Redundant VMotion and service console

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• VMotion and Service Console Mac address

  All,

  This may seem like a simple question, but how to find the Mac address of assocated to the port of Vmotion and the Service Console, as my network team ask Mac addresses for all static IP addresses.

  Cordially Spence...

  Click on the properties of the vSwitch to VIC, select the port of VMotion, then on the right, under the IP settings, you should see the MAC address

• Grouping of Vmotion and service console nic?

  Hi, I would like to know if it is: 1: 2 Possible: recommended

  3: how it is done?    Can I use an IP private available only to the ESX Servers (which is not known to the network) that is 192.168.24.24 while having the CD on a production network?  I'll have to do the two ports, ports of junction and create separate for a vmotion and SC port groups by specifying the ID of the vlan?

  Any input would be appreciated.

  1 Yes it is possible

  2 Yes, it is recommended

  3 http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/when-is-it-ok-to-default-on-your-vi/

  Ken Article holds most of the answers, and is one of the best I've seen on this topic. much better that anyone can answer right here in a few lines.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• VMkernel and Service Console in the same vSwitch?

  Hello

  Be aware that this may have been covered elsewhere (and I should be grateful if you would be redirected to the correct answer), but I need clarification on the installer to our servers ESX 4.1. I have a switch virtual vswitch1 with webcam live and test port groups running through a NIC 4 etherchannel trunk to a Cisco switch stack with load balancing of the IP Hash for our virtual machines (works fine).

  Due to limited network adapters, I wanted to know if I could have the VMKernel (vmotion) and the Service Console on the same virtual switch (vSwitch0) but separated by VLAN ID in 2 groups of ports, run through an another etherchannel to our Cisco switches (mounting similar to vswitch1 etherchannel trunk). Are these two functions OK on the same vSwitch?

  I say with this configuration, we will have redundancy with 2 network cards in vswitch0 and traffic will be isolated between the SC and vmotion with VLAN. Im not sure if best practices should have the VMkernel SC on separate vSwitches, or even if the VMkernel and HC would work even as a separate Exchange with an ID vswitch1 VLANS separated to release 2 network cards.

  As a result, I read elsewhere, that a default installation with a switch distributed (that we want to use in the near future) would use a dvSwitch for VMs and a vSwitch for SC and functions VMKernel, separating them, so at this point would be a good idea.

  Any advice would be welcome.

  Thank you

  John

  When I have 2 NICs for network management and vMotion, I use usually 1 vSwitch for them. I configure ports of physical switch as connection ports (no etherchannel), set the VLAN ID on port groups and configure groups of two ports for active / standby. For example, the management network has active vmnic0, Eve and vMotion active vmnic1 vmnic0 a vmnic1, as yesterday. In this way each "service" uses its dedicated uplink unless there is a failure.

  BTW, you should consider installing instead of ESX ESXi, ESX 4.1 is the latest version of ESX. ESXi will only be available in the future and transition from ESX to ESXi requires a fresh install of the hosts.

  André

• Distributed Virtual Switch and Service Console

  I have multiple ESX hosts and want to create a vDS for all traffic to the virtual machine. What is recommended for each guest, ESX service console, if these remain on the vSS service or be moved to the vDS? Is it a risk seen your service console on the WIS as losing this switch would then probably keep access you the ESXhosts?

  Also, can someone explain the benefits of using smoothing on the usual IP/MAC hash options of two-way traffic?

  Thank you

  Here's some great info, and I'll change my design to include a vs. I also found this white paper, but it does not specifically cover this design flaw:

  http://VMware.com/files/PDF/vSphere-vNetwork-DS-migration-configuration-WP.PDF

• PCI, antivirus and service console

  We are trying to get security to buy on our design of the PCI ESX cluster. One thing that came was antivirus in the COS. Is need antivirus in the cos ESX and if not a good white paper or statement of VMware that I could show as proof? and the next question; If it is not something like that, how about ESXi? I thought that ESXi eliminated the COS, so shouldn't have an AV agent be negligible in this situation? Once more, is there proof on that? And last question! Only VMSafe for vSphere address and solve many of these issues?

  My anitvirus software experience is not necessary for the service console.

  This is an article written on techtarget on the subject since last year.

  http://ITKnowledgeExchange.TechTarget.com/virtualization-Pro/installing-anti-virus-software-on-VMware-ESX-service-console/

  It is also a good post on the subject Council

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1030091;JSESSIONID=4F44B8A6C48B53176A84B7C81367C791

  www.phdvirtual.com, manufacturers of esXpress

• public network for virtual machines, private storage and the service console?

  Hello

  So far I had a pretty small facility with 2 servers with 4 physical network adapters each running ESX 3.5, a small box of EqualLogic SAN to shared storage and a few virtual machines on our network of regular reinforcement, routed, not on a private.   The network config was really simple.  I just put everything on real IP addresses on our network of building.

  Now I want to move the SAN and the traffic on a private service console network, but I don't know how to do this.

  Right now I use 2 NETWORK cards on each server:

  vmnic0 is configured on vSwitch0 and has the network of the VM on it that all my use of VMS to talk to the outside world, and it also has the Service Console that uses Virtual Center and I use ssh to it.

  vmnic1 is configured on vSwitch1 and a VMKernel Port and also a Service Console Port for iSCSI Software to talk to my SAN.  (never been clear on why both are needed to talk to the SAN, but doctors say they are)

  My plan is to set up a vSwitch2 and bind it to vmnic2 and implemented a VMKernel Port and the Service Console Port for software iSCSI on the 10.x.x.x network, set up my new (larger) SAN box on the 10.x.x.x network and simply use Storage vMotion to move virtual machines to the new storage space.  As soon as I did this, I would like to not use the Service Console on vSwitch2 and not a Console Service at all on vSwitch0.  Is it possible to delete the one on vSwitch0 and just use a new vSwitch2 for Virtual Center and ssh access?

  So my proposed configuration would be:

  vSwitch0: VM network only, used by the VM guests for oriented public access network, no construction of Network Service Console, linked to vmnic0

  vSwitch1: superfluous once I do storage vMotion of everything on my old SAN, will eventually remove and pair vmnic 1 with vmnic0, linked to vmnic1

  vSwitch2: VMKernel and Service Console on the network 10.x.x.x, used to access the new SAN, used by Virtual Center to access the ESX, used to SSH in to ESX on private network, associated vmnic2

  If it works?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  VMkernel ports cannot live on the same subnet. So if you have 3 vmkernel ports say: vMotion, iSCSI and NFS. You really need 3 subnets. 1 for each vmkernel port.

  Otherwise how does he know all send properly?

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• Change the id vlan of the Service Console and now can't connect

  Hello

  My ESX 3.5 server was with a Service Console PG and a PG VMotion on vSwitch0. There are 2 physical NIC assigned to the vSwitch, which are transmitted to the 2 physical network switches.

  Guys id assigned netoeking vlan 200 to 2 ports on the 2 natachasery physical switches is connected. In the VI client, if I change the properties of vSwitch0-> Console of Service and the value of the vlan 200, I completely lose connectivity to the host. I can't ping the IP address SC longer. I have a keyboard/screen connected to the host and when I connect to the SC, I can't ping the default gateway of the SC or whatever it is.

  I used esxcfg-vswitch to set of the SC vlan id 0 (all) and bingo!, I can speak to the host again and he can talk. The network guys arrure me, they put the vlan id = 200 on the OK physical switch ports. So what goes wrong?

  FWIW, we also have an ESX4 from same host configured the host to 3.5 and it communicates very well. It's the SC a vlan = 200 and issued for the same physical switches.

  George.

  the switch port config are not the same between the hosts of working and non-working.  See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003806 for example config

• HA and 2nd service console

  I had just a console single service in each of my clusters for too long.  I want to install a 2nd / backup service console, only to improve resilience/accuracy of HA.  HA is configured on my cluster right now, with 'VM leave it on"since I'm paranoid about false positives. It happened twice in as many years.

  Service primary or existing console is on vSwitch0 (typical of course) which NIC access network 10.25.13.0.

  Is it not better to add a console/service gateway secondary on a network other than the primary?  If so, vSwitch1 (in use by my VMs) access network 10.25.20.0 so can't I just 'Add Networking' / Service Console / use vSwitch1 and add IP/gateway, etc and do with it?  Again, I have only this want to another path for HA heartbeat and don't have (or really even need) a NETWORK card dedicated for this purpose.

  Sound good?  The warnings I share with this approach?

  Then I can set the HA to do that HA is REALLY supposed to - detect what is almost certainly a host FAILURE and restart the virtual machines on other host in the cluster.  I find this 'interesting' VMware added option 'VMs letting' turned on only for the host isolation response, because it is not more or less defeat the purpose and/or is not an admission that HA is prone to false positives that get undesirable results?  Secondary service consoles, taking other paths (physically, nic to pass) AND to other subnets would seem to be an absolute requirement for the ideal/real 'stop VM' (and restart on hosts alt) implementation of the AH.

  I think that what is meant by the tip to maintain the network label, it is similarly to name the second service even console on each host in the cluster, not name - it the same as the first service console.

  Think of the second service console to provide connectivity redundant heatbeat mainly between the hosts, not really of another interface to check the addresses of isolation after the heartbeats are lost.  Use of the second service console if it is placed on the redundant network links well & switches must ensure that when a problem is detected, it is a failure of another host and the additional verification of isolation on a single interface would be enough to determine that the local host is not the issue.

• Please explain number maximum support of the virtual machine by exsi 5.5 and exsi 6 service console

  Please explain number maximum support of the virtual machine by exsi 5.5 and exsi 6 service console

  What exactly do you want to know?

  For supported máxima, see one of the following documents:

  https://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsphere5/R55/vSphere-55-configuration-maximums.PDF

  https://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsphere6/R60/vSphere-60-configuration-maximums.PDF

  Full documentation can be found at:

  https://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-pubs.html

  https://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-6-pubs.html

  André

• separate the vlan for the service console and vkernel

  Hi all

  I need to restructure my environment uat and dev, keeping both under vcenter even. I run the machine with 4 NICs (currently using 2 each for sc + vk & vm port with eather channel gp). The reason behind this is that we have stored separately (using nfs) in uat and dev segment to be used by the servers (virtual and physical) in the respective segment. I'll take 2 clusters as uat and dev. wanted to help the same regardeing

  • wanted to know if I can get my service console and vmkernel running on VLANs separate as shown below
    • UAT cluster
      • SC - 10.10.11.x
      • VK - 10.10.12.x
    • dev cluster
      • SC - 10.10.11.x
      • VK - 10.10.50.x

  kindly let me know for further information on above, any other suggestion on above will be useful

  Yes your SC and VMkernel networks running on different VLANS will work - it is a best practice.

• Limit the software and Services that run in the Service Console in ESXi 4.0?

  How to limit the software and Services running in the Services Console in ESXi 4.0?

  Hello.

  There is no Service in ESXi Console, and it is not really a lot of apps for ESXi either. Policy and/or limited access is the best way to limit these things.

  Good luck!

• Stop the Service Console and shell scripts

  Now that VMware announced ESX 4.1 is their last hypervisor with a service console, I was wondering-

  What are the options to make what is now a large number of Linux shell scripts perform the same functions on ESXi - i.e. PowerCLI, Host Profiles, etc. and how long we have until officially support chips for the ESX service console?

  Thank you

  PowerCLI does not rely on a service console. However, you must have paid the ESXi version for them to work.  With respect to the profiles of the host, which is a characteristic of vCenter and has more no dependencies on the COS.  You can start watching to convert all of your shell scripts PowerCLI and use scripts.

  What about when VMware will stop support for ESX, I do not anticipate happening any time soon.

• Para fazer VMotion preciso da "Service Console"?

  PARA FAZER VMOTION PRECISO DA 'SERVICE CONSOLE '?

  DA PARA FAZER VMOTION, HA, DRS no ESXI 4.1?

  Thiago Rodrigues associate. [email protected]

  Certified ITIL Foundation V2

  Certified Manager engine Op-Manager / Manager-App

  Edited all the line caps object according to the rules of the forum, AWo.

  Good afternoon Thiago.

  Você pode ativar VMOTION, the (traffic management) SERVICE CONSOLE LOGGING of FAULT TOLERANCE e na mesma rede. Entretanto, e recomendavel as voce possua segmentos para cada uma, principalmente para e VMOTION FAULT TOLERANCE.

  Com o ESXi 4.1 voce pode ter HA, DRS e outros recursos, very will Chipre licenciamento. Veja links abaixo:

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html

  Vale ressaltar than para o DRS voce precisara licencas Enterprise, no minimo.

  Att.

  Brahell

• Cannot set the vmkernel and service on the same vswitch console with 1 NIC

  I'm currently setting up a new VMWare environment, using Starwind on a 2008 server for shared storage.  The question that I am running is, when I put the vmkernel (xxx.xxx.xxx.177) and the Service Console (xxx.xxx.xxx.178) on vSwitch0 with 1 card NETWORK, I can only ping the service console.  We also use a Cisco ESW 540 24 ports switch. StarWind support says they are sure it's the swithch, no fool, what needs to be changed in this respect.  If I put the VMKernel and the Service Console on VSwitches separate with separate NIC, it works fine.  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  Make sure that the Cisco switch does not have port security enabled and allows multiple MAC addresses on the same port.

  André