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• iSCSI storage presented to the hosts managed by different vCenter Server - questions?

  I currently have three hosts (esxi 5.0) that are managed by vcenter server 5.5 U2. The hosts are attached to iSCSI LUNS (data warehouses) 10.

  I'm migrating to esxi 6.0 U2. For this, there are three new hosts have esxi 6.0 installed and managed by vcenter server 6.0 U2 U2.

  The plan is to detach/remove 5.0 5.5 U2 vcenter esxi hosts. Then import it into vcenter 6.0 U2 (a new cluster will be created). Once imported, uninstall the 5.5 vcenter u2. Then turn off the resident VMs imported esxi 5 hosts and move them to 6.0 esxi hosts.

  My query is regarding regarding storage.

  At present, three new guests see all storage the old 5.0 esxi hosts to see (guests are not in the cluster. "I'm still trying to put things up). That's because the new hosts were deposited to the same group on the side iSCSI initiator storage. Now things, data warehouses are visible by the hosts with esxi 5.0 (managed by vcenter 5.5 u2) and also the esxi hosts 6.0 (managed by vcenter 6.0 u2). The only VMs residing in esxi environment 6 is vcenter 6.0 u2 and update manager 6.0 u2. These are in a data store that is not any other virtual machines.

  That's no problem during the migration? I have not created a cluster for the esxi 6.0 hosts yet and plan to do after obtaining your entries.

  Thank you!

  No problem whatsoever, regardless whether if you do or that you add no vSphere 6 hosts in a HA cluster.

  If you temporarily enable EVC on the vSphere hosts 6, once all hosts are connected to the same vCenter you can VMotion all VMs to new hosts even without any stop. Clear CVS once the migration is complete.

• Move a virtual machine from one host to another without vCenter Server

  Hi all

  Something's been recently who raised the question on moving a virtual machine between hosts without vCenter.  I am running vSphere manage 3 blades in a c3000.  I have a shared storage iSCSI blade which all the blades connect to.  All of my virtual machines are in the same data store on the shared storage.  I'm also under vCenter Server as a virtual machine on one of the blades.  The blade that hosts the vCenter Server VM dead recently. What I was hoping to do is use vSphere Client to connect directly to one of the other blades and hover over the vCenter Server VM to one of the blades of the good, but I can't find a way to do this.  Using the browser of data store and see all of the virtual machine on the store of data without problem, but I see no way to migrate the virtual machine without vCenter server.  In the end, the blade has only had a problem of memory I corrected and managed to raise the blade but I now think of the future.  I use only Essentials, so I don't have access to vMotion and Storage vMotion.  I know that running vCenter Server is supported by Vmware, but I wonder if it's the best practices.

  Any thoughts?

  Hi, I assume that you get this error because the machine is running, try to connect directly to the host and do the same with an engine off the machine.

• How to remove hosts in cluster without vCenter

  Hello
  a customer has a vSphere 5.0 U1 cluster with 2 host ESXi 5.0 U1.
  
  The vCenter VM is corrupt and there is no way to restore ( )no available backup ).
  Now I installed a new vCenter, how do I remove the old cluster hosts?
  

  
  

  Thank you
  Andrea

  Hello

  If vCenter is offline, I'll try to add hosts to the new vCenter. I'm sure it will connect.

• What do I need to host client servers.

  Hello.

  If I want to host a server to a client. What do I need?

  A colleague claims that we need to have 2 engineers to have certificates of vmware, if we want to host client servers.

  Is this correct?

  Kind regards

  Ulf

  Oh, I'm sorry that it was not clear to me from the start. No, you don't need any certification whatsoever, only knowledge is required

• How to create a storage network host service

  Hello
  
  I have created a new platform for the remote host type.
  The I tried to create a service of type storage networking host on that platform.
  He asks a parameter: storage
  I try to give him a UNC path for one of the actions that the storage, but it won't accept it.
  
  I could not well in the documentation of what should be in this setting.
  
  Can someone help me on this?
  
  Thank you

  Hello

  Storage networking host looking for entries in the mibtree. So if you have an entry in your configuration snmpd like this:

  disc/data

  then "/ data" is the parameter.

  See you soon,.
  Mirko

• Add all the storages of data presented to the host, the virtual computer's registry

  Hello

  I'm sure that it was done already - perhaps someone has a useful script that they could share?

  I have a few instant volumes presented to an ESXi host, I want a script that will automatically appoint those and add them to the host. It could be a volume - it's maybe ten. I understand the mapping of storage to the host OK unit, but I have a problem with VMware. There is a chance that these data stores could be seen by the original host - so I have to will them.

  Once data warehouses are mounted, I want to find two machines in data warehouses and enter them in vCenter.

  Someone at - it something that they could share?

  Thank you very much!

  Do you get any error messages?

  It does not work?

  Valuable clues, sometimes it is the newspaper of vpxd.

• Dell VRTX + vCenter 5.5 + Shared storage is ESXi host import issue in vCenter. Help, please!

  All,

  I have two VRTX to be used for lab purposes that I am currently in configuration.

  Blades feature 4 VRTX with a shared storage infrastructure. Each blade has 5.5 installed on ESXi.

  I configured the shared on the VRTX storage, and all the blades can go very well.

  The question I'm currently facing is when you add the vCenter for managing ESXi hosts.

  Add the first host goes without a hitch. However, add any later host fail, because vCenter finds datastore attached hosts to have the same identifier.

  The error message is (see the attached screenshot): ' Datastore 'Main Shared-storage' is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (ds: / / vmfs/volumes/xxxxx /), but is supported by different physical storage.

  Someone knows how to fix this?

  Thank you.

  Thanks for the reply.

  I think that I have found a workaround.

  First of all, this link does not address my particular issue.

  See, it's a whole new vCenter device installation and configuration. Only one of the four hosts to add host has been added.

  Still, the problem is that each ESXi host is a blade VRTX (M620), which has access to the data store created on the shared storage of VRTX.

  Basically, each host is editing the data store shared even (the only data store created on the shared storage), which works very well except for vCenter complain when you import the hosts.

  In any case, my resolution was as follows:

  -Add the first host with the attached and mounted data store

  -Remove the data store and detach the controller shared by other guests before adding in vCenter

  -Re-attach the controller shared and set up the data store via vCenter once guests have been added

  -Re-configure each host for vSphere HA if necessary

  Thank you.

• Presentation of ID host ESX host LUN to the VCB Proxy Server

  I have a typical scenario where I have 3 ESX servers with 3 x 800 GB LUNS in a storage group separate on a CX 310 SAN box. The host LUN., of these 3 LUN Ids are 0, 1 and 2.

  I have a specific host that starts from SAN, from the same box of CX 310 SAN. At this point of time, I have no choice to use this server as a Server Proxy VCB. As far as my knowledge goes, LUNS of the ESX servers must be made visible to VCB Proxy Server, as they are presented to the ESX servers.

  My question here is, as the designated Proxy VCB server is booting from the SAN, he already has a host LUN 0 to Id the logic unit number this is the start of. The Id to host ONE of the first 800 GB LUN in the ESX Server storage group is also Host Id 0. Now, if I try to make the LUNS in storage group visible on the VCB Proxy Server ESX, is there not a shock of the VCB Proxy 0 host Id and Id host ESX Lun 0? I'm confused, I don't have a test envirinment where I could try this before I could actually go forward with any solution.

  My intention is to perform a backup outside LAN of the VMDK.

  Any help is that this respect is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  (1) Yes, you can have different host for VCB then for your ESX host LUN ID

  (2) Yes, you can use the identifiers of naa, it will automatically use the identifiers of naa, no need to configure anything at all.

  Duncan

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• Cannot add raw lun if the host is connected to vCenter

  I have MS cluster disks in HP EVA4400. They are presented to my guests. If I self host then I can add raw disks in VM but if I add host to vCenter then the lun of the bullies appear no more.

  Probably, if I anyone these LUNS and present with different lun ID then they would appear but can't bring those LUNS offline.

  Anyone have idea where I should start to investigate?

  I think that what you see is the expected behavior.

  In a cluster environment, you can add a unit logic as a ROW only one number. While adding, a mapping file raw device called (vmdk file) is created. On the other node MSCS, you must connect to this mapping file (via Add existing virtual disk) rather than create another ROW.

  Access to the RAW LUN through multiple files for mapping (if you manage to somehow create them) could cause problems with locking and possible data corruption.

  André

• Problem transfer VM from one host to another, different VCenter Server ESXi

  Hello everyone.  I'm new on communities, please excuse my lack of experience of VMWare.  I have a problem with the migration of computers and I hope someone here can help you.

  We have two independent groups in my building that each have their own installer of VMWare.  They each at least two hosts ESXi, VCenter Server, san, etc.  They are in separate laboratories on separate subnets.  I need to get a system in place where some images migrated in one laboratory to another on a regular basis, but I'm running into obstacles.

  My first attempt was a copy of the right lane.  Lift the file in my store of data takes about 5 hours, and the final result is a vmdk file is not set up.  I don't know why.  I created a new VM the custom option usign and attempted to add an existing hard drive.  When I accessed this file in my data store, there is no evidence, even if a 50 GB file is really there. I also tried to install this vmdk as a second hard drive to an existing image file, and I end up with the same result.  The Add Hardware Wizard does not have the file as an option.

  My second attempt was to have a group to create a clone of the server and let it off.  Then, I tried to run an import of a clone of one VCenter Server installation to another.  This leads to an error that it was 'Impossible to determine the operating system called'.

  I also tried to import the clone in an installation of SCVMM MS I'm hungry.  That no longer works.

  We don't have a VMotion. We have Essentials more licenses.  A group is running ESXi 4.0 hosts and the other is running ESXi 4.1 hosts.  What is the best way to get an image from one group to another?

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Joe

  You can always use tools such as Veeam Backup and replication, it will take 5 hours for the first complete copy maybe, but then it's just modified pieces which are transferred.

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

• Why can't I see hosts/guests in my vCenter while I can see them in the Web Client vSphere?

  Hello

  IM new to VmWare\PowerCLI.  The goal is to get a list of VM guests in a vCenter via PowerCLI.  I can see 80 guests when I connect via the Web Client vSphere, but when I use the PowerCLI cmdlets, a Get-VMHost returns nothing.  I did the following:

  1 connect-VIServer the username-password IluvVmWare myserver.acme.com-acme\BigDog connects fine without error.

  2. $defaultviserver | Select * shows me the default connection properties.

  3 get-data center shows me 2 data centers; DC1 and DC2

  4 get-DataCenter DC1. Get-VMHost returns nothing

  5 get-VMHost returns nothing

  6 get-vmhost-Server myserver.acme.com returns nothing

  What I do wrong with PowerCLI so I can't get a dump of the hosts on the vCenter?  I can see them all in the vSphere Web Client, so permissions seem fine.

  It looks like that there.

  You must speak with the vCenter admin I guess.

  More simple would you give permissions to view read-only on the vCenter and let this authorization to spread.

  Out of curiosity, this shows the VMHostname?

  Get - VM | Select Name,@{N='VMHost'; E={$_. VMHost.Name}}

• SE host root access of vCenter (somehow)

  I've got 2 hosts which I can access via vCenter (domain admin creds). However, we never gave the root password (or no matter what password) for the local hosts. Now, I am loaded with access to the root of these hosts. They are guests of production so I cannot restart them on a whim but can schedule a reboot if it will certainly make me access. In addition, guests are a few States away so I don't (yet) have console access.

  Any suggestions?

  I see two methods that may work. The first depends on your licenses, i.e. requires Enterprise Plus license. In this case, you can set the password using profiles of the host (see, for example, http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-reset-esxi-5-x-root-password-and-under-which-conditions/). The second method-I've never used myself - is to modify the hosts to authentication AD (which you already did), create an ad "ESX Admins' with the right AD users group, and then connect to the host using the user account AD to change the root password. You may need to wait a few minutes for the ESXi host pick up the members of the AD Group.

  André

• 5.5 ESXi hosts disconnection of the vCenter 5.5.0b

  Good evening.  I recently deployed some new hosts HP BL465c G8 running the HP OEM install ESXi 5.5 (not the one just released 02/18) and the two hosts have been disconnect from vCenter four times in the past week.  I can sometimes connect to the host via ILO and restart the vCenter agent, but more often without having to start the host hard.  In addition, one of the VMFS5 content of the data store disappeared and the virtual machines residing on this data store have declined because the hosts could not find the configuration of the virtual machine files. Strangely enough, the data store showed spaced used and I could see all the directories within the CLI, but not vCenter client or Web-based Client.  I have two tickets to windows with VMware from HP support team, but I wanted to know if someone had a similar problem.  I'm tempted to rebuild with the latest OEM installation or rebuild as 5.1 or 5.0 if version 5.5 is not fully cooked.  Thank you.

  Scott

  The issue proved to be the OEM HP install and specifically the pilot v1.1.7 for HBA QMH2572 adapters that it contains.  We have rebuilt our 5.5 ESXi hosts using installation OEM HP published 02/14 (contains recommendations
  v1.1.12 pilot) and that solved the problem of stability.

  Scott

• Problems with having a Remote Host for the server vCenter Server vSphere?

  Hello

  We have a single vSphere Host located in the United Kingdom and a host vSphere cluster type 3 in France. I plan to add the vSphere Host UK to the France of vCenter Server.

  Does anyone know of any problem with the addition of a vSphere Host of a vCenter Server that is in a remote site rather than on the local network?

  See you soon

  Vince

  I put my vCenter without problems. Just keep in mind not to create a cluster with 2 teams who are on different nodes. Only you can manage the remote ESX host