Lab Manager 4.0 Upgrade Plus new vSphere Env Migration

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• Lab Manager licensing during the merger of vSphere environments

  Is there a small vSphere environment that is available for Lab Manager and a great environment vSphere and both are now completely separated (different vcenter servers, groups separated from ESX, etc.), and they are merged into one, what happens to the Lab Manager licenses?  Should be updated to take account of the increase in the number of ESX host in the new environment?  Environments can be merged without buying additional licenses?  If so, would be half the environment allowed for lab manager and others are not allowed?  How would the lab manager-under license, and lab-manager-without sections allowed environmental stands / separated?

  Thanks for your comments

  "Prepared" you went in in the section resources, hosts tab and see that the host is ready (green check mark), this means that there has been a 'prepare' to the host.  Prepare installs the agent LM, then she will deduct your license (settings > license).

  Kind regards

  Jon Hemming, b.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• On vSphere Linked Clone and Lab Manager 4

  Hello

  In the Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade guide, there is a sentence saying: "Lab Manager is not compatible VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) or clones linked vSphere.".

  My question is: "what is a vSphere Linked Clone? Is is distinguished by a Clone of VMware? Because as far as I am concerned, the linked cloning technology came from Lab Manager right?

  Thank you!

  Welcoem to the Forums - Yes TI a vSphere Linked Clone is different from that in Lab Manager Linked Clone but unserlying technology is the same - the difference is whtechnology manages the linked clone - vSphere is handled only by the vSphere environment while a cloned associated Lab Manager is managed by you are your Lab Manager environment.

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• Lab Manager 4.0.2 upgrade process

  Say for 4.0.2 release notes

  "before you can upgrade Lab Manager, you must upgrade the vCenter server.

  See the Lab Manager 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide for

  more information. »

  I watched the Installation and the Guide to upgrade for more information, but nothing is mentioned about the upgrade to vCenter 4.1.  Lab Manager 4.0.2 does support vCenter 4.0 Update1/2?  I think so but I would make sure before that I upgrade.   Here are my planned upgrade steps:

  1. put at manager level of laboratory 4.0.1 to 4.0.2

  2. turn to level vCenter 4.0 U1 to 4.1

  3 upgrade ESX 4 U2 to ESX 4.1

  is this supported?

  Director of the laboratory of 4.0.2 is backward compatible with vCenter 4.0 u2/u1/GA

  Regarding the upgrade process, unless you are already on a 64-bit operating system, then there's leg work to do the upgrade to vCenter himself.

  If you are already there, then it is fine.  LM may be the first in this situation.

  If you need to migrate vCenter, so long that the INVESTIGATION period change in fact... it is good.  If it does not change, you can tell the LM Wizard to change the IP address of vcenter.

  If you forget to change it, you can simply update the web UI of LM.

  overall, LM must be quite tolerant changes when you go in LM 4.0.2.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Lab Manager and VMFS 5?

  I know Lab Manager only is not supported in vSphere 5 but I have a cluster where some hosts run LabManager.  I've updated vCenter and LabManager still works very well.  I want to spend the VMFS, so there are 2 possible scenarios

  -Put level all VMFS volumes, will be this LM break?

  -Upgrade only the LUNS than regular machinery of the host and leave the LUNS that are dedicated to LM as VMFS3.  This will cause any type of conflict?

  Hello.

  I don't think that you can actually get these 5 VMFS volumes, as all the guests, access to the database must support VMFS-5. This means that only 5 ESXi hosts will work.

  Good luck!

• VCenter Lab Manager dedicated?

  Do you need a dedicated server vCenter for use of Lab Manager or can you use an existing and create a separate data center for Lab Manager hosts?

  No, you do not have a separate vCenter Lab Manager - you can create a new separate data center or even a distinct group within a datacenter exisintg -.

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• The upgrade of free vSphere vSphere Essentials Plus

  Can someone point me in the direction of the vSphere upgrade free to vSphere Essentials Plus? I'm relatively new to vSphere in the installation process.

  Yes, same procedure, but note that you will have a license key for version 4.x. If you have the license key for version 5.x and the host is version 4.x, you must upgrade your host to version 5.x or downgrade your license for version 4.x.

• Relationship of Lab Manager and vSphere

  My shop starts to think about his Lab Manager architecture design, and we have some questions about the relationship between vSphere and Lab Manager.

  (1) can Lab Manager leverage of resources defined outside its host vSphere environment?

  (2) must LM be hosted in a specific vSphere environment to effectively exploit the scene-to-production in this environment vSphere features?  In other words, what is the impact to the staging functionality when you move a virtual machine from a workspace of LM to a VSphere environment that does not host the environment of LM?

  The reason we ask is because we already have production environment vSphere, and we plan to install vCenter Lab Manager within this environment or install LM in a separate vSphere environment.

  Thank you.

  Tim

  (1) the laboratory director can leverage resources defined outside its host vSphere environment?

  All used 'resources' must be inside a vCenter server, and all objects must be contained within a single "Data center" object in the hierarchy.

  > LM (2) done must be hosted in a specific vSphere environment to effectively exploit the scene-to-production in this environment vSphere features? In other words, what is the impact to the staging functionality when you move a virtual machine from a workspace of LM to a VSphere environment that does not host the environment of LM?

  If the vCenter for production is not the same as Lab Manager, you must export the Configuration of LM in an SMB share (requires a classic ESX host in the middle of LM), and then import it to the appropriate location.

  I did not notice problems with Lab Manager VMs-by-side with use of regular production.  Just separate the ESX hosts in a dedicated Cluster or a Pool of resources.

  Kind regards

  Jon Hemming, b.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• I can point my Lab Manager 4.0.2 to point to another new vCenter Server?

  Hi guys,.

  I have a client with a LM4.0.2 production and we are considering moving to one another new/a vCenter server.

  It is important to note that the new vCenter will NOT have the same DB or FULL of the old domain name. It's a completely different vCenter with other ESX hosts.

  Now the questions:

  Can I redirect my Lab Manager (VM) at the new vcenter without any problem?

  What of the ESX (resource) on the old vcenter?

  Is it possible to do this without downtime for laboratories? If this is not the case, how can I minimize downtime? cancel the deployment will be enough?

  Does anyone have this done successfully?

  Any comments would be much appreciated.

  Eyal

  etamir,

  There are some excellent discussions within this forum on the same topic.  I strongly suggest to read first, and I'll see if I can find an example.

  Before going further, data warehouses used in the new vCenter/ESX environment will be exactly the same as the current one?  If you want to keep all of your configurations, I need to know that the UUID of the LUN does not change during this process.

  Can I redirect my Lab Manager (VM) at the new vcenter without any problem?

  You can change the IP/domain FULL name vCenter in the settings section of the Lab Manager site... now on the problems that could result.

  You will need to remove anything from the GUI of Lab Manager that has to do with the current vCenter (unedploy, unprepare host esx, resource pools, configurations etc.).  There will be more on this in the dedicated thread

  What of the ESX (resource) on the old vcenter?

  ESX doesn't really matter, it's the data UUID store that matters.  ESX is just virtual machines.  Note: you'll want to throw all States/suspend points on the VMS where processors are different on the ESX hosts.

  > Is it possible to do this without downtime for laboratories?

  No, there will be a form any downtime.  Either that LM site will be useless (no resources with Betclic, consoles will does not work until the guests are prepared, etc.).

  > If not, how can I reduce downtime? cancel the deployment will be enough?

  Yes, to cancel the deployment of will help... but there will be some lag as you reconfigure Manager of laboratory to use the new vCenter.

  > Has anyone successfully done this?

  Yes.  I saw others to do this.

  Subjects in the sample: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1592762

  Kind regards

  Jon Hemming, b.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• I can't power on a virtual machine (with linked disks) after the addition of new hosts of Lab Manager

  ENVIRONMENT

  -Lab Manager 3 using VC 3.5

  -Initially the 2 hosts in a cluster and managed by LM

  -Added new cluster with 2 new hosts in VC

  -Two bunches pointing to the same NFS storage

  PROBLEM

  -When you try to turn on a computer in new cluster, I get a "requested file" "not found" error

  RESULTS

  -This seems to happen only when creating a virtual machine that has virtual disks of parent; most of our VMS is linked clones

  -When you look at the log file, please see attachment, we found the following:

  It is the location of the new virtual machine in the new host:

  /vmfs/volumes/fabdf38d-beff047d/LMW2K3/2909/002909-T_XP_SP3_32b.VMDK

  When you look at the hard, it points to the parent disk, but it seems that it does not:

  /vmfs/volumes/6586c772-53eee1bb/LMW2K3/2904/002904-T_XP_SP3_32b.VMDK

  Please note th volumen IDS are different and can not get the disc parent of the new machine.

  SOLUTIONS?

  Thank you

  Jose

  You should immediately stop using the new hosts otherwise creating new virtual machines can spoil the vmdk channels. Try http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005930.

• Known issues with running ESX, vSphere and vCenter Lab Manager on a Windows Server?

  I'm on a project that is currently planned to install ESX, vSphere and vCenter Lab Manager on a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x 64.  Anyone know if there are known problems with their performance on a beefy Server?

  http://communities.VMware.com/community/VMTN/vSphere?view=overview and take a look at podcasting.

• New Lab Manager - IP address conflict

  Hello. I'm new to the Director of the laboratory, and I hope to use it to provide a demo environment of a few machines in a domain for our software. If after installation of Lab manager and Vmtools, I put a machine virtual like a new domain controller/dns in virtual center, imported to the Manager of the laboratory as a VM template, added to a configuration, and it deployed in a workspace in closed mode. But I get IP conflict errors. Is not fenced mode supposed to avoid ip conflicts? I have the original CD/dns off also in virtualcenter. Thanks for your help.

  I think what you want to do is to start with a model with just the OS and create the domain controller once you have a workspace configuration.  See: http://pubs.vmware.com/labmanager3/users/LM_Users_Guide_templates.7.15.html

  "The virtual computer model cannot be configured... a domain controller.

  http://pubs.VMware.com/labmanager3/users/LM_Users_Guide_templates.7.15.html

• Why move them to the bottom of empty in VMware Lab Manager when you use Firefox 4 +?

  When using Mozilla Firefox 4.0 or later, drop boxes in VMware Lab Manager are populated is more if it is not possible to deploy new virtual machines.

  It turns out that VMware has released a Lab Manager in August (4.0.4) update that resolves this problem. I upgraded to LM 4.0.4 and dropdown lists are now met again.

• Upgrade or new installation 5.0-> 5.5

  Hi all

  
  

  We expect an improvement in our environment vSphere/UCS/SRM 5.0 to 5.5.

  Here's a matrix of current versions and the target.

  With the dependencies of the heart rate and SRM someone of experience with the upgrade path. (we understand that Heartbeat is be what EOL d with VMware)

  Are there advantages or disadvantages to do a new installation and migration of the ESXi hosts in this new environment?

  Thank you all.

  Component	Current version	Target version
  The UCS firmware	2.0 (3 C)	2.2 (1 D)
  Heartbeat	6.5	6.6
  vCenter	5.0 U2	5.5 u1
  Automatic deployment	5.0 U2	5.5 u1
  Update Manager (VUM)	5.0 U2	5.5 u1
  Syslog Collector	1.0.0	5.5 u1
  Empty the collector	1.0.0	5.5 u1
  SRM	5.0 U2	5.5.1
  SRA (for IBM UI midsize 7.3)	2.2.0.130422	2.3.0
  ESX	5.0	5.5 u1

  The link given Richardson was 5.5.

  There is a general link for 5.x, which is almost the same, but for 5. versions of x .

  VMware KB: update sequence for vSphere 5.x and VMware compatible products

  Deployment modules associated with vCenter as Auto, collector bucket etc. can be improved with vCenter. You will have to worry about only the most important.

  In any case, you must start with UCS. still, it is not disruptive. Make sure you have checked all connections before proceeding. If the failover does not occur at each stage (i.e. NIC FIS) you will find yourself in trouble and also the environment will go down.

• vCenter Lab Manager 4.0.4 5?

  I know that there is no support for Lab Manager 4.0.4 and vCenter 5, but it's going to work? Or when it will be supported? I see no reason why there would be a problem if I leave my host ESX 4.1 cluster.

  Has anyone tried this before?

  vCenter 5 + Lab Manager 4.0.4 won't work.  There, questions that I saw people who did the upgrade without checking compatibility.  Since Lab Manager is abandoned, I'm not expecting a major update to support vCenter 5.0.

  One option is to divide it into 2 environments... 1 specially for vCenter to LabManager and then a 2nd which will vCenter 5 which is a new installation you can grow out.

  Best regards

  Jon Hemming