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• To cut and paste between Mac and Virtual Machine

  My husband and I have VMware Fusion installed on our MacBooks. We use it to run WIndows XP.

  His continues to have problems. Windows crash then left outstanding programs. Now, he can not copy / paste between Mac and Virtual Machine.

  I can't find all the differences in our backgrounds. I'm not having problems he knows.

  Any advice on how to solve this problem, so it can copy / paste between systems again?

  Assuming that the MAC is stable and not giving any problems I try and see why the XP VM crashes and at least re - install VMWare Tools on XP because that is what is needed to copy and paste between host and guest operating system.

  Look in XP Event Viewer to see if you can see what happens wrong... Click Start and then right-click my computer and then click on manage, and then click Event Viewer.

  Perpahs try running a virus scanner or applications malicious XP if you think that it might be infected.

  If all else fails, try and repair the machine virtual XP from your XP CD...

• Difference between the hosts and virtual machines

  Happy new year!

  I guess that's a stupid question, but I don't know the answer to it.

  I created pools from VM. Some jobs in the pool are hosts and some virtual machines. What is the difference between the hosts and virtual machines. I thought I could only create virtual machines, but I guess I could create hosts as well. -What happened?

  Thanks for your help.

  where does say desktops are hosts?  A host is usually referring to an ESXi server.  A virtual machine is just the guest OS running on the host computer.  A pool is a group of VMs that can extend over several hosts.

  Gunnar

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!

• Need a script to the list of all the virtual machines in CSV

  I want to record a list of virtual machines from one host in a csv file so that I can add to their return with

  New-VM - VMFilePath $VMXFile - $vmhost $ESXHost - $VMFolder location

  I started with that, but am struggling with the name of the folder of the virtual machine (can be used in New-VM-map)

  Get-VIServer-Server MyServer - protocol https-Force | out-null

  $report = @)

  Get - VM | Get-View | %{

  $row = "" | Select Name, VmPathName, location

  $row. Name = $_. Name

  $row. VmPathName = $_. Config.Files.VmPathName

  # $row. Location = $_. Folder # faced with this line

  $report += $row

  }

  $report

  # How to make this online, don't invite not not the user?

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server MyServer - Force

  Try this, it should give the blue files

  New-VIProperty -Name 'BlueFolderPath' -ObjectType 'VirtualMachine' -Value {    param($vm)
  
      function Get-ParentName {        param($object)
  
          if($object.Folder) {            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.Folder            $name = $object.Folder.Name        }        elseif($object.Parent -and $object.Parent.GetType().Name -like "Folder*") {            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.Parent            $name = $object.Parent.Name        }        elseif($object.ParentFolder){            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.ParentFolder            $name = $object.ParentFolder.Name        }        if("vm","Datacenters" -notcontains $name) {            $blue + "/" + $name        }        else{            $blue        }    }
  
      (Get-ParentName $vm).Remove(0,1)} -Force | Out-Null
  
  Connect-VIServer -Server MyServer -Protocol https -Force | out-null
  
  $report = @()Get-VM  | %{  $row = "" | select Name, VmPathName, Location  $row.Name = $_.Name  $row.VmPathName = $_.ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName  $row.Location = $_.BlueFolderPath  $report += $row}$report
  
  Disconnect-VIServer -Server MyServer -Confirm:$false
  

• The list of all the virtual machines of an organization

  Hi all

  I use .net api for vcloud. I need the list of all virtual machines of an organization. How I do that?

  Kamal

  Hello

  A paralytic can contain several virtual machines. Once, you get the use of vApp, the GetChildrenVms() for the confined list of the VM.

  VAPP vapp = Vapp.GetVappByReference (customer, vAppRef);

  foreach (VAPP vm in VAPP. {GetChildrenVms()})

  Console.WriteLine ("" + vm.) Reference.Name);

  Console.WriteLine ("" + vm.) Reference.href);

  }

  Creating a paralyzed man from a vAppTemplate will contain the same number of VM contained in a vAppTempalte.

  If the vAppTemplate contains 3 VM inside. VApp created using the vAppTempalte would also contain the same 3 VM.

  Ex: If the Ex vAppTempalte: WebApplication-vAppTemplate contains a DatabaseVM and AppServerVM.

  VApp created from the Ex vAppTemplate: WebApplication-VAPP will also contain a DatabaseVM and AppServerVM.

  Kind regards

  Rajesh Kamal.

• Automatically get a list of installed in virtual machines

  Hello

  After selecting the root "Host and Clusters" VMware Infrastructure client, I opened "Virtual Machines" tag and I got the list of all machines. Then by clicking on the right button of the mouse, I open the pop-up menu and have an option "export list... ', so I can export to text file. Of course, I have to do it manually. Is it possible to automate this behavior? I mean I want to get this list of servers every day, let's say at 13:00. It should be automatically created for example in the text file to an esx server or sent me that email. Is it possible to VMWare Infrastructure Client or esx server?

  Yacc

  You can install it on your desktop. But you need Microsoft Powershell to work with it.

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• go esxi hosts and virtual machines in one vCenter to another

  I built a new vCenter (Windows vCenter), I intend to move on ESXi hosts the old vCenter (Virtual appliance vCenter) to the new vCenter. I don't know if it's feasible, please notify my step is correct or not: 1) build a new vcenter 2) create a cluster with two esxi hosts first 3) Mount data (NetApp Filer Storage) to the new vCenter warehouses 4) add an empty host for the new vCenter VMs) 5 download then upload to the host in new vcenter

  Hi friend

  Its doable without any problem.

  Please follow the procedure below.

  1 build a new vCenter (your first step is correct)

  2 creating a cluster (because it is new vCenter there will not be any available host.) That is why cluster creation wizard will not get to add in the new cluster host). While initially empty cluster would be created.

  3. once the cluster is created, immediately do a right-click on the cluster and add your hosts one by one. Not necessary to cancel the registration and the VM. Virtual machines will automatically be added who were there on the data store available with all guests.

  Don't forget,

  1. we do not mount any store data in vCenter, we assemble the data store on the host.

  2. If you mount the new data store (which did not exist before), you can mount once the new hosts are added to the new cluster. (Your SAN admin help)

  3. If you want to move your virtual machines from data store before the newly added/mounted data store, please SVMotion these virtual machines (by right-clicking on the VM > migrate > data store > select the data store that is new)... Please follow the same procedure for all virtual machines.

  4. you don't need to add empty hosts to the new cluster, add just as soon as all guests without you register VMs. Later, you can migrate to other store of data according to the requirement. NO need to download or download the VM.

  5. Please make sure that your ESXi hosts will be compatible with the new vCenter. Old version of ESXi always compatible with the new version of vCenter. Just check if you have all valid licenses.

  Please let me know if you need any clarification

• VCAC annotations and virtual machine

  I'm currently updating a set of annotations for each virtual computer I create.  If I implement VCAC, VCAC update these for me when it provisions a virtual machine?

  I did it for a client.  Presents several options for tag for VM via options in lists attributes drop-down vCAC which corresponds to labels for each attribute defined in vCenter - these values passed to a workflow of vCO as input parameters, and used in a PowerCLI via PowerShell vCO Plugin script.

  The screenshot shows the script powerCLI, I used to put 8 annotations on a configured virtual machine.

• ESXi and virtual machine CPU cores

  The question I would ask is the ESXi processor cores and relationship of the virtual machine CPU. Is it recommended to assign some carrots to VM (this is assuming that the VM needs CPU extra for reasons of performance)? We will use the following example. If the host ESXi lies the VM has 40 cores of the processor is recommended to assign carrots in 2, 4, 8 format to the virtual machine? And that's okay assign 6 since 40 is not divisible by 6.

  jrmunday: when it comes to carrots vs sockets, they are there for purpioses licenses, other than one vcpu is a vcpu

  soda: each kernel is a vcpu, so you should not worry of the underlying hardware and the divisibbility... It is not a mathematical formula to be used on the basis of underlying archatecture. the only reason underlying archatecutre would be important is VCA differences, not the underlying differences.

• Space disk in VMware player management and virtual machines

  I have VMware Player installed on a computer with Windows 7.  I installed VMware Player on the C drive where Windows resides. I have a VM installed, which is Ubuntu 10.4LTS.  My hard drive is 250 GB.  DRV is about 47GB and about 9 GB is free.  The rest of the hard drive is not allocated.

  If I install any addition of VM, looks like I may need to extend C to enlarge.  Or, if I add the partitions via the host OS, i.e. of Win 7, can I appoint a different partition during the installation of another virtual machine?

  I hope I have it clear.  If this isn't the case, please ask for clarification.

  Also, could I have installed VMware Player on one partition other than C

  When I initially installed it?

  You can uninstall VMware Player WITHOUT damaging your existing virtual machines.  Then you could go ahead and create a new partition and then re-install VMware Player, then move the virtual machines on the new partition and then reopen.

• Question about snapshots and virtual machines

  Hi all

  I have a small question about snapshots. I use VMware for about 6 months and I read about snapshots and how they work but still have a question to make sure that I understand how it works and it will work the way I think it works.

  I have a Windows 2003 server, which is a virtual machine. I have an application that uses MSDE database. I want to upgrade the database to MS SQL 2005, but to do this I need to back up the MSDE database, uninstall MSDE, and then install SQL 2005 and move the SQL database. This happens on the same VM.

  What I was thinking if I well Snapshots correctly is to snap turned the virtual machine before doing anything. Then do my upgrade steps and see if everything works. If its all messed up so I should be able to return to my shot and everything should be the way he had. What is the good? One of the main reasons I moved the server VM was because of this upgrade.

  After reading the documentation for the snapshots, it's how I undestood it. Pretty much any change could be reversed with snapshots. I wish just they had put in a few examples in the PDF file. Also it would be the same for all type of grades of the OS? Could I snapshot a Windows 2000 Server, and then "in the upgrade of the square" to Windows 2003? I've cloned a VM to do this but was curious about whether snapshots would be just as easy.

  Thanks for your help.

  Hello.

  What I was thinking if I well Snapshots correctly is to snap turned the virtual machine before doing anything. Then do my upgrade steps and see if everything works. If its all messed up so I should be able to return to my shot and everything should be the way he had. What is the good?

  That is right.

  After reading the documentation for the snapshots, it's how I undestood it. Pretty much any change could be reversed with snapshots. I wish just they had put in a few examples in the PDF file. Also it would be the same for all type of grades of the OS? Could I snapshot a Windows 2000 Server, and then "in the upgrade of the square" to Windows 2003? I've cloned a VM to do this but was curious about whether snapshots would be just as easy.

  Exactly the same thing for the upgrades of the OS.

  Perhaps the most important thing with the snapshots is to keep an eye on them and don't let them sit too long or become too big.  You have described the use cases are very good uses for snapshots.  Just make sure you have a solid plan with a schedule set, so that you can come back or validate changes before the snapshot becomes too large.

  Good luck!

• 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

• Red Hat and Virtual Machine

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine with Red Hat OS and let me know if there is any way to free ports automatically with the machine virtual vmware when I reboot it.

  I have ESX3.5 Update 2.

  Thank you and sorry for my bad English.

  Kind regards

  Elena.

  Hey Elena,

  I don't know what you mean by free ports, but I'm much running redhat rhel 4/5 on my host to esx 3.5 U4, and they run a lot. If you want to open ports on the comments of redhat, then just use the systemconfig about Linux shell utility to open the ports. You can also disable the iptables. Remember if the ports are blocked in the kernel of esx, which has no effect on the guest. I will recommend only open ports on the comments that you will need for your applications.

• ESXi on SD card and virtual machines on a NAS raid-6, performance?

  Hello!

  I'm planning an ESXi with HP Proliant DL380 G6 environment, which I already have.

  The server has an internal port SD card and according to this article , it is supported to run ESXi from an internal SD card.

  1ST QUARTER

  Someone hwo as tried this, what of the downside to this, except the redundancy on the SD card. I had a hard time finding comments on this

  Q2

  I intend to run virtual machines on a NAS via iSCSI, (thecus N8800, have another thread on the subject to know if it would work or not here)

  With this config I don't need any HD in the DL380.

  However, I do not know if a good high-performance NAS is good enough for my VMs and if maybe I need to run the OS on internal disks with higher performance.

  First of all, my plan was to run the OS partitions on a raid with internal 10 k SAS drives. And have all the data on the NAS partitions.

  But since I'm the new implementation of ESXi on SD or USB I think about the ability to run the DL380 without HD

  But, as noted above, is it possible that there is performance enough for that.

  Having in mind that my environment is and will be VERY LOW, we speak up seven windows server 2008 and totally 150 users.

  But I still haven't any idea if theres a chance that my 7 virtual machines running windows server 2008 will be capped at a lot by running NAS. The Nas will take place with eight 7.2 k RPM Sata disks, they are high of preforming sata drives, but not yet a SCSI raid. I have the ability to run a raid 10 on it instead of 6 and I will consider and try how much better performance, he gives me. 1 TB sata drives are 70% less expensive than the 300 GB 2.5 '' SAS 10 k disks.

  Yes, there is a good reason THAT SATA is less expensive than SAS.  SATA drives do not have the same command line than to use SAS drives, more the bottom of basket on SATA relies on the CPU, SAS can unload it on DEMAND.  The discs themselves seem to be competitive, but they are a far cry from the performance of SAS/SCSI, you get good performance until you start to make the e/s simultaneous sessions and hit heavily then you'll start to see performance degrades

  If do you some tests and that you are happy with it, still great.  I really hope it works well.  RAID 10 can be a good idea with SATA, which can help to compensate for this loss of performance.

  The PIN number is the best way to get the best performance, the physical drives of player throw you into a RAID of any kind the better you will be.

  Seagate Barracuda ES. 2-1 TB - 3.5 "- SATA-300 - 7200 tours min - lunch: 32 MB"

  vs SAS 15 K (that's 2 x the IOPS/sec)