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• How to install the virtual machine to ISO image

  Rather than burning a CD from ISO images downloaded from each OS you want to build a virtual machine it would be more convenient to use the ISO image directly. How can I achieve this?

  Create the virtual computer with CD player.

  Double click the CD drive in the virtual machine properties.

  Select USE AN ISO IMAGE

  Navigate to the image.

  and also you can refer to this link

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Documentation Center

  you're installation uses several CDs pleae follow this procedure

  First duty (if the customer has a button for this) eject the CD in the comments, then ctrl-alt to focus the host, right click on the CD icon in the bar area of low right state of the workstation user interface and select disconnect; repeat, and then click edit. Select the image ISO next necessary; reconnect; then click the mouse back in the window of the customer and to know that the next CD is loaded.

• Cannot create a virtual machine with a vmdk file copied from another location, please find the attached error

  Hi all

  I copied a file from one place vmdk and try to make a new virtual machine with this vmdk file. But when I turn on after the creation of vm error is coming. Error in the text and the image below

  Power on the virtual machine: cannot open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 31/03/2015-14:40:05

  Target: DBServer

  vCenter Server: vcsa

  Error stack

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on DBServer VM.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/543d140b-feb33d52-7640-90b11c9796c3/vmdk/kapuatdb.vmdk'

  Could not open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  This error message generally if the hard files have been copied hosted as VMware Workstation product, which uses a format of sparse file that is not supported on an ESXi host. Instead of the hard copy, you can use VMware Converter, or - if you prefer - you can convert the hard using vmware-vdiskmanager (before transfer) or vmkfstools (after downloading). I deal to use vmkfstools you will need to load the mutliextent module (see for example "Clone or migration operations involving virtual discs non-VMFS on ESXi fail with an error" vSphere 5.1 Release Notes)

  André

• Getting error: could not open the Virtual Machine: failed to query the Source for more information

  When I have a virtual machine to export to the FVO on an ESXi 4.0 and then try again to import the FVO on VMware Player or Workstation 7.1, I get the following message:

  «Could not open the Virtual Machine: failed to query the Source for more information.» I can successfully re-import this file OVF in an ESXi server without any problems. Anyone know why this is happening and what can be done to remedy this?

  Thank you

  Christopher

  Hello.

  Try to use ovftool to convert a VMX of the FVO.

  Good luck!

• the request to turn off this virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script didn't run successfully

  using vmware fusion 2.0.5

  the request to turn off this virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script didn't run successfully

  now vmware cant off power

  is vmware tools script to run when windows is running

  If I power off (mac - force quit) now... what happens

  VMware Fusion 2.x...

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > Shutting Down a virtual machine operating system

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > Options for VMware Fusion food orders

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > orders of switching power supply from the default Options

  ==========

  Note: It's like pulling the plug of the wall on a physical computer. Whatever this is not saved will be lost and there is always the possibility of corrupting the file system where preforming a hard stop! (Even if you have no choice but to do.)

  VMware Fusion menu bar > VM > press the option key and select Power Off

  By pressing the keys alt/option "Shutdown called" changes to "Power Off".

  Note: It also changes orders of "Suspend comments" and "Restart Guest' too.

  Or if this does not work then...

  On the library Virtual Machine ctrl - click on the target of the Virtual Machine and select Show in Finder and delete the .vmss file, the ctrl + click the target package of Virtual Machine, and then after the merger closed. Note: All that was not justified for the suspended state will be lost by deleting the .vmss file. Note: However: you have no other choice if the Virtual Machine does not suspend/resume/stop/start correctly.

• backup of the virtual machine fails HotAdd mode if the virtual machine is running?

  backup of the virtual machine fails HotAdd mode if the virtual machine is running?

  sometimes. When vmware tools is outdated, some os comments will be omitted to suspended snapshot. During this time, the backup may have failed.

• How to list virtual machines with associated vmdk files

  Hello.

  I have a folder vmfs and file vmdk with names that aren't like any virtual machine name (probably because that rename the virtual computer name).

  How can I find what VM is?

  Thank you

  Hello, biokovo-

  You can use the standard Get - VM and hard to find names of VMDK VMs-associated cmdlets Get-disc.  Or another, much more quickly elsewhere, would be to use everyone's favorite: Get-View.

  Since you know the path of the data store for the VMDK, you can check the property LayoutEx of virtual machines to find the virtual machine that said the file property with the name of the value as the games way to store data, as:

  $strVmdkDatastorePath = "[mydatastore] somefolder/somefile.vmdk"Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,LayoutEx.File | ?{$_.LayoutEx.File | ?{$_.Name -eq $strVmdkDatastorePath}} | select name
  

  Where the path of the data store's format, "[datastoreName] folder/somefile.vmdk.  Yes, including the square brackets around the name of the data store and a space after the "]" (before the first character of the name of the folder).

  How does do for you?  (must be straight fast)

• Can not power on virtual machines "cannot access the file because it is locked.

  Virtual machines have been working well - then the storage system is down.  After the storage system returns upwards that I can't turn on a number of virtual machines.  Get this error when I try to turn it on:

  Cannot power on vmname on esxhostname.xxxxx.com. Unable to access file < unspecified file name > because it is locked
  error

  1. To check the locks on the Service Console on non ESXi servers, run the command:

     lsof | grep

     COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE SIZE NŒUD NOM_PERIPHERIQUE
     71fd60b6-3631 root 4r REG 0.9 10737418240 23533

     Note: If there is no Console of Service process the locking file, you should receive no printed output. If you receive results, however, file a support request to identify the process and to determine the causes.  If it is a third-party process, however, contact the appropriate provider to determine the cause before you kill the process ID, because it can happen again in the future.

     Stop the process and the lock ID using the kill command. In the example above, the process ID is 3631:

     kill the 3631

     After the termination of the process, you can try to turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  2. To check if the virtual machine is always a world ID assigned, run these commands on all ESX/ESXi hosts:

     CD/tmp
     VM-support - x

     Available to debug worlds:
     WID =

     On the ESX/ESXi host where the virtual machine still works, kill the VM, which releases the lock on the file. To kill the virtual machine, run the command:

     VM-support - X

     Where the is the ID of the world of the virtual machine with the locked file.

     Note: this command takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Answer No to "can I include a screenshot of the virtual machine", and answer Yes to all subsequent questions.

     After the termination of the process, you can turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  Deleting the file .lck (NFS only)

  The virtual machine files can be locked via NFS storage. You can identify this as reported by .lck files. # (where # is the ID of the world that holds the lock file) at the end of the file name. It is a NFS file lock and appears only when you use the ls command as it is the hidden file.
  Beware: they can be removed safely only if the virtual machine is not running.

  Note: VMFS volumes have no .lck files. The locking mechanism for VMFS volumes is managed within VMFS metadata on the volume.

  You must kill the process that is locked, if it is not the case, you probably need to restart the VMware host.
  I tell you from experience most likely end up rebooting it.

• Create the virtual machine by using the file PowerCLI and csv

  I know there is a lot of info out there on this and I think I have a working script prety good.  Much was borrowed from this thread, http://communities.vmware.com/thread/315193 many thanks to LucD.

  My code is as follows:

  # Deploy virtual machines from CSV file
  # Much borrowed from http://communities.VMware.com/thread/315193?start=15 & tstart = 0

  
  # CSV import file
  Import-Csv "C:\guests.csv" - UseCulture | %{
  # Gets the customization information to configure the static NETWORK card and assign the static IP address
  Get-OSCustomizationSpec $_. Customization | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | `
  Game-OSCustomizationNicMapping - UseStaticIP - IpAddress IpMode $_. ""IP address""
  -Subnet mask $_. Subnet - DefaultGateway $_. Gateway - Dns $_. DNS
  $vm = New-VM-Name $_. "" Server name "-model $_. Model-host $_. ' "The ESX host" '
  -Datastore $_. Data store - OSCustomizationSpec $_. Customization"
  -Confirm: $false - RunAsync
  ## .......
  }

  He's going to cross and clone the virtual machine, and looks like he's running of the OSCustomizaitonSpec then it bombards.  It cleans bad VM.  Recent tasks shows "failed virtual machine clone that a specified parapeter was not correct." hostname ".

  The problem is that I don't mean to set a hostname with the OSCustomixationSpec, I try only to IP address info.

  I'm runningn PowerCLI 5.0.1 build 581491

  My ESXi host is 5.0.0 build 914586

  My vCenter Server is Ver 5.0.0 build 623373

  I opened a new thread, because the age of the old thread.  Not sure if this is the best way to do things.

  A very simple and intuitive brake system :-)

  ## Deploy VMs from CSV File
  ## Much borrowed from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/315193?start=15&tstart=0  
  
  $maxJobs = 3 $currentJobs = 0
  ## Imports CSV file
  Import-Csv "C:\temp\TestDeploy1" -UseCulture | %{
  ## Gets Customization info to set NIC to Static and assign static IP address
      Get-OSCustomizationSpec $_.Customization | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping | ` ## Sets the Static IP info
      Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIP -IpAddress $_."IP Address" `        -SubnetMask $_.Subnet -DefaultGateway $_.Gateway -Dns $_.DNS## Sets the name of the VMs OS
      $cust = Get-OSCustomizationSpec -Name Test    Set-OSCustomizationSpec -OSCustomizationSpec $cust -NamingScheme Fixed -NamingPrefix $_.VMName## Creates the New VM from the template
      $vm=New-VM -Name $_."Server Name" -Template $_.Template -Host $_."Esx Host" `        -Datastore $_.Datastore -OSCustomizationSpec $_.Customization `        -Confirm:$false -RunAsync
  
      $currentJobs = Get-Job -State Running | Measure-Object | Select -ExpandProperty Count    while($currentJobs -ge $maxJobs){
        sleep 30      $currentJobs = Get-Job -State Running | Measure-Object | Select -ExpandProperty Count    }
  ## .......
  }
  

  You can be more selective about the current jobs. For example, you can check if the name of the job shows that they are actually cloning jobs.

• Problems after resizing XP virtual machine: a Windows image not valid

  After increasing my Windows XP virtual machine, I can't run Microsoft programs.

  My system

  I am running XP as a virtual disk with Fusion 4.1.3 on a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard) with a drive of 500 GB and 4 GB of RAM.  My virtual machine from Windows XP (formatted FAT) has only 700 MB of free space, so I tried to increase its size from 32 GB to 48 GB.

  What I've done

  1. I increased the size of the HD in merger/disc settings

  2. the virtual machine does not resize automatically.  Messages to OS X Console says repeatedly that the virtual machine was no resizing applications ("' NUMA: auto size request ignored '")

  3. I then used EaseUS Partition Master in Windows XP to increase the use of the newly released hard drive space, but the extra space would never appear after reboot XP

  4. I then tried Partition Wizard, that worked.  So that resizing Partition Wizard was also moving files.

  The problem:

  When I restarted Windows, I got several error messages saying that the dll is not a valid windows image.  I couldn't run all Microsoft programs (Outlook, Excel, etc.) but can run non-Microsoft programs after clicking through many error reports.

  Fortunately, I made a copy of the virtual machine before attempting to resize, so I use it now.  But I lost 12 GB on my Mac hard drive and cannot get enough space in Windows

  Any thoughts out there so that I could get enough space?

  It is good that you made a backup, because even in the best conditions can things and sometimes lack.

  Since you had questions, go right to work, in other words, the first step to actually make the larger virtual hard drive, I have consider doing the following.

  1. ensure that you have a backup full host.  Time Machine is great for Mac OS X but not for Virtual Machines.  For the Virtual Machines, you must make a copy while closed stop, unsprung, and VMware Fusion.  Once you are sure that have everything backed up properly...

  2. use utility disk to verify disk permissions, disk check and optionally repair either or both based on audit reports.

  3. use vmware-vdiskmanager with the -r option to check the integrity of the virtual hard disk.

  4. from the guest operating system in a Windows prompt command use chkdsk /f to check and fix a problem with the Windows file system.

  5. try to resize the virtual hard disk again.

• All virtual machines fail to be recovered on a store of data due to a VM invalid

  I see this error for each VM configured on this particular volume when I run a test:

  
  

  Error - machines virtual "MBRDBPRDRestore1120" who are not protected by this protection group use 'VM_1ALB_T1_VOL1' data warehouses located in this protection group.

  This virtual machine is a copy of a virtual machine that is in the protection group, but it has been restored to a different volume with a different name.

  When I browse the data store I'm not find all files that look like they are associated with restored vm.

  Any ideas?

  check out the swap file...

• Deployment, customization and modification of virtual machines to a csv file

  Hello

  With lots of help from Eco91, I realized the script below.  He deploys a series of virtual machines at the same time, waiting that they to initialize and make customization of the OS, and then changes the basis of networking within the OS and also changes in the Description of the network:

  $esxName = 'esxqac4s01. MYDOMAIN.local ".
  $template = "TEST_W2K8R2ENTSP1".
  $datastore = "NFS_VM_Storage01".
  $newVmList = @)
  @{"Name" = 'TESTSVR1'; 'IP' = "10.244.186.136"; 'Mask' = "255.255.255.0". "Gateway" = "10.244.186.1"; "DNS" = @("10.244.37.25", "10.244.37.26"); "NetworkName" = "VLAN186_QA"; },
  @{"Name" = 'TESTSRV2'; 'IP' = "10.244.186.137"; 'Mask' = "255.255.255.0". "Gateway" = "10.244.186.1"; "DNS" = @("10.244.37.25", "10.244.37.26"); "NetworkName" = "VLAN186_QA"; },
  @{"Name" = 'TESTSRV3'; 'IP' = "10.244.186.138"; 'Mask' = "255.255.255.0". "Gateway" = "10.244.186.1"; "DNS" = @("10.244.37.25", "10.244.37.26"); "NetworkName" = "VLAN186_QA"; },
  @{"Name" = 'TESTSRV4'; 'IP' = "10.244.186.139"; 'Mask' = "255.255.255.0". "Gateway" = "10.244.186.1"; "DNS" = @("10.244.37.25", "10.244.37.26"); "NetworkName" = "VLAN186_QA"; }
  )
  $custSpec = "TEST_W2K8R2ENTSP1".
  $location = "_Tobedeleted".
  $taskTab = @ {}
  SE connect-VIServer-Server vvcqa01yyz. MYDOMAIN.local - user 'MYDOMAIN\MYACCOUNT' - password MYPASSWORD
  # Create all virtual machines specified in $newVmList
  {foreach ($VM to $newVmList)
  $taskTab [(nouvelle-VM-nommez $VM.)] Name - VMHost (Get-VMHost-name $esxName) - model $template - $datastore - OSCustomizationSpec $custSpec Datastore - location $location - RunAsync). ID] = $VM. Name
  }

  # Start each virtual machine that is over
  $runningTasks = $taskTab.Count
  While ($runningTasks - gt 0) {}
  Get-job | % {
  If ($taskTab.ContainsKey ($_.)) (ID) - and $_. State - eq 'Success') {}
  Get - VM $taskTab [$_] ID] | Start-VM
  $taskTab.Remove ($_.) ID)
  $runningTasks-
  }
  else if ($taskTab.ContainsKey ($_.)) (ID) - and $_. State - eq "Error") {}
  $taskTab.Remove ($_.) ID)
  $runningTasks-
  }
  }
  Start-Sleep - seconds 5
  }

  
  # START HERE
  # Wait for customization of the OS
  Start-Sleep - seconds 300
  # Customize network
  {foreach ($VM to $newVmList)
  Get-NetworkAdapter - VM $VM. Name | Together-NetworkAdapter NetworkName - $VM.NetworkName - confirm: $false
  Get-VM-name $VM. Name | 'Administrator' Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface - Guestuser - GuestPassword ' R! m2009 |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 4"} | Game-VMGuestNetworkInterface - Guestuser 'Administrator' - GuestPassword ' R! m2009"- IPPolicy - static IP $VM. $VM.Netmask - IP-Gateway $VM subnet mask. Gateway - DNS $VM. DNS
  }

  I would now like to replace the $VMlist variable and put rather information eVM th to a .csv file.  Any suggestions?

  Hello

  assuming this is your csv file

      "name","ip","netmask","gateway","dns","networkName"    "TESTSRV1","10.244.186.136","255.255.255.0","10.244.186.1","10.244.37.25;10.244.37.26","VLAN186_QA"
  

  you have a problem. Impossible to save all the tables in a csv file and do powershell natively recognize them.

  Instead, use a delimiter custom (not the same csv uses!) and split - to import - in a table. Look at the semicolon between two dns servers.

  $newVmList = import-Csv test.csv | Select-Object - property 'name', 'ip', 'mask', 'bridge', @{Name = "dns"; {Expression = {$_ .dns-split ';'}}, "networkName".

  The object resulting looks like this

      name       : TESTSRV1    ip         : 10.244.186.136    netmask    : 255.255.255.0    gateway    : 10.244.186.1    dns        : {10.244.37.25, 10.244.37.26} <-- Array    networkName: VLAN186_QA
  

  Concerning

  Emanuel

• 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.

• Script to change the name of the file to the virtual machine and its associated files

  Hello

  I'm looking for a script to change the name of the virtual machine in virtual center and also change it has associated file names in the data store to match file name of virtual machine. But the vmdk file will contain a descriptor which maps the - flat.vmdk file. So not sure that we can achieve this through a script.

  Thanks in advance!

  Not really as much as I know.

  The advantage of the svMotion is renamed it the files (.) VMX, VMDK,...) For you.

  The only alternative would be the command line. See Duncan Howto: renaming a virtual computer.

  With the help of the plink.exe tool which could possibly be scripted.

  ____________

  Blog: LucD notes

  Twitter: lucd22

• clone a virtual machine to a vmdk file

  I would like to clone a file vmdk from a virtual machine to another for some lab work. I have some experience with VMware, but not at this level.

  Essentially, I would like to take a logical drive (let's say drive D:, not a system drive) Windows server VM that exists on a data store, copy to a different data store and use on another Windows Server VM as drive F: (again, not a system drive). If someone could point me to the reference documentation for this task or expose the steps for me, I would be very happy.

  TIA. J

  Did you saw the "*" in my example, the command? Who would take all the files that make up a virtual disk.

  As André writes, essentially a virtual disk is represented by two files (under ESX). If you see several files with the same name, numbers like 00001 in it and a hard extension you have snapshots. Remove the sanpshot via Manager Snapshots (not the files directly) before copying the virtual disk.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

  Author @ vmwire.net

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