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  VI Client shows 95% starting a virtual machine but the virtual machine is already running and so for a few days. E customer VI is not refreshing or the management console should be cycled/restarted?

  ESXi, correct?

  See this link

  http://www.VM-help.com/ESX/esx3i/ESXi_restart_agents.php

• Manually migrate virtual machines from the host is not responding.

  I have a 3 host cluster.  One of the guests became unresponsive.  Continue to run all the virtual machines connected to the host is not responding and I can't RDP for them.  I am able to SSH to the host does not respond, but not connect via vCenter.

  Restart the services will cancel the virtual machines running?  If this isn't the case, then what is the command to restart the services?

  What is the best plan to manually migrate those virtual machines for the other two hosts?

  SSH, cd to \usr\sbin, then run "services.sh restart" (without the quotes). Which will restart management services, with no impact to your VM. Then you should be able to re - connect with Vcenter.

• Cannot start a virtual machine from an ISO stored on the NFS share

  We have an NFS share on our Windows 2003 server to serve the ISOs for virtual machines

  However if we have attached an ISO to a virtual machine and configured to boot from it, it does not find the ISO, just attempts to boot from the network, but if copy us the ISO in a data store local it will start and install correctly.

  We set the NFS share for anonymous access on Windows Server, we tried with both read and write permissions, but still no luck

  Anyone can get an idea about this

  Thank you

  Kimble

  ESXi must connect to the NFS share with the root account.  You will have to map the root login to an account on the Windows Server.   You can see a sample of the instructions here - http://www.sohoadvisers.com/tutorials/vmware-esxi/connect-esxi-to-windows-nfs.

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• Transfer the virtual machine from the external drive - URGENT HELP PLEASE

  I recently transferred my Virtual Machine to a hard drive external that I had to reinstall my OS Leopard, now when I try to copy the VM back to my mac from the external hard drive, to halfway through I have error message... "You cannot copy"Windows Vista.vmwarevm"because it has the same name as another article on volume of destination, and that the volume is not making the distinction between upper and lower case in file names."

  Virtual machine worked well for the external hard drive, but it's not convenient for me and I need ideally on my laptop... Please notify.

  To this folder on the Mac you copy it and what else is in this folder when copy you it.  I hope also merger is closed when you try to copy.

  Another thing you can do is inside the packaging of the Virtual Machine, there are two folders, Applications, and appListCache, I always delete before copy/move and these will be recreated and the reason why I do it, it is I saw copy fail until they have been deleted, although generally, it is one of the app in the Applications folder with the module of Virtual Machine that caused the problem.

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > Search > type Package and then select work with Virtual Machine packages

• How to find the IP address of the virtual machines from the host Linux

  Hello

  Y at - it a tool that can resolve the IP address of the linux host running VMS, when using NAT and DHCP networking?

  I can find by logging on virtual machines, but I need to retrieve automatically these addresses for the host scripts will not have to be changed manually when IPs change.

  Thank you

  Host: Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, WS6.5

  Probably the easiest solution is to use static IP addresses... Having said that, what I meant was:

  Each machine (real and virtual) has a unique MAC address. If I create a file (database type) with the name and the MAC address of each virtual machine, then I could use nmap or arp commands to get the IP address. For example, I create a table and put it in a file like this:

  VMName1 00:14:BF:19:45:61

  VMName2 00:0E:5 C: 1 has: 44:1E

  Name of the machine 3. etc.

  Then I could run a combination of arp and/or nmap to find the MAC address of active machines and their respective IP addresses. For example, running:

  sudo nmap - sP 10.0.2.0/24

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  Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-14 18:09 EDT

  Host 10.0.2.1 seems to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:14:BF:19:45:61 (Cisco-Linksys)

  Host 10.0.2.99 appears to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:10:83:BB:08:99 (Hewlett-Packard Company)

  Host 10.0.2.130 appears to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:0E:5 C: 1 has: 44:1E (Motorola BCS)

  Host 10.0.2.134 appears to be upward.

  Nmap done: 256 IPS (4 hosts upward) scanned at 3.71 seconds

  So, now, I know that the machine VMName1 with MAC 00:14:BF:19:45:61 has IP 10.0.2.1 and is it my Linksys router.

  Just a thought.

• Create several virtual machines from the same base image

  Hi all

  Is there any vi api sdk by which I can create several virtual machines form same base vmdk file?

  All create the VM from the base VMDK file will have their own delta vmdk file that will refer to the same base VMDK file. Only changes that are performed on each virtual machine are saved on their respective delta vmdk files.

  Thanks in advance...

  Hello

  What you are referring is called Clones related, in the current VI API, there is no method that supports this feature. You can take a look at CloneVM_Task() http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.VirtualMachine.html#clone if you want to implement a full clone and this will require you to have access to vCenter.

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  You can find more information once vSphere of GA and the new QAnywhere VI documents are released, but if you are looking to implement related Clones today, you can take a look at the product of VMware View 3, which provides support for linked Clones or you can take a look at two scripts that I wrote which creates linked Clones similar to that of the view :

  Clones related to ESX

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

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• To virtual machines from the host local disk HARD iSCSI - without Vmotion

  If my company has been slowly in VMware since the summer. We started with a license to the Foundation, then added some hosts more and matched with a bolt on the license for VC. Now, we ended up finding this iSCSI on another budget and realized... oh yes... VMotion is not a function of VC... it costs more... once again...

  Is there a way to copy on a host virtual machine machines local hard disks to iSCSI?... must not be direct... just so that if a host dies it does not take down 5-6 VM with it.

  As you have a license for the best average VC to do this is to turn off the host, right-click on it and select Migrate.  As long as the host can see little space on the iSCSI device, you will be able to migrate out, cold.

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• How can I remove a virtual machine from the mycomputer tab entry?

  I imported a virtual machine, and then moved the files and it has opened its new location and now I have two similar entries in the tab "MyComputer".  I'm under VMWorkstation 9.  How can I remove the old entry that opens is more because the files are not there more?

  I've found that a right click works indeed to remove the context menu when you are on the part of the library, but when I was in the My Computer tab, right click does not work.  I had my library closed shutter, but once I opened it and tried, I managed to solve the problem.  Thanks for the help.

• How to migrate a virtual machine from the server with DAS to another server

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  questions. 'More' essential Kit. VMotion is available

  I have 2 physical servers, two of them have DAS (not SAN Central). SO I want to migrate a virtual machine on server A to server B. is it possible in this situation?

  Or should I have versions of more expensive VMWare do?

  Thank you
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  You can use clone. I would close first to the bottom of the virtual machine, but a VM slowed would be very nice clone. You can also use the VMware conveter. VMware converter can make a hot clone, including synchronization of last-minute changes, stop the source machine and put under tension the clone.

• How to migrate virtual machines from the virtual server MS in Lab Manager?

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  BR

  Hello

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• Upgrade VCSA to 6.0 "error has occurred in retrieving the names of virtual machine from the esx host"

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• Move the virtual machine from one host to another with shared storage

  Hello

  I have a question on how to move a virtual machine from one ESX 4 host to a host ESXi 5.  These hosts have access to the same shared storage but the ESX 4 host is outside the network and host ESXi 5 is inside the network so vMotion is not an option.  They are in different groups.  I know that there must be an easy way to move this virtual machine, but for the life of me, I can't find it.  I guess I have remove the virtual machine from the external cluster but how to make the virtual machine in the internal cluster?

  Thanks in advance...

  If both host access to the data store even where VM's store, just stop the virtual machine, remove inventory on ESXi 4, go to ESXi 5 vSphere vSphere, browse the data store where the VM is stored, do a right-click on the .vmx file and add to the inventory.

• Import a virtual machine from a backup of Symantec .sv2i

  I need to create a virtual machine from the backup of a Windows physical box created with one of the latest versions of Symantec BESR.

  VMware Converter Standalone documentation reading - I see that only the backup made with Symantec BESR 8.5 and earlier files are supported.

  Can someone please provide a solution or at least advice?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Hello

  You can create a temp disk (VMDK) to an existing virtual machine, and then put your backup file on the disk.

  Detach the VMDK and then assign to a new virtual machine as a second disc (the virtual machine you need to restore the backup to that).

  Then start the virtual machine of the Symantec BESR startup disk and restore the secondary drive on the first disk backup file.

  After that detach and remove the second disk.

  Of curse, this solution may not work after restoration because you made the physics of the machine backup and restore to a virtualized platform.

• Models of virtual machine in the library of content focus type = unknown

  Hello

  I created a test with vsphere environment 6 and I created a content library for my VM models.

  That worked well for the last few months, but today I have connected the web client and wanted to deploy a new virtual machine from the content library.

  First thing I noticed was the selection after "deploy vm from library" - the library is empty...

  When I look directly in the content library, models are still there, but the type is unknown and not possible to export the s model or deploy...

  Any ideas what I can do?

  I already rebooted the server vcenter...

  I found a work around...

  I was able to clone the model with type = unknown, and the watch type = clone model vm and the guest OS is displayed correctly, too...