Problem of migration of a virtual machine with multiple vCPUs

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• Photos of virtual machines with multiple disks on different LUNS - Question

  I have some questions on how to manage the snapshots of virtual machines with multiple disks on different LUNS.  First of all, the LUNS are VMFS.  We are just starting to add virtual machines with dedicated for data storage format VMFS LUNS.  I don't think an extra space must be made for snapshots, as well as at least 100 GB LUN is required to store the data, and then say, add about 25 to 50% of this amount?  Set the 100 GB vmdk file but have the GB from 25 to 50 additional disk space for snapshots, if necessary (rather than just to get a unit number logic needed 100 GB of data and devote all of the 100 GB to the vmdk file).  In addition, if a virtual machine has several files vmdk on different LUNS, which will be a problem to take a snapshot, and is it possible to do just a snapshot of a disk of a virtual computer (as the volume of the BONE)?

  Thanks for any help.

  Snapshot files are created in the home folder of the VM by default for all virtual disks, no matter on what data store they are. You must make sure you have enough free disk space on the data store for snapshots.

  If you want to exclude a virtual disks of taking snapshots, you can set it to 'Independent' - 'Persistent' machine virtual settings to the HARD drive.

  André

• Problems of migration of a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a problem when you try to migrate a virtual machine to an ESXi to and another ESXi. I migrate from power off State. That's what I get:

  

  I have 2 ESXi host with vCenter device.

  When I go to the preview of the hosts, in the first (it is the destination of the migration), I have no CPU usage and memory. There is something wrong because I have the vCenter and other Linux machine powered:

  

  The other host (this is the source of the migration) looks good:

  

  How could I solve this problem?

  I'd really appreciate your help.

  Best regards.

  Thanks for the reply.

  I reboot the host and now I can migrate and CPU and memory info is correct.

  Kind regards.

• Migration of a virtual machine with two RDM physical to a newly created VMFS Datastore 5.0

  Dear all,

  I'm redrawing the storage storing all the VM, I have a machine virtual with two physical RDM to 2 TB each, with only 800 consumed Go, the question is can I svMotion to the new 2.5 to data store? the virtual machine (40 GB VMDK, RDM TB 2 * 2)

  Thank you.

  
  Djak44

  Hello

  Is there a particular reason that you must keep the RDM devices? Personally, I would keep away using the RDM disks because they can cause massive headaches.

  If you go with again in RDM as described already sure to go virtual in order to have the added capacity for RDM

  Gregg

• See the virtual machines with multiple tags in a category

  Good afternoon-

  I'm looking for a way to list all virtual computers that have several tags of a certain category. In my situation, I use VMware tags to control the selection of lists for my backup software. I have a category of tag called tags said 'Monday', 'Tuesday', and "Backup Job" etc. I'm looking for a script that will tell me all the virtual machines that have multiple labels in the category of backup, as the 'Monday' and 'Thursday' tags, for example.

  Thank you!

  Try something like this

  $tagCatName = "save jobs".

  $tagCat = get-TagCategory-name $tagCatName

  Get - VM | where {(Get-TagAssignment-entité $_-catégorie $tagCat).} {Count - gt 1} |

  Select Name,

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• Model of single virtual machine with multiple entries of catalog with sizes different resources?

  I want to have the 3 sizes of master plan:

  • Large - 4 vCPU, 8 GB mem, 120 GB of disk
  • Medium - 2 vCPU, mem 4 GB, 80 GB drive
  • Small - 1 vCPU, mem 2 GB, 40 GB drive

  But I don't want or need 3 different models 2012 Windows (pain to maintain) base I want to have the 3 elements of the unique catalog that deploy the same model vcenter but with the sizes of the various resources.   What is the best way to do this in vCAC?   I guess I do via VCO?

  Thank you

  -MattG

  Yes. Change the minimum resources and leaving resources white max will give you three flavors you want. You only need a model in vCenter. Make sure that the model of vCenter is identical or smaller resources than your flavor of "small". I don't think that you can set lower than that of the model minimum resources.

• 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

• Try to migrate a virtual machine with storage vMotion

  Hello

  When I try to migrate a virtual computer to another data store (using storage vmotion - change datastore option on migration Assistant) I still see this warning on the migration wizard: this virtual machine must be powered off to perform this function.

  I'm completely lost, because I check the requirements to make a storage vmotion:

  1. license compliance: OK, we are authorized this feature

  2 source and destination storage of data available on the host: OK

  3. no snapshots: OK

  So, I do not understand why this message...

  What can I do? (of course I can't turn off the virtual machine).

  Thanks in advance.

  Which is my point... The message is related to the option greyed out only...

  / Rubeck

• Cannot create a virtual machine with a vmdk file copied from another location, please find the attached error

  Hi all

  I copied a file from one place vmdk and try to make a new virtual machine with this vmdk file. But when I turn on after the creation of vm error is coming. Error in the text and the image below

  Power on the virtual machine: cannot open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 31/03/2015-14:40:05

  Target: DBServer

  vCenter Server: vcsa

  Error stack

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on DBServer VM.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/543d140b-feb33d52-7640-90b11c9796c3/vmdk/kapuatdb.vmdk'

  Could not open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  This error message generally if the hard files have been copied hosted as VMware Workstation product, which uses a format of sparse file that is not supported on an ESXi host. Instead of the hard copy, you can use VMware Converter, or - if you prefer - you can convert the hard using vmware-vdiskmanager (before transfer) or vmkfstools (after downloading). I deal to use vmkfstools you will need to load the mutliextent module (see for example "Clone or migration operations involving virtual discs non-VMFS on ESXi fail with an error" vSphere 5.1 Release Notes)

  André

• Cloning a virtual machine with 2 hard drives!

  Hi all!

  I ran into a very annoying problem. I'm trying to Migrate/convert virtual machines to a host in the CR. Each virtual machine has 2 hard drives which are located on 2 different data stores. When I try to migrate or to clone virtual machines from the host on my Cluster I get an 'error of operation period.

  After scratching my head for a while, I discovered why. The virtual machine have 2 hard drives on 2 different data stores. Both flat.vmdk files are called eponymous because they are on different data warehouses (TTDC001.vmdk). I created a VM test on the cluster with 2 hard drives and flat.vmdk flies are named TTDC001.vmdk and TTDC001_1.vmdk.

  So my conclusion as to why I get "Opération Timeout Error" is that VC trying Migrate/Clone to the virtual machine but is mistake because his attempts to migrate/Clone 2 hard files with the same name!

  Can someone give me some pointers as to how I can get around this? I am currently copy the file hard 2nd to my deskop from the data store and rename it then copy him on the new cluster data store to see if it works as you cannot rename the file hard in the data store. It just seems long way round to migrate virtual machines with 2 hard drives, and I don't even know if it works!

  Please help!  :|

  Andy Hughes

  Andy of the evening,

  I do it well. Thank you for asking.

  So if I'm reading correctly it seems that you are trying to clone a virtual machine from a stand-alone host to a host that is part of a VMware Cluster. When you do this you get a network midway through the copy error. Is this correct?

  Can you confirm how fast is connected to the Service Console between the two servers? For this kind of work I would recommend making them run at 1000/full, assuming you're not already. Could you also post the entire message that you get when the clone fails.

  Kind regards

  Glen

• Run a virtual machine with a graphical interface on a host without GUI

  Hallo

  I want to install a simple Windows 7 for some tasks bit where I need Windows on my server Ubuntu 14.04. This server has no GUI (no X) and should have any.

  Already, I've installed the virtual Windows machine on my workstation to 12, so I would just copy the vmdk on my linux server and run it, maybe put something in the vmx file.

  But I do not know is that it's all means possible.

  Is it?

  Is there any player or any application for ubuntu VMware when there is no X system (on ubuntu), where I can run virtual machines with GUI inside?

  Maybe another virtualization tool, vmware not?

  I think that this exact question already somewhere, but I haven't found much question where comments lacking a GUI, but not the host.

  I need a guest-gui on a host without gui (where I have only the terminal).

  So maybe it's not possible at all, so please tell me a 'no', so I won't expect more

  Thank you to

  Frank

  EDIT: oh, this seems to be another question unanswered it is too difficult or too stupid?

  Hi Frank,.

  Now that would be stupid, having a text Installer, and then not allow the virtual machine to run. I think it should work, but you must pass the nogui option.

  Vmrun help:

  beginning

  (Supported only on teams

  Workstation.)

  Starts a virtual machine (.vmx file) or team (file .vmtm).

  The default graphical user interface option starts the machine in an interactive way,

  What is necessary to display a user interface of VMware.

  Nogui option suppresses the user interface,

  including start-up, to allow dialog box not interactive

  writing scripts.

  [gui | nogui]

  refer to the manual of vmrun: VIX API Documentation

  Edit: hmm... Now, I see that you have already tried the nogui option. You might be able to install the package libxinerama, but he could hang out in a lot of dependencies.

  FWIW, vSphere is pretty much what you describe a system not GUI to run GUI invited, so it shouldn't be a problem at all.

  Unfortunately, I don't have a host linux without X installed handy here, so can't test here without the implementation of a server without head myself.

  You can also try to run the client via the command vmware:

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Documentation Center

  --

  Wil

• Using filters and Get - view to find virtual machines with a specific guest operating system.

  I have the following code snippet to find all virtual machines with the updated OS to ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux * "prompt. It does not work. If the filter is left out, I find myself with all virtual machines.

  The immediate question is the specs for the game ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux. " Originally from the "Performance Difference between GET - VM and GET-VIEW")

  http://www.batchworks.de/performance-difference-between-get-VM-and-get-view/ ).

  $ClusterFilter = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{“Name” = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRef

  $VirtualMachines = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter

  
  The biggest problem for me is to understand for Get-View filter. I was capable of a bit of insight to gleen from the URL below, but I think what Miss me is the reference (Microsoft) for what is happening to the right of the equal sign. What is the correct terminology for this type of query expression / where the syntax is 'left' = 'straight' and keywords such as "-match" are not allowed.

  http://purple-screen.com/?Cat=3

  VMware vSphere 5.1

  http://Wannemacher.us/?p=259

  Regular expressions with Windows PowerShell

  Right in the filter expression is an RegEx expression, please allow for characters before and after the word Linux.

  And the name of the OS is Config.GuestFullName.

  I corrected the entries more early as well.

  $ClusterName = "^MyCluster$"$ClusterFilter = get-view -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{"Name" = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRefWrite-Host $ClusterFilter
  
  $VirtualMachinesNoFilter   = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter $VirtualMachinesWithFilter = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter -Filter @{"Config.GuestFullName"=".*Linux.*"}
  

• Impossible to deploy the virtual machine with customization.

  Hi all

  I have a model Winodws 2008 R2 Std and Ent.  I use to deploy virtual machines with the model using the Customization Wizard.  All of a sudden since 2 days I can't provision VMS with the wizard of customiation.  Earlier, there seems to be no problem with the customization, but when I turn on the virtual machine, I see errors, attached is the screen shot for your reference.

  After the error 2 the vm keeps restarting without end time.

  I don't know what is the cause.  Please help me with the problem.  Let me know if you need additional information.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hey there,

  Have you tried to get the Microsoft Windows product key? And maybe the password in the profile customization.

  If this does not work, try using a new profile customization.

  Let us know how things work!

  See you soon,.

  René

• Virtual machine with a multiple split files on disk.

  Hi all

  I downloaded Virtual Machine in which there are 2 disk file (hard) that has been split into several files to disk (joint screen shot... filename - disk_details.jpg). Now my concern is whenever I try to turn on the virtual machine it gives an error (attached screen shot... filename - Mapr VM Error.jpg). Need your help to solve this problem. I even tried to merge all split VMDK files in a single VMDK but who haven't worked too.

  5.1 ESXi

  CISCO UCS server

  The VM Ubuntu 64 OS.

  Let me know if you need additional information.

  Hello

  Try converting your vmdk 'sparse' a vmdk taken in charge.

  According to this KB:KB VMware: cannot power on a virtual machine with few disks mounted .

  Hope It helps,

  Kind regards

  Julien.

• URGENT! After installing 6 Fusion and creation of new virtual machine with Windows 7, I get a message "VMware Fusion cannot enter the unit". WHAT SHOULD DO?

  After purchase, installation and activation Fusion 6 with the license key, I had a library of VMS showing 2 Boot Camp partitions. It's strange that I only have 1.
  I tried to activate them but received a message that it is out of date in 2 cases. (see annex 1)

  I started a new virtual machine with a Windows 7 installation disc directly on my HD. I have provided a way to do this and followed the instructions of Fusion to the screen.

  Apparently, everything went well and after several restarts, the installation appears to be over (see annex 2) I tried to open and run the installed Windows 7. I had however a window with the following message:

  "Pending the unit.

  "VMware Fusion cannot enter the unit. Please wait until the unit starts automatically, or interact with the virtual machine below. ' (see annex 3)

  Here Windows 7 seems to start but after a while with the home screen and of the Øresund finishing this window closed and open a new window called library Virtual Machine on the left showing the partitions of Bootcamp and the Virtual Machine Windows 7 x 64 and in the middle gray a representation of what is supposed to be the Windows 7 desktop. (see Exhibit 4). When I opened the settings button a window with different setting options pops up. This mark means to me that Windows is installed but the final opening isn't the case

  When you quit Vmware Fusion indeed Windows seems to be close (see part 5)

  What is going on? What has gone wrong? What should I do? I don't know how to solve the problem.

  I should f.i. remove the virtual machine from Windows 7 and is free automatically made partition on my HD as the reboot with the Windows installation disc? or y at - it another way to enter the UNIT?

  Help, please!

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  You do not have two partitions to Boot Camp on your Mac, you have two virtual machines named "Boot Camp partition".

  The message about it being unable to enter the unit arrives while the merger is pending for the tools begin to run, because the tool is necessary for the unit.