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• Accident of ESX 3.5 but virtual Center did not perform vMotion on virtual machines

  Hello

  We have 3 ESX servers on Virtual Center 2.5. One of the ESX Server suddenly restarted due to hardware failure. There were 5 virtual machines on this particular ESX host.

  When we check all the VMs who resided on the ESX host touched, he has just restarted and didn't vMotion for the rest ESX servers

  The question is why don't the vMotion VMs to the rest of the other servers. The rest of the ESX host have more than enough CPU and RAM to accommodate all 5VMs

  My understanding of vMotion would be when an ESX host is down, all the virtual machines will be migrated to other ESX hosts on the cluster.

  When an ESX host is down, the migration of all virtual machines to other ESX hosts in the cluster is not a VMotion functionality, but this is a feature of VMware HA. The vSphere availability Guide:

  "VMware HA offering high availability for virtual machines by pooling their and the hosts they reside on in a cluster." Cluster hosts are monitored and in case of failure, the virtual machines on a failed host are restarted on alternate hosts. »

  Therefore, enable HA of the cluster to achieve the desired result.

  Best regards, Robert

  Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk

• Update Manager: it updates Virtual Center or just the ESX servers?

  Hi all.  After months of inactive Update Manager, I finally got it going again and so I need to install approximately 6 months of updates on my ESX servers.  This is the easy bit.  But how can I update my virtual server to the center of update 1-2.5 2.5 update 4?   Update Manager at level Virtual Center for you or is it a manual process?  That is to say.  Do I need to download the ISO and do an inplace upgrade?   Thanks in advance for any help

  see you soon

  The process of upgrading to vCenter is separated from the Update Manager. Download vCenter media - save your vCenter database and then run the installation program - it will do an upgrade on the spot.

  Here is a link to the upgrade guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_upgrade_guide.pdf

  Post edited by: java_cat33 - upgrade guide added URL

• vFoglight 6.5 & multiple instances of Virtual Center

  Hi all

  Can someone help me to get rid of a version of Virtual Center vFoglight 6.5?  We have two entries there are several virtual machines, data warehouses, etc...  We recently had to re - build vCenter and I think that's when it started.

  Thank you.

  I think this is covered by this solution, just be careful because you can not revive a deleted object.

  Note that in the most recent versions of Foglight, data management is under management server | Servers | Data instead of Foglight management | Servers | Data management.

  https://support.quest.com/search/SolutionDetail.aspx?ID=SOL55723&category=solutions&SKB=1

  Solution SOL55723

  Title

  We have a few old appearing in the agent Virtual centers VMWare drop-down list. How can I remove them?

  Description of the problem

  Question: We have some old virtual centers listed in the drop-down list VMWare agent. How can I remove them?

  Cause

  Resolution

  Answer: You can delete old objects of Virtual Center since the "VMware model | VirtualCenters"section of the dashboard data management (Foglight |) Servers | Data management) in the console Foglight.

  (1) navigate to the dashboard of data management (Foglight |) Servers | Data management) in the console Foglight.

  (2) expand the "VMware model | Selections of VirtualCenters.

  (3) remove the old unwanted objects Virtual Center by clicking on the Red sign icon next to them less.

  Golan Shem-Tov

  Quest Software

• How adding script. VMX to store data (NFS) to the virtual Center

  Hi guys,.

  I hope that someone much better understand the scripting languages I know a simple way to do this?

  Basically, here's the scenario...

  We use data warehouses NFS running on Netapp file servers to accommodate all our virtual machines. Normally this works very well, but we had a few incidents recently with the spin that force us to move to our synchronous backups. Basically how it works is that each data store, say for example Datastore1 works normally on Filer1. This data store is regularly "synchronous" on Filer2. This snapmirror is a copy of the data store readonly. If we have a problem with Filer1, it is possible to reconfigure Filer2 to make writable snapmirror backup, effectively allowing us to see the virtual machine.

  Currently, in this case, in order to get the back of the virtual machine, to remove all the vm to Virtual Center inventory, then add the synchronous data store to all guests in Virtual Center, then browse the data store and manually add back all the vm individually by the usual right-click right/add to the inventory on each virtual machine.

  As I say we have recently had a problem and had to call it for the storages of 10 data housing almost 250 vm was therefore, as you can imagine quite a slow intensive task and work!

  What I tried to work, that's how I could this power CLI script? I saw LuCD excellent research Add .vmx script and looks a lot like what I would like to but can't work out how to change it for my purposes.

  What id' ideally like to go would be a script that I can specify an instance of Virtual Center, store data and Cluster as variables (say vcname$ = "ukvir0001", cluster$ = $ 'Datacentre1' and dsname = "datastore1") and then the script read the data store and add no matter what .vmx, it finds in the specified Cluster.

  I read with interest the new feature in PowerCLI4 data store provider and which resembles something that can provide an easy way to do it I can't work out how!

  Any help would be much appreciated as I have the daunting task of having to move back almost 250 vm to Filer1 now that give it has been fixed and do not have the luxury of a maintenance window several hours to do it manually!

  Thank you very much

  Sean.

  After a few PMs between Sean and myself, we arrived with a working version.

  Note that this latest version of the script has been tested in a vSphere against an ESXi v4 server environment.

• Virtual Center 2.5 does not

  Hello

  I have two ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5.  They run on three different HP Proliant DL 380 G4 Server independently and they are not updated since previous versions.  I can see both ESX servers in client vi 2.5 very well, but I don't know how to start or see Virtual Center.  I installed VC 2.5 and the components such as ODBC and SQL SERVER 2005 Express with no difficulty.  I don't see any errors on the Windows system or application log and all VMware services have also begun.

  I restarted VC 2.5 machine several times and VC 2.5 also installed several times but no luck.  I thought that if I start vi 2.5, I should be able to get to VC 2.5...

  Any comments or ideas?

  Thanks in advance.

  -TLE

  your vCenter Server server is usually installed in a domain.  To access your vCenter server you need to connect with field identification information.  By default when you install vCenter the local Administrators group of the vCenter (probably a W2k3 server) host system is added to the role of administrator on the VCMS instance you.

  So, after downloading the VIC, for the type of server in the ip address or the domain your vCenter Server server's FULL name, enter your domain credentials and password.

  See also this guide, it may be useful

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_installation_guide.PDF

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• Mutiple remove virtual computer in Virtual Center 5.1?

  Does anyone know how to remove several virtual machines both in the virtual Center 5.1?

  Looking for an easier way rather than a virtual computer to both research and removing one at a time.

  I did a LOT of research with ZERO success.

  Hi theire,.

  so if I would have a very big amount of VM that I have to delete then I would with an input file and using powercli for quicker removal.

  try following:

  create the file vms.txt (and writing of the vm vertically)

  Then, you can use following code as deletion for all virtual machines of this entry.

  ####################

  to connect-viserver xxxxxx

  $content = get-content "path to the file.

  $vms = get - vm $content

  {foreach ($vm to $vms)

  Remove-VM $vm - DeletePermanently-confirm: $false

  }

  #####################

  It's a very simple Code > you could also integrate some kind of loop until the VM is turned off,...

  But in any case with Powercli I think delete is much more rapid then plu vi-client. equal to how the script looks like.

  Best regards

  Max

• Update ESXi with a Virtual Center Server

  Hello

  I've updated a Standalone ESXi server using this guide

  http://www.vmadmin.co.UK/VMware/35-esxserver/262-esxvihostupdate

  It works the same way during the updating of the ESXi servers that are under a virtual Center Server?

  Thank you

  as part of the upgrade, using Crossover, a new vCenter agent is pushed. So, no, you don't break anything.

• VMware View 4.5 - number of virtual machines deployment through Virtual Center

  Hello

  After an update to VMware View 4.5 Solution, thanks to an automatic pool sliding the virtual Center creates now six machines at the same time.

  Before this update the VC never fired on two machines at the same time...

  It of Nice to have this indictment, but is it possible for me to configure the number of virtual machines created on same time?

  Thanks for your help

  Kind regards

  If you go into servers and change the login information from vCenter there is an Advanced tab.  Click this tab and you can set the maximum amount of concurrent provisioning operations you want.

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• Same range of MAC addresses with vSphere 2 Virtual Center

  Hello, we have two virtual center of vSphere that create VM with the same MAC address range,

  00:56:B0:00:00... the other a virtual center... so be very carefully to not

  VM in duplicate with the same mac address...

  Could I change attribution AUTOMATIC of the beach of one of our virtual centres?

  Thank you very much

  ---

  
  Francisco Javier Morales Lopez of Gamarra

  VMware VCP | LPI - CCNA

  Edited all the line caps object according to the rules of the forum, AWo.

  If you have two vCenter servers to ensure that they have different instance ID because they are used to generate MAC and UUID for VM addresses...

  This is explained in this KB here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024025

  / Rubeck

• Using of MS Cluster HA providing virtual Center 4.0

  Hi, we currently use ESX3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5, I'm about to start an update on all our services for 4.0 VSphere and virtual Center 4.0.  For the moment, we have a node two MS Cluster to connect to the DAS storage that supports Virtual Center 2.5.  I need to know if 1: VCentre 4.0 is supported running on a MS Cluster and 2: are there documents describing the process to create the cluster group.

  I did this several times for VCenter 2.5, but I am not able to find info on VCentre 4 and all my research seems to lead me VCentre Heartbeat.

  Any help is appreciated.

  The "Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service" for vCenter 4.1 can be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf and vCenter 4.0 use link http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_mscs.pdf

  I hope this information helps

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  F10

  VCP3, VCP4, HP UX CSA

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• Update Virtual Center to U1

  I need to upgrade my Virtual Center to match my ESX4 U1 servers.  It seem not to be many complaints about bad server updates to Virtual Center.  Is it really as simple as performing the installation and reboot?  Our envorionemnt is entirely HA.

  I remember there is even no need to reboot the server vCenter. Just a little down on service vCenter.

  HA will continue to work without vCenter.

  ---

  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• ESX 3.5 U3 with Virtual Center Update 4 questions?

  Does anyone know of any problems with combining ESX U3 with Virtual Center U4?

  Is - this bad idea?

  I'm getting errors when the network configuration "request failed because the remote server has taken too long to respond" I don't know if its network related or associated with mixing ESX 3.5 U3 with VCenter U4.

  Ideas or comments please.

  Thank you

  Yes, this client was running ESX 3.5 U3 with VC 2.5 U4.  Only, they began their upgrade to vSphere, but prior had run several host ESX 3.5 U3 with VC 2.5 U4 for more than 6 months without any problem you describe.

• Deploy Windows 2008 Server X 64 reviews of model with customization on Virtual Center 4.0 using the ESX 3.5 hosts

  Deployment of Windows 2008 Server X 64 system of operating invited by using hosts Virtual Center 4.0 and ESX 3.5 implements a message telling me:

  Cannot deploy the model: customization of the

  guest operating system "winVistaGuest" is not

  supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista

  (TM) and Linux with Logical Volume guests

  Manager are supported only for the recent ESX host

  and versions of VMware Tools. Refer to vCenter

  documentation for taken configurations supported.

  error

  This isn't just normal? Just today I upgraded to VC4.0 to be able to deploy my new servers based on findings on this forum. And no matter if I change the Machintype Vista x 64 or elsewhere Vista32 (what is wrong of course). Any other gopt experience with this?

  There should be no need to upgrade to vCenter4 just to be able to customize a W2K8 Guest.  We vCenter 2.5 and have no problem.

  Take a look at this KB

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1010449

• Problems of space on virtual Center

  Hello

  I run virtual center virtually and am under very low disk space on the C drive of the server.  I tried to delete the offending, but they are updated Microsoft, so I do not wish to delete these.

  I think that my best way forward is to V2V using vmware converter and then distributed a larger disk on drive c: during the conversion process.

  Any reflection on the best way forward, if my memory servers me I can't add a measure to an OS disk (c :). Please let me know if I'm wrong.

  Thank you very much

  Russell

  You can resize the systempartition using gparted or any other method (search the Forum). This will require a reboot but will meet your needs.

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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