New script to upgrade ESX offline?

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• Upgrade virtual Center 2.02 VC 2.5 on the new server. Upgrade ESX 3.02 ESX Server 3.5. and add the new ESX Server.

  Hello

  We are due to upgrade our VMWare environment. ESX 3.02 x servers virtual Center 2.02 and 3.  We have new material on which to install Virtual Center and we are also adding a new ESX Server.

  I read various guides for virtual center upgrade and watched questions on the forum, but can not see everything that relates to the way I thought to do. I want to install Virtual Center 2.5 on the new server and I would refer her to the current virtual cenre database.  Is this supported?

  I then install ESX 3.5 on my new ESX Server and add it to the virtual Center. Then I would start the upgrade / rebuild other servers using VMotion to migrate all VM the next server to be rebuilt on the new server running ESX 3.5.

  Would this work.

  What is the best way to upgrade the virtual center of new material and a new Version?

  Thank you for all the advice that can be offered.

  Kind regards.

  Kevan

  Kevan says:

  I read various guides for virtual center upgrade and watched questions on the forum, but can not see everything that relates to the way I thought to do. I want to install Virtual Center 2.5 on the new server and I would refer her to the current virtual cenre database.  Is this supported?

  Yes, it is an upgrade that is supported.  Don't forget there will be an upgrade for your DB schema and it may take some time.  Just make sure that you have a good backup of your DB before you start.

  I then install ESX 3.5 on my new ESX Server and add it to the virtual Center. Then I would start the upgrade / rebuild other servers using VMotion to migrate all VM the next server to be rebuilt on the new server running ESX 3.5.

  I agree entirely, I drive rebuild is the way to go.

  Would this work. > What is the best way to upgrade the virtual center of new material and a new Version?

  Upgrade to the current version using the .iso image file.  Don't forget the license server, which is a standalone update and are located in the folder /vpx of the vCenter .iso

  Upgrade path:

  1 vCenter

  2 ESX

  3 VMware Guest Tools

  Thank you for all the advice that can be offered.

  I hope that was a little helpful as well

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_upgrade_guide.PDF

• Just opened a new vista Windows upgrade disc and my computer does not recognize it? My computer always tells me to put a disc in when it is already.

  Just opened a new vista Windows upgrade disc and my computer does not recognize it?  My computer always tells me to put a disc in when it is already.  I can't my PID because I can not install the program.  I can't get help from microsoft because I do not have my PID.  Help please

  Your optical disc drive must be able to read the DVD to install Vista.

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• Upgrading ESX when you are connected to the SAN

  Hello. At the time, it was considered preferable to unplug the host SAN during installation or upgrading ESX fram. Is this still the case with ESXi 5.5?

  Hello

  In fact, it is always best practice to disconnect from the SAN, but you could do it on the fly as well using the Manager to update if your upgrade to ESXi ESXI 5.1 to 5.5. I have seen many do

  without any problem. Just make sure that the hardware is compatible in HCL.

  Thank you
  Avinash

• You will need to run the script for some ESX hosts.

  Dear team,

  I m connected to 4 esx host, but I want to run the script only 2 esx host asking you to help me how to do?

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  You could start the script with the cmdlet Get-VMhost to select only the two hosts that you want to output to. For example:

  Get-VMHost host1, host2. Get - VM

  Displays only the virtual machine running on host1 and host2.

• Cannot use the new scripts to fill for Photoshop CC 2014.2 pattern

  I installed Photoshop CC 2014.2 (version 2014.2.0), but I am unable to get new scripts to fill pattern to work or even appear in the user interface. Namely, I am referring to the flame, frame photo, and tree scripted profiles described here: https://www.adobe.com/technology/projects/DecoScriptedPatternsInPhotoshop.html

  That's what my filling dialog looks like:

  

  I confirmed that the corresponding presets exist in the 2014 CC Photoshop > Presets > Deco folder:

  

  I tried to reset the Photoshop preferences; and while everything was reset, the missing presets did not always appear.

  The flame, photo frame and trees have been moved to the filter menu > CC 2014.2 rendering

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• Impossible to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1

  Hello

  
  

  I am trying to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using vCenter Update Manager. I tried to create the baseline with the following steps: choose "transfer files to upgrade" in the menu drop down and then browse .by and .zip file to the local disk. After some time it gives an error: cannot import the upgrade.

  
  

  Could someone please help me on this problem.

  BR

  Faruqe
  

  Have you upgrad also VUM to version 4.1?

  André

• Run the script on the ESX host

  Newb question...

  How to run a script on an ESX 4.0 host?

  I received a script in the form of a *.sh file I need to run on my host.  I have vCenter works... I can do through this?

  You need SSH in the host. Under tab VI client users click "Add a user" and make sure that check "shell to grant access.

  Then download a SSH client and install it on your desktop (installed by default on Linux/MaxOSX), a good Windows free one called PuTTY.

  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/PuTTY

  Use the username and password you created to open a session on the server. then type 'su-' (i.e. LESS known www.phdvirtual.com

• Help! new script

  Hi forum!...

  I m new script...

  I want a small things to do with the scripts.

  I want to select an image (link), placed inside the (0) page of the document.

  my name link. teddy_1.ai. and is located in the desktop (PC);
  

  so...

  App.Select("~/Desktop/teddy_1.ai");

  Sorry, I'm just tring...

  pls help me forum...

  Thank you

  TSF...

  Hello

  Use this option to select the displayed image doc (If it is placed and IF indeed his name):

  app.activeDocument.links.itemByName("teddy_1.ai").parent.select ();

  In the case of 'first' script, it should be a list of all names of graphic file written in console ESTK. What do you mean "nothing happens"? ".

  To select the image is the goal of your script?

  There is a rule of thumb on this forum: > complex info is a complex help

  Jarek

• Upgrading ESX 3.5.0 build 110268 ESXi 5.1 or newer

  I need to upgrade our current VMware ESX 3.5 cluster for the ESXi 5.1. To summarize the migration, we will use all of the new materials for vsphere 5.1 5.1 ESXi and new iSCSI SAN.

  Existing/current cluster environment (about 44 vms) is as follows:-vcenter (version 2.5) (1) and (3) dell servers to ESX 3.5 for a total of 4 servers, storage Fibre Channel EMC CX 300.  We went ahead and bought 4 new Dell servers and storage iSCSI, SAN Compellent Dell to replace the current environment.  The only difference is that the NEW strorage for cluster 5.1 will not fibre channel, but will rather iSCSI.

  I read a few post regarding similar improvements which I have summarized, but I'm a little unsure of how to proceed in particular relative to the storage side, (cluster running FC and iSCSI for new cluster).

  1. install Vcenter 5 on of the new material/vcenter Server

  (A) disconnect all ESX 3.5 knots of vcenter 2.5 and plug the new Vsphere 5 and set up the cluster

  (B) connect all new ESXi 5.1 nodes to the new vsphere 5 for the new Vsphere 5 cluster will contain all of the new and the old 3.5/ESXi 5.1 ESX servers

  -This is where I am confused.  My plan is to have the new cluster 5.1 vsphere manage guests to vmotion ESX 3.5 and ESXi 5.1, the old 3.5 ESX virtual machine in the new 5.1 ESXi.  Can I add new nodes 5.1 ESXi or ESX 3.5 to the new cluster 5.1 first, or that matter which node I add first?  Also, the new 5.1 ESXi hosts should have access to FC storage that the old ESX 3.5 has access to?  In other words, the new and old ESX/ESXi hosts would need to have visibility to the FC SAN for vmotion, right?  I do not know if I can add the ESX 3.5 and ESXi 5.1 to the new cluster if not all guests have access to the old CF storage?

  2. through ESXi 5 knots ESX 3.5 virtual machines using vmotion

  3. plan downtime for virtual machines and upgrade virtual hardware (use of snapshot before you upgrade upgrade goes bad snack)

  4 use storage vmotion to move vm data warehouses to the new iSCSI SAN

  Introduce the new iSCSI LUNS to the new cluster and make a storage vmotion to move storage vm of FC SAN to the iSCSI SAN.

  Thank you in advance, all the tips

  Who should do -

• Upgrading ESX host to day 4 fails with an error "Unable to download .zip bundle offline."

  I run the command update the host ESX below. It fails with an error. I used the same command to update the first host in the same cluster and that worked. Try with others and that she fails.

  esxupdate - bundle = / vmfs/volumes / < data store name > //update-from-esx4.0-4.0_update04.zip updated
  Encountered error BundleDownloadError:
  The error data are:
  URL - vmfs/volumes / < data store name > / update - from -.
  ESX4.0 - 4.0_update04.zip
  LocalFile - / var/cache/esxupdate/bundle7107600307711814965/update-from-
  ESX4.0 - 4.0_update04.zip
  Message - file remote vmfs/volumes / < name of data store > //update-from-
  There is no such thing as ESX4.0 - 4.0_update04.zip.
  Errno - 26
  Description - could not download .zip bundle in offline mode.

  Any ideas?

  Try first to install the fix for shared data and store that if an error occurs, try to install it from a local. As I recall (we work with vSphere 5 for a long time), we were unable to find the reasons why the update for ESX 4 is not installed since the shared data store, it can be at the level of patches, can be a history of the host...

• Upgrading ESX 4.1 and 5.1 with UC VMServers

  I'm trying to find the documentation, guide or any details on this and have developed short on cisco.com and docwiki.cisco.com I hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

  To simplify my question let say, we have a current ESX 4.1 environment with VM servers running the following applications: CUCM, CUPS, CUC, UCCX. (does it matter if they are running 8.5/8.6 or 9.1?)

  If we were to move to ESX 4.1 to 5.1 What is the impact on the servers of Cisco? What are the procedures? Anything specific Cisco or a development warn that must be taken into account? And especially (can not find the answer to anywhere) we must redeploy the OVAs (from v7 to v8 to match) during and after the ESX upgrade?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you!

  From:

  http://docwiki.Cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements

  Correction and update of VMware vSphere, ESXi

  • In general, versions of Cisco Collaboration app mandate only the major and minor of ESXi versions they demand / support.
  • Guest OS support - Cisco's Collaboration applications that require a minimum Maintenance release (e.g. "5.1 U1' as minimum instead of"5.1"as minimum) for the application to be supported explicitly call this point on their product detailed pages.  When in doubt, consult Cisco Plan, design, implement (PDI) HelpDesk or Cisco TAC.
  • Supports hardware - version for a major/minor taken ESXi supported by Cisco's Collaboration applications, recommendation is to use the latest version of Maintenance which is also supported / recommended by the provider of servers (and storage if provider deployment to NAS/SAN).  To determine if a fix or a Maintenance of ESXi version "may" or "should" be deployed, follow the advice of these sources:

  • VMware Compatibility Guide (http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl) & nbsp; for the version taken major/minor ESXi supported by Cisco Collaboration vSphere.
  • Server hardware compatibility information to the supplier for the major/minor ESXi version required by Cisco Collaboration of vSphere.  For example, Cisco UCS, documents of compatibility to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.htmlserver.

  Other "versions".

  • Version of VM (vmv) - the vmv represents the virtual hardware version. New versions of ESXi can increase the latest vmv, but ESXi versions always take care of the older versions of vmv (visit vmware.com for more information on the compatibility of the versions of vmv with ESXi versions). The "strict minimum" for Cisco's Collaboration applications is vmv4 and is usually transparent. Cisco-/ required files OVA will be for a particular version of vmv (e.g. OVAs for ESXi 5.x include vmv7 and vmv8). Unless is not a Cisco Collaboration application, customers are free to upgrade manually the vmv to a most recent vmv supported by the version of ESXi (click here for more details ).
  • File system VMFS (Virtual Machine) version - this is transparent to the applications of Cisco's Collaboration, but recommends using the latest version available for the major/minor version of VMware vSphere, ESXi, you deploy on.

  below that you have links to specific applications of version indicating compatibility with ESXi versions.

  HTH,

  Chris

• New design of the ESX environment design

  Community,.

  I could use help on the thoughts, currently there are a few projects concerning the upgrade of components of storage network/etc but I thought on a few different approaches.

  Our installation of 175 5.1 ESXi hosts is currently roughly:

  CPU/memory:

  According to the model, over the life cycle, we have about 4 different models active (same HW provider), everyone has the storage/NETWORK card configuration below:

  Storage:

  2 x 4 GB FibreChannel (connected to different fabrics)

  Network:

  NICs 8 x 1 Gbps

  -2 x vMotion (on different switches)

  -2 x management (on different switches)

  -4 x VM traffic (on different switches)

  So what to do in the future? Currently the network is mainly related to 1 Gbit/s because the team of specialists who are not being updated again.

  It is not on the creation of infrastructure plans converged etc, but I thought about it.

  We have no real problem that will push us in one direction. Because the fragmentation of disciplines each team has a different point of view how to do things.

  Case 1

  Keep the current design, but upgrade the network components and storage as needed in the future. It's our way of work now.

  Case 2

  Take a look at a converged infrastructure solution? BladeCenter / infiniband?

  Case 3

  What network virtualization (VMware NSX) with a convergent solution (or not?)

  A few things I want to achieve (no operational requirements (yet))

  -Performance increase/expand

  -Demanding latency

  -Lower costs (cables, DC, power, cooling and administration space) in the future

  What are your experiences, problems, things to think about, what not to do?

  I Don t necessarily need a full explanation (would be nice of course), but if I can get some new thoughts or directions from your answers I could dig into it a little deeper myself. I was wondering based on experiences if it's worth to put more effort into it.

  Do not worry about the investment, if it is interesting to build a business case that can help achieve savings, management etc. it might be useful.

  Hope to hear from you guys

  Hey Wh33ly,

  Breaks down each section a bit here:

  Server hardware (CPU/memory, reduce cables ect)

  -From this point support CPU/memory is still any provider you have access.  However, the obligation to reduce the latency and cables, you may look at some converged computer worms, or something like a Cisco UCS chassis.  The Cisco UCS chassis has two FI who are sitting on the top of the grille that act as the brains of the operation.  At the rear of the chassis, you will have two IOM failet (failet of input/output) these are the external ports for all blade chassis.  Most configuration I see usually have 20Ggbps coming out of the AKA 2 cables by IOM goes up to the FI or 40Gbps, up aka YEW 4 cables.  Nevertheless the frame Cisco UCS reducing much cables as only cables coming out of the chassis are those of your IOM modules.  The cables only leaving this rack will be those from the FI to your basic network infrastructure.  With this in mind, any Center of blade will usually reduce your cable management and it will also reduce traffic on your network East/West as live all the blades in the same chassis.

  Because the calculation is similarly any provider you are with, questions you would have to ask is what are the problems that this chassis resolved during my current infrastructure?  This problem must be a value of extra time and resources it will take to install the new infrastructure and migrate on.

  Networking

  -When it comes to networking, nothing wrong with 1 GB but 10 GB price sank so quickly become the default.  Also with 40 GB coming down the pipe very little time this should also lower the cost of 10 GB which can make a little more progress a best migration plan.

  -10 GB also reduces the cables that you get 10 cables with a value of 1 speed

  -If you decide to go all the 10 GB, you want to consider migration to the VDS switches.  Virtual distributed switches offer many benefits and also allows you to use the new control of NIOC to control how each group of fate as 10 GB ports.  So now, you can define each group of ports on the amount of traffic it gets and how much stock it.  This gives a lot of flexibility

  -NSX, NSX is ideal if you want to be able to control your VLAN s, Firewall, VLAN, Speration through Vmware / vSPhere.  This gives a huge amount of automation, flexibility and free service capabilities, but it does NOT increase the speed.  Even with the NSX your sub with connections are always going to be your performance brand bottle neck or a bench.  So if your running all the 1 GB of network even if you move to NSX will always only clocked you at 1 GB.  Yes NSX will give you more flexibility and may also reduce some of the East/West traffic, but your still limited to your physical hardware.  In this spirit, I would say that the biggest assets NSX is if you're a provide service, multitendcy environment, or you require the ability to create a VLAN ect so automation, scripts or self service portals.  Like anything else, I watch NSX as a tool, and if it's the right tool for the job then I use it, if not then I don't have.

  Long story short, networking is quickly moving to 10 GB, there is no direct NEED to jump ship as soon as possible, but its something that you might want to look into the establishment of the budget over the next year or two to define yourself to easier transitions.  10 GB also allows backup of the computer virtual a LOT faster that can help with RTO, RPO requirements.

  Storage

  All boils down to how much space do you need and how much performance do you need?   One thing is for certain that the SSD is here to stay and will be the future of the SAN.  Almost each SAN vendor now has a solution at several levels, hybrid solution or any SSD solution.  The nice thing about all SAN SSD solutions is that you no longer have to spend cycles administrative construction of storage pools, tweaking them, with groups bronze, silver, gold, for performance.  This all goes with all SSD without that everything is super fast.  That said, there are also many storage solutions converged to come, the local host caching and VSAN type stuff.  It is all the pressure put on businesses in SAN to find ways to be more innovative to make storage and lower prices as its much cheaper to buy 3 guests with drives then just put some kind of Storage Virtualization top layer all to share the lun/storage.  In the next year or 2 you will start to see the space of SAN saturated with many small businesses that make the converged storage, VSAN and cached local solutions duly lower price points.

  When your storage decision goes forward, you want to go with the SAN/supplier who offers the best performance for your money and gives you enough space for future growth with IOPS / s.  Tpyically when I size a SAN, I put 2-3 years worth of memory buffer in there for consumtion IOPS / s and space, like the SAN buy is one of the biggest, a COMPUTING organization must do.  If this is done on arrival of the IOPS / s and badly or space in a year it's hard to go back to the honeypot fruitful asking more money again, but also all SSD SAN are that they are still a bit expensive and not always in the budgets of peoples.

  I hope this helped,

  If you have any questions please let me know.

• Microsoft NLB blocking after upgrade ESX 5.0

  Hi all, I'm new to vmware

  We improve all our ESX 4.1 to 5.0 in February, after that, a lot of multicast NLB Microsoft hangs before upgrade, we used about 2 years with no problems.

  After upgrade, we have 3 fixed NLB or conflict for 3 months.

  Any idea? in the VMware.log prompt, I don't see anything specific related to the networks of the time incident.

  Thank you very much

  Open the VMware folder and confirm this problem for the network card Broadcom is known

  VMware KB: 5719/5720 Broadcom network adapters using driver tg3 become unresponsive and stop traffic vSphere

• start/stop scripts each upgrade must be updated path - we can star

  Whenever I need to upgrade agents Hyperic, my many start/stop scripts Solaris/linux need to change since changes in path name of the new version.
  
  like: hyperic-hq-agent-3.0.0/hq-agent.sh
  Hyperic-HQ-agent-3.0.1/HQ-agent.sh
  Hyperic-HQ-agent-3.0.2//HQ-agent.sh
  
  Is there a way we can just use the same way.  ???
  
  I hate to have to change the 100 more just startup scripts 4 this entry change every time I update.
  
  Is there something I can do to simplify the operation?
  
  Post edited by: hypermike

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/348829?TSTART=0