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• When you look at the performance of a virtual machine, when you make a graphic of 3 months it appears correctly for the first two, but the last month is compressed.

  When you look at the performance of a virtual machine, when you make a graphic of 3 months it appears correctly for the first two, but the last month is compressed.

  Hello

  When you say that the last two months are compressed. I do not have what exactly you mean by that. Is there a chance you can attach a screenshot of the same thing? Also let me know if there are any made VC-database activity recently?

• Confused over the upgrades and full versions for Windows 8 on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I am wanting to legally install Windows 8 or 8.1 on a virtual computer. When I look at the Microsoft pages only, they seem to offer Windows 8 one update and I can't find a way to the purchase of a previous version either. Is anyone able to point me to an explanation in plain English what I should buy.

  Thanks for your help.

  If you need to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine, you must purchase the full version of license OEM System Builder. If you need to install Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine, you can buy the license of retail sales (which is a full version) or OEM System Builder License.

• The easiest for the owner of the virtual machine for heel of workflow?

  I'm trying to shoot and use the owner of the virtual machine in one of my workflow and it doesn't look like vCACVirtualMachine has these available goods.  What is the best way to get in my workflow for later use?

  You can try that... but there might be a problem of synchronization on the creation of an entity.

  (I think that there is a vcacvm.getEntity () method to get the actual entity.  I can't check right now).

  var ownerEntity = virtualMachineEntity.getLink (vCACHost, 'Owner') [0];

  Name of owner var = ownerEntity.getProperty ("UserName");

  I think I have other methods as well.  You have reason to assume that the applicant is not always the owner.

• Confused on how to get CpuTotalMHz for a VMHost (not a virtual machine)

  I'm new to PowerCLI and attempted several days a list of Clusters, associated with VMHosts in the cluster, with details on each VMHost, but I can't get all the details.  I'm looking for CPU info at VMHost level, not at the level of VMGuest.  the script it returns white instead of the data.

  Can someone point me in the right direction here?

  For example, when I run the script below, the last two fields (CpuTotalMhz and NumCpu) are empty!

  Cluster.Name and VMHost.Name are populated correctly.

  When I look at the Cmdlet PowerCLI reference (vSphere 5.5) for VMHost it shows a bunch of properties, but most of them seem inaccessible.

  No error message, just empty fields.

  $report = @)

  {foreach ($Cluster Get-cluster)
  Get-VMHost-location $cluster | %{
  $info = "" | Select the Cluster, VMhost, CpuTotalMhz, NumCpu
  $info. Cluster = $cluster. Name
  $info. VMHost = $_. Name
  $info. CpuTotalMhz = $_. CpuTotalMhz
  $info. NumCpu = $_. NumCpu
  $report += $info
  }
  }

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\tmp\vmware-reports\Cluster-Host.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  I tried to dig at the command line on the object generated by the Get - views, but can not find where VMHost information at the level of the CPU, RAM, etc. are available.

  [VI Toolkit] C:\tmp\vmware-reports > $VMHost = get-view - viewtype HostSystem-filter @{"Name"="esxhost.company.com"}

  [VI Toolkit] C:\tmp\vmware-reports > $VMHost

  Duration: VMware.Vim.HostRuntimeInfo
  Summary: VMware.Vim.HostListSummary
  Material: VMware.Vim.HostHardwareInfo
  Capacity: VMware.Vim.HostCapability
  ConfigManager: VMware.Vim.HostConfigManager
  Config: VMware.Vim.HostConfigInfo
  VM: {VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectRe
  Ference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference...}
  Data store: {VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectRe
  Ference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference...}
  Network: {VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference, VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference}
  DatastoreBrowser: VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  SystemResources: VMware.Vim.HostSystemResourceInfo
  Mother: VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  CustomValue: {}
  OverallStatus: Green
  ConfigStatus: Green
  ConfigIssue: {}
  EffectiveRole:-{2}
  Authorization: {}
  Name: esxhost.company.com
  DisabledMethod: {ExitMaintenanceMode_Task, PowerUpHostFromStandBy_Task, ReconnectHost_Task}
  RecentTask: {}
  DeclaredAlarmState: {738 - 1.host - alarm, alarm - 12.host - 738, 738 - 13.host - alarm, alarm - 14.host - 738...}
  TriggeredAlarmState: {}
  Value: {}
  AvailableField: bad memory {Module}
  MoRef: VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  Client: VMware.Vim.VimClient

  [VI Toolkit] C:\tmp\vmware-reports > $VMHost.HArdware

  
  SystemInfo: VMware.Vim.HostSystemInfo
  CpuInfo: VMware.Vim.HostCpuInfo
  CpuPkg: {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7}
  MemorySize: 51537383424
  NumaInfo: VMware.Vim.HostNumaInfo
  PciDevice: {12:00.1, 00:1d.0, 12:00.0, 00:1d.1...}
  CpuFeature: {VMware.Vim.HostCpuIdInfo, VMware.Vim.HostCpuIdInfo, VMware.Vim.HostCpuIdInfo, VMware.Vim.HostCpuIdIn
  FO...}
  BiosInfo: VMware.Vim.HostBIOSInfo
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  [VI Toolkit] C:\tmp\vmware-reports > $VMHost.Hardware.CpuFeature

  
  Level: 0
  Seller:
  EAX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1010
  EBX: 0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111
  ECX: 0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110
  EDX: 0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  Level: 1
  Seller:
  EAX: 0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0110
  EBX: 0000:0000:0000:0100:0000:1000:0000:0000
  ECX: 0000:0000:0000:1100:1110:0011:1011:1101
  EDX: 1011:1111:1110:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  Level:-2147483648
  Seller:
  EAX: 1000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1000
  EBX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  ECX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  EDX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  Level:-2147483647
  Seller:
  EAX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  EBX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  ECX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001
  EDX: 0010:0000:0000:0000:0000:1000:0000:0000
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  Level :-2147483640
  Seller:
  EAX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0011:0000:0010:0110
  EBX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  ECX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  EDX: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  Thank you

  -Joe

  Your script works for me (PowerCLI 5.5 and 6.0 R2 hosts)...

  I tried to dig at the command line on the object generated by the Get - views, but can not find where VMHost information at the level of the CPU, RAM, etc. are available.

  You were close, you can see $vmhost.hardware.Memorysize to the size in bytes. CPU info is $vmhost.hardware.CPUInfo, where you will find socket and core count, threads and speed in Hz

• Plan for the creation of new virtual machine with 3 TB data drive

  We have an old server, we need to virtualize, and one thing that we need is a lot more storage. We have approximately 3.25 TB of available for this machine (250 GB for the OS and 3 to for the data drives), but I'm going in circles trying to find the best approach for this server. It is not possible to separate the data between several players because of the way the files are indexed. I have created a virtual machine with 2 TB of disk space (for the readers of OS and data) and added 1.25 TB of disk space I want to add on the data reader, but it does not seem possible to add 1.25 TB without destroying the data on the first disk of 2 TB. What is the best approach? Create a single disc for my virtual machine that is 250 GB and then add in two separate disks of 1.5 TB for storage and combine them within Windows?

  Thanks for your suggestions.

  Hello

  Unfortunately, the maximum size of virtual disk to a virtual computer is 2 TB - 512 bytes. In you case it should create two or three separate virtual disks and combine them (disks RAID 0 or concatenate). Another way (IMHO besser way) is to create several virtual drives and mount using NTFS mount points.

  An example:

  C:\Data is a folder on one of the virtual disks. Create a second virtual disks and create the C:\Data\Data2 folder. Rather than assign a drive letter for the newly created disk, you can mount it in the Database2 folder. This gives you the ability to move the largest files on separate virtual drives without lose you the structure of folders.

  Kind regards

  Patrick

• Create an alert n for disonnected/on which the virtual machine

  Hey guys,.

  I am running vCenter 4.1 and I want to create an alert for disconnected or no response from the virtual computer.  I havea hoe from basic idea to create the new detector of definitions, but I can't seem to find one that does what I want.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you.

  You'll probably have to create a new alarm "monitor for specific events on this object...". "Alarm type must be the virtual machine.  Add a trigger to the disconnected event 'VM.  Next, configure your actions.

• Is there a setting for auto-start on the virtual machines on the blackout?

  I was wondering if there is an auto on when the server has no juice because of a power failure. I do not mean the actual physical vm server, but the VM themselves on the physical server. Power outages happen always when I get to a computer for vpn in the VCenter.

  Thank you

  Gary

  Yes, it is possible

  -In the vSphere client, select the ESX/ESXi host,

  -Go to the configuration tab.

  -Select in the software section, the option to start/stop the virtual machine.

  -Click on properties on the right of the screen.

  -Activate the option "allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system."

  -Select the virtual machine and move the virtual computer in the correct startup group.

  I have attached a few screenshots.

  Best wishes / Saludos

  -

• Comments operations are not allowed for anonymous users on this virtual machine

  Hello

  After a lot of trying, I finally managed to connect to a virtual machine in VMware Server 2.0.2

  However, I get the error "comments operations are not allowed for anonymous users on this virtual computer" when I try to run notepad.exe. I think that some permissions must be set. So I put comments and guests of user group to be able to administer the object (VM); but still this error comes.

  Can someone help me pls with getting beyond this error.

  Thank you very much.

  This has come up before on this Forum. Be default, Windows does not allow for remote log-ins for accounts without password, which prevents the VIX to perform log-ins comments in this situation.

  You can follow the steps described in the following thread to enable remote log-ins for accounts without password or change the account to have a password.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/910606

• Default directory for the creation of new virtual machines

  Is it possible to change the default folder for new virtual machines in the data store? Then, instead of esxi always create virtual machines directory under / you can have create the folder in a subfolder.

  Must be removed. I just watched ghetto HA script a lamw to see if she could be easily adapted to do. I don't think it would take a lot. It would automate the task of the cancellation of registration, travel and re-entry.

• Catch22, how to change the settings for VirtualCenter, running as a virtual machine

  I'm running as a virtual machine under ESX 3.5 VirtualCenter. I want to change the setting of this virtual machine, but of course, the only way to change many parameters of a virtual computer is to stop the guest OS. I just changed the type of NIC on all my virtual machines, except VirtualCenter, using this procedure:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1007195

  I want to change the adapter for VirtualCenter to improve vmxnet as well. How to work around the Catch22 needing VC running to change virtual machines but requiring judgment VC to edit it?

  Laughing out loud

  Shut down the virtual computer. Open the VI Client and instead of the IP address / hostname of the VC Server enter the IP address / hostname of the ESX host. You must use an ESX account for it! If in doubt try then the VM VC is still under way.

• Help for a demo: create multiple virtual machines

  Hello

  I am a beginner in vCO, I completed the installation and configuration with success and I started to create workflows, but I guess that I need help with an example that I started yesterday:

  I am creating several virtual machines at the same time, I mean all the user have to do is say how VMs, he wants to be created and the workflow must do the rest, but I don't know what is the best way to do so, in the present workflow in the library , find us only 'create simple VM' so I added a few scriptable tasks to this workflow, but still can't do what I want.

  Any solution plese? or a few best practices to perform this type of workflow? Maybe I missed a workflow can create multiple virtual machines with different names but the same configuration.

  Thanks in advance,

  This can help out you.

• Creating a property for a Total of your virtual machines

  How can I create a custom property to the total number of virtual machines in my report, such as:

  Get - vm | Select the name,

  @{N = "TotalVMs"; E = {TotalTheNumberOfVMs}}

  Thank you!

  Something like that

  $vms = Get-VM$vms | select name,  @{N="TotalVMs";E={$vms.Count}} 
  

  Note that this simplistics rather than he doesn't face not VMs returned.

• What is the average size of a snapshot for the size of the virtual machine?

  I'm curisous if there is an average size, percentage wise, a snapshot by report to it's other virtual machine files.  Anyone?

  I am trying to gage how much space I need in their housing. Also if I can't stand instant in the same directory as the rest of virtual machine files, how I would Flash a different data store?

  Basically, snapshots start at zero and increase when they are used. Snapshots should be very short term and therefore should not become large.

  Snapshots
  Best practices http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279
  Understanding http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180

• Windows licensing for vSphere Essentials all Linux virtual machines running

  We offer vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus of application virtualization on a company that currently has 4 servers that run multiple applications under CentOS. The two products are very good values, providing important functionality at a reasonable cost. Yet, society of the end-user has some resistance to the required cost of Windows Server licenses. There is no Windows servers on this network. Even a minimal vSphere Essentials requires usually 3 Windows Server licenses (for the domain controller, vCenter server, and database server) and a SQL server license. Even when using standard licenses, the total cost of these is higher than the cost of the essential elements of vSphere. Other people deploying vSphere Essentials on Linux-oriented networks are finding ways to use a lower number of Windows Server licenses?

  vCenter Linux would be an alternative in such cases, but this project seems to be stalled.

  Thank you.

  Welcome to the community,

  If you're only going to do the virtualization of servers (not VMware View) the vCenter Server does not need to be a member of the domain, or you need a separate SQL Server for a small environment. The edition of SQL SERVER 2005 Express (included in the vCenter Server installation) is sufficient.

  While a single license of Windows (more CALs) would do.

  André