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• No error network adapters installing ESX 4.1 at the current Summit ESX

  I'm trying to install the server ESX 4.1 in one of my virtual machines created in the current ESX 4.1 box.  The installation failed because no network adapters have been detected.  Anyone know how to put in place or find a network adapter inside a virtual machine running on an ESX Server?

  That explains it. ESXi does not support these virtual network adapters. Configure the virtual machine with the E1000 NICs and it should work.

  André

• linking the two hosts esx without switch

  We have 2 esx host currently is ESX4, the other is ESX3.5 (sson be ESX4), we have a direct vswitch which is connected to a switch with 2 uplinks, everything works OK.

  We have another 2 ports on each host that we use to create a unique vswitch used as an internal network. Here's the conencted directly to each other with 2 cables NOT connected to a switch. These NICS have negotiated the correct speed one look d OK, but if I put a virtual machine on each host attach it to the switch with internal uplinks and give them an IP address on the same beach that they cant ping each other

  I know it's a strange config. I can not connect these "internal" uplinks to a switch are we charge £20 per month per 1 GB port which = £80 per month!

  No idea why it does not work?

  You may need to use a cable crossed in this scenario.  You should also be able to reach speeds of 1 GB, with a connecting Cat5e cable - I would check that it's been wired correctly!

  Dan

• How to get the present host ESX VM name

  Dear friends,

  I have script Powercli which information on all virtual machines, how to include where the virtual machine introduced ESX host name and the name of the data store.

  $MyCollection = @)

  $AllVMs = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine. Where {-not $_.} Config.Template}

  {ForEach ($VM)

  $Details | Add-Member-Name name-value $VM.name - Membertype NoteProperty

  }

  You can try like this

  $MyCollection = @()$AllVMs = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | where {-not $_.Config.Template}
  
  foreach ($VM in $AllVMs) {    $Details = New-Object PSObject    $Details | Add-Member -Name Name -Value $VM.name -Membertype NoteProperty    $Details | Add-Member -Name Host -Value (Get-View $vm.Runtime.Host).Name -Membertype NoteProperty    $Details | Add-Member -Name Datastore -Value ([string]::Join(',',($vm.Datastore | %{Get-View $_} | %{$_.Name}))) -Membertype NoteProperty    $MyCollection += $Details}$MyCollection
  

• How to get the MAC address for the physical NETWORK adapter of the HOST ESX (vmnic0/vmnic1)

  I can recover physical NIC details for the server HOST ESX, but MAC is empty... How can I get?

  Thank you/HKS

  $net = get-VMHostNetwork - VMHost myServer.domain.net

  $net | FC

  class VMHostNetworkInfoImpl

  {

  VMKernelGateway = 166.12.113.1

  ConsoleGateway = 166.12.113.1

  ConsoleGatewayDevice = vswif0

  DnsAddress =

  [

  169.40.0.2

  169.40.0.1

  ]

  DnsFromDhcp = False

  DnsDhcpDevice =

  DomainName = domaine.net

  Host name = hostname1

  SearchDomain =

  [

  EU.hedani.NET

  ]

  PhysicalNic =

  [

  class PhysicalNicImpl

  {

  BitRatePerSec = 1000

  FullDuplex = True

  WakeOnLanSupported =

  ID = key - vim.host.PhysicalNic - vmnic0

  DeviceName = vmnic0

  Mac =

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP =

  SubnetMask =

  }

  class PhysicalNicImpl

  {

  BitRatePerSec = 0

  FullDuplex = False

  WakeOnLanSupported =

  ID = key - vim.host.PhysicalNic - vmnic1

  DeviceName = vmnic1

  Mac =

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP =

  SubnetMask =

  }

  ]

  VirtualSwitch =

  [

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch0

  Name = vSwitch0

  NumPorts = 128

  NumPortsAvailable = 105

  NIC =

  [

  vmnic1

  vmnic0

  ]

  MTU =

  }

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch1

  Name = vSwitch1

  NumPorts = 64

  NumPortsAvailable = 56

  NIC =

  MTU =

  }

  class VirtualSwitchImpl

  {

  Key = key - vim.host.VirtualSwitch - vSwitch2

  Name = vSwitch2

  NumPorts = 64

  NumPortsAvailable = 64

  NIC =

  MTU =

  }

  ]

  ConsoleNic =

  [

  class HostConsoleVirtualNicImpl

  {

  PortGroupName = Service_Console_VLAN1

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - vswif0

  DeviceName = vswif0

  Mac = 00:50:56:4 c: 1 d: 3B

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 111.11.111.11

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  class HostConsoleVirtualNicImpl

  {

  PortGroupName = Service_Console_ISOL

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - vswif1

  DeviceName = vswif1

  Mac = 00:50:56:4 d: 88:87

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 10.0.0.241

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  ]

  VirtualNic =

  [

  class HostVMKernelVirtualNicImpl

  {

  VMotionEnabled = True

  PortGroupName = Vmotion_VLAN1

  ID = key - vim.host.VirtualNic - portgroup3

  DeviceName = portgroup3

  Mac = 00:50:56:65:04:56

  DhcpEnabled = False

  IP = 166.12.113.72

  Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0

  }

  ]

  }

  get-vmhost | % {(get-view $_.id).config.network.pnic} | select Device, Mac
  

  http://www.vmwarescripting.com

• Mac: get the current inDesign version...

  Hi all

  Anyone know how to get the current version (e.g., CS5 or CS5.5) of inDesign in a plugin? I have a common code for CS5 and CS5.5 and don't know there's an easy approach to find the current host is CS5 or CS5.5?

  
  Thank you

  MOR

  Take a look at iApplication-> GetUIVersionNumberString()

  Best

  Peter

• Adding new host ESX in VCD 1.0

  Hi all

  I wanted to know the procedure to add the new host Esx VCD and how to increase resources for the installation of the existing cloud.

  Thanks in advance
  Ashok

  Add the host to the Cluster support required in vCenter provider vDC, ensure that networks and required data warehouses configured on this host, and finally as a system administrator in vCD under surveillance & -> resources vSphere management-> Hosts, prepare the new host ESX (i).

• Host ESX HD stuff?

  Couple of questions about the ESX host and storage for it.  Keep in mind, I have only a few ESX hosts.  My main problem is not not the purchase of hard drives, but the shortage of places in my background to put them.

  Given HA/DRS/etc. are always people mirrored the ESX host if there is no virtual machines on the same axis?  Why bother if HA/DRS is involved you would have time to rebuild the ESX host.  Worst case, you will lose the second HD until you can get the first host ESX rebuilt (probably not, and if it happens you are probably looking for a problem bigger than a dead HD).

  OR

  It would be better to reflect a couple of HDs, create the required virtual 36 GB drives and load each ESX in it's own 36 GB vd on the same mirror HDs?

  Thank you

  Bob

  Yes I see it now. Have been home all day with my kids watching Yo Gabba Gabba again and again. Brain is mush

  No RAID is logical if you clusters that can tolerate loss of a host without overloading the remaining hosts. I work in a hosting environment and we tend to be very concerned about ALS, so anything that prevents downtime is good (although I think some of it is just inertia on our part, we just do things with virtual systems that they made us things with physical systems).

• How to report the current time on the ESX host in to a csv file with the following

  Hello guys

  I have the script next where I make the required details except the current time on the ESX host. Anyone can guide me please.

  		{foreach ($esx to $vmhosts)
  			$hostVC = $vcenter
  			$hostCluster = $esx. Parent.Name
  			$hostHost = $esx. Name
  			$ntp = $esx | Get-VMHostNtpServer
  			$hostNTP = "$ntp".

  			}

  I want to integrate the following for loop of the above for loop and ge the output in a single table.

  foreach ($esxcli in get-vmhost | get-esxcli) {"" |} {Select @{n = "Time"; e = {$esxcli.system.time.get ()}}, @{n = "hostname"; e = {$esxcli.system.hostname.get (.hostname)}}}

  Add-Content - Path '$hostVC, $hostCluster, $hostHost, $hostNTP, $hostTime' $hostInvFile - $ hostTime is where I want to get my host right now.

  I'm vcenter, esx name, name of the cluster, host of the ntp server address, but I need the host thus present.

  Thanks in advance.

  Thank you

  vKar

  Try changing the line where the script retrieves the VMHost to this

  $vmhosts = get-VMHost-State connected. Name sort

  This way the script will be only to ESXi nodes that are "connected".

  Pick up time for those defective does not much sense in all cases

• Adding more than one host ESX and the upgrade at the same time.  What is the order of preference of the operations here?

  We are budgeting for more licenses and hardware for 2014 and want to do immediately in January.  I am trying to decide what is the best order of operations for adding two vmware hosts additional to our current installation of vsphere and also upgrade our vsphere / esx 4.1 u3 for the latest and best.

  We have 3 Dell PowerEdge R710 running ESX 4.1 U3.  In this vmware cluster, there is a vcenter server 4.1 U3 virtual machine handle this.  The three servers are about 90% memory used so we add 2 additional servers.  Probably the Dell PowerEdge r.620 since we get up 2 in the space of a 710.  Storage is on a san EMC NX4 NFS which will become too but not yet, let's just deal with the vmware part.

  When adding additional r.620 2, should I install ESX 4.1 on them and join them to the existing cluster and THEN pass vcenter and each one esx?  I ask precisely because 90% of use on 3 current servers, I need 2 other servers to support the update operations take place.  They would be able to repel vmotioned vm while each host receives an upgrade at the same time.

  So which is the best way to go about adding of the hosts and the upgrade?  Would I add as 4.1, then they would be available as targets vmotion and so I have room to start the hosts one upgrade at a time?

  If I update vcenter to the latest version, it is comparable backwards and can manage the 4.1 hosts, but also hosts 5.x?  I guess version 5.5 is the last one I would get from VMWare?  It is right of ESXi, then, how is this ESX ESXi 5.5 4.1 upgrade?  How much storage space do I need for ESXi 5.5, as I'm dechatoiement out of these r.620 Dell and need to know what hard drive to put in.

  The steps that you must follow

  -Updated vCenter Server

  -Upgrade of the ESX hosts (because we do a updating of the material we will install 5.5 on our new guests and add them to the cluster and then dismantle our existing)

  -Upgrade VMWare tools

  -Update data warehouses

  ESXi 5.5 has these storage requirements:

  • Installing ESXi 5.5 requires a boot device is at least 1 GB in size. When booting from a local disk or SAN/LUN iSCSI, a 5.2 GB drive is necessary to allow for the creation of the VMFS volume and a scratch 4 GB partition on the boot device. If a smaller drive or logical unit number is used, the installation program attempts to allocate a region scratching on a separate local disk. If a local drive is not found, the scratch partition (/ scratch) is located on the disk virtual ESXi host, linked to the/tmp/scratch. You can reconfigure /scratch to use another drive or logical unit number. For best performance and memory optimization, VMware recommends that you leave no /scratch on the ESXi host ramdisk.
  • To reconfigure / scratch, see Configure the Scratch Partition of vSphere Client vSphere Installation and Installation Guide.
  • Because of the sensitivity of the I/O devices, USB and SD, the installation program does not create a partition scratch on these devices. Therefore, there is no tangible benefits to the use of the great features of USB/SD that ESXi uses only the first 1 GB. When installing on USB or SD, tent Setup devices to allocate a region scratching on a local disk or the data store. If no disk is local or data store, /scratch is placed on the virtual disk. You must reconfigure /scratch to use a persistent data store after the installation.
  • In Auto deploy facilities, Setup attempts to allocate a region scratching on a local disk or the data store. If no local disk or data store is found /scratch is placed on the virtual disk. You must reconfigure /scratch to use a persistent data store after the installation.
  • For environments that start from a San or use Auto Deploy, it is not necessary to assign a separate logical unit number for each ESXi host. You can co-locate areas scrape for several hosts ESXi on a single LUN. The number of hosts assigned to a single LUN must balance the size of the LUN and behavior I/O virtual machines.

• How would recreate the pagefile to a Windows 2008 virtual computer running on a host ESX 3i?

  As the subject says, I'm looking for a way to do this.  I inherited the environment of another group and it is very small, but it performs ESX 3i on the two hosts and Vcenter version 2.5 (Infrastructure) is a bit old.  5 of 6 VM are operational, however, the 6th when turned on will not get 40% full, but then it will fail to stating that is not a swap file.  Now, normally it is not a swap file, because they are created or deleted dynamically whenever a virtual computer is powered on one of the hosts.  It's quite strange.

  In the new versions / environments, there seem to be ways to recreate exchange capacity easily, but which doesn't seem to be the case here.  I don't think it's a process lock as the two hosts have restarted to clear HA agent / editions of the resource.  My guess is this has happened has been one of the hosts could not reproduce any more process for some reason any and when the VM problem has been powered down to try to erase some, the problem occurred.  Either that, or there are unreadable sectors in the data store, and perforated in this swap file black...

  I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to solve the problem.  Any input would be welcome.

  Thank you!

  All,

  Thanks for the suggestions, but I solved the problem.  What needed to be done was to remove the virtual machine of the inventory and then re-create it as a new virtual machine under the cluster of the same name, same settings and have it use its 2 existing virtual disks.  For some stupid reason, once this is done, he managed to turn on normally and now runs without problem.

  I'm not necessarily happy that this solution because it does not really help understand me what underlying the problem actually was, but I guess I can live with that.  The reason why I have not tried it earlier, is that I was afraid the vmdk would be replaced and I wanted to keep the existing information.  However, someone I work with was certain that they had done before, and that she maintained the pre-existing data, even in this older version, so I finally tried.

  in any case, thanks for the support, and if someone can glean some root causes of the problem based on the solution I have just given, that would be helpful.

• retired former host ESX 3.5 and you want to use the license for the new ESX 3.5host

  We put one of our ESX host out of service and will be replaced by a new ESX host.  I would like to use the license from the old host to the new host.  How do I do that?

  BY stopping the old host you have returned the licenses to the pool available and ready to be used by the new host.

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• Presentation of ID host ESX host LUN to the VCB Proxy Server

  I have a typical scenario where I have 3 ESX servers with 3 x 800 GB LUNS in a storage group separate on a CX 310 SAN box. The host LUN., of these 3 LUN Ids are 0, 1 and 2.

  I have a specific host that starts from SAN, from the same box of CX 310 SAN. At this point of time, I have no choice to use this server as a Server Proxy VCB. As far as my knowledge goes, LUNS of the ESX servers must be made visible to VCB Proxy Server, as they are presented to the ESX servers.

  My question here is, as the designated Proxy VCB server is booting from the SAN, he already has a host LUN 0 to Id the logic unit number this is the start of. The Id to host ONE of the first 800 GB LUN in the ESX Server storage group is also Host Id 0. Now, if I try to make the LUNS in storage group visible on the VCB Proxy Server ESX, is there not a shock of the VCB Proxy 0 host Id and Id host ESX Lun 0? I'm confused, I don't have a test envirinment where I could try this before I could actually go forward with any solution.

  My intention is to perform a backup outside LAN of the VMDK.

  Any help is that this respect is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  (1) Yes, you can have different host for VCB then for your ESX host LUN ID

  (2) Yes, you can use the identifiers of naa, it will automatically use the identifiers of naa, no need to configure anything at all.

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• Pavilion 17 - f053us: replace my current map of the b/g/n adapter with an AC adapter?

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  Do not know why. There is no physical reason the card wouldn't fit and work on your laptop.

  http://www.eBay.com/ITM/Azurewave-Broadcom-BCM94352HMB-802-11AC-867Mbps-WLAN-BT-4-0-half-mini-PCIe-card-/262597757718?hash=item3d240bcb16:g:KDoAAOSw0UdXwm5g

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  If you have looked at the manual, you know that it is not very easy to do upgrade. If you need more help post back.

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