Monitoring and network of virtual machine failure alert

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• public network for virtual machines, private storage and the service console?

  Hello

  So far I had a pretty small facility with 2 servers with 4 physical network adapters each running ESX 3.5, a small box of EqualLogic SAN to shared storage and a few virtual machines on our network of regular reinforcement, routed, not on a private.   The network config was really simple.  I just put everything on real IP addresses on our network of building.

  Now I want to move the SAN and the traffic on a private service console network, but I don't know how to do this.

  Right now I use 2 NETWORK cards on each server:

  vmnic0 is configured on vSwitch0 and has the network of the VM on it that all my use of VMS to talk to the outside world, and it also has the Service Console that uses Virtual Center and I use ssh to it.

  vmnic1 is configured on vSwitch1 and a VMKernel Port and also a Service Console Port for iSCSI Software to talk to my SAN.  (never been clear on why both are needed to talk to the SAN, but doctors say they are)

  My plan is to set up a vSwitch2 and bind it to vmnic2 and implemented a VMKernel Port and the Service Console Port for software iSCSI on the 10.x.x.x network, set up my new (larger) SAN box on the 10.x.x.x network and simply use Storage vMotion to move virtual machines to the new storage space.  As soon as I did this, I would like to not use the Service Console on vSwitch2 and not a Console Service at all on vSwitch0.  Is it possible to delete the one on vSwitch0 and just use a new vSwitch2 for Virtual Center and ssh access?

  So my proposed configuration would be:

  vSwitch0: VM network only, used by the VM guests for oriented public access network, no construction of Network Service Console, linked to vmnic0

  vSwitch1: superfluous once I do storage vMotion of everything on my old SAN, will eventually remove and pair vmnic 1 with vmnic0, linked to vmnic1

  vSwitch2: VMKernel and Service Console on the network 10.x.x.x, used to access the new SAN, used by Virtual Center to access the ESX, used to SSH in to ESX on private network, associated vmnic2

  If it works?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  VMkernel ports cannot live on the same subnet. So if you have 3 vmkernel ports say: vMotion, iSCSI and NFS. You really need 3 subnets. 1 for each vmkernel port.

  Otherwise how does he know all send properly?

  Best regards

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• Networking between virtual machines on different hosts

  Hello

  I need some advice on the basic approach to networking between virtual machines, each running on a different host machine.

  Consider the following configuration:

  I have a few processes that are running in a Machine virtual Ubuntu. Call this guest1.  I guest1 race inside a real computer running Windows XP SP3 and VMware Workstation 7.x; Call this host 1.

  I have a copy of this virtual machine that I put on another machine.  Call this Guest2.  I have Guest2 running on a separate physical computer, also runs Windows XP SP3 and VMware Workstation 7.x; Call this host 2.

  Now, I would like to guest1 and 2 comments to make networking with eachother.  I wish they were able to ping, SSH, etc., among others.

  This is where I am stuck. I tried setting the virtual machines to use the bridged network mode.  I tried to connect my router on each computer and manually assigning IP addresses to each host and each virtual computer.  When I do this, guest1 can Host1 and Host2 ping, but cannot ping Guest2 and vice versa.

  What is the right way to do this kind of network?  This seems like an obvious application, if you want to perform simulations on multiple virtual machines residing on different computers on the network.

  I apologize if this is the answer elsewhere, I had to dig and was not able to find the solution.

  Thanks in advance!

  Charles

  Guests must be on the same subnet, like 'real' hardware machines.

  1 when you copied the VM and then started, what did answer you the question of copy/move? (this determines if a new MAC address is applied)

  2 view each guest and ' ipconfig/all' results 'ifconfig - a' by the hosts.

  Lou

• VMware HA and recovery of virtual machines (not to restart them)?

  Hello

  I need help clarify something with VMware HA.

  When I do manually our primary ESXI host, the VMs appear and restart on the secondary host.

  Yes virtual machines are restarted automatically, but it does not resume the virtual machine without interruption as DRS and provides that vMotion.

  Is there a way I can configure HA to not restart and resume the virtual machine in place without interruption?  If not, what are my other options I can configure in VMware ESXi do exactly, if any?

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  HA is used in the event of a host failure, so there is no chance to migrate a workload (curriculum vitae) to another host. What you are asking for can be achieved with FT (Fault Tolerance) where a secondary VM is created on a different host and basically synchronized with the primary virtual machine. In case of failure of the primary virtual machine VM school can resume (almost) without interruption.

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• "this host is not no matter what networks of virtual machine, or you don't have the permission to access ' ESXi V4

  I'm sure I'll be stupid on this one, but what does do to ensure that networks of virtual machine?  I get this message when I look at network/properties of a VM adapter 1.

  When the virtual computer runs, my network card think the cable is disconnected.

  I went to the host properties and of course there is a 'Virtual Machine port group"and a"VMKernel Port", both connected to my physical card.

  I don't see anything obvious on the network are disabled or anything like that.

  Please give me a hint?  Virtual machines to run it, but without any network connectivity.

  Thank you

  Joe

  I had this on the virtual machines that I moved from VMware Server 2.0. I found that there is no entry for the "ethernet0.networkName" in the .vmx files Server 2 (and probably Workstation) do not seem to care and connect ethernet0 to the first configured network. ESXi 4 all confused. So for me, the solution was to add

  ethernet0.networkName = 'Hand Lan'

  for each file .vmx before adding them for ESX. If you have already added the machine, you will need to remove it before you edit the .vmx file.

• How to install and configure the virtual machine with XP as an operating system on a Machine running Vista

  How to install and configure the virtual machine and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.

  * original title - how to install and configure the computer virtual and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.*

  How to install and configure the virtual machine and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.

  Hey Preethi23

  It comes to the installation of vista operating system instance

  read the links below

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Virtual-PC/support/Virtual-PC-2007.aspx

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Virtual-PC/support/FAQ.aspx

  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=04d26402-3199-48A3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en

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• Commands to start and stop a virtual machine hosted by VMware player

  Where can I find the commands to start and stop a virtual machine hosted by VMware player on a host Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)?

  I need to start and stop the virtual computer from a script as I could do this by selecting the ' power on ' and his 'guest stop' or at least 'power off' options of the GUI of VMware player.

  If a control interface is not available, is available if I update to VMware Workstation?

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  With the player, the VIX API is a separate download (on the same page you downloaded the install drive in), so I guess you will have to install the separate package to use it.  But it's pretty easy to do...

• Script in VMWare Server to stop, save and reboot the virtual machine

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  I want to create a script from windows vista Pro (which is my vmware server host) this judgment of a virtual machine before you save it and restart the virtual machine after.

  Does anyone know how to do this? This is my first script, so I don't know how to start...

  I saw this link:

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• Problem with the mouse and the network after the upgrade VMware Tools and hardware to virtual machine

  Hello world...

  I just upgrade my ESX 3.5 servers to vSphere 4.1. All this work is very well with the upgrade right now.

  After that, I tried to mise a niveau of VMware Tools and hardware of VM for my virtual machine and the problems started.

  I tried with two different VM (the two Windows 2003) and the problem appears for the two VM.

  I don't want to test another VM of the different operating system now, I'm afraid to go too far with update of Pentecost the problem I have now.

  I tried two VM to be sure that the problem is not only on a virtual machine.

  First of all, the mouse.

  My mouse has jerky movement. The button works, but sometimes I have to click several times to select what I want.

  I tried to uninstall the mouse in Device Manager and reinstall, but not really Pentecost improvement which (buttons works better, but... not so sure).

  Second problem.

  After you restart the server after VMmware tools and hardware virtual machine, the network link not working anymore.

  When I go to my network card configuration, IP settings are reset in DHCP mode.

  If I go again all my IP settings, Windows says:

  The IP address is hidden from the network and Dial-up connections

  folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a riser

  It does not work. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and

  they become active, only one of them will use this address. This may result

  in the incorrect system configuration. You want to enter a different IP address

  address of this adapter in the list of IP addresses for this card in the list

  Advanced IP address in the dialog box

  If I answer Yes to this, I have to enter a new IP address, and of course, this is not what I want to do.

  If I don't answer, the network working again.

  I think it is a strange message but the work of the vSphere maybe network now.

  Anyone have any idea why my work network and mouse as this upgrade after.

  All other VM that is not upgraded so far works great.

  Thanks in advance...

  (1) make sure that your hardware acceleration is safe enough. I got the upgrade down my hardware acceleration several times already.

  (2) sounds like the new drivers for your NIC cards took over and VMware is basically a new card NETWORK for you. Follow these steps to disable it:

  (a) open a command prompt

  (b) type (without quotes): 'set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices = 1' and press ENTER.

  (c) type (without the quotes): "start devmgmt.msc"

• Virtual machines view alerts

  Hi all

  My VMs shows alerts in Vcenter Server, although there is no visible alarm on the alarm tab. Not for the virtual machine, not for the host, and not for the data center.

  I can't connect to host virtual machines display no alert. I enclose a photo so you can see what I mean with a warning sign.

  It happened when we had an unexpected failure and virtual machines restarted.

  How can I solve this problem?

  Thank you

  Edy

  Edy Hello,

  Earlier, few people have experienced the same problem and have been able to fix by doing the vMotion of virtual machines. You see if it works for you? Maybe a service restart vCenter server to refresh the inventory followed by vMotion would be good too.

  -Obaid

• Make a VM use a NIC and all other virtual machines use another?

  Hello, I'm trying to understand how do a virtual computer using a NETWORK card, while all my other reviews VMs share another. Having a hard time to identify ways to implement. Someone knows how to do this?

  I've attached a screenshot of how my network is currently configured, if that helps.

  Thank you

  C

  You can create another group of ports say "VM network 2" and set the grouping of NETWORK adapters active vmnic1 and vmnic0 standby (in front of your current setting). Then add this virtual machine to the network of computer virtual 2. This allows switching between the two network cards. If you want to have the assistance of a NETWORK card all the time, just put a active and other "unused" in a single port and opposite group in the other group, or at the level of the switch. Port group strategy note may substitute the switch level policy.

• Deployment, customization and modification of virtual machines to a csv file

  Hello

  With lots of help from Eco91, I realized the script below.  He deploys a series of virtual machines at the same time, waiting that they to initialize and make customization of the OS, and then changes the basis of networking within the OS and also changes in the Description of the network:

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  )
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  $runningTasks-
  }
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  $runningTasks-
  }
  }
  Start-Sleep - seconds 5
  }

  
  # START HERE
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  Start-Sleep - seconds 300
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  Get-VM-name $VM. Name | 'Administrator' Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface - Guestuser - GuestPassword ' R! m2009 |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 4"} | Game-VMGuestNetworkInterface - Guestuser 'Administrator' - GuestPassword ' R! m2009"- IPPolicy - static IP $VM. $VM.Netmask - IP-Gateway $VM subnet mask. Gateway - DNS $VM. DNS
  }

  I would now like to replace the $VMlist variable and put rather information eVM th to a .csv file.  Any suggestions?

  Hello

  assuming this is your csv file

      "name","ip","netmask","gateway","dns","networkName"    "TESTSRV1","10.244.186.136","255.255.255.0","10.244.186.1","10.244.37.25;10.244.37.26","VLAN186_QA"
  

  you have a problem. Impossible to save all the tables in a csv file and do powershell natively recognize them.

  Instead, use a delimiter custom (not the same csv uses!) and split - to import - in a table. Look at the semicolon between two dns servers.

  $newVmList = import-Csv test.csv | Select-Object - property 'name', 'ip', 'mask', 'bridge', @{Name = "dns"; {Expression = {$_ .dns-split ';'}}, "networkName".

  The object resulting looks like this

      name       : TESTSRV1    ip         : 10.244.186.136    netmask    : 255.255.255.0    gateway    : 10.244.186.1    dns        : {10.244.37.25, 10.244.37.26} <-- Array    networkName: VLAN186_QA
  

  Concerning

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• How to install VMplayer 3 network for virtual machines to comminicate with each other?

  People,

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  Comments to: Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5

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  At the Windows XP command prompt:
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  He meets a few times and then disconnected by itself. It seems that Windows XP is ping itself and not Linux server. The host name of the Linux server is 'localhost' as well. It is a kind of confusion for me.

  
  From the information above, we can see that 2 VMs cannot connect between them.

  Can any folk provides a tutorial or example or case study to set VMPlayer 3 allowing 2 virtual machines communicate with each other by step?

  Very grateful in advance.

  In the guest machine, all I see is click on VMplayer-> VM-> settings-> network-> Network adapter Connection-> select Bridged: directly connected to the physical network. After that, nothing to keep.

  That's it for the network card in Virtual Machine of its parameters, and the rest is done to each guest at the guest OS level.

  In Windows 7 host machine, I don't see anything first.

  What we need to do is to assign 3 IP addresses to 3 machines: Win 7, Win XP Guest and Linux host.

  Why the world can't bring you up Google in a browser and type, the ip static windows xp, then static ip rhea of windows 7 and finally static ip.  As I have already said there are more then enough tutorials on the Internet about how to configure a static IP address by a given operating system then I suggest you Google it!  It makes absolutely no sense to write the instructions step by step for you when there are already dozens of tutorials available on the internet.

• Help with VM monitoring parameter at the virtual machine level

  Hi, I'm new to powershell and got the script (from http://damiankarlson.com/2011/01/13/managing-vmware-has-vm-monitoring-powercli/ thanks Damian Karlson) that will allow me to set the "VM Monitoring" setting for each virtual computer in a cluster to 'Disabled' below State. This is necessary to allow a 'monitoring VM and application' at the highest level and keep only selective VMs allowed for surveillance. When I run this script, it is applied VM1. When I try to do this for another virtual machine with a virtual machine name change (VM2), it get error "specified parameter was not correct" in the tasks of vCenter. Not sure whats wrong, any help is appreciated.

  
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  Hello, vSphereUser7-

  I've seen your follow-up to your thread on this topic at http://communities.vmware.com/message/1859219#1859219.  Between your answer and your question you mention in this thread, I came to realize what seems to be the problem for you.  I have re-written a code in the other thread, based on that blog DKarlson on and commented on why you may receive this error in the vSphere client.  See this thread for more info on what is happening here.

  And let us know if it was the question that you run in to.

• Question on networks of Virtual Machine

  I have a host machine running Windows 7. I installed VMware player and I create a virtual computer running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (almost identical to the version 5.5 of Red Hat). In the end I will be installing an application on the virtual machine that is not compatible with DHCP. So, when I install OEL 5.5 I need to manually provide information from network devices (IP address, primary DNS, subnet mask and host name). I've done it before on successfully on a material physical but never before on a virtual machine. On my first attempt I was wrong and my web browser running on the virtual machine can connect to the Internet.

  My instructions say "set the gateway information based on the IP Address of the gateway router. I wonder if this is correct in view of the virtual machine.

  On the machine host, when I run the ipconfig command in the DOS window I see a mask of address and the IP subnet for the host, and I see two additional network adapters for VMware (VMnet1 and VMnet8). The three entries (for example, the host VMnet1 and VMnet8) have the same subnet mask value and different IP addresses (first two segments of the IP addresses are the same, third and fourth segments are different).

  My question is, what are VMWare network cards and I have to pay attention to these IP addresses when I manually configure networking on the virtual machine?

  VMware Player provides essentially 3 types of network connections:

  • 'The bridge' - directly connected to your router
  • "Host-Only' (VMnet1) - limited to the host and the virtual machines network
  • "NAT" (VMnet8) - network address translation

  VMnet1 and VMnet8 virtual cards that allow the host to communicate with the virtual machines and vice versa.

  Depending on if your virtual machine should be accessible from other systems, you can consider using (in - and outgoing) Bridged or NAT (outgoing mail). With Bridged networking, addresses are usually provided by your router/DHCP server. For NAT, the address of the gateway/DNS is 192.168.x.2. Since the VMware Server DHCP internal for NAT and Host-Only uses 192.168.x.128... 254 for dynamic addressing, you want to select a static address in the 192.168.x.3... range 127.

  The easiest way to find out how to correctly configure the network, must first set the operating system to DHCP, note gatherings settings and then just choose another IP address when you configure static settings.

  André.