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• shutdown VMs test when failure of datacenter

  Hello

  Let's say we have 6 esx hosts in a cluster with ha + drs.

  3 guests are datacenter1 and 3 guests in datacenter2.

  SMV production onto 3 guests, so there is enough capacity for a failover of datacenter.

  now, we would like to use the available space remaining to test virtual machines and when there is a data center failure (i.e. 3 hosts are down), I would like to have the VMs test automatically put out of service and make the room for the production of virtual machines whose surviving restarting by HA on the site.

  
  So my question is: How can it be done?

  I guess that is not possible with the "builtin" feature, so perhaps someone does a smart script that can detect the number of active host or datacenter failure and computers stop trigger virtual tests!

  concerning

  Roland

  Are you able to put all the VMS to Test in a folder, for example TestVMs?

  Then, you can use the following command to PowerCLI to stop all the virtual machines in the TestVMs folder.

  Get-VM-location TestVMs | Stop-VM

  If your folder structure does not allow for this, are all the Test virtual machines in there data store (s) clean with none of the Production virtual machines, you can use

  Get - VM - Datastore TestVMDataStore | Stop-VM

  Little tricky is going to be automate the triggering of the command to execute. Do you have any server monitoring tools?

• shutdown VMs on vmotion

  Hi, I have a question.

  Let's say I have two servers ESX 4.0 on one site. The first server is fully loaded with test vm that are always up and running, the other ESX Server has production vm only and is also fully charged.

  Now, it would be possible when the production server fails, vmotion machines to test ESX server and automaticly the test vm stop in order to create a sufficient capacity for production vm? Or is it only possible with a charge of 50% / 50% on each server?

  Thanks in advance!

  Yes in this case DRS will be very good for you.

  *If you find the answers were good or useful, please give points. **

  MCP, VCP

• Host sem Comunicação, VMs running

  I have 4 ESXi 5.5 hosts, um faithful esta sem access pelo Vcenter, I can not nem pingar o servidor, mas todas as vm´s as nele are running usually are.

  Pelo deste console, a placa host of rede of members appears conectada, I can not pingar nada mas como na rede.

  TEM some principle that EU possa fazer p / resolver try?

  no console tem uma option para reiniciar officer members mas nao tenho certeza o is isso will go afetar minhas vm´s.

  o servidor renew a funcionar,

  NAO we know color o q occurred mas estivemos verificando as rede go revisar tudo e configuracoes

• Gracefully closes VMs and disconnect the floppy/CD drive

  All the

  We have a VDI environment where the connection broker agent sometimes fails image stops when the user disconnects, and I want to run a weekly script late in the night to feed free of charge throughout.  In addition, sometimes people join local FDD / CD and these cause problems with DRS, so I want to delete all these at the same time.

  I could use the following:

  Get-Cluster "VDS - SDC01 | Get - VM UK1 * | Stop-VMGuest - confirm: $false
  

  
  

  Get-Cluster "VDS - SDC01 | Get - VM UK1 * | Stop-VM-confirm: $false

  
  

  Get-Cluster "VDS - SDC01 | Get - Vm | Where-Object {}
  (((Get-CDDrive-VM $_ |)) Where-Object {(($_.))} ConnectionState.Connected - eq $True) - or ($_.) "(ConnectionState.StartConnected - eq $True))}) - no $Null)"
  - or"
  ((Get-FloppyDrive-VM $_ |)) Where-Object {(($_.))} ConnectionState.Connected - eq $True) - or ($_.) ((ConnectionState.StartConnected - eq $True))}) - no $Null))
  } | %{
  "VM: " + $_. Nom + « (« + $_. PowerState + ') '.
  Get-CDDrive - VM $_. ForEach-Object {Set-CDDRIVE - CD $_ - StartConnected $False - connected $False - confirm: $False | %{"Changed" + $_.} Name}}
  FloppyDrive get - VM $_. ForEach-Object {Set-FloppyDRIVE-diskette $_ - StartConnected $False - connected $False - confirm: $False | %{"Changed" + $_.} Name}}

  But the education of the diskette/CD disconnect player is somewhat clumsy.  All I want to do is set the VM for when what they feed on once again, he is going to be there no CD or FDD value so that that they will cause problems with the DRS (connected locally or host).

  Looking around, I saw an opportunity to use Set-CDDrive - CD $cd - NoMedia and whole-FloppyDrive-Floppy $floppy - NoMedia

  As all virtual machines must be turned off at this point, could I just replace the last line with something like

  Get-Cluster "VDS - SDC01 | Get - Vm | {

  Game-CDDrive - CD $cd - NoMedia

  Game-FloppyDrive-floppy $floppy - NoMedia

  }

  ?

  Concerning

  Simon

  The '%' is an alias for Foreach-Object. You can check with

  Get-Alias-Name %

  All virtual machines will be placed, one by one, to the code block after the %.

  In the block of code the current VM is accessible via the variable $_.

• Shutdown for Lab Manager

  We are conducting a data center power down and I would like to confirm my judgment for Lab Manager procedure:

  Stop order:

  1. Shutdown VMs LM
  2. Virtual routers (for closed configurations) stop by VC
  3. Stop VMwareLM-ServiceVM (by distributed switch) by VC
  4. Stop LM Server (VM, but not running on the ESX host cluster managed LM)
  5. Shutdown LM managed ESX host
  6. Shutdown VC Server

  Boot order:

  1. Power on server VC
  2. Power on managed LM of the ESX host
  3. Power on LM Server
  4. Power on virtual LM VMs, routers & VMwareLM-ServiceVM by VC

  My questions:

  Are the steps in the proper order?

  What I have to cancel the deployment of my configurations or they may just be in an engine out of State? I like to keep the configurations deployed to maintain external if possible IP addresses.

  just closed down going also to extend the process of closing, it would be: ESX hosts SAN switch SAN storage reverse order to start upward.

• HA restarts VMs after failure

  Hello

  Restart HA Deep Dive Duncan said in priority and arrested "prioritization is made by each host and not in the world."

  I need some explanation on this point.

  1 restart VM after failure is considered State power VM, is he going to turn on VMs or not?

  2-HA restart is a local configuration not one world, in case auto sett I strat up by each host, in effect HA restart?

  Any help please

  Thank you

  If the monitoring host is not enabled VMs will restart when come to the host is running in this case power VM status kept in the cluster or only on the registered host?

  Disabling host followed completely defeated the purpose of having HA allowed in the first place. And it does not change the implication that auto-start is not always supported with HA, since strictly speaking, HA is always enabled on the cluster object. Disabling host simply means THAT HA will take no action at all if a host fails or is isolated from the monitoring network.

  The status of virtual machine power must still be updated on all hosts independently HA know if you turn on VMs manually or automatically with the auto start.

• 6.0 ESXi hosts are no longer

  Hello world!

  I have a problem with VMware ESXi 6.0.

  I have a VMware Cluster with 3 6.0 ESXi host. Last night 2 ESXi host has become unresponsive. ESXi hosts concerned, responds to the ping, but unplug vCenter, unable to connect directly to the client host with vSphere and unresponsive on DCUI. The VMs - running concerned guests - became unresponsive (VMware HA cannot restart VMs, because the host has locked the VMs file). Only solution: reset the hosts. After hard reset hosts, HA restart VM on another host and host affected normal work. The problem occurd when high e / s (backup, at the level of the files inside the virtual machine) on HBA.

  In the /var/log/vmkernel.log , I see a lot of messages both "crash":

  WARNING: lpfc: lpfc_sli_issue_abort:9956: 1:3169 Abort failed: Abort INP: data: x 0 xcd0 x 8 x 98

  ScsiPath: 7133: Set retry timeout for demolition of TaskMgmt failed for CmdSN 0x0, State failure, path vmhba5:C0:T0:L0

  The configuration of the hosts:

  Host type: IBM x 3850 X 5

  VMware version: Lenovo ESXi 6.0 custom + VMware ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 2

  CF: 2 * Emulex LightPulse FC SCSI 10.4.236.0 IBM 0494 42 8 GB 2-port PCIe FC HBA for System x Emulex firmware version: 2.02X11 version of the Emulex driver: 10.4.236.0 - 1OEM.600.0.0.2159203

  The host firmware versions are later.

  VMware installed on a USB stick (clean install, not upgraded), LOG dir on the CF data store.

  The storage and the side FC switches have no error/warning message.

  I see the VMware KB 2086025 and 2125904. In this KB article the symptoms are very similar to our situation, but our guests have the most recent version of the Emulex driver (KB articles: version prior to 10.2.340.18, our 10.4.236.0 version)

  I tried the latest Emulex firmware (version: 10.6.126.0, install and reboot host) but the host crash again and the same newspaper as above.

  Today a new problem, when I collect information on diagnosis (registers of export) of the host:

  • first of all welcome: unplug vCenter for seconds 3 times (State of heartbeat), and download of the newspaper failed, when the host disconnect, virtual machines (which run on this host) does not not on LAN
  • second host: connect download start, after the 10-minute purple screen:

  

  I have found no solution.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks for your help!

  Have you seen the question of host unresponse before 6.0 updated. If not, I suspect strongly this is due to "VMware KB: ESXi 6.0 the network connectivity is lost with the NETDEV WATCHDOG timeouts in the vmkernel.log". Try upgrading to the latest version 6.0 that contains the fix for this.

  The purple screen could be a different product bug and I doubt that it does not always happen. Based on the screenshot, it looks like collection Journal (vm-support) was going through some of the nodes of the VSI and failed at this point. So this issue could happen specifically only during some invocation of vm-support. Good to raise a complaint with the help of VMware.

• Problemao com o vCenter e um ESX host

  Pessoal bom dia,.

  Estou com um problemao na empresa em than trabalho. EU estou com meu vCenter for one, porque o servidor Québec tem o banco dados dele (UM Windows 2012) nao esta respondendo rede of na. AI, fled try access host em o Banco o vCenter hospedado esta, e ele esta travado... I can not fazer nada nele... Quando tento access esse host travado o vSphere Client, appears using a mensagem abaixo:

  

  ELE nao esta com o ssh enable, nem nada... Finally, I can not acessa-lo of jeito nenhum. I think minha unica alternativa e desligar host manualmente o. Só Qué meu e as VMs that are nele piece is corrompam, e la tem VMs important para o ambiente, por isso venho aqui pedir um auxilio pra voces. Have any outra alternativa EU possa use? UO vou ter than correr esse risco e dar um desligar o accommodate manualmente?

  Desde ja Agradea§o an ajuda.

  Primeiramente, do only one virtual host machine SQL Server esta nesse parou answering machine or all you other VMs also answering sem are? SE elas estiverem acessiveis, seja pelo RDP/SSH, Bivvy logar em uma por e uma achieve... e desligamento cada uma delas product o no o reset host final.

  Very is nenhuma VM host desse estiver respondendo awesoe than a Solução simplesmente reiniciar o will host, e como as VMs ja sem answering machine are, o risco danificar as tao VMs nao sera alto.

  Minha ultima recomendacao e only as ja that o SSH no host nao esta enable, Bivvy logar diretamente pela console using an ILO/iDRAC/IMM e acessando o DCUI, don't make restart o host.

• DRS Rule for Host affinity check names of datatore that they match to the hosts

  DRSRules - list of host affinity rules

  Host affinity rules

  Cluster	Activated	Name	Solidarity	VM	Host of the rule	Running
  Cluster-SA1	True	Cluster2-SA1-VMsHosts	Fake	SMV - SA1	SA1	sa1_host3
  Cluster-SB2	True	CLUSTER1-SB2-VMsHosts	Fake	SMV - SB2	SB2	sb2_host2

  This module of vCheck will show me if one of my virtual machines are not running according to the rules, but I want to look deeper.

  DRS Rule for Host affinity check names of datatore that they match to the hosts

  Our guests all start with three characters make the difference between SiteA1 and SiteB1, that is sa1host1 sa1host2... sa1host9 and sb2host1, sb2host2, sb2host9, etc.

  Our warehouses are the names "sa1_exch01", "sa1_sql_01", sa1_data_01"for all data stores that are found on the Site1.  While the warehouses of data named 'sb2_exch01', 'sb2_sql_01', sb2_data_01' for all data stores that are found on the Site2.

  Can help you with a script that will check all virtual machines on the hosts on Site1 and report those who have warehouses of data does begin with 'sa1' and similarly all virtual machines on the hosts on the Site2 but give report of those who have warehouses of data that do not begin with "sb2.

  See you soon

  KC

  Try something like this

  $vms = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Datastore,"Runtime.Host"
  
  foreach($vm in $vms){    $esx = Get-View $vm.Runtime.Host -Property Name    $ds = Get-View $vm.Datastore -Property Name    if($ds | where {$_.Name.Substring(0,3) -notmatch $esx.Name.Substring(0,3)}){        $vm | Select Name,            @{N="Site";E={if($esx.Name.Substring(0,3) -eq "sa1"){"SiteA1"}else{"SiteB1"}}},            @{N="Host";E={$esx.Name.Split('.')[0]}},            @{N="DS";E={[string]::Join(',',($ds | %{$_.Name}))}}    }}
  

  It should list all the virtual machines that do not follow the rule.

• Moving hosts to new vCenter and retaining current licences for guests

  I need to upgrade an environment vSphere 4.1 to 5.1u1. I plan to install a clean vCenter 5.1 and need to migrate hosts without interruption to the virtual machines. The way to remove the old vCenter may not be because it requires the host mode maintenance and VMs to be evacuated. What plan do is disconnect from the host and have the new vCenter appropriated. I will then possibly incoming days guests through VUM to 5.1u1.

  My question is when the new vCenter appropriates the hosts what will happen to the licensing of 4.1 esx/esxi hosts? Will be the current 4.1 esx/esxi licenses follow the hosts or will I have to add the esx/esxi through the client license? The new vCenter will be installed in trial mode until licenses can be provided for me.

  A second question is when the esxi hosts are upgrading to 5.1 and I did not upgrade licenses will guests enter a grace period until a license can be applied? I don't know how long the hosts were in trial mode, before 4.1 licenses applied so I assume every 60 days were used.

  With adding hosts to the new vCenter Server, the license key from the host server will be added to the repository of the vCenter Server license; Even if this is not the case you could simply add the current license key to the new vCenter Server manually. Just make sure that you do not use more CPU that purchased licenses.

  Once you upgrade the host, make sure you have the new license keys already available. As much as I know there is no evaluation period additional to the hosts upgraded who were running older versions of 60 days. The grace period of 14 days you mentioned applied to versions in ESX 3.x used FlexLM licenses (i.e. license files).

  André

• What is a difference between 'Logical processors' and 'logical processors for each host?

  Hi all!

  In the official document VMware "vsphere-51-configuration-maxima" or "vsphere-55-configuration - maximums.pdf" in the section "ESXi host maximum rates------Maximums calculation" exists in the elements:

  "Maximum CPU------logical CPU for each host ' (vSphere 5.1: 160;)   vSphere 5.5: 320)

  and

  "Machine virtual maximums------virtual CPU by host ' (vSphere 5.1: 2048;)    vSphere 5.5: 4096)

  Question: what is the difference between the two?

  And a more complex thing to maximum rates:

  Virtual machines per host: 512

  Number of hosts per cluster: 32

  Therefore, the cluster may be Virtual Machines (maximum): 521 * 32 = 16384

  But in the document, we have only 4000 VMs in maximum.

  Why?

  Thank you

  Ramirez,

  I understand your question as difference between 1. logic virtual CPU vs / by the hosts and 2. cluster/host Max County VM.

  Consider the case below;

  2 servers ESXi - 20 mV

  ESXi taken 1-4, 2 cores / socket

  ESXi 2-8 Sockets, 2 cores / socket

  Now here number of CPU logic-(4 x 2) + (8 x 2) = 24

  20 virtual machines - 2 jacks, 2 core / socket

  Virtual CPU count - 20 x (2 * 2) = 80

  Hope your first confusion is clear now.

  And a more complex thing to maximum rates:

  Virtual machines per host: 512

  Number of hosts per cluster: 32

  Therefore, the cluster may be Virtual Machines (maximum): 521 * 32 = 16384

  But in the document, we have only 4000 VMs in maximum.

  Why?

  This means that even if you have 32 Guest and each host can accommodate 512 VMs each the maximum number of virtual machines per cluster may not exceed 4000. And it does not mean that you can have a maximum of VMS (512 * 32).

  ~ dGeorgey

• Connect two ESXi 5 hosts via crossover cable

  Hi all

  I am trying to configure two separate of ESXi hosts so that I can run Veeam replication on the subnet that I will create on the crossover cable. I have an open port on a NETWORK adapter on each host, but I could not understand how to assign an IP address for each port. The destination host has not all VMs, so I can't configure the port through the guest OS. Is it still possible?

  Thank you all!

  It is possible - you need to create the vmkernel ports that use these physical uplinks

• Host VM Set names

  Hello

  Can someone enlighten me please on how to define the host names for the VMS importing vApp. I can only define ip addresses and do not use the default host names.

  Thank you in advance

  Kasper

  Host names are captured using a reverse DNS lookup. You DNS, you create a record and a PTR record for each virtual machine.

• List of the vm on the host - URGENT

  Hi friend

  I need a script to perl api to the virtual machine host list...

  It's actually pretty simple.  Here is an example that does with good performance.

  #! / usr/bin/perl - w

  # by Reuben Stump (http://www.virtuin.com)

  use strict;

  use warnings;

  use VMware::VIRuntime;

  OPTS::parse();

  OPTS::Validate();

  Util::Connect();

  my ($vms, $hosts, vm_map %, host_map %);

  $vms = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online "VirtualMachine",

  Properties-online ['name']);

  $hosts = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online "HostSystem",

  Properties-online ['name', 'vm']);

  % host_map = map {$_-> {mo_ref}-> {value} => $_} @$hosts;

  % vm_map = map {$_-> {mo_ref}-> {value} => $_} @$vms;

  foreach my {$host (@$hosts)}

  print $host-> {name}. "\n";

  my $vm foreach (@{$host-> {'vm'} |}) []} ) {

  Print "". " $vm_map {$vm-> value}-> {name}. "\n";

  }

  }

  Util::Disconnect();

  BEGIN {}

  {PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} $ENV = 0;

  }

  Samples:

  $ perl ListFolders.pl--username=administrator@vlab--password = VMware1! -Server = 172.16.254.51

  VLAB-esx - 01.vlab.local

  TestVM1

  VLAB-esx - 02.vlab.local

  TestVM2

  You can add more values for properties named argument in the find_entity_views() method.  If you don't mind a drop of great performance, you can remove the properties-online [] argument and it will retrieve all properties (but this can be very slow in large environments).

  If you are curious about the performance of the Perl SDK scripts against vCenter, take a look here: http://www.virtuin.com/2012/11/best-practices-for-faster-vsphere-sdk.html

  You can also watch the VI SDK for Perl documentation, which covers methods * _view() more in detail.