Put a host in maintenance - it will automatically move virtual machines?

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• While putting the host in maintenance mode, I'm stuck at 2%

  While putting the host in maintenance mode, I'm stuck at 2%

  With the message at 2% it get stuck below.

  "Waiting for machines virtual to be powered off or migrated. In a DRS cluster, see the page of defects on the tab of the DRS for troubleshooting. "

  When you put a host in Maintenance Mode, the virtual machine will be generally migrated to other hosts automatically by the Drs there are reasons why it would not work.

  Some of them are:

  • You do not have DRS licensed (only included in Enterprise and Enterprise Plus)
  • DRS is set to manual
  • You have the DRS, but the virtual machine connected local resources (such as the CD-ROM player,...)
  • You have the DRS, but there are no hosts available because of rules configured to affinity/Anti-Affinity
  • Not available on other host resources

  In both cases, you will have to solve the issue and migrate virtual machines to other hosts or stop the virtual machines. As soon as he has no more power on virtual machines on the host, it will enter into Maintenance Mode.

  André

• Maintenance mode migrates is most Virtual Machines running

  Anyone know why they kidnapped the VMotion feature automatically running and stop virtual machines on a host that is put in Maintenance Mode?  Since a recent installation of vSphere 4, I noticed a host in maintenance mode will migrate VMs that are stopped, but not running VMs.  I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this and maybe knows why?

  Thank you!

  I had this same problem with vSphere 4 until I finally realized I had to change the settings of CAC on the cluster.

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• Update Manager upgrade of the ESXi host that he is running in a virtual machine does

  That is the question.  Here is some information.  We were a completely virtualized environment for several years.  2 guests ESXi collocated 5.5 to different data centers connected of course by a VPN site-to site.  The VPN itself is provided by VMs and vCenter runs in a VM to one of the sites as Update Manager is to proceed with installing it. If the vCenter and/or VPN VMs are down, we have a very cool backup method to gain access to and manage ESXi and its console.   Some of you who read the rest of the present will be tempted to suggest to architecting our environment differently, but we are very pleased with the way it is thank you very much :-)  Appreciate all the answers but really just responded to this specific question.

  The reason why we want to Update Manager is really just to be able to upgrade easily ESXi in the future without enter in the console and the execution of orders, etc.  I realize the documentation and blogs on this topic that ESXi may need to go into maintenance mode and stop the virtual machines running on it (not a cluster if no migration) how ESXi is lose connection to the Update Manager (if the remote host) or a stop Update Manager (if the local host).  So the question is, is that the process of updating managed by Update Manager an atomic operation at that crucial moment or a sequence of operations depend on continuous connectivity and control of Update Manager.  Ddoes ESXi, then perform the upgrade and restart regardless - that would be great - or he'll just stand there in maintenance mode to learn more about disconnected now / stop Manager update pending.

  Your answers are greatly appreciated.

  Please, tell me if I understand you:

  Ask yourself if you can upgrade the host running Update Manager VM? And you cannot migrate the virtual to another host machine because there is no cluster in place and no shared storage?

  If your answer is YES to both questions, I can tell you that you cannot use Update Manager, since you must put your host in Maintenance Mode and therefore you will need to stop all virtual machines running, including the VM Manager Update.

• ESXi host goes to the State and the virtual machine does not restart on other host does not

  Hi all

  I'm looking for a solution, in which case the host goes to the State and the virtual machine on it does not restart on a different host (they'll just gray) does not not what could be the problem here and how to fix it

  later when the failed host returns upward machines either go to motor off the coast of the State, or they show that under tension

  While the host is down or not responding do not I am able to ping the host ESXi (5.5) and able to ping the default gateway and the DNS servers of the host itself

  Yes AF, the answer to all these questions is Yes, it is a HA and DRS cluster active, I tried restarting mgmt service, we use a shared storage (storage iSCSI HP 3PAR and left hand)

• VMotion after putting the host in maintenance mode

  I would like a way to put a server esx in maintenance mode and let it automatically script vmotion guests to other hosts. It's about default behavior in the GUI, but when I use set-vmhost-maintaining state in the powercli, the host will just wait until all the vm is turned of / of are migrated manually, before going to interview.

  An easy way to achieve this, without loop through all the vm on the host?

  Thank you

  Maikel

  Hello

  Current behavior of the whole-VMHost (in vSphere PowerCLI 4.0) is an error report if it are turned off.

  Game-VMHost myHost-Maintenance State

  Game-VMHost: 15.10.2009?. 17:47:22 set-VMHost BAECC66D-9238-4AA3-829 a-76

  0E195F7DF1 there are one or more powered on virtual machines on the host myHost. The host is in maintenance mode once all virtual machines are turned off.

  On line: 1 char: 11

  ++ Set-VMHost< -vmhost="" myhost ="" -state="">

  However you can use the HostSystem.EnterMaintenanceMode method as a workaround.

  $h = Get-VMHost myHost | Get-View -Property Name
  $task = $h.EnterMaintenanceMode_Task(-1, $true)
  $task | Get-ViObjectByVIView | Wait-Task
  

  Here's what the SDK documentation says on the migration of virtual machines

  Operation not directly initiate evacuation operations or power off virtual machines. However, if the host is part of an active cluster with VMware DRS, DRS provides recommendations for migration to evacuate VMS under tension. If the DRS is in fully automatic mode, they are automatically on demand. If the host is part of a cluster and the task is published by VirtualCenter with evacuatePoweredOffVms set to true, the task will not succeed unless all the virtual computers turned off are reregistered to other hosts. If VMware DRS is enabled, VC will evacuate VMS power off automatically. The task is cancelable.

  Kind regards

  Yasen

• Will be the virtual machine starts on another host (during the blackout) if he can't switch to Maintenance Mode?

  Hello

  We use a cluster with 2 5.1 ESXi hosts.  When attempting to place an ESXi host in Maintenance mode, he failed and said "not enough resources to satisfy configured level of failover for HA.

  We would like to know, just in case where one of these ESXi hosts failed, VMs will be start on another ESXi host (at least some) or all of them will be down (i.e. None of them start)?  If no virtual machine will be migrated, we will change our level of failover for HA.

  Thank you

  This occurs when you enable admission control on your HA cluster. When the failure of the host occurs and you have Admission control is enabled, it will let all market on the other host machines because it violates the constraints of availability.

  If you turn this off all VM is switched even if you do not have enough resources to accommodate all the s VM on a single host. On a long term, I would say that you have sufficient resources to allow this to happen. But for now, you can turn it off and try.

  

• Make sure that the version of the host is 5 + front to build a virtual machine in automation

  Hello

  I use PS for WebAccess to build virtual machines. Our group has hosts 4.x which will not support Windows 2012. In the script, I chose a host based on certain criteria, e.g. vm how she is already hosting, etc... But now that we have 5.x, I have of course the host is 5.x before attempting to build a virtual machine Windows 2012. Is there a simple way to do this? I searched and not found anything really simplistic for my situation.

  Thanks for any help!

  You can use the Version property that is returned by Get-VMHost

  Get-VMHost | Select the name, Version

• Automatically remove virtual machines for VDI pool after the period of time

  Use us Vmware View 5.0 but soon move to 5.2 and have need features to automatically remove all the virtual machines in the pool selected after a certain period of time. We are at disposal VDI for a project that will end for 3 months and after this time, we want to remove this VMs automatically. Is this possible?

  It depends a bit exactly what you want to do, but you can plan everything a powercli-script to remove the virtual desktop at a certain time.

  Another option that I usually prefer is to manage the rights with the ad groups.

  So when you want to revoke a users access to a desktop computer, simply remove the user from the group, which should be easy to do with a script.

  Linjo

• Can't get OS USB host for the installation of a new virtual machine

  I am trying to create my first VM in VSphere client. All my other machines have been migrated to Hyper-V machine. I created the machine but can't load of windows server 2003 r2 32 bit OS ISO. I tried several ways to no success.

  The virtual machine just says: operating system not found. The first way I tried was put the installation disc in the VSphere host and modify the virtual machine settings to point to the CD-ROM. It did not work.

  The second way, I tried was by clicking on the icon of the disk to the VM Console and choosing iso on the local disk. I then navigate to the iso file. When I did this it remains stuck in the connection. Even after I change this setting if I try to go back to the icon of the drive console he says always login no matter what I do on the parameters of the virtual machine. Can I stop it trying to connect?

  The third way, that I tried was to stick to a USB to the VSphere host. However, I can't understand how to assign the virtual machine to USB. I noticed that when I plug my USB key, it says USB configuration has changed in the events, but I do not see the USB drive as an option under storage.

  The fourth way that I tried was to use WINSCP for SFTP the ISO for the data store. When I do this need me in the root directory that has only about 100 MB of space on it. So it allows me to start the transfer of the iso and the error. How can I change this?

  I'm really frustrated about something which I think should be really easy. Any help is appreciated.

  You have access to vCenter?

  If so, this video shows how to download an ISO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6v8GsWJ9dc

  If you get your ISO on the data store that you can navigate to it through the client vSphere (console) to the virtual machine, do not forget to set the "connect on startup' or 'Connected' when you configure the virtual machine's CD drive.

  [Edit] Boot from USB can sometimes be a problem, if you need to boot from USB you can use a like Plop Boot Manager, it is an ISO standard, you can load into the virtual machine CD player. More info here: http://www.vladan.fr/great-tip-how-to-boot-from-usb-image-in-vmware-workstation/ ... It's for workstation, but it works for ESXi 5.0 as well.

  Post edited by: spravtek

• How to move virtual machines from one host to another without full VI and vMotion?

  Hello

  could you help me with a question?

  I have two installed hosts with ESXi 3.5 U5, which are connected to the shared iSCSI (Openfiler) - VMs storage are installed on the storage disk. My requirement is to have a cheap solution of DR - in case of failure of a host, I need to move and start VM on the host of work. How to achieve without going through VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and vMotion?

  I found this article:

  http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/04/how-to-move-a-VM-without-vCenter-or-storage-VMotion/

  but RCLI needs Infrastructure of VMware ESXi does not have default CLI So, how to move VMs between hosts (of course I mean "cold" move) without byuing any additonal VMware SW? It is generally possible in my situation?

  Thank you.

  ARO

  Danas

  If the virtual machines are running in shared storage (two guests see the same storage iSCSI or NFS) then it's simple. If a host goes down, then look for the data store on the ESXi host work. Navigate through folders for each virtual machine, right-click on the VMX file and add to the inventory. You will then be able to turn on the virtual machine.

  To move a virtual machine from one host to another, as long as both hosts had the same processors, you can pause the VM on the single host, browse and add the virtual machine to the inventory on the second break host and the United Nations.

  If the virtual machines are on local storage, but the two hosts are connected to the same shared storage, clone virtual machines on a daily basis from local storage to shared storage. Use something like ghettoVCB http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 make the clone. In the case of a server failure, you will be able to browse the data store, add to the inventory on the shared storage and switch the cloned machine.

• Support ESXi 5.0 host FC connected tape drives in the virtual machine running symantec backup exec 2012

  Dear Experts,

  We recently purchased C0H19A: StoreEver HP 1/8 G2 6 - LTO Ultrium 6250 CF TapeAutoloader. The purpose is to backup of VMS data, I mean selected data in virtual machines, as for the exchange of data bases email for server accounts database SQL server etc.. We have a full VM backup plan, so using symantec backup exec software.

  We have this configuration:

  -TWO DL 380 Gen8 servers (running UPDATE2 Esxi 5.0), both servers have not all SCSI ports

  -One SINGLE HP P2000 G2 MSA FC Dual Cntrl storage

  -TWO HP SN6000 12 - pt Windows Pwr FC switch

  -HP ADF

  All them above are related to the CF. Symantec backup exec 2012 is also installed on Windows 2008 R2, which is a virtual machine.

  But now, we are unable to see the tape library autoloader through the virtualization layer in the device of machine Manager virtual backup exec. Reading on internet, I also found some details that connected FC tape drives are not supported by the Esxi hosts. We are really stuck in this situation, all the solutions to this. I also read the article from vmware saying configuration for Esxi 4.0 FC tape drives and later versions

  Installation of a physical server windows with Backup Exec 2012 and HBA and connected to above switches FC is the only way to see the ADF? Even after reading articles on the internet, I'm not clear, please guide what solution I have now to get this thing going, I really need to find solution to this.

  Waiting for answers.

  Kind regards

  Hello, I'm a Backup Exec support engineer and yes the method supported is only by connecting the tape drive to a server of physical media. See the introduction in the Backup Exec HCL on Configurations of http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH175582 and http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146293 alternative

• iSCSI SAN, two hosts - how to move virtual machines?

  It is a new implementation.  I have ESX 3.5 standard and both hosts access the storage shared across the San.  Somehow, I need to delete the VM inventory of a host, and add it to the other.  But I don't see the option anywhere.  I don't have the inventory button.

  Where I was before we vCenter but not here.  What is the reason?  I can't do vmotion, all cold migration.

  You must turn off the Virtual Machine, if you right click on the virtual machine, that you should see the option at the bottom near remove disk.   On the host that you want to move, if you look at the host summary screen (click on the host) and then double click on the logic of shared storage unit number.  This should bring up a list of all folders in this unit number logic, including the NameOfVM that you can open the folder of this virtual machine to the top and click on the. SELECT and VMX file added to the inventory.

  • Kyle

• The host of windows 7, Linux on a virtual machine as a guest

  Greetings:

  I want to install Virtual box with Linux as a guest on my laptop with windows 7 ultimate.

  I have almost 2 GB of Ram.

  I have to consider at least 512 MB for ubuntu.

  What is a locked memory? in other words, even when I don't use VB with linux as a guest, host system can still not use full 2 GB of RAM?

  also when I use (windows 7 ultimate) host and guest (ubuntu), I might add to virtual memory to keep the machine running slowly?

  and one last question, then the installation of Virtual box I lose the internet connection after installing, everything will be fine? no problems?

  Thanks in advance

  Kian William

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site which is for the consumer to related issues.
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• the other hard drive to the host system does not show in the virtual machine

  I tried but I couldn't find an article on how to get the other host hard disk appears in the my window of the computer of the VM guest.  I don't want a virtual disk or anything like that, just access the other hard disk of the local host without having to map a drive to it if possible.  Thank you!

  Physical disks are not supported on VMware Server 2 (at least not via GUI options).