Is there a "ESXi and vCenter Setup Guide" available?

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• The traffic between a host ESXi and vCenter Server is secure?

  Dear team,

  You pray let me know is traffic between a host ESXi and vCenter server (vice versa) is secure?

  The VC and ESXi version is 5.1U1a

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Default SSL certificates are installed automatically. However, you can configure the third-party SSL certificates to make the environment more secure.

  Please see:

  VSphere Documentation Centre

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-51-Security-Guide.PDF

• Want to take the certification VCP6-VTC, but I finished the 5.5 ESXi and vCenter Server 5.5

  Hello

  2 years ago I had the training for 5.5 ESXi and vCenter Server 5.5 - I wonder if that would satisfy the requirement and allows me to pass the exam VCP6-VTC?  Or should I stick with the VTC VCDP5 only?

  Have you taken after school.

  5.5 vSphere install, configure and manage.

  If so, please attend vSphere: what's new [5.5 to 6.0]

  It is a 2 day course that will allow you to take the exam VCP6-VTC.

  Otherwise, take VCP550 review and upgrade to VCP6-VTC in taking 2V0 - 621D.

  Pleaes see following URLs too.

  http://myLearn.VMware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=12457&UI=www_cert&TRK=profile_certification_title

  VCP6-VTC Certification

• ESX, ESXi and vCenter and virtual machines

  Hello all - I need to re - certify my VCP this month so I decided to sit down this weekend to set up a virtual lab.  I managed to get ESX, ESXi and vCenter working all in s vm on my laptop in less than 4 GB.  I use Player version 3 for now.  I have Workstation 6.5 but I have to spend my VCP to get a key of 7 workstations and improve it.

  The manual is a bit long, but here is the link if you are interested.  I'll update everything to Workstation 7 after my review.  I hope that some of you find it useful!

  http://blog.aarondelp.com/2009/11/VMware-data-center-in-box-using-VMware.html

  Aaron Delp

  http://blog.aarondelp.com

  http://blog.scottlowe.org/author/adelp/

  Nice - Thanks for posting.

  I doubt that you must update for Workstation 7 as VMplayer 3 is nothing else than a torn Workstation 7. It has the same basic functionality.

  So, nothing will be different if you use Workstation

  By the way - Starwind is really nice simulate a San.

  Another interesting thing, that you know may not...

  It is possible to assign up to 8 GB of RAM to your virtual ESXs, even if the host itself has only 4 GB of RAM.

  For this I have

  prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = 'TRUE '.

  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = '5 '.

  in the file config.ini from the host. Do not run and then

  Using this trick, I was able to run 4 ESX virtual machines on my laptop 4 GB RAM running 2 k 3-32 bit host

  Ulli

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  VMX-settings- VMware-liveCD - VM-infirmary

• With the help of ESXi and vCenter

  Hi all, I have some doubts on the use of ESXi and Virtual Center.

  Recently, we have set up 2 servers ESX with Virtual Center, all allowed in the Standard edition to have an available shared storage and HA.

  Our idea is to set up a new server with ESXi installed for testing purposes.

  Is possible to manage this server ESXi with our real VirtualCenter or we need a license? This particular server does NOT use shared storage or HA.

  Thanks for your help!

  Kind regards

  Diego

  Yes, you need a license for ESXi manage VirtualCenter. You can purchase the license to the Foundation. Please see the license attached (on page 3)

  Shan

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• The upgrade of our guests 5.0 ESXi and vCenter Server 5 and 5.5 Enterprise Plus

  We are the 4 upgrade hosts of ESXi 5 to 5.5

  We add 4 more guests with own ESXi 5.5 installed

  We are also upgrading our vCS 5 in the vCSA 5.5

  Using Enterprise + licenses

  Question: I'm trying to understand the best way to achieve this transition.  4 guests run about 100 virtual machines and 4 guests we add are clean slates.

  That's what I think... Please help me guys

  1. once the 4 new hosts are installed in the Datacenter clean running ESXi 5.5 I will deploy the vCSA ovf and register 4 guests with the Linux-based device.

  2. now, I have 4 new 5.5 ESXi hosts registered and running with vCSA 5.5 but I still have my old 4 guests with ESXi 5 and registered to the old vCS about 100 virtual machines running WIndows

  3. at this point I think stop on my older hosts 4 virtual machines and remove them from the vCenter Server inventory Windows and everything just their registration with the new vCSA

  4. Will be all my virtual machines or transferred with the hosts if I close them and put the hosts in maintenance mode?

  5. now, I should have all 8 guests registered with my new vCSA.  But the original 4 hosts have yet to be upgraded to ESXi 5.5

  6 move 100 virtual machines to the new 4 hosts running ESXi 5.5 and upgraded the 4 former hosts.

  7. now, I should have 8 guests with ESXi 5.5 using the vCSA

  See you soon!

  Pretty much.

  To make things easier, you can deploy the EGGS for vCSA in your current vCenter (if I remember correctly import an OVA using vCenter allows you to set certain options that should be set to the vCSA shell). After making sure that the vCSA online & configured, you can then install ESXi on all your new hosts, add them to a cluster in the vCSA and put a few trials of virtual machines on there to confirm the network setting is configured correctly. Once it's done (and assuming that the old and the new hosts use the same shared storage) you can stop the vCSA, remove it stock Windows vCS, please write it on one of your new hosts and turn on. You have now two environments (5.0 and 5.5). Next if you disconnect a host from 5.0 vCS (with virtual machines running on it), you can then connect it to the vCSA 5.5. Assuming that the vSwitchs standard networking of the exchanges that are the same name in both environments, you now can vMotion VMs between host 5.0 and 5.5 cluster. At this time, you can repeat with all remaining hosts until everything has been made the transition without service interruption. This will leave a lot of old objects in your old 5.0 vCS, but if that is getting trashed it isn't a big deal.

• VMAP eliminates ESXi and VCenter Lab installs, thanks to greedy Pirates.

  I run a class of Virtualization Technologies. My college has acquired a subscription of VMAP mainly to use to set up our training lab.

  We run 18 servers Dell T110 with 16 GB of memory.

  We also run 18 desktops Dell with 8 GB of memory.

  Here's how I run the class of 16 weeks (used to):

  Each student would be:

  1. Install a version of eval of 180 days of Windows 2008 R2 on a bare desktop.
  2. Install Workstation 8 on the desktop. Introduce students to the concepts of virtual machines. Workstation is ideal for this.
  3. Bring their own USB 16 GB class and install ESXi 5.0 on it running on the server.
  4. Install the VCenter Server (and client) directly on the desktop.
  5. Create a VM virtual host two additional ESXi
  6. Create an another VM of the VCenter Server virtual appliance.
  7. Start creating virtual machines, Clusters, ect.

  The point is, each student will learn a wide range of features in VSphere. Each student has at least THREE ESXi licenses and need TWO licenses of VCenter Server.

  At the end of the class, the laboratory is demolished (uninstalled all the software).

  The VMAP subscription that my college bought recently announced that Install lab licenses are more offered for VCenter or ESXi products.

  Now, I only use the version of 60 days?

  Is there any way around this?

  I could create 50 or so "student users" and get the individual keys for each. I would then have to use each key individually on all hosts in the laboratory.

  Students enrolled in this class were very happy to try the VSphere environment, something they could not do at home.

  Why not just offer the installation lab keys that have a duration of 1 year. This woul be more long enough for any semester length class.

  Or VMware wants to only close the non academic 'partner' classes offered. The "certified" classes use the same account VMAP of Kivuto however. How do they make their laboratories?

  Other classes in this direction have found that the best way to run the class is to one) ask students to work in pairs or larger teams, so that they can share their licenses; and (b) have them download license keys themselves, as you suggest. They don't necessarily three license keys for ESXi each however, given that each license key has an associated CPU count (2 or 4, depending on the product) which can be used to activate the host several processors. Note that we recently made vCloud Suite available to students in addition to vSphere, which in the past was only available for teachers and staff, so there are various options for which products the students use in class.

  Happy to discuss this further with you help succeed your class.

  Steve Muir

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  Director of the academic program of VMware (VMAP)
  http://labs.VMware.com/academic
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• Need help to change a creation of VM PowerCLI script to support host ESXi and vCenter

  I have the below script that I created with much help from LucD - thank you! This has served me well for my lab procedures rip - replace so far. This script works when I run it against my single ESXi host when it is not connected to my server vCenter, but it throws errors when I run this script when the host is connected to vCenter and it fails to implement the controller SCSI Paravirtual. I think when the host is under the control of vCenter that changed some of the settings.

  If I point to the vCenter instead of ESXi host, I still get the same problem. In addition, I would also add the ability to create virtual machines in pools of different resources of a cluster of vSphere. My name in data center's LAB and my Cluster is called Local with pools of resources like TestLab, etc. see Horizon.

  Ideas please!

  Error message:

  Set SCSI controller: 21/10/2014-18:02:11

  SCSI controller set

  Failure of the operation for the entity 'W81X86 '.

  with the following message: "access to the parameters of resources on the host computer is the server manages:

  '192.168.1.5 '. »

  Get-SCSI - VM $VM controller | where {$_.} Type - eq "VirtualLsiLogicSAS"} | All-CBS...

  ~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo	: NotSpecified: (:)) [game-SCSI controller], HostAccessRestrictedToManagementServer)
  	+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed, VMware.VimAutomation

  . ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.SetScsiController

  The real script:

  # Create Virtual Machines LAB of CSV file

  Add-PSSnapin-name "VMware.VimAutomation.Core" - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

  Game-PowerCLIConfiguration - ignore InvalidCertificateAction - confirm: $False | Out-Null

  $ESXHost = "192.168.1.10".

  $DelayValue = "5000" # 5 seconds startup time

  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.BootOptions = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptions

  $vmConfigSpec.BootOptions.BootDelay = $DelayValue

  $vmConfigSpec.BootOptions.bootOrder += new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptionsBootableCdromDevice

  $vmConfigSpec.flags = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineFlagInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.flags.enableLogging = $false

  $net = new-object - ComObject WScript.Network

  $net. MapNetworkDrive ("b", "\\192.168.1.3\Build", $false, "", "")

  to connect-VIServer-server '$ESXHost'-'root' user - password to 'P@ssw0rd '.

  Import-CSV B:\LabBuild\Lab.csv - UseCulture | %{

  $disks = @($_.) HD1)

  if($_.) HD2 - not 0) {}

  $disks += $_. HD2

  $vm = New-VM - VMhost $ESXhost - Name $_. VMName - MemoryMB $_. MemoryMB - NumCPU $_. NumCPU-Version $_. Version - ID $_. ID-floppy - Datastore $_. Data-DiskGB $disks - DiskStorageFormat 'Thin' store - resourcepool $_. RPool-note $_. Notes - CD #-RunAsync

  Get-CDDrive - VM $vm | Game-CDDrive - ISOPath $_. ISOPath - StartConnected $true - confirm: $false | Out-Null

  Get-NetworkAdapter - VM $vm | Together-NetworkAdapter NetworkName-$_ .NetworkName-$_.NetworkType to confirm Type: $False | Out-Null

  FloppyDrive get - VM $vm | Game-FloppyDrive - FloppyImagePath $_. FloppyPath - StartConnected $true - confirm: $false | Out-Null

  Get-SCSI - VM $VM controller | where {$_.} Type - eq "VirtualLsiLogicSAS"} | Set controller SCSI-type Paravirtual

  $vm. ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task ($vmConfigSpec) | Out-Null

  }

  #This line verifies the powerstate and POWER ON VM to start the installation

  #$vmState = get - VM $vm | Select-Object PowerState

  # If ($vmState - matches "ff") {Get - VM $vm |} Start-VM}

  }

  The Destination parameter in the cmdlet Copy-DatastoreItem takes an object that specifies a folder or file on the data store.

  Take a look at KB2001041, he explains the cmdlet and parameter more in detail.

• Change the view hosts ESXi and Vcenter Ip addresses

  Hello

  Because of our new zoning, we need to change the IP addresses of all our guests view ESXi as well as our vCenter server View.  Is it still possible without altering the DB ADAM that uses the view?

  Thank you

  Mooge

  If your ESX hosts are added to vCenter by host name and your vCenter are added to the view by hostname that you should be able to make this change without affecting the view.

  If your vCenter is added by IP, then you will have problems.

  If your ESX hosts are added by the intellectual property so that you can use maintenance mode to migrate all the virtual machines on each host, remove from the inventory, then add it to the cluster using the new IP or host name. View should have no problem with what we don't reference the hosts by their host names in any sort of statically.

  -Mike

• Question of ESXi and Vcenter licenses

  Hello

  I bought vcenter just now as well as some vsphere licenses, however were still about 15 older ESXi servers that I want to upgrade and manage vcenter.

  However, I am a bit confused about the cost of the upgrades for my ESXi free installs to connect to vcenter.  I watched the Essentials Kit where you can buy 3 licenses but it's to connect to vCenter Essentials.

  What is the difference?  I'm guessing that you can not essential home standard licenses to vCenter ESXi...

  I am not otherwise interested in HA or vmotion, I just need a way to access my vCenter ESXi.

  Thank you

  Essential ESXi connects to critical vcenter. for your case, you will need to vsphere Standard to be able to be managed by the vCenter.

• 3.5u5 ESXi and vCenter 4.0 (beta)

  I use eval to 60 days of ESXi 3.5u5 and 4.0u1 versions

  I'm using the beta version of vCenter server.

  I have x 64 multiple hosts running ESXi 4.0 u1.  These hosts are attached to my vCenter server, all work fine no probs.

  I have three 32-bit servers running u5 ESXi 3.5 I can't join without a license server vCenter (and, I guess as a license to put on this server file).  When I try to add a 3.5 on the server host, I get:

  -

  ---

  License server not configured

  -

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  VI3 hosts cannot be added if vCenter is allowed but license server is not configured. Configure the license server, and then try again.

  I see not a download for the VI3 license server, and/or a license of 60 file days host on this server.  How to make the beta version of vCenter accept pre 4 ESXi hosts?

  I'm guessing that the answer will be "use the 60 day trial of vCenter and not version beta"?

  If you want to use 3.5 clients with vCenter 4.0, you will need to download and install the 3.5 license server because they use a different type of license.

  http://downloads.VMware.com/d/details/esx_35_licenseserver_dt/dGViZGVoKmJkZXBo

  Instructions given in the following link

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsp_4_legacy_host_lic.PDF

• Interoperability ESXi and vCenter Server

  Dear Sir

  You can use the vCenter 5.0 or 5.1 with ESXi 5.5?

  The version of the vCenter server must always be greater than (or equal) than the vSphere ESXi version.

  You can check all matrices interoperability here: VMware product interoperability Matrices

• 5.1 ESXi and vCenter 5.0

  Hello everyone.

  I just wanted to confirm - is it possible to add a host of 5.1 ESXi (remote) to a server vCenter ESXi environment 5.0 established? (I think I can add 5.1 to 5.1, but not of 5.1 to 5.0).

  Thank you.

  -Brandon

  Right

• Do we need to buy separate licenses for ESXi and VCenter and 5

  Hello

  I have confusion about the licensing model, I have 2 servers (2 socket) physical with 4 licenses of VMWARE VSPHERE 5 STANDARD 1 PROCESSOR, you can clear my doubts if I need to buy a separate license for VCenter Server and if so, which is the right one?

  Thank you

  Yes, vCenter Server needs to be licensed separately (VMware also offers packaged essentials and acceleration kits). Since you already have the CPU licenses, you can either watch the "vCenter Server Foundation" license that allows to manage up to 3 guests or 'vCenter Server Standard' license without this limitation.

  André

• Help - what is and what is not available in free version of ESXi 3.5 U4?  VIMA?  VI Toolkit?

  Hello

  I'll try to find a (web page perhaps) summary of what is and especially what is NOT available in free version of ESXi 3.5 Embedded U4.

  Like many people I guess, I spent hours looking for a way to perform certain operations on virtual disks, to see that these operations have been banned in the free version of ESXi 3.5 U4.  It is reasonable, after all, if someone gives you a horse, don't look in his mouth!  But while I'm happy to be an ESXi 'amateur' to a certain extent, I'm starting to feel like a pirate, and I'm doing this a bit more productive experience.  Here's what I found so far:

  -Some of the most useful features in VMware Tools (such as 'narrowing of the virtual disks') seem to have no useful effect in ESXi 3.5 U4 Embedded free version

  -L' operation-e vmkfstools.pl RCLI to rename the virtual disk (moving) and the i - operation to clone (copy / import / export) a virtual disk seem to be disabled (due to lack of return. RestrictedVersion.summary)

  -vim - cmd does not provide what be good beyond what you can do in VI Client

  In particular, can someone tell me if it is interesting to study the following, that is I'll be able to do anything discs at all useful to the virtual with them in ESXi 3.5 U4 Embedded free version:

  -VIMA

  -VI Toolkit (for Windows)

  Thanks for any help/pointers.

  Take a look at this article: http://vmetc.com/2009/03/31/esxi-u4-ends-free-version-read-and-write-access-from-the-rcli/, it should provide general information on the ESXi set and the problem of read-only.

  As ESXi never was intended to provide full access to the VI API, you get what you pay for and in this case, you use the free version so that you can accomplish all of these tasks with the VI Client, if you want more, you'll have to pay for it.

  So first off, vim-cmd is only available with the unsuppoted SSH console and you can probably do most of the basic tasks through some scripted as a shell script automation, also in the console Busybox unsupported, you have full access to the very familiar vmkfstools. Now, you mention vmkfstools.pl is the remote version of the tool, because it is not available by default with ESXi (as the console does not support is not supported by VMware). To manage and configure your remote host ESX and ESXi, vCLI was created that replicates most of the popular esxcfg-* commands that use the API of VI

  This VI API is not free, you have full read access but if you want to set up/perform all operations that aren't will not be played, then you will need to have a license appropriate and which is at the Foundation or higher. The API is exposed as WSDL/SOAP and there are various scripts/languages with links that hang in the VI API to provide a level of abstractions for programmers, administrators, some of these languages include Microsoft Powershell, Perl, c#, Java, etc.

  PowerCLI (officially VI Toolkit Windows) is such a link that uses the VI API, i.e. to use it you will need to have the appropriate permit to change the configuration of other you will have only read access, it's similar to Perl called vSphere SDK for Perl bindings. So, if you're going to explore other routes, you will always encounter the same fundamental question.

  Okay, vMA (officially VIMA) is just a VAPP VMware RHEL that provides administrators a way to centrally manage / to distance your servers ESX/ESXi and vCenter. It comes by default with the vSphere THAT SDK Perl and a few other utilities to help manage/configure your systems and once again they depend on the VI API which access set based on the licenses that you have on your hosts.

  So all the options are options, but you need to know if you are going to get a license, because without the most basic, you will not be able to use one of these toolkits. Note that the license NOT only does full read/write access to the API but other features depending on the license you buy.

  There are other tools that provides VMware which, for now, temporarily has functions of management for virtual machines ONLY, this may change in the near future but take a look at this thread for more information post: is not happy with lockdown 3.5u4 VI API/RCLI ESXi? Worry not, VMware VIX to the rescue... for now =)

  I hope that this clears up everything.

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  VMware vExpert 2009

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