spread to children, by selecting the account Super user/group and appropriate role.

• Nested inside the ESXi Server ESXi

  Nested run ESXi in ESXi server.

  I can't turn on the virtual machine for Vcenter, I get an error "this host does not support Intel VT - x. Here's my server BIOS settings.

  Is there a solution for this?

  
  

  See attached screenshot.

  
  

  My server is running an Intel Xeon processor E5540 Proliant DL380 G6 2 x Xeon Quad-Core 2.53 GHz

  
  

  Physical server Bios settings

  -Intel(r) Hyperthreading Options-> active

  -Intel(r) Turbo Boost Technology-> active

  -Intel VT - d-> active

  Your hardware supports nested ESXi.  Is that you checked the box next to "Hardware-assisted virtualization expose to the guest operating system" on the settings of the processor in the web client?

• All virtual machines to an ESXi Server ping

  Hi all

  For a project of mine, I need to create a script that asks for the ESXi server host name,

  and after that start ping all virtual machines that are on the ESXi server.

  I tried to do without success up to now.

  Help will be appreciated.

  Thank you!

  What follows is based on the fact that the VMware tools are installed.

  If they are not installed, you could adapt the script to try and ping displayname VM.

  $esxName = "MyEsx".

  Get-VMHost-name $esxName | Get - VM | %{

  $hostnamePresent = $_. Guest.HostName - don't $null

  {if ($hostnamePresent)}

  $pingable = test-Connection - ComputerName $_. Guest.HostName - count 1 - calm

  }

  else {}

  $pingable = $false

  }

  Select - InputObject $_ - the property name.

  @{N = "This Hostname"; E = {$hostnamePresent}},

  @{N = "responding"; E = {$pingable}}

  }

• How can I recover data from my ESXi server after getting a "Pink Screen of Death"?

  Hi all

  I blame myself for that. I got about 1 GB od space left on my ESXi server and used MDT to create images and ran out of space. Well... all of a sudden, I had a pink, although very nice screen, what was being done was ugly.

  I have ESXi hypervisor of 5.5 is installed with all my virtual machines. The screenshot leads me to believe that there is no space and that is why it error. Has anyone ever run into this situation? Are there any tools or techniques, I can try

  Thanks in advance!

  Phil

  

  The only thing left to try is the following: when the host is powered off, insert the disc, start the host, when you get a choice to start the latest version installed from a certain select ESXi installation (it should show on which drive it is installed), if not the last, once started, it should start the disc should be available without problem.

  As much as I can test and tested, this allways did the trick.

  If however it does not matter where, I think you have a disk failure (unavailable TPG, Pearl sectors, reformatted,...). It is not my expertise.

  GRTS

• How to generate the array Diagnostic Utility ADU for Esxi server

  How to run Diagnostic Utility ADU or HP Insight Diagnostics HP Insight Diagnostics table to collect the status tables and logs data FRO an Esxi Server

  How to generate the array Diagnostic Utility ADU for Esxi server

  Example:

  Download the package .vib here: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/feb2013/esxi-5x-vibs/hpacucli/hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib

  and place it on a store of data seen by the host...

  Install it using the CLI:

  software esxcli vib install d vmfs/volumes //hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib

  Now run it:

  ~ # cd/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin

  / opt/HP/hpacucli/bin # . / hpacucli

  HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 9.40.12.0

  Detection of controllers... Fact.

  Type 'help' for a list of supported commands.

  Type "exit" to close the console.

  => ctrl all diag file=/tmp/my_ADUreport.zip ris = on = on zip xml = on

  Generation of diagnostic report... done

  -Online output

  / opt/HP/hpacucli/bin #.

  my_ADUreport.zip in / tmp can now be downloaded from the host...

  It could be that useful...

  / Rubeck

• Cannot access ESXi server via network

  Hello world!

  We have a HP C7000 Encolosure with 4 BL460c Gen 8 blades in front size of it. Back size of the C7000, we have 2 SAN Switch, 2 switch HP BLc GbE2c layer 2/3 and 2 Onboard Administrator Module.

  Everything is working fine with IP addresses like this:

  OA active:

  IP address: 172.16.0.253

  STANBY OA:

  IP address: 172.16.0.254

  Server Blade BL460c Bay 1:

  The IP address of the ILO: 172.16.0.10

  Server Blade BL460c Bay 2:

  The ILO IP address: 172.16.0.11

  BL460c blade Bay 9:

  The ILO IP address: 172.16.0.19

  Server Blade BL460c Bay 10:

  The ILO IP address: 172.16.0.20

  We can ping pc that connected to the port of ILO on Onboard Administrator (OA) IP addresses above. (I can it call PC MANAGE?)

  Continue, we access OA via Web https://172.16.0.253 use of , then Console integrated to control 4 Server blades. We have mounted image ESXi 5.1 U1 and successfully installed on 4 servers blade.

  We manually config IP address on each ESXi Server (like this):

  BL460c Server Blade on Bay 1 as server ESXi 1:

  IP address: 10.0.0.11

  BL460c Server Blade on Bay 2 as server ESXi 2:

  IP address: 10.0.0.12

  BL460c Server Blade on Bay 9 as a server ESXi 9:

  IP address: 10.0.0.19

  BL460c Server Blade on 10 Bay as a server ESXi 10:

  IP address: 10.0.0.20

  Now we can ping server to another server ESXi ESXi 1. I mean 4 Blade Server can ping together.

  BUT:

  -We can not ping servers to blade PC of manage (that PC connect to the port of ILO on OSTEOARTHRITIS. In this scene, MANAGE PCs has the IP 172.16.0.100/16)

  -We unplug the network cable from the port of iLO, then connect it to the port number 24 on HP BLc GbE2c LY 2/3 switch, then address IP of the PC to MANAGE the 10.0.0.100/24 value. Always the same, can only access servers

  Can someone explain to me how to access this server (ping, http, etc...). Do we have to config switch HP BLc GbE2c LY 2/3? We read many many guide on the HP website, but they have not mentioned about routing or switch to configure

  Thanks in advance!

  It's my mistake!

  My servers have 2 connections FlexLOM. That a connection has been enabled for 'network management' in ESXi. I do not understand, then I activated 2 connections. That cause outside the network can not access them.

  I just disabled a single connection and everything works perfectly.

  I thank everyone!

• Update the Bios ESXi server

  I use 5.1 ESXi and I want to upgrade the BIOS on the server. I downloaded the dell BIN file and place it in a tmp folder in the ESXi server. How can I install this bin file in the server? Can what commands I use to do it?

  Thank you

  Benito

  You won't be able to go in ESXi. See http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2010/12/29/how-to-install-vendor-updates-on-server-hardware-running-esxi for a set of instructions, that you can use.