Run the script on the ESX host

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• Can we use use DELL R610 / R710 for execution of the ESX host?

  We will purchase a new server to run ESX 3.5 or vSphere.  We have new DELL servers.

  We considered R610 and R710, but we see that there are only 2 PCIe slots.  As one of them be given for an image ADDITIONAL NIC card, there is only one location for HBA.   It is advisable to use a Dual Channel QLogic QLE2462 HBA.

  However, it seems that the Dual Channel HBA will be a single point of failure - if it is connected to 2 different switches FC.  We would love to hear if anyone uses these DELL servers to run the ESX host.

  Thank you

  Good question, I would have preferred two HBA cards. If storage fails everything disappeared. If network failure you will not have access to the outside, but the chances of data corruption is smaller.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• You will need to run the script for some ESX hosts.

  Dear team,

  I m connected to 4 esx host, but I want to run the script only 2 esx host asking you to help me how to do?

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  You could start the script with the cmdlet Get-VMhost to select only the two hosts that you want to output to. For example:

  Get-VMHost host1, host2. Get - VM

  Displays only the virtual machine running on host1 and host2.

• Check the ESX host disk space

  Is there a tool available that can control the ESX host disk space on a daily basis?  I was monitoring manually by typing df - h, but having more than 25 guests is tedious, so I wonder if there is any tool available which can monitor the disk space on the ESX host?  Thanks in advance.

  Check cela http://bash.cyberciti.biz/monitoring/shell-script-monitor-unix-linux-diskspace/, put it in the crontab and run it as offen, as you want.

  eP4P

• How to report the current time on the ESX host in to a csv file with the following

  Hello guys

  I have the script next where I make the required details except the current time on the ESX host. Anyone can guide me please.

  		{foreach ($esx to $vmhosts)
  			$hostVC = $vcenter
  			$hostCluster = $esx. Parent.Name
  			$hostHost = $esx. Name
  			$ntp = $esx | Get-VMHostNtpServer
  			$hostNTP = "$ntp".

  			}

  I want to integrate the following for loop of the above for loop and ge the output in a single table.

  foreach ($esxcli in get-vmhost | get-esxcli) {"" |} {Select @{n = "Time"; e = {$esxcli.system.time.get ()}}, @{n = "hostname"; e = {$esxcli.system.hostname.get (.hostname)}}}

  Add-Content - Path '$hostVC, $hostCluster, $hostHost, $hostNTP, $hostTime' $hostInvFile - $ hostTime is where I want to get my host right now.

  I'm vcenter, esx name, name of the cluster, host of the ntp server address, but I need the host thus present.

  Thanks in advance.

  Thank you

  vKar

  Try changing the line where the script retrieves the VMHost to this

  $vmhosts = get-VMHost-State connected. Name sort

  This way the script will be only to ESXi nodes that are "connected".

  Pick up time for those defective does not much sense in all cases

• Question ESXi 5.5 with turn a virtual computer: "an error was received from the ESX host turning on VM" '22 (Invalid argument)"'DiskEarly on a power Module failed.'

  Here's what happens when you try to turn it on one of my virtual machines (see also accessories):

  Error stack:

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on VM vzilla-ws2012r2e.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_3.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  Power DiskEarly module has failed.

  Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/51286ca4-ef967828-664d-001b2129ad71/vzilla-ws2012r2e/vzilla-ws2012r2e_4.vmdk ' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  22 (invalid argument)

  This circumstance may be linked to a sata cable issue, with the possibility of temporary loss of connectivity, which could result in data loss/corruption, I realize.  It is a laboratory box.  Especially say that the 2 VMDK he complains (trying to light) is both on the grounds of a single physical disk. Data, read and written to the speaker, since the problem are very good (which indicates the wiring problem was resolved, and the VMFS5 file system seems to be in good health).

  No photos.  No related clones.  Just a 2012 Windows Server based VM, with several drive letters in, with those underlying files VMDK residing on different stores of data VMFS5.  Implemented end (these drives aren't really so huge), but far from running out of physical space for the data either. Everything is working great for months, until today, trying to it turns on again.

  You are looking for:

  "Failure error disk beginning module lit" results in this article:

  error disk on start module failed

  which indicates the .lck files may be present.  It does not exist.

  Then upwards, of a variety of other items:

  Re: Unable to start the virtual machine: invalid argument on *-flat.vmdk

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004232

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true & userid = & ContainerType = & Container = & q = module + DiskEar...

  error disk on start module failed

  but alas, none of them seem to relate directly, or exactly.  My vmware.log file is attached below, as well as some screenshots of to show the structure of the unity of this virtual machine.  Hoping that this post proves fruitful, if anyone has had a similar situation.  The data at stake here are (mostly) redundant, but I would rather understand my way of it, in the case where it happens to me again, or can help others.  Many preferred rather than give up, reformat the VMFS and start again.

  Thank you!

  Good news, the best result I could hope. No data is lost. No corruption of the VMFS or NTFS don't drive in the virtual machine. Nice!  Saved me a few terabytes of data restoration and learned a little more on file system of troubleshooting along the way.

  It took a technician of VMware Service excellent, attentive, methodical remote 2 hours in a WebEx previously to resolve problems with these 2 files vmdk manually, because he found that there is a lock on them. I opened a request of Service (SR) # with VMware by following the instructions here:

  VMware KB: Cannot access certain files on a VMFS datastore

  To resolve this problem, apply for support from VMware Support and note this ID (1012036) Knowledge Base article in the description of the problem. For more information on the filing of a request for support, see How to submit a support request.

  I'll cover this saga and the exact process for collecting and downloading of newspapers, through to my TinkerTry.com, including the ride video.  I even captured much of the technical work that has been done. That said, it is true that little of the magic that was made to resurrect the metadata will remain a mystery, given that this piece is VMware.

  I'm ok with a bit of black box, considering how I'm happy that I got all my data, and time savings that the quick recovery represented.

  By clicking on the button "answer".

• How to view the ESX host name as well as the information on the material (see text)

  I would like to see the ESX host name in the first column.

  Is there a better way to do it?

  Any help is very appreciated.  Thank you

  The section of my script for the hardware looks like this:

  #######################
  # VMware ESX hardware #.
  #######################
  Get-VMHost | Get-View | ForEach-Object {$_.} Summary.Hardware} | Select-object name vendor, model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs | ConvertTo-Html-title "Configuration of VMware ESX server Hardware" - body "< H2 > VMware ESX server Hardware configuration." "< / H2 > ' | Out-file - add $filelocation

  And My on put currently looks like this:

  (I want to see the name of the ESX host as the first column)

  Hardware configuration of VMware ESX server.

  Name of the vendor	Model	MemorySize	CpuModel	CpuMhz	NumCpuPkgs	NumCpuCores	NumCpuThreads	NumNics	NumHBAs
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Intel Xeon E5540 2.53 GHz CPU	2533	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5570 @ 2.93 GHz	2933	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2

  Not a more elegant solution, but it should produce the desired result

  &{foreach ($esx in Get-VMHost){
    ForEach-Object { $esx.ExtensionData.Summary.Hardware } |
    Select-object @{N="ESX Name";E={$esx.Name}},Vendor, Model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs}} |ConvertTo-Html -title "VMware ESX server Hardware configuration" -body "
  VMware ESX server Hardware configuration.
  " |
  Out-File -Append $filelocation
  

• Find a VM on the ESX host by vmx fullpath

  Hello

  I have the location of the VM ( directory/vm.vmx)

  Is it possible to find the object computer virtual (Virtualmachin) on the ESX host with this path full vmx?

  Concerning

  Manfred

  Yep, take a look at FindByDatastorePath which allows you to search by path of the data store and returns a VM MOR

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• Restart VM after you restart the ESX host

  Hi all

  I am using VSphere Enterprise.

  Here my little question, makes VMs always restart after back us running or stopping of the esx host?

  In esx 3.5, when I reboot an esx host, all the virtual machines in this host are still alive (without restarting).

  Pls advice

  Thank you

  The only way, a virtual machine can rest running when it is running on ESX server is restarted is that if FT is activated - in this case, the connections will be seamless switch to the virtual machine "shadow". This is a feature of vSphere, so I don't see how you did not the VMs restart on your ESX 3.5 - even with VMware HA environment, there will be a short break because the VMs will be will be running on the other nodes in the cluster.

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• ESX 3.5: copy files using the service console from a network share to the esx host data store

  Hello

  I wonder. Is there a command that I can run the service console that would allow me to copy a file from a network share on the data store on the esx host?

  Eric

  If sharing is a Windows, you can also use smbclient within the service console and ride sharing.

  André

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• help - vm to 100% with Betclic resources cpu, but the ESX host to 15% cpu

  Hi all

  5 * HP BL460c Blade each with two Quad Core Xeon E5450 and and 8 GB of RAM.

  ESX 3.5

  VirtualCenter 2.5.0

  DRM and active HA.

  I need assistance with resource pools. Currently I have them all together for:

  • expandable

  • unlimited

  for the CPU and memory. I tried without reserve and with reservations, and it is indifferent to the result.

  I'm running a server SQL2008 (2 * vCPU, 3.5 GB of RAM) which is pretty hard. and from time to time the cpu usage spikes to 100% (6 GHz) and saturate at this time here. When I go to the graphs of the ESX host, I see up to 3 physical processes responsible... and all the others are dormant...

  I'm working on why he no longer not affected resources of the ESX host. I thought that because of the resource sharing (unlimited), he could catch resource from the pool of resources of the parent (unlimited). And our Installer is very very little used - so much processing power/mem available spare parts.

  I have also some really stupid questions:

  • with SMP, 1 vCPU means only 1 pCPU host is used?
    I never thought that this true, but in this example, it seems that only 2 pCPUs on the host are used... maybe 3,.., it is difficult to tell from the graph

  • a virtual machine can use more resources from a host at the same time?

  with SMP, 1 vCPU means only 1 pCPU host is used?

  I never thought that this true, but in this example, it seems that only 2 pCPUs on the host are used... maybe 3,.., it is difficult to tell from the graph

  Yes, assign you a resource equivalent to a virtual machine to the host.  Therefore, if you assign 1 vCPU which is equivalent to a unique Jepp on the host computer in the slot.

  a virtual machine can use more resources from a host at the same time?

  No. a resource pool is on a cluster, but VM inside this POOL can only use a single host resources.  The case is from ESX can use DRS to load balancing force of the VM, the pool determines the overall consumption and that you assign VM accordingly.  But ESX is not yet there to physical resource take other hosts.  What ever host is on, it is that the only place these resources can be achieved.

  What process the SQL 2008 taking up the CPU process?  I think it's SQL Server, in which case it is not that you can do.  One of the reasons that I discourage using VM for SQL, SQL works not virtualized.

• HA does not not as expected on the ESX host

  Hello

  I have a cluster with ESX 3 (v3.5 Update4) node that is configured to use HA & Drs During a practice session to the ESX host that I found that if I simulate a hard failure of one of the nodes in the cluster, ESX all guests arriving to run on this host VM will automatically starts not themselves on another ESX host after x amount of time. What I've done so far to solve problems is the following:

  1. allowed Virtual Machine put in power under the Configuration tab on each ESX host. Then, I moved that no matter what VM Autostart submenu in there appearing. This step is repeated on each ESX host

  One thing to note after that: when the host has been stopped, the virtual machine would properly failover to another ESX host but not itself power on. I got feed manually on the client.

  2. I disabled the resource constraints under the Cluster Edition settings Menu to enable the machine to power on no matter what

  There is nothing to change the question

  3. I fiddled with the priority of restarting the virtual machine in question to see if it would help, but it made no difference

  4. I enabled Virtual Machine control and settings left to 'High '.

  It has nothing

  There are two messages that I keep seeing in the case where the window of the Cluster:

  Failure of failover for the guest in question Warning Message

  Not enough resources for the warning of the cluster failover

  There are many resources available, so I do not know whence this second message. DNS seems in good condition I can solve the hosts & guests all with success in a direct and reverse search.

  My goal here is to have the guest virtual computer turn itself on one of the other guests of the ESX cluster.

  Any help would be appreciated... Thank you

  Look in "response to isolation" on setting HA. Did you put it "Leaves the virtual machine" setting turned on or turned off?

  If market, your host another try not to put the virtual machines from the virtual machines might still running on the original host, which can cause some collide ie.swap in use, the locked configuration files & etc.

  VMware newbie...

  Zen Systems Sdn Bhd

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• Grant Web access to the only vm on the esx host

  I have read the Administrator's guide and spent a few hours online on this subject and other types of users doing the same thing...

  I have 2.5 VC and ESX 3.5 by running very well.  I want to give web access to a virtual machine #1 running on ESX #1 host in this species, using the URL for the console "generate".

  I went VC and granted permission to the user of the Virtual Machine to the particular user I want to access the virtual machine.  I granted this permission to the esx host and the virtual machine.  When the user attempts to connect (this is a domain account) they get the connection failed due to bad user name or password.  It seems that the only account that can connect to web access is the root on this esx host account.  I am at a loss here, because I also tried to set this user as an administrator and so on.  The only account that can connect to web access, is that the account root localhost.

  What I'm missing here?

  The user attempts to access Web Access to the ESX Server? Which is what I think they do because without a third party tool they will be able to authenticate users who are in the service console, including the roots.  If they try to access Web App of VC by pointing a browser VC while they should AD credentials to access their virtual computer.

  Another thing to remember is that permissions in VC only apply when you log in to VC

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• Move the ESX host again VC, VM permissions is needed

  @all:

  I have a big problem with the permissions on the virtual machine.

  Due to the fact that I created a new VC, I want to spend the ESX host for the new Victoria Cross. No problem, but it the individual permissions for VM to disappear.

  Well, I'm looking for a script powershell read/grouping, the name of the virtual machine and the permission is assigned (like the tab authorization VC). After the removal of the host, I would like to add the permissions to the virtual machine.

  Probably something with "AuthorizationManager" but I can't make it work...

  Any help is appreciated

  THX

  If you want to only read permissions for virtual machines in a specific data center do you it like this

  $serviceInstance = get-view ServiceInstance
  $authMgr = get-view $serviceInstance.Content.authorizationManager
  $report =@()
  
  # Read and list all permissions for VMs in Datacenter
  Get-Datacenter  | Get-VM | %{
    $entity = $_ | Get-View
    $permissions = $authMgr.RetrieveEntityPermissions($entity.MoRef, $false)
    foreach($perm in $permissions){
      $row = "" | Select VMname, Principal, Role, Group
       $row.VMname = $entity.Name
       $row.Principal = $perm.Principal
       foreach($role in $authMgr.RoleList){
         if($perm.RoleId -eq $role.RoleId){
          $row.Role = $role.Info.Label
            break
         }
       }
       $row.Group = $perm.Group
      $report += $row
    }
  }
  $report
  

• How to add a new virtual machine to the ESX host using the existing files?

  I need to implement a function clone without the use of cloneVM_task. I copied (a special copy) a set existing VM Directory Active Directory to a new directory and renamed copied all files prefix name of the new direcotry.  What task VM (reconfigVM_task, createVM_task or registerVM_task) command can I use to add that the new copied VM on the ESX host? I need to manually update the .vmx for new UUID file and other parameters?

  Thanks for any help.

  I think that as long as you have updated all the names to reflect the new clone you must be fine and on the first step, you will be prompted with a question.

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