Migration of VM to ESXi 6

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• 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

• Migration of VM to ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1

  Hello

  I am currently working on the migration of our vCenter 2.5 / ESXi 3.5 environment to vSphere 4.1 / ESXi 4.1.

  I built a new vSphere 4.1 / ESXi 4.1 environment and have removed a host ESXi 3.5 vcenter 2.5 with the management of the virtual computer and added to a temporary cluster environment vSphere 4.1 to 3.5 hosts.

  I use dvSwitches in vSphere 4.1 and shared storage on hosts of 3.5 to 4.1. All guests, 3.5 and 4.1 may see the same LUNS and data warehouses.

  I'm looking at the best way to migrate the virtual machine to the host 3.5 to 4.1 hosts.

  I'm unable to migrate a virtual computer between the 3.5 and 4.1 host computer as network configurations do not match. Is my only other option to remove the server from the inventory, then add it to the host 4.1?

  Thank you

  Ben

  Just an idea. Assuming that you can release at least a single NETWORK card, you could create a standard vSwitch with the 'old' port group names temporarily and migrate virtual machines. Once done, you can change the network settings on the virtual machine to point to the dvSwitch.

  André

• 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

• Migrate vSphere Essentials of ESXi (free)

  I am running 2 physical hosts:

  -ESXi 4 (simple quad-core CPU)

  -Esxi 3.5 (double dual-core CPU)

  with a handful of virtual machines on each physical host. Each physical host is currently using DAS but I hope possibly migrate storage iSCS and possibly add another ESXi server at any given time.

  I want to take advantage of management features provided by vSphere Essentials (maybe more) but am a little unclear on what is actually needed for upgrade (?) to the essentials and what the structure of the network that results might look like at that time here. I upgraded on the spot or what I provide another physical host with the essentials for operational things?

  Any info is greatly appreciated.

  Well nothing use the vSphere license and upgrade the license for the "free" version  That's it, it's now a licensed product.

  If its ESXi 3.5, you just need the CD to ESX 4.0, run the installation, preserve the VMFS datastore, follow the prompts, restart is.  That's all.

• Make pseudo migration cold with free ESXi 3.5 VI Client?

  Even if I used VMware products for years (Workstation, Server), I'm still pretty new to ESXi.  I started using the free ESXi with the idea to be able to live migration between ESXi hosts.  However, I then discovered that you can't do vMotion with free stuff.  No biggie; I probably don't need it anyway.  All I really need is the ability to move virtual machines between ESXi hosts.  I'd settle for migration cold.  However, after reading the article on migration in the basic manual Admin, it seems I have to use Virtual Center to be able to do.  Am I wrong?  And I'll take it, Virtual Center is not a free download.

  But do I really need to Virtual Center to move virtual machines between ESXi hosts?  It seems to me that I could just use VI client to do a migration of the nickname 'cold '.  Is there something wrong with the following scenario:

  1. all VM files are kept on a central NFS server.

  2. I stopped the VM on HostA.

  3. Add the virtual machine to host b inventory.

  4 remove the virtual machine from the inventory of the HostA.

  5. I turn the VMS on host b.

  Of course, this is not automatic and not stupid, but it's free so I can't complain.

  Thanks in advance for any information or advice you can give me.

  No, and that's all a 'cold' vmotion is anyway...

  Take a look at this http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9400 (ghettoQuickMigrate.sh) (free vmotion)

• Need help migrating desktop VMs to ESXi 5

  Recently, I have set up my ESXi server but am having a hard time, all my images (VMware Fusion) Office move to my new server.

  I tried two approaches: VMware Converter and OVF models with success mixed in both.

  For VMWare Converter, almost half of the virtual machines I try to convert gives me this error when I select the source image and click Next: "unable to get material for the selected machine information.

  I was not able to find a common point between those who work and those who are not. Some are Linux, some are Windows 7, Server 2008, etc.

  For those who does not work with converter I tried to convert to the FVO, however, I see mixed results there too. Some work, but others when I click on deploy OVF in VSphere process completes very quickly and I noticed that the vmdk is created in my data store but 0 bytes. So, when I try to start the virtual computer fails because it cannot find an operating system.

  Someone has a better approach or may help to explain why I see this issue? VMWare Converter seems to be the way to go, I can't go beyond this error on some of my machines!

  To run the VMs Fusion in ESXi, you don't have a converter, and you don't need FVO-export.

  The vmx file is already compatible ESXi.
  The vmdk can be made compatible with ESXi
  -vmware-vdiskmanager (if you do it on the merger)
  -vmkfstools (if you do on ESXi)

  So, basically, you just download vmx and vmdk with SCP, Datastorebrowser, or whatever you prefer.

• Migrate Workstation VM to ESXi host

  We are implementing our systems and want to initially put vsphere on a window 7 64 bit VM, which will be located on a workstation.  Down the road a bit I want to spend this VM of the workstation on an ESXi host.  What mechanism to use to do this. I am running workstation 7.  Thank you.

  .. .and want to initially put vsphere on a window 7 64 bit VM...

  Can you explain this please!

  Normally, you would use VMware Converter to convert a VMware Workstation VM on an ESXi host.

  André

• migrate VM to esxi 5.5 essential esxi 5.5 standard

  My colleague has created some virtual machines on a standard server ESXI 5.5, and I need to migrate to a server ESXI essentials 5.5.

  Is it possible to do?  If Yes, what is the process I should follow?

  I would certainly seek options to make a vMotion as is the safer (less chance of data destruction / corruption / configuration change) method of all described below.

  Shared storage would be the simplest way - start the virtual machine on the data store that is accessible to both - source and destination hosts. Remove the virtual machine from the inventory (do not drive delete!) on the source host and register / add to the inventory on the destination.

  Another option - in the case where you have a local shared network accessible on both source and destination hosts, temporarily add to vCenter, where the source host is registered (using a standard license or eval) and make a vMotion (classic or enhanced, depending on the architecture and the type of storage used), your destination host.

  Still another option - export the virtual of Fiction on the source machine and import on the destination. Test your virtual machine after you import it in destination and before that you have deleted from the source.

  VMware Converter is a valid option, however I would like to leave as a last resort because it might actually change the content VM.

  I hope this helps.

• Cannot migrate VM between 5.5 ESXi versions: the version of the product to the destination host does not support one or several CPU features

  We receive an error message that I am trying to make sense. I understand very well the notion of compatibility, CPU, CPUID, masking and so on, after working on a competitor hypervisor. However, this error seems wrong (or needs better wording) based on my understanding:

  Here is the message:

  ----

  A general error occurred: the version of the product to the destination host does not support one or several features of the CPU currently use by the virtual machine.

  Characteristics of CPUID level 0 x 1 'ecx' register are indicated with a '1' bit: x00x:xxx0:xx0x:x 000: x 0 11xx:00: 00xx:11xx

  ----

  
  

  This happened during the migration between two hosts ESXi with the same physical processors - in this case, a Westmere X 5650.

  
  

  The source host is on ESXi build 2068190 (5.5). The destination host is on ESXi build 1474528.

  
  

  The bits it seems to complain are:

  
  

  DTES64

  Monitor/MWait

  Cx16

  PDCM

  The punch line seems to be: "the product version of the destination host. However, I have trouble believing that support for these features have been added to ESXi between the two versions. If it were, VMware has been certainly silent about.

  For what it's worth, explicitly set us the CPUID masks in our virtual machines (no, CVS is not an option for us at this time.) This is the mask:

  CPUID.1.EAX = "00000000000000100000011001010001".

  CPUID.1.ECX = "00000010100110001110001000111111".

  CPUID.1.EDX = "10001111111010111111101111111111".

  CPUID.80000001.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000001.

  CPUID.80000001.EDX = "00101000000100000000100000000000".

  cpuid.d.EAX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.EDX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  Note that the bits of the message complains (2, 3, 14, 15) * are * in fact forced to '1' in our mask of cpuid.1.ecx. That means (if I understand correctly), ESXi does not have the virtual machine unless the host processor supports the feature. And in our case, the virtual machine will start with happiness on nodes, with both versions. It will be not simply migrate between them.

  So, long story short, is this a bug of ESXi? The error message is misleading? I understand something?

  Thank you

  
  Matt

  To use the masks feature VM in this way, you must replace all the 1 to your masks with-'s:

  CPUID.1.EAX = "00000000000000-000000 - 00-0 - 000-

  CPUID.1.ECX = "000000-0-00--000---000-000---".

  CPUID.1.EDX = '-000 - 0-0 - 0-

  CPUID.80000001.ECX = "0000000000000000000000000000000 -"

  CPUID.80000001.EDX = "00-0-000000-00000000-00000000000.

  cpuid.d.EAX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.ECX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  cpuid.d.EDX = "00000000000000000000000000000000".

  Zeros erases the features that are not available on your hosts Westmere, and dashes will leave the other one features.  The problem with those masks was forced to you certain features on who would have normally been off.

• Speed low migration between 2 esxi host

  Hello!

  I have 2 Server esxi 5.5. They have two stores of data and 1 GB ethernet. When migrates a to another esxi esxi VM, network speed shows 150 MB/s and write speed of 30 MB on the disk. During the migration from one disk to another within the same host write speed about 60 MB. And when I test the speed with iperf between two VM on different hosts, shows 900 MB/s speed.

  Please help me, why speed is so low when migrating from one host to others?

  And then migrating NFS to a data store local speed 150 MB/s and when, from the local to NFS push up to 900 MB/s.

  Hello

  you look here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2284963#2284963

• Migration of ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 on different servers.

  Hi everyone, we are trying to migrate our existing infrastructure of 12 servers (running on ESXi 4.0) and we will migrate these images to 3 'Super-serveurs'.

  What is the best practice to do?

  -Install ESXi 4.1 on new servers and migrate directly to them.

  -Install ESXi 4.0 on the new servers and update with the images already stored on them

  Also, I don't think I'll need to use the Vmware converter to do this, since I'm an ESXi to an ESXi migration.

  Thank you

  R

  Welcome to the community - do a new install of ESXi 4.1 and then migrate virtual machines - a few questions - do you have vCenter? You have a shared storage - SAN or NAS?

  If you have vCenter I would upgarde than the first and if your have available licenses to add new servers 4.1 and vMotion virtual machines running. If you have a license for vMotion, otherwise you can cold migrate virtual machines.  It also means that you have shared storage.

  If you do not vCenter but they have a storage shared for your virtual machines set up the new hosts to access the power of shared storage down VMs on the original host computers and add them to new hosts

  Also as an info there is no need converter migrate between ESX and ESXi.

• vCenter converter 5.1 - just P2V to esxi 5.1 but stop virtual machine by iteself

  I P2V a machine using vCenter converter 5.1 and migrated to 5.1 ESXi host. If conversion/migration is finished without error. Now when I turn on the computer, virtual it stops up to the login screen and it goes on and on. Not able to understand what is happening. I veried resources assigned these looks good.

  Some successful how to enter safe mode. UPS service was guilty. Disabled it and also default actions has changed for this service of "Non-action" for all three incidents.

  No problems now and new virtual machine works very well without any problem

• Normal distributed vSwitch using and migration of vSwitch

  Hi people,

  As at the present time I intend to migrate my ESX and ESXi 4.1 in ESXi 5.1 update 1, I wonder if my expectations using DVS is correct.

  I have more than 40-50 VM hosts of joint enterprise & Enterprise Plus (soon to ESXi 5.1u1) managed with VCenter 4 x single Stand Standard 5.1 U1 so to simplify configuring vSwitches, can we establish the DVS?

  To join and implement the DVS, makes ESXi hosts each must have the same number on rising Teddy?

  How can I put all my vSwitches in DVS without causing any major downtime for the current production running VMS?

  With the help of DVS can make life easier restore network settings when a particular ESXi host is unable to start because of a hardware problem or does not upgrade?

  If anyone can help me with the question above that would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Well, we will try to address all here...

  1. you can only have DVS on ESX servers with Enterprise Plus licenses. Any other license does not support the DVS. Anyway, you can create a DVS where participate only the Enterprise hosts more under license.

  2. the DVS facilitates network management when you have many servers ESX os - if you need to create/modify a GROUP of ports, you don't have no need to go on each ESX Server on your cluster/DC, the configuration is "replicated".

  3. the guests didn't need to have the same number of uplink, but they * must * have the same number of uplink dedicated to the DVS, in order to avoid configuration problems (if you force a dvPortGroup use a spacific dvUplink and one of the hosts has no network cards on this dvUplink, communication fails when a virtual machine is on this defective ESX).

  4 Yf you have spare NICs on your system, you can attach them to the DVS and simply change the portgroup on each virtual machine configuration (there are assistants who can help you to do this on all the virtual machines at the same time for a given portgroup). After that, you can reacomodate the network cards on the DVSs.

  5 DVS are hell for troubleshooting if you get in the case that a problem happens with bonds rising and much more if the ESX management relates to the DVS.

  I hope this helps understand better DVS

• Trouble with SSH plugin and 5.0 ESXi hosts...

  Hello

  As I migrated my hosts to ESXi 4.1 to ESX5.0 Build 822926, I can't connect to these hosts using the SSH connection plugin.

  I tried with a vCO device version a 4.2 and another with version 5.1, without success.

  The error message is always the same: auth failed.

  But with PuTTY or other SSH client, using the same credentials, it works fine...

  I maybe missed something in the ESX 5.0 configuration?

  Thank you for your help.

  BZ.

  Please check this.