Run the host ESX 4.1 in vCenter 5.0

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• Questions about connecting to a host ESX 3.5 to vCenter 4.1

  I need to migrate 7 hosts 3.5.x ESX ESX 4.1. I did not have a test environment and will work with live on committed production systems (not clustered). vCenter 4.1 and two new 4.1 ESX hosts have been configured to handle live Vmotion (cluster will come later). I activated the license point server towards the old VirtualCenter 2.5 in the hope of being able to disconnect a host ESX 3.5 live the old virtualcenter and reconnect to the new vCenter 4.1 without rebooting the host ESX 3.5. VUM is not an option at the present time, so I intend to do a full install base upgrade.

  (1) I know that I can disconnect the ESX 3.5 server the old virtualcenter without problem. My first question is, if I try to join the new vCenter (config pointing to the old license server) box of 3.5 will be vCenter 4.1 need to install the new management agent in the box of 3.5 and therefore require the host restarts?

  (2) if the agent of 4.1 management is not installed on the host ESX 3.5, its virtual machines can be migrated (cold) to one of the new servers?

  I should add that the licenses are not a problem, we are migrating to the latest keys but have sufficient old licenses to manage the transition. The VMs are on SAN LUNs that are visible to guests old and new.

  Especially, I want to know what to expect through are exactly what will to restart is required and have not been able to locate that particular point.

  Thanks in advance.

  hensonj7

  When we went from 3.5 to vSphere, is that big of a deal.  Just disconnected the vCenter server host and updated the vCenter keeping the existing license server, and then re-attached to the new Victoria Cross.  It will establish links with the new 4.1 software, but it shouldn't require a reboot at all.  I did mine with all virtual machines out of it, but I think you can do all this live... Since a little while I did this upgrade

  -Kyle

  «"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

• Not able to connect to the host ESX 3.5 by VC so customer VI

  The host ESX 3.5 has been disconnected from the VC, and we are not able to connect customer using VI as well. The virtual machines on the host are running without any problem.

  Got the message when tried to restart/start services of Mgmt. below

  # Service mgmt-vmware restart

  stopping VMware ESX Server management services:

  VMware ESX Server Host Agent Watchdog

  VMware ESX Server host agent

  Starting VMware ESX Server management services:

  Agent Host VMware ESX Server (background)

  Availability report startup (background)/etc/init.d/mgmt-vmware: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable.)

  # Start of Service mgmt-vmware

  From the VMware ESX Server management services:

  VMware ESX servre Agent Host (background)

  Availability report startup (background)

  status of service mgmt-vmware #.

  VMware-pass is stopped

  hostd.log - entries

  /etc/init.d/sshd command failed

  Didn't the /etc/init.d/sshd fork: Resource temporarily unavailable.

  Let us know the fix for this problem other than restarting the host.

  To know how to clean it, please read KB1007887 - defunct cimservera of process on VMware ESX 3.5 hardware management agents run and follow the instructions.

  André

• How to remove the host esx 3.5 virtual Center

  Can't find info on how to do to remove the host esx virtual center.

  How to do?

  THX.

  Right-click on your host in the left pane and click Disconnect and then once it is disconnected you can right click on the host again and click on Remove and which removes the host to vCenter.

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  William Lam

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• How to get the host ESX DR see replicated Celerra Lun

  Hi guys, Im setting up SRM with 2 x NS20 and ive got regarding the configuration of the LUN on the production storage array, Lun on the storage LUN appropriate to prod/dr esx servers present DR Bay. Ive set up replication and added the DR lun to the esx server, ensuring not to add it as he will write a signature. I've then added the production on the production ESX Server LUNs, added storage which obviously writes a signature on the drive, and with the installation of the replication, I expected to simply issue a new analysis on the DR esx host and do see the data store.

  Am I missing something here? Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Hello

  "On DR NS ive done exactly the same thing with respect to FS, Lun, target iSCSI and presented to the host ESX DR, ive done a rescan and his picked up the lun 'Read Only', which is being replicated in but the tab of summary in VC, I see that the local VMFS file system and I was expecting to see the replicated LUN listed with the store local data or is this seen only". When SRM changes the properties of Lun during a failover? »

  You will not see the Site recovery volumes listed in data warehouses, unless you do one of two things - a failover in which case the production side will be unalterable and be removed from the list of data on the Production side store while exposing the VMFS data store now read-write on the side of the recovery.

  Or you use the test function in which case that encourage a wink of Celerra temporary writable and it will appear as a data store broken in the list on the side of the recovery VMFS data warehouses.

  However, it seems that you do not see this result, as DR table does not seem to be configured as it should.

  Can the side Production VC communicate with happiness with the Celerra recovery site - IE can launch you a session PUTTY from the Production side VC and connect to recovery side Celerra. Can the recovery side VC do the same thing for the Production side Celerra?

  I guess you get the unknown peer after that MRS. not the discovery of the table that owns about 23% forever and then ends. The only other thing I can think of and am not sure about this as a solution because it is a set of actions that I did of my side of recovery when Celerra is to create a small file system and in a small iSCSI LUN on the side of the recovery of the recovery side Celerra and put it in your recovery ESX cluster side - create a file system VMFS on it and place a Virtual computer in this VMFS file system - this is to check that there are no problems with the ESX host side recovery working with the recovery side Celerra

  My guess would be a thing of IP connectivity - if it's a little strange, if the link between the Production side VC and the recovery side VC has been established successfully

  I'll pass on to a colleague to VMware SRM and see if he has any ideas

  Concerning

  Alex Tanner

• vCenter Agent does not update the host esx

  After the Victoria Cross to vCenter4, I got a message from vCenter saying the 'update cannot the specific host... ". »

  Is there anyway that I can check the version to ensure that it is the match with my vCenter and how do I update this please.

  Thank you

  You can connect to the host using ssh and run the command as root to obtain the vpxa version: "rpm - qa | grep vpxa.

  Sandeep-

• Memory of the host indicated in vCOPS v vCenter

  Hello

  One of the things that I find vCOPS is that a lot of things I thought I knew now goes out the window.

  Before vCOPS, we relied on vCenter and when the host started to use memory 80 or 85% report that it was time to add more RAM.
  It seemed that many people use this figure as a reference point.

  vCenter reports now that my guests are sitting at 90 and I get the occasional alarm.
  Normally I would have placed an order and more material. I have this presentation vCOPS VMware which tells me that some said vCenter is accurate.

  vCOPS says (under Details > workload) that my workload memory resembles 32%.

  Memory | Use meter displays the host memory as is vCenter but memory | demand is actually 32% of and this is the number I need.

  On the one hand, it's cool that everything is green in vCops, on the other hand, I'm nervous because fibrotic vCenter.

  I have to start ignoring vCenter, now that I have vCOPS running?

  
  See you soon

  Well, I said that the issue of memory management is complicated.   We try to make easy to use Ops vC, but obviously some of the complications come through.

  In any case, Yes, I think that it's ok to ignore what tells VC.  Since you are always run things a certain way according to VC, it is probably better to start overcommitting slowly.  (Evolutionary change is always better than revolutionary.)  But the general response is that Yes, VC alerts are generally much too conservative and aren't really take a variety of performance data into account.

• Migrate the host ESX to vSphere 4.0 Server 4.1

  Hi all

  I have 2 vSphere environments. A server vSphere 4.0, and 3 ESX 4.0 host. Another with vSphere 4.1 server with 3 hosts ESXi 4.1. I want to migrate ESX 4.0 mailboxes to the new server for vSphere 4.1. Assuming that I have licenses installed locally on the boxes, and I squared away vSphere licensing, what would be the best way to migrate the host?

  I would simply ' right click-> delete ', then 'right click-> add a host' on the Server 4.1?

  Thanks in advance.

  the best way to do so is in vCenter 1, right-click and disconnect the host and then delete host.  In vCenter2, "add host".  This will move the hosts and their guests to the new instance without interruption.

• mutex slow performance in windows xp on the host ESX 5 prompt

  I've done a few consumer casual producer marks written in C with visual studio 2005 on dual core 2 ghz cpu, with processor type and identical win xp professional o.s., it seems to me on ESX, execution mutex, events and corresponding waitforsingleobject is 1/10th to 1/2 the speed on the physical machine, Windows 7 instead the performance is about half of the corresponding physical machine I was wondering if anyone else noticed, this is perhaps due to how mutex/criticism sections/events/semaphores are emulated in the ESX binary translation, there are all the settings of windows xp 32 bits comments under ESX 5 to allow especially stimulate the sync speed of process/thread to make it similar to a physical machine may?

  I am attaching a small test project for vs 2005 in case anyone could take the trouble to try and compare the pure speed of physical synchronization primitives and ESX especially if in win xp there is a penalty of macroscopic speed or maybe I did something wrong as I ran the test on an overloaded perhaps ESX.

  gf111 wrote:

  Is it possible to wake up another process in win xp without incurring TPR registry bashing?

  I do not know.  It is not clear to me why Windows wants to change the TPR in the first place.  The TPR is to block external interruptions, and I see not why Windows would change the external interrupts are blocked, according to what level process user is active.

  I noticed that windows 7 synchronization is much faster on the same ESX with FlexPriority probably not activated, likely due to 'Lazy TPR', which I believe has been implemented in o.s. later than xp, so I guess that the more realistic prospect is to go with win 7, given I don't think that in my particular environment , I'm working on they would be willing to risk life and limb with potentially unstable FlexPriority bios patcher, has taken the fact that xp is end of life taken into charge anyway, but thanks for giving me a clue what may happen anyway.

  Windows XP 64-bit is another option.  He always denigrated on the TPR, but uses instead of MMIO CR8. (AMD hotfix did the same thing with an ISA AMD extension that allows the code to 32-bit access CR8.)

  Note also that FlexPriority is not a panacea.  It can reduce the cost of a TPR of 2000 update ~ cycles to ~ 400 cycles, but it is still far from what it costs in native mode, which is of ~ 2 cycles.

  Binary translation, TPR updates are rather cheap, but BT has its own performance issues.

  Your Windows XP guest running with binary translation or hardware-assisted virtualization?  You can check the file for 'HV Settings' vmware.log know.

• Regarding the hosts took max supported on Vcenter Virtual Appliance 5.0

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsphere5/R50/vSphere-50-configuration-maximums.PDF

  Maximum config guide indicates that vsphere 5.0 supports the hosts of 1000 per VC. The same applies to the virtual appliance thus (on an external Oracle DB... not the one internal)

  Concerning

  Girish

  The same should apply to the device when you use an external database. But with several guests it would be wise to take the same settings with the Windows version of vCenter, which means increase the memory of tomcat and adding vCPUs additional and resources of the virtual machine RAM.

• How to find the host ESX 4.1 SCSI tape drive card information...

  Dear team,

  last night we have installed card scsi tape drive on one of the host to ESX 4.1, just want to know how to find the details of scsi card in ESX 4.1 host, is possible to find via cli or hardware status tab?

  need help on the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Hello

  You should find the information you are looking for by entering the following command.

  less/proc/scsi/aic79xx/6

  Kind regards

  Ralf

• The IP of the host ESX and ESXi console information

  Hi guys,.

  I have a little problem here, we have a script that collects the host Console IP, host name, field info... etc.

  My problem is with the period of INVESTIGATION, because we have a mixed environment of esx3.5, esx4.0, esx4.1 and ESXi4 get the IP of the Console is a bit of a problem.

  If I use the

  $NicInfo = get-VMHostNetwork - VMHost $esxhost. Name
  $newesxhost. VmHostName = $NicInfo.HostName
  $newesxhost. Domain = $NicInfo.DomainName
  {foreach ($cs in $NicInfo.ConsoleNic)}
  $newesxhost. IPAddress = [string] $cs. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  }

  I covers the ESX Console hosts IP info, but all the info of ESXi IP gets missed.

  If I add to the:

  $NicInfo = get-VMHostNetwork - VMHost $esxhost. Name
  $newesxhost. VmHostName = $NicInfo.HostName
  $newesxhost. Domain = $NicInfo.DomainName
  foreach ($cs in $NicInfo. ) VirtualNic | where {$_.name - eq "vmk0"}){}
  $newesxhost. IPAddress = [string] $cs. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  }

  I get the ESXi IP Management IP network, but the ESX hosts to report the vmk0 which is the IP address of vmotion.

  So if anyone can help I'd be very happy.

  Include the HOST party so that you can see what I mean:

  #[int] $Loopctr = 0
  $newesxhost = (@($xml.) (ESXInventory.HOST) [0])
  $newVMPortGroup = (@($xml.) (ESXInventory.VMPortGroup) [0])

  Get-VMHost-location (Get-Cluster-name $cluster. Name) | Sort-Object-unique | % {
  $esxhost = get-view $_.ID
  Write-Host $esxhost. Name
  #if ($Loopctr - gt 0) {$newesxhost = $newesxhost.clone ()}
  $newesxhost = $newesxhost.clone)
  $newesxhost. MemberOfCluster = $cluster. Name
  $newesxhost. Name of the vendor = $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.Vendor
  $newesxhost. Model = $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.Model
  $newesxhost.os_version = [string] $esxhost. Config.Product.Version
  $newesxhost.os_build = [string] $esxhost. Config.Product.Build
  $newesxhost.os_caption = [string] $esxhost. Config.Product.FullName
  $newesxhost. MemorySize = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.MemorySize
  $newesxhost. CpuModel = $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.CpuModel
  $newesxhost. CpuMhz = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.CpuMhz
  $newesxhost. NumCpuPkgs = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.NumCpuPkgs
  $newesxhost. NumCpuCores = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.NumCpuCores
  $newesxhost. NumCpuThreads = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.NumCpuThreads
  $newesxhost. NumNics = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.NumNics
  $newesxhost. NumHBAs = [string] $esxhost. Summary.Hardware.NumHBAs

  $NicInfo = get-VMHostNetwork - VMHost $esxhost. Name
  $newesxhost. VmHostName = $NicInfo.HostName
  $newesxhost. Domain = $NicInfo.DomainName
  foreach ($cs in $NicInfo.VirtualNic | where {$_.name - eq "vmk0"}) {}
  $newesxhost. IPAddress = [string] $cs. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
  }

  $VMPortGroup = get-VirtualPortGroup - VMHost $esxhost. Name
  
  {foreach ($vpg to $VMPortGroup)
  Write-Host $vpg. Name
  $newVMPortGroup = $newVMPortGroup.clone)
  $newVMPortGroup.Name = $vpg. Name
  $xml. ESXInventory.AppendChild ($newVMPortGroup) > $null
  }

  $xml. ESXInventory.AppendChild ($newesxhost) > $null
  #$Loopctr += 1

  /regards

  Why you do not include a test that check if the host's ESX or ESXi?

  Something like that

  $esx = Get-VMHost MyESX
  
  $NicInfo = Get-VMHostNetwork -VMHost $esx 
  
  $newesxhost.VmHostName = $NicInfo.HostName$newesxhost.Domain = $NicInfo.DomainName
  
  if($esx.Extensiondata.Config.Product.ProductLineId -eq "esx"){    foreach ($cs in $NicInfo.ConsoleNic ){        $newesxhost.IPAddress = [string] $cs.IP    }}else{    foreach ($cs in $NicInfo.VirtualNic |where {$_.name -eq "vmk0"} ){        $newesxhost.IPAddress = [string] $cs.IP    }}
  
  $newesxhost
  

• NAT network between the host ESX with DVS

  Hello.

  In my test of vSphere 4, I have two ESX hosts. I want to share an IP address between all the virtual machines on these two ESX hosts. In this regard, I have a virtual machine that acts as a NAT router. This virtual machine has two network that is connected to each their own vNetwork Distributed Switch connection. We have a physical NIC (on each ESX host) which has the Internet connection. The other has no physical network connection.

  To test if it works I created a VM test on both ESX hosts. The system works on the virtual machine that is on the same ESX host as the virtual machine that acts as a NAT router is located, but not the virtual machine on the other ESX host. The other VM have no contact with the router and receives no DHCP data.

  Any suggestions? I know I did something wrong because DVS is new to me, but I really want this to work.

  Hello

  That ends up being a vNetwork design more than anything even with vDS. For example, if you have a NAT that works for all your hosts you would then have a NAT virtual appliance such as:

  PSwitch external network <->Teddy <->vSwitch <->vPG <->NAT VM <->vPG <->vSwitch <->Teddy <->network internal pSwitch

  Now the vSwitches in the above can be traditional vSwitches or vDS' the key is that the "seconds" vSwitch must be connected on the same vSwitch on all other hosts, so it has an uplink to a physical switch that is also connected to all other hosts. vDS does NOT lighten your vNetwork is the need of cable to allow the communication of the VM.

  The VM NAT can move from host to host as long as there is communication to this virtual machine on each host on each network in this case, the external network and internal.

  Best regards
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• How to get the MAC address for the physical NETWORK adapter of the HOST ESX (vmnic0/vmnic1)

  I can recover physical NIC details for the server HOST ESX, but MAC is empty... How can I get?

  Thank you/HKS

  $net = get-VMHostNetwork - VMHost myServer.domain.net

  $net | FC

  class VMHostNetworkInfoImpl

  {

  VMKernelGateway = 166.12.113.1

  ConsoleGateway = 166.12.113.1

  ConsoleGatewayDevice = vswif0

  DnsAddress =

  [

  169.40.0.2

  169.40.0.1

  ]

  DnsFromDhcp = False

  DnsDhcpDevice =

  DomainName = domaine.net

  Host name = hostname1

  SearchDomain =

  [

  EU.hedani.NET

  ]

  PhysicalNic =

  [

  class PhysicalNicImpl

  {

  BitRatePerSec = 1000

  FullDuplex = True

  WakeOnLanSupported =

  ID = key - vim.host.PhysicalNic - vmnic0

  DeviceName = vmnic0

  Mac =

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP =

  SubnetMask =

  }

  class PhysicalNicImpl

  {

  BitRatePerSec = 0

  FullDuplex = False

  WakeOnLanSupported =

  ID = key - vim.host.PhysicalNic - vmnic1

  DeviceName = vmnic1

  Mac =

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP =

  SubnetMask =

  }

  ]

  VirtualSwitch =

  [

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch0

  Name = vSwitch0

  NumPorts = 128

  NumPortsAvailable = 105

  NIC =

  [

  vmnic1

  vmnic0

  ]

  MTU =

  }

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch1

  Name = vSwitch1

  NumPorts = 64

  NumPortsAvailable = 56

  NIC =

  MTU =

  }

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch2

  Name = vSwitch2

  NumPorts = 64

  NumPortsAvailable = 64

  NIC =

  MTU =

  }

  ]

  ConsoleNic =

  [

  class HostConsoleVirtualNicImpl

  {

  PortGroupName = Service_Console_VLAN1

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - vswif0

  DeviceName = vswif0

  Mac = 00:50:56:4 c: 1 d: 3B

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 111.11.111.11

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  class HostConsoleVirtualNicImpl

  {

  PortGroupName = Service_Console_ISOL

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - vswif1

  DeviceName = vswif1

  Mac = 00:50:56:4 d: 88:87

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 10.0.0.241

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  ]

  VirtualNic =

  [

  class HostVMKernelVirtualNicImpl

  {

  VMotionEnabled = True

  PortGroupName = Vmotion_VLAN1

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - portgroup3

  DeviceName = portgroup3

  Mac = 00:50:56:65:04:56

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 166.12.113.72

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  ]

  }

  get-vmhost | % {(get-view $_.id).config.network.pnic} | select Device, Mac
  

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• How to restart a service on the host esx with vi toolkit

  It is possible to restart the services esx (such as syslogd, hpasm hpsmhd) via a script Powershell uses the VI API?

  I have a powershell script that calls plink.exe to do, but I'd rather not use plink.

  As far as I know, there is no such API.

  There is the Start-VmHostService cmdlet, but it's only for a very limited set of services (ntpd, sshd, vmware-vpxa).