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• can I add additional VMDK virtual machine that is already protected with vSphere 5.1 replication?

  Hello

  We're uaing SRM 5.1 to protect a virtual computer by using the replication of vSphere. now, we want to increase the size of one of the vmdk dirve. can we increase the size of the disk? and if we don't, then, can we add an another VMDK to this virtual machine?

  What is the procedure to protect that additional newly added VMDK?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Please see the following topics in vSphere replication 5.1 documentation (replication reconfiguration).

  Yes, you can add an another VMDK to a replicated VM. Replication goes into an error state, and you must reconfigure replication and include the newly added to replicate disk.

• Detect if a virtual machine if you really put power off or power on?

  Hello friends,

  I am writing a few scripts and (mute) I leaned on the 'poweredstate' value to determine if a computer virtual is ready for an interview. I have now found that if a virtual machine is receiving and I start a power > reviews of the judgment, the State proceeds immediately to PoweredOff even as the VM operating system stops again.  This causes me any questions because I want that totally off virtual machine.

  Example: $powerstate = ((get-vm_|_where_{$_.name-like_$variable}).powerstate)

  Please direct me to a more reliable way to determine if the virtual computer is turned off "all the way".

  Thank you

  Scott

  A ping would be sufficient.

  In PowerShell v3, you have the handy Test-Connection for that cmdlet.

• New Server virtual machines

  I'm building a new server for virtual computers, and I want to keep all databases. I think it's easy the database restores on the new server, but my problem seems to be with the leader of the CSA. Anyone has any ideas on this or I will just have to reinstall the agents?

  Until the new server has the same name of netbios and the IP address as one, then your CSA agents must connect fine.

• Convert the virtual machine to another pc, but... Operating system not found?

  I use VMWare converter to convert a PC Esxi Esxi (on IBM X3650M4) comments, when to start guest VM of the PS, it displays "Operating system not found", there is no hard drive computer virtual on the BIOS of the virtual machine, what happened?

  So your source host where this virtual machine was originally executed is ESXi 5.0, is?

  Please right click on your VM, go on "Change settings" and also view this screenshot and/or join the VM's vmx file here please.

  What is the guest in this virtual machine operating system?

• vCenter Operations Manager doesn't show any new virtual machines added

  Hi all

  I have a 5.5U2 of vSphere environment coupled with Operations Manager 5.8.4 vCenter in this environment, I have a strange behavior as new created virtual machines are not directly shown in the tree view of the infrastructure. Sometimes they raise within the hour, sometimes, others may need several days to appear.

  If I want an immediate reflection of VMS in vCenter, I have the best "Workaround", I tried to restart the services Operations Manager vCenter virtual machine of the user interface.

  All components are registered in DNS names, I checked that all entries are correct, that is the case. And they can be solved.

  Operations Manager vCenter is secured by a member of MS internal CA of an Active Directory domain.

  After "googleing"I've seen a similar question on hosts that are not visible, but not the VMs."

  Some of you have already experienced this kind of questions?

  Thanks for your comments,

  Michael

  As reported by the VMware support, it's normal behavior with this version of vCOPS. Switch to the 6.x version to solve the problem.

• movement of virtual machines on new server

  I'm fairly new to vmware and operate a very limited plant, but would like assistance.  I have the Essentials package and ESX 4.0 is running on a single server with the virtual machines stored on local hard disks.  I installed a new server ESXi 5.1 and local storage, and I need to move the virtual machines from the old server to the new server.  If it's important, the guest virtual machine operating system are a mixture of linux and windows.  What is the best method to move those VMs?

  Hello

  If you have the two host added to vCenter, you can turn off VMs and migrate virtual machines to another host and data store.

  Since you do not have a shared storage, you must turn off VM to change host and the data store.

  It doesn't matter what OS you are running on a virtual machine.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

• no storage device found more by guest operating system installation on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I'm trying to install a guest on a new virtual machine operating system, but I can't go forward.

  I use a Dell PowerEdge 2850 , the hypervisor Server VMware ESXi 3.5 update 3 and the VMware Infrastructure Client on my computer with operating system Windows XP host.

  I am able to create a new virtual machine, but also to start on a cd for installing a guest operating system, which is (still) of Windows XP. During the installation-Setup asks me to press on enter for a new installation, the next thing is a screen with the message that Setup cannot find any storage device! It's weird, because I use the same as other data store created vm is imposed and other virtual machines always work. I created the new virtual machine several times and deleted, this is no problem. I restarted the server, but that did not help.

  Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

  I also met this problem with a fresh install of XP VM.  Windows XP does not have a driver for the BusLogic or free storage controller... without that driver, only the virtual controller is not

  recognized and drives are not found.

  http://KNMI.WordPress.com/2008/02/28/VMware-installing-Windows-XP-on-ESX-using-LSI-Logic-driver/

• Create the new virtual machine using Java API vCloud

  Hi guys,.

  I am trying to create the new virtual machine in TIME, but I've stuck here. The API I'm using is vcloud-java-sdk - 1.0.jar.

  Could you please show me a code snippet how to do this?

  For now I do it like this:

  RecomposeVAppParamsType recomposeVAppParamsType = new RecomposeVAppParamsType();

  List the items < CompositionItemParamType > = recomposeVAppParamsType.getItem ();
  ReferenceType vappTemplateVMRef = new ReferenceType();

  // ??? seems that new reference to the new virtual machine should be here. But how to create this VM
  CompositionItemParamType compositionItemParamType = new CompositionItemParamType();
  compositionItemParamType.setSource (vappTemplateVMRef);

  Items.Add (compositionItemParamType);
  ReferenceType vAppRef is Vdc.getVdcByReference (vcloudClient, vdcRef) .getVappRefByName ("vApp_Websrv");.

  Vapp.getVappByReference (vcloudClient, vAppRef) .recomposeVapp (recomposeVAppParamsType);

  One day before I played with Web Services SDK, which is much easier to understand. I was able to create the vApp and VMs in vSphere. Is it possible to import machines virtual vSphere to vCloud? Should what API I use for this?

  Thank you

  Hello

  You cannot add a new empty virtual machine in a paralytic.

  Instead, you can add a virtual machine from an existing vapp, vapptemplate.

  To import a vsphere vm to vcloud.

  Import vsphere vm as VAPP in vcloud. VMWVimserver-> importVmAsVApp()

  The importation of vsphere vm, as vAppTemplate, in vcloud. VMWVimserver-> importVmAsVAppTemplate()

  See also the example of ImportVmAsvAppTemplate.java, which is part of the vcloudjavasdk group.

  Kind regards

  Rajesh Kamal.

• Cloning a virtual machine running Live - destination of the is an exact match to the source at the beginning or end of the cloning process?

  Hello

  I'm not a VMware Expert, so please forgive my noob question.

  I was invited to migrate files from Windows Server 2003 to 2012 servers, and I intend to use cloning as a way of copying the VMDK with data from the file to the new server of 2012.

  I created a script with vSphere PowerCli, which made a clone of the source and, once the cloning is complete, it stops and disables the Server service on the Windows of the source virtual machine operating system to avoid changes in the source of this point in time.

  But I noticed, I have start by making a snapshot.

  Question:

  Changes made to the source VM when creating the clone will then be synchronized at the end of the cloning process, so that the destination virtual machine will be an exact copy of the source, at the end of the cloning process?

  Or destination VM will correspond only to the source of the VM at the time of the opening of the cloning process, and all the files that have been updated on the source VM when creating the clone will be lost on the destination?

  Thank you for helping me to get a clear understanding of the present!

  Best regards

  Changes made to the source VM when creating the clone will then be synchronized at the end of the cloning process, so that the destination virtual machine will be an exact copy of the source, at the end of the cloning process?

  Laughing out loud

  Or destination VM will correspond only to the source of the VM at the time of the opening of the cloning process, and all the files that have been updated on the source VM when creating the clone will be lost on the destination?

  Yes, the destination will be the data from the time you start to create the clone, because a snapshot will be created on the beginning of the process and the basic of this hat of the VM disk will be copied, all changes made on the source VM will be writing about the delta file and these data will not be copied.

• How can I move the "Virtual Machines" folder to the My Documents folder?

  VMwareFusion is to put the "Virtual Machines" folder in the Documents folder in the home folder (/users/ [username] / Documents), how can I move elsewhere (as/Library/Application Support)? The user Documents folder is not the right place for automated it system files, it is intended for personal documents.

  
  

  I am running VMware Fusion on OS X Yosemite (and the virtual machine is Windows 7).

  You can keep your virtual machines anywhere you want. Here are the steps to move:

  1 exit VMware Fusion. You can stop first of all of your running virtual machines.

  2. drag your virtual computers folder or the individual VM "files" where you / them. Filenames usually end in ".vmwarevm". There is no need to call the new folder "Virtual Machines" - you can call it anything you like.

  3. Launch VMware Fusion. If the library of the Virtual Machine window is not open, open it (Windows menu-> Virtual Machine library).

  4. ensure that all of your icons for the virtual machine are light gray and say "file not found".

  5. right click on each virtual machine in turn, and select Remove. When you are done, leave the window of Machine virtual library empty open.

  6. in the Finder, drag the icons of file virtual machine in their new location and drop them in library of virtual machines VMware Fusion window. Drop them one by one in the original order, you got, or rearrange icons later.

  7. run your virtual machines as before.

  When you create new virtual computers, navigate to the desired file before the Save.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: If you your folder of Machines ~/Documents/Virtual excluded from backups Time Machine, don't forget to change the exclusion to the new folder.

  Time Machine backups are not reliable for virtual machines. You must have another strategy. (I shut the virtual machine down, compress the 'file', and then move the compressed file to a folder that is included in the Time Machine backups. This isn't the only strategy, but it works for me.)

• Convert a hard drive to a virtual machine

  I have a server that the material died which has mirrored hard SATA hard drives in them.  I would like to convert the data on that hard drive to a virtual machine and put it in my vCenter, but I am unable to start the server.  What is the best way to do it?  I can mount and read data from Windows on another machine.  Right now I'm trying to back up data until an acronis image and then use converter to import.  I think it is easier to sense, though.   I also have a backup server Symantec Backup Exec, but I do not have the agent ESX for Symantec.

  Thank you

  Dave

  If you want to try the converter, just fix the disk on a physical host somewhere and run a normal conversion.

  Once you have done this, create a new empty virtual machine with no disc and you fix vmdk for the reader you want migrated to this new virtual machine. Chances are that you will get the normal NT Loader boot error when you try to start, but you should be able to solve this problem using a fo the following:

  DiskPart

  Fdisk

  Recovery Boot

  You can also consider to use something else than VMware converter - perhaps something like Acronis True image?

  Good luck and please feed back.

• Need a solution to customize virtual machines deployed from models

  Here's the problem:

  When I deploy virtual machines from a template, the guest of the new virtual machine operating system takes the same size of hard drive than the model between what was created.  It is very fast to increase the size of the virtual hard disk after deployment.  But the size of the partition in the guest operating system is unchangeable.  This means that, for each virtual machine, I have to start the virtual machine and either extend the guest operating system by using an operating system disk management tool or a third-party for the partition management application.

  It takes a lot of time to do during the deployment of a large number of virtual machines.  Another option is to create a template for each size of hard drive - but the problem with this is that all of these models for each operating system must be maintained, that takes a lot of time.

  Does anyone have ideas for another or better solutions?  For example, is there such a thing as a tool that integrates with VMware to enable not only the size of the virtual hard disk, but also the size of the partition of the guest operating system to customize when you create a virtual model of computer?

  Any contribution is appreciated-

  Thank you

  It resizes the disk partition inside the virtual machine to the guest OS uses the complete virtual disk capacity.

• Unable to connect to MKS: virtual machine configuration file does not exist

  Guys,

  Need a little help I'm running the following

  vCenter Server 4.0.0 (build 208111)

  ESX Server 4.0.0 (build 208167)

  I have a computer virtual running WIndows 2000 Advanced and when I try and open the console I get a black screen and the error message following

  "" Unable to connect to MKS: virtual machine configuration file does not exist '. "

  I scoured the data store and all the files of the virtual machine appear to be in place, I thought deletin the virtual machine from the inventory and add the vmdk file, it would be a good idea?

  Thank you.

  Remove and add new inventory won't hurt (you could lose data historial for virtual machine), it probably won't solve the problem.

  I doubt, it is a problem with the .vmx file, but you can try:

  -Remove the VM of the inventory

  -To create the new virtual machine (with the same characteristics as the virtual machine that you removed), name it differently and do not add hard drives that it

  -Change the new VM settings and add the existing VMDK virtual machine that you deleted

  -Power on VM and try

  • You should always have your complete file to the virtual machine original intact, in case you need, you will always have your original vmx file to add it to the inventory.

  By doing these steps you re-create the vmx file.

  f this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• How to change the virtual machine after clone

  I'm a beginner to learn vm.

  Now, I already cloned a new existing virtual machine in a virtual machine.

  Then, I want to change it.

  (1) change the name

  (2) change the number of the processor

  (3) change the size of the memory

  (4) change the size of the disk

  How to do?

  I use c# API. I put something when clone?

  Thanks for any help!

  Hello

  You can clone the virtual computer to a model first and then deploy it to this model. For customizing the properties of guest operating system, you can use sysprep (from Microsoft) or customization Spesification Manager (from VMware vCenter Server). Of course, you can also configure it manually change settings menu (from vSphere Client).