How to add an ESX host licensed to vCenter (vShpere4.1)

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• Add production ESX hosts to a cluster

  Hi all

  I did some research in the admin guides and community forums, and I'm sure that I know what to do, but I would really appreciate a test of consistency here because the manipulation I do is in a production environment:

  I have a campus that contains two ESX areas that are managed by using vSphere and connected to a San. vMotion of works very well, the performance is very good (although the resources of the two boxes are fairly complete upward). However, I recently realized that I'd neglected to set up a cluster HA and DRS.  I want to remedy.

  I created the cluster with these specs:

  • the two HA and DRS, enabled
  • to the left, she also fully automated.
  • the power management of left
  • monitoring and host admission control enabled
  • leave the default settings for the behavior of the virtual machine
  • monitoring VM disabled
  • EVC enabled
  • the storage value of the swap with the virtual machine file

  I think that the next steps would be to add each ESX host consecutively and merged its resources with the cluster. However, here are a few questions:

  • How do you assess the risk factor to do this in a production environment (1 = perfectly safe, is a proven Scenario; 5 = you are out of your bloody mind? Do not)
  • Should I be triple-checking the SAN snapshots and planning of downtime for servers, or is it possible live and without any major qualms?
  • Am I right in assuming that it will increase my performance as well as provide better robustness of the campus, or should I expect a decrease in performance?

  Thank you very much in advance for your advice!

  Hey red,

  Addressing your particular situation, I would say yes to two questions.  Admission control HA is here to help you.  Ensure there are enough resources on the host computer to run the current and any expected load it will be after an HA event.  50% is close to default (but it is really based on the size of the slot) in an environment with two guests when guest cluster failures tolerates is set to 1 in a two and 25% host environment when the percentage of unused reserved as production capacity cluster resources in failover is left to its default value.

  If you have several virtual machines running that allows you to book 50% of your cluster resources (which it sounds like you have), then you have the option of "first category" your virtual machines and their giving priorities to restart event HA.  For their level, you'll want to active DRS (can be set to manual Automation), resource pools and you will need to configure your virtual machine under your HA settings options.  You'll want to pay attention to the priority of restarting VM here.

  I suggest you take a look at blog Duncan Epping http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ and Frank Denneman http://frankdenneman.nl/blog. They are all two fairly well the definitive answer to the HA and DRS questions and advice.

  See you soon,.

  Mike

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  Note: Epping and Denneman explained that the amount reserved by default resources when you use the host cluster failures tolerates is promising to reserve enough resources to power on virtual machines.  This reserve of resource does not on average current, account, or future default load.  If you want to manipulate this feature, modify the memory and CPU reserves, which are the numbers used to calculate the size of the slot.

  Post edited by: VirtuallyMikeB

• How to view the ESX host name as well as the information on the material (see text)

  I would like to see the ESX host name in the first column.

  Is there a better way to do it?

  Any help is very appreciated.  Thank you

  The section of my script for the hardware looks like this:

  #######################
  # VMware ESX hardware #.
  #######################
  Get-VMHost | Get-View | ForEach-Object {$_.} Summary.Hardware} | Select-object name vendor, model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs | ConvertTo-Html-title "Configuration of VMware ESX server Hardware" - body "< H2 > VMware ESX server Hardware configuration." "< / H2 > ' | Out-file - add $filelocation

  And My on put currently looks like this:

  (I want to see the name of the ESX host as the first column)

  Hardware configuration of VMware ESX server.

  Name of the vendor	Model	MemorySize	CpuModel	CpuMhz	NumCpuPkgs	NumCpuCores	NumCpuThreads	NumNics	NumHBAs
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Intel Xeon E5540 2.53 GHz CPU	2533	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5570 @ 2.93 GHz	2933	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2

  Not a more elegant solution, but it should produce the desired result

  &{foreach ($esx in Get-VMHost){
    ForEach-Object { $esx.ExtensionData.Summary.Hardware } |
    Select-object @{N="ESX Name";E={$esx.Name}},Vendor, Model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs}} |ConvertTo-Html -title "VMware ESX server Hardware configuration" -body "
  VMware ESX server Hardware configuration.
  " |
  Out-File -Append $filelocation
  

• How to test an ESX host

  What are the options for testing performance on ESX hosts?  Are there models of good OVF or vApps for ESX hosts test to determine their ability to stress?  For example, you want to determine how many virtual machines can run safely on a physical machine - is there an OVF template that will peg the CPU, memory usage usage and access hard drive at startup that you run a bunch of one host and one model OVF who will report on the usage statistics?

  Are there other (free) ways to stress tests of your physical servers?

  Thanks for your comments

  VMware VMmark

• Is it possible to add an ESX host less CPU

  Hello

  Currently in my farm, I have four Dell R900 ESX host. They have (4) Quad Core Procs and 128 GB of memory. Can I add an additional R900 server that does that (2) Quad Core Procs? I will strengthen the memory based on the existing, but processors are simply too expensive. HA and DRS will manage the differences in the number of procs?

  It is a statement of official support for the use of the CPUID of the forest SSSE3 mask.  Setting this bit can hide the SSSE3 instructions, allowing you to vmotion vm from a server on the 'A' list to a list of 'B', but is not supported by VMware.  While masking is generally safe, the process only "occult" bits for applications that use the CPUID instruction to generate a list of features that a processor is capable of.  If an application does not CPUID use to verify functionality and use them in any case, then you have a problem, that's why this mask is not supported.  Hope that makes sense.

  -KjB

• How to restart vm esx host in different work HA?

  I understand that VMOTION = migration hot virtual machines on esx hosts. So, if HA uses VMOTION, how HA restarts VMs on another esx host when the original, we're out of service?

  I guess it will take to create an another vm on the available host using the same on the san .vmx file?

  IF we were to do it manually, it will be just import a virtual machine to another host on the right?

  Correct me if im wrong?

  A bit confused on the works of the HA behind the scene

  See you soon!

  VMotion and HA are not related or dependent on each other.

  (1) again, this works because the virtual machines themselves live on storage shared and not bound to a specific host ESX (i). ESX implements non-persistent locks on a specific virtual machine, when the host goes down, these locks will eventually timeout. HA will launch the failover, allowing it to reregister the VMs failed and restart. Manually, you can walk through this process by the presence of a virtual machine that lives on the shared storage that runs on HostA, then it turned off and cancel the registration of the virtual machine. You would be so I re-register on HostB and turn on, and voila, you've just simulated a ghettoHA.

  Here are a few extra links/documentation which may be useful for you better understand it:

  HA said:

  http://www.VMware.com/products/VI/VC/HA.html

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/ha_datasheet.PDF

  vMotion explained:

  http://www.VMware.com/products/VI/VC/VMotion.html

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vmotion_datasheet.PDF

  (2) vMotion as you know already, performs a live migration of a virtual computer between two hosts, where as HA you will get some downtime of the virtual machine while it is rescued. The key is HA doesn't provide true high availability, it's just faster to recover. If you are looking for a true HA, take a look at VMware FT www.vmware.com/files/pdf/resources/ft_virtualization_wp.pdf

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• ESX host disconnect the vcenter

  Hi, I have ESX host running over the past decades, I configured vCenter 4 try to manage the ESX host, when I add the host first time I have this message, I continued to try 2 times it is the same but 3 times is connected but just after 10 seconds, he cut himself, I connect to new but even disconnect problem happens again.

  I'm using hostname set in the local host, firewall file network all allow the connetion, the windows firewall is turn off, any idea?

  vCenter Server 4.0 Build 208111

  vSphere Client 4.0 Build 208111

  ESX 4.1.0 260247

  Hello

  Welcome to the communities.

  The vCenter server must be upgraded to be able to manage ESX to vCenter 4.1 / i 4.1 hosts.

  http://PartnerWeb.VMware.com/comp_guide2/SIM/interop_matrix.php

• QueryAssignedLicenses problem to ESX host licensed features

  Hello

  I'm trying to get the feature list under license for a crowd of vSphere 4.0 by using the method of QueryAssignedLicenses via perl SDK.

  I can get the License Manager object, but whenever I get the managed object 'LicenseAssignmentManager' it is not defined.

  Here is the code I use:

  my $host;

  My = $host_views

  Vim::find_entity_views (view_type = > 'HostSystem');

  $host = @$ host_views [0];

  My $licenseSystem = Vim::get_view (mo_ref = > ($host->-> licenseManager configManager));

  my $licenses = Vim::get_view (mo_ref = > ($licenseSystem-> licenseAssignmentManager));

  My $licenseDummy = $licenses-> QueryAssignedLicenses();

  And this is the error message:

  "Cannot call method 'type' to a value not defined on line /usr/share/perl/5.8/VMware/VICommon.pm 1244."

  I tried to assign the return value of QueryAssignedLicenses(); object directly to an object, but the result is the same and I think that the method cannot be called from the LicenseAssignmentManager' is not defined.

  As shown on the thread: http://communities.VMware.com/message/1271444 , I tried with different methods, but all of them are not recommended for vSphere and I get a SOAP error.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you.

  Juan Aristizabal.

  Connecting to vCenter, you are unable to access LicenseManager through HostSystem object, you must use Service content of the vCenter: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.LicenseManager.html

  It is here that you will find in licenseAssignmentManager

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• How recover you an ESX host memory for VM in Powershell?

  I can get the amount of physical memory total hosts and service console memory, but can't seem to find the memory used by the system, ideally I want back numbers appearing in the virtual Center

  Get-vmhost | Get - views | %{ $_. SystemResources.config.MemoryAllocation}

  Isn't it?

  -Cody Bunch

  http://professionalvmware.com

• Disconnected ESX host cannot add to the CR

  It started with me being unable to power on a virtual machine that I created because of "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for HA" which is great because that's how to configure HA.  I tried to reconfigure the AP to the host by double-clicking on the host and select this option.  Once I did that it failed about 30% with "an error has occurred while setting up the HA Agent on the host" and the networking page disappeared from the configuration tab similar to what a lot of people reported during the upgrade, I think an earlier version.  This is not the case, I did not update anything.  Then I restarted service service mgmt-vmware restart and the ESX host disconnected from the VC altogether.  I can't use the VI client to connect to the host in question, but I am connected via the service console. All VM and the host not to requests ping and everything works. I've disabled HA and DRS and tried to add new ESX host that has not worked.

  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

  I found this article that has the same symptoms as you.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004451

  Check if your esx.conf file is corrupted. Follow the directions in the KB article to restore or recreate.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

  -

• Add vcenter - I see all esx hosts too?

  Hello!

  I added our vcenter at VMAs, but when I do a 'vifp' mailing lists I see only the vcenter. Should I see all the ESX servers managed by the vcenter too or have to manually add all ESX host?

  You must add'em manually, or search for scipt to do.

  StarWind Software R & D

• Two vCenters and mobile from one to another ESX host

  I have an existing vSphere environment where all virtual machines on the local drive. This environment is managed by a physical vCenter Server.

  I've built a WHOLE new environment with three hosts and each has 4 Sockets, 6 hearts with 128 GB of each host. I also created a new vCenter Server and it is a virtual machine. All are connected to the iSCSI SAN.

  I know that the ESX hosts can be managed by a vCenter server at a time. Now, I want to add old esx hosts that have virtual machines on a local drive to the new environment that is connected to a shared storage. When I try to add a host on the new vcenter server, I get a message saying that the host is already managed by the old server vcenter and if I add it to the news that it disconnects. Which is the best way to do it, or should I disconnect hosts from the old server vcenter first?

  Also how I will move the virtual machines on the local disk to the San. I have company over 4.1.

  Thank you!

  I unplug and remove the host from the old environment and then add the host in the new.  This will allow your guests to continue to operate.  Once you have hosts in the new environment, you can use sVMotion (right click to migrate, move the datastore) to move your guests to a shared storage.

• Set the time of ESX host

  Hello

  before that I have to download free 5.6 OPs of the trial, I used OPs 5.0.3 (Free Trial) in your Docs is States:

  "Time of the ESX host and the vCenter Server must be synchronized.

  In the Configuration without any server NTP tab I put a time but when go to Putty and connect to the host, and write the command 'date', the time is different from what I put.

  1 - is this problem due to lack NTP server?

  2 is it possible that I put the analytical UI VM and VM timezone to my zone schedule without host adjustment? (is this true?) (Is it that enough, I just set time zone of PAHO)

  Please help me

  Hello

  You must set the parameters of your ESXi host NTP.

  There is no timezoned in ESXi I know.

  Make sure when you look through the settings of Date and time on the ESXI host right now is what should be based on your local time.

  Let the time vC Ops to UCT. That should ensure the VAPP have the same time as the ESXI host.

  When you start the TIME you can check the time on the virtual computer is the same as hosts yoru.

• License with vCenter server 6.0 problem

  I installed vCenter server 6.0 by using VMware-VCSA-all - 6.0.0 - 2414224.iso. I am able customer web connection vCenter and also able to see registered vCenter server. However, when you try to add the new host of the vCenter, it throws the error "license not available to perform the operation. By default, vmware offers trial license 60 days but I can not see the mode of trial license in the license tab.

  VCenter server 6.0 does a trial license 60 days? Please kindly let me know where I can get more information on vCenter server 6.0.

  Hello

  vCenter 6 not yet GA, I assume that you have installed the beta binaries.

  They can behave differently that the normal version of GA in what respect the trial period.

  I suggest to wait until date of GA and download the binaries then real.

  Tim

• How to add in DVS ESX hosts with vsphere SDK for perl?

  Hello

  I am a newbie to vsphere SDK for perl. Just started using it for automation of one month back. , I was looking for options to automate the addition of ESXi servers and their physical cards in the distributed virtual switch. I got some details on how to add using powerCLI. However, my requirements are in the use of vsphere SDK for perl. Any help would be appreciated.

  The power of CLI is lucD notes. http://www.lucd.info/2009/10/09/dvswitch-scripting-part-1-creation/
  Have we not like subroutines or plug editable in vsphere SDK for perl inorder to add host ESX in DVS. ?
  Thank you and best regards,
  Lebou

  You can certainly do it in Perl.  I don't have a working example, but perhaps that William will be when he catches this thread

  If I have time tomorrow, I'll try to put something together to help you get started, but you can also simply map the logic of LucD script.

  Basically Get - view is equivalent to Vim: get_view() and New-Object calls should be mapped to the type of object in Perl, for example, instead of VMware.Vim.DVSConfigSpec New-Object, we $spec = DVSConfigSpec-> (again).