Lab Manager network models

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• In Lab Manager NETWORK load balancing

  Hello

  I am trying to configure windows NLB on two or three windows 2008 machines in Lab Manager and I have problems. The IP Address of the cluster is not to pings to all other machines in the same configuration. I ping the IP cluster of the node itself. Haven't tried multicast and unicast not to no luck.

  How can I get this to work?

  Thank you

  NLB is not supported within a Lab Manager configuration.

  In addition, Lab Manager does not support Multicast in closed configurations.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Using Server 2008 R2 64-bit models in Lab Manager 2.5

  I created a template with Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit; enabled installed VMware tools and LM.  But when I use the model in a configuration that the LM does not seem to work, the machine is not renamed, and now is waiting for activation.  Also, I get an error when the virtual machine tries to run the autoconfig.vbs on login.

  I understand that LM 2.5 does not support Server 2008, but is anyone aware of any workaround that I can put in place for this model is available to be used.  I really don't want to have to active post that we have only a limited deployment configuration Server 2008 activation available.

  All suggestions are well appecicated.

  -Greg

  Greg,

  Lab Manager 2.5 is not a the code for Windows 2008 R2 support.  Even if you have a template, it will customize ever since LM tools does not even what is Windows 2008 R2.

  The activation of Windows 2008 R2 component is due to hardware changes in the deployment of the model (new SID, UUID, NIC MAC addresses) and is a bit of a wait.

  I don't know of a workaround or the other and I have a kit of Lab Manager 2.5 around tinkering with since it's already past end of life care.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Installation of XP operating system in model of lab manager... No hard drive detected?

  I am currently trying to obtain a model of machine configuration virtual xp in lab management. I have deploy the model, mount the .iso image file, start the installation, but then installing XP spits a message that there is no hard drive detected on the computer. I checked the properties on the machine, there is obviously a hard drive I put in place. It is in the format of BusLogic SCSI parallel. Is there a specific reason for this installation isn't or doesn't see is not the virtual disk? I have not really found something in the help or documentation which speaks of a specific operating system installation issue. Everything is useful, thanks in advance.

  -va

  To install Windows XP, you must have a driver for the disk controller VMware disc. You can consult this article for download one-

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1000863&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=32908933&StateID=0%200%2029476991

  If that one doesn't work, then, you must submit a request for support and ask management to send you the right driver

• Lab Manager V3 and a second NETWORK card

  Hello everyone. I have a question I hope you can help me with. In Lab Manager V2.5, we were having a problem with fencing. Our fencing required 5 IPs and our customer wants about 100 fences. As we seek to do not use more than 2 C all classes of IP addresses, we hoped an alternative solution.

  Our current idea is to try to use the second NETWORK card on a separate internal switch. This option would use the internal IP for 4 IP addresses and an external IP address. Although this plan seems feasible in theory, the V2.5 Lab Manager did not work to achieve this end. Thus, we are now experiencing V3. Does anyone know if this plan of attack is feasible? If so, what measures are necessary to achieve this goal? The second NETWORK card will be detected automatically by the Lab Manager, or is there a configuration I do not see any there to achieve?

  In short, I need to know if a second NETWORK adapter is feasible with V3 before submitting a request for a second switch. Please let me know if anyone has any info on this subject. Thank you kindly.

  LM 3.0 allows to use up to 4 network LM by VM Interfaces.  A Network Interface is the combination of the virtual NETWORK card and a physical interface LM LM 3.0, or virtual network.  Networking has been considerably strengthened LM 2.5 days.  Instead of a comprehensive physical network, you can have several (limit)? Physical networks that map to vSwitches in your vCenter/ESX host environment.  The Act of creating a physical network of LM 3.0 creates a group of ports on the vSwitch that you you mapped physical network LM.  Each physical network can accommodate up to worth (1024) 4 c of static IP addresses.  If you want that your different physical networks LM using different physical network interface cards on the ESX host, map to different vCenter/ESX vSwitches.

  Fencing is also managed a little more dynamically without the limitations in number of closed configs that were in previous versions.  All virtual machines in a fenced config needs to be hosted on the same ESX host however.

  Oh, virtual networks are a separate issue, which allow the installation of a local network visible only to virtual machines in a configuration.

  I hope this helps.

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• Provisioning for models of Lab Manager

  Hello

  We are beginning to create templates for our implementation of Lab manager and I'm not sure if I have to use thin or thick provisioning. It would be preferable to use thin to save disk space, but I'm not familiar enough with LM (and don't have any best practices docs) to know what consequences this may have. Someone can advise me on this point, is it OK to use and does not performance issues?

  Thank you

  Although not supported, that people discover that this should work, save a ton of disk space and not suffer a drop in performance.   You will need to do the conversion when the virtual machines on the tree are not running.  An enterprising soul might even describe the conversion process to convert all the discs basic installation in thin provisioned disks in an automated way.

  Because its not supported, make sure you have a backup of the original monolithic disc before you do!

• Lab Manager dependencies on vCenter and terminology

  I just Lab Manager, of course with ESX and vCenter.  I know very little about Virtualization, as this issue will prove.  What are the activities of configuration required on vCenter for Lab Manager able to build models, installation configurations and share library configurations?

  Also, I'm trying to get my head around the difference between the data store, data center and media store.  My current knowledge are:

  A data store has a one-way relationship to one or more hosts.  If storage is on a specific host (physical hard disk for example) then the data store has a relationship one of exlclusively with a single host.  Any file a host or a virtual machine can read/write can be read/written on this data store.

  A data center is a logical collection (non-brique and mortar) hosts, data warehouses and virtual machines.  A data center can aggregate various data stores in a single logical storage available to all virtual machines area?  Or another flavor of physical storage can same issue on a Server Windows 2008 physical logically be conifgured such as NFS, and can share NFS join a data center?

  A media store is a special part of a data store managed by the Manager of laboratory exclusively for the storage of files ISO for the construction of models in the laboratory Manager.  Is a media store part of a data store or part of a data center?

  Is a model of vCenter the same model Lab Manager?

  Any clarification on these questions would be more useful.

  Kind regards

  Rick

  Good questions! Welcome to the Forums as well!

  Your description data store is pretty right on. With the exception of the now for the storage of the local host, new technologies progressed to virtualize in the shared storage by the use of devices to Vritual Server.  Companies like HP lefthand and Openfiler to name a few.

  With regard to the issues of data center

  > A datacenter can aggregate various data warehouses into a single logical storage available to all virtual machines area?

  No, he learn better to keep data warehouses between HA/DRS separate clusters.  Now between the host in a cluster you "will share stroage" for the use of the DRS, HA or Storage vMotion.

  > can physical storage on a Server Windows 2008 physical logically be conifgured such as NFS, and can share NFS join a data center?

  Yes you can - use Openfiler VSA to connect the two iSCSI LUNS and NFS for ESX. As long as the ESX host can access the virtual machine through the network.

  For your other questions have a good read on a couple of things well:

  http://bsmith9999.blogspot.com/2010/02/Lab-Manager-40-Setup-and-best-practices.html

  This webcast was just as informative as well:

  http://www.VMware.com/a/webcasts/details/284

  See you soon,.

  Chad King

  VCP-410. Server +.

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/cwjking

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• Internet access for virtual machines in Lab Manager

  Hello

  Our lab environment is configured separately from corporate network and only some public IPs are able to access the internet. How I would install machinery in the Director of the laboratory to access the internet?

  For example, IP range - 64.x.x.x. Creation of a network model with these IP addresses attached to physical networks and external public would give me access to the internet?

  Stan,

  You would have to create a physical network that is attached to a vSwitch or Distributed Switch that can connect to this network of 64.x.x.x.

  If configure you a Pool of IP, Lab Manager can manage physical network IP assignments to the virtual machines.  so if the virtual machines require Internet access, then they will need to access this network (somehow).

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Watch is not in the wired network device manager or manage networks

  You have a slgiht problem, I have a HP DV6, do not ask me which model and I noticed when I tried to connect a PS3 to the laptop to share the internet the wired network adapter was not appear anywhere. I checked in internet Manager network cards, network devices, and it's not listed, I then checked the program uninstaller and found that the driver was listed for ethernet so decided to uninstall and reinstall but nothing. I then went back and plugged in an ethernet cable from the router to the laptop and it appeared, why is this and y at - it a way to get the wired connection to show at all hours because it means that I can share my internet connection for laptops with another device.

  Hello:

  It's probably a setting in your BIOS to disable the power saving Mode LAN (which by default is set to enabled). Normally found in the system configuration menu.

  When your laptop is on battery and you plug in a network cable, it may not work if the LAN Power Save mode is set to enabled.

  Disabling the setting allows the map LAN is present and ready at any time. Press the F10 key there and at the exit of the BIOS to save settings and exit.

  Paul

• Second NETWORK card takes over the management network

  I have a lab of dev ESXI 5.5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with a dual port GbE NIC (Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708).

  My basic configuration was a port of configured NIC (vmnic0) with a switch (vSwitch0) Standard.  vSwitch0 was a group of Virtual Machine (for VMS) ports and a VMkernel Port (for the management network).  Everything worked well at this point.

  When I try to configure the second NIC (vmnic1) to a different network switch port and different to connect to iSCSI, network range vmnic1 took over the management network even if it does not show as being the management network.  After that, I'm more able to connect or ping the IP of vmnic0.

  When you configure the vmnic1, I added connection Type of VMkernel.  I did not choose to use the port for traffic management group.

  When I look at the console and choose to configure the management network I see only being vmnic0selected network adapter.

  Am I misunderstood the management network configuration?  If not, does anyone have a suggestion on what may be wrong or how I can diagnose?

  Thank you for your comments!

  -Sean

  I think I knew what was going on.

  I had my VMkernel for networking (192.168.2.0/24) in a different subnet to the VMkernel for iscsi link port (192.168.1.0/24).  The problem was due to the existence of a network trace unidirectional from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.2.0/24 (but not in the opposite direction). As stated in the post of the blog below and elsewhere, if there are two VMkernels in networks with a direct route, the esxi host will be simply choose one of the VMkernels to act as the management network (no matter if only one of the VMkernels has active network management).

  I thought my networks did not have a direct route because of the impossibility (192.168.2.0/24) management network to communicate with the network of liaison port iscsi (192.168.1.0/24) but because the 192.168.1.0/24 network may route to 192.168.2.0/24, he made the two viable VMKernels to act as the point of view of the host management networks.

  After that I moved the post iscsi binding to a switch with no network route, my problem has been resolved.

  Re-reading the following is a blog post that helped me to understand my problem.

  http://blogs.VMware.com/kb/2013/02/challenges-with-multiple-VMkernel-ports-in-the-same-subnet.html

  Thanks to those who took the time to review and respond to my problem.

• Storage for Lab Manager

  My client needs storage for Lab Manager running on 100 servers. Is it recommended to use the NAS or SAN for Lab Manager running and what type of e/s that you wait for the same thing?

  I did a little bit with storage of LM in recent years.

  I have a development/test environment on LM 600 machine, using 2 Sun 7210 storage devices (is no longer available) on NFS shares. We have 2 links 1 G servile vmKernel traffc as well as links to more vmnetwork, management, etc.  The devices are related to links of 4 x 1 G each.

  I don't know what are the current constraints of LM/ESX, but whenever we revisit the decision 'block vs NAS' we end up selecting NFS (our Sun boxes can present the iSCSI as easily).

  As Jon says, what storage you need certainly depend on your VMS and load.  NOTE: my experience is * NOT * in a production environment, where I am squeezing virtual machines performance.  It's more about the functionality and "adequate" performance (where "adequate" is a measure based on the user experience topic).

  Some things we have learned over the years:

  • IOPS / s are kings, and most of them are entries.  (Written at the moment, I have a few heavy ready operations push me down to about 65 percent.)  I saw > 80% of entries maintained for days.)
  • Latency does not seem as important - VMs run about the same at 10ms latency and latency 250ms NFS NFS.  When latencies above 750ms grows, they will be noticiable users and if they go more than a second over 1000 ms you will begin to see the impact on the guest OSes, especially Solaris x 86.
  • Normal operations don't care about bandwidth - just current execution machines don't even fill a link 1 G
  • Deployment operations * could * start filling to the top of the bandwidth, maybe
  • Betware storm IO.  Often people think the storm IO deployment/boot, but 400 RedHat machines all the kickoff of their 'updatedb' cron job at 04:00 can produce any IO storm as well.  NOTE: IMHO if you buy storage to handle this kind of thing, you're overpaying storage.  I've spread my cron through the night and now can not see on the graphs of storage performance.
  • There is * NOT * a good correlation between guest OS IOPS / s as shown, for example, iostat and PAHO are / s NFS presented to the storage system.  I'm guessing that ESX made a lot of caching.

  Most storage vendors I spoke last year does not seem to find it.  They think in terms of bandwdith and it accelerates with read cache, so unimportant in my environment - I had to push really hard to get sellers to think in the right conditions and some of them really seem out of their depth there.

  I think that this state of mind is important: consider the IOPS / s as you consider CPU: how much should I give to each machine?  How much should I oversubsubscribe?

  Like CPU, a physical machine which IO a lot more available that he needs and you can consolidate - but don't know how.  A physical machine with a pair of 15 k drives RAID1 has about 200 IOPS / s available and readers spend most of time inactive (a bit like the CPU).

  That will boost the machines and when?  Right now I'm on average 9 inputs/outputs by VM, which in my opinion is quite small.  My storage system can go higher under request, but I have enough machines that it is fairly constant.

  In my quest for the perfect storage of LM, I found the usual: good, not expensive or fast, you can choose any two.  How we use LM (lots and lots of shared models) we would really like a unique namespace shared (i.e. 1 data store). I have yet to find the 'perfect' - storage, the Suns are very profitable for the performance and space, but their management takes too much of my time and my 72XX are not expandable - the 74 might be a different experience.  I am currently looking to add some SSD storage, but the ideal configuration would be automated migratino between levels (for example, EMC QUICKLY) and if I bought only from EMC I would triple my cost per VM.

  I talked to people who have a pattern of use of different models that are quite happy on several data stores.  If you can move your load through many warehouses of data then Isilon looks like interesting storage.

  So, in summary:

  • Watch IOPS / s 1st, 2nd and 3rd, then the latency time, then (maybe) bandwidth
  • Manage the budget or the ability of the IOPS / s as you CPU
  • You may not use comments IOPS / s to provide shared storage IOPS / s

  I'm hoping to have a better storage solution in the next 6 months or more.

  --

  Dewey

• Integration Microsoft DevStudio 2010 and VMware Lab Manager

  Microsoft DevStudio 2010 seems to provide a nice integration in a virtualized environment of laboratory course using their own hypervisor. What is VMware plan to integrate this? Someone else began to focus on the integration yet? In order to manage isolated networks, they seem to have a lab test controller talking agents, so different test agents in the "closed" configurations can easily be found out.

  I already have a wind front of genius as far as my current LM infrastructure goes.

  Microsoft plans to add support for ESX by SP1 environment according to their team. How that factors in Lab Manager I don't know. In addition, their installation on the hypervisor isn't exactly great. It requires the VM already be made by hand. So there is no, automagic dpeloy the VM to test cancel them the deployment when done. So from what we have seen, it seems to not integrate yet. I found it very disappointing. However, they have the facilites for before and after series of tests shares. So our next step is to see if you use the API we can deploy and Undeploy of an image of Lab Manager and pass through the IP address of the machine newly deployed to the Test Manager. It should work, but we have not begun to this topic but, as we always try to make sure that we understand everything that happens in the process of the hypervisor.

• Issues of Configuration Lab Manager

  Hey,.

  So I tried to read documents about lab manager that we try to implement. Our lab environment has been previously implemented, and we had not considered using Lab Manager so far.

  Our installation is as follows: 3 data centers with two VM hosts in each and of course several VMS under.

  Our license is currently only 4 cpu, if he had to get a permit of expansion that I would be able to have the Director of the laboratory, managing multiple data centers? The current installation is on a virtual machine inside a data center and currently manages another data center.

  My second question is: our vsphere hosts is a physical machine, would it be better to install the Manager of laboratory on it instead of a virtual machine inside a data center?

  And then there at - it a good way to put the virtual machines already created and executed in Lab Manager without having to reproduce or copy on our data store?

  Thank you!

  First, Lab Manager supports only a single data center object from inside of vCenter.  It would be possible to do the following:

  1. use multiple clusters in a single datacenter (easier)

  2. do you have multiple facilities of Lab Manager who manage different data centers. (overhead much more)... different installs... splitting the licenses.

  I highly suggest option 1, if possible.

  My second question is: our vsphere hosts is a physical machine, would it be better to install the Manager of laboratory on it instead of a virtual machine inside a data center?

  It would be much better to provide a simple Windows 2003 Server virtual machine to be the Lab Manager server.  You cannot install Lab Manager on the same system as vCenter or a domain controller.

  And then there at - it a good way to put the virtual machines already created and executed in Lab Manager without having to reproduce or copy on our data store?

  You can "resume" a model, but not a VM.  If you import a virtual machine, Lab Manager will make a copy to have an independent set of files to manage.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• creating virtual machines off templates in Lab Manager

  Hello

  I am using vCenter Lab Manager 4.0.

  I have created several models of machine virtual Windows.

  Now, I would like to create virtual machines on these models.

  Am I able to do it. ?

  If so, how can I achieve that. ?

  I checked in the guide, but found no relevant info.

  Maybe I'm missing something.

  Please provide help. !!

  Thank you.

  Santos,

  First of all, make sure that the model is published.  Means published which are can be used as a virtual machine in the current organization.  If you need to use it in another, make sure you share the model to the user / the appropriate organization.

  2. go into your workspace: workspaces > hand

  3. click on the button "new Configuraiton.

  -Add virtual machines

  -Click OK

  4 deploy the configuration.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Import the virtual machine template in vCenter Lab Manager?

  Hello

  I want to import a virtual computer model in vCenter Lab Manager. I can import the whole machine, but how to import from a certain snapshot?

  Rizwan

  Yes, then you will need to "reach" the point manually before cloning each point.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

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