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• Physical server to virtual machine migration

  I'm planning on migrating some if our biggest servers and I wonder witch method to use in order to get the fastest P2V migration. I've used both methods hot and cold, but y at - it performance that can be done to help accelerate the migration? The range of servers between 400 G-1 t of size.

  Thank you.

  What I thought was that if the data files are on a different drive than the OS and application files that you may p2v the OS/APP disk and then you have your new virtual machine less data. Then present the existing SAN (previously used by the physical system) LUNs to the virtual machine as RDM virtual. Mount the LUNS and assign the letter nonsense (for windows or same mount point for NIX) previously used by the system physical one while you are finished.

  This method involves less amount of data transfer and associated downtime. It depends of course if your DB data files are separate LUNS for your application files.

• Can I access the guest from the server OS (virtual machine)?

  Hi all

  Can I access the guest from the server OS (virtual machine)? I mean, I would also like to start and discovers a guest OS (VM) directly in the server as in VMware Server 2.0. I would also like to see the graphic on the server management console to manage virtual machines.

  Or do I always have at least two computers? For example, the server ESXi without GUI / frontend access and the client with vCenter, vInfrastructure, blah-blah-blah,...?

  Thanks for the replies!

  Best regards

  Joao Araujo

  You will need the Client or another tool for access (RDP, SSH) a machine separate. ESXi is a very tiny BONES.

• Windows Server 2003 physical to the virtual machine does not start

  I have converted a windows server machine 2003 virtual machine image.  Conversion completed successfully but the machine image custom virtual boot I get the blue screen of death which is probably do the scsi driver being changed during the conversion of my question is: how to install these drivers once the pc has been converted? I try to avoid to do from scratch with constraints of time it takes to get this virtual image starts, please help

  Semper Fi

  You must use SCSI.  Replace your SCSI controller during the conversion.

  ... also, I'm under the assumption that the destination ESX (i)?

• ESX 3.5 U5 Virtual Machine memory usage

  Hello

  I have a question about memory consumption I see on my ESX 3.5U5 hosts. I googled around and discover how ESX deals with management of memory... but I'm not sure that I put all the pieces together correctly in my brain. I hope you guys can help clarify this for me.

  I have a few guests but will use one as an example:

  This host has 64 GB of physical memory. There are a number of virtual machines residing on this host and the total amount of memory that I attributed to them is 40 GB. In VirtualCenter, I see on the Summary tab is 21,65/64 GB global memory on the host use and this is due to the fact that not all of the virtual machine are fully utilized.

  Now more confusing part... I've attached a picture that contains screenshots of what I'm about to discuss...

  • In the tab control performance, the host indicates the high memory limit (100%) as being ~ 40 GB. I guess that's because I assigned only this amount of memory. Is it a correct assumption?

  • Why the configuration tab memory doesn't display that Virtual Machines use all 60 GB of memory available? I am not mistaken in assuming this is due to the fact that the host use and wrote to all parts of the physical memory as time passes (for overcommiting and balloon?) I expect this number to reflect either the current amount of memory of memory allocated to each virtual machine or memory present consumption.

  Any idea is appreciated.

  Hello

  Instead of directly answering your questions, I will explain what each image represents. This will explain I hope that what you're seeing and why.

  -At the top image, what it says is correct - this is memory that has been consumed by the virtual machines and may be less than what is given to them.

  -L' the Middle image is to show you the total physical memory that is available for the use of virtual machines after that things like the service console and general system has been deleted. Not what is used or has left, but what total physical memory can be used.

  -In regards to the third graph your hypothesis is correct. It is the memory allocated to the VM. This is different from consumed which is the actual physical memory, use virtual machines.

  After reading my answer I'm not sure I have made better or worse? Let me know if further details are required.

  Kind regards

  Glen

• What is a physical server to virtual best practices?

  I have a physical server with an attached drive HP 6400 Bay.

  We want to convert it to a virtual machine.

  What is advised to do?

  Hello

  For me personally I'd go with rehabilitate VM manually and then import / migration of data from P2V (using VMware converter) is generally not the sweet/good approach.

  in regards to the San, you can deploy the virtual machine as RDM virtual mode as a pure big VMDK (2 TB - 512 bytes).

• ESXi 5.5u1 - serial number physical host in virtual machine

  I was happy to see in 5.5 update 1 release notes that it should be possible to switch the serial number of the host through a virtual machine hardware.

  • Allow virtual machines to display the serial number of the physical host
    Virtual machines cannot reflect the physical hosts ESXi serial numbers.
    • This issue is fixed in this version.

  Does anyone know how to enable this for a new or existing virtual computer?

  I had problems in the past with Apple Push Notification Services expects a Mac serial number. I hope that I can now spend series a Mac Pro to the host through a virtual machine.

  Someone at - it experience or knowledge to implement this? Thank you!

  Hi DJLambertand welcome to the VMware communities!

  If you want a prompt of OS X to use the serial number of the host, you will need to add this option to the virtual machine configuration:

  serialNumber.reflectHost = 'TRUE '.

  or, if you want a prompt of OS X to use the model of host hardware ID (learn "MacPro5, 1"), ID (i.e. "Mac-12345678" ") and the serial number all all aboard:

  smbios.reflectHost = 'TRUE '.

  will take care of all three.  Note that there is no way to understand or control what happens if you have multiple virtual machines with the same serial number and using this external serial number as an identifier.

  Let us know if you have problems with these options!  I'm not sure whether they will solve the problem you face, but... For example, there are more problems iMessage running in a virtual machine...

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Windows 2000 Pro system/disk physical conversion into virtual machine

  Fairly new to the world of the VM and was directed to VMWare for possibly a problem for us.

  We have a gentleman with an older system running Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) with a ton of software installed.  We put in place a new Win7 Pro system for him, but he won't Cross and reinstall everything (in addition to the time involved, some of the software is older and Win7 compatibility is probably a problem).

  We were originally at a switch KVM allows you to switch between systems, but then I found in the converter and thought this would be a great solution for him.  My thoughts are to use the converter to create a virtual machine from its old system/hard drive and install Player on its new Win7 system, it can fire up to his old Win2000 environment when he needs to work - and we can empty the old physical system.

  I have scanned through the documentation for converter and understood that I would need a version of Converter before 4.3 (like, 4.01 or earlier?).  Now, what should I install on it have to happen?

  Do I need to set permissions on its legacy system to expose the discs on the network?

  Can I get the old HD and connect it to the new system and convert this way?

  Do I need to install something on the source and the host system to do this?

  Once I can understand this point, we may need to conduct a number of other older systems, it keeps alive for the same reasons.

  I guess I should ask first - is that what this application is designed to do?  Or it fits into another software solution?

  Thank you very much for any information/guidance someone can provide - greatly appreciated.

  (PS.  Please don't just live/link me to the documentation.  As mentioned, I went through that, and I'm not real familiar with the setting/process, so that really helped a lot.  Thank you once again.)

  VHDs are used by VirtualBox and VirtualPC
  VMware uses the vmdk files

  You start converter on the Win2000 and tell him to "convert THIS machine.
  It then creates a vmx file plus a vmdk file.

  On the Win7 host you install VMplayer or workstation, and then simply double-click the vmx file... If everything works as expected

• Which physical network my virtual machine port is connected to?

  Hi all

  We have several ESXs with classic vSwitches or dVswitches. All of them have several physical ports (classic NIC teaming configurations, all cards are active).  Different virtual machines are connected to these switches (a vnic by VM).

  Is there a way to identify which physical port every single VM is connected to? Of course, I have no access the physical switches...

  Thanks for your advice.

  Franck

  You can this output to esxtop commands (press 'n') in vSphere 4. Thank you

• Password is now required to access the virtual machines

  I ran Money 98 on my laptop working for the last 2 years (in fact since 1998 on other computers) and from 07/10/2014 when I try to open Money 98 Windows asks for a password. I have not configured this virtual machine, and I do not think that a password has been set up. I really need access to this program, 16 years of financial info desperately needed for the work. Help please.

  Hello

  Would you repost with kindness that your Question in Forum money Microsoft for assistance with money issues:

  https://social.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?Forum=money

  See you soon.

• A machine Server 2008 physical to a virtual machine conversion issues

  I'm trying the virtualization of a couple of servers using VMWare converter (version 4.3.0 - 292238)

  If I move/convert a Server 2003 computer, it works perfectly.  I have connection, install VMWare tools, reboot and viola, I'm done.

  When I try a Server 2008 machine, it always hangs on 'Apply the settings of the computer' for almost an hour.  I tried with two different servers (we were already virtual and one was physical)

  Anyone seen this before?

  I have attached the log

  what you have is probably hp, IBM, DELL, with own software on the server. Before converting to virtual, you must uninstall this software and convert and you should open as a local admin NIC or disable

• Is it better to install vCenter Server 4.1 on a physical or a virtual machine?

  I read somewhere that VMWare recommend install the server as a VM vCentre in version 4.1, but I'm not sure that my setup is as follows:

  3 servers ESX 3.5 x, all in a cluster, currently managed by a vi 2.5 client that is on a Windows machine. I had a problem when we had to close all the ESX servers, the other day, and when I did I just leave Windows Server with the VI client to the top and race walk, (vms was shown as down) then when restarted ESX servers, I just started the mandatory VMS from there , in a few clicks. If I stopped all my ESX servers, how I restart the server virtual vCentre?

  I have not updated yet, so may have missed something obvious, but I'm trying to understand it before you upgrade and this step.

  Rudy,

  Have a look here:

  http://www.get-virtual.info/2011/02/25/script-of-the-day-find-and-start-VC-in-Dr/

  I quickly gathered a script to manage your CV disaster restart.

  the 3rd script in the post will include follow-up to start different services / hosts for your CV.

  for example if your VC needs a separate server SQL running. . and this server needs AD currently running.

  Please let me know how it goes.

• Research in migration Exchange and SQL from physical servers to virtual machines... thoughts?

  Hi all, I use VMs for several years now, however back to the use of VMWare. I am currently running ESXi 4 on 2 servers separate host, with about 16 small resource type of the applications without any problem. I heard years keep intensive stuff like Exchange and SQL out of a VM guest, for reasons of system, but now I see a ton of articles from VMWare and windows push the thing to do. I have a relatively small environment compared to what they are touting... I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has any experience/thoughts on this? If I go this route I would probably look to buy some of the nicer features instead of using just the free version of ESXi.

  My current Setup uses HP DL360G5 servers that are coming out of warranty early next year, with the disk subsystem provided by a built environment of Equallogic iSCSI, on an isolated GB network SAN. I thought rather than buy 2 replacement servers that I can put the money to the full version of vSphere with some other goodies it offers.

  My Exchange environment is a relatively small number of boxes letters, but larger in size, running 2003 currently with 200 mailboxes to about 300 GB of space. I intend to switch to 2007 or 2010 next year as part of the migration of VM. I have to go to the next version will include likely standing another server, so I might be looking to buy 2 servers instead of 1.

  My SQL environment is small to begin with, a single instance of SQL 2005 with about 20 DB 120 GB in total size.

  2 guest machines I have are two Quad-processor Xeon dual socket with 16 GB and 24 GB of RAM, with less than 50% of RAM use each... and the processing power is hardly be affected at all.

  Sorry that it's a lot of info, I hope it makes sense for someone...

  Fix.

  You just need to do some analysis of storage before you virtualize servers in order to understand the needs of e/s. But if you move storage to local disk then any loss of performance, you can get to virtualize the server is offset by the gains in terms of the solution of SAN - faster storage & drives high-performance, virtual RAID, active\active controllers, cache... etc.

• How to convert physical linux in virtual machine using converter standalone.

  Is there any document/video step by step to make the Linux P2V?

  Hello

  In addition, I would like to point to this link:

  http://conshell.NET/wiki/index.php/Linux_P2V

  http://boink.pbworks.com/LinuxP2V

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1002402

  It may be useful

  Best wishes / Saludos.
  Pablo

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• config of memory in esxi with a hyper-v virtual machine on.

  First of all, Thanks for the help.
  
  I set up a Home Lab with ESXi 5.1.
  J’ai several Linux machines. J’ai a virtual machine Windows Server 2012 Hyper -v.
  I would like to know what the optimal parameters in order to maximize the 32 GB of RAM to the virtual machine Windows. ()when I use this machine do not use any other ESXi virtual machine)
  J’ai not clear that if administered dynamically memory for this VM in ESXi when you manage Hyper v, dynamic Management of memory will be use all the RAM.
  
  Thank you for everything, I hope that I have explained.

  How much memory is your ESXi has? If you have not set up a special configuration for the virtual Windows machine, the ESXi Server uses the common techniques of overcommitment with the virtual machine. If you have more than 32 GB of RAM on your box of ESXi, you'll never overcommited (assuming that your other virtual machines are turned off). So the ESXi will give access to the physical to your Windows virtual machine memory as long as she asks for.

  You can also ensure the physical to the virtual machine by using reservations memory, if you want to.