SRM for vSphere 4.0 and NetApp

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• Support for vSphere versions?  And rights of vCenter

  Is "vSphere 4.1 Update 1" supported by VCB 1.5 Update 2?

  And does not host ESX and vCenter needs to be at the same version and update?

  One last question (I think) - what rights should the user on the server "vCenter Server" VCB itself?  -J' I unuderstand what rights it needs in vCenter, but the quesiton is related to logging in the vCenter Server with a user name and password. Does just the possibility to connect in the vCenter Server, or does - she need the administrator rights on the server?

  Thank you!!

  Tom

  You can check everything in http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide/sim/interop_matrix.php

  You have vcenter administrator to perform backup, if you create the new user with the permission of the administration

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• Differences between the ISCSI connections to the storage in vSphere 4.1 and 5.0.

  I'm in trouble of setting up the connections of storage in a new VSphere 5.0 test environment. In our environment VSphere 4.1, it was possible to create a virtual switch add two Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 NIC. Set assets. IP Hash value as load balancing. (LACP Etherchannel on physical switches) This configuration uses a grain port and a single IP address. Then add our NetApp NFS storage and ISCSI Equillogic storage. In VSphere 5.0, I can't create this same configuration. I have to create separate with separate IP addresses vmkernal ports? The idea was to have redundant connections to the storage and flow of these two NETWORK cards. Possibly adding additional if necessary to the futuer NETWORK cards. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

  How can I work around this:

  "VMkernel network adapter must have an active link exactly and no waiting rising to be eligible for the iSCSI HBA connection."

  I can certainly say that the way which allows you to configure the iSCSI Multipathing is incorrect.

  The main idea is to let Native Multipathing Plugin to decide what network path to choose, not the vSwitch.

  At the level of the network layer, you must have 1 VMK by a physical NIC.

  This technique applies as well for vSphere 4.1 and 5.0, but with the 5.0 it is configured easier and more quickly.

  Here's a very brief consequence of steps

  1. get 2 VMK interfaces and assign an IP by each VMK.

  2. set each VMK to use only one physical NETWORK adapter

  3 GB with storage iSCSI software adapter, turn it on and bind your VMKs 2.

  4 connect to your iSCSI storage space

  5 rescan devices, create the VMFS datastore

  6. set the desired load balancing VMFS method or just set up a prior default create new VMFS

  and it is strongly recommended to read this guide - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide.pdf

• SRM with vSphere Enterprise and vSphere Advanced

  Hello

  I saw the FAQ license RS saying that SRM requires no vSphere all be of the same edition and features will be affected by which edition is used.

  Which raises a number of questions in my mind.  For example if my environment is as such:

  • Production site with multiple ESX using Enterprise Plus with Nexus 1000V
  • Recovery site with several ESX using Advanced edition
  • Enough to set up for two sites license SRM and vCenter

  I guess that network should not much question, as I can manually map the port network group on the recovery plan.

  So my questions:

  1. Can I configure manually this ESX made uses SRM for commissioning virtual machines running the recovery plan?
     • I don't have a DRS on the DR site to distribute virtual machines and use all the resources.
  2. What happens when SRM tries to start a virtual machine with more than 4vCPU in the DR site?
     • Advance Edition limited my VMs to 4vCPU

  See you soon,.
  Isabelle

  Your correct indeed neglected the advanced part, DRS is not supported. But another question for you: do you only use the equipment have the Dr site for DR purposes or you also make use of the material for other purposes as for example the test? Is it not that you can always create a business case to buy a license of the company and use the site of recovery for test purposes. In case a disaster occurs and a failover is invoked, you can add stimulus to stop your test virtual machines on the recovering site, before the SRM protected VM. This way make you full use of all the material on the protégé and the recovering site.

  Looking at your question again, it makes me think. If you create a cluster on the recovering site and map this cluster cluster on the protected site. All virtual machines that are protected will be started on the cluster during failover. OK you won't have DRS so resources are not distributed on the hosts, but they run and computers vMotion virtual host to another, you can manually.

  Point which is that you want to map individual VMS to ESX host, making your your design SRM very complex and difficult to maintain. Rather go for mapping clusters and take account of the fact that you have to manually virtual computers vMotion between host computers to create a balanced distribution of resources (or buy some DRS). It makes your life a lot easier.

• Problem with the video for "VMware vSphere Hypervisor - install and configure.

  Hello

  In this page: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?lp=default & p = free-esxi5

  When you click on the "Installation and configuration" tab, we have access to videos for vSphere Hypervisor.

  But at the moment, none of the video can be shown.  I tried this in my computer at home as well as my company computer and none works.

  Someone who works for VMware please check this problem.

  Thank you

  OK, I just found what was "wrong".  These videos are "optimized" for Internet Explorer!   Yes, I tried on Firefox and Chrome on XP Pro and Win7, nothing worked.  Then after reading your message, I thought ' what happens if I try that? "  ... and indeed, the videos are displayed inside, I.e. I got suddenly a bad feeling, like I was back at the beginning of the 21st century!

  Come on!  Who would still do 'optimized' only website to know today?   I'm sure they will not be displayed on my Tablet either.

  I found these videos on YouTube:

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Xss_2Qx51fU

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=adrO7SXyjBE

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=8lkMIqgfOj0

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ZHUjDWpHJvU

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=_MofPJsG9gQ

  I think they are the same videos (but the quality is really bad... 360 p.: geez!).  Could someone confirm that they are indeed the same as those in vmware.com?  THX

  PS: Oh, on the section "Help", I found it at help | United States but I've seen no paragraph telling me how to report a problem on the website.

• Plan and Design for vSphere Services Kit 5

  In vSphere 4 there a kit called the:

  "

  Download the Plan and design for vSphere 4 Services Kit R1

  Maybe you get on partner central.  Is there a such Kit for vSphere 5 as well?

  The only thing I see is 'VMware vCloud Plan & Design Service materials '.

  which focuses on vCloud Director and senior level management tools.  It seems that it would be good material overall about VCDX design.  Someone at - it info on where he went in vsphere 5?

  Thank you

  Connect to partner Central, and then look under the "Sales" tab  Then find the 'Solutions Enablement Toolkits'.  Then, look under "Infrastructure Virtualization Library."  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit.

  belongs to the library of Infrastructure Virtualization.  However, only some partners have access to

  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit.

  There are 5 parts to the library of virtualization Infrastructure and the

  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit.

  SET is one of them.  You don't get all the 5 pieces automatically just to have a central account of the partner.  Your business must have a certain status of partner and have the jurisdiction of "Virtualization of infrastructure" before you will be able to download

  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit.

  However, if your company does not have the legal status to be able to download it, visit this link:

  http://store.VMware.com/store/VMware/en_US/PD/ProductID.224267000/

  Allows you to purchase the library of virtualization Infrastructure directly from the VMware store.

  In all cases, the

  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit.

  Compatibility tools solutions has the best model I found to use for mapping the content of the VCDX.

  There is a word called "vSphere architectural design" document  This is the specific document in the

  "VMware vSphere Plan and Design Service delivery Kit" that gives you what you want.

• When the VCAP-DCD and VCAP-DCA examinations for vSphere 5.0 will be available for registration?

  I'm a VCP5, I can't take the VCAP-DCD and DCA for vSphere 4.0 right? If the ideas when VMware will release the version 5.0 VCAP-DCD and DCA reviews? Thank you very much!

  Hello

  I asked the team of certification at VMworld on release dates and got a very vague answer. So far, there had been no mention of the beta exams VCAP nor is the same model released so I don't see it to become available before the end of February, which as noted Simon is a real shame that this means that all the VCP4 and VCAP4 holders must make the VCP5 in order to save to the Whats New course as a prerequisite. For the cost of the reviews, I think it's a real slap in the face to those who have spent time and money, get a number of certifications. Also there is no official decision of if you go the VCAP5 you will have your VCP4 improved to 5. So although validations who says that have been deleted.

  I booked my VCP5 because of this lack of news and ability to upgrade and I'm seriously considering not even reviews of VCAP5 because it takes a lot of time, money and effort to get to them and then VMware take forever to even keep up to date on how it's going or if there will be any sort of upgrade.

  I say VMware as a show of thanks for those who have spent so much time getting VCAP4 accreditations gives a 50% discount good for the VCAP5.

  I've built a whole page of resources that I use for my VCP5 if you are interested, here: http://thesaffageek.co.uk/vcp5/

  Also a page for the resources of VCAP5 here: http://thesaffageek.co.uk/vcap5-dca-dcd/

  Gregg

• Free version of ESXi can support for configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client?

  I have read and found some documents on ESXi.

  According to the documents, I know that ESXi free version does not support some advanced virtual machine configurations and does not support write to ESXi host permission. But when I download ESXi from vmware.com, I can't find the free version. He will always be a trial of the licensed version edition because I can always do the configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client installation. I can also run scripts (lamw) pl in vMA to stop the ESXi host (authorization to write ok?)

  Then I confused. How can I get the really free version of ESXi? Or will the free version after 60 days of evaluation?

  Start/stop above configuration is in vSphere Client via 'Configuration'-> "start/stop VM"-> "Properties"... «-> "Allow the virtual computers start and stop automatically with the system" actions setting and stop virtual machines can be configured to "comments"turn off computer"or"Suspend".» Can any body tell me if it's supported by ESXi free edition?

  Is the free version of vSphere Client too? Because when I use the vSphere Client, he told me that I have 60 days of evaluation. This confused me again. I think that vSphere Client is always free, am I right?

  Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.  ^_

  Micky

  Configuration of start and stop virtual machines is available with the free version and licensed, with the free version you would be configured everything via vSphere Client, where as with a licensed version, you can optionally use scripts to configure it and also issue restarts/stops using scripts.

  Second, shutdownHostViaSOAPAPICall.pl for the version licensed and free of ESX (i), this script will work in both free and licensed because it uses direct SOAP calls emulating the vSphere Client communication. Take a look at the documentation for details, but this of course is not supported by VMware.

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  VMware developer community

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

• SRM API: No API for adding table managers and allowing couples to table

  I have watched the SRM 5.8 API spec and can't seem to find an API to add a Bay Manager or activation of a pair of table.

  These APIs have not been applied, or did I miss something?

  No, unfortunately these capabilities aren't in the public API at the moment.

  Do you mind sharing what having these API would allow you to do? Or in other words, how will you use them?

  To be clear, I am not questioning that they would be useful, but understand the use case you would be useful in prioritizing the delivery of features like these.

• Change of virtual machines managed by SRM for VR in an event of DR

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that is being replicated using replication vSphere + I configured a recovery SRM for virtual machine plan is managed by SRM.

  

  In a DR situation:

  • To recover a virtual machine that is managed by VR everything I have to do is to connect to vCenter to your web site of DR via vSphere client, then click on recover.
  • To recover a virtual machine that is managed by MRS. all you need is to get a full vsphere to your DR site that has the plugin SRM installed before you can retrieve customer.

  My question:

  Suffice it to say at an event of DR MRS on the DR site was dismantled (so I couldn't recover virtual machines managed by SRM) but I can connect to the Web from vSphere client and retrieve virtual machine managed by VR, is it possible to manually change the virtual machines managed by SRM, so they are managed by new RV?

  See you soon

  Hello

  There are internal interface that allows you to do. Please contact VMware support team.

  Go get the current "recovered by" value:

  https://vrms_address:8043 / mob /? me = Recovery Manager & method = HmsRecoveryManagerGetGroupsRecoverySolution & vmodl = 1

  To reset the value "recovered by" RV:

  https://vrms_address:8043 / mob /? me = Recovery Manager & method = HmsRecoveryManagerSetGroupsRecoverySolution & vmodl = 1

  Call the method after replacing ME with the GID... replication value and clear the value (empty string) for the recoveredBy property.

  To retrieve the value, GID-... - look at the names of the replica files in target or check data warehouses the table GroupEntity in DB VRMS. To get prompt SQL embedded DB VRMS - use

  / opt/VMware/vpostgres/Current/bin/psql vrmsdb - U

  and

  \Q to quit smoking

  Please note that the foregoing is not officially supported and may change with the different versions of the VR.

  Kind regards

  Martin

• vSphere 5.1. NetApp Flash Accel tips

  Hi all

  Got a crowd 4 live / 3 vSphere installation 5.1 Dr. host with back end on both Netapp and am a student to deploy Netapp Flash Accel

  Host servers are HP Pro DL380P Gen 8.  Undecided on whether to use the SSD in a Setup raid1 or dedicated PCI-E to somehow flash card.  Sought to use Kingston SSD E100 100 GB disks

  Whoever did this or similar already and is there anything I need to look out for gotcha general?

  See you soon

  I can make the decision easy for you.

  Marked NetApp Flash Accel as end of availability on March 13. If you do not have the ability to deploy it not more. Downloads are no longer available and existing facilities will not be supported after this year.

  It's funny because he had released a new version (1.3) only a few weeks before and have been strongly touting it as central to their level of virtual storage.

  No explanation or warning and for customers like me who just bought tens of thousands of dollars of value of SSDS with a goal from the use of this technology, a pill bitter to swallow.

  http://support.NetApp.com/info/communications/ECMP1516733.html

• Protected Site (vSphere 5.0), DR Site (vSphere 5.1) and MRS. 5.1: I have problems?

  Hi all
  We must protect a production site that vSphere 5.0 as a virtualization infrastructure (very tres peu little VMS, say that 10 to 20).

  Let's get vSphere 5.1 (for the recovery site) and 5.1 SRM (both, of course).

  We are planning to use replication based on the Bay (ABR).

  Now, we wonder how this situation can carry some problems or limitations.

  For example, it must take into account the fact that, to the protection of the Site, all virtual machines are of type 8. So, can't they be upgraded to version 9 for backward compatibility with vSphere 5.0, you did?

  To all those who are already working in a similar situation?
  Any advice or suggestions are welcome.

  Hello

  vCenter and MRS. versions must be the same on both sites. Guests can be 5.0 or older still.

  No problem to have hosts of your DR site to the more recent version than the protected site. Just do not upgrade the hardware version of your virtual machines (to version 9) after the failover, or you will not be able to failback.

  Michael.

• Reference Dell OMSA Release Date for vSphere 6.0 ViB

  Hello

  information about the release dates for vib for vSphere vsphere 6 (OMSA 7.4.1 / 8.0.1 / 8.0.2)

  Apart from that... OMSA 8 will continue in two different development branches for T630, R630, R730, R730xd and T430/R430/T530/R530/M630... or will it be a next single version for all serversystems of 13 G.

  Kind regards

  Torsten

  Toki76,

  Custom Dell ESXi ISO 6.0 came out 2 days ago. So I guess, from past experience, that the VIB is going to be released very soon behind him, but at the moment I do not see that he launched. I can research to see if I can refine the delivery date well and let you know.

  What about OMSA 8, probably a single version which includes the two branches.

• the root account not working for vSphere Client 5.5, for SSH works fine

  Hey.

  I got this:

  I can connect to vCenter 5.5 by SSH and the root user and password works fine

  I can connect to vCenter 5.5 by vSphere Client and use domain user and everything works fine

  I cant't connection 5.5 by user of vSphere vCenter Client and use of root and the password. I have information on

  "Cannot complete the connection because username or password incorect.

  IM shure I use the right password for root.

  A suggestion?

  

  Ok. Thank you community vExpert and Lukasz of my team, we found easy reason perhaps, but not at the first glance for me

  We had the installer by default "Source of identity" for Active Directory then when I used only root for connection I got the error with wrong password.

  In this possible case is just to connect to vcenter using root@localos credintials.

  

  But in addition we sam of similar mistakes inside the SSO connects:

  Location of the vCenter Single Sign-On log files for vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5 (2033430) | VMware KB

  /var/log/VMware/SSO/VMware-STS-idmd.log

  2016 06-21 13:57:31, ERROR 142 [IdentityManager] could not authenticate [root] main tenant [vsphere.local]

  javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: failed connection

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.authenticate(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:327)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2412)

  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor24.invoke (unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.Transport$ 1.run (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.Transport$ 1.run (unknown Source)

  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged (Native Method)

  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall (unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ ConnectionHandler.run0 (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ ConnectionHandler.run (unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (unknown Source)

  to java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$ Worker.run (unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run (unknown Source)

  Caused by: com.vmware.identity.idm.InvalidPrincipalException: could not find the main id: {name: root domain: OurAdDomain.local}

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.BaseLdapProvider.findAccountLdapEntry(BaseLdapProvider.java:543)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.getUserDN(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:1715)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.authenticate(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:323)

  ... 15 more

  2016-06-21 13:57:31, 144 ERROR [IdentityManager] failed to main checkUserAccountFlags [root] for tenant [vsphere.local]

  "2016-06-21 13:57:31, 144 exception ERROR [ServerUtils] ' com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: the connection has failed.

  com.vmware.identity.idm.IDMLoginException: failed connection

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2481)

  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor24.invoke (unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.Transport$ 1.run (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.Transport$ 1.run (unknown Source)

  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged (Native Method)

  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall (unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ ConnectionHandler.run0 (unknown Source)

  to sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ ConnectionHandler.run (unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (unknown Source)

  to java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$ Worker.run (unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run (unknown Source)

  2016-06-21 13:57:31, 144 INFO [IdentityManager] authentication failed for user [root] the tenant [vsphere.local] in milliseconds [4]

  When I used the credentials with appropriate domain name:

  root@localos we received newspapers below:

  2016-06-21 14:11:58, 971 INFO [LinuxNativeAuthDbAdapter] [root] user authentication

  2016-06-21 14:11:58, 974 INFO [IdentityManager] authentication successful for the user [root@localos] [vsphere.local] tenant in milliseconds [3]

  2016-06-21 14:11:58, 984 INFO [LinuxNativeAuthDbAdapter] to get local groups for the [root] user. Recursive? [Yes]

  When I temporary switch the source of identity - "localos" and use the root account to log logs below, we received and I connected without problem:

  2016-06-21 14:14:37, 545 INFO [LinuxNativeAuthDbAdapter] [root] user authentication

  2016-06-21 14:14:37, 549 INFO [IdentityManager] authentication successful for the user [root] the tenant [vsphere.local] in milliseconds [4]

  2016-06-21 14:14:37, 564 INFO [LinuxNativeAuthDbAdapter] to get local groups for the [root] user. Recursive? [Yes]

  Now, for me, more clearly

  Once again thank you

  Sebastian

• who can help me with "insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  Hello world

  We tried to gif a 14GB of ram and make server complete a booking for her.
  This is a server for the exams and the vendor told us to do.

  I can't any more then 5500MB reservation on it, when I anymore that I get
  "Insufficient resources to meet the level of failover configured for vSphere HA.

  We have:

  2 X 5.1 ESXi hosts
  Each host has
  2 x processors (8 Cores each) with HT active.
  255,75 GB of Ram

  vSphere HA has been activated.
  Admission control policy is enabled and that the ability to failover is 1 host.

  What is the problem here?

  Thank you
  Ernst.

  
  

  Admission control policy is all about to give you the kind of guarantee that if the host failure happens then there will be enough resources to perform the successful failover.

  in simple terms, it comes to reserve the resources of failover.

  I would recommend going through the notion of vSphere HA, reduced control policy the following document.

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-60-availability-Guide.PDF

  From the Page number 22, the details that you need to study is given. Focus especially on part calculations Slot size of it.

  in your case you HA vSphere with number of failure of host to tolerate as admission control strategy defined.

  This means system will calculate CPU and memory slots out of the resources in your cluster, and the total number of units, it will keep some resources like reserved for failover, and others will be available to be used. It all depends on how much failure of hosts that you want to tolerate.

  now in your case, if you try to increase booking one of the virtual machine, which will then affect the number of locations in your environment, and so reserved ability to failover is violated, the system will not let you do what you want to do. As the energy on a virtual machine, or growing booking a powered VM etc..

  If you find that you have enough resources in your cluster and due to some virtual machines with very large cpu or memory reservation, number of places is less than you can still manage the settings some advanced in vSphere HA configuration, but I strongly recommend, try to take the help of someone who has done it before.

  also try to go through other admission control strategies which are explained in the document for more inputs.