iSCSI SAN, two hosts - how to move virtual machines?

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• How to move virtual machines from one host to another without full VI and vMotion?

  Hello

  could you help me with a question?

  I have two installed hosts with ESXi 3.5 U5, which are connected to the shared iSCSI (Openfiler) - VMs storage are installed on the storage disk. My requirement is to have a cheap solution of DR - in case of failure of a host, I need to move and start VM on the host of work. How to achieve without going through VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and vMotion?

  I found this article:

  http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/04/how-to-move-a-VM-without-vCenter-or-storage-VMotion/

  but RCLI needs Infrastructure of VMware ESXi does not have default CLI So, how to move VMs between hosts (of course I mean "cold" move) without byuing any additonal VMware SW? It is generally possible in my situation?

  Thank you.

  ARO

  Danas

  If the virtual machines are running in shared storage (two guests see the same storage iSCSI or NFS) then it's simple. If a host goes down, then look for the data store on the ESXi host work. Navigate through folders for each virtual machine, right-click on the VMX file and add to the inventory. You will then be able to turn on the virtual machine.

  To move a virtual machine from one host to another, as long as both hosts had the same processors, you can pause the VM on the single host, browse and add the virtual machine to the inventory on the second break host and the United Nations.

  If the virtual machines are on local storage, but the two hosts are connected to the same shared storage, clone virtual machines on a daily basis from local storage to shared storage. Use something like ghettoVCB http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 make the clone. In the case of a server failure, you will be able to browse the data store, add to the inventory on the shared storage and switch the cloned machine.

• Simple Question - How to move virtual machines from 1 box to another?

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware products so please bare my stupidity.

  I have 2 servers I received vSphere on. They have all two internal storage (SAN No. still ) which means I can't take advantage of vMotion. So that leaves me to figure out how would one move a Virtual Machine from one box to the other? I currently have two boxes configured with a vCenter Server under 1 datacenter server.

  The simplest solution (considering vCenter) is cold using migrate operation.

  André

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• Put a host in maintenance - it will automatically move virtual machines?

  Dear all,

  We have a cluster with 4 guests and we would now like to upgrade each 5.50 to 6.0 ESXi ESXi host. I understand that we need to put the host in maintenance mode. He will automatically move virtual machines to other hosts? I read DRS is necessary. I see that our guests are permitted for Vmotion and HA. We have standard Vsphere license.

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode? In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Thank you

  Edy

  This means in our case, I would need to move manually first of all VMs before the host can go into maintenance mode?

  Yes, since the Standard edition doesn't include DRS, you must manually move virtual machines to other hosts.

  In the case where the Vsphere will make work, the virtual machines automatically distributing to 3 other hosts according to the resources available?

  Yes, this would be the case with the DRS in place.

  André

• Best method to move virtual machines Linux of VC 2.5/ESX 3.5 to 4.0/ESX4 vCentre

  Guys,

  I have to move a number of them. The two groups are there. If it is not a question about the upgrade of the VC/ESX. I want to use the simplest method possible to move these VMs and here's my plan:

  1 copy the whole directory of VM from the data store on VC 2.5 to the data store on vCentre 4.

  2. Add the virtual machine to inventory in vCentre 4.

  3. upgrade VMware tools

  4. switch to hardware version 7.

  And that's all. Please let me know if this plan is feasible, or more importantly, no holes in the plan.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You have a few options:

  1. you can bring up the old data store for ESX 4.x and save the VM on vCenter 4.0.

  2. you can add that the host ESX to vCenter 4.0 3.5 move virtual machines in ESX 4.0 cluster.  You can use vMotion and Storage vMotion, according to your needs.

  3. you can use the stand-alone converter to make a hot cloning of Linux virtual machines in ESX 4.0.

  Best wishes / Saludos

  -

• Can configure HA, but he doesn't move virtual machines

  Greetings,

  I have 3 ESX host configured with HA in the CR.  No errors are reported during the configuration.  During missions, at some point, I see an error of not having enough resources in the cluster... so it would appear that HA is followed at least of resources.  The problem is, when I reboot all servers, virtual machines do not move.  After a minute or two, the server displays disconnected virtual machines powered with the unknown state.  There is nothing in the events & tasks Panel in the CR.  No sign of the HA agent is same didn't go down.  I tried to look through the logs of vpx and Mao, but I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.  Here looks like that which seems to be errors with ft_gethostbyname but I don't know if it is a problem DNS check back very well.

  Of the vpxa.log:

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Command to call is/opt/vmware/Mao/bin/aamPerl /opt/vmware/aam/ha/aam_config_util.pl - z - shortname = usbvt10pesxhost02 - uname = Linux - cmd = listnodes-domain = vmware

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke percentage of task completed is 100

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Out of order: aamPerl script

  The definition of environment in/opt/vmware/Mao/config/agent_env. Linux

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL cmd: listnodes

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEYS: z - VAL: 1

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL uname: Linux

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: VAL shortname: usbvt10pesxhost02

  27/07/09 13:49:51 KEY: field VAL: vmware

  27/07/09 13:49:51 CMD: / opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ft_gethostbyname usbvt10pesxhost02 | grep FAILED

  27/07/09 13:49:51 STATUS: 1

  27/07/09 13:49:51 RESULT:

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  27/07/09 13:49:51 command is "/ opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ftcli - area vmware port 8042 - 15 - cmd listnodes timeout"

  27/07/09 13:49:51 CMD: / opt/vmware/Mao/bin/ftcli-area vmware port 8042 - timeout 15 - cmd listnodes

  27/07/09 13:49:51 STATUS: 0

  27/07/09 13:49:51 RESULT:

  27/07/09 13:49:51 State of Type node

  27/07/09 13:49:51 -.

  ---

  -

  ---

  -

  ---

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost02 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost03 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51 usbvt10pesxhost04 main active Agent

  27/07/09 13:49:51

  VMwarenodestatus = usbvt10pesxhost02, primary, AgentRunning, usbvt10pesxhost03, primary, AgentRunning, usbvt10pesxhost04, primary, AgentRunning

  27/07/09 13:49:51 VMwareresult = success

  27/07/09 13:49:51 total time script complete: 0 minute (s), and 0 second (s)

  VpxaVMAP::Invoke Command returned successfully

  Unexpected return the result. Wait 1 sample, receive 2

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  Define internal stats for VM: 2 (vpxa VM id), 158 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 3 (vpxa VM id), 160 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 4 (vpxa VM id), 162 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Audit of the resources of the node

  CheckThreshold of stored values: (20795,29001,20795,29432) - retrieved: (20795,28999,20795,29430)

  CheckThreshold changes in percentage (0,0,0,0) - threshold 5

  VpxaAAM::PollForVMAPCommands FtExecute running

  Unexpected return the result. Wait 1 sample, receive 2

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262165 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  262168 CounterId host has no value

  Define internal stats for VM: 2 (vpxa VM id), 158 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 3 (vpxa VM id), 160 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  Define internal stats for VM: 4 (vpxa VM id), 162 (vpxd id of VM). FT is the main? 0

  I did many DNS controls to ensure that the DNS has been configured correctly.  It seems that it is.  I am able to ping/vmkping guests without any problem.  Also did remove the full HA, delete the cluster, manually remove agents HA each host and reconfigured does not.  One thing that come to mind is FULL of these servers domain name & gt;. 30 tank.  I read that it was a problem at some point, but should be resolved.

  When I configured HA I selected all the default values:

  -activated followed host

  -prevent the energized if they violate constraints of availability of VMs

  -cluster host failure tolerate... 1

  -3 customers on host1, 2 clients on host 2, 1 guest on host 3

  -admission control enabled

  -capacity guests 2 current failover

  -configured host capacity 1 failover

  I don't know where to look.   Does anyone have any other suggestions?

  Thank you

  Brian

  I am genius, and we have identified a problem.  I want to confirm that the problem is you are having.

  If the management network (Service Console on ESX management checked for group of ports on ESXi) is on a public network, and there is no other service network management console or on a private network, this can lead to a false conclusion that the failed node is always online, preventing a failover.

  Please let me know if this matches your configuration. If so, a workaround would be to define a private network for management.

  A KB article addressiing this issue is in preparation.

  Feel free to write me with any questions.

  Marc

• I want to move virtual machines to a folder called Linux name, but we have several file of the same name in our Datacenter, please give me PowerCLI Script to move exactly

  I want to move virtual machines to a folder called Linux name, but we have several file of the same name in our Datacenter, please give me PowerCLI Script to move exactly.

  I tried to use for the function FolderByPath below, but don't know how to use it and have worked. Please help me in this.

  Function Get-FolderByPath {}

  < #.

  . Records of recovery SYNOPSIS by giving a path

  . DESCRIPTION the function will retrieve a record by its

  path. The path can contain any type of leave (folder or)

  Data Center).

  . Author NOTES: Luc relaxing

  . Path PARAMETER

  The path to the folder.

  This is a required parameter.

  . Path PARAMETER

  The path to the folder.

  This is a required parameter.

  . PARAMETER separator

  The character used to separate the leaves in the

  path. The default value is ' / '.

  . EXAMPLE OF

  PS > Get-FolderByPath-path ' Datacenter/Folder1/Folder2 ".

  . EXAMPLE OF

  PS > Get-FolderByPath-path "Folder1 > Folder2"-separator ' > '

  # >

  (param

  [CmdletBinding()]

  [parameter (Mandatory = $true)]

  [System.String []] ${Path}.

  [tank] ${delimiter} = ' / '.

  )

  {in process

  If (((Get-PowerCLIConfiguration).)) DefaultVIServerMode - eq "Multiple") {}

  $vcs = $defaultVIServers

  }

  else {}

  $vcs = $defaultVIServers [0]

  }

  {foreach ($vc to $vcs)

  {foreach ($strPath in $Path)

  $root = get-file-name of the server data $vc centers

  $strPath.Split ($Separator) | %{

  $root = get-inventory-name $_-location $root - server $vc - NoRecursion

  If ((Get-stocks-localisation $root-NoRecursion |)) Select--ExpandProperty name)-contains "vm") {}

  $root = get-inventory-name "vm" - location $root - server $vc - NoRecursion

  }

  }

  $root | where {$_-is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.FolderImpl]}|% {}}

  Get-file-name $_. Name - location $root. Parent - Server $vc

  }

  }

  }

  }

  }

  You can try to retrieve the object file by steps as well.

  Something like this for example

  $folder = get-data center-name 'LTX01-G8 | Get-file-name "LTX-servers | Get-file-name "LTX servers 0000 - 0299. Get-file-name Linux

  I guess the first qualification in your path was the data center.

• Need to move virtual machines and power over the other ESXi HA and issues of Configuration of power

  Dears

  Need to move virtual machines and power on ESXi others using the HA and Power Options

  So what are the Options I need activate and deactivate:

  Turn on Vsphere HA

  Activate the tracking host

  Admission control (disabled)

  VM Machine Options

  VM restart priority (medium)

  Response from the host of off the power isolation

  VM monitoring (people with disabilities)

  Monitoring of (high) sensitivity

  Heartbeat of data store (select one of cluster data warehouses taking into account my preferences) of the data store is checked

  On each:

  Start/stop of the virtual machine is turned off

  Please indicate the required Options and on virtual machines, we are not turning on?

  Just to be clear, that VMware HA will only restart the VMS if ESXi hosts fails - or surveillance of the VM is turned on which will be monitors VMs will they crash or suspend and restart the virtual machine affected.

  and just to be clear, that the response of insulation parameter has nothing to do whther THAT HA will work or not - it does come into play if the ESXi host is isolated of the HA - Cluster

  xMotion works only between active ESXi hosts that can communicate with the server vCenter - and if the ESXi host broke down or became isolated and vMotion may not work.

  vMotion is automated with DRS that vMotion will a VM who need more resources to an ESXi host with enough reosurces.

• Move virtual machines to the directories.

  Hello

  I've recently updated to vc4

  I notice that when I right click on a virtual machine, said one of the options move virtual machines to directories.

  What excatly does that mean?  I looked through the installation and administrative guide and he found

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  "Move the virtual machine files" option has been renamed to "Move VMs to the directories" in VC 4.0.

  Thank you.

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• How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

  Hello guys,.

  Now that we have a new iSCSI SAN market how can I tranfer all the virtual machine to a local data store for a new SAN? Can I stop the VM in the host, and then copy the DataStore files with all the info on the new volume?

  Thank you

  Pesinet

  Alternatively, you can use VMware converter or cold Migration / Storage VMotion if you have the appropriate licenses.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• Best way to move virtual machines between two clusters: HP and UCS

  Hello

  We move the virtual machines in the cluster UCSChassis: 6 guests ESXi in a Cluster of HPChassis.

  I wonder how do it with minimum downtime.

  Thanks for your help,

  If you have shared storage - expose the storahe where virtual machines are stored to both sets of guests - and the hosts are ocmpatible you can vmotion - or at least - to stop the mover VM's from the environment of the UCS and add it to the HP environment.

  If you can't share the storage you - you can use VMwate Standalone converter and V2V the VMs-

• How to run virtual machines on new host after reconstruction?

  So my upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1.0a do not go well and I ended up re-installing the hypervisor. I have all the virtual machines in a store of data that is not affected.

  After the mapping data store, how I open / launch VMs on the new host of bed?

  Thanks for your help.

  Browse the data store, right-click on vmx for each virtual computer.  Add to the inventory.  Now, you can access and start them.

• Move virtual machines between two ESXI servers

  Hello

  I have a problem with my ESXi servers. First, I'll explain the situation.

  There is ESXi Server1 with the virtual machine A and B and an ESXi server2 with nothing.

  Now, I want to spend virtual machine from server1 to server2. How can I do this and if you have a solution please tell me how todo that?

  Thnaks in advance

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 user's Guide

  found here:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

• How to share between the host drive and the virtual machine in the car?

  I wanted to use my virtual XP to print using my old printer that the printer driver can only support XP. But I can't find a way to link my host and the virtual drive, because my file is located in the host drive.

  1 change the settings of the virtual machine

  2. go to the Options tab

  3. Select shared folders

  4. Select always enabled

  5 Add the folder that you want to use

  6. Select map as a network drive in Windows prompt

  

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• ESXI free Version host failure - how to recover virtual machines?

  Hi all

  I ran a VMWare lab at home with a free version of ESXI 4.1.

  My server does not and I have to reset all the settings management of ESXI and I lost my virtual machines.

  I solved the problem, but I lost the virtual machine.

  When I navigate through the data store I can see the virtual hard disk for my servers.

  Is there a way to recover these virtual machines?

  I guess that I'm not the first to ask this question, so if you could point me to any page with some instruction, it would be great.

  Thanks in advance,

  Fabio

  Welcome to the VMware forums communities.  In each folder of the virtual machine, you should see a VMX file for the virtual machine.  This is the configuration file.  Right-click on it and select Add to the inventory.  Then follow the instructions of the wizard and after the virtual machine market.  If your network configuration is the same as previously, then you should be good to go.

  Dave

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