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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." "

• Using VMWare Studio 2.6.0 to manage virtual machines on a host ESXi 4.1.0

  Hi all

  I'm having a problem connecting to our 4.1.0 ESXi host using VMWare Studio 2.6.0 (and it is quite possible that the problem is that I'm badly understand what VMWare Studio is supposed to provide). What I would do is create/configure/manage the virtual machines on our ESXi server from within Eclipse, similar to what I can do with vSphere client. However, when I open the Explorer of VMware Studio and try to set up the connection, I still get the error message "Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx failed. Difficulty of connection settings and try again or cancel. "I use the default port of 5480 number and the same references that I use in the vSphere client.

  So, my questions are: I use the incorrect port number? I am using a configuration that is known not only not for work (ESXi 4.1.0 + VMWare Studio 2.6.0)? Or am I completely misunderstanding what VMWare Studio and is not?

  Please specify!

  I think you misunderstand what did the Studio. It's simply a VM construction kit. Once created, the OVF Studio is out of the picture. He does, eventually, put some components in the virtual machine to manage addresses network, proxies, updates, etc. but above all, he was only VMs.

  The Eclipse of Studio plugin is simply another user interface in the Studio build system and will work only if it points to a Studio running. It will not serve the goal of the vSphere client.

• 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.

• two virtual machines on esxi, vm linux server can ping and ping to the outside, windows can ping but incoming requests timeout

  Hello

  I have an ESXI server with two network cards, each connected to separate the subnet in the same Cisco switch.

  First interface is in 10.231.5.0/255.255.255.0 and the second is 192.168.118.0/255.255.255.0

  Initially, I built a virtual machine with MS Windows 2003 R2 Standard with two network interfaces with static IP addresses on both subnets. 10.231.5.153(Gateway configuré sur cette carte réseau) and 192.168.118.153.  It has also installed vm tools.

  Second built vm is Ubuntu 8.10 with two network interfaces and two static IP a linux server in each subnet. This virtual machine has never had no problem contacted subnets one bit and he can go out on all of the subnets that are routable through the switch. Static IP addresses are 10.231.5.152(gateway est configuré sur cette carte réseau) and 192.168.118.152

  The Windows virtual machine has always been a bit flaky. Sometimes he would not be able to ping on all interfaces (while the State of the network in Windows showed the incoming and outgoing packets).  Sometimes he could ping another Vm and ESXI management IP but could not ping to the outside on the network 10.231.5.0 or 192.168.118.0. Deactivation and activation of network interfaces seem to make a difference with outgoing network access is enabled. However, if I try to ping back part of the same subnet a machine outside the ESXI Server ping timeout. It's weird as after having activated a deactivation of the network interface, that he even manages to ping subnets a bit far, but pingees machines cannot he ping back. However, these machines have no problem ping to the management of ESXI or Linux VM interface. Restart the machine virtual Windows translates the EPS of no longer being able to ping up to deactivation and activation of cards network again.

  I tried to activate the Promiscuous (the Accept value) mode on computer management virtual and vSwitch (vmnic1 and vmnic0 appear in the collection of NETWORK adapters window), but it did make a difference.

  Pointers would be very much appreciated.

  Thank you

  Windows Firewall is enabled?

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• 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

• VCo workflow to clone a virtual machine of centos. Network interface problem

  Hello

  I use vco workflows to clone a virtual machine of vcenter. The virtual machine is running centos 6.0. When cloning is complete. I see the network eth0 and eth1 interfaces set correctly the static gateway ip and address information I provided. I deleted the 70 - persistent - net .rules on the basic vm form which I clone. So, I get the correct interface names. But when vm powers on and I run "ifconfig eth0" I don't see the IP address of this interface has all the details.  same for the other interface also.

  But if I do a system restart network without changes to networking and then do an ifconfig I see the IP with the previous information.   I don't know why the service network restart is necessary so that he can recognize the ip address.

  Any ideas what I could do wrong. or to avoid this manual step of the execution of the service network restart command on the creation of the vm.

  Thank you

  Kiran

  Yes I'm restarting after after the application of customization.

  Has been able to solve the problem... In CentOS, the network service does not work by default. This is why it does not have network interfaces at startup. So now the machine instant, I started the network services and stop the Network Manager service

  using chkconfig network on

  chkconfig NetworkManager off

  and then cloned from this virtual machine... and apply the customization settings. during the start now it shows the interfaces properly without needing a service restart

• 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.

• migrate virtual machines to esxi 3.5 free vsphere 4.1 without vcenter

  Hi all

  I have vms on 2 hosts esxi 3.5 with direct (without san)-attached storage that I want to migrate to a new server esxi under license of 4.1 vsphere essentials. I intend using the stand-alone converter to migrate virtual machines from 3.5 to 4.1 and then upgrade the other two hosts to 4.1 and then moving some virtual machines using the converter.

  I have Web servers that I don't want to bring down more than 10 to 20 minutes (not the 1 to 2 hours that should be a cold conversion with converter) so I try to use the feature p2v on the virtual machine running Web servers.

  Has anyone done this with no san and no vcenter? If so how did you do?

  is it possible to migrate without losing configurations of network adapter in the virtual machine?

  I can just do something like taking a snapshot of the system of runnying, then copy files to new host, then add to the inventory, upgrade tools, hardware upgrade?

  Thank you!

  is it possible to migrate without losing configurations of network adapter in the virtual machine?

  After you copy the files and re - add to inventory new virtual machine, you must take care on the issue of handgun that you see in the market.

  Choose I_moved the files to keep the VM UUID and the same virtual MAC address.

  André

• To access the email (Inbox) via web interface

  Hi all.
  I'm testing the functionality of Oracle beehive.
  
  I installed the hive 1.4.3.0 + beekeeper 1.4.3.0 on windows 2003. Is it possible for a user to access email, address book, etc. via the web page as it is in the Zimbra? If yes how can I access it? (url, port).
  
  Concerning
  
  Groxy

  Hello
  If you had 3 GB or more of RAM of the machine where you installed the server of the hive, the Zimbra web interface would been configured automatically in 1.4.3. It'll be at: http://application-tier server: port/zimbra. Where "Server" is the hive, and the port is probably 7777 if there was nothing else on the machine using this port when you installed.

  Richard

• Firesight Management Virtual Center in ESXi version 6

  Hi all

  Is it possible to install any version of virtual appliance Firesight Management Center of vmware ESXi 6?.

  Thanks and greetings

  I have not tried it personally - it may be possible to install.

  However ESXi 6.x is not a supported platform yet. Even with the power of fire (new name for FireSIGHT) recently published Management Center 6.0, the supported versions of ESXi are 5.1 and 5.5.

  The source of this information is the Release Notes:

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/Security/Defense-Center/products-re...

• 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