Live cloning of virtual machines to ESXi ESXi

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• ESXi installation before vCenter Server?  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  My plan for a new vSphere Essentials Plus 5.5 U2a installation is to have the vCenter Server on a virtual machine on the servers of the host on which is installed ESXi.  However, all the installation instructions I found indicate the user to first install the vCenter Server.  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  Thank you for your help.

  Hi munkyman welcome to communities.

  After you have installed your first ESXi host, open a browser and go to https://your-ESXi-ip-or-FQDN

  You can download the vSphere Client here. It is a windows application that you can install on your desktop. It is often referred to as the "c# Client vSphere" in communities and blog posts, because it is a new implemented in the vCenter Server Web client.

  But for the beginning, install the vSphere Windows Client. You can then launch it and connect directly to your ESXi host. Here you can create your first virtual machine, which can be the VM vCenter (installation of Windows or device, that is you).

  You can use the web client or connect to the Server with the client c# vSphere vCenter VCenter runs.

  Tim

• How to check the file for the virtual machine size Esxi shell

  Anyone who can tell me how to check the file for the virtual machine size Esxi Shell. I tried this command-h ls but does not work.

  Have you checked "ls-lh', it will provide information as the attached screenshot." "

• The substitution of parameters of the device when the cloning of virtual machines?

  Hello

  I'm trying to find out how I can substitute the disk space for a HARD drive or the network for an adapter in the cloning of virtual machines.
  I thought it should be in the VirtualMachineCloneSpec, but it doesn't seem to be an option for him. I forgot something?

  Thanks in advance.

  So it turns out that the code was perfectly fine, the problem is that in my lab I have always tried setting disk space on something weaker than what it was before that does not work.

  Thought, after verification of the documentation for Set-disc hard, as I wanted reconstruct this cmdlet to see what he's doing: Set - hard - drive vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets reference

  Thanks again for your help

• Migration of virtual machines in ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 to new hardware

  I'm new to VMware and our company bought 4 new servers and a SAN to replace our old VSphere 4.1 installation of 12 year.  The old configuration consisting of a server VCenter 4.1 physics 2003, 2 Dell 2900 ESXi hosts and 1 MD300i SAN.  Gen9 again the Installer 4 HP DL360 (3 host 1 VCenterServer) and MSA 2040.  Can someone please explain to me what would be the best way to go about moving more of our VM current for the new hardware? I found this from a previous post here, but it does not move the virtual machine to a SAN to another.

  Migration of the VMs of ESXi 4.x to 5.5

  "If I understand your question, continue to build the new environment of 5.5 with your 3 hosts from scratch 'ignoring' your old hosts. Once your new environment up & running, connect 4.1 guests to your new server vCenter Server and vMotion to move virtual machines while they run to the new cluster (live migration without interruption).

  VMTools upgrades do not have place automatically during migration.

  Once your virtual machines on new hosts, update tools as usual and you can then also upgrade virtual hardware of your virtual machines.

  Virtual HW update is optional, though; If you do not have the VMs that need the new features you can skip this last step and keep them as they are. »

  TYIA.

  The previous answer is pretty good, but I would like to add a few elements.

  You can 'disconnect' your 4.1 hosts of your old vcenter with running virtual machines, and then when you connect the hosts in your environment of 5.5 it will import your VM running as well.  As long as you have properly configured virtual networks you can live migrate vmfs old host and the old store of data simultaneously via the web client as long as your esx license allows it.  Otherwise close your virtual machines down to 1 at a time to migrate them above.

  Alternatively, you can consider running your vcenter as a virtual machine within the cluster it manages.  This gives you some DRS and HA for vcenter, plus a 4th host for virtual machines.

  If you don't have additional license you can also install your new hosts of 5.5 and run for 60 days before that you upgrade your 4.1 licenses to apply to your new host.

• How to clone a virtual machine using ESXi 4.1 and vSphere?

  Instructions for I have seen that you can click with the right button on a virtual machine and choose "Clone", but I think it's only for vCenter

  Is there a way to clone a virtual machine in vSphere?

  Thank you

  If you have a licensed copy of ESXi (not vSphere Hypervisor, the free version), you can try the document below.  However, if you do not have a licensed copy you vCenter for cloning function

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-11708

• Close all virtual machines on ESXi

  Hello

  I'm new in the administration of vSphere. I would like to raise our ESXi servers due to updates, but I've read that you shut down all virtual machines that are on it. You have something better to do then close VMs one? I expect a powershell script, but I have found none so far.

  Thank you

  Kralijir, you can do it from the console GUI.

  In the left pane, select the ESX host.

  In the right pane, click the tab "virtual machines". Now, you can select block all virtual machines here and simply right-clicking them stop all, or make other changes in bulk.

  Some changes via selection bulk require all virtual machines to be in the same State; Turned off the power, power, etc.

  If it works for you, please mark this answer as the 'response '.

• Create a new vsphere environment 6 and migrate virtual machines to esxi existing 5.1

  The current environment has a cluster with 5.1 esxi hosts and vcenter server 5.5-controlled.

  I would like to create a new environment vsphere 6 with new hosts. Again I mean a clean install of vCenter server 6 and esxi, implementation of the new cluster, etc.. So I won't be able to migrate virtual machines running in 5.1 esxi hosts to the new environment.

  What would be the appropriate steps to make this right?

  Thank you.

  Take a look at this KB on how to move an ESXi host at another vCenter vSphere: VMware KB: move a managed ESX ESXi host to a vCenter Server to a different Server vCenter

  And if you are using vDS, you should look here: KB VMware: ESX/ESXi host with vDS passing a vCenter Server to another

• Make a copy of a virtual machine under ESxi

  I have a couple of the virtual machine running under VSXi 5.1

  How to make a copy of these to another server or NAS?

  Other field boxes don't Windoze-Server 2003, 2008 and 2012

  It was easy under ESXi v2 under Win Server 2003!

  I suggest that you use the data store 'Browse' and then copy into the complete file to the desired location

• xenDesktop 7.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Eval executes in a virtual machine on esxi 5.5 + 5.5 b vcenter

  vSphere 5.5

  vCenter 5.5 b

  Virtual machines

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  DC1

  APP1

  CA

  SQL

  Mail

  VM1-xenDDC

  VM2 - VM7 (created as described in the guide of the examiner of citrix xenDesktop 7.1)

  When you install XenDesktop 7.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Eval

  This setup ESXI 5.5 server crash.

  I started to return the server ESXI 5.5 when vCenter came back upward, I preceded to start the VM1 and then tried to reinstalled xenDesktop 7.1 once again, but the same thing happens again, but it installs all of the packages, looks like it failed during the initialization of components.

  HOW a software which runs in VM1 CAN plant the hypervisor?

  shouldn't the only accident VM?

  Anyway, how can I config a VM to resemble a normal pc, so doesn't affect only not the hypervisor?

  Anyone who installed on ESXI 5.5 xenDesktop please post how you did and what config you use?

  I tried gen8 & gen10 VM, same problem.

  
  

  It is a known problem with the network card virtual e1000, access the vmxnet3 place.

  Linjo

• How to export/import a virtual machine with ESXi 5

  I use the free version of ESXi 5 and have created a virtual machine that is configured with the software for our project. I would like to share this virtual machine with other members of the team, some of whom are in other places and have slow network connections.  I want to pack the VM in a reasonable size file or a set of files I could ftp (or put it on DVD for people in areas of slow network) that they could then import into their ESXi hosts. The virtual machine has a 60 GB drive that is implemented by using the option 'thin', so it contains only 6 or 7 GB of real data right now.  Is it possible to export the image to a file or set of files that can be imported to another people ESXI host?  Before when I used VM Player we could do this by upgrading backup files in virtual machine directory and copy them to the new machine. With the ESXi data store, I don't know that something like this can be done.  I used vCenter Converter to convert to ESXi Infrastructure VM in VM Player format (and vice versa), but it is extremely slow. I think I might point the Source to my ESXi host and the Destination to a co-workers ESXi host and run a 'conversion' to transfer the files, but I think it would be very slow and impractical for some people to 'slow-network '.  I tried with vSphere Client navigation data store and I see the download options, but when I tried to download a VM directory it just hung.  I enabled ssh on my server ESXi and I found the store of data under/vmfs/volumes and when I look in the folder that contains my VM, there a file myvmname - flat hard which is 60 GB in size, so if I tar the contents of this folder to move elsewhere it will be huge.

  Can anyone suggest a solution?  The licensed version of ESXi would offer better alternatives?

  You can watch export OVF available in the Client vSphere for this function.

• Unable to ping Virtual Machines within ESXi host (vSphere Home Lab)

  I'm using VMware workstation 9, I have 4 virtual machines created inside the workstation.
  (192.168.1.0 network is defined inside VMware workstation VM network editor)

  Domain controller - 192.168.1.1
  ESX1 - 192.168.1.11 (2 NICs - vmnic0 and vmnic1 connected to n/w)
  Esx2 - 192.168.1.12 (2 NICs - vmnic0 and vmnic1 connected to n/w)
  Management Server - 192.168.1.5

  I have 2 virtual computers created inside the machine Esx1

  machine to SQL - 192.168.1.4
  vcenter1 - 192.168.1.2

  I have 1 computer virtual created inside the Esx2 machine

  vcenter2 - 192.168.1.3

  I can ping all the machines in the administration server - no problem

  Question - I can not ping vcenter1 to sql, cannot ping vcenter1 to vcenter2, cannot ping vcenter2 to sql.
  There is basically no communication between virtual machines with the Esx host and in the whole of the host. Firewalls is disable on all these machines virtual esx internal hosts.

  Any ideas how to solve this problem?

  Make sure that virtual network on ESXi hosts maps are Sunrise promiscous mode networking.

• removal of large size of virtual machine snapshot, esxi 4.0.0 (208167)

  Dear Experts,

  I am looking for assistance before you do this step, remove the snapshot of a virtual machine (NNMi-Test), 100 GB thick disk has been assigned to this virtual machine when it is created. After the installation of the operating system, we took a snapshot. Explained user had to test something on this one and we wanted as if during the tests of some problem occur due to the facilities at least that we can return to the fresh install of OS snapshot.

  After that we missed by mistake that we had seen on this machine. Now I want to delete this single snapshot, but its size is now KB 26,182,660. The current state of the machine, we want to keep, it's OK with us.

  I can proceed without fear of deleting, I should say 'remove all' OR 'delete '. Image is attached here with. This machine is the "EVAstorage2" data store and 193 GB is free on this subject.

  There is another virtual host below computers run on it, I also need help with clichés:

  -machine virtual (NNMi) , assigned to 150 GB thick disk, also have same instant problem has been created and it is now 7.7 GB,.

  This machine is on "EVAstorage1" and is 221GB free space

  -virtual machine (Bukhari), assigned thick 150 GB, also named snapshot after operating system installation and size soft

  this wink, shot is now showing only 128GB

  I have attached the images of the three machines I need assistance for: NNMi-Test, NNMi Bukhari

  Please note that the Esxi is 4.0.0 (208167)

  Please help me and require further details before giving an answer to me, please ask me. Also, keep in mind there are also other virtual machines on the same 'EVAstorage1' and 'EVAstorage2' data with disk available warehouses thin and little with thick disk.

  Kind regards

  Jocelyn

  The GUI seems to check the hard of the last snapshot file in the chain to see if it contains an entry "ddb.thinProvisioned". Because this entry is present in the hard disk basic GUI file guess a thick disc put into service.

  I suggest that you remove the snasphot of a single virtual machine at the same time and that after opening hours. Please make sure that there are no application backup or other task that would try to create a snapshot of this machine that performs the erase process.

  I wouldn't worry too much about the size of the snapshot or any performance impact, just be patient and wait as the deletion process at the end (which could take a while).

  The maximum required temporarily on the disk with a single snapshot is about the size of the snapshot itself more space for a snapshot of assistance, which contains changes to the virtual machine, while the removal is underway.

  André

• Change the default options for a NEW virtual machine in ESXI 5.1

  Hello

  I am looking for a solution change the 'default' options for a new virtual machine created in ESXI 5.1

  I want to have parameters such as 'cpu/memory HOT-add' default to enabled instead of disabled.

  There may be more options to change to a new virtual machine.

  All those who have an option to change the 'default' options for new virtual machines?

  THX

  You can change the/etc/vmware/config of vSphere host file and add the lines mem.hotadd = 'TRUE' and vcpu.hotadd = 'TRUE '.
  The settings then apply to any VM on this host when virtual machines are turned on...

  I just tried this on a 5.1 ESXi host and it seems to work perfectly...

  / Rubeck

• How do I backup virtual machines free ESXI?

  Hi all

  I tried to use Veeam but for reasons beyond my comprehension, they support free ESXI! The only other way I can think is to export OVF to each virtual machine, but it's very heavy.

  I use ESXI 5.0.

  ... and to add to what has already mentioned the André - take a look at explore Trilead VMX