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• Migrate from virtual vCenter5.0 of physical server

  Hi guys,.

  I'm in the process of upgrading my vSphere5.0 to 5.1, but before that I want to migrate my vCenter5.0 (VM on the cluster to vSphere5) to the physical server. I know there is no direct upgrade from the virtual to the physical server, so I have to migrate virtual and physical memory with same version 5 and then pass vCenter5.0 to 5.1 on the physical server. Please help with the steps and questions below:

  1. build the server target with the same operating system (win2008r2 std x 64, partition of 2 x 1 for OS and 1 for the vCenter database)

  2. stop services vCenter vCenter backup config using the data migration tool (vCenter5.0). Backup DMT include the ADAM database as well? If this is not what is the best way to migrate the ADAM database?

  3. SQL database backup

  4. create the DSN connection on the target server

  5 copy the Migration.zip data for the target server

  6. run install.bat and follow the wizard, can I install the data to a different location as 2nd partition, or it must be in the same place as on the source

  7 restore the SQL database

  8 restart target vCenter

  Any help will be appreciated!

  Thank you

  S

  Sandyforvmware wrote:

  Hi Gkeerthy,

  Everything is on the same virtual server and I use SQLexpress.

  Please could you confirm 2 steps below:

  1. I don't have to create the DSN connection if everything is on the same server, is that correct? n ' yes no need to create the DSN

  2. I use 2nd partion on the Server D: target as a new location for the DB (Source have a single partition C: and all that is on it), it won't break anything, just? You can select the destination during installation... no thing will happen

  Thank you very much

  See the info up-to-date

• vCentre virtual conversion physical server

  We run vCentre 4.0 server who is physically installed on windows xp and want to virtualize in our vSphere ESX DR environment. The intention is to use the vCentre converter to generate the virtual machine on the server ESX and then use the existing physical vcentre to recognize the virtualized vCenter VM and set its IP address to what was the physical vCentre and then decommission the physical vCentre. During our attempted conversion vCentre VM, we have experienced a blue screen at 95% and conversion failed, note it was after stopping relevant services and the SQL db. This approach is possible, or does it install vCentre on a virtual machine manually and move the database?

  Thank you

  Hello

  I recommend installing a new Virtual Center, then restoring the DB and start working it would be best practice as well. If the converter is defective please check the logs of converter to see why and where it fails.

  Please take a look at the following KB

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/5850444

  Kind regards

  Jana.

  NOTE: If your question or problem has been resolved / answered, please mark this thread as answered and awarded points accordingly.

• A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  Hello gentlemen,

  I can not only save this virtual machine with Backup Exec 2014 for a long time.

  They are there was no snapshot in snapshot Manager.

  Could you help me?

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  V-79-57344-38260 - failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine is no longer exist, or may be too busy to pause to take the snap.

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\FRPA111PRIM01.

  V-79-57344-38299-\vm\FRPA111PRIM01 ha-data center (DC) VMVCB::\\192.168.204.42\VCGuestVm\ (DC). To try to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it could not be suspended in a file system.

  Hello

  I found the solution.

  I disabled the JOB BE general relativity.

  and the host where the virtual machine belong was not the right time. No Ntp server has been configured.

  I did and now there works.

  I think that the problem can come from this.

• V.11 ColdFusion Standard can be installed and executed on a Windows virtual server, or must it be installed on a physical server?

  V.11 ColdFusion Standard can be installed and executed on a Windows virtual server, or must it be installed on a physical server?

  It can be installed on physical servers and virtual machines. He political license would be different for the physical server and a virtual machine.

• Convert a physical server (w / HBA) virtual

  Hello

  I need your help to convert a physical server connected to a HP Modular Storage Array 1000 thanks to an HBA.

  My question: what is the best practice to do this kind of conversion? When I select the physical server VMWARE converter will convert the storage on a virtual drive?

  Thank you.

  Pedro

  The big question is what is the storage. ESX (i) have a limit on the size of the drive (2 TB less than 512 bytes). The MSA1000 is less than 2 TB, you should be able to run the converter and create the virtual server, including the E: drive. If the MSA is greater than 2 TB, but the used space is less than 2 TB converter will allow you to create the fret.

• What is a physical server to virtual best practices?

  I have a physical server with an attached drive HP 6400 Bay.

  We want to convert it to a virtual machine.

  What is advised to do?

  Hello

  For me personally I'd go with rehabilitate VM manually and then import / migration of data from P2V (using VMware converter) is generally not the sweet/good approach.

  in regards to the San, you can deploy the virtual machine as RDM virtual mode as a pure big VMDK (2 TB - 512 bytes).

• Conversion of physical server into a virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to take a physical server and convert it to a virtual machine on the same box.  I'm new to VMs, so please tell me if this is possible and if yes, what is the best way to do it. Right now, I think these are the basic steps:

  (1) take operating system image current (2003 Server STD) using Acronis.

  (2) wipe server and install ESXi 4.

  (3) use the free VMware Converter to convert the Acronis image to a guest VM on the ESXi host.

  Will this work? Am I missing something? The traps that I should look out for?

  A few questions more to go with this:

  -J' currently have an ESXi 3.5 on a desktop host. Wouldn't be better to convert this machine on the fly to a guest on this 3.5 host, then move the guest to the new 4.0 host once it is ready?

  -This server is now an application server and has a few databases, such as WSUS and Kaspersky Administration kit and maybe something else I can't think right now. Is that causing trouble with the DBs in the transition from the physical to the virtual?

  -The machine has also acts as a file server and is connected to our iSCSI SAN. Will be a problem or I would be able to remap the LUN to the virtual machine quite easily just like I did to the physical machine?

  Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  As long as you can take decisions associated with the image with Acronis and then convert it to a virtual machine, I think this is a good approach.  You can convert the server in a virtual machine running on your ESXi 3.5 environment but I would not run a server database production on class workstation hardware.  The performance would be probably pretty bad if you had a large number of users hitting that database.  As for using Acronis I know that it is supported but in the past I have never tried to convert an Acronis image for a virtual computer by using converter.

  The databases themselves should not have any problem on a virtual machine.  SQL runs in a virtual machine and saw complex databases even accomplish a lot.

  Reconnect to your iSCSI SAN shouldn't be a problem either.  You must ensure that the networking on the newly built 4 ESX host is configured to allow you access to all the VLANS required (iSCSI VLANS, server VLAN, etc.).  It is an important step to ensure that you have right or you will not be able to reinstall your iSCSI LUNS, once the server is converted.  Once the networking is configured the process of reconnecting to the iSCSI LUN from inside your virtual machine is the same as if it was physical.

  Good luck!

• Required physical server Vs Virtual Machine memory

  Is there a white paper explains why we we need less memory in the Virtual Machine as compared to the physical Machine.

  The problem is that my boss wants to know why this is so. It is very difficult for me to explain this to him, he wants to see a white paper OR some article on the internet.

  As long as a VM administrator, I know that we can add and remove a virtual computer memory but it will be not that simple when it comes to physical servers. I suggested to him that we must follow a standard, and if there is a requirement for business we can increase or decrease is according to the needs. So when the salesman comes in they give us specifications for the physical server and not the virtual and there is always an argument that why should have 6-8 GB memory VM from the outset. In order to avoid everything that the arguments it needs more proof.

  Thank you

  Here is a simple explanation of why VM need less memory.  Transparent page sharing.

  If you install a virtual of Windows 2008 SP2 single server machine, lets assume that it uses 500 MB of RAM while sitting idle.  It's basically all running components loaded into memory.

  If you then put a same VM, the new machine virtual don't re-charge not the exact same components in memory.  ESX will see the same exact memory block has been loaded into the memory of the host Server1 (phyiscal material) and then simply point the virtual machine to the component already loaded into memory.

  After the virtual machine has been loaded and GST has kicked, you will probably find that for 2 identical virtual machines you use not only 650MB of memory (not 1000 as expected).  This is because 80% of the components has need of the new virtual machine, it only uses the existing memory blocks, instead of duplicating.

  Now, repeat this operation on 10 VM and assume only 50% of the memory is the same between them... it is still a huge economy of memory.  In this case, since each VM Windows is really loading only 250 MB of itself in memory and split the rest, technically you don't need to allocate 2 GB of RAM for each virtual computer... you can easily get away with putting 1 to 1.5 GB on this server and I have always the same ratio of available memory for the programs that you would do if it was a physical server.

• vCenter installed on a virtual machine and the SQL DB on the physical server?

  All the

  I'll run a VM on vCenter.  A question... It is noticed that the best practice not to have the SQL Databsase(Sql 2005) on the virtual computer

  but the DB on a physical server with an ODBC connection from the virtual machine.  My client will not fail to ask - why, I can't give a clear

  answer to the question.

  If I can someone state why it is better practice to have the SQL DB on a physical server?

  Thank you!!!

  Here are a couple

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/vc_database_performance.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/SQLServerWorkloads.PDF

  I hope that helps a little...

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• A physical server with 2 NETWORK interface card using a virtual machine as IPS (transparent VM) and everything should work normally?

  Hello guys.

  Is there a diagram that I made, using for my self this question.

  

  As you can see, I have a physical server with 2 NIC I don't want to use a VM (with Snort) as IPS / IDS system for inbound traffic on the management of VLANS. Is it possible to use this VM in this way (as an IPS/IDS, VM with two NIC without any routing work?)? Maybe you have a suggestion, how can I achieve this, as easy as possible? Maybe you have an opinion, what OS unix system do I use?

  Thank you for your time and your answers. Any useful information is much appreciated.

  Yes, it should work. You need to look out for, it's that the 'outgoing' NIC is not connected to the same physical switch as the entrant and that there is no link between these two physical switches, because this would create a loop of layer 2 on the network.

  I haven't worked much with Linux, but I don't see that you would have a problem to find some Linux/Unix with the possibility to bridge two network cards and use some software IPS to inspect the traffic.

• On which physical server is configured virtual IP address

  DB version: 11.2
  Operating system: AIX/Solaris
  
  
  When a problem occurs with a DB of RAC, the end user needs to provide us with the details of the DB connection. That is to say the host name or IP address of physical server (public IP), so that we could connect and start fixing the problem.
  
  But the end user looks at the tnsnames.ora file and gives us the VIP address found in the tnsnames file. Can't blame them
  
  I can't find the physical address of the VIP server. I need to know which physical server VIP is configured.

  ping, nslookup, host

  command displays only the IP address of the name of VIP.
  
  When you have a name of VIP, is anyway that I could determine which server (public IP) that VIP is configured?

  Hi Billy,
  I think that the OP does not know which physical server is the RAC cluster. He does not know the host name or IP address of node1 or Node2. There only the two nodes VIP, which was provided by the end-user (Prod support guy or developer)

  John,
  You should be able to ssh to the vip host name. Tectia using, I just do a SSH using VIP name and I managed to connect to its respective node

• where and how much Vcenter must be installed? as a virtual machine or physical host? -config is 2xESXi40 - CX4 - 120 1xEMC2 - DAS mode

  "BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATION.

  I work with 1 ESXi40 in DAS mode very good and everything is fine.

  I have still a few servers production of Phisical aditional to be virtualized, but before that

  We cultivate our virtual infrastructure by adding a second Esxi40 and installing the Virtual Center software and license to use HA, Vmotion, etc..

  the questions and the thing is, if I'm migrating all my hosts physic to the VMs system, do I need a new physical server to install Virtual Center, yes or no.

  and why?

  If this is not the case, the Vcenter can be virtualized, and what is the best practice to do this.

  which of the following configuration might be valid, the best recommendation and why and why not.

  (a) create 1 Vcenter VM, located in a data store on the hard drive that comes a host of Esxi40

  (b) create 1 Vcenter VM, created storage located in a data store that comes from the CX4-120, and the group contains 1 ESXi40 physical host

  (c) create 1 Vcenter VM, created storage located in a data store that comes from the CX4-120, and the group contains 2 ESXi40 physical hosts

  (d) create 2 Vcenter VW, created storage located in a data store that comes from the CX4-120, and the group contains 1 ESXi40 physical host

  (c) create 2 Vcenter VM, located in a data store that comes from the CX4 - 120, ahd, the storage group created containds 2 ESXi40 physical hosts

  Thank you

  MC.

  You're too complicate things...

  Do the vCenter as a virtual machine, which gives the requirements for processors, RAM, etc... Place it on a data store available to BOTH hosts. In fact, I would make sure that ALL s LUN where sit all VM are available for BOTH ESXi servers.

  I recommend also using a full SQL Server for the db, is not using SQL Express. If you have a SQL 2005 server, use it. If you want to future proof, vCenter things, put on a 64 bit OS (so you're ready for vCenter 4.1 and ESXi 4.1). Having the SQL database on a real SQL Server (other than the server vCenter Server/VM) makes things a lot easier on the road...

  VMware VCP4

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• Presentation settings is missing from the Windows Mobility Center

  Satellite L 300 with Vista Home Basic

  Recently installed everything, but have run windows update etc. Since then.

  Presentation settings does not appear in the Windows Mobility Center, and I can not find presentationsettings.exe anywhere on the computer.

  Have tried downloading VAP but no difference. Toshiba Assist has nothing to help me, I think.

  I tried looking for drivers and utilities for the L300 and sees nothing to help me - no presentation or power related only downloads.

  How can I get the presentation settings? The main problem I have is not to want the screen empties when you watch a DVD or streaming video. Even if you put windows power settings to never turn off the screen, it will still blank after a period of time without the intervention of the physical user, despite the video game.

  AFAIK this option is always available when the laptop is preinstalled with Toshiba (factory State) recovery image.
  You install own OS or what?

  I have two Toshiba laptops, and both of them have this option in the Windows Mobility Center.

• my wifi doesn't connect not - says disconnected by the mobility center - but no tile reconnection

  Compaq presario cq57 windows 7

  Wi - fi connection, error message stop said was disconnected by the mobility Center, but there is no tile

  to reconnect as it is on my other laptop. drivers update I tried, but they said ok to update and functional

  grateful for any input

  Thanks for the reply kathles.
  
  If the wi - fi button is blue, which means that it is enabled, it can be excluded that the issue.  I do not see a physical switch on this laptop be so that is also excluded.

  Then I would like you try to remove the device from Device Manager driver.  Then restart the laptop without having to reinstall and see if Windows detects new hardware and invites you to reinstall the driver.  Doing it this way should erase all settings disable the device and force it to reset itself.

  Let me know what the result please!