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• Migrate a Virtual Machine like a physical machine

  Here's my situation...

  I had a virtual machine on a Virtual Infrastructure environment.  I wanted to migrate this virtual machine to another ESX environment.  The source environment is maintained by our IT Department and they will not help us or give us access to their environment.  Now we have a local administrator on the computer, virtual access, we decided to migrate the virtual computer as if it were a physical machine (physical machine to the coverter drop-down selection and installation of the agent on the source VM and when you are done uninstalling) in order to bypass interaction with HER.  The virtual machine migrated but very well and seems to work very well.  My question is, is there any potential problems migrating a virtual machine in this way (drivers, hardware, etc.)?

  Thank you!

  Your only way out is the it Department

• Problem with Migration hot virtual machines Hyper-V

  Dear support

  I am facing problem in Live Migration of Virtual Machine in Windows 2012 of Hyper-V R2 cluster. Here are the details for my current setup.

  Two windows 2012 R2 Datacenter even care Server (HV01 and HV02) both in cluster

  A Virtual Machine created the Volume share of Cluster (c:\Cluster storage\...)

  A network adapter dedicated to the management of server-> 10.0.1.11 (HV01) and 10.0.1.13 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated to Hyper v Virtual Machines-> 10.0.1.12 (HV01) and 10.0.1.14 (HV02) and allow networking option is disabled.

  A network card for the heart beats-> 10.0.20.1 (HV01) and 10.0.20.2 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated for Live Migration-> 10.10.10.50 (HV01) and 10.10.10.51 (HV02) and chosen to be used only for the live migration fails on cluster network settings

  I added the Virtual Machine Cluster Failover successfully without error or warning. When I do a quick migration his works fine but when I do live migration his error giving 21502.

  Please update what's wrong with my setup

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• How to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  I have a vsphere 4 and a 5 of vsphere, I want to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  my method is export ovf model and deploy the model of the FVO in vsphere 5, but it shows "end of file EGGS reached while looking for: * hard.

  How can I work my problem

  Thank you very much

  Hello

  Why are you trying with VMware Converter?

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

  It's the right tool for this kind of tasks/migration

  However, if you share with us details about your environment, we can help you more accurately.

  Concerning

• Migration of virtual machines to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 6.0

  As the title eludes to, we are standing up a new physics 6.0 Server vCenter Server and need to migrate virtual machines of 4.1 6.0 guest hosts.  I'd love to take the time to create a script that does the following; However, before heading down this path, I wanted to do a ping of the group to see if someone has done something like this before or have pointers to scripts that perform some of these actions already.  Some background and concept:

  • Running 4.1.
  • A new physical Center of vCenter 6.0 will be deployed side-by-side with 4.1.
  • The existing configuration of vSphere HA allows for 1-2 guests down without impact to the virtual machines.
  • The two environment and will be Cisco N1KV, SAN access shared for the same data storages.
  • A new vCenter will be lifted.
  • A single host is identified and VMs evacuated to the remaining hosts.
  • This host will be in maintenance mode, removed from the cluster and close.
  • A clean install of ESXi 6 will be done and set up spec.
  • N1KV will be deployed.

  To digress on the details at the moment... Now markets PowerCLI desired.  This idea is ad hoc and on the fly, so as I write this.

  • identify all the virtual machines associated with a specific data store - will need to work with the local client to schedule downtime for virtual machines
  • Stop the virtual machine
  • Remove the VM of the vCenter 4.1 inventory
  • to connect to vCenter 6.0
  • Add the virtual machine to the vCenter 6.0 inventory (and once we have passed the first host in the new cluster, automatically place the virtual machine by using the DRS)
  • Reconfigure the vmnic with the new Cisco 1000V dvs (will be the same name on both sides, but has a different ID)
  • pull in the keys and the values to a CSV and advancedsetting set to harden
  • Turn on the virtual machine
  • Perhaps a test of ping for the NETWORK card to check connectivity

  The order in which the steps are performed can be switched around, as long as the desired end result is the same: migration effectively virtual machines between two disparate solutions with single medium sharing as a data store.  In which I realize will always be VMFS3.  New data stores VMFS-5 is another task for another time.

  Thank you for your time, suggestions, links, etc...

  @LucD - hi.

  These steps are quite possible with PowerCLI.

  See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements

  $dsName = "xyz".

  $vm = get - VM - $dsName data store

  Stop-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false

  Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server vc41 - confirm: $false

  $vc6 = Connect-VIServer-Server vc6

  $newVM = $vm | New-VM - DiskPath $_. ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName - confirm: $false

  # Suppose a CSV file with

  # Key, value

  # key1, value1

  # key2, value2

  $advSettings = import-Csv - UseCulture advSettings.csv

  {foreach ($obj in $newVM)

  $advSettings | %{

  Get-AdvancedSetting - $obj entity - name $_. Key |

  Game-AdvancedSetting - value of $_. Value - confirm: $false

  }

  }

  Start-VM - $newVM VM - confirm: $false

  $newVM |

  Select Name,

  @{N = "Available"; E = {Test-Connection - ComputerName $_.} Guest.HostName - County 1 - Quiet}}

• Require a process step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new VMware ESX hypervisor

  Hello

  I'm looking for the method step by step for the migration of virtual machines to new host ESX Migration both cold and hot.

  Scenario - I have two data centers running ESX host stand-alone (with VM) in Europe. I need to build the new ESX host in new Dataceter to Singapore.

  Need prerequisites, the methods available for migrate VMWARE virtual has new host ESX (in the new data center) with minimum downtime.

  It will be great if you can enumerate the markets or redirect me to documentation that I can use to create detailed steps as the target host compatibility check on VMs and so on.

  Please advice

  Concerning

  AVI

  The steps are correct. The virtual machine must be turned off (step 3).

• where can I report a problem with a virtual machine died, which I can't save now?

  It looks like a lot of places, but it is not clear where I should take this problem to.

  where can I report a problem with a virtual machine died, which I can't save now?

  He is buried in the VMware Community Infrastructure - here is the link to this forum - http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vi/esx3.5

• How to migrate a virtual machine from the server with DAS to another server

  Hi guys,.

  questions. 'More' essential Kit. VMotion is available

  I have 2 physical servers, two of them have DAS (not SAN Central). SO I want to migrate a virtual machine on server A to server B. is it possible in this situation?

  Or should I have versions of more expensive VMWare do?

  Thank you
  Dmitry

  You can use clone. I would close first to the bottom of the virtual machine, but a VM slowed would be very nice clone. You can also use the VMware conveter. VMware converter can make a hot clone, including synchronization of last-minute changes, stop the source machine and put under tension the clone.

• Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Hi all

  My question is quite simple:

  -Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Let's say we have two data centers:

  vcenter1

  -vm1

  -vm2

  vcenter2

  -vm3

  Is it possible to migrate vms between vcenter2 and vcenter1 programmatically? (or vice versa)?

  Also, I'm assuming that the appropriate VLAN and data warehouses across the different vcenters!

  Thank you

  Luis

  It is not possible, vMotion or migration live is in an instance of vCenter, it cannot be covered through two even if you have the data store accessible both vCenters and sets of the host. At best, you can unregister the virtual machine of vCenter 1 host and re-save as on vCenter 2 host, but once again, it is while the virtual machine is turned off.

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• Migrate a virtual machine with snapshots.  Works?

  In the past, moving VMs between databases or host with snapshots was deadly.

  It still happens in ESX4?

  ESX4 does not throw the warning, as did ESX3.5.

  You can migrate a virtual machine with snapshots, you can just see a different question.  You try to make a vMotion in vCenter?

  What is the symptoms you see?

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1005228

• With the help of gsoap/C++ web SDK problem reconfiguring the Virtual Machine

  Hi all, I m using gsoap/C++ with web service sdk to monitor virtual machines.

  I m able to enumerate the current list of virtual machines, total number of vm. Now I m trying to reconfigure the virtual machine. My Code snippet is as below.

  The virtual machine is running and I m trying to change the ram, I did it using java api and it doesn't butfor c ++ it is in error.

  ns1__VirualMachineConfigSpec vmSpec;

  ival long 64;

  vmSpec - & gt; memoryMB = & ival;

  ns1__ReconfigVMRequestType reconfigVMRequestType;

  reconfigVMRequestType.spc = & vmSpec;

  reconfigVMRequestType._USCOREthis = vmObject - & gt; obj; managed object - virtual machine

  NS1_ReconfigVM_USCORETaskResponse reconfigVMResponse;

  ns1__ManagedObjectReference * morResult = 0;

  If (vim - & gt; __ns1__ReconfigVM_USCORETask (reconfigVMRequestType, & reconfigVMResponse) == SOAP_OK) {}

  morResult = reconfigVMResponse.returnval;

  } else cost & lt; & lt; "Unable to machine virtual reconfig." & lt; & lt; ENDL;

  Now in vSphere Client it show me error like.

  The operation is not supported on the object.

  And on server esxi in file /var/log/vmware/hostd.log it not show gives following error.

  The task was created: haTask-32 - vim.VirtualMachine.reconfigure - 1422

  2009-08-26 20:54:17.669 verbose 149A5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Reconfigure: (vim.vm.ConfigSpec) {}

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  changeVersion = & lt; unset & gt;

  name = & lt; unset & gt;

  version = & lt; unset & gt;

  UUID = & lt; unset & gt;

  instanceUuid = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivWorldWideNameType = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivDesiredNodeWwns = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivDesiredPortWwns = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivTemporaryDisabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivOnNonRdmDisks = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivWorldWideNameOp = & lt; unset & gt;

  locationId = & lt; unset & gt;

  ID = & lt; unset & gt;

  alternateGuestName = & lt; unset & gt;

  annotation = & lt; unset & gt;

  files = null (vim.vm.FileInfo),

  Tools = null (vim.vm.ToolsConfigInfo),

  Flags = null (vim.vm.FlagInfo),

  consolePreferences = null (vim.vm.ConsolePreferences),

  powerOpInfo = null (vim.vm.DefaultPowerOpInfo),

  numCPUs = & lt; unset & gt;

  memoryMB = 64,

  memoryHotAddEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuHotAddEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuHotRemoveEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuAllocation = (vim. NULL in ResourceAllocationInfo),

  memoryAllocation = (vim. NULL in ResourceAllocationInfo),

  cpuAffinity = null (vim.vm.AffinityInfo),

  memoryAffinity = null (vim.vm.AffinityInfo),

  networkShaper = null (vim.vm.NetworkShaperInfo),

  swapPlacement = & lt; unset & gt;

  swapDirectory = & lt; unset & gt;

  preserveSwapOnPowerOff = & lt; unset & gt;

  bootOptions = null (vim.vm.BootOptions),

  vAppConfig = null (vim.vApp.VmConfigSpec),

  ftInfo = null (vim.vm.FaultToleranceConfigInfo),

  vAppConfigRemoved = & lt; unset & gt;

  vAssertsEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  changeTrackingEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  }

  2009-08-26 20:54:18.122 149A5B90 info ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' State Transition (VM_STATE_ON - & gt; VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING)

  2009-08-26 20:54:18.125 verbose 703F5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Memory hot asked.

  Load: Existing file loading: /etc/vmware/license.cfg

  2009-08-26 20:54:18.139 verbose 703F5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Verified hot license

  CloseSession called for the session id = 52f7f6aa-3ef8-c52a - 815 a - 75B 421405075

  Event 714: Root user is disconnected

  ERProviderImpl & lt; BaseT & gt; : _GetChanges: version 32 overflow name aggregation

  ERProviderImpl & lt; BaseT & gt; : _GetChanges: aggregate the version 32 overflow triggeredAlarmState

  2009-08-26 20:54:18.979 verbose 703F5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Current state of the VM management: disabled

  2009-08-26 20:54:19.071 verbose 703F5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Implementation State of follow-up to the virtual computer for people with reduced mobility.

  Ability to root pool has changed to 1104 MHz / 521MB in 1104 MHz / 520MB

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.108 703F5B90 info ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Remove hot memory not supported: newMemory: 64, curMemory: 128

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.110 703F5B90 info ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Batch hot failed during the application of the individual changes.

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.113 703F5B90 info ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Reconfigure is not

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.114 703F5B90 warning ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Exception that is thrown when the statement reconfigures: {(vim.vm.ConfigSpec)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  changeVersion = & lt; unset & gt;

  name = & lt; unset & gt;

  version = & lt; unset & gt;

  UUID = & lt; unset & gt;

  instanceUuid = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivWorldWideNameType = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivDesiredNodeWwns = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivDesiredPortWwns = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivTemporaryDisabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivOnNonRdmDisks = & lt; unset & gt;

  npivWorldWideNameOp = & lt; unset & gt;

  locationId = & lt; unset & gt;

  ID = & lt; unset & gt;

  alternateGuestName = & lt; unset & gt;

  annotation = & lt; unset & gt;

  files = null (vim.vm.FileInfo),

  Tools = null (vim.vm.ToolsConfigInfo),

  Flags = null (vim.vm.FlagInfo),

  consolePreferences = null (vim.vm.ConsolePreferences),

  powerOpInfo = null (vim.vm.DefaultPowerOpInfo),

  numCPUs = & lt; unset & gt;

  memoryMB = 64,

  memoryHotAddEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuHotAddEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuHotRemoveEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  cpuAllocation = (vim. NULL in ResourceAllocationInfo),

  memoryAllocation = (vim. NULL in ResourceAllocationInfo),

  cpuAffinity = null (vim.vm.AffinityInfo),

  memoryAffinity = null (vim.vm.AffinityInfo),

  networkShaper = null (vim.vm.NetworkShaperInfo),

  swapPlacement = & lt; unset & gt;

  swapDirectory = & lt; unset & gt;

  preserveSwapOnPowerOff = & lt; unset & gt;

  bootOptions = null (vim.vm.BootOptions),

  vAppConfig = null (vim.vApp.VmConfigSpec),

  ftInfo = null (vim.vm.FaultToleranceConfigInfo),

  vAppConfigRemoved = & lt; unset & gt;

  vAssertsEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  changeTrackingEnabled = & lt; unset & gt;

  }

  vmodl.fault.NotSupported

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.177 703F5B90 info ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' State Transition (VM_STATE_RECONFIGURING - & gt; VM_STATE_ON)

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.180 703F5B90 warning ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Authentication data that are not available during activation

  Event 715: Reconfigured Win Vista on kudosiesxi118 ha-data center

  Change of State received for VM ' 32 "

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.598 verbose 703F5B90 ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Time to pick up some config: 415 (MS)

  Task completed: error status haTask-32 - vim.VirtualMachine.reconfigure - 1422

  Add vm 32 to poweredOnVms list

  2009-08-26 20:54:21.694 703F5B90 warning ' vm: / vmfs/volumes/4a8ae0ff-0f4ce1a8 - 47 d 9-000c29570e19/Win Vista / Win Vista.vmx' Reconfigure the worker thread failed

  Problem in the virtual machine is in the power on State or I m doing something wrong?

  Can any body tell me where I m wrong?

  Rather than use a C string, try using the String object.  In my C++ sources generated the WSDL, the expected properties are string objects and references to string objects, not strings C.

• Problem of migration of virtual machine of a store of data in another data store

  Hello

  I've migrated from the virtual machine to a data store to another data store
  but the virtual machine present in both store data even after migration successfully
  and when I stop the virtual machine, then it shows that in the new data store.

  Please tell us what could be the possible reason for the same

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Kind regards

  Hakim. B

  
  

  Dear all,

  Finally, I found the solution.

  I had stop the virtual machine, replaced by location always store with the virtual machine swap file and restarted the VM.

  Kind regards

  Hakim. B

• Migration of virtual machines to vCD and again in a standard ESXi cluster itself?

  We currently have a relatively small cluster of ESXi (5.0.0 1489271) which uses a dedicated installation vCenter (5.0.0 1300600) and an instance of vCD (vCD 5.1.2.1068441).  Our goal is to move the virtual machines running in this configuration to our standard ESXi clusters (5.5.0 1892794) supported by installation of different vCenter (5.5.0 1891313).

  The instance of vCD seems to add additional parameters to the level of the virtual machine that prevents the VM of to be easily transferred out of the instance of vCD.  What we are looking for is a way to easily migrate these servers on and completely remove the vCD of the equation.  The only details around that we found cause downtime for exports out of vCD can be extended to reason the total amount of drive to the VM and VM level, which we really do not think it is an option to open a window of time to stop long enough to work through this process.

  Did someone went down this road before?  We have approximately 120 virtual machines in the cluster vCD using about 52 TB of disk.

  Maybe we're wrong understand something fundamental about the nature of migration of VMs on the vCD instance, but we have not been able to find many details on what options exist to make this move.  We have spoken several times with VMware support in this regard.  They mentioned a potential tool in the work within engineering migrate vCD to vCAC (which isn't really fall under our goal unless vCAC would then provide a clear path to return the virtual machines to a standard ESXi cluster).

  Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

  I am a colleague of GTC and wanted to just sent to our discussion of this topic with the help of VMware.  Basically, we should be able to Setup VMs in vCenter, outside of vCloud Director, pointing them to the same files VMDK and MAC then power off VM vCD and power on VM vCenter.

  : The NASA-EAST region

  Moment of validation: 2014-09-05 11:32 EDT

  Severity of the request for assistance: 4 - low

  Description of the request for assistance: we are looking for ways simple and less disruptive migrate VMS off vCloud Director and vCenter management.

  We have the advantage of a single principle in vCloud, managed by a vCenter and the network configuration is simple with no VXLAN.

  What are the problems with the realization of the following?

  vCD 5.1 is managed by vCenter 5.0, the final result will move VMs in vCenter even

  -Create a new virtual machine in vCenter that points to the same vmdk files as virtual machine in vCD you want to migrate, allocate same configurations of processor, memory, and network (we do not use the vCD with advanced networking)

  -Turning off the virtual computer in vCD

  -Once the vCD WHAT VM is off, power on VM in vCenter

  We must ensure that the VM vCD never gets turned on again and then when we are completely finished with all migrations of VMS in vCenter we abandon vCD.

  Of course there are details to help users migrate to how they use the vCD to vSphere vCenter client web interface or web interface.

  Entry date: 04/09/2014

  Since the opening of the case, I had interviews with several members of VMware support staff and these additional points were added.

  -Configure vCenter VM with the same vNIC driver MAC and like vCD VM vNIC

  -Rename VMDK files to make for easier management, or if not renamed then detach from the propelled out of vCD VM

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Migrate the virtual machine for Exchange 2010 from one host to another

  Dear members,

  Please let know us if the migration of a virtual machine for Exchange 2010 is supported to an Esxi host to another, the Esxi version is 5.0.

  There are unique Exchange environment with the role of hub, CAS and mailbox on the same virtual server. We have a maintenance window and we think moving exchange virtual machine from one host to another, but before that I need to be sure if it's supported my MS and do not want to have problems after, because I have also gotten to know here in the forums this snapshot for Exchange 2010 is not supported by Ms.

  Please notify.

  Kind regards

  I'm not aware of any limitations with VMS Exchange migration. Anyway, you can consider running the migration during the low workload.

  André