I need help to create a virtual machine - I am new to virtualization.

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• I need help, how to configure virtual machines with PowerCLI IP addresses

  Hi all

  I open this topic because I really need your help.

  I wrote a script that can automatically create 10 VMs on my ESX Server.

  I run the script with PowerCLI.

  I want now to help script, give the ip on the 10 machines created settings.

  I don't know how, can you enlighten me on this subject?

  Is there a script that can do this?

  Thank you very much.

  Isn't the "0.2 | ForEach-Object {"a loop for? IMHO, it is a loop in the PowerShell way.

• Help for a demo: create multiple virtual machines

  Hello

  I am a beginner in vCO, I completed the installation and configuration with success and I started to create workflows, but I guess that I need help with an example that I started yesterday:

  I am creating several virtual machines at the same time, I mean all the user have to do is say how VMs, he wants to be created and the workflow must do the rest, but I don't know what is the best way to do so, in the present workflow in the library , find us only 'create simple VM' so I added a few scriptable tasks to this workflow, but still can't do what I want.

  Any solution plese? or a few best practices to perform this type of workflow? Maybe I missed a workflow can create multiple virtual machines with different names but the same configuration.

  Thanks in advance,

  This can help out you.

• I installed windows 7 on a mac with boot camp and then used parallels to create a virtual machine to run windows inside Mac os10.6. Now he says I need to activate windows again, but he said I need a new activation key. Any ideas would be appreciated

  I installed windows 7 on a mac with boot camp and then used parallels to create a virtual machine to run windows inside Mac os10.6.  Now he says I need to activate windows again, but he said I need a new activation key.  Any ideas would be appreciated

  Yes, you must purchase a full license for the second installation of Windows 7 product key.  1 activation allows only one Windows 7 product key.  Apparently, you now have a second facility that requires a second product key. Carey Frisch

• vCO workflow: create a virtual machine from a model and then ask the user about the CPU, memory size...

  Hi guys,.

  I am trying to create a workflow with vCO that can do the job for me:

  -Create a virtual machine (or maybe a several virtual machines) from a model (the model is in vCenter, of course)

  -L' user who is running the workflow has the thr right to say what he wants for the CPU, the memorysize, the disksize

  Any help?

  I found some workflows in the library can seem to do something similar to what I want, but since I'm a beginner I'd rather have your advice

  Hello there and welcome to vCenter Orchestrator

  Take a look at this series of tutorials to get an idea of how start:

  Create a vCO simple self-service VM Provisioning Portal - part 1

  Create a vCO simple self-service VM Provisioning Portal - part 2

  Create a Simple Self Service VM Provisioning Portal vCO - part 3

  The general approach to take would be to determine which of the clone (or clone and customize) workflows adapts to your nearest need (see your customer vCO: workflows\Library\vCenter\Virtual Machine management\Clone\)

  Then, create a NEW WORKFLOW that calls this one... after that your clone operation is complete, keep the computer turned off virtual and add feeds of extra work from the library to your new workflow that do things like change the amount of Ram, adds disks, change CPU, etc...

  Be sure to watch the videos on http://www.vmwarelearning.com/orchestrator to get a basic understanding of the use of vCO.

• Create a virtual machine with the physical RAM total?

  I want to virtualize ESXi 4 on my MacBook Pro. However, I have 2 GB of RAM and ESXi 4 requires a minimum of 2 GB.

  I posted in the community of ESXi (is it possible to virtualize ESXi 4 with less than 2 GB of RAM?) and there is a solution for using ESXi with less RAM, but the problem is that I first need to run the installation with 2 GB.

  Basically, I tried to create a virtual machine with 2 GB, but the maximum I can use is 1840MB. Is it something that I do with Fusion to increase this limit? I understand that I am under a host operating system and requiring too little RAM, but just to get through the ESXi installation isn't it possible to push the VM of RAM to 2 GB and the host what OS increase the pagefile to deal with the lack of RAM?

  Any help would be appreciated!

  Thank you

  You may be able to edit the .vmx file and change the memsize option either 2048 or more. The merger is able to start a virtual machine with more memory that the host, just UI prevents common users to exceed the limits of security in general.

  I'm not quite sure what would happen if the VM actually tries to use all of the memory. If all goes well, it will be just talk and run slowly. Of course, the worst case are that it crashes.

• How can I create a virtual machine

  Should I create a virtual machine from a boot camp partition or install Windows XP from an existing file?  Help!

  I did a little research on the website of Apple, and the marketing point of view, they have a sort of gloss over the fact that you need a Windows install with Boot Camp.  Here is a Knowledge Base article that makes it a little more clear.  I can see if you look how Apple sells Boot Camp (and Fusion or Parallels also) the need for a Windows installation disc is kind of lost in the noise.  If Photoshop is the only thing that you think you will need Windows to consider that a Windows install disc will probably cost you about $100.  While Boot Camp offers you the best performance under Windows Me, it is inconvenient to keep restart the machine in Mac OS X or Windows as needed.  Fusion or Parallels meets the needs most (I think that most needs except for gamers) and is much more convenient, but it is an another $35 à $50 or more on top of the purchase of Windows. That's why I suggest just buying a copy of Mac in Photoshop if that's all that you'll need Windows.

  Make no mistake that you are now several computers also with Boot Camp, Fusion or Parallels.  Llke maintenance common Windows defrag, backups must be done any program installation you chose to use.  In my case I have to use some applications only available under Windows for work, and I prefer Quicken on Windows to its ' equivalent of Mac (they are not the same program) so I use Fusion.  If it wasn't for these needs I will try to be just a Mac user.

  Post edited by: gbullman

  Link added to article Apple

• create the virtual machine from windows NT 4 server with adaptec raid 5

  I have an old Dell (1998) server running windows NT 4.0 sp6a.  He had a raid 5 configuration using the controller raid adaptec SCSI 2940.  2 discs failed who broke the raid set.  I had a disk recovery company to recover the data and they have scratched off readers and gave me a SATA with all volumes.  I found a procedure to create a virtual hard disk (.vhd) and then converted to a hard and used to create a virtual machine in VMware workstation 7.  When I turn on the virtual machine, it begins the process of starting windows, shows the boot menu, select normal or mode VGA, goes through the process of NTdetect, display processor and memory but then gives a BSOD with the message inaccessible_boot_device.

  I changed the hard to affect the buslogic ddb.adaptertype, but it gave me the same problem.

  is there a different driver that I need for an adaptec raid controller or if the typical SCSI drivers should work?  If the typical SCSI drivers should work, so my problem might be in my Boot.ini because it shows that he is supposed to start on the partition (4) and this sata drive may not have scores exactly as they were on the raid configuration.  I tried to mount the volumes not in read-only mode, but the partition that I need to change the boot.ini file is partition (2) what mapping VMware won't let me open mode not readonly.  whenever I have, select it and it opens the partition (1) mode not readonly.

  I know this sounds complicated then I hope I described with precision.

  Hello
  I live in Germany, but my internal clock seems to be adapted to the New York Times.
  Very useful, because most repairs or recovery to the VMware is done the evening or at night.

• Create the virtual machine with the ISO mounted CDROM

  Community of hell!

  Working on the vmcreate.pl script to add the creation of CD-ROM with iso data store, I got stuck on the error

  ' Invalid device configuration: ' VirtualSCSIControllerOption.numSCSICdroms '.

  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, or this option but may not understand how to deliver this.

  I created a cdrom as follows (below test I create any CDROM, no iso file to reduce the number of layers):

  my $ BPPRR m_backing_info = VirtualCdromRemotePassthroughBackingInfo->new)

  deviceName = > ' '.

  exclusive = > 0,

  );

  my $description = description->new(label = > 'CDROM', summary = > 'cdddrom');

  my $connectable = VirtualDeviceConnectInfo->new(allowGuestControl = > 1,)

  connected = > 0,

  startConnected = > 1,

  ( State = > inmates ' / ' );

  my $ BPPRR m = VirtualCdrom->new(backup = > $BPPRRm_backing_info,

  connectable = > $connectable,

  controllerKey = > 0,

  deviceInfo = > $description,

  key => 1,

  ( unitNumber = > 1 );

  VirtualDeviceConfigSpec->new(device = > $BPPRRm,

  operation = > VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation->new()'add'));

  Did anyone have working example to create the virtual machine with CDRom?

  Andrey

  If someone will find this useful I followed this route Re: vmreconfig.pl add the device CD/DVD fails if the virtual machine created with vmcreate.pl

  and also I found good examples of what I need to in VMUtil.pm in cmd vmsphere libraries.

  Andrey

• Licenses to create a virtual machine is second with more than 8 cores?

  So, we have a machine with 4 physical Sockets with 16 cores on each. We bought 4 licenses of vmware's standard. Now, we saw early on that the number max of hearts that we assign to a virtual machine was 32, which isn't really a big problem, 32 is a lot for our needs. So we have a 32 core virtual machine running and some other smaller, but now when I try to create another virtual machine with more than 8 cores it tells me that I have insufficient licenses.

  Can anyone provide more information on that? If I can create a virtual machine with more than 8 cores, why I can't create a new one?

  He said authorized to 4 physical processors, so it's ok, it's using your Standard licenses.

  During the 60-day trial, you could create more large virtual machines, because the 60 days run with Enterprise Plus features. Now that you are using the standard license, you can create only 8 vCPU VMs.

  Solution:

  You should spend 5.5 ESXi. Your license will also work for 5.5 and you'll be able to create virtual machines with up to 64 vCPUs.

  Concerning

• Cannot create a Virtual Machine

  Hello

  I'm using VMware Workstation 10 and there seems to be a huge issue here. I can't create a Virtual Machine. After completing the Wizard "create a new virtual machine", it seems to be to do nothing. I even tried to open the .vmx file in the Documents folder itself. No matter what I do, don't open the virtual machine. I think that its not to be created in the first place.

  I am all the normal stages and have hardware virtualization enabled in BIOS. Oh, and I checked to see if Virtual Box is running, and it works well. The problem seems to be that in VMware Workstation. Can someone please help me on this? I posted pictures of the screenshot of what records looks like at the end of the wizard.

  

  

  I solved it. It turns out that I was using incompatible software - Windows7FirewallControl by Sphinx-Soft. He created trouble for VMWare even after allowing it through the firewall.

• Creating a virtual machine for Linux guest in another HARD drive

  Hi all

  I have Vmware Workstation 8.0 on windows 7 x 64. This window is installed in the primary SSD (Sata port 0), also its mbr. I also have a Linux Ubuntu Natty x 64 in my HDD (Sata port 1) with Grub installed on the HARD drive. So when I go to start my SDD just windows when I want linux, simply go to the HARD drive.

  I tried to create a virtual machine to access the linux (using the physical disk, persistent writing) as a guest during the use of windows as a host, but so far had no success. Just to easy access to linux.

  I get the message of follow-up:

  

  The configuration for this virtual machine as follows:

  

  Intel Virtualization is enabled in my BIOS.

  My specs are:

  Processor

  Processor Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM

  Chipset

  Intel® HM65 Express Chipset

  8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM

  NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M 1.5 GB GDDR5 VRAM

  OCZ Vertex 3 128 GB SDD

  Western Digital 640 GB HARD drive

  Could someone help me?

  try to use "fullDevice" instead of "partitionedDevice" when you add the physical disk.

  It may also be necessary to put the disk status 'offline '.

  This worked in WS before 7?

  You can reach the vmware.log?

• Cannot create a virtual machine with more than 256 GB

  I thought that the max capacity 2 TB vm. but I can't create a virtual machine more than 256 GB. what I am doing wrong?

  Thank you

  You probably use a block size of 1 MB, which limits a single HDD 256 GB.  You will need a larger block size

  1 MB = 256 GB

  2 512 GB

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• How to create redundant virtual machines 2

  Hello

  I need to create redundant virtual machines 2 (one online and one offline). 2 virtual machines should be syncronizied.

  How would I do so that my main VM is down for some reason, my other virtual computer could kick

  Thank you

  VRanger quest vReplicator/connection will do the job and is usually very effective when using change block tracking (CBT), allowing it to determine which blocks have changed since the last replication much more quickly, which is useful for the large VMs. replication jobs can be scheduled quite frequently, so that it can not give you time real synchronization between virtual machines He can become close enough

• How to create a virtual machine on a stand-alone host?

  Hello

  as you know others my son, I created a workflow to create several identical virtual machines on a cluster.

  Since we do not only have clustered hosts, but also some autonomous machines, I need to modify the workflow to be able to create virtual machines on these hosts.

  The main stage of the workflow is obviously one that creates virtual machines.

  It is derived from one of the supplied workflow within the Orchestrator library, but in the end, there is not much difference.

  The original workflow uses this method to create a virtual machine:

  task = vmFolder.createVM_Task( configSpec, vmResourcePool, vmHost );
  

  I've omitted vmHost in my workflow, because I did not want the user to select the host in the Cluster.

  So my execution of the method looks like this:

  task = vmFolder.createVM_Task( configSpec, vmCluster.resourcePool);
  

  Now, I tried to get this method to create a virtual computer on a stand-alone host, but everything I tried, he failed.

  Does anyone have a solution or a trick, what I might try to make this work?

  Thank you very much

  Andreas

  For the root folder, try this:

  var parent = vmHost.parent;
  While (!) () parent instanceof VcDatacenter)) {}
  parent = parent.parent;
  }
  var vmFolder = parent.vmFolder;