Monitoring of virtual machines running on the UCS blades

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• Call recording on the virtual machine running on Cisco UCS

  We evaluate the requirements for implementing call recording in our environment. Ideally the call recording server to run as a virtual machine on an ESXi host running like a blade on a Cisco UCS. I know that I need to set up RSPAN between my physical switches and turn the "Promiscuous" mode on my vSwitch which would be connected to the virtual machine. Where I'm stuck, how the NETWORK adapter that is connected to my vSwitch would be able to sniff this traffic? Are there requirements when I implemented the vNIC on the UCS or VMWare or under the physical being connected to the span port card desired traffic will get to my VM as a controlled traffic?

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• Looking for lists of the virtual machine running on the power of cli ESXi host

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• Virtual machines, run extremely slow when the console is consulted 2 virtual machines Windows Server 2008 64-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit, 2 VMWare for virtual machine

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  1 you really need hard drives more than 2 in a RAID 1 for proper performance under load. More disks the better. Although I don't think that's what your problem is, he'll probably be the problem Next you will do.

  2. I don't know exactly where the configuration file is on your box of Debian for VMware Server, but you should consider adding the following options in the configuration file (on windows, it's the vmware 'config.ini'):

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  If you do some research, you can read about what these options (the largest is the memory page sharing - it should only be left on if you have a bunch of similar virtual machines running on the same box, that you don't have.) I honestly know why this is on by default, he kills the CPU when virtual machines are running different operating systems). These are the options that I now use standard in VMware Server deployments, with huge performance increases after you have added the. Just give a try.

  Edit: Also make sure that you have installed in your virtual machines VMware tools.

  Dimitri Rodis

  Integrita Systems LLC

  http://www.integritasystems.com

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• Impossible to reconnect to a virtual machine running

  Hello

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  The machine virtual is critical and cannot be stopped.

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  Boaz

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• You can enable CDP on a host with virtual machines running?

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  • http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1003885

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  Concerning

  Franck

• Virtual machine running on snapshot but there are no spanpshot on the Snapshot Manager.

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  Marco.

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• Support ESXi 5.0 host FC connected tape drives in the virtual machine running symantec backup exec 2012

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• List of Cluster and the virtual machines running on this group

  Hello

  I am looking for a way to discover all of the virtual machines that belong to a cluster. In other words, I want a list that maps a cluster to all virtual machines running on it.

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  Hello

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• retrieve the VM from a dead host (see virtual machine running)

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  (1) try run below console command service, or remotely via putty on running the VM ESX host:

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  (2) if not,.

  $vmware - cmd-l (check the virtual machine registered under the correct ESX host)

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