Optimal configuration for ESXi 5.1 scenario

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• Optimal configuration for vSwitches?

  I used to have a configuration with a bunch of different switches and each switch had his own Teddy bear, etc.  Virtually every assignment (iscsi, VM, vmotion, SC) has their own assigned Teddy.

  "After reading a Dell ' good practices ' (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-configurations-for-virtualisation.pdf) PDF file, I thought their way makes much more sense how I had mine Setup.  So here's how I think to do so (following quite close to their examples):

  vSwitch0 (3 natachasery plugged into a Cisco 6509 in etherchannel):

  Traffic - VM

  -SC

  -VMotion VMKernel (VLANs separated)

  vSwitch1 (2 natachasery plugged into a Cisco 6509 in etherchanel):

  iSCSI - SC

  -iSCSI VMKernel

  Does make sense?  Also, how do I know what vSwitch is used for iSCSI traffic because I don't see an option to turn on iSCSI as it is marketing VMotion?

  Thank you.

  Because the service console is used that for the discovery of the volume, not the traffic connection, it won't really matter.  I'm not sure to be used and am a little surprised that you were able to create 2 ports of console service on the same subnet.  I remember running into an error when I tried.  Maybe I'm remembering something similar though.

  I don't know how to determine which service console port to be used.  Maybe on the side SAN?  Maybe you can tell what IP made the discovery.  It can use one or the other at different times though. You should see that the IP address of the VMKernel connected to the volume however.  Who assure you real iSCSI traffic is on the good vSwitch.

  Charles nights, VCP

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• Install a custom configuration for ESXi Installer for server 28 - Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value to 1

  Hello

  First off I will say that I installed ESXi 4.1 in about 6 servers to date.  I have a large ESXi Cluster that contains the MSCS virtual machines.  I have the problem that described in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1016106.  Now, workaround for the value Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value 1 works fine and shorten time of start of 40 + minutes to 8 minutes after post.  Now, what to install it?  Well, they suck.  Basically before you can actually adjust this via the gui VI client, you must go through 2 trunk of ESXi 4.1 (1 ffrom the CD and 1 after initial installation).  So, basically, to install ESXi on servers 1 takes me about 2 hours.  That sucks.  Anyone know how I can make a customized CD that includes the fix 'Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value to 1' already?  28 more servers to go and I'm not looking forward to that!  Please help...

  Brett

  And some good links here

  http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/11/how-to-inject-custom-drivers-into-ESXi.html

• You want some advice on configuring NPIV for ESXi Vsphere 4.1

  Salvation; HP EVA8000 SAN/FC switches, Win2k8 servers, HBA Qlogic - environment. I have my VMware Setup and ready to go.  I have test virtual servers on the SAN and want to connect to the virtual disks of data users. I made copies of the VD data user and copies connected to the virtual machine as LUN mapped Raw. They seem to work ok, but I don't know what I have to configure for NPIV? If I do, how can I change the settings for the HBA on the ESXi host? is there a resource for the syntax and parameters? I will follow my own, but if anyone has any experience in this area (NPIV), it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Gregg

  There is no need of NPIV for the scenario you describe. In fact, I don't see a case of usage with the current implementation for NPIV (technically), since in addition to NPIV you must always present the LUNS to the ESXi hosts and map in the RDM.

  André

• How do I configure Openfiler for ESXi 5.0 (on which has been installed in the workstation).

  9.0 pre-installed VMware I installed in my laptop. I created a 5.0 as a VM ESXi in workstation. And I installed vSphere client 5.0 in my laptop. And I am able to access ESXi from my laptop through the vSphere client.

  Now, I created a VM with Windows 2008 R2 on top of ESXi. I installed vCenter 5.0 in Windows 2008 R2 Machine. I have just to connect to vCenter using vSphere client (which has been installed in my laptop) and added ESXi as host in the inventory.

  Now, I created a VM with Openfiler. Everything is fine. I want to use this Openfiler as a storage array, and I want the SAN with ESXi and Openfiler configuration.

  I think I need to create a VMkernel port group and attach that Openfiler VM who. And if I want to access the Openfiler web interface, do I need to have internet access? We can access the Openfiler Web interface without having access to the internet?

  Can someone let me know how to connect this Openfiler as a storage Bay for ESXi and configure a San.

  Openfiler does not need Internet access and you do not require an additional VMkernel port for access.  If it's production, you share the management and traffic on NIC iSCSI physical separate and thus vmkernel ports.  In this case, it is not necessary.  Did you do the initial installation of Openfiler to create a LUN for the ESXi host access?

• Configuration of NIC for ESXi 4.1

  Happy to wander what others do for their NETWORK card for ESXi 4.1 configuration I want to use the following:

  pNIC0-> vSwitch0-> Portgroup0 (management)

  pNIC1-> vSwitch0-> Portgroup1 (VMotion)

  pNIC2-> vSwitch1-> Portgroup2 (the VM network)

  pNIC3-> vSwitch1-> Portgroup2 (the VM network)

  pNIC4-> vSwitch2-> Portgroup3 (DMZ network)

  pNIC5-> vSwitch2-> Portgroup3 (DMZ network)

  I don't have that much wandering DMZ traffic so if I should use one of the DMZ NIC for VMotion or management.

  Mike

  According to me, it looks good, you have redundancy built in.  The only thing that we do, and maybe you do the same thing is on our vSwitch0 active/standby network interface cards to each other.  The other vSwitches are set to active/active.

• Optimal hard drive configuration for first Pro CS5 and Pro Tools

  I am in the process of upgrading a workstation is used mainly for multi-track audio recording in Pro Tools using the Adobe CS5 products following production of promotional videos in HDV (AVCHD for the web) as well as printouts of documents of marketing for groups and musicians: Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Soundbooth.

  Since Premiere Pro is probably the most demanding application in the group, I studied the hardware configurations suggested on this forum with great interest, in particular the suggestions of PREJUDICE (including its generic guidance for the installation disc) to determine what drives in order to buy and the best way to configure them.

  I'm upgrading to a HP Z800 with 2.44 GhZ processors dual quad core with hyperthreading (16 virtual cores), 12 GB of memory and a GeForce GTX 470 overclockee.  Without the implementation of a RAID configuration (which I can't afford right now), I would use 4 bays for HARD drives available in the Z800 in the optimal way for the Premier Pro, using currently available drives.  Currently, I plan to buy a 300 GB VelociRaptor to use as my C drive because of the time of extended loading and demands placed on the disc of ProTools and plug-ins Waves associated.

  I would appreciate your suggestions to improve my next plan: C (300 GB WD VelociRaptor) for the operating system and programs; D (1 TB WD Black Caviar) media and projects; E (1 250 GB WD Caviar Black) for the swap file (approx. 18 GB) and media Cache; and E (2 TB WD Caviar Black) for Pro Tools, exports, and previews of audio files.

  I have great respect for the knowledge of the members of this forum and look forward to your suggestions.

  / Bill

  Bill,

  If the live band shots involve a lot of multi-camera editing, I suggest a raid0, otherwise, if the Assembly is a single camera only, I would use separate disks, one for the media and for exports. The risk of losing all the data in a raid0 configuration would not bother, because the intensive part of the disc reads media / FLV writes. It will not be a significant difference in performance between playback of a disc and writing to each other compared to R/W in a raid0.

• Script configuration ip and hostname for esxi

  Hi guys,.

  I installed a VM ESXi ESXi-based. Then I cloned the ESXi VM to create another 40 ESXi VMs based.

  Now all others 40 virtual machines have the same IP address that the ESXi VM I use for cloning.

  Is there a script method to set the IP and static hostname for the 40 other VMs ESXi?

  Or is there a way I can enter the IP address and host name for ESXi clones?

  That works too, but it will not be a good idea to add the host to the CR and THEN change the IP there. Since it is a virtual, better machine to open a VI client directly to the 'physical' ESX host that has these virtual machines, open a console and change the IP/hostname using DCUI

• Best Configuration for optimal IO RAID parameters and ESX 3.5 vmfs volumes

  Hello

  We currently have ESX 3.5 update 3 installed on a HP DL585 and connected to a HP MSA 1500.  ESX is installed on the server in a RAID 1 2 x 72 GB configuration.  I tried to determine the best possible configuration for the VMFS partition on the MSA 1500 (or more), but it seems to be getting some mixed reviews between RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10.  That's why I thought I post the question and I hope that some people have recommendations.  Even if the disk size and type may be the best available and we can add to write the memory cache to the MSA then let me know the following... I'm coming looking with better i/o performance overall as well as redundancy (number of readers and size is not limits so if we had better available so how would he).  Assuming that VM will perform a high volume of reads/writes:

  1 size Max of LUN to optimize i/o performance (I have read 250 GB but perhaps it can be more)?

  2 for the LUN RAID configuration (RAID 5 or RAID 10, as well as all others who may still be better)?

  3. number of disks to span as appropriate?

  4. the amount of memory to install in the table itself or if anything be installed within the guest card and/or fiber ESX?

  Thanks in advance

  I'd say go with RAID 10

  Number of disks and the size depends on the VMs that spins the discs,

  Good reading this article that I found interesting and useful

  http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

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• Not enough resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA

  I have a cluster of vSphere based 5.0 based on ESXi 5 knots 2.

  When I try to start a virtual machine, I get an error saying that there is "insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  If I turn off an another VM the problem disappears and I can turn on my VM.

  If I try to turn on the virtual machine, I have already turned off, I get the error again.

  It seems obvious that there is a lack resources or some setting is misconfigured, but even after reading the forums and manuals, I am unable to locate the critical resource or parameter that is not correct.

  Based on my experience or vSphere server and ESXi servers are overloaded.

  I have an another similar cluster of hosting a larger number of virtual machines with no similar problem.

  This performance counter and this setting should check to identify the bottleneck?

  Concerning

  Marius

  To check reservations for virtual machines, I would select the Cluster in your vCenter inventory, then select the resources"" tab.  Which displays the child objects of the bunch (VMs, Resource Pools, vApps).  There you can watch settings of CPU resources and memory.  You'll want to watch the column of "Reserves".

  To find the size of the slot and places available, look at the tab "Summary" of your cluster.  There is a tile marked "vSphere HA.  In this mosaic, there will be a link for "Advanced Runtime Info" which will open a new window with the location information.

  When the Admission AP policy is set to "Number of failures of host cluster will tolerate", HA has a very pessimistic view of your resources, since it must be able to handle all the possibilities.

  Another option would be to change the admission control strategy in settings of Cluster HA to "percentage of resources reserved for failover.  It reserves a part of the resources for use by HA in the case of a failover, rather than trying to calculate the size of the individual virtual machines.  With a 2 cluster nodes, I think it a relatively safe bet to set these values to 50%, as your worst case scenario HA would be losing a single host on 2.

• Service profile of the CISCO UCS for ESXi

  Do you need multiple boot LUN on the storage array for each host that you want to apply the service profile to? I'm just confused, let's say I have 12 blades that I want to designate as boot SAN for ESXi, y aura-t 12 profiles of separate service for each of them, and will need me 12 different LUNS on our storage? I am new to this and I just want to make it as clean as possible! Any help is appreciated.

  Hi Justin,

  You can have the same LUN ID for multiple service profiles, as well as the same target ID. However, your initiators will be different and you will need to configure the zoning on your switch upstream if you use the end host mode.

  Here is a good guide, review the basics and how to put in place.

  http://jeffsaidso.com/2010/11/boot-from-San-101-with-Cisco-UCS/

  Also here is an excellent guide to troubleshooting;

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/UCS-...

  Kind regards

• who can help me with "insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  Hello world

  We tried to gif a 14GB of ram and make server complete a booking for her.
  This is a server for the exams and the vendor told us to do.

  I can't any more then 5500MB reservation on it, when I anymore that I get
  "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  We have:

  2 X 5.1 ESXi hosts
  Each host has
  2 x processors (8 Cores each) with HT active.
  255,75 GB of Ram

  vSphere HA has been activated.
  Admission control policy is enabled and that the ability to failover is 1 host.

  What is the problem here?

  Thank you
  Ernst.

  
  

  Admission control policy is all about to give you the kind of guarantee that if the host failure happens then there will be enough resources to perform the successful failover.

  in simple terms, it comes to reserve the resources of failover.

  I would recommend going through the notion of vSphere HA, reduced control policy the following document.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-60-availability-Guide.PDF

  From the Page number 22, the details that you need to study is given. Focus especially on part calculations Slot size of it.

  in your case you HA vSphere with number of failure of host to tolerate as admission control strategy defined.

  This means system will calculate CPU and memory slots out of the resources in your cluster, and the total number of units, it will keep some resources like reserved for failover, and others will be available to be used. It all depends on how much failure of hosts that you want to tolerate.

  now in your case, if you try to increase booking one of the virtual machine, which will then affect the number of locations in your environment, and so reserved ability to failover is violated, the system will not let you do what you want to do. As the energy on a virtual machine, or growing booking a powered VM etc..

  If you find that you have enough resources in your cluster and due to some virtual machines with very large cpu or memory reservation, number of places is less than you can still manage the settings some advanced in vSphere HA configuration, but I strongly recommend, try to take the help of someone who has done it before.

  also try to go through other admission control strategies which are explained in the document for more inputs.

• We have configured replication vsphere in our environment and when replication is triggered according to the OFR start us below the questions on the virtual machines that are configured for replication

  Question: We have configured replication vsphere in our environment and when replication is triggered according to the OFR start us below the questions on the virtual machines that are configured for replication.

  Version for esxi: Patch 5.1 level 7

  Virtual center of version 5.1

  Source of storage - IBM v7000

  Destination storage - Hitachi

  
  Questions:
  Events of breach RPO
  Consolidation for the VM disk failure
  Delta abandoned events
  Time change events
  NTFS error and warning (event ID: 137, 57)
  RDP disconnect and ping does matter
  Standby error
  Volsnap error
  Stop the server and offline issue
  Install vmtools emits automatically

  well, in this case, we need to disable the standby of the end of the replication.

  So that everything in triggering replication does not trigger the snapshot of the suspension.

  Then test the if you get these errors.

• Invalid configuration for the device 3

  Hi all

  I have set up a lab nested with three hosts esxi and two warehouses of data connected with the Microsoft iscsi target server. I know nested vm is not supported, but I'm trying to implement this workshop because I support a real VMware environment and I wish I could test some things before I break anything, so it's important. I get this error when you try to create a virtual machine "invalid configuration for the device 3.  Someone knows how can I know where is the problem?

  Thank you

  I think I can find the answer, it seems that it could be a windows problem causing data corruption. Somehow I created a VM but get all kinds of error trying to create an another VM.  Iscsi targets set up using windows server 2012 and it seems that there is a fix from Microsoft below which deals with corruption LUNs in windows 2012.  I have not yet tested, but this seems to be the right direction. http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2908783

• How to generate the array Diagnostic Utility ADU for Esxi server

  How to run Diagnostic Utility ADU or HP Insight Diagnostics HP Insight Diagnostics table to collect the status tables and logs data FRO an Esxi Server

  How to generate the array Diagnostic Utility ADU for Esxi server

  Example:

  Download the package .vib here: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/feb2013/esxi-5x-vibs/hpacucli/hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib

  and place it on a store of data seen by the host...

  Install it using the CLI:

  software esxcli vib install d vmfs/volumes //hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib

  Now run it:

  ~ # cd/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin

  / opt/HP/hpacucli/bin # . / hpacucli

  HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 9.40.12.0

  Detection of controllers... Fact.

  Type 'help' for a list of supported commands.

  Type "exit" to close the console.

  => ctrl all diag file=/tmp/my_ADUreport.zip ris = on = on zip xml = on

  Generation of diagnostic report... done

  -Online output

  / opt/HP/hpacucli/bin #.

  my_ADUreport.zip in / tmp can now be downloaded from the host...

  It could be that useful...

  / Rubeck