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• VMWare ESXi 5.5 - VMotion & HA supported MDM physical or virtual

  Hello

  Hope someone can shed some light on the survey below:

  1. can you VMWare ESXI 5.5 HA and Vmotion supported with vmdk files located in front of multiple vmfs datastore 3/5? I have problems with VMotion or HA?
  
  2. can you VMWare ESXI 5.5 HA and Vmotion (not storage Vmotion) support with a VM scenario below:

  3 three nodes with iSCSI SAN storage

  VM1
  -Drive C-> vmfs Datastore1
  -Drive D-> RDM (is this support on a physical or virtual compatibility mode)
  

  VM2

  -Drive C-> vmfs Datastore 1

  -Drive D-> vmfs Datasore 2

  
  IV ' e seen these link below no mention if need pyshical or virtual mode
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1005241
  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.VMware.vSphere.storage.doc%2FGUID-D9B143D8-9F93-41D1-A32F-9FF4DE4CDF14.html
  
  3. can you multiple access by 5.5 ESXi host the same data store (located on a San) vmfs using the free version of ESXi 5.5?
  Can I use this in a production environment? I have seen some companies test this on a non-production environment. Technically, it works.
  
  Thank you
  Paul

  Welcome to the community-

  (1) as long as the DRS HA cluster hosts see data even warehouses there will be no problem

  (2) once more, also longer than the nose can see data warehouses including the LUNS as the RDM it home should be without issue.

  (3) Yes multiple instances of the free version of ESXi can access LUNS shared - Yes it can be used in a production environment, but remember you can not handle the free hypervisor with vCenter.

• Physical RDM virtual RDMs taken in charge in vSphere 6.0

  Anyone know if this process in KB 1006599 works in vSphere 6.0 +?

  VMware KB: Switching between physical and virtual compatibility modes in ESX/ESXi, a mapping of raw data

  We are about to move a bunch of RDM to VMDK, but we need to convert physical to virtual RDMs first (you can live storage migration [to VMDK] with virtual RDM but not medical examinations). The other part of the story is that we are running vSphere 5.5 and are about to upgrade to vSphere 6.0

  KB wrote on October 17, 2014 and I wonder if this is still the method support in vSphere 6.0 and that it has not been updated; or if it is no longer supported, in which case I have to do the migration before the upgrade?

  Thank you

  I see no reason why this will not work in vSphere 6, given that the procedure is simply to remove the physical RDM disks and add them again as RDM virtual disks... In my view, that the KB is just outdated.

• Physical vs Virtual DMZ

  I implement the vCloud Suite of products in a multiclient environment and currently do not have a demilitarized zone.   In seeking to define what the DMZ network will look like, devrais I guess that I need one that is defined by a separation of physical networks such as the following:

  (Outside of the physical <>- physical <>- DMZ-<>- Firewall firewall network <>- internal network)

  Is to have a demilitarized zone in a conventional, as above, with two firewalls of both sides, always recommended?

  Can I do the same thing with POSSIBLE and when is it appropriate to set my DMZ in software vs hardware?

  Hello

  Well the following will work using only virtual Firewall:

  <->outside the physical switch <->outside Teddy <->VDS <->FW <->VDS DMZ <->FW <->Outside outside inside VDS

  Physical switch <->Teddy <------------------------>VDS DMZ DMZ DMZ

  Then attach a physical DMZ via the DMZ VDS and specific ports outside your chassis and a physical switch in the DMZ upstream.

  Or the following if you want to combine physical and virtual firewall

  Outside <->physics FW <->DMZ Phsysical Switch <->Teddy <->pvNIC <->DMZ VDS <->FW <->DMZ VDS from inside the DMZ

  If you want to use a DMZ or not depends on what you're really trying to do.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
  VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009-2015

  Author of the books ' VMWare ESX and ESXi in the business: Planning Server Virtualization Deployment, Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. ' Of VMware VSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: securing the virtual environment ', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.

  Virtualization and Cloud Security Analyst: The Practice of virtualization, LLC - vSphere Upgrade Saga - virtualization security Table round Podcast

• Convert physical SLES of use via VMware Player

  Hello!

  At last VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client. Any way to convert an area of SLES 11 physical to virtual for use via VMware Player? Tried with converter, but the only way I see is the VMware Infrastructure Server destination, do not. No option to choose a location of files etc.

  Have a few boxes and have to shoot down these, but want to have one... a personal access for the future.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you more, Alar.

  ... when the machine is already converted into ESX you conver it even once, when it is turned off, from ESX to WS format.

• Virtual systems (under VMWare Player) have need of their own antivirus and firewall software?

  My host system is Windows 7 Home Premium.  I put in place of virtual systems in VMWare Player (4.0.2 build-591240) for Windows 2000 and Windows 8 CP (among others), and all this hard work.  The host has its own antivirus (Avast) and firewall (ZoneAlarm more own Windows).  Network for virtual systems connections are bridged and all work very well to access internet and local network.  My question is: are the antivirus and firewall on the Windows 7 host sufficient or virtual systems also have their own antivirus and firewalls?

  Any system, physical or virtual, which had an Internet/network connectivity should be implemented on each system, appropriate security measures period!

• Migrating from physical to virtual Mac

  People,

  Can I migrate virtual phisycal Mac?

  Best regards

  PD

  You can install Mac OS X Server v10.5 or later directly on a Virtual Machine under VMware Fusion, so there is no need to install in physically in first, then image to a virtual machine.

  No you can not move it to a non Apple host OS as that would violate Apple SLA is the only product of VMware Server OS X 10.5 or later version will operate legally under VMware Fusion.  Any use on a product other VMware then VMware Fusion violates not only Apple ALS it would also require the prompt of illicit hacking so he can work.

• Cannot import Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4.

  Hi team,

  I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to import certain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4, using another Windows Server 2008 R2 as the machine Agent Converter. Well, the agent connects to the Windows VM source very well (I used the net use command to create a line of conduct...), perhaps no chance to connect to the computer target VMware ESxi 4 and make the converter doesn't work...

  Following is the error message:

  "Unable to connect to the host specified" from the converter agent machine. " It is perhaps because the host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on this host services do not react. Check all components of converter to be able to connect.

  So, my question is; is it possible to create a work around (like the net use Windows command above) to make possible the connection of the converter Agent on Linux VMware ESXi 4 machine Windows machine, to directly import the virtual machines of Windows Hyper-V to Linux VMware?

  Thanks in advance,

  It's even easier than that

  Use this: http://www.winimage.com/

  Which will convert *.vhd *.vmdk, so you don't need to do all this... Of course, another way is to start the machines, leaving them on Hyper-V and go through the network and process virtual machine as physical machines and do a P2V on the network...

• RDM (Raw Device mapping) physical or virtual?

  Hello:

  I have VM and will add a hard drive.  RDM will be, but I was wondering what "Compatibility Mode" choose "physical or virtual?

  It's my production Oracle machine and this new drive will contains about 500 GB of DATA...

  I think it would be nice to use the 'virtual' mode, to make snapshots, but I'm worrying that, for this one big disk, it will take a lot of time and a lot of space... There are other arguments that I should consider?

  Thank you very much.

  Best regards

  olegarr

  olegarr wrote:

  Surya,

  Thank you very much for your help.

  What is any other reason to use Virtual Mode, if I used instant no?

  Thank you

  olegarr

  "design of the SAN and Deployment Guide system.

  Virtual mode for a mapping specifies full virtualization of the mapped device. He

  appears to the operating system exactly the same as a virtual disk in a file

  VMFS volume. The actual physical features are hidden. Virtual mode

  customers who use raw disks of the benefits of VMFS, such as advanced files

  locking for snapshots to streamline development and data protection processes.

  Virtual mode is also more portable across storage than the physical hardware,

  with the same behavior as a virtual disk file.

  Physical mode for a device mapping gross specifies the SCSI virtualization minimum of la

  device mapped, allowing greater flexibility for SAN management software. In

  physical, VMkernel mode all SCSI commands to the device, with a

  exception: the REPORT LUNS command is virtualized, so that VMkernel can isolate the

  volume to the virtual machine owner. Otherwise, all the physical characteristics of the

  underlying hardware are exposed. Physical mode is useful for running the SAN management

  agents or other software SCSI target on the virtual machine. Mode of physics

  also virtual and physical memory allows for cost-effective high availability clustering.

• How to download and use my Win 7 Pro prior in a Virtual Machine in VMWARE PLAYER?

  before 3 years, I bought a win 7 pro PC - recently, I fee install 8.1... How to download and use my prior Win 7 Pro in a Virtual Machine in VMWARE PLAYER?

  Unfortunately, you must have prepared a recovery disk in advance or use the one provided with your computer.

  For 5 years, Microsoft made it fairly easy for users of the Windows 7 operating system to get reinstall media. If you have lost your support disc or installation retail collection; either it has been damaged or defective; You can download a copy of the edition that you have licensed from a membership site called Digital River. More recently, Microsoft ended the availability to reinstall media that you can download as a. File ISO in Digital River, which is a digital reproduction of an optical disc.

  It was particularly convenient for people who could not easily get the manufacturer's recovery media, did not want to pay the fees required to get or preferred a clean configuration without the software packaged manufacturers or even a recovery partition does not work. It's easy to use, all you had to do was reinstall and reactivate using the product key located on the certificate of authenticity and download all the drivers on the manufacturers website.

  Given that this option is no longer available, what are your options? See the article for more details:

  How to: What are my options for Windows 7 reinstall media?

• Possible to have the physical and virtual units of ESA in the same group?

  Given the scarcity of available information about virtual appliances, anyone have any ideas if it is possible to run a physical C160 and a C300V running the same version of ASyncOS in the same cluster.  I need to migrate from physical to virtual and has been evalualting the possbilty of the migration to the C300V from the C160 by adding a C300V to a cluster and then decommissioning the C160.

  Someone know about this?

  Thank you

  Nathan-

  Yes.  You can, as long as the appliance and virtual appliance running the same AsyncOS.  The "clusterconfig" command will work in the same exact way.  You need to just make sure that your C300V has the featurekeys loaded in order to run the cluster.

  -Robert

• Install Oracle Linux 7 as a virtual machine in VmWare

  Hi all

  has anyone any information on how to install Oracle Linux 7 as a virtual machine in VmWare?

  Thank you and best regards.

  Take a look at: Oracle Linux 7

• Use a Parallels virtual machine in VMware Player

  Currently run a Windows XP in Parallels on the Mac. I would like to be able to run this virtual machine in VMware Player in Windows 8.1 65 bit.

  Is it possible, or I have to recreate a new VM XP in VMware Player.

  If it is important it is run on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3.

  I would like to use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone installed in the virtual machine running under Parallels essentially do a V2V and then run the resulting virtual machine under VMware Player.

• Deployment of virtual machine using VMware Orchestrator

  Hello

  Can you help me pls with deployment of virtual machine using VMware Orchestration?

  Thank you

  Rekha

  Hello, Rekha, welcome to vCO take a look at my blog to get an idea of how use vCO. Christophe & I (and a few guests) have posted some tutorials around doing things with Orchestrator. Particular interest to the subject of this thread would probably be this series into three parts:

  Create a vCO simple self-service VM Provisioning Portal - part 1

  Create a vCO simple self-service VM Provisioning Portal - part 2

  Create a Simple Self Service VM Provisioning Portal vCO - part 3

• How to activate the Internet connection on Windows Server 2003 is installed in the virtual machine in VMware Workstation 8?

  I have Windows Server 2003 is installed on a virtual machine in VMware Workstation 8. I need it to learn and practice the use of the Active Directory. I've also set up 3 Windows XP workstations connect to it, which means that they can communicate with Server 2003. What is lacking is the Internet connection on all of them. When I run ping 8.8.8.8 in one of these virtual machines, I get, 'Destination host unreachable.'

  I'm not sure, what if the problem comes from the settings in Windows or the settings of the virtual machine.

  Can someone help me?

  Thank you, guys. I was finally able to put in place. It was quite an ordeal to deal with IP addresses and virtual networks. Here's how I did (in the screenshots) in case someone else needs it.

  (I also confess that it is perhaps one of the ways to implement. Maybe there is an easier way to do it with DHCP...)

  1. in your computer where is installed VMware Workstation 8 begin the "Virtual Network Editor." It is located in the folder of installation of VMware Workstation. And implement the network following (VMnet2 in my case):

  

  2 then in VMware Workstation itself in the virtual machine when Windows Server 2003 is installed set up two network as connections:

  This one is for external access to the Internet:

  

  And this one for intranet communications AD:

  

  3. then in the machine virtual de Windows Server 2003 set up what follows for two network adapters:

  For Internet access:

  

  Then, you need allow this connection to share:

  

  And then for the ad access to workstations (ensure that the static IP address is in the range specified in the virtual network over VMnet2 network editor). I've also set up DNS to 127.0.0.1 because I installed on this Windows 2003 DNS server:

  

  4. from the Windows 2003 VM try ping 8.8.8.8. It should work now.

  5. go to each workstation, in my case, Windows XP, each in its own virtual machine and set up the network in the VMware Workstation as follows:

  

  6. then in the virtual machine, configure the network connection for Windows XP workstation. Don't forget to assign a new static IP address for each workstation, which not coinside with IP of the domain (this IP address must come from the range specified in the virtual network over VMnet2 network editor):

  

  7. try first ping the domain, in my case ping 192.168.237.128. And then Internet, ping 8.8.8.8. The two should work!

  Continue with steps [5-7].