Question to consolidate 4.1.0_b345043 ESXi Snapshots

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• Question about task scheduled task to create snapshots of computer virtual

  Hello

  We run 5.1 ESXi hosts.

  There is a requirement of applications consultant to do instant schedule for a particular virtual machine.

  I have set up the scheduled task, BUT would like to know is possible to specify how long the snapshot schedule to run?  As: 3 days OR between 01/05/2015 and on 05/03/2015?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Thank you

  Post edited by: TonyJK

  You can write a shell Script that will take the system time and do the comparison if it's more than an hour, you can trigger 'vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create vmid' with the name of snapshot of timestamp.

• Newbe question about the network configuration of ESXi 3.5

  I have ESXi 3.5 works well on a Dell Poweredge T300 server.  I want to connect a Netgear ReadyNas Pro Business Edition for this Dell and connect by iscsi.

  I want to connect 1 network card of the ReadyNas for 1 network card on the Dell printer.

  My question is on the Dell when I go to the ESXi server and customize by pressing F2 and goto network settings I see the following:

  X vmnic0 embeeded nic1

  NIC2 integrated vmnic1 used by vswitch1

  I'm may be thick but can you explain what NIC on the ESXi server is used for access interenet and I need to configure for iscsi?  I thought that it should be obvious, but it is vmnic0 or vmnic1?

  Your ESXi host has two vswitchs configured what uplinks to physical NIC in the system.

  vSwitch0 what uplinks to vmnic0 (who, although a red x, indicating a problem seems to be very well) this vswitch holds you management interface (IP 192.168.2.107) and a portgroup of VM for your virtual machines. You also have an another vswitch vswitch1 what uplinks to GB NIC vmnic1. This vswitch has unused virtual machine port group. Also a VLAN ID has been set for this vswitch which would lead me to believe that VST is / was operating on that host in the past.

  Haven't you set up this? If this isn't the case, I would get with one who did.

  Order "the great vSwitch debate" parts 1 and 2 to start.

  http://kensvirtualreality.WordPress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-1/

• Consolidate files vmdk (lack of snapshots)

  I made the mistake of trying to free up space by deleting all snapshots, and then decide the ESX Server was insensitive and rebooted. I got the chance to still have virtual machines of work later. I now 17 files vmdk disk of the virtual machine, but given that the snapshots have been deleted, I can't delete just them. Is there an easy way to consolidate in the vmdk to parent?

  Hello

  To consolidate all snapshots, you need to make sure that all the file descriptor and the discs are in the same directory, I would advice if you can make a copy of the entire folder first if you have enough space. Now for consolidation, you need to make sure that the first you cross all the descriptor files and make sure you have the correct mapping of PID and CID. PID: Disk Parent, CID: the child disk.

  Lets say you start from the base.vmdk, it will not all PID as the parent root it will be 00001.vmdk CID, of same will PID as the basis and CID 00002.vmdk 00001.vmdk you must ensure that this channel is maintained by the last disk.

  Once this is done then you can run vmkfstools-i on the latest snapshot of disk and create a new destination disk that will be the new combined disk that will have all of the snapshots are committed on the basic disk.

  Thank you

  Samir

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• Quick question on consolidate infrastructure

  First, it's at HOME the exclusive use, this means that it is not a solution of busines, is one of a family not a company!

  We currently have three real servers:

  A server: Dell PowerEdge 1850 4 GB RAM 64 bit (no VT - x!), 146 GB uSCSI 320 RAID 0, Win 2008 R2 Server, 2xTBase1000

  Server B: Intel 5320 4 GB of RAM 32 bit, Win 2008 Server, 2xTBase1000, 6-to SATAII RAID 0 and 54 GB uSCSI 320 RAID 0

  Server c: Intel Workstation OSX Snow Leopard Hackintosh, 500 GB SATAII, 8 GB RAM, 2xTBase1000

  A server / server B Server C are connected by Cat6 for a TBase1000 switch, which is then connected to our home and internet

  A server is running:

  Exchange Server 2010 with 5 e-mail accounts for Exchange ActiveSync (iPhone, Outlook Anywhere and so on...)

  Active Directory and domain controller

  Server B runs:

  VMWare vSphere Hypervisor

  R: VM Windows 7 32 bit, 3 GB of RAM, Windows Media Center (for Streaming for XBox360)

  B: VM Ubuntu 32 bit, 1 GB RAM, personal Web server Webserver

  Server C is running:

  OSX Snow Leopard Server

  Pocket Gnome WoW Bots

  I would like to buy a new server with Intel VT - x, allowed, like a 2xQuad with 32 GB of RAM or more, then I could use the system as follows:

  New X Server (replaces the server A and B):

  VMWare vSphere 4

  R: machine virtual Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, AD & DC; care ~ 8GB of RAM

  B: VM Windows 7 64-bit, Media Center; care ~ 8GB of RAM

  C: VM Ubuntu 64-bit Web server. Care ~ 4GB of RAM

  VM d: OS X Snow Leopard Server; Plug 12 ~ GB RAM

  My Question:

  Because I'm not a pro, I would like that you guys what you think that installing? Remember that it is only for personal use, it was designed that all we can share our music, watching movies on TV and so forth. I know you would similar goods achiev with House san, but, we need the Exchange and I run different programs on the server, so it is really essential that it is always a complete windows server and not only a media center pc. The reason for this change would be to reduce consumption of energy and noise and temperature, because the equipment is running in our cellar.

  Thanks for reading!

  I never said that it does not work! It's just that he's not allowed or supported. It is a constraint of license. You are allowed to run a virtual machine in MAC on Apple hardware only.

  Franck

• Question of Lic and ability on ESXi

  Hi all

  After running VMware Server 1.x for many years successfully, upper management has agreed to budget money for a large VMWare server.

  If we buy a Dell Server QuadCore, like a DELL R710 (Intel Xeon 5550), VMs how can I run on this server?

  Assuming that chips Dual Quad Core, 2 x 4 = 8 processors, can I use 10 small WinXP VMs?  Or am I limited to 8 due to the number of processors?

  In addition, if we use the free ESXi, will I any license fees?

  If you are looking to a "home" single and ESXi (free edition), then maybe the way to go. I think the messages above give good on the number of guests by heart, but I agree 4/6/XP uniprocessor basic machines must be acheivable with good RAM and disk IOPS / s.

  If you want the Virtual Center management features, or you decide to go to more than one 'host', then a licensed version may be more appropriate.

  Essentials is a set of admission for ESX and Virtual Center and is limited to 3 guests. I think you are confused with what we call invited i.e. the virtual machines that you want to run on the host computer, for those that you must make sure that they are allowed as you would for physical XP workstations.

  Finally, if you run just Office on top of ESX operating systems you can find the beams 'View' be good value. You get ESX and Virtual Center technology but on a per-desktop basis, you must consider that the minimum charge for this solution is good. You can choose whether to use the software view to connect to the virtual machine, but it still might work better for you to do it this way. If you want to run on the side of server operating systems desktop computers this approach would not be appropriate.

• Still confused about snapshots - delete or consolidate?

  I use snapshots so rarely, I find that I'm confused. I have a virtual machine that has a snapshot for quite awhile ago (like 10 months...). I want to get rid of him, to recover the space. I won't have to go back; the way in which the virtual machine is running and configured is now acceptable for my developer. This particular virtual machine does not show a setting "Must consolidate", in the list of virtual machines for this 5.1 ESXi host, so I don't think I need to "consolidate". There is only the snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

  When I search "instant delete" in the VMware knowledge base, he told me that a 'Delete' will do a consolidation, and then delete the snapshot. This looks like what I want. But what is the difference between "Delete" and "consolidate"? "Consolidate" not he removes the snapshot later?

  In my situation, what should I do? I think I need to 'delete '. This will get rid of the snapshot, but let my VM in the State it's in now. Is this correct? (Also, I could do this with the virtual machine, because the snapshot file is like 35G in size now, and I know that a delete or consolidate the will really take a lot of time with a snapshot this return). We will migrate all our warehouses of our current HP SAN data to a new SAN from Dell, so I want to clean up snapshots now.

  Thank you

  Hello Michael,

  Actually consolidate and remove it from the same operation they commit it again records - that is to say the changes when the virtual machine will run on the snapshot on basic disks.

  consolidate - validations of the disk-based data and removes the snapshot

  Delete - validating data at the base disk and deleted files from snapshots.

  Delete - Deletes the snapshot but does not commit the data on the basic disk.

  The only reason why consolidate option has been added in ESX 5.0 or later versions was much assumed that the option remove would remove files and does not validate the data.

  But on the real scenario. Just to avoid this VMware came with consolidate it. that consolidate the fact on background is it takes another snapshot and performs delete it all operations. Hope that clarifies the confusion.

  And in your situation, you should make clear all.

  Thank you

  Avinash

• 5.5u0 ESXi and Adaptec 7805 (Maxview) question

  Hello community dea, here is another topic on ESX + Adaptec problem, I couldn't find a solution for mine yet.

  Here is the story:

  I have a Supermicro Server with controller Adaptec 7805. I joined the lates in VMware ESXi adaptec - 5.5.0 - 1331820-depot and was able to install ESXi 5.5u0 with him.

  The release of the list of vib software esxcli | grep-i aacraid:

  SCSI-aacraid

  5.5.5.2.1.41024 - 1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Adaptec_Inc

  VMwareCertified 2016-03-31

  My next step was to get Maxview running. I installed successfully vibs: vmware-esxprovider - arcconf.vib and vmware-esxprovider-arc-cim - provider.vib

  Then I installed the Storage Manager latest Maxview of GuestOS on Win2012R2 Installer. So its gets to the and start page, when I entered the credentials his begins to think about a lot of time and just pop: connection failed: internal error occurred.

  It's the number one issue.

  Number two of the problem appeared when I decided to update my host to 5.5u1. This replaced update my driver with another version and all data warehouses disappeared.

  So here are two questions: 1 - How can I change ESXi lates release 5.5 without losing access to data warehouses? 2 - How can I make Maxview work?

  
  

  Thank you!

  in another thread, a man reported that this config works

  Arcconf 1.08 1.08 CIM and maxview 1.08.

• ESXi 4 - questions RAID - ASUS RS700-E6/RS4

  I have dabbled with virtualization for a few years now, but he must admit from the outset that I am new to the world of ESXi.

  Our company is you want to replace the 4 servers of aging with a new beefier configuration running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x 64.  After doing some research and making reference to the list of ESXi 4 HCL, decide us pick the server next stop of the HCL:

  ASUS RS700-E6/RS4

  2 x Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26 GHz LGA 1366

  8 x CORSAIR 2 GB 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC

  3 x Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1 TB 7200 tr / MIN SATA 3.0 GB/s

  The server hardware is not bad.  I know that's not the greatest, but it's more than enough to meet our needs.

  So here's the question: I can't get the ESXi software to detect the matrix RAID which has been implemented.  I tried to use RAID 5/10 configurations and for the life of me, cannot get the software to detect the hard disks as a single disk.  When Setup runs, it asks that one of the physical install disks to, rather than install them in the table.  This is quite annoying, because we need this configuration for redundancy (in the case of a tragic failure.  The server uses the following controller technology:

  SATA controller:

  Intel® ICH10R:

  6 300 MB/s SATA2 ports

  Intel Matrix Storage Manager (for Windows only)

  (Support RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5 software)

  LSI MegaRAID® (for Linux/Windows)

  (Software support RAID 0, 1, 10)

  SAS controller:

  Optional:

  Card ASUS PIKE 1064E 4-port SAS RAID

  Card Asus PIKE 1078 8 ports SAS HW RAID

  Currently, I am using Insider Software RAID (on board).  Is it necessary to use hardware RAID for correct detection?

  Does anyone have experience with this?

  cipacs wrote:

  {quote

  Not that I wish not to take your word on it, but is there a document which confirms that the hardware raid levels is necessary?

  Not that I know, but everyone down here can confirm that it has NO software RAID supported in ESX, it has never been argued.

  He's already happy that you can even use your built-in chipset ICH10 controller.

  Hardware RAID is expensive for a reason, there is an additional processor, which unloads the CPU. Software RAID uses your hosts, a CPU CPU already, you normally want the additional tax that you need for your virtual machines.

  Regarding your card RAID Pike, it doesn't seem like the HCL, so I would say that this is not supported.

  Or wait, it seems that the RAID Pike map is a LSI controller renamed with a chipset 1064/1078 who expected to work. However, in your case I make sure and get confirmation from ASUS that it works with vSphere before ordering.

  While you're at it, get a sustained unit (BBU) battery with the controller as it makes a huge difference in performance that you can then activate the write back cache.

  --

  Wil

  _____________________________________________________

  VI-box tools & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com

  Edit: added note on the LSI

• Confused in what I need [ESXi Embedded; ESX Installable; ESX 3.5]

  Hello team.

  Let me explain what I first: I need to run 6 virtual machines and manage these 6 VMs through a single window. I might be able to manage all VMs 6 using the single window (in general-, this could be any application). To manage, I mean, create snapshots, go back, use them as if I had VMware workstation. I don't need any other features. I'm looking in the plug of the machine: Quad core; 8 GB; SATA RAID.

  Now my question is how do I select ESXi Embedded or Installable or standalone ESX. Is there documentation that shows these differences or videos showing what are interfaces?

  I read the difference between ESXi and ESX and it was something citing on linux required for ESX. Does this mean that my whitebox will need Linux installed before that I could install ESX?

  ESXi is barebone architecture, which means, I'll lose admin capabilities?

  You think, with these questions, am confused? Thanks for any help in advance

  Novice user with virtualization - Manny

  Hello Manny,

  In fact, it's the same interface and the program, you use esx and esxi.

  Free ESXi, esx costs money and can do all kinds of magic to keep near 100% availability.

  You will need to have an admin on windows pc to run the VI client from.

  The VI-client (or VMware Infrastructure client) connects to your host, and from there, you can create new guests, create the snapshot, return etc.

  NO, you don't need linux. In fact my esx 3i is booting from a USB key no OS is required on the hard disk.

  I have attached a photo where you can see the interface to manage hosts.

  

• Sub Consolidate() would come at the beginning or at the end of the rules file?

  Hello

  I wrote a routine void consolidate for a specialized consolidation process.

  Question: Sub Consolidate() would come BEFORE Sub calculate () in the rules file, or after?   Or is it important?

  Consolidation seems to work OK.   But I want to just make sure HFM will not try to consolidate first, and rules other calculations after (normally VB executes orders in the order they appear in the script).

  Thank you

  Mark Smith

  Hello. Either way will work. HFM knows that he has to look up subroutine names specific to specific points during consolidation. The order is listed in the help. Practically most people put first calculate given that most of the rules is there and that's where you make other changes.

  Eric

• ESXi 5.1 upgrade to ESXi 6.0 with 2 warehouses of data on the local host

  Hi, I'm a little new for vsphere stuff...

  I currently have a 5.1 ESXi host who I want to spend to 6.0. I did with another host with several virtual machines on which had a unique and just ran data store Installer, robbed the store of current data so it updated the system, but kept all my config and VMs in tact.

  However, with this other host, its data store has been expanded at some point, and rather than extend the data store, they have created an additional.

  So my question is now, if I run the Setup, what data store I point to and there are likely to be problems I might encounter?

  Thank you and I look forward to hearing from someone soon

  Ben

  Hello

  a multiple data store or data store is no question during the upgrade or install ESXi.

  I guess, you start using ESXi Server ISO.

  Select storage (disk or USB/flash storage) where old ESXi is installed during the Installation (upgrade).

  This allows to detect the existing ESXi installation invites you to upgrade instead of doing the new ESXi installation.

  During the upgrade, select preserve existing and upgrade VMFS ' option to make sure that you keep the old virtual machines and old configuration ESXi.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

  Virtual Admin

• Delete a snapshot

  Hi all

  Our largest VM, there is a residue of a snapshot of Veeam since January. The use of the disc is 1.46 TB. I guess delete this snapshot will take some time and use the heavy disk activity. I will in a Summit out of time.

  My question: is it possible to remove the snapshot while the virtual machine is running and what do you think how long it will take? To disconnect the virtual machine is not really an option, and I'm not sure that the snapshot deletion process would be much faster.

  Thank you

  Edy

  The time limit is proportional to the amount of data that the virtual machine is written during consolidation, if the virtual machine is running. If this virtual machine has very high I/O consolidation then process may stop VM to the last step. This is not mandatory, but depend on the size of VMDK, VM e/s and health/performance of the storage.

  I suggest doing this powered off-State, as you say of vmdk is great. But if you want to power on State, then do it hours when there is not a lot of activity on the data store and VM is less accessible.

• SRM 5.5 - vSphere replication - error: impossible to reverse the replication for the Virtual Machine. A snapshot operation cannot be performed

  Hi all, we have just run a test DR failover of a couple of virtual machines in our protected our failover site and all site swung perfectly, two virtual machines came online and all applications work well. However when we cam to r-eprotect machines virtual, we get some errors.

  One of the virtual machines seems to have lived the reprotect end process, it is still running, but has not moved to 89% for some time. The virtual machine has a couple of grand (a little less than 2 TB) VMDK. slow progress is just a consequence of the large VMDK?

  More worrisome is the virtual machine which don't reprotect at all. It generates an error whenever I click on the "Restore" button (error: impossible to reverse the replication for the Virtual Machine.) A snapshot operation can not be performed).

  
  Does anyone have any ideas as to the cause?

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Andy

  Finally got to the bottom of this. The issue was that reprotect SRM work was trying to dispel any snapshots that were taken on the computer object virtual destination in VMWare, but could not clean snapshots.

  The reason why snapshots would not consolidate was because it was snapshots of temporary VEEAM who in fact any snapshot file listed in the VSAN data store. So when we looked through the browser data store, no snapshot file existed in the virtual computers folder. Trying a manual removal also failed.

  To fix this, we created a snapshot of the virtual machine in the original data center (note is the engine to the bottom of the virtual machine), this effect was to get rid of the 'fade' snapshot that was visible in the Snapshot Manager that VEEAM backup had left behind. Once this had disappeared, the reprotect back to DCA worked perfectly.

• 15/10/2014 patches ESXi break Citrix Netscaler VPX Appliance

  The part warning, part question...

  My ESXi hosts were v5.5.0 206190 (directly from the 5.5U2 cd - RollupISO2), I applied the following hotfixes:

  ID: ESXi550-201410101-SG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update esx-base

  ID: ESXi550-201410401-BG Impact: critical release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update esx-base

  ID: ESXi550-201410402-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update drivers-misc

  ID: ESXi550-201410403-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update sata ahci

  ID: ESXi550-201410404-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update xhci-xhci

  ID: ESXi550-201410405-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update tools-light

  ID: ESXi550-201410406-BG Impact: Important release date: 2014-10-15 products: embeddedEsx 5.5.0 update net-vmxnet3

  subsequently they were 2143827 v5.5.0

  Once updated my Citrix Netscaler VPX devices 2 (vmware hardware 8, Citrix Netscaler OS v10.5.52.11nc (latest), FreeBSD 64 bit, E1000 Nic) has stopped responding on the network. They work very well when it is on the old version 5.5U2 but starts to drop packets intermittently and then finally deposited the network during the migration to a host that has the patches listed above. I have 2 mode high availability, this happens even if only one is enabled and the other offshore. It goes back to normal when back to host pre patched vmotioned.

  I have tried switching networks, remove and add network, upgrade to 10 hardware cards, removing all together and deploy the latest version of the citrix website, if it fall not all together, he will drop a lot of packages. You can watch the netscaler console display events NŒUD FAIL, NŒUD down and NŒUD up to several times per minute.

  DIFFICULTY (or work around)?

  Hi all

  When you work with VMWare Technical support they foud a solution that works for me almost an hour now.

  Maybe you guys can 'test' this solution too?

  Enter the shell in the NetScaler mode, then:

  (1) find location loader.conf on NetScaler VM #find /-name loader.conf

  For the VM NetScaler downloaded, there are 2 loader.conf:./flash/boot/defaults/loader.conf and. / flash/boot/loader.conf, we only need to change one.

  (2) add "hw.em.txd = 512" in loader.conf, this will change the Tx ring size to 512 (Note: do not set the size of the ring to 256, it will cause the NetScaler VM core dump)

  (3) restart the NetScaler VM

  4) migrate to a host with the latest patches

  Good luck...

  Edit: still works fine, also with userload in production environment