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  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 39411 Feb 9 16:12 vmware - 7.log

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  I agree

  Two a problem with the new drive.

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  André

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  Thank you

  Victor

  This is the VM vmx nested - you must add this line to the external virtual machine - one who runs in ESXi

• VMware HA and recovery of virtual machines (not to restart them)?

  Hello

  I need help clarify something with VMware HA.

  When I do manually our primary ESXI host, the VMs appear and restart on the secondary host.

  Yes virtual machines are restarted automatically, but it does not resume the virtual machine without interruption as DRS and provides that vMotion.

  Is there a way I can configure HA to not restart and resume the virtual machine in place without interruption?  If not, what are my other options I can configure in VMware ESXi do exactly, if any?

  Thank you very much

  Jan

  HA is used in the event of a host failure, so there is no chance to migrate a workload (curriculum vitae) to another host. What you are asking for can be achieved with FT (Fault Tolerance) where a secondary VM is created on a different host and basically synchronized with the primary virtual machine. In case of failure of the primary virtual machine VM school can resume (almost) without interruption.

  André

• Moving the virtual machine containing vCenter to another host ESXI

  I am currently learning/building my first setup of virtualization. I made the mistake of letting the size of the block of the data warehouses to 1 MB. Now, I need to rebuild one of my stores of data.

  I could use vcenter for all my other VMS out migrate to another server esxi. I do not know how to move the VM vCenter, because he must be stopped to be moved, but I need to use the tool of migration/converter to move, which seems quite accessible from within the virtual machine.

  Any ideas?

  Stop vcenter Server and unregister (remove the inventory) of the inventory of the ESXi host. Then use example of Veeam FastSCP to copy some files/folder of the virtual machine to the other hosts data store and register the virtual machine to the inventory of the ESXi host by right-clicking the file vmx (add to the inventory). Make sure that there are no snapshots on the server vCenter Server!

  André

• To access the virtual machines of two different hosts

  Greetings,

  I have a question that I can't find the answer to. I am setting up a virtual machine environment small and need to better understand the architecture behind it.

  2 host servers

  1 iSCSI Equallogic San (target)

  I have installed 35i ESX and runnning on two physical hosts. .205 et.206

  I created a data store on my SAN to host my 'model' VM.

  De.205, I can see the data on the SAN network store and browse the virtual machine I (using VMConverter) moved there.

  De.206, I can see the data store on the SAN, but when I sail, I do not see the same information. I see no. VM.

  MY understanding is that using the SAN to store the virtual machine and that I would make the hosts of this data store to run the virtual machine. But the way in which it seems that I have the virtual machine configured on both hosts, always pointing the data store on the San but again using converter, copy de.205 vers.206.

  What don't understand me or that I don't understand.

  Your help is appreciated.

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.   If you have configured things Ok, you will be able to browse the data from these two hosts store and see the same content.  You can register the virtual computers on both hosts.  For an existing VM on the host from 1, you find the data on the host of the 2nd store, right-click on the VMX file and select Add to the inventory.  Have you thought to vcenter server?  It's going to do it is a lot easier.

• Clone the virtual machine between two ESX 3.5.0 servers (low connection)

  Hi all!

  I have two ESX 3.5.0 servers that are managed by a vCenter servers one have just the connection of 32 KB.

  I need to clone one of my virtual machines from one to the other ESX is W2k8 created with 40 GB HARD drive. I tried to start it clone trough my low connection, but the task is about 86% for 4 days :|

  Is it possible to clone virtualmachine on one of my ESX for its local storage and after that, get it by vCenter for example an external HARD drive and then copy them all to my second ESX? How to run copied virtual machine on my second ESX? Maybe I can do it with another way - ideas?

  Two ESX are the same versions and machines, only the names and the ip addresses are different.

  Thanks for the tips

  Kris

  I don't think it is possible since the virtual disk will be 40 GB in size - I was suggesting using a laptop as a server NFS ESX sees and access the virtual machine for this storage clone - it take the first vessel of ESX host it to secondary site attach NFS datastore on the second ESX Server and using the browser of data store you navigate to the cloned VMX of VM file and to him the second ESX host - you can cold migrate leaving the second host and then move the cursor above for the storage you want.

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