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• Cannot import Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4.

  Hi team,

  I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to import certain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4, using another Windows Server 2008 R2 as the machine Agent Converter. Well, the agent connects to the Windows VM source very well (I used the net use command to create a line of conduct...), perhaps no chance to connect to the computer target VMware ESxi 4 and make the converter doesn't work...

  Following is the error message:

  "Unable to connect to the host specified" from the converter agent machine. " It is perhaps because the host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on this host services do not react. Check all components of converter to be able to connect.

  So, my question is; is it possible to create a work around (like the net use Windows command above) to make possible the connection of the converter Agent on Linux VMware ESXi 4 machine Windows machine, to directly import the virtual machines of Windows Hyper-V to Linux VMware?

  Thanks in advance,

  It's even easier than that

  Use this: http://www.winimage.com/

  Which will convert *.vhd *.vmdk, so you don't need to do all this... Of course, another way is to start the machines, leaving them on Hyper-V and go through the network and process virtual machine as physical machines and do a P2V on the network...

• Data store growing VMFS with the running virtual machine

  Hey, gentlemen.

  Have a quick question. We have configured incorrectly datastore VMFS on VM production, basically, is size of the SAN LUNS to 1.99 and virtual disk was created as thin provisioned and 2 TB.

  vSphere shows no free space. I intend to grow data store, we found 100 GB also on SAN and I have an add on vsphere.

  I'm not sure we need to stop the VM to make this change?

  I guess not, because Guest OS should see no change - drive keep 2 TB, changes will happen only at the level of vSphere.

  If I have good documentation of VMware on VMFS, one of the main benefits of VMFS is:

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/VMFS-best-practices-WP.PDF

  Facilitates the dynamic growth

  Through the use of a volume management layer VMFS allows an interface to storage resources so that several

  types of storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE) can be presented as warehouses of data on which virtual machines can

  resident. What allows a dynamic growth of these storages of data through the aggregation of storage resources provides the

  ability to increase a shared without incurring downtime storage resource pool.

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Thank you in advance!

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Yes, you need not shutodown comments and/or host.

  Just check out this recommendation from VMware:

  Note: If the LUN knows a high i/o rate by cultivating the VMFS, the ESX host isn't able to complete the operation. In this case, repeat the operation after hours and when backup operations are not executed. If the problem persists, turn off some of the virtual machines that reside on the LUN, and then try again.

  Source: VMware KB: growing or expand a VMFS volume or data store

• How to access files in a folder to store data for a virtual machine?

  Hi all

  I'm relatively new to virtualization in general (I'm learning!) and have a question.  I have a host server of VMware ESXi 5.0 set in place with several VMs configured in it.  I also have various data stores configured, usually a virtual computer by the data store.  Most of the virtual machines are Windows, but one I have problems with is a machine virtual 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.  I currently manage and administer the server remotely over a slow connection.  Anticipate, the last time I was on the same network as the host server, I downloaded to a folder on the same database as the VM RHEL, about 5 GB of files that I knew that I would need to access in the VM RHEL install different software.  Now, I'm trying to "expose" these files very to the RHEL VM so I can install the software.  How would I do that?

  From what I've gathered reading other posts here, I could create an ISO that contains the files and then upload that to the server on the host to be mounted into the CD player, but my connection is so slow that would take a very long time.  I also believe that I could create a network share on my Windows 7 computer and allow the virtual machine to access the files in this way - but once again, my connection is the problem (not to mention that I do not have a GUI installed on RHEL and I'm not a Linux expert).

  None of the files I need are ISOs, unfortunately, so I can not directly mount the CD-ROM drive in the virtual computer from the data store.  If I have access to a shell on the host server, it does not recognize the command vmware-mount so I can't access the virtual disk for RHEL to just copy the files into it.  Also, it does not recognize the mkisofs command (of which i google trying to figure out if I could create the ISO on the host itself).

  So, basically, I'm looking for a way to access files in a virtual machine that are in the same bank data, as its virtual disk.  If that is possible to copy these files in virtual drive somehow, or mount a CD-ROM drive or hard drive that exposes these files on the virtual computer, I don't have a preference...  I'm just trying to not have to re - download the files in a different format (or using a different method) since they are already on the host server.

  Any suggestions would be very appreciated that - thank you.

  Welcome to the community,

  one solution might be to enable SSH on the host computer and then use scp to access or download files from the host/datastore (within the Linux VM).

  André

• Second data store for the shared virtual machine

  IM thinking about to migrate my existing VMWare Server 2.x to VMWare Workstation 8.

  My server is a machine selfbuild W2k8 with Core i7, 24 GB of ram, an SSD for the OS and two 500 GB HDDs. Due to performance issues an VM is placed on a separate HARD disk. I want to keep the configuration like this.

  At the time where I'm using a trial version of WS8 and may not know how to set up a second datastore for shared virtual machines on a second hard drive. Is this possible at all? Or y at - it an alternative to solve this problem? Creation of a RAID0, isn't my favorite option.

  Thanks for the reply.

  It is not implemented by using a second data store for shared virtual computers.

  Workaround solution:
  Suppose you have the original data store C:\vms and a second D:\vms

  then create a junction for each directory in D:\vms like that

  C:\vms\VM1 D:\vms\VM1 junction.exe

  C:\vms\VM2 D:\vms\VM2 junction.exe
  ....

  then the vmx files from doubleclick in C:\vms\VM1 and configure the virtual machine to share.

  On Windows 7, use mklink.exe instead
  On Linux hosts use ln

• Problem with Migration hot virtual machines Hyper-V

  Dear support

  I am facing problem in Live Migration of Virtual Machine in Windows 2012 of Hyper-V R2 cluster. Here are the details for my current setup.

  Two windows 2012 R2 Datacenter even care Server (HV01 and HV02) both in cluster

  A Virtual Machine created the Volume share of Cluster (c:\Cluster storage\...)

  A network adapter dedicated to the management of server-> 10.0.1.11 (HV01) and 10.0.1.13 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated to Hyper v Virtual Machines-> 10.0.1.12 (HV01) and 10.0.1.14 (HV02) and allow networking option is disabled.

  A network card for the heart beats-> 10.0.20.1 (HV01) and 10.0.20.2 (HV02)

  A network card dedicated for Live Migration-> 10.10.10.50 (HV01) and 10.10.10.51 (HV02) and chosen to be used only for the live migration fails on cluster network settings

  I added the Virtual Machine Cluster Failover successfully without error or warning. When I do a quick migration his works fine but when I do live migration his error giving 21502.

  Please update what's wrong with my setup

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• Where VMWARE Workstation 11 stores no information about Virtual Machines open

  When you 'open' a virtual machine in VMWARE Workstation 11, then close VMWARE and open again, it remembers what virtual machines have been opened.  Where it does not store this information?

  After a lot of Googling, I found the answer I was looking for.

  The UNK file is located in

  %AppData%\vmware\preferences.ini

  However, the information of the open machine no longer in the UNK file.  It is now located at

  % AppData%\vmware\inventory. VMLS

• UEFI SecureBoot with ESX 5 virtual machines?

  Hello

  Any help is appreciated on this point - nobody knows if it is possible to start virtual Windows 8 ESXi with Secure Boot with Machines?

  
  There seems to be no Secure Boot option in the VMware of EFI implementation.

  Thank you

  J

  JonnerHello and welcome on the VMware communities!

  Your conclusions are correct: Secure Boot UEFI is not currently available in all VMware virtual machines.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• The value of MAC address on deployment with the new virtual machine vm

  I am looking for a way to statically define the NIC MAC address on the deployment. I use a loop to create 24 copies of a model on several virtual machines and the need to put the MAC for DHCP addresses. I could make this work with esxi 3.5, but after the upgrade to vsphere, I have questions.

  Is - it possible or do I have after reloop with set-networkadapter? I try to avoid this if possible.

  So the next step to get just the device object

  . config.hardware.device (notice-EEG - VIObject "Template Name"). Where-Object {$_.deviceinfo.label - like "Network adapter 1"}

  That's what you're going to correct?

• with lots of virtual machines root partiton

  Hi all.

  I have vmware server 2.0 installed on ubuntu 10.04.

  Last week, I have 7 GB free, and today I have 0 GB free on the store of data/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines.

  Size of filesystem used Avail use % mounted on
  / dev/sda7 281 292G G 0 100%.
  Orchard 2.9 G 92 K 2.9 G 1% / var/run
  varlock 2.9 G 0 0% of 2.9 G/var/lock
  udev 2.9 G 36 K 2.9 G 1% / dev
  devshm G 2.9 2.9 G 0 0% / dev/shm
  LRM 2.9 G 44M 2.9 G 2% /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
  / dev/sda1 183M 24 M / 150M 14% Boot
  / dev/sda6 1.9 G 66 M 1.8 G 4% / tmp

  I am trying:

  -apt - get autoclean, clean apt - get, apt - get - purge autoremove

  But the size is not increasing. I think this is the vmware server.

  I have three VM on vmware server, and one of them got three vmdk (*.vmdk *-000001.vmdk *-000002.vmdk), but the second (*-000001.vmdk) of them is not modifed the 26.03.2011. How can I remove them? Is this possible?

  Thank you.

  Nothing to be puzzled. This vmx looks as expected. It's always the last snapshot of the string pointed to by the vmx file. The chain is then made based on the information (for example, parentFileNameHint, CID, parentCID) in the vmdk files.

  André

• Upgrading Linux with Update Manager virtual machines

  We have just started testing vSphere and upgrade equipment and the VMtools to version 7. He managed servers on Windows, but it does not immediately work on Linux servers with the following error "remediation of linux vms only is not supported". Is it possible to do this without Update Manager or is there a workaround? We have a mixture of Red Hat 5 and Fedora servers.

  Thank you

  Scott

  I subscribe to a service of Red Hat to upgrade VMware Tools and hardware version 7? This does not appear to make sense.

  You said "clean up" which implies you want to PATCH Linux VM, not simply upgrade the hardware.

  This part is easy.  Power off the virtual computer, right-click, VM version upgrade.  VM boot. Click on VM-> comments-> install / upgrade VM tools, this will mount the CD.

  Use the console to double-click on the CD, run the RPM vmtools.  It SHOULD encourage with upgrade or install as new.  Once installed, launch the Terminal Services session to the redhat.

  type:

  vmtools (tab hit), it should autocomplete, vmtools-implementation to date... something like that.  Run this command.  A bunch of stuff happening on the screen, just hit enter (to accept all of THE defaults) (or reply y/n as the case).  The option highlighted, pre-selected will be correct.

  restart the virtual machine.

  Voila, done.

• create a paralyzed man with a unique virtual machine

  I use the .net SDK, but an example of use of the API would also help.

  I have a VAPP model that contains a unique virtual machine, and information networking are contained in the model of vapp.

  can I get a simple example of creating a new TIME containing a simple vm using the VAPP model described above?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hope this helps, by using the .NET SDK:

  Load the VCC you want to put TIME in

  VCC Vcc = Vdc.GetVdcByReference (customer, vdcReferenceUrl);

  Load the model you want to use

  Model VappTemplate = VappTemplate.GetVappTemplateByReference (customer, templateReferenceUrl);

  InstantiationParamsType instantiationParamsType = new InstantiationParamsType();

  InstantiateVAppTemplateParamsType = new InstantiateVAppTemplateParamsType stuff

  {
  AllEULAsAccepted = true,
  name = "the name of vapp",
  Source = model. Reference,
  deploy = true,
  Description = "description"
  InstantiationParams = instantiationParamsType,
  };
  Method to create he created... the app returned will not be usable for a while, but you can get the jobs for her and for the status of charging

  VAPP app = Vcc. InstantiateVappTemplate (stuff);

  Hope it gets you going.

• Problem with Workstation 8 virtual machines sharing

  Dear Sirs, I have problem with VM shared

  The problem is that I can't do anything in this area I have VM in gray and empty.

  

  Thanks for the replies.

  Daw

  your file is wrong - there is no entry for the directory - this is an example of work

  
   
      <_length>1
      <_type>[hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry]
     
        <_type>hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry
        1
        standard
        G:\Shared-VMS
     
   
   
      <_length>0
      <_type>[hostd.host.NasDatastoreEntry]
   
  

• With the help of modern.ie of Virtual Machines to test the App

  I'm developing a freeware desktop application and test on older versions of Windows. Terms of the license modern.ie declare the following

  1. You can use the software for testing only. You can use the software for commercial purposes. You can use the software in an operational environment.

  Although the site is intended for testing of web sites on Internet Explorer, allows to test the desktop apps as well? The app does not interact with IE in some way, if that makes a difference.

  Well, I am not a lawyer, but looks like you can use it for any test you want.  You could do this with your own virtual machine running an evaluation version of Windows also.  All these expire so you can't use them constantly, but you can always go back or download a new when it expires.

• 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.