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• Convert: DC, SQL, and App Server private vSwitch for app update test?

  I need to upgrade an application that has been installed by my predecessor.  It is a web application that communicates with a SQL Server server to another server.

  Here are the details of the machine:

  • DC1 - Windows 2003

  • SQL1 - Windows 2000, SQL 2000

  • App1 - Windows 2003, use IIS to app

  I thought who would use Converter to convert each test VMs on my ESX host power off, change their vSwitch to a private vSwitch and then turn them on.  Two questions:

  • Does make sense?

  • Would it work without bringing down (I know that I would need to restart the Server 2000 during the installation of the Converter agent) nor affect the prod servers?

  • For any other questions?

  -MattG

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

  Quite possible.  I do now with my existing servers.  I used the converter to make copies of all my servers VM.  For most for DR purposes, but also for dev/testing, as you plan to do.  For example, before installing an update about our applications, we charge then on the test of virtual machines.  (In fact, that's how I convinced my manager on why we should use virtualization.)  I did the conversion of servers as a project parallel on my own time and it showed our DC, Exchange, SQL & a virtual performed work on an isolated virtual switch station, hosted by my XP workstation.  )

  When I did my conversion, I made a clone of warm with machines, but I did not all users online at this time.  You can stop your applications to reduce the risk of corruption.  I had to restore AD that I could not log on to the virtual domain controller after the conversion.  This does not always happen with P2V of domain controllers, but you should have a backup of your ad to the case where.  Cold clone would have less of a problem with this kind of corruption.

• Is it possible to activate a Windows Server in private vSwitch?

  We have already created a vSwitch called 'InternalTest' with no physical NIC attached to it intended to test.

  We also install Windows 2008 servers in this environment.  However, it must connect to the Internet, so that we can enable the W2K8 servers tests.  Are there any suggestions?

  Thank you

  TonyJK wrote:

  We have already created a vSwitch called 'InternalTest' with no physical NIC attached to it intended to test.

  No physical device, no outgoing connection...

  We also install Windows 2008 servers in this environment.  However, it must connect to the Internet, so that we can enable the W2K8 servers tests.  Are there any suggestions?

  Either add a physical device to the vSwitch or addd prompted with two virtual NETWORK card, one attached to the vSwicth private it a vSwitch, that has a connection to the outside and uye that one as a router. In the case of Windows, it must be an OS Server for on the way.

  AWo

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• What is the purpose to remove the Protection Option in SRM?

  Hi all

  We are setting up SRM using 5300 EMC & replication of recovery point. To make it simple on Production site, we introduced 1 TB x 2 LUNS to ESXi host and even 2 LUN is replicated for storage of DR. These LUN contains also 2 T & D VMs that don't require us to DR while that on failover.

  For failover, we created 1 protection group using three data warehouses and it shows the State of the Group of protection as 'Good', but as soon as we take the protection of 2 T & D VM status changes in Protection Group unprotected (attached are the screenshot). With this alert message that we tried to do a test switch, but it gave some error snapshot.

  My colleague said that need by moving these two VM in some other store of data that is not replicated. Can you please guide what happens if we want to keep those two VMS in the replicated data store but don't want to protect. Consequently, what is the purpose of delete protection protection SRM option group?

  Kind regards

  Khurram Shahzad

  Yes, recovery will fail when your protection is not configured. By default when you perform a failover of 'Test' that the virtual machine is recovered on a private vSwitch which has no rising physical so your VM production is safe. This means that you will not be able to do a level test of applications without some additional manual steps because the virtual machine will be able to communicate with other virtual machines recovered on this host even.

• ESXi 5, link group, VLAN and the Management Interface

  Greetings-

  I suspect that the answer to my question is: 'Buy an another NIC Intel' but here goes:

  I have a server ESXi here with 2 Intel GigE NIC, connected to the same switch managed ahead of Cisco.  A (vmnic0) NETWORK card is connected to the VLAN 200 while the second (vmnic1) is connected to the VLAN 300.  Ports on the Cisco are defined to access mode.

  Internally, the server ESXi, vmnic0 is connected to the 'public' vSwitch, while vmnic1 is connected to the "private" vSwitch

  I also updated the ESXi management IP 24 even as private vSwitch.  This is the key, I suspect.

  I tried to combine the two GigE interfaces in a connection unique 2xGigE and trunk two VLAN 200 and 300 through it.  After struggling through the menus on the ESXi console INTERFACE, I managed to get the IP management save and who responded and was able to connect to the server with the vSphere client.  I did it in X'ing the vmnic0 and vmnic1 in the configuration interface, then setting VLAN 300 in the configuration of VLANS.  But I could not the team/bundle correctly in the two vSwitches vmnic interfaces.  I could never attach a vmnic to one of the switches.

  Can I do all this with only 2 GigE interfaces and maintain access to IP management?

  SWITCH CISCO < == trunk w / VLAN 200 300 2xGigE == > SERVER ESXI

  VLAN 200 is a 28 audience

  VLAN 300 is a private 24 (for example: 192.168.100.0/24)

  IP management is 192.168.100.2

  I need to create a third VLAN for the management IP address and move?  If I master, say, VLAN 400 down to the ESXi server, use another block 192.168 for his IP address, I'll be able to take the vmnic0 and vmnic1 and team on the TWO vSwitches?

  Always follow me? ... :-)  If I can clarify this, by all means ask.  I apologize for the sort of random babbling here.  Thank you!

  JAS

  jasonvp wrote:

  Rickard Nobel wrote:

  You can not have your two vmnic (physical NIC ports) connected to two vSwitches and at the same time have a "grouping". You need to delete one of the vSwitches and recreate the vSwitch remaining trade. VLAN will insulate them even different networks.

  Thanks for the pointers; I finally had the opportunity to try this out and it works as expected.  I EF you the 'right answer' but apparently the forum won't let me since you already have an answer of "useful".

  Nice that you got it working! When you perform the actual configuration with vSwitch Hash IP and physical switch LAG config, it might be a little difficult to do things in the correct order to not lose connection to the ESXi host.

  You can select this message if you wish.

• How to share files on the isolated virtual machine?

  I cloned a VM of production for some tests, so I don't want to connect it to our production network to avoid any conflict of IP etc. In this case, how can I transfer files between my PC and the cloned VM?

  The VMtools has a shared folder, but it doesn't seem to work in ESX or ESXi. The only method I can think, at least for the transfer of files in this virtual machine is to convert the ISO on my PC folder so that I can connect as a virtual disk drive in the virtual machine. Are there other methods better to do this?

  Hello

  There are several ways to move forward and keep a 100% isolated virtual machine...

  (1) marks a new connected to the VM source using hotadd VMDK. Place the data to be transferred to this new VMDK. Remove the VMDK and remove the source of the VM (hotremove or power down, change the config and startup). Once disassembled/not done part of source VMDK, attach the VMDK to the target VM and transfer files

  (2) use the suggested ISO/FLP method.

  Or the other method could perhaps transfer viruses, etc. Not sure why you want to isolate, but do not consider this possibility, if the source files are infected, then the target is infected as well.

  (3) transfer the data via serial port connections. You can make a VM endpoint for anotehr VM setup of serial port devices.

  (4) mount a USB device in the source of the VM. Transfer the files. Dismount and mount the USB key to the target VM.

  (5) place the target VM on a private vSwitch (no connection to Teddy). Create a router/firewall VM and place it on the private vSwitch AND your normal network. Transfer the files through this device of firewall to the target VM. Make sure that the firewall is configured to NOT allow anything but the Protocol selected to cross. Proposed Protocol isn't ONLY SCP, no CIFS, FTP, etc... SCP is the safest to use.

  The last of them will require that you trust your virtual firewall and that it is configured in such a way that anything on the private vSwitch cannot communicate with the outside world and that only the transfer of a file protocol is allowed. (or you can also allow RDP/VNC as requires it).

  Many ways to reach this solution, but they all depend on HOW you want things to be isolated.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010

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• Isolated VSwitch, that spans multiple hosts

  

  Hi all, pls pardon drawing by hand

  I have a few guests of ESXi 4.1 with vCenter.

  The case is in the current LAN, there is already a DHCP server. I don't want the virtual machine in the hosts to be assigned by the DHCP server.

  So, I thought to put the virtual machine in single vSwitch (vSwitchB). And the creation of a VM (virtual GW machine) as a gateway for the virtual machine to talk to LAN.

  Is there a better approach? Can I create a distributed switch which acts as a single vSwitch?

  Thank you.

  fajarpri wrote:

  Thank you, Robert.

  VLAN seems a good way too. But I'm not familiar with it. Should I do something about the physical switches for the VLAN?

  Reason I ask is that I have no control over the switches.

  Yes, VLAN must be created on the pSwitches and entered on vSwitches/PortGroup.  GW router must also be configured to route between the VLANS as necessary.

  Your idea will work, if the GW virtual machine knows how forward the traffic (route).

• VSwitch routing: private VLAN to make public, communicate

  How to configure ESX 3.5 to: make two LANs, a public network on (using DHCP) and the other a private LAN (192.168.x.x). do this without using any physical router? Thank you in anticipation

  Your right I did had not bother to check license status since I use out in the test CA.

  You can check out their web page in the link provided.

  You could create a VM with IPCOP, Shorewall or any Linux variant with appropriate routing and iptables rulesets.

• vSwitch not allowing a host connection

  Hello

  I have a basic configuration of 2 VMhosts

  4 vSwitches

  4 physical networks all mutually exclusive

  vSwitch0 connects 4 NICs per host to a pile of Cisco 3750

  vSwitch1 connects 4 network cards for iSCSI storage area network connected to the Dell Powerconnect stack

  vSwitch2 connects 2 NICs for the vMotion Gigabit switch

  vSwitch3 is a single network adapter that is connected to a single Cisco switch to shared resources with other Cisco switches on corporate network separate

  Everything seems fine, except that only 1 hosts may never have vSwitch3 connected with an active link.

  If I connect the two hosts vSwitch3 vmnic6 (physically) to the Cisco switch is that both, they go down, or we stay down until the two are unplugged and then plugged the premiera remains active.

  For me, I guess it looks like in there are some protocols spanning-tree loop rear blocking ongoing, but this could not be the case if the vSwitch never sends and BPDU?

  I do not understand why vSwitch0 can have 4 network cards on the two hosts connected to a stack of 3750 and work very well, but only one NIC on vSwitch3 to a single Cisco switch allows only one link on one host to be active at a given time?

  The 3750 battery has spanning tree portfast enabled on all ports, and I have admin access to that stack.

  I do not have administrative access to the single Cisco switch on the network of the company so I can't check the config, but would turn config be the problem here?

  The ports are configured for 100 MB on the switches.

  I managed to get in touch with the architect of the network and he indicated that the port security has been enabled on all ports.

  See article.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalID=1002811

  He has deleted them for two ports since then.

  I'll test after hours tonight and I hope that it is the cause of the problem.

  Thanks again to all.

• Several external networks on a single vswitch

  I am trying to understand (among others) if I need more a vmkernel on the same vswitch. It is related to a question I posted last week, but I understood some things since. Here is the configuration (slightly reduced for reasons of this discussion).

  2 vSphere 5.5 hosts, each with:

  1 vmnic connected to external switch capable of trunk ports (vSwitch0); It is currently the management network

  1 vmnic connected to the switch for vmotion (vSwitch1)

  1 vmnic connected via switch private iscsi array; the private switch VLANs separated for iscsi (vSwitch2)

  VMotion and iscsi works very well, so I am concerned mainly with the external networking. Currently, all virtual machines are on VLAN not signposted. We will change to 2 VLAN tagged on different subnets - 10.1.10.x and 10.2.20.x. The VMs will have to talk to each other so that on different hosts. So, does that mean that I need 2 vmkernels on vSwitch0 - one for the 10.1 subnet and one for subnet 10.2? Then the Group at a port by vmkernel and matched vlan id for group of ports and vmkernel?

  OR

  I really only need a single vmkernel on vSwitch0 with 2 groups of different ports for the different VLANS? IE, VMs with different networks than network mgmt will be able to communicate through the external switch to virtual machines on other host?

  Also, I expect that external ports must be set to allow 1 marked and tagged 10 labeled 20 - is that correct?

  So, does that mean that I need 2 vmkernels on vSwitch0 - one for the 10.1 subnet and one for subnet 10.2? Then the Group at a port by vmkernel and matched vlan id for group of ports and vmkernel?

  No.... you need not multiple VMkernel can use different virtual machine networks in your ESXi host.

  I really only need a single vmkernel on vSwitch0 with 2 groups of different ports for the different VLANS? IE, VMs with different networks than network mgmt will be able to communicate through the external switch to virtual machines on other host?

  Yes, just use the existing VMkernel management interface and create two groups of ports, one for each VIRTUAL local area network. Yes, VMs of different VLAN in network management will be able to communicate, BUT your physical switch must be configured to allow traffic from multiple VLANs.

  Also, I expect that external ports must be set to allow 1 marked and tagged 10 labeled 20 - is that correct?

  It should work.

• Need help with the migration of VSwitches Standard servers to vDS

  I have a two hosts VSphere environment. Each physical host has two NIC currently, I have a host in a subnet and a host on a different subnet. Each host has it's own standard VSwitch. I can ping and route between subnets but the DNS servers are completely separated at the moment. I would like to create a vDS that spans two hosts without losing network connectivity. Is this possible? It would simply create two ports with properly configured uplinks?

  How you have configured "Teaming and Failover" in the settings of the distributed port group? Can you confirm that only appropriate uplink groups are active and the uplink for the other subnet group is moved down to the unused uplinks.

  André

• Build a private network between two physical hosts in ESXi 4.0 for VM guests

  Hi all

  I am a newbie in the use of VMWare ESXi for my company testings and I have a question on networks

  in ESXi. In fact, I always do my tests in my VMware Workstation, and it's pretty easy to build a virtual

  private network between two guests of computer virtual and it needed to do more real testings on ESXi environment.

  But now I have two Dell servers mounted and with two ESXi 4.1 installed on these servers.

  Each server has two network cards connected to the same network switch.

  In this essay, I have to install a RAC Oracle 11 g as guests of virtual computer on two separate server Dell for

  two RAC nodes.

  The installation Guide for the PAP, I need to build a network between two nodes.

  My superficial knowledge network, the private network address is not the same as

  the public network address, in this case, the IP address provided by the network switch is

  10.1.10.X and it should be public network address.

  In this case, how can I do the private network of ESXi settings?

  I do the settings of the network switch? I'm not the guy of networking and really

  want your expertise in this area.

  If you have an idea or experience to share, please kindly help.

  Thank you very much

  Ray

  SonyRaymond wrote:

  Then private network can be established between NIC (N1) and NIC (N2) with address 192.168.1.X

  range?

  Yes, that's correct. It would have made you have a private network layer 3 between the two guests in the 192.168.1.x address range.

  In general, you also want to isolate a layer 2 (ethernet) with the VLANS on the physical switch, but if this is not possible at this time then it could be implemented now and you could later add VLAN in the switch.

  It is also the reason why I think you should create a new portgroup on the same vSwitch as other existing exchanges. If you later configure VLAN to the physical switch, it will be very easy to activate this on the "private" portgroup

• Cisco CallManager and DHCP beyond vswitch

  I have a test lab setup for our managers to call cicso 8.6 running in vmware.  Everythings upward and the work.  However, I can not all phones to pick up my 172.16.1.1 editor/dhcp server IP addresses.  DHCP works very well in the vswitch in vmware, but nothing beyond.  Maybe it's a problem with the configuration on my cisco switch, but I would check here thought incase there is something else I need to do on the vswitch.

  I can ping everything in all directions without problem.  I've got the physical hosts on the cisco switch that can ping the managers of the call and vice versa.  I guess it's a vlan tagging problem, but don't know how to solve this problem.  I do not have a router in the laboratory, only the switch that is configured as the gateway for the managers of the call.

  Call managers - 172.16.1.1 (editor) default gateway is 172.16.1.254
  ... DHCP subnet is 172.16.1.0/24
  .
  VMware vSwitch - no vlan tagging, the vswtich is set to zero (0)
  .
  Cisco 3524 - IP Vlan1 172.16.1.254
  ... The port that connects the switch to host vmware...
  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
  switchport access vlan 172
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport voice vlan 172
  spanning tree portfast
  ... The I have a phone plugged into the port...
  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport voice vlan 172
  .
  .

  Again, I can ping everything in and out of the switch just fine.  I can't get anything on the physical switch to pick up an address 172.16.1.1 dhcp.

  Promisc mode & forging of mac address enabled on your vswitch and portgroup - with out that DHCP does not.

• vSphere 4.1 U1 - vSwitch not tied to a physical, for purposes of test card

  I used to know this, but guess age catches up to me...

  I use vSphere 4.1 U1 (ESX 4.1). I have a cluster with 6 guests. I want to create a vSwitch, not tied to physical adapters, uses a subnet in 172.16.x.x and that does * not * communicate in any way with all the traffic on the physical network adapters.

  What I want to do is to create a new virtual domain so that I can test changes to my Active Directory domain name. I'll make copies of my domain controllers 2 change its IP address to match. In this way, I have a copy of my AD domain running, who will never get back somehow the field of actual production, which is running on the physical network adapters and using a completely separate private IP range. I used to have this configuration, at the time where I was running ESX 3.5, but it lost when I migrated to 4.1 and does not recreate this vSwitch.

  I created a vSwitch and assigned without network cards. I did not specify a VLAN ID. I * think * that's all what I need to do - just assign the DCs cloned to use this new network in their environments. They should be able to talk to each other, but that's all - nothing else, since this vSwitch can speak for itself, having no physical maps that are entrusted.

  I realize doing it this way would bind me to the use of only 1 host in this area of trial, since the vSwitch would have no way to talk to any virtual machines that are not on the same host.

  1. am I right? I should be able to safely launch the cloned VMs, as they are both on the same network segment, and they will talk to each other and nowhere else?

  2. is there a better way to do it? Or a way for what I'm not tied to a single host, yet always the separation I need?

  Thank you

  I think your plan is very good and works as soon as you expect it.

• First and AVCHD spanning files

  Hello

  I import AVCHD files in my calendar in first and I have a file that spans more than three clips MTS. The files came from a camera Sony FS700.

  Records show correctly, but everything is tripled on the timeline. Files 00012.MTS, 00013.MTS, 00014.MTS are all on the timeline, repeating the same material (to the camera, this material is stride throughout these files). All the material is there and everything is ok, but it is just any three times on the timeline.

  This is how it is supposed to work?

  Saami

  Delete all media in stores.  Return to the media browser, then navigate to the folder PRIVATE for the media.  Dig a level or two until you see the clips.  You will only see the first clip of any set of volumes split.  Select the clips you want to import, and then right-click.