Remote Shutdown ESXi servers

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• ESXi 5.5 Remote Shutdown - HA Complications

  Hello

  I am currently working on a remote desktop that has ESXi environment locally with centralized vCenter.  Here's the basic idea and my question.

  Environment:

  • Remote Desktop
    • 5.1 & 5.5 ESXi servers
      • SAN storage
    • WAN connectivity
    • UPS
      • APC, Eaton, MGE
  • DC plant
    • vCenter

  Location:

  • Power loss of remote offices
    • Usually your WAN connection will be lost at the same time

  Process:

  1. UPS monitor
     1. Controlled via a RaspberryPI (need something outside the VM environment)
  2. Monitor detects the power issue
     1. Stop all virtual machines residing on ESXi hosts
     2. Put the ESXi in maintenance mode
     3. Be able to stop the ESXi hosts
     4. Judgment of the SAN

  Question:

  • Since these ESXi hosts run HA, what is happening (with the process protection AP) what VMs are shutdown or ESXi is stopped?  (remember, there is no communication with vCenter at this point because you lost your WAN)
    • Scenario 1:
      • VMS in protected mode are stop on ESXi02
        • SE HA on the ESXi01 think this is a mistake and try to recover the virtual machine on ESXi01?
    • Scenario 2:
      • ESXi02 stopped all it of VM and now power off
        • ESXi01 think ESXi02 is isolated and now try to recover these VM on ESXi01?

  Joint corresponds to the real script will reside on the ESXi server to perform the closing (slightly modified from the original, thanks to FBartels [esxidown/esxidown.sh to sixdimensionalarray/esxidown master ·]) ([GitHub]).

  Thank you

  B

  I'll assume that your remote site is it's own cluster? If this is not the case, there are a number of additional complications that would take a lot of time to enter.

  Also, remember that the HA process is independent of vCenter. It requires not vCenter to use, just for the installation/configuration changes.

  Answers in RED

  • Scenario 1:
    • VMS in protected mode are stop on ESXi02
      • SE HA on the ESXi01 think this is a mistake and try to recover the virtual machine on ESXi01? -No, if stop you a VM HA not going not pronounce
  • Scenario 2:
    • ESXi02 stopped all it of VM and now power off
      • ESXi01 think ESXi02 is isolated and now try to recover these VM on ESXi01? -No, no

  Does that answer your questions?

• Using workstation for managing ESXi servers

  I was told by a colleague at the workstation to manage my ESXi servers, has anyone tried this?  If yes what, where your limits and how did you like it compared to the vSphere Web Client?

  Note: I'll work eventually with 20-30 different servers using remote connections to manage most of them.

  I don't think you can manage an ESXi host from workstation - what you can do is download a virtual machine of the workstation directly to the ESXi host - management is performed only vSphere customers or web.

• ESXi installation before vCenter Server?  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  My plan for a new vSphere Essentials Plus 5.5 U2a installation is to have the vCenter Server on a virtual machine on the servers of the host on which is installed ESXi.  However, all the installation instructions I found indicate the user to first install the vCenter Server.  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  Thank you for your help.

  Hi munkyman welcome to communities.

  After you have installed your first ESXi host, open a browser and go to https://your-ESXi-ip-or-FQDN

  You can download the vSphere Client here. It is a windows application that you can install on your desktop. It is often referred to as the "c# Client vSphere" in communities and blog posts, because it is a new implemented in the vCenter Server Web client.

  But for the beginning, install the vSphere Windows Client. You can then launch it and connect directly to your ESXi host. Here you can create your first virtual machine, which can be the VM vCenter (installation of Windows or device, that is you).

  You can use the web client or connect to the Server with the client c# vSphere vCenter VCenter runs.

  Tim

• Changing the IP address of 5 ESXi servers

  We are about to embark on a change of IP address on our network. Our 5 servers ESXi (5.1) will all need will be replaced by the new intellectual property structure.

  Can any who offer advice concerning a procedure for this, or point me in the right direction re. documentation.

  Thanks in advance.

  It is enough, turn off your HA and change your IP addresses on a management and change the DNS records.

  If you have added your ESXi servers by DNS name to vCenter, you don't need to remove and add the vCenter server.

  It's easy, just check your all the services.

• Need a script powercli on behalf of user ESXi servers list

  Need a script powercli on behalf of user ESXi servers list

  My mistake, try something like this

  $user = "root" $pswd = "password"
  
  Get-VMHost  | %{
    $esx = Connect-VIServer $_.Name -User $user -Password $pswd  Get-VMHostAccount -Server $esx |  Select @{N="Host";E={$esx.Name}},@{N="Uid";E={$_.ExtensionData.Id}},Id,@{N="Name";E={$_.ExtensionData.FullName}}
    Disconnect-VIServer -Server $esx -Confirm:$false}
  

• Hardware upgrade to ESXi servers

  I have 3 ESXi servers and we intend to replace these servers with new servers.  What would be the best way to replace the old servers?  Can I somehow image the old server to the new server?  We use ESXi 4.1 and vSphere Enterprise.

  Yes - you can then follow the upgrade guide - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-upgrade-guide.pdf

• Move virtual machines between two ESXI servers

  Hello

  I have a problem with my ESXi servers. First, I'll explain the situation.

  There is ESXi Server1 with the virtual machine A and B and an ESXi server2 with nothing.

  Now, I want to spend virtual machine from server1 to server2. How can I do this and if you have a solution please tell me how todo that?

  Thnaks in advance

  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 user's Guide

  found here:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

• How to create ESXi cluster or team two ESXi servers to avoid VMHA of HA?

  Hello world

  The scene is, I have two machines Dell 2950 and want to install ESXi U4 or ESXi 4 on both machines.  The requirement is that I have to install Windows 2 K 8 Server as guest and installing MS SQL Server inside on HOST1 (for example). This will be a production server.  Now I want the APP or database on this to be highly available.  I can mirror whatever say who's here to HOST1 on another machine HOST2 and keep it to fail the course in time REAL.  OR can I team or bonds or group these two hosts using local storage (data warehouses) and without the use of third-party storage (I can't afford VMHA, because it involves SAN and SAN or NAS in turn need fail on).

  In simple terms, the creation of ESXi cluster or team two ESXi servers to avoid VMHA of HA?

  TIA for all your contributions.

  -Nadine

  VnonCP

  Try Openfiler or FreeNas?

  Both will allow you to use the local storage on your ESX as an NFS share.

  Problem is that if your ESX host plant... you have a data store that is dead.

• Connection iSCSI SAN to ESXi servers

  Hi all

  I am trying to work through the iSCSI SAN Config Guide and get our three ESXi servers connected to our iSCSI SAN, but I'm confused about a few points.

  Background - Our production network is 172.16.10.x, our management network is 172.16.64.x and the SAN is on the 10.1.1.x network.

  The Guide says that the service console and VMkernel need to access the iSCSI storage - but in ESXi, there is no service console. Our network administrator (who has used 2 ESX) said just put in place two vSwitches and configuring each of them to VMkernel access, one on network 10 and the other on the management network. Every time I try this, I lose connectivity to the management console. It seems VMkernel wants a default gateway set and when I put it for 172.16.64.1, the SAN does not connect, but when I put it to 10.1.1.1, vCenter loses the connection. Our network administrator says he won't let the 172.16.64.x network traffice to the 10.1.1.x network, but I think that we have to set up in this way.

  Is there something I'm missing. There actually seems to be three issues. (1) when the Guide says of console, VMkernel and service is possible to distinguish between the two in ESXi? (2) if we set VMkernel network 172.16.64.x, can we create a second VMkernel on the 10.1.1.x network? and (3) should just bite the bullet and set up routing between the VMkernel and the San?

  Thank you. I know it was long and complicated, but that reflects my confusion! Any help would be appreciated.

  The answer to the first question is no, there is no distinction between console and vmkernel port in ESXi, like network service management of walks on the portgroup vmkernel.

  You should be able to create a vmkernel 2nd interface, and you do not change the default gateway.  As you have noticed, you can have a default gateway, that is why the default part.  That alone, and you should have two exchanges vmkernel, one on the network management and the other on the storage network.  The vmkernel being on the same segment as the storage, traffic goes out through it and not the default gateway, so no routing must take place.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Remote Update ESXI 4.1 to ESXi 5.5: no physical access

  Hello

  I did some research and I realize that the best way to upgrade the host small deployment ESXi 4.1 is the interactive CD mode. Unfortunately, the server is in another country. Is it possible to do it remotely? In addition, I have no way to move the host servers, to keep safe unless I have a template of the FVO. Is it enough for the host software upgrade process? It is of course a production machine.

  Thank you

  Ryan

  If the downtime is an option, which of course is necessary, you can just pass the host without affecting the machines. The machines will be present on a data store, and they will not be on the disk that hosts Esxi OS (unless you have all of this on a single disc, which is very bad thing to do).

  Its almost like a windows machine, when you re-install/update the OS changes/formatting occurs only on the operating system drive and you always keep the files on other players.

• How can I trace the IP address of the machine source "remote shutdown"?

  Hello

  I have Activate Shutdown event log in my XP machine, however again, I'm not able to trace the IP on 15 XP workgroup computer that stop away from my machine.

  Is the command that could have been used: stop, f, r, m- t: 0

  Can anyone suggest me how to trace this IP of the remote machine?

  Or at least tell me what protocol or port shutdown.exe uses when it sends the command remotely.

  I captured ProcMon, Journal NetMon and wire-shark, yet, I have no idea to start my investigation.

  Help, please.

  Nothing of what you said is causing me to believe that a remote machine is responsible for - or - nothing to either exclude it.

  Recommend that you disable the administrator account to see if the actions continue or don't use is no secpol.msc:

  Local policies | Security options | Accounts: Administrator account status

  .. .set to disabled.

  You are welcome.

  You can also rename the account using accounts: Rename administrator account

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  In addition, you can go to local policies | The audit policy | Audit system events

  and the two checkboxes for the success and failure

  In this way, newspapers will be created with details about what you can see in the case where the Viewer. The Windows logs. Security

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  In addition, if you check on the user rights assignment section, it is useful as things "Force shutdown from a remote system" - you can remove administrators from there.

• Update firmware on esxi servers

  Hi all

  I plan to update firmware on my two Dell servers.

  Now my lack of Manager as an official document or the site who said that the updated firmware will be supported by the ESXi software.

  It's after the upgrade of the card of network/BIOS firmware etc, this will be supported by the ESXI version.

  The servers are already in production.

  Can someone direct me to the site where I checked the firmware compatibility against ESXi software please

  THX

  Concerning

  Nicolas

  Check the supported firmware versions listed for each system after selecting ESXi 6.0 (assuming you're going to the latest version)... This is as close as "documented" you will find.

  https://www.Dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/PowerEdge-R710/drivers

  Firmware updates do not change the compatibility.

  If you're worried, see the release notes for red flags.

• VCenter Server installed as a virtual machine within a ESXi servers it manages?

  Hi all.  I'm new in the world of VSphere... still in my evaluation period.

  I have only a single ESXi server running at the moment but plans to add a second later for high availability, vmotion, increase general capacity, etc.  They are / will be ESXi running on the internal storage and the virtual machines running on a shared SAN.

  Today, I installed VCenter Server 4 on a server at bottom of range/Office that I was carrying around running XP Pro x 64.

  As I was installing I read the guide installation and to my surprise, it seems to recommend that I have installed VCenter Server 4 as a virtual machine on my ESXi host.

  Now maybe I just spent too much time setting up my without new Lefthand requiring a 'witness' during the failover of one SAN to another... but I was under the impression that VCenter Server is not designed simply to host configuration, but is also designed to act as a 'witness' or to take account of quorum whenever a failure scenario occurred on one of my ESXi hosts.  I also noticed the VCenter Server features of a port "heartbeat", which I suppose one would use for the ESXi server heartbeat, but perhaps it is used for "connected mode" with other VCenter servers (I was intending to use only one since it is a small scale installation) I also felt that it would be useful enough to restore a damaged or shot ESXi host.

  So my question is, if my ESXi host dies and it is where I have VCenter Server installed, then high availability will be unable to work?  I guess there are going to be other issues with me unable to access VCenter Server while I have an ESXi host shot, too, as a greater difficulty to get the ESXi up?

  Maybe I'm wrong understand the purpose of the VCenter server... maybe it's not something that's necessary for HA, recovery, etc. and acts only as a configuration tool until something is wrong?  Or maybe I misunderstood the installation guide and they recommend only installing VCenter Server on an ESX box... they don't want this ESX box to be part of the group that manages the server?

  Finally, if indeed they recommend I install this on a ESXi host manages... would I ideally be install this for local storage on the server (where I installed ESXi) or on the SAN (where all my other virtual machines are installed)... or is it just personal preference?

  Thank you!!

  When you add hosts an active hemagglutinin vCenter cluster HA agent is installed on it.  This agent is what is actually the HA.  While necessary to add new hosts in a cluster and configure some specific parameters of vCenter vCenter's agents HA are self-sufficient and can handle HA failover so vCenter is offline.

  You must install the vCenter VM on SAN storage, so that he can use the vMotion, sVmotion, DRS, HA, functions etc. that require a SAN.

  -MattG

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Manageing esxi servers

  OK my eval vsphere ended! and I can't seem to find a way of ree to manage my servers. I used a web browser to connect to drink it only gove me the possibility to download the vshere again? I have the habit of vmware server 1.x. Can someone point me in the right direction to help me get started please.

  I don't understand what product you have.

  This is for ESX 3.5i discussion. But you talk about vSphere and VMware Server?

  ESX and ESXi server can be managed by the customer.

  The Windows client could be download from VMware or http://YourESXip/ site

  André