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• Questions about vmware high availability

  Dear all,

  I am new in this area, we intend to deploy vmware 5 in our environment by using the HA, I am a student in this regard. I have a few questions about this, I need assistance by experts in this field:

  -J' read the vmware network redundancy is strongly recommended for the configuration of vmware HA, but I haven't fully?

  -When vmware HA is configured and there are two hosts in the cluster, now when creating a new machine virtual, I need to specify under which host this new virtual machine must reside OR the HA feature will automatically decide on that?

  -When vmware HA is set up and I have two hosts in cluster, a host processors 4physical and 8 GB of RAM, the other host is also even have 4 physical processors and 8 GB of RAM, so for me which are the sets of resources will be presented? I will be display individually for each host resources when you create a new virtual machine, OR I will be presented with a SUM of resources 1 + 2 host resources to play?

  -Is it possible that I assigned 4 vCPU virtual machine and 4 GB Mem and it uses little resources from host 1 and few resources to host 2, as 2 vCPU to host 1 and 2 GB and still host 2vCPU 2 and remains 2GB (given that I am presented with the SUM of the cluster as mentioned in my second question resources)

  -J' read operating system failure when in vmHA particular VM will be restarted on the same host it resides, that means? If the BONE broke down, then when new virtual machine starts, it will be also having fallen copy of OS? I mean how this new machine will be launched, it's a copy identical secondary virtual machine crashed?

  Waiting for your help.

  Kind regards
  Jocelyn

  OK, consider cases that I am only using HA and no DRS, in this case I need to specify under what host to run VM?

  I read the first question again, then please, let me make this clear. When you create a new virtual machine, you must always specify a host and storage.

  Initial investment (when you are powering on a virtual machine) is a feature of the Drs without DRS a virtual machine can only be migrated to another host manually or with the virtual machine shut down (cold migration) or using vMotion (if allowed).

  But because of an event leading to the crash of the OS reboot also not solve the problem, correct me if I understood? This is also true for FT?

  You're right, HA can restart only a virtual machine. If there is a serious issue that causes the BONE invited to plant that regularly, this is not enough and you have to solve the problem manually. FT cannot resolve as she makes it "mirrors" the guest to another host, so it will also reflect a BSOD.

  Yes, FT has still some limitations. However, there are use cases where availability is important and FT is designed to ensure continuous availability in the event of a crash the host.

  André

• Question of VMWare Converter.

  Does anyone know if you use VMWare converter to convert your currntly running workstation (Vista Business x 64) in a virtual computer if the resulting VM is a duplicate of the workstation at the time where the conversion STARTS or when it ENDS?

  Thank you! -Kelly

  Converter takes a snapshot of the VSS-before starting to copy files - so everything that you during the copy will be lost inbside the virtual machine

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  VMX-settings- VMware-liveCD - VM-infirmary

• Question about VMKernel iSCSI traffic and VLANS

  Hello

  This is a very fundamental question that I'm sure I know the answer too, but I want to ask him anyway just to reassure myself.  As a precursor to my question, the configuration of my ESX infrastructure is best described here: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware+ESX+4.0+and+PowerVault+MD3000i.  Or more precisely, we have two controllers MD3000i.  Each controller has two ports and each port is configured on two different subnets, with every subnet connected to the different switch.  ESX host are connected to two switches.  The only difference for the guide, is we have two MD3000i configured the same, connection to the same switches.  Each MD ports is configured on the same subnet, but different IP addresses.

  At present, we are in the process of upgrading our two iSCSI switches of humble Dlink DGS - 1224T to Cisco 2960 T of.  The switches have been and continue to be dedicated to iSCSI traffic, however, I'm trying to set up VLAN s on the side of the switch.  Originally, we used the default VLANS on switches, however, after you have added an another MD3000i, noted the Support Dell best practices is to separate each on its own subnet and VLAN MD3000i iSCSI traffic. This would result in iSCSI 4 VLANS, two on each switch and two for each MD3000i.  Firstly, is this in fact of good practices?

  Second, if I migrate preceding 4 iSCSI VLANS, as each switch port will actually be an access port, will there need to complete the VLAN ID field in the VMKernel configuration page? Presumably, this field is used when the tagging VLAN is used, but as our switches do not need any other rocking trunk (as they are dedicated to iSCSI traffic), there should be no need to fill?  I guess it would be prudent to keep the two existing subnets, create two new subnets and make changes to an MD3000i and connection of the ESX host.  Provided the switch and switch ports has been appropriate configured with VLAN on the right, the rest should be transparent and he wouldn't be Intel VLAN in all ESX hosts?

  Would be nice to get answers and thank you in advance!

  Gene

  (1) Yes, it is best practice for ESX iscsi, having an independent network and vlan for iscsi traffic.

  (2) No, there is no need to mention anything in the area of vlan, if you use an access port. Its a mandatory thing than a choice. If you supply the id vland with access port, it loses connectivity.

  Please explain a bit why you need to create two different virtual local networks for each MD3000i. You are going to use several on the same ESX box iscsi storage? Alternatively, you use only a single iscsi and use these 4 ports for the same single VMkernel interface?

  NUTZ

  VCP 3.5

  (Preparation for VCP 4)

• A few questions about vmware products

  Hey all, first of I don't know where to post this question sorry if it's in the wrong place.

  Right away

  I was after some input on what product vmware, I need

  That's what I want to do

  I want my pc "windows" to run a debian in a virtual machine

  I need it to start when my pc's and it is always on such that it will run a few static websites

  Is this possible? If so what would I need to VMware?

  weinstein5 and Gkeerthy

  VMware player is the way to go to be able to be presented.

  Since this is probably a stay far from esxi office

• A few questions about VMware tools and U2 of ESXi 4.0 and 4.1

  In my workplace, there is a cluster of vSphere 4 six nodes containing 5 servers ESXi 4.0 U2 (4.0.0, 261974) and a server ESXi 4.1 (4.1.0, 260247).  Aparently, it was built that way in the environment concept then deployed into production and now I head for VMware deployment.  This environment is up in producgtion now for over 8 months with this configuration, but starting to be more widely used.  Ideally, I know, we should have all the nodes on the same patch level, but here's the question.

  Models used to get the operating system to the virtual machines in this environment were built on the apparently new 4.1 server using this version of VMware tools (Version 8.3.2 build-257859).  All so most of the running virtual machines, use this version of VMware tools.  Using this new version of VMware tools on a virtual machine running on a server ESXi 4.0 U2 ESXi would cause issues?  ESXi 4.0 U2 servers push version 4.0.0 build 261974 of the VMware tools, identical to the ESXi version.  The status of the VMware tools when the new 4.1 version is running on a host of U2 4.0 still shows as OK and we have operated this way for more than 8 months.

  Another problem is that we have still a few other virtual machines with the 4.0 build U2 VMware tools so when these virtual machines will eventually be VMotioned to an ESXi 4.1 host, VMware tools show as outdated.

  Until we can get of planned downtime to upgrade the servers, it should be like that for several weeks if possible.  We have HL7 interfaces on many of these virtual machines that are not too good with VMotion and being in an organization of health care, sometimes difficult to get downtime.  It is perhaps more possible to downgrade the only host to 4.0 U2 until we can plan time to upgrade all hosts.  I would keep the node in the cluster, even if for the moment, assuming that to release 4.1 with other guests at 4.0 U2 should not cause problems, since we can use the resources of that node in this cluster.

  Until then, ensuring that all the virtual machines in the cluster use the ESXi version 4.1 of the VMware tools (Version 8.3.2 build-257859) would be acceptable?  I just wanted to check that this version should be fully backwards compatible with the previous version of ESXi 4.0 U2, and as I mentioned before, its run like that and have noticed yet all the problems and the status of the VMware Tools also records OK when this new version works on ESXi 4.0 U2 host computer.  I just wanted some feedback from those of the community.

  Thank you

  Exactly, do you VMotion, virtual host 4.1 machine and if necessary would upgrade the VMware tools. To install VMware tools, it is necessary to restart the virtual machine.

  And another option that I say is the first upgraded version of all hosts ESXi4.0 U2 to 4.1, after that, you do an upgrade in the tools of all virtual machines vmware.

  Perfect.

  You´re are welcome!

• Question about VMware Foundation Acceleration Kit

  Sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't get frequent on licenses for the stuff. Ive looked at the PDF licenses and below shows the paragraph that confuses me a little. The Foundation acceleration Kit only allows you to run ESXi?

  Ive got 2 sites that I need installation, one with 1 x VC server. 2 x with 2 x cpus esx hosts each and another site running a different copy of VC, 1 host ESX x with 2 x CPus.

  What would be the best option?

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  VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation acceleration Kit

  +

  includes three licenses of VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation.

  It's VMware ESXi, VMware Consolidated Backup,

  VMware Update Manager VMware Virtual SMP, VMware

  VMware VMFS and VirtualCenter agent. They also include

  Server VMware VirtualCenter Foundation, which provides

  VMware Guided Consolidation and the ability to manage up to

  three hosts Server VMware Infrastructure 3.

  Non-it allows you to run ESX or ESXi - the only thing you need is another license server VC since the acceleration kit only comes with one license of VM - Foundation

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• Question about VMware Tools when upgrading of vSphere 5.1 to 5.5

  We are the vSphere upgrade 5.1 to 5.5. We have still a few virtual machines with obsolete tools VMware vSphere 4.  There problems upgrade to vSphere 5.5 and then upgrade VMware Tools on those virtual machines to the version 5.5?  Or should we upgrade VMware Tools version 5.1 first before doing the upgrade to vSphere 5.5? We need plan restarting downtime when upgrading to VMware Tools on those virtual machines and would rather not upgrade VMware Tools twice and planning two stops

  There is no problem, as vSphere ESXi 5.5 supports the VM running older versions of VMware Tools.

  This blog post explain this more in detail: is a vSphere VMware Tools upgrade required during the upgrade? VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

• A few questions about VMware Flash Read Cache (vFRC)

  Hello

  1) there is a way to simulate a VMFS datastore as SSD device. See the instructions in the following link:

  http://tomverhaeg.nl/VMware-ESXi/VMware-ESXi-tag-a-device-as-local-and-SSD/

  1 a) can we fake a NFS datastore as a SSD device?

  1 (b) partitions on the SSD device must be empty in order for the vFRC to work.

  There are two scenarios here: empty the lun (with no VMFS file system) and VMFS LUNS (with no data). Both scenarios would work for vFRC?

  (2) a device SSD shareable by multiple ESXi hosts?

  (3) several flash pools can be created for each host ESXi? If so, what is the maximum number of pools of flash can be created by ESXi host?

  (4) a device SSD can be used as a local drive?

  1 a) can we fake a NFS datastore as a SSD device?

  >> N°

  1 (b) partitions on the SSD device must be empty in order for the vFRC to work.

  There are two scenarios here: empty the lun (with no VMFS file system) and VMFS LUNS (with no data). Both scenarios would work for vFRC?

  > empty lun with no partitions is necessary... Partitioned VMFS LUNs cannot be used because VFRC works with VFFS file system

  (2) a device SSD shareable by multiple ESXi hosts?

  > not in a context vFRC, normal on SSD lun VMFS datastore can be shared and used for features such as "swap for ssd.

  (3) several flash pools can be created for each host ESXi? If so, what is the maximum number of pools of flash can be created by ESXi host?

  > No, there may be only one pool that will be shared for all VMDK to a permit for the use of vFRC. but also exchange for SSD if configured.

  (4) a device SSD can be used as a local drive?

  > claiming remote as local is possible. but not recommended and performance improvement is not guaranteed in this case with vFRC...

• a question about VMware View

  Hello

  I want to know when we prepare a parent VM and install us one application on which allowed as Kaspersky endpoint security or other, what is happening with this when the composer creates the linked clones? How the linked clones take permit?

  and if the virtual machine is not persistent (I mean whenever a client connects to it, she creates, and every time it disconnects the virtual machine will be deleted) then what happens to software with license? and what about the name of the computer? and what is being added to the Active directory?

  Thank you

  Thank you Mohammed.

  applications there volume licenses? What is the difference between the volume licensing and standard license and how do we get it?

  Thanks again

  My best regards

• Questions about VMware View

  Hi, I need to provide always on desktops to remote 50 users. I have been using VMware workstation to provide these desktop computers, but it was a temporary solution that is quick and easy.

  I started by installing the free ESXi which works fine except that these virtual machines are running an application that requires DirectX. When reading information VMware views looks like it's maybe the solution I need, but I can't say if she can provide always on workstations or if desktop computers are provided according to the needs. My 2nd concern is cost. I don't mind spending the money for VMware View, but looks like I have to have seen running in AD and that it will require me to install many other products such as VMware infrastructure 3.5. Someone has some good links to install VMware View and the provisioning of desktops?

  When you purchase View 4.5, business or first, you get ESX and vSphere vCenter / I.  If you are supported on this part.  You don't need to buy that separately.

  With respect to reviews, the guides are:

  To start using the doc started get: http://pubs.vmware.com/view45/ol/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=get_started/t_getstarted.html

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/VMware-View45-evaluators-Guide.PDF -> is excellent for your POC on VMWare View.

  http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view45_installation_guide.pdf -> installation guide.

  You will need to have Active Directory in your environment.  View is used to automatically configure your desktop to your users.

  If you use clones of link or local mode (the ability to check your workstations), then you will need to Prime Minister, Enterprise edition will be beneficial.

  Hope this helps,

  Larry

• A few questions about VMWare HA

  Hello everyone,

  I would like to tell you my ideas on VMWare HA.

  I have two ESX servers. Each of them, I have:

  • vSwicth0 (vmnic1 + vmnic 3):

  • The VM network

  • Service console

  • vSwicth1 (vmnic0 + vmnic 2):

  • VMotion VMkernel

  • NetApp VMkernel (iSCSI storage)

  • NetApp Console service

  When I stop one of the two servers, powered on virtual machines migrate to another.

  I read on vmware documentation for VMWare HA, there are two cases:

  • failure (for example, stop the server)

  • response of isolation (Console of Service not responding)

  I tried to follow all the recommendations of VMWare by adding another Console of dedicated Service for HA on a different subnet, but I failed to run the response of isolation procedure.

  I see my virtual machines 'disconnected' and I can't turn them off as I have it configured in HA.

  I would like to virtual machines to migrate when vmnic1 or vmnic0 + vmnic 3, vmnic 2 is declining. Is this possible?

  If so, is there something that I misunderstood on HA or a mistake in my setup?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Since you have with a SC vSwitch0 and vSwitch1 with a SC, both will be down for things to be isolated. It's not one or the other, but both. You can assign up to have one, but don't not one or the other, one or both.

  Best regards, Edward L. Haletky VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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• Question of VMWare Fusion

  I currently use Parallels Desktop and have a question about VMWare.

  VMWare Fusion provides any software to the virtual machine which is necessary for integration with OS X?

  (Parallels made - self-installing Stardock MyColors on Windows VMs without opportunity to decline - have to uninstall later)

  I was wondering.

  The only VMware Fusion software will install automatically when creating a Machine virtual Windows is VMware Tools and it usually automatically starts, but can usually be cancelled although unless you try to isolate completely the host comments then I'd let VMware Tools installed.

• Question about traffic converter

  
  It's maybe a stupid question, but here goes.

  Matter where you install and run VMware Converter with respect to the flow of traffic between two different virtual clusters?

  In other words, I have the source cluster in TEXAS and the cluster of destination in LOUISIANA. It would make a difference if I ran VMWare Converter to do say a local TX V2V cluster, or even through my laptop via a VPN connection in... OHIO?

  Just try to understand if the actual location of the converter customer makes a difference in traffic during the conversion...

  V2V traffic passes to server converter source computer to the destination ESX (it is not so for P2V). So, it can make a big difference where Converter server is running.

  In addition to the converter uses the NFC Protocol, that is not tolerant to high latency networks (this is why conversions generally do not work on WAN).

  HTH

  Plamen

• Various Questions about wireless access controller

  Help me please with these fundamental questions about the role of the access (AC) wireless controller.

  Assume that the access controller and Access Point are connected via IP:

  -Wireless frames sent to AP to acre; include the original MAC header (on the way to wireless access)?  If Yes, is there a Cisco AC gets to fill the WLAN and LAN it is plugged (which means that it outputs as ethernet frames as if they were issued by Mobile Stations).

  -Is the AC necessarily the default gateway for mobile stations? I guess not. But it is possible the default gateway?

  The Cisco AC can function as a DHCP relay?

  The AP creates a tunnel to the controller. All IP traffic from the AP to the controller will address the AP source and dest IP to the interface of the Manager of the AP on the controller. The wireless client traffic is encapsulated inside this tunnel. When it hits the controller the CAPWAP is removed leaving the customer's original package to be sent to the local network through the controller.

  The controller should not be the default gateway for wireless clients because it is not a router. Think of it as a device that converted into wired wireless traffic.

  Normally, the controller acts as a proxy DHCP. Once the customer has joined a WLAN, the controller sends the DHCP packets to the DHCP server on behalf of clients such as the IP address of assistance normally configured on the router for cable customers. You can also configure the controller to act as a DHCP server for wireless clients.