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• Great migrations: move from vCenter 5.1 on Windows 2008R2/SQL 2008 5.1 or 5.5 on 2012 2012 Windows/SQL

  In anticipation of the end of mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 R2, I want to migrate an installation vCenter to a whole new server and MS SQL Server.

  It is a virtual machine running in my host cluster. There Server vCenter Update Manager, Converter Standalone and some services not VMware that I can handle it myself. ADAM is installed as part of the vCenter Server requirements, and it is also attached to an AD domain where I use AD, single sign - on.

  The host cluster is four 5.1 ESXi hosts that are up to date, and helped HA and DRS. They use also switches distributed to all of their network connectivity, including vMotion, management, fault tolerance (although I do not use FT) and virtual machines.

  I did upgrades on-site to vCenter before and I replaced SQL Express with SQL Standard on the same server, but I did not move before vCenter. I'd make some drastic measures, as I understand:

  * Complete backups (of course) of SQL in the server itself, ADAM

  Installation of a new server operating system and SQL 2012

  Withdrawal of databases and reinstall them on the new server

  * Restoration of ADAM on the new server

  Installation vCenter, Update Manager, etc.

  * Hoping the host cluster is mounted on the new server, and nothing breaks

  I'm not all that worried about maintaining statistics, so maybe it is possible to install a new server vCenter Server and simply move the host cluster from the old server to the new. I moved one vCenter to another host, but that was before I put in place of distributed switching.
  --

  I found this on a related post:

  Migration in a new vCenter VMware environment. IT diversifies

  This manual seems to echo what I've read so far, I had to disassemble the distributed switches until I can migrate any host to a new server vCenter. Yuck. Well, I've migrated from the standard to the switches distributed without downtime before, so I can do the opposite.

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• VCac fails to VCO registerVirtualMachineRequest 'Import vCenter Virtual Machine'

  VCac Ver 6.1

  VCO worm 5.5.2

  VCac 6.1.0.2040915 Plugin

  
  Hi all

  I have an external VCO device configuration and Vcac. I am under some test workflow to get the clones of a virtual machine, and then import it into Vcac so that its life cycle is managed. I'm at the stage where I just test of VCO with the out-of-box plugin workflows. I am able to run a workflow to modify the Vcac without any problem. When I run a workflow 'import Vcenter Virtual Machine' in VCO workflow is completed successfully, but the machine is never added to Vcac. I see these messages below in my journal Vcac. Where it says (my username), this is the value of the user of the identity when I run the workflow. I have admin tenant and tissue rights. What is the purpose of this user identity? I can leave the field blank and always get the same answer, he'll just be blank where is the user name.

  (My username) System.ApplicationException: Access denied to the DynamicOps.VMPS.Security.AuthorizationService.CheckAccess (IdentityToken token, try to String, String group, String tenantId) at DynamicOps.VMPS.Service.ProvisionService.RegisterExistingVirtualMachine (IdentityToken identityToken, Guid virtualMachineID, Guid hostReservationID, Guid hostStorageReservationID, Guid virtualMachineTemplateID, owner of the chain)

  Workflow "RegisterVirtualMachineRequest" failed with the following exception: object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  Any help would be appreciated,

  Chris

  Sean,

  I just got this work, thank you for the business group index. It turns out that my user identity must be qualified full [email protected] to work because our SSO keys out of our ad.

  Thank you

  Chris

• Best method to move the VCenter server on new server

  I need to move my VCenter server to a new machine.

  The computer name and the IP address will be different from the original.

  1 should I use the existing database or there will be too many references to the old server vCenter Server?

  2. should I start from scratch on a new server and import my 5 ESX servers?  (Story not so important for me)

  If I start, unplug the old and add it again or just to add again and it will automatically remove the old?

  Best methods out there?  A document any?

  Thanks for any help in advance

  Brian

  Hello.

  See KB 5850444.

  Good luck!

• Move the vCenter to another cluster... How?

  We rotate the camera 5.5.0 vcenter and need to move from a cluster with ESX 4.1.0 hosts in a cluster hosts ESXi 5.5.0.  Two clusters are in the same data center, but no space for common storage.

  We have migrated all the old cluster to the new VM using vMotion.  It is now time for the vCenter himself.

  How should I go about this?  Some downtime for vCenter is probably inevitable.

  Thank you... Lyle

  With the help of Support, here's what I did:

  -a clone of the vCenter VM for the cluster target & storage, but do not start the new virtual machine

  -change the properties for the new virtual machine so its MAC address is the same as the old VM

  -stop vCenter with its interface web admin

  -with vSphere client connected to the source host, stop the guest OS (suse) of the former VM

  -with customer vSpere connected to the destination host, turning on the new virtual machine

  Thanks to all for the comments... Lyle

• Move VM vcenter to the new data store

  Hello

  I have a cluster with 2 data warehouses and I must "empy"one for then reassign the disks on the SAN. " However I seem to be in a situation of catch-22 virtual machines, I need to move/migrate is the VM vCenter. I need to have propelled him down to move the data store, but then I have no way related to migration. I presume that this requires a manual move/copy of the vCenter VM file to a data to another store, but not sure of the consequences etc..

  THX

  Gerry

  Since you are using a business license you can Storage vMotion, VM of for the new store of data without any stop.

  Select VM-> click on migrate-> select change Datastore Option

• Move from vCenter physical VM?

  Hi all

  Currently have vCenter running in a virtual machine, but I would like to move to an existing physical host.

  Is this possible?

  Otherwise, it is also possible to have a different vCenter server so that if something happens to my VM version, I have vCenter install running on a physical host as well?

  Thank you

  Andy

  Post edited by: AndyR8939 - I typed vSphere vCenter instead.

  Take a look at this - kb.vmware.com/kb/5850444.

  If you are not running vCenter 4.1 do not forget that there is a 64 bit OS.

  You can also use HA in order to protect a vCenter VM or the fault tolerance, if you are fired for this.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

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• VCenter virtual and distributed vNetwork

  Hi all

  I have a virtual server Cetner and trying to add hosts to a vNetwork Distributed Switch, but I can't figure out how to get the server vCenter on vNetwork Distributed Switch.

  As soon as I convert a multitude of vNetwork Distributed Switch that has the that vCenter server, I lose the vCenter Server connectivity.

  Does anyone know how this can be done?

  Thank you.

  I called support of vCenter performance in a distributed switch and they said to point blank, 'it is not supported. They said because vCenter governs the distributed switch environment, you can't have vCenter in the distributed switch. I had a few reservations about this statement, since the distributed switch exists on each individual host (although with less features than you have via vCenter).

  We were able to get all the operational environment with switching distributed (including vCenter in the distributed switch)... but we had a problem when we needed to move equipment and necessary to stop all hosts (as well as all virtual machines). When systems come back online, all VM could see the end network (which means all VM connected to the distributed switch)... except vCenter. I could not vCenter to see the network until I moved to a standard vSwitch. Then, everything was good to do.

  VMware said vCenter has be on standard vSwitch. At the end of the day, this isn't a big deal for us since we have four on board NETWORK card for uplink on every host connections... but it requires a slight redesign in the network configuration.

  I hope this helps. If there is a solution (or if anyone has conflicting comments to what VMware support said), I'd love to hear it.

  Thank you!

• vSphere Client reports an incorrect version of vCenter Virtual Appliance

  vSphere Client 5.5 reports incorrect version of vCenter 5.5 Virtual Appliance. For example, vCVA build is 1891314, but in vSphere Client 5.5 GUI shows like 1891313 or vCVA build is 2170515 (last U2a), but in vSphere Client 5.5 GUI shows as 2001466

  I've updated the client to the latest version 1993072, but it made no difference.

  Any suggestions are appreciated.

  Thank you

  Slawek

  This is a bug according to the support for VMware.

• VMTools on vCenter Virtual Machine

  Is it safe to install on my virtual vCenter Server vmtools?

  Hello

  absolutely Yes

  It is recommended to install vmware tools in the virtual machines.

  Best regards

  Pablo

• vCenter virtual appliance Installation on shared storage

  Hello

  I'll start testing virtualization soon, and for storage, I'll use a Synology NAS DS212j. My goal is to create a cluster with two servers ESXi, with the virtual machines stored on the NAS.

  My question is should I plug my nas iSCSI on my ESXi and then deploy the model to the OVA of the appliance virtual vcenter or deploy the eggs on the physical storage of one of my ESXi and then I try it moved to the shared storage?

  I'm not sure if my question is simple, but thank you for your answer!

  C. N.

  Happy, I can help you

  You must configure the iSCSI conifguration for each host, Yes.

  But the second and all other guests later then analyze the map iSCSI and see the VMFS data store that you created with the first host and set up automatically.

  You don't need to add each host in the cluster even if. You only do that when you want to use functions such as HA and DRS on the hosts within the cluster.

  Tim

• Regarding the hosts took max supported on Vcenter Virtual Appliance 5.0

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsphere5/R50/vSphere-50-configuration-maximums.PDF

  Maximum config guide indicates that vsphere 5.0 supports the hosts of 1000 per VC. The same applies to the virtual appliance thus (on an external Oracle DB... not the one internal)

  Concerning

  Girish

  The same should apply to the device when you use an external database. But with several guests it would be wise to take the same settings with the Windows version of vCenter, which means increase the memory of tomcat and adding vCPUs additional and resources of the virtual machine RAM.

• How upgrade Vcenter virtual HW 9 on ESX 5.1 x

  Hello!

  As the Web Interface is not available without a vcenter, I created a virtual machine with a material of V8 (the highest available through the VSphere client) where I installed the VCenter server. Now, I wonder how the HW to v9... If I stop the Vcenter, the web interface is no longer available and it took to upgrade to v9.

  There is a "Calendar VM Compatibility Upgrade" option in the Web Interface, you can choose to do the upgrade on the next reboot of the system, but it has the Vcenter server to be available? She would work on the vcenter Server?

  Any idea on how to solve this problem?

  Concerning

  With the update pack 1 (I think), upgrade material is available in the virtual Center

  The upgrade is performed.

  Thx for your help!

• How to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) of one data store

  Hi guys,.

  I have a VM with 4 virtual disks (for example, 1.vmdk, 2.vmdk, 3.vmdk and 4.vmdk) all located on a SAN volume (e.g., SANVOL03). How can I move one of the virtual disks (for example, 3.vmdk) of its current volume of SAN to another (e.g. from SANVOL03 to SANVOL04) without turning off the virtual machine? It's vsphere 4.1

  Detach the VMDK virtual machine and move it manually on the desired data store.

• How to install 5.1 VSA with vCenter virtual?

  Hi all

  The organization I work for is planning to install a cluster VSA 2 server in a remote site (ESXi 5.1, 5.1 VSA). To reduce costs, they want to have a virtual vCenter on the cluster. I guess that the virtual vCenter also runs the VSA cluster service.

  How the hell can I install this? So far, I have:

  -built 2 5.1 with 1 local datastore ESXi servers each

  -built a vCenter 5.1 on the ESXi server and installed the Manager of VSA on it (which includes the cluster service)

  -joined the two servers ESXi, vCenter inside a data center

  Have a running VM (the vCenter) forced me down the road of installation "Brownfield". Very well... I created 2 vswitches and groups of ports and launched the installation wizard. Everything in the wizard seemed ok and he started to install. He has done many things (clearly, it's a very clever installation program) and after some time he put the host without vCenter in maintenance mode. I watched with my eyebrows getting higher and higher... probably soon he would put the host with vCenter in maintenance mode, what magic he would do to manage loses its vCenter (and the cluster service)? No of course, and it has failed with an error message "cannot create the cluster VSA: Add Cluster HA hosts failed.

  There is a lot I don't understand about a virtual vCenter on a VSA cluster out of the way to install it.

  The vCenter may be on the VSA data store? The install doc does not, it is said "vCenter Server can run locally on a host in the cluster VSA ESXi." vCenter Server can also run remotely and manage multiple VSA clusters. "

  But if it's on a local data store, how to manage servers wearing down for maintenance, updates etc? And that does not turn the host it is running in a single point of failure, if it fails the cluster breaks down? The point of the entire cluster is to avoid this.

  Am I missing something? I would be grateful if anyone can clear this up, and if he's not going to be an option, can anyone recommend a small iscsi SAN or NAS? It is perhaps less than a 3rd Server vCenter, the VSA cost plus the cost of the internal hard drives in 2 guests. In the remote site, currently, there are only a few physical servers, I don't really have the possibility of the vCenter relying on another host and then moving to the VSA cluster that was an option I read on a forum. Don't really want than wan connects either.

  Thank you

  Matt

  The VCS must be outside the cluster.  It does not need to be on a server, it can run on windows or Linux systems class office.  Small footprint PCs are available for ~ $ 200.  It has to be in the same subnet as the cluster nodes.  If the VCS was done in a cluster node, you actually lose the tiebreaker vote and if the node hosting the VCS were to fail, you would lose the quorum of the cluster.

  VC running within the cluster will work, but it is complicated on a cluster 2 knots because you may lose the ability to manage the cluster if the node hosting the Victoria Cross were to fail.  You want to have the DB Backup VC and a strategy to recover.