Passing of TMS physical server in VM with external SQL Server

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• A physical server with 2 NETWORK interface card using a virtual machine as IPS (transparent VM) and everything should work normally?

  Hello guys.

  Is there a diagram that I made, using for my self this question.

  

  As you can see, I have a physical server with 2 NIC I don't want to use a VM (with Snort) as IPS / IDS system for inbound traffic on the management of VLANS. Is it possible to use this VM in this way (as an IPS/IDS, VM with two NIC without any routing work?)? Maybe you have a suggestion, how can I achieve this, as easy as possible? Maybe you have an opinion, what OS unix system do I use?

  Thank you for your time and your answers. Any useful information is much appreciated.

  Yes, it should work. You need to look out for, it's that the 'outgoing' NIC is not connected to the same physical switch as the entrant and that there is no link between these two physical switches, because this would create a loop of layer 2 on the network.

  I haven't worked much with Linux, but I don't see that you would have a problem to find some Linux/Unix with the possibility to bridge two network cards and use some software IPS to inspect the traffic.

• Clone a physical server with converter

  When the cloning of a physical server with converter and selecting Configure the VM when completed does change on the physical server?

  My original physical server becomes inoperative?  I would rename the virtual server and give it a new IP address, but also want to continue to use the original physical server.

  Welcome to the community - but be aware that if you do not want to run two machines on the same network, your willingness to care about the host name and IP address to avoid confllicts.

• Migrate from virtual vCenter5.0 of physical server

  Hi guys,.

  I'm in the process of upgrading my vSphere5.0 to 5.1, but before that I want to migrate my vCenter5.0 (VM on the cluster to vSphere5) to the physical server. I know there is no direct upgrade from the virtual to the physical server, so I have to migrate virtual and physical memory with same version 5 and then pass vCenter5.0 to 5.1 on the physical server. Please help with the steps and questions below:

  1. build the server target with the same operating system (win2008r2 std x 64, partition of 2 x 1 for OS and 1 for the vCenter database)

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  3. SQL database backup

  4. create the DSN connection on the target server

  5 copy the Migration.zip data for the target server

  6. run install.bat and follow the wizard, can I install the data to a different location as 2nd partition, or it must be in the same place as on the source

  7 restore the SQL database

  8 restart target vCenter

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  Thank you

  S

  Sandyforvmware wrote:

  Hi Gkeerthy,

  Everything is on the same virtual server and I use SQLexpress.

  Please could you confirm 2 steps below:

  1. I don't have to create the DSN connection if everything is on the same server, is that correct? n ' yes no need to create the DSN

  2. I use 2nd partion on the Server D: target as a new location for the DB (Source have a single partition C: and all that is on it), it won't break anything, just? You can select the destination during installation... no thing will happen

  Thank you very much

  See the info up-to-date

• For TMS Win2008 Server and SQL Server client access licenses?

  Where, I read that the TMSXE interface requires a CAL on the Exchange Server.  What I can't seem to locate is all information about client access licenses how are required to Win2008 R2 Server Standard Edition and SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard.  Is there a reference document that I'm missing with this information.  It seems that according to Microsofts definitions, you might need a CAL by user device and/or managed web that connects to the web interface.

  Can someone clarify the situation?

  Hello world

  So should put the closure of this thread, I have now clarified what follows when it comes to TMS and MS licenses:

  Users and administrators to connect to TMS authenticate AD, the server that hosts the TMS must be allowed to support authenticated connections. Don't authenticate TMS Managed/configure with AD devices via the web server. As a result, and as managed devices does not authenticate against IIS with AD login, these types of connections don't require licenses. Only users who connect to the Web site would be.

  The issue of Exchange and SQL are similar, that is, authenticated connections how are made?

  Of MSDS, all connections to SQL server use the same authenticated account, by default uses a SQL login.  Web site users are not authenticated to SQL Server. Therefore, and in the case of an external SQL Server, this would be equal to one.

  When communicating with Exchange, all connections are through a unique service account. Created for managed systems the mailboxes are not connected by users or MSDS for normal operation. As a result, and as with an external SQL Server, this would be also equal to one.

  Hope that clarifies completely now

  Rgds,

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• GoldenGate replication on the same physical server - REPLICATE always ABENDING

  Dear expert GG,

  I'm completely green with Golden Gate, so I would like to help on why my REPLICAT process abends right after that I put my source database object lines.  I'm following the writeup of Gavin Soorma -.

  http://gavinsoorma.com/2011/08/GoldenGate-replication-with-source-and-target-on-the-same-physical-host/

  I'm trying to implement CDC on the same physical server.  I have a 11g source database that uses ASM and my target is the database 10g that is using traditional file system management.  I am trying to map an object, ggs_owner.myobjects that I created in the two databases.  EXTRACT both REPLICAT start very well, but as soon as I perform an insert in the 11g database and post the lines, my REPLICAT process abends.

  Version information:

  Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle shell
  OGGCORE_11.2.1.0.1_PLATFORMS_120423.0230_FBO version 11.2.1.0.1
  Linux, x 86, 32-bit (optimized), Oracle 11 g on April 23, 2012 08:09:25

  Copyright (C) 1995, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

  GGSCI (localhost) 3 > DBLOGIN Userid ggs_owner@ora11g, password ggs_owner
  Connected to the database.

  GGSCI (localhost) 4 > RELEASES
  Operating system:
  Linux
  Version #1 SMP kills Jan 4 15:24:05 EDT 2011 version 2.6.18 - 238.el5
  Node: localhost.localdomain
  Machine: i686

  Database:
  Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
  PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
  CORE 11.2.0.1.0 Production
  AMT for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
  NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

  GGSCI (localhost) 7 > DBLOGIN Userid ggs_owner@ora10g, password ggs_owner
  Connected to the database.

  GGSCI (localhost) 8 > VERSIONS
  Operating system:
  Linux
  Version #1 SMP kills Jan 4 15:24:05 EDT 2011 version 2.6.18 - 238.el5
  Node: localhost.localdomain
  Machine: i686

  Database:
  Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod
  PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
  CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production
  AMT for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
  NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

  PRM file content

  EXTRACT the content of the Param file

  extract extlocal
  SetEnv (ORACLE_HOME="/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1')
  SetEnv (ORACLE_SID = 'ora11g')
  ggs_owner username, password ggs_owner
  localhost.localdomain, mgrport 7809 rmthost
  rmttrail ./dirdat/aa
  TRANLOGOPTIONS ASMUSER sys@+ASM, oracle ASMPASSWORD
  table ggs_owner.myobjects.

  Content of the file param REPLICAT

  REPLICAT replocal
  SETENV (ORACLE_HOME="/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0.1')
  SETENV (ORACLE_SID = "ora10g")
  ASSUMETARGETDEFS
  Ggs_owner username, PASSWORD ggs_owner
  DISCARDFILE. / dirrpt/discard.txt, APPEND, 20 MEGABYTES
  CARD ggs_owner.myobjects, ggs_owner.myobjects, KEYCOLS (object_id) TARGET;

  Complete the following steps in GGSCI:

  GGSCI (localhost) 103 > add extract extlocal tranlog start now
  Added EXTRACT.

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 104 > add rmttrail ./dirdat/aa gets extlocal
  Added RMTTRAIL.

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 105 > dblogin Userid ggs_owner@ora10g, password ggs_owner
  Connected to the database.

  GGSCI (localhost) 106 > add replicat replocal exttrail ./dirdat/aa
  ERROR: No control points table specified to add REPLICAT.

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 107 > add replicat exttrail ./dirdat/aa NODBCHECKPOINT replocal
  REPLICAT added.

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 108 > dblogin Userid ggs_owner@ora11g, password ggs_owner
  Connected to the database.

  GGSCI (localhost) 109 > start extract extlocal

  Sending START request manager of...
  EXTLOCAL EXTRACT from

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 110 > news

  Program status group Lag time since Chkpt Chkpt

  MANAGER RUNNING
  EXCERPT FROM RUNNING EXTLOCAL 00:00:00 00:00:02
  REPLICAT ORDER REPLOCAL 00:00:00 00:01:27

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 111 > start replicat replocal

  Sending START request manager of...
  REPLICAT REPLOCAL from

  
  GGSCI (localhost) 112 > news

  Program status group Lag time since Chkpt Chkpt

  MANAGER RUNNING
  EXCERPT FROM RUNNING EXTLOCAL 00:00:00 00:00:09
  REPLICAT RUNNING REPLOCAL 00:00:00 00:00:04

  In another window, I do the following:

  SQL > connect ggs_owner@ora11g
  Enter the password:
  Connected.
  SQL > select count (*) from myobjects;

  COUNT (*)
  ----------
  71932

  SQL > truncate table myobjects;

  Table truncated.

  SQL > insert into select MYOBJECTS * from DBA_OBJECTS;

  71932 lines were created.

  SQL > commit;

  Validation complete.

  When I return to GGSCI, I see that the process has added:

  GGSCI (localhost) 132 > news

  Program status group Lag time since Chkpt Chkpt

  MANAGER RUNNING

  EXCERPT FROM RUNNING EXTLOCAL 00:00:00 00:00:07

  REPLICAT REPLOCAL ABENDED 00:00:00 00:00:02

  When I can look at, or what can I add to the param REPLICAT file that might help identify the root cause.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Prom

  Hello

  Since no one has replied, I can go with my assumptions that replicat process searches across data dictionary, and since he is a 11g Golden Gate executable, its not backward compatible with 10g.  To this end, I have duplicated my database with RMAN DUPLICATE ora11g, creating another database called ora11g2, changed my REPLOCAL. PRM file as follows (changes in bold):

  REPLICAT replocal
  SETENV (ORACLE_HOME = "/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1")
  SETENV (ORACLE_SID = "ora11g2")
  ASSUMETARGETDEFS
  Ggs_owner @ora11g2, ggs_owner PASSWORD username
  DISCARDFILE. / dirrpt/discard.txt, APPEND, 20 MEGABYTES
  DDL INCLUDE ALL
  CARD ggs_owner.golden, TARGET ggs_owner.golden, KEYCOLS (gold);

  I then rebooted the components again, and finally, I was able to replicate the changes to the GGS_OWNER table. GOLD ora11g, at the same table in ora11g2.

  Thank you all.

  Prom

• vCenter Appliance physical server, 3 guests, small environment size

  Hi all.

  I'm trying to move a vCenter device to a physical server.  This is a small facility with only 3 guests.  I'm a bit new to VMware.  If I put in place, single sign - on again and add the hosts once again, this isn't a problem.  I did not put groups in place and yet it is a new installation. In fact, there is a cluster but DRS and HA is lit.  I want to remove the cluster but not the hosts.  We have a small Windows 2008 R2 AD domain.  The vCenter Server is member of the domain, as are ESXi hosts.  This is version 5.5.

  Is it OK if I simply remove the vCenter device by stopping and removing disk and inventory, then install the physical server and add hosts, delete the server appliance of AD and add the new physical server to AD and set up SSO again on the new server - that will work?  Did I meet problems questions?

  I would point out that the reason behind my fact that must implement vSA on the 3 hosts, and from what I read, I can't launch the vCenter on a VSA host device, and 3 guests must be guests of VSA if each should share its space with the other 2. I also read that I can't add VMS to guests until the VSA cluster has been created.  So I need to ditch the current cluster and take the guests out of it.  That a host is always under the existing cluster.  I'm hoping that by performing these steps above that I can add my hosts to the new server physical vCenter once it's running and just delete the old a.  If this is not the way forward on this issue, if you please point me in the right direction and you will be worth your weight in gold as far as I'm concerned.

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  Just a quick note on the ASB. You can read the new features of vSphere Storage Appliance version 5.1, which explains the added features, including a brownfield facility.

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• VMware converter restarts the physical server after conversion!

  Hello

  This can already city, but I can't find any discussion about it. I do some V2Vs using the converter Vmware 4.1.0

  The problem I have is that once the converter is completed, it randomly restarts the physical server, I converted (does not seem to happen to any of them). Of course, I don't want the physical server switch on again as changes could be made to it. I don't see any option in the converter to tell him not to restart or even stop.  It's a VtoV.  He is a SQL Server. Windows 2003 64-bit.

  I try without shutting down the server at all because it's a production server.  I don't have a Vcenter (to copy to an esxi to an another esxi).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello

  For sure in the Converter 4 there is an option for the source stop server after migration.

  Below you will find a screen of VMware converter 5 with the option you are looking for. It is available at the end of the migration Assistant in OPTION --> option advance section

  

  Below the download link for Converter 5

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  See you soon
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• What is a physical server to virtual best practices?

  I have a physical server with an attached drive HP 6400 Bay.

  We want to convert it to a virtual machine.

  What is advised to do?

  Hello

  For me personally I'd go with rehabilitate VM manually and then import / migration of data from P2V (using VMware converter) is generally not the sweet/good approach.

  in regards to the San, you can deploy the virtual machine as RDM virtual mode as a pure big VMDK (2 TB - 512 bytes).

• multi ESXi 4.1 in 1 physical server

  Hi all

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  Hello

  If I'm wrong a lot, your statement is correct.

  ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor, and you can have only a single host-by-physical material.

  Of course you can install a lot of guests from the virtual computer within this host.

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  NK

• Physical server VM disaster recovery

  Hello

  Today, I meet some customers who would ask the site of recovery after a disaster. They would like to use all physical servers to the recovering site.

  Here's the scenario. In the production site, they will have 3 host to ESXi 4.1, with BL460G6 (the Server Blade HP), 2 Proc Intel X 5600 series, 48 GB RAM. Storage use is NetApp with iSCSI (NETAPP FAS2040) options.

  All their (converted from physical) virtual computers will consume about 4.2 TB, for most of the Linux server, multiple windows, according to. The growth of data every day is 1.6 GB. They will invest the same storage (FAS2040) on the site of DRC. Will of replication occurs every 15 minutes. They had a very good bandwidth

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  Because they will migrate to Virtual Server, after all migration, they all want their server used in the DRC Site. My point is to know how to do it. Pouvez VMware replicated on the physical server? They will not invest more than license VMware or upgrading their equipment. They want to use the server as is.

  I thought to use RDM, create a LUN, attached to the virtual machine with the physical/virtual compatibility, then use the NetApp replication method to replicate the DRC site. Then, in the DRC, all the physical server mapped to the same LUN. Restoration, then, just reverse the replication. But then, the implementation will be difficult, because each server has a specific LUN (it had more 20 + server).

  A guy had an idea?

  Thanks for your help.

  From what I understand so far, they virtualized or not their systems and virtual machine files are stored on NetApp storage synced to the DRS!

  In this case, with the environment of virtualization (VMware Essentials) in place at the DRS, they would have only to add the virtual machine to inventory and them lights disaster on the production side. This doesn't mean no reconfiguration of drivers (for the merger to the physical hardware), up to date systems (synchronizes every 15 min.) and very little time to have the environment running on the DRS.

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• Hot cloning - let the physical server running then?

  I have a question for the Vmware Converter. If I understand correctly, you can use hot Clone to clone a physical server while it is running. Of course, that seems very well so you don't get no downtime during conversion.

  But, if the reason for this conversion is to migrate from physical to virtual, what happens if the physical server continues to operate after the conversion? Even just a minute can be enough to have changed the original system, perhaps a database or other stuff, that will make the new virtual instance "incorrect."

  So how does this normally? If you want to virtualize a server that has a system that interacts with users either or other servers, how will stop instantly change?

  OK, even if you are in your downtime window it would be preferable to perform the validation of the server application.

  What we normally do, is check the event logs and do well for sure there no new errors that are produce after the p2v (physical 2 virtual), especially application or system related event.  We will also perform a few reboots of the (virtual) system and sometimes we also had to remove some old drivers.  We have sometimes came across problems with NETWORK cards keeping the old ipconfig when migrating.

  When supply us the new VM give us it a whole new value of intellectual property and test it with the other physical system down.  After correct validation go us ahead and leave the virtual running.  We usually have to master the physical machine in the datacenter for about two weeks and then begin the process of decommissioning.

  One thing most definitely, you want to do is make sure to install vmware tools on the virtual server.  I know it's probably obvious, but many people forget.

  Hope this helps,

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• Conversion of physical server into a virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to take a physical server and convert it to a virtual machine on the same box.  I'm new to VMs, so please tell me if this is possible and if yes, what is the best way to do it. Right now, I think these are the basic steps:

  (1) take operating system image current (2003 Server STD) using Acronis.

  (2) wipe server and install ESXi 4.

  (3) use the free VMware Converter to convert the Acronis image to a guest VM on the ESXi host.

  Will this work? Am I missing something? The traps that I should look out for?

  A few questions more to go with this:

  -J' currently have an ESXi 3.5 on a desktop host. Wouldn't be better to convert this machine on the fly to a guest on this 3.5 host, then move the guest to the new 4.0 host once it is ready?

  -This server is now an application server and has a few databases, such as WSUS and Kaspersky Administration kit and maybe something else I can't think right now. Is that causing trouble with the DBs in the transition from the physical to the virtual?

  -The machine has also acts as a file server and is connected to our iSCSI SAN. Will be a problem or I would be able to remap the LUN to the virtual machine quite easily just like I did to the physical machine?

  Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  As long as you can take decisions associated with the image with Acronis and then convert it to a virtual machine, I think this is a good approach.  You can convert the server in a virtual machine running on your ESXi 3.5 environment but I would not run a server database production on class workstation hardware.  The performance would be probably pretty bad if you had a large number of users hitting that database.  As for using Acronis I know that it is supported but in the past I have never tried to convert an Acronis image for a virtual computer by using converter.

  The databases themselves should not have any problem on a virtual machine.  SQL runs in a virtual machine and saw complex databases even accomplish a lot.

  Reconnect to your iSCSI SAN shouldn't be a problem either.  You must ensure that the networking on the newly built 4 ESX host is configured to allow you access to all the VLANS required (iSCSI VLANS, server VLAN, etc.).  It is an important step to ensure that you have right or you will not be able to reinstall your iSCSI LUNS, once the server is converted.  Once the networking is configured the process of reconnecting to the iSCSI LUN from inside your virtual machine is the same as if it was physical.

  Good luck!

• Required physical server Vs Virtual Machine memory

  Is there a white paper explains why we we need less memory in the Virtual Machine as compared to the physical Machine.

  The problem is that my boss wants to know why this is so. It is very difficult for me to explain this to him, he wants to see a white paper OR some article on the internet.

  As long as a VM administrator, I know that we can add and remove a virtual computer memory but it will be not that simple when it comes to physical servers. I suggested to him that we must follow a standard, and if there is a requirement for business we can increase or decrease is according to the needs. So when the salesman comes in they give us specifications for the physical server and not the virtual and there is always an argument that why should have 6-8 GB memory VM from the outset. In order to avoid everything that the arguments it needs more proof.

  Thank you

  Here is a simple explanation of why VM need less memory.  Transparent page sharing.

  If you install a virtual of Windows 2008 SP2 single server machine, lets assume that it uses 500 MB of RAM while sitting idle.  It's basically all running components loaded into memory.

  If you then put a same VM, the new machine virtual don't re-charge not the exact same components in memory.  ESX will see the same exact memory block has been loaded into the memory of the host Server1 (phyiscal material) and then simply point the virtual machine to the component already loaded into memory.

  After the virtual machine has been loaded and GST has kicked, you will probably find that for 2 identical virtual machines you use not only 650MB of memory (not 1000 as expected).  This is because 80% of the components has need of the new virtual machine, it only uses the existing memory blocks, instead of duplicating.

  Now, repeat this operation on 10 VM and assume only 50% of the memory is the same between them... it is still a huge economy of memory.  In this case, since each VM Windows is really loading only 250 MB of itself in memory and split the rest, technically you don't need to allocate 2 GB of RAM for each virtual computer... you can easily get away with putting 1 to 1.5 GB on this server and I have always the same ratio of available memory for the programs that you would do if it was a physical server.

• vCenter installed on a virtual machine and the SQL DB on the physical server?

  All the

  I'll run a VM on vCenter.  A question... It is noticed that the best practice not to have the SQL Databsase(Sql 2005) on the virtual computer

  but the DB on a physical server with an ODBC connection from the virtual machine.  My client will not fail to ask - why, I can't give a clear

  answer to the question.

  If I can someone state why it is better practice to have the SQL DB on a physical server?

  Thank you!!!

  Here are a couple

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/vc_database_performance.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/SQLServerWorkloads.PDF

  I hope that helps a little...

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