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• 2 questions - group leader and iscsi

  We have a unique PS6500 of the firmware 6.0.5. From 3 days ago, Archbishop Grp freezes when I click on the member icon. I could go into all the rest of the GUI with no problems. I got the firmware installed for about a month, so I don' t think that is the problem. Has anyone else seen elsewhere?

  2nd edition - we have vmware hosts connected to QE through private switches. Vmware hosts have separate vswitches for vmotion and windows iscsi volumes. VMotion is on 10.2.0 subnet and iscsi volumes are on 10.2.1 subnet. The EQ is on 10.2.0 with a 255.255.0.0 mask. The switches are set with the VLANS separated for iscsi and vmotion.  So far in Grp Mgr, I allowed on each volume 10.2. *. *. I started to try to change it so that the vm volumes only allow connections from 10.2.0. * (vmotion subnet) and volumes windows only allow connection of the 10.2.1. *. Currently, I do not use chap or iscsi initiator to limit. Here is an example for a windows volume.

  But here is what I get in the Connections tab for this volume, even after a new analysis of storage host adapters:

  So either I completely ignore the setting of the limits of intellectual property, or my EQ has a problem. Shouldn't I have the 10.2.1 connections to this volume?

  Any ideas? Thank you.

  None of the fixes listed in the 6.0.6 release notes apply to my EQ,.

  BTW, you can add the ACL CHAP to the EQL live volume.  This will not affect existing sessions.  Just make sure that you first create the CHAP user on the table.  Then after setting the ACL volume, set the iSCSI initiator ESX to use CHAP.

  If you take a look at the RPM, you can find a few Commons left default setings.  There are some that will improve performance, other stability.

  vMotion has not EQL access at all.  It's strictly for compose the image memory of a computer virtual from one host to another ESX host.

  Storage vMotion includes EQL, but it does not use the port of vMotion to do anything.

  vMotion traffic must be completely isolated, because the content in the course of the transfer are not encrypted.   So no VM Network exchanges should be on this vSwitch and the physical switch should be isolated too.

• Unable to stop comments and vMA host

  Hi all

  I installed ESXi 4 then vma on esix. Now I am trying to stop all the guest operating system and then host through vM.I am using the script ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl (check the link http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11902.

  but when I am trying to run this script, I get following error-

  VI-admin@localhos $./ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl--host_operation stop - stop - ups_vm MAS vm_operation - timeout 5

  = GhettoUPSHostShutdown.pl START =.

  Info: UPS_MONITORING: vMA

  Info: VM_OPERATION: stop

  Info: HOST_OPERATION: stop

  Info: HOST_LIST: AUTOMATIC

  info: ==========================================

  Info: found host: "IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE.

  Debug: Hand: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: start the stop on the VMS operation...

  Info: hard power off power Fedora12, no Vmware tools on...

  Info: unable to hard power off of the Fedora12!

  Info: closure of vSphere Management Assistant!

  Info: cannot stop vSphere Management Assistant!

  Info: shutdown complete operation!

  Debug: Hand: Disconnect: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: check all virtual machines are either suspended or powered-DELAY set on: 5 min

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  News: County: 1 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  Info: Count: 2 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  News: County: 3 - sleeping for 60secs...

  Debug: Login by vi-fastpass at: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE

  Info: host: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE has 2/5 VMs still lit!

  Info: Count: 4 - bed for 60secs...

  Info: host: completed verification step!

  Info: put the hosts in "stop" mode

  use of uninitialized value in string on line 236 de./ghettoUPSHostShutdown.pl.

  Info: ERROR:

  SOAP fault:

  Error string: error. RestrictedVersion.summary

  Lack of details: RestrictedVersionFault

  Info: IP ADDRESS OF ESXi HOST HERE is now closed!

  Info: finally put UPS tracking VM host int o in "stop" mode

  Use of uninitialized value chain eq /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VIFPLib.pm line 355.

  login_by_fastpass: host name can not be empty in line /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VIFPLib.pm 355.

  Help, please...

  At this vMA 4.0 or 4.1 of vMA and you use ESX(I) 4.0 or 4.1? The script currently supports 4.0 only as it some major changes that currently breaks the script. Also the error tells me too that he is unable to identify targets for the table vi-fastpass... can you also run the following command and provides the output:

  vifp listservers
  

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

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009,2010

  VMware scripts and resources at: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/

  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".

• Virtual Center audit for virtual machines and ESX hosts

  Hi guys.

  I need to audit a system with 1000 + virtual PCs and hope you guys knew a script floating around in the VMware community who could interrogate Virtual Center for more information on all ESX and VMS hosts. Did anyone done something like this before?

  Looking for information on ESX, versions hostnames, Virtual Machines running on each host and the types of each virtual machine, the IP address of each virtual machine OS.

  Thoughts anyone?

  Thank you

  Hello

  RVTools is to look like Alan Renouf Powershell script vDiagram... http://www.virtu-al.NET

  Also, learn more about Veeam Reporter.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
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• Hyper-V and iSCSI network

  Hello

  We evaluate a migration of vmware for hyperv.

  I try to understand best practices for networks iSCSI comments.

  I have physical 4ports 1GBit dedicated, on the host for iSCSI traffic.

  I like to use all 4 for iSCSI host (vhdx volumes) traffic.

  Now I thought to do 2 of them shared by creating 2 logical switches in VMM, adding 2 virtual network cards for the host to use.

  The new virtual network cards are 10 Gbit. I don't see an option to change them to 1GBit. To me it seems now that the system prefers the 10 GB adapters. My other two physical cards are no more used.

  I tried to do all 4 ports as virtual, but somehow the 4.7EPA ASM does not see virtual cards. He said only: "no network adapters don't find" at the opening of the MPIO settings.

  Should I just ignore this idea to share and use 2 for host and 2 for iSCSI hosts, or is it a medium work?

  It is recommended to devote at least 2 interfaces on the host iSCSI network.  In addition, you must install the Dell EqualLogic for Microsoft host integration tools and install the MPIO feature.  To enable the MPIO in the guest operating system, you must create at least two virtual switches that are related to the physical SAN on the Hyper-V host adatpers.  Virtual machines must be configured with at least two of these virtual switches.  Then, since the guest operating system, configure interfaces with IP iSCSI network, Subnet, etc...  You must also install the Dell EqualLogic for Microsoft host integration tools and functionality MPIO DSM in the guest operating system, if it is not running Windows.  If you use Jumbo frames, ensure that all NETWORK adapters used for iSCSI (NETWORK physical cards, NETWORK cards, Guest OS NICs) are enabled for frames.

  In regards to ASM v4.7 EPA you don't see not cards network for MPIO - there is a known ASM / ME v4.7 bug in Windows Server R2 2012 linked to the EPA.  It is likely that the configuration of MPIO is fine (you can check it out through the initiator Microsoft iSCSI MPIO EqualLogic tab - it's just that ASM / me has a problem of information display.)  This bug has been fixed in version recommended to v4.7 GA HIT/Microsoft - which is intended to be published very soon.

• Nested ESXi 5.1 and iSCSI Shared Storage

  People:

  I am unable to get my ESXi servers nested to see the iSCSI shared storage, that I put in place for them.  I use iSCSI for the ESXi host, who holds the guests of ESXi, so I have a successful iSCSI configuration to use as my reference.

  Here's what I have for the host network config:

  iSCSI targets

  + IP1: 172.16.16.7 (subnet for host IP storage)

  + IP2: 172.16.17.7 (subnet for storage over IP comments)

  vSwitch associated vmnic2 on NIC IP storage

  + Port "IP storage" group containing virtual NIC both ESXi hosts

  + VMkernel Port for iSCSI host connections: 172.16.16.28

  Here's what I have to config network comments:

  + The highest virtual NIC group of ports "IP storage".

  + vSwitch with only a VMkernel port for iSCSI of the guest connections: 172.16.17.38

  From the iSCSI host, I am able to ping 172.16.16.28.  However, I am unable to ping 172.16.17.38, and here's the really confusing part - I am able to get an answer ARP of that associated with the VMkernel port with the correct MAC network CARD!  This eliminates all kinds of potential configuration issues (for example means bad NIC, bad IP, etc..)

  The firewall on the host indicates the software iSCSI port outgoing 3260 Client is open.  Capture of the target iSCSI host package reveals no. TRAFFIC from VMkernel IP guest when updating to storage adapters.

  What should I look at?  The configuration of the host against the host looks identical yet we work and there is no...

  -Steve

  In the debugging process so, I turned on the "Promiscuous" mode on the vSwitch associated vmnic2 on the NETWORK card on the host IP storage ESXi and poof!  Everything magically started working.  The iSCSI traffic be unicast, so I don't see why promiscuous mode would be necessary, but I can't argue with the results observed.  Clearly, I have more to learn more about nested ESX, that's why I'm playing with it.  :-)

  -Steve

• Recommend bridge SCSI and iSCSI

  Hi guys,.

  Currently I have an ADIC FastStor 2 tape auto-chargeur connected to a physical machine, Backup Exec 12.5, which backs up our running VMS with internal agents. Our ESX host running ESX 4.1, running on servers of 4 HP DL380G5.

  We are looking into converting to a more focused VM disk backup over the next 9 months, but we have a short-term obligation to upgrade our current solution quickly so that we can remove the material (it has long been out of support and our backups start to fail). To this, looking at a quick upgrade to BE2010 R2 (since we have already supported) and put us the media server on a virtual machine. Remains to be seen how to connect to the tape library. A SCSI and iSCSI Bridge seems to be the best option to do it quickly and with headache less.

  Someone at - it experience with these devices? Recommendations for an individual? The current tape drive uses a connection of Ultra2 SCSI wide 68 pins.

  Thank you

  .. .After research forums and seeing the difficulty that people have, I wasn't convinced.

  The positions of 'problem' I see the most are those who use cards non - of Adaptec SCSI and / or not parallel SCSI drives.  The most recent posts I've seen are for tape drives, SATA or SAS drives.  Basically trying to use 'new' band players, rather than reuse the 'old' band of readers.

  Quick is the main concern here. The money is available, it cannot simply be a ridiculous amount since it is monstly going to be throwing next year (otherwise I'd just go straight for an iSCSI tape library).

  Then I recommend the SCSI card because it would be cheaper than a bridge.  Or if you have an existing workstation you can re-tasks to host your tape drive for awhile so that get you the rest of your new backup equipment.  Used & refurb workstations can be made for well under $ 500 and often as low as $200 and would be more powerful enough to accommodate a tape drive.  Because you can reuse the workstation after obtaining new equipment, you could get something more than the bare minimum for this project.  Maybe it's a better use of $$$ instead of a bridge iSCSI that you go to "throw".

• NFS and iSCSI

  Hi all

  I will not go into another performance of iSCSI vs NFS because it isn't of interest to me, I would like to gather your thoughts on why you chose NFS or iSCSI and also the differences between the two because I'm not sure.

  The reason behind this, is based on a clean install of our Center of virtual data I have will happen soon.

  At the moment we have currently 5 virtual machines running on ESXi with two virtual machine to connect to an external iSCSI (RAID6) storage. This has worked well for over a year. (So I have no real experience with NFS)

  ESXi and VM host all five is on a 10 k SAS drives RAID1, but now I'm going to follow best practices now that we bought VMware Essentials.

  I'll put the host on the machine and the VM 5 on another separate NAS (ReadyNAS NVX) data store. I will use one of the 4 NETWORK card to connect directly on the NAS using a straight through cable, and the other three in a switch.

  Now, this is why I ask the question. Can I use NFS or iSCSI, on what I've seen there is a lot more technical documents and videos based on iSCSI, but according to me, it's because its aimed at the business market and the huge amount of VM.

  The future may hold an another VM 2-4 but no more than that.

  I have been recommended NFS in the external network manager and trust his opinion but feel that I have no experience of NFS.

  Tips are welcome.

  Specification of the server

  Reference Dell R710

  2 x Xeon processor Sockets (don't remember what model I'm typing this at home)

  24 GB Ram

  2 x RAID1 SAS drives

  4 x Broadcom NIC with iSCSI unloading

  This is the IP address on the cable, a crossover will do.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• PowerCLI Script required to identify all clusters in a data center and all hosts within each cluster and calculate it using cpu and ram, avg, min, and max.

  Hi all

  I'm new to powercli and try to create a script to list all clusters in a data center and all hosts in a cluster and calculate min, max and avg cpu usage and ram by the host and cluster. So far, I have tried the below but I can't publish the results of my script.

  $Function = @)
  ForEach ($DataCenter Get-Data Center)
  {
  ForEach ($cluster in ($DataCenter |)) Get - Cluster)) - need help to post the information here and confirm if this is correct or not.
  {
  ForEach ($hosts in ($cluster |)) Get - VMHost))
  {
  ForEach ($vms to ($hosts |)) Get - VM)) - do not know if I called you here functions properly
  {
  $allvms = @)
  $allhosts = @)
  $hosts = get-VMHost
  $vms = get - Vm

  {foreach ($vms in $hosts)
  $hoststat = "" | Select the host name, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin
  $hoststat. Host name = $vmHost.name
  
  $statcpu = get-Stat-entity ($vmHost) - start (get-date). AddDays(-30)-Finish (Get-Date) - MaxSamples 10000 - stat cpu.usage.average
  $statmem = get-Stat-entity ($vmHost) - start (get-date). AddDays(-30)-Finish (Get-Date) - MaxSamples 10000 - stat mem.usage.average

  $cpu = $statcpu | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum
  $mem = $statmem | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum
  
  $hoststat. CPUMax = $cpu. Maximum
  $hoststat. CPUAvg = $cpu. Average
  $hoststat. CPUMin = $cpu. Minimum
  $hoststat. MemMax = $mem. Maximum
  $hoststat. MemAvg = $mem. Average
  $hoststat. MemMin = $mem. Minimum
  $allhosts += $hoststat
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }

  $Function | Select the host name, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin | Export-Csv "c:\Function.csv" - noTypeInformation

  Any help on this is much appreciated.

  [Ordered] casting was introduced in v3 PowerShell.

  For PowerShell v2, you can use

  $vms = get - VM

  $stat = 'cpu.usage.average ','mem.usage.average '.

  $start = (get-Date). AddDays(-31)

  $report = get-Stat-entity $vms - start $start - Stat $stat - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |

  Group-object - property {$_.} @entity.name} | %{

  $cpu = $_. Group | where {$_.} MetricId - eq "cpu.usage.average"} | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum

  $mem = $_. Group | where {$_.} MetricId - eq "mem.usage.average"} | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum

  New-object PSObject-property @ {}

  Datacenter = Get-Datacenter - VM $_. Group [0]. Entity | Select the name of ExpandProperty-

  Cluster Cluster Get - VM = $_. Group [0]. Entity | Select the name of ExpandProperty-

  VMHost = $_. Group [0]. Entity.Host.Name

  Name = $_. Group [0]. @entity.name

  CpuMin = $cpu. Minimum

  CpuAvg = $cpu. Average

  CpuMax = $cpu. Maximum

  MemMin = $mem. Minimum

  MemAvg = $mem. Average

  MemMax = $mem. Maximum

  }

  }

  $report | Sort-Object-property Datacenter, Cluster, VMHost name |

  Export Csv report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

• VMware converter 5.5 Update 1 and target host is 5.0.0 - is a known problem observed during execution of this?

  I intend to use vmware converter 5.5 update 1 and target host is 5.0.0.

  someone can confirm if there is any known problem observed during execution, it is?

  Welcome to the community,

  According to the Matrices of the interoperability of products VMware Converter 5.5 supports ESXi 4.0 and versions later, you shouldn't have issues related to the ESXi version you are using.

  André

• the upgrade to esxi 4.1 to 5.1 and moving hosts to 5.1 VC

  We always have a lot of guests esxi 4.1 running in VC 4.1

  the plan is to move these hosts to 5.1 (already built) VC and upgrade hosts with her

  That I should

  a. take a host in vc 4.1, in maintenance mode,

  b. update, patch. etc...

  out of the maintenance of the c mode.

  d. move vms back on

  host e is disconnected. the cluster

  f. remove a host cluster and vc4.1

  g. connect host to new cluster in vc5.1

  thoughts?

  You have a perfect plan. But you need to make changes in the order steps

  The correct order would be:

  disconnect the cluster host

  remove the cluster host and vc4.1

  connect the host to the new cluster in vc5.1

  Take the host in vc 5.1, in maintenance mode,

  Update, patch. etc...

  exit maintenance mode

  move virtual machines on it

  You can manage guests 4.1 to 5.1 VC. If all the guests move there first and then upgrade one at a time

• FC and iSCSI

  I have an IBM Blade Center with 4 blades running enterprise 5.1 ESXI.

  The blades are connected to storage via FC (Fibre Channel) switch.

  I added a new SAN at the center of the blade, but due to some unexpected port licensing problems with my Cisco MDS 9000 FC switch, I can connect only one of the 2fc connects to my blade right now.

  The SAN also comes with ISCSI, so my question is, can I have a put in place with FC and ISCSI multipath?  or is it a bad idea?

  Hi friend

  Here's the thread that talks about your request:

  fiber channel - it is possible to multipath FC and iSCSI? -Server fault

• Isolate the vCenter and management host ESXi5.1 of LAN traffic

  I would add two Dell switches to an existing installation, create a private management network (192.168.x.x subnet) containing the hosts and vCenter server, so that the management traffic is isolated and in no way dependent on connectivity LAN... for now that the vCenter server and the hosts are on the local network using public IP addresses.

  Is this possible with vCenter as vCenter that one IP can be configured and how should we switch be configured to allow access to vCenter from the local network via the web and customer management interface vSphere.

  Thank you very much

  Gary

  Facing your audience of LAN?  I think it depends a little bit of what looks like your LAN.  I don't think - you need not NAT your management network.  If you simply use public IPs rather than private to your internal LAN, the answer is no.  I have a client who does this same thing using 191.x.x.x for its internal network.  You try to access your network over the Internet?  It would be a different matter, and I recommend that to consult a competent network engineer.

  In short, just because you go to a public IP address range a private range of IP addresses does not mean you need to NAT.  You see NAT several times when these IP address ranges are used because they are intended.  For example, a company has a single public IP address assigned.  It uses private in its local network IP addresses.  For devices that must leave the LAN and access the Internet, you would NAT because everyone has to share this single public IP.

  Without knowing a little more, I think you'd be fine with the standard range or switching (inter - VLAN routing layer 3).

  All the best,

  Mike

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  Mike Brown

  NetApp, VMware and Cisco data center guy

  Consultant engineer

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• Need a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter

  Hi all

  If someone can help me with a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter, create a role called admin and give all access except the root. This shoulb be past by a virtual centre.

  Very much appreciated to help him.

  Kind regards

  MelLvin

  I suspect that you posted your question to the wrong thread

  This requires only a minor change to the script above actually.

  Something like that

  $groupName = "group"$accountName = "user"$accountPswd = "password"$accountDescription = "A user"
  
  $esxlist = Get-VMHostforeach($esx in $esxlist){    Connect-VIServer -Server $esx -User root -Password "password"
  
      Try {      Get-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -Group -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null    }    Catch {      New-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -GroupAccount | Out-Null    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    Try{        $account = Get-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -ErrorAction Stop |        Set-VMHostAccount -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -AssignGroups $groupName    }    Catch{        $account = New-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess -AssignGroups $groupName    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    New-VIPermission -Entity $rootFolder -Principal $account -Role admin
  
      Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false}
  

• What is the interval of time between the virtual machine Linux and ESXi host synchronization?

  I have ESX5.0 with a centos6 installed on this linux virtual machine.

  After the installation of vmware for Linux virtual machine tools, I activated the time synchronization between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host through vmware-toolbox-cmd.

  I wonder what is the interval of time between the virtual machine linux and ESXi host synchronization? If I quickly time OS system, when the OS system time will sync back to the ESXi host?

  According to http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf:

  By default, the demon checks the guest only once per minute operating system clock.

  However, depending on whether the guest is behind or in front of the result is different. So, please read the section "periodic synchronization" (at least) in the document mentioned above.

  André