Splitting licenses between data centers

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• Is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief not

  Hi friends,

  1. is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief walking distance.

  2 can we perform vMotion and Storage vMotion while ESXi is turned on.

  3. is it possible to extend the VMDK disk while it integrates snapshots in it.

  Best regards,

  Sirot Vijay

  Yes the vmotion and svmotion works but one by one.

  1 - vmotion is posssible to power on State, but you can't svmotion the vm simultaneously. The storage will remain same

  2 svmotion is also possible to power on the State, but you cannot vmotion virtual machine simultaneously. the host will remain the same.

  3 vmotion and svmotion is possible together when the vm is off power. the host and storage can be changed simultaneously on this State.

• Heart rate between data centers

  Hello

  I made a VMware installation only when we have two datacenters with a host and a disk on each data center system, vi have 2 x 4 GB FC between data for the availability of the storage centers and we have 2 x 1 Gbit L2 connections between data (network, vmotion and HB) centers.

  Now my problem is pulsation HA making only redundant you normally just add two natachasery to the switch, but in my case I need to run my heart rate on two different VLANS to ensure that it also works on different connections between data centers.

  If I just add another service console and configure a new vlan with default gateway, dose anyone know if it will work?

  Daniel

  Hi Daniel,.

  Welcome to the forums.

  You can take a look at the following KB on the Service Console redundancy for VMware High Availability.

  It will be useful.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Clone between data centers and through the firewall?

  I have a VC that manages 8 virtual data centers.  Some of these data centers are on a dish network, and some are in a demilitarized zone.  Even if the storage is NOT shared between data centers, I am able to clone a VM between data on food networks centers but I cannot clone between a data center on a dish network and the other in a demilitarized zone.

  Is there a specific port that must be open to clone through a firewall, or I wouldn't be able to do this.

  ________________________________

  Jason D. Langdon

  The file copy occurs using port TCP/UDP 902, as all communications from ESX.

  Do you have any NAT between the servers ESX and vCenter?

  Marcelo Soares

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  Master virtualization technology

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  Review the allocation of points for "useful" or "right" answers.

• VMotion between data centers

  We are constructing a new environment VI 3.5 that will match our new approved conformity existing SOPS all of the virtual machine in the environment will have to be moved off the power as soon as the new cluster\datacenter is built.  I am trying to determine the practical way of best\most to do - what I'm basically not clear is if I can migrate a virtual machine between 2 data centers or not.

  Any help on how best to do that is very appreciated-

  Steve

  wouldn't that be nice.  You can always stop the virtual machine and a cold migration.

• Copy of models between data centers

  Hello

  I have a couple of VM being cloned to models. These models need to be copied in other data centers VMWare. I got it all to a using PowerCLI PowerShell script. If I understand well I can't do just a simple copy of a data center to another. First of all, I need to upload the template, then download to the data center target to get these models where they do.

  Does anyone have an idea how I could do this task and it is able to be accomplished using PowerCLI?

  TIA

  OK, you could do something in this direction.

  $vmName = "MyVM.

  $templateName = "template".

  $tgtDC = "dc".

  $dc = get-data center-name $tgtDC

  # Get the VM source

  $vm = get-VM-name $vmName

  # Clone VM and move it to the target DC

  New-VM - $vm - name $templateName VM | Move-VM-Destination $dc

  # Convert the VM cloned a model of

  Get-VM-name $templateName | Set-model

• Move VM between data on the same vCenter centers

  Hey all the...

  With a virtual machine off, I'm migrating a VM between data centers in the same vCenter. There is no shared storage, different networks to the destination host. The user interface works (caveat about the missing shows destination network), yet move-vm does not work between data centers.

  By train: move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1 datastore - datastore1, I get the error:

  Move-vm: 09/03/2015-14:48:20 Move - VM Destination container must be in the same data center.
  On line: 1 char: 1
  + move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1. ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (esx1:VMHostImpl) [Move-VM], VimException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_CheckMoveVmParameters_InvalidDatacenter, VMware.VimAutomation.
  ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

  The manual States -Destination can be file, host, cluster etc... As the hosts AND records are bound by data centers, I guess it must know the new host & the new folder. I tried to use - destination twice, and I've tried - destination host, folder.

  Move-VM: cannot bind parameter because the 'Destination' is specified more than once. To provide several parameter values that can accept multiple values, use the table syntax. For example, '-parameter value1, value2, value3 ".

  Move-VM: missing an argument for the parameter "Destination." Specify a parameter of type 'VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.Inventory.VIContainer' and try again.

  I used PowerCLI 5.8 and tried on 5.0 and 4.0 vCenter.

  Move-vm: 09/03/2015-14:48:20 Move - VM Destination container must be in the same data center.
  On line: 1 char: 1
  + move-vm - vm test-20150309 - destination esx1. ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (esx1:VMHostImpl) [Move-VM], VimException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_CheckMoveVmParameters_InvalidDatacenter, VMware.VimAutomation.
  ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

  The SDK method works?

  See 3. Re: to a different vm datacenter 

• Copia VM between data automated warehouses

  Is, I need if any can help me, I need building una tarea me Permite automatizar her copia (CLONADO) una o several VMs desde one Datastore hacía otro.

  Desde is muchas gracias

  Rolando Kohl

  Como estas?

  If cerebro scheduled task ordered realize esto, podes clonar between hasta between data centers.

  Saludos.

• Merger of two data centers separated with a different license.

  Due to the fusion of the IT departments, we have two data centers and vCenter servers.  The IP network is a network of flat class.  ISCSI are on two physically separate networks.

  Data Center 1 (DC1)

  vCenter Foundation 5.5

  3 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (6 cpu)

  1 series 6200 Equallogic SAN

  Data Center 2 (DC2)

  vCenter 5.1 Standard

  2 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (4 cpu)

  1 SAN Equallogic 4000 series

  We would like to:

  1. move the Standard of DC2 on DC1 and the license to the Foundation from DC1 to DC2 (Swap licenses)
  2. import of DC2 in vCenter on DC1 and then unmold on DC2 Foundation license.
  3. Finally have two data centers operating from DC1 vCenter running Standard Edition 5.5

  Is this possible at all?  How would we do this.

  Thanks in advance

  With licenses owned by the same company, the steps you mentioned should be ok.

  However, from a technical point of view, you can plan the migration according to the features you use. A few things you can do is to disable HA and DRS on DC2 environment before migrating the hosts to DC1 (just to avoid potential problems), and you can also make sure for example on DC2 data store names do not match the names on DC1 to avoid confusion after the migration.

  Unless the special functions are used on DC2 which must be supported before the migration, you can simply unplug the hosts of DC2 and add them to a DC1 with operational virtual machine. Host CPU licenses must move automatically with the hosts.

  André

  PS: TheSMO: licenses are based on major versions, i.e. 5.x., so there is no need to up - or their decommissioning in this case.

• Using CLI, I would clone a virtual machine between different data centers

  Hello!!

  We have two data centers.

  We want to clone a virtual of DataCenter1 to DataCenter2 machine.

  We cannot with vSphere.

  Does anyone know how we can do this? any idea?

  Thank you very much

  Jose.

  Cloning is a feature of vCenter Server, not a host ESX (i). You need to connect to vCenter, that's why you get the error because this operation is not supported in a host ESX (i)

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• You can cluster consistency of data centers?

  We currently lack two separate groups of coherence in the different data centers. One is prod the other DR.

  Would it not possible for nodes in each cluster to create a cluster that spans two data centers? Then in a failover scenario data would be available.

  I know that pulse of nodes of coherence between them to keep the members of the classes and there is a TTL parameter to determine the life of package. Would have nodes in data centres resulting in pulses being missed or TTLs killing packages?

  Did anyone had success with this?

  Performance of coherence is related to the latency between the nodes. Having a single distributed cluster on 2 data centers might harm performance (some wait times might have to be changed to prevent the nodes from A data center to claim another node in datacenter B is out of scope/possibly dead).

  When you lose the network connectivity between 2 data centers (note I do not say "If you lose connectivity". This WILL happen), you are welcome in the 'world of split brain', each half of the grid to believe the other is dead and who claim to be the 'master '. And so if you have a replicated data on N nodes, master backups are sent back in each data center, performance for a few minutes (the time of course depends on many parameters...). And of course the data will no longer be synchronized between 2 data centers. The quorum must be thought out and stuff like that...

  I could be wrong, but as far as I know I'd rather have 2 separate groups. I think 12.1 has new features to replicate the data the main grid to the Dominican Republic one, I was not through any new documentation.

• Using node NHP groups in multiple data centers

  Hello

  I was looking for information, I'll implement a distributed deployment of ISE.   We have two data centers, each will have its own group of PSN node (load balancing), I need a strategy where we can ensure that all the DNA do not point to a single group of PSN node.  In the config switch that I only noticed that the radius server registration option where first is referenced and secondary IP is used only if the primary Radius Server is unavailable.  We have many sites of the direction we want to deploy ISE, we would like to distribute the RADIUS AuthC/AuthZ evenly between the two DC.

  Thank you

  -Amin

  Just so we are clear, ISE node groups did not-load balancing, you need a for this external load balancer. If you are actually using a balancer for each domain controller, then you might have half of your switches just manually use a vip for primary and secondary school, and the other half upside down. Also, if you use aaa server groups in your switch, you can also do a local switch 'balancing', based on the current session how are radius on each server in the group.

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/iOS-XML/iOS/sec_usr_rad/configurati...

• Virtual data centers how to a campus of double site?

  We begin to plan for a migration of vSphere 4.1 and 5.1.  We have two data centers several miles share a link 10 gig.  In our current setup, we have a virtual data center that includes the host esx on both sites.  VMotion and storage vmotion work well on the link 10 gig.  HA and DRS are not currently configured, but it will be included in the new configuration.  I'm looking for the advantages and disadvantages to continue having a virtual Datacenter, against two, one for each physical site that includes only the servers at this place, that is, buildling1-vdc, would include esx1 bldg1, bldg1-esx2, etc., and construction2-vdc, would include construction2-esx1, bldg2-esx2, etc.. We would be able to preserve the beaches of IPS to each site in the case of a link failure.    As I understand it, we would not power of vmotion or HA and DRS established between the two virtual data centers.  Other have a virtual infrastructure of several location connected by links broadband?  If you do, how much virtual datcenters you have and how they are configured?

  Please ask questions if you need more specific information to answer the question.

  a "Datacenter" vCenter object is a limit for the vMotion and distributed vSwitches. So, if you want to migrate virtual machines between the buildings / clusters these groups must be part of the object of data center. Also if you want to have similar networks on both sides and you want to use Distributed vSwitched then you will need to have both part of clusters of the same domain controller so that the VDS objects are pushed down.

• Creat and backup files / data centers at VIServer

  Hello

  I want to save my files and my old VIServer datacenter.

  I found a script very useful for this but it dosent show me data centers:

  filter Get-FolderPath {}

  $_ | Get-View | % {

  $row = "" | Select the path

  $current = get-view $_. Parent

  $path = $_. Name

  {}

  $parent = $current

  if($parent.) Name - only "vm") {$path = $parent. {Name + "\" + $path}

  $current is get-view $current. Parent

  } While ($current. Parent - no $null)

  $row. Path = $path

  $row

  }

  }

  $report = get - VM | Get-Folderpath

  $report | Export-Csv "c:\VM-with-FolderPath.csv" - NoTypeInformation

  Is it possible to also write data centers in this spreadsheet to csv?

  My other problem is that I want to creat new files and also files and data centers to the terms of this in my new VIServer.

  There was also a useful script I found: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1334740#1334740

  But in this script 'just' move it already createt VMS in createt records.

  And I have no idea how I can modify this script to create folders and datacenters for me.

  It would be great if there is a solution for my problem.

  You can try the following scripts.

  First the script that writes the pathnames to a CSV file

  $global:report = @()
  
  function get-children($entity,$path){
       if(!("Datacenters","vm" -contains $entity.Name)){
            $path += ("\" + $entity.Name)
       }
       $children = $entity.ChildEntity
       if($entity.ChildEntity -eq $null){
            $children = $entity.VmFolder
       }
       foreach($child in $children){
            $childfld = Get-View -Id $child
            switch($childfld.gettype().name){
                 "Folder" {
                      if($childfld.Name -ne "vm"){
                           $row = "" | select Path, Type
                           $row.Path = ($path + "\" + $childfld.Name)
                           $row.Type = "Folder"
                           $global:report += $row
                      }
                      get-children $childfld $path
                 }
                 "VirtualMachine"{
                 }
                 "Datacenter"{
                      $row = "" | select Path, Type
                      $row.Path = ($path + "\" + $childfld.Name)
                      $row.Type = "Datacenter"
                      $global:report += $row
                      get-children $childfld $path
                 }
            }
       }
  }
  
  Get-Folder -NoRecursion | Get-View | % {
       get-children $_ ""
  }
  $global:report | Export-Csv "C:\Folder-Export.csv" -NoTypeInformation
  

  This script creates the entries in the data center and the record of the CSV file.

  function Get-ViLocation{
       param($path)
  
       $loc = Get-Folder -NoRecursion
       $qualifiers = $path.Split("\")
  
       if($qualifiers.Count -gt 2){
            for($i = 1; $i -lt ($qualifiers.Count - 1); $i++){
                 $loc = Get-Inventory -Name $qualifiers[$i] -Location $loc
            }
       }
       $loc
  }
  
  $list = Import-Csv "C:\Folder-Export.csv" | Sort-Object -Property Path
  foreach($entry in $list){
       $operation = "New-" + $entry.Type
       $name = $entry.Path.Split("\")[-1]
       $loc = Get-ViLocation $entry.Path
       $dummy = & $operation -Name $name -Location $loc -WhatIf
  }
  

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• HP workspace: where are located the workspace of HP data centers?

  Hey everybody,

  Where are located the workspace of HP data centers?

  Thank you

  Bill

  HP workspace is currently supported by seven, SSAE16-SOC certified, regional data centers, serving many countries. Data centers are located in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and two in the United States (California and Virginia). The workspace of HP team will be allowing multiple data centers in the coming months to provide global coverage for customers. To see a current list of regional data of the workspace of HP centers refer to www.hpworkspace.com.