How to virtualize a physical server

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• How to virtualize an existing Windows Server?

  I have an existing physical server that is running Windows Server 2008. This machine is getting old and we like to throw away, but before do us, instead of reinstalling the operating system of Windows Server and configure everything from the beginning, I would like to know if there is an easy way to virtualize the existing operating system and take it to ESXi 5 in a physical server host more recent? If so, what do I need and what are the steps? Help is very appreciated.

  Yes use VMware Converter Standalone - http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

• How to add the physical switch/router to NSX

  Hello

  I check several labs and I have a big question unanswered!

  How can I add physical switch resources to NSX?

  on each of the scenarios, it assumes that you have a few physical interfaces on each host, and you can assign them to a VDS.

  It's good, but it was also available on old vCenter without NSX.

  For example, how can I add switch 24 ports 10 gigabit Ethernet on my Brocade switch to the VMware resource pool?

  Thank you

  Javad

  You are welcome, of course.

  The network virtualization is not on the ability to win, but it's rather on the use of the available capacity of more flexibly to maintain security between virtual machines without worrying about the port based firewall or port-approaches physical configurations and physics on the VLAN externally in your virtual infrastructure.

  Just as the server virtualization adds capability to your server infrastructure, it allows a more flexible use of the physical capacity that is available.  You must you the capacity available to the involved hypervisors.

  See you soon!

  Bill

• How to virtualize an environment.

  I was invited to attend a sort of small business on its IT infrastructure on a tight budget and have decided to virtualize - wonder if someone here may be able to help with a few questions?

  The infrastructure in question is small (< 200 users, 3 DCs x, 1 x e-mail server, a SAN, few servers app - basic systems of maybe 20) and a total mess (backups sloppy and often failing with various solitions, critical applications running on old desktops based on P4 WinXP, pieces of string, box of frogs, etc.). All this needs standardization, travel on reliable and redundant kit.

  This solution seems simple:

  1. buy a reliable (but not expensive - didn't need to be much more if we consider the environment) Server compatible

  2 install ESXi on it

  3 make images of each of the physical to use as ESXi virtual machines servers

  4. Turning off every server physical in turn and put the new instance of the virtual machine of it

  5. remove the old physical servers and run everything on the new virtual instances

  6. If you want to take pictures of each of these servers at regular intervals and to have these images saved on a remote server.

  My questions are:

  1. can anyone recommend a cheap (~ £1,000), a reliable server for this project?

  2. ESXi installation is normally trivial, it done a few times before - no questions here.

  3. What is the best way to virtualize a physical box using free software (ideally)? VMConverter?

  4. once the image is created, I can send this to a computer ESXi host computer running vSphere and download on the data store, so I did not really questions.

  5. How can I set up as virtual machines? Simply create a new virtual machine, mount the image of vmconverted, and then start?

  6. This is where I'm stuck, really. What is the best way to create these VMs backup images and these backups can be sent to a remote share (ideally on the SAN) or an external device?

  I don't know that these questions had been asked in 1 001 times before, it's a simple project - virtualize a small cluster of servers on ESXi, then have some backup images remotely stored so that if the ESXi server fails, I can retrieve the server images, build another box of ESXi and mount these images on the new server quickly.

  I have worked with VM, a little before, but never had to systematically plan and implement a complete solution, so I'd like to know if I forget something obvious.

  All comments would be welcome.

  1. we have been using Dell R415, seems the cheapest decent host that we can find these days.

  3. I always use standalone converter, it works well.  I often suck down some services to operate just fine.  As SQL services ect... ect...

  5 simply browse. you the data (configuration, storage) store and do a right-click on the .vmx file and choose Add to inventory.  But in reality Stand Alone works very well on the LAN converter and the virtual machine is usually ready to power.   First thing?  Install the VM tools on it, then you will need to futz with the network settings, some to access lan with the virtual machine.

  6. can't afford a full blown backup solution?   I thnk VCB always works in the latest versions of ESXi.

• Physical server VM disaster recovery

  Hello

  Today, I meet some customers who would ask the site of recovery after a disaster. They would like to use all physical servers to the recovering site.

  Here's the scenario. In the production site, they will have 3 host to ESXi 4.1, with BL460G6 (the Server Blade HP), 2 Proc Intel X 5600 series, 48 GB RAM. Storage use is NetApp with iSCSI (NETAPP FAS2040) options.

  All their (converted from physical) virtual computers will consume about 4.2 TB, for most of the Linux server, multiple windows, according to. The growth of data every day is 1.6 GB. They will invest the same storage (FAS2040) on the site of DRC. Will of replication occurs every 15 minutes. They had a very good bandwidth

  Now they're using the standard replication method, they transfer file to the DRC to their server (Linux, replication, automated with script-based) and until now its works very well.

  Because they will migrate to Virtual Server, after all migration, they all want their server used in the DRC Site. My point is to know how to do it. Pouvez VMware replicated on the physical server? They will not invest more than license VMware or upgrading their equipment. They want to use the server as is.

  I thought to use RDM, create a LUN, attached to the virtual machine with the physical/virtual compatibility, then use the NetApp replication method to replicate the DRC site. Then, in the DRC, all the physical server mapped to the same LUN. Restoration, then, just reverse the replication. But then, the implementation will be difficult, because each server has a specific LUN (it had more 20 + server).

  A guy had an idea?

  Thanks for your help.

  From what I understand so far, they virtualized or not their systems and virtual machine files are stored on NetApp storage synced to the DRS!

  In this case, with the environment of virtualization (VMware Essentials) in place at the DRS, they would have only to add the virtual machine to inventory and them lights disaster on the production side. This doesn't mean no reconfiguration of drivers (for the merger to the physical hardware), up to date systems (synchronizes every 15 min.) and very little time to have the environment running on the DRS.

  The advantage of the Essentials package on the free version is management, which equals the production site and the possibility of use for example, backup software, which usually requires a licensed version.

  André

• Hot cloning - let the physical server running then?

  I have a question for the Vmware Converter. If I understand correctly, you can use hot Clone to clone a physical server while it is running. Of course, that seems very well so you don't get no downtime during conversion.

  But, if the reason for this conversion is to migrate from physical to virtual, what happens if the physical server continues to operate after the conversion? Even just a minute can be enough to have changed the original system, perhaps a database or other stuff, that will make the new virtual instance "incorrect."

  So how does this normally? If you want to virtualize a server that has a system that interacts with users either or other servers, how will stop instantly change?

  OK, even if you are in your downtime window it would be preferable to perform the validation of the server application.

  What we normally do, is check the event logs and do well for sure there no new errors that are produce after the p2v (physical 2 virtual), especially application or system related event.  We will also perform a few reboots of the (virtual) system and sometimes we also had to remove some old drivers.  We have sometimes came across problems with NETWORK cards keeping the old ipconfig when migrating.

  When supply us the new VM give us it a whole new value of intellectual property and test it with the other physical system down.  After correct validation go us ahead and leave the virtual running.  We usually have to master the physical machine in the datacenter for about two weeks and then begin the process of decommissioning.

  One thing most definitely, you want to do is make sure to install vmware tools on the virtual server.  I know it's probably obvious, but many people forget.

  Hope this helps,

  Chad King

• Converting a physical server to a host

  I'm new to VMware and I'm unable to find the right strategy.

  I would like to convert a physical server to a computer computer ESXi host and migrate existing BONES from the server (Windows Server 2003 w/SQL Server 2005) to a virtual machine on the same machine. This host will be the first on my network. What I've read, it seems that the Converter requires a destination host must be specified during conversion. Because the machine will become the destination host, how should I do this?

  Is it possible for me to convert the existing operating system and store, install ESXi and then import the old OS as a virtual machine?

  Thanks in advance,

  Adam

  Hi Adam,.

  Welcome to the forums.

  You can virtualize your server as a workstation or VM Player that you will store on a PC (possibly use a disc of removable storage for conversion). Use Workstation or Player to start the virtual machine and verify that everything is OK. When you think that your application is running virtual, install ESXi on your physical server and a copy of the virtual machine, or make another conversion of PC to ESXi.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• How to change the windows server 2003 standard Edition sp2 activation key

  I'm going to conver physical server to a child in HyperV.

  When I create the machine of the child after that I converted with disk2vhd.exe small tool the physical server to the .vhd file, I got the message to reactivate windows, because it's new material.

  How can I do this?

  The operating system is windows server 2003 sp2 standard edition

  Thank you!

  Support is located in the Windows Server Forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer/

• Passing of TMS physical server in VM with external SQL Server

  What we have:

  13.2 physical TMS with TMSPE running on the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SQL server 2005.

  Application of TMS, tmsng, and TMSPE all located on the same server.

  What we wanted to do:

  Move the 13.2 TMS with TMSPE to 2008 r2 VM with tmsng located on the separate server from SQL 2008 VM (external).

  First attempt; the physcial and TMS VM servers with the same host name, the different IP addresses.

  (Physical server removed from the field after copying tmsng db and taken offline - changed then to the TMS VM server host name).

  13.2 of TMS and TMSPE installed smoothly on the virtual machine, we copied then the db tmsng existing since the physical server on the SQL 2008 VM server.

  Everything seemed fine, except that we could not clearly one of the TMS tickets tell us different MST services were not running, this despite the Court and restaring every MSDS services several times.

  TMPSE diagnosis showed all green, but the VCS - C told us a different story; with all of the connections; telephone directories and devices, users will fail with an http 400 error.

  At this stage our window of opportunity was closing quickly, we had to go back and bring back the old physical server, on the line.

  During testing, we used different for the physical host names and servers of MV, but we found TMS2 tickets thrown indicating different services of MST did not run on TMS1, so we thought we would try with identical host names for TMS1 and TMS2.

  There are some dependencies that we missed?

  Any advice on how to achieve better would be much appreciated.

  see you soon

  /Jens

  Hello

  I have seen this problem several times before and his tickets basically generation because it has a double set of services listed in under TMS Server (below), the following list Maintenance TMSNG db when you move it, it shows that there are for example 1 TMS Live Racing Department and one stop of service TMS Live where the next generates this ticket. Simply click the clear list to solve the problem.

  Regarding the TMSPE, have you moved the db TMSPE more on the new server or you let it run to the old?

  At all the configurations to correct in terms of user name / etc in the field configuration settings?

  Best regards

  Magnus Ohm

• A physical server with 2 NETWORK interface card using a virtual machine as IPS (transparent VM) and everything should work normally?

  Hello guys.

  Is there a diagram that I made, using for my self this question.

  

  As you can see, I have a physical server with 2 NIC I don't want to use a VM (with Snort) as IPS / IDS system for inbound traffic on the management of VLANS. Is it possible to use this VM in this way (as an IPS/IDS, VM with two NIC without any routing work?)? Maybe you have a suggestion, how can I achieve this, as easy as possible? Maybe you have an opinion, what OS unix system do I use?

  Thank you for your time and your answers. Any useful information is much appreciated.

  Yes, it should work. You need to look out for, it's that the 'outgoing' NIC is not connected to the same physical switch as the entrant and that there is no link between these two physical switches, because this would create a loop of layer 2 on the network.

  I haven't worked much with Linux, but I don't see that you would have a problem to find some Linux/Unix with the possibility to bridge two network cards and use some software IPS to inspect the traffic.

• VMware Converter error conversion physical server running CentOS 4.7

  I'm trying to convert a physical server running CentOS 4.7 to a virtual machine (on an ESX 3.5 server) using VMware converter - 4.0.0 - 146302.  The server is powered and I start the converter customer and go through all the steps to convert the server.  The process starts and hangs at 1 percent.

  I have exported and reviewed the logs and see what follows in the agent log:

  GetEvent (taskID = task-3) task converter

  impossible to detect the State of comments like 'running', will try again 1199 times...

  could not get the print server digital certificate. Retries 284 times...

  obtained the help server footprint: 1 has: F9: DA: D5:BC:E5:8 C: FD:22:CC:7E:6F:11:5F:3 A: FC:DB:4 B: 42:0 C

  Connection to VIM to 10.9.10.246...

  Reuse the existing connection of VIM to 10.9.10.246

  Unable to obtain the IP address of GuestInfo, will try again 299 times...

  In addition, the newspapers show gui Converter:

  UpdateTask

  {(converter.task.TaskInfo)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3."

  task = ' converter.task.Task:task - 3'.

  name = "convert."

  descriptionId = "Convert.P2V."

  userName = "root."

  source = "10.9.10.201"

  target = "10.9.10.246/brsauth.bigrocksports.com"

  State = "error"

  canceled = false,

  cancelable = true,

  data = & lt; unset & gt;

  error = {(converter.fault.HelperVmFailedToObtainIpFault)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  MSG = "Cannot get the IP address of the virtual machine to help."

  },

  result = & lt; unset & gt;

  progress = 1,

  estimatedTimeRemaining = & lt; unset & gt;

  transferRate = & lt; unset & gt;

  queueTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.293159Z.

  startTime = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.553563Z.

  completeTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:34.277239Z.

  eventChainId = 29,

  vcTask = & lt; unset & gt;

  logBundleInfo = (converter. DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) {}

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3-diag-20090226144333 - MQFAUK.zip."

  timeCreated = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:33.438212Z.

  format = "zip."

  content = (converter. [DiagnosticManager.BundleContent)

  "agentLogs."

  "serverLogs.

  ],

  size = 706251,

  CRC =-1155030952,

  },

  }

  I can convert Windows servers on the ESX Server without any problems. Can someone translate this myself and I would like to know how to work around errors?

  Thank you

  Shannon

  On the Linux server you are converting.  When the converter reaches step 3 Options display/change the last option is called Helper VM Network.  You can change this option and add an ip address.  The ip address must be on the same network to your default gateway on your Linux server.

• Web server on ESXi terribly slow! same fee install works uber quickly on a single physical server.

  I have created a virtual machine and allocated 4gig of RAM, 2 cpu and no limit on the CPU usage.

  Freshly installed Centos5 and LAMP. Installed joomla with default content.

  Browsing the site is TERRIBLY slow... I'm talking molassas.

  Now, until people start blaming joomla, I had exactly the same fees installed on a physical server with less specs (only 1 GB of ram and 1 cpu) and it is lightning fast.

  Both are on the exact same network. And the ESXi server has only a current PBX VM to run other then the Web server. I have hordes of resources left and available on the ESXi server.

  I can not quite understand what the problem is or could be. She has available resources and doesn't have 1 million waiting to go through the server process. My Network (2) cards are defined in tandum (I guess that the combination of network cards?) this should not be a problem?

  It's just the way the esxi manages the inbound and outbound traffic? Is this normal? The only thing I can reduce to is 1) the esxi way itself works. (2) the esxi way treats my network cards and or traffic

  What are the specifications of the ESX Server - hardware and CPU? Are there other virtual machines running on ESX Server? Have you tried running with one virtual CPU virtual machine?  It is advisable to start with a single vCPU and add vCPUs only if it is necessary, or if you have empirical evidence that it is necessary - it has to do with how the virtual processors are programmed.

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• How to connect to the server from VPN Windows Sever?

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