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• How to migrate VRM to another ESX/cluster server

  We have our VRM and VR servers running with vReplication in an ESX cluster.  The network manager has decided to split the ESX server and create a new cluster for our servers, leaving the old cluster and ESX server environment from the view.  I was able to migrate the VR server without any problem, but receive a warning when you try to move the VRM.  How is it best to do it without having to stop the replication and recreate all (that has been no joy for us)?

  Hello

  Safely, you can migrate the VRM machine or use vMotion.
  Make sure you remove the VRM from the inventory of VC machine, as in this case, the configuration of the OVF environment will be lost.

• Penetrating VM from ESX Cluster stand-alone ESXi Server

  I get an error trying to move a virtual machine of cluster VI in a standalone ESXi Server, someone had a bit of luck this?  I tried the following: Get-VM-name "CO-WS-TEST1" - location (Get-VMHost "CO-WS-TEST1"). Move-VM - Destination (Get-VMHost "CO-VM-TEST2") where CO-VM-TEST2 is a stand-alone ESXi server and CO-WS-TEST1 is in an ESX Cluster with VI.

  I get the following error:

  Get-VMHost: 2009-04-13 13:08:08 Get - VMHost VMHost with the "CO-VM-TEST2" name not found, using the specified filters.

  On line: 1 char: 60

  + Get-VM-name of the CO-WS-TEST1 | Move-VM-Destination (Get-VMHost & lt; & lt; & lt; & lt; "CO-VM-TEST2")

  Move-VM: cannot bind parameter 'Destination '. Could not convert "" to "VMware.VimAutomation.Types.VIContainer".

  On line: 1 char: 48

  + Get-VM-name of the CO-WS-TEST1 | Move-VM-Destination & lt; & lt; & lt; & lt; (Get-VMHost "CO-VM-TEST2")

  Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

  What is ESXi system managed (for example with a non-free full license) by your vCenter?  If this isn't the case, then you can not make a gesture like this.  You can probably fake it with enough script and help of some external tools to make disk copy.

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• LAN-Free backup of snapshots VMDK of ESX Cluster

  My intention is to perform a backup outside shots VMDK of ESX Cluster to VCB Proxy Server LAN.

  I have a 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 Ids., (HLUs) host these 3 LUN LUN are 0, 1, and 2. All these three LUNS is a VMFS volume each on the ESX Cluster and all three LUNS are visible to all the ESX servers.

  I have a physical host that boot from SAN (the same box of CX 310 SAN) and this host will be designated as the VCB Proxy Server.

  Now, I'm going to add a 1 TB LUN to the storage group as the LUN 4 ESX servers and the Id., (HLU) host LUNS for this one will be 3. This logic unit number will be added as the 4th volume of the cluster ESX VMFS. It will also show all three ESX servers in the Cluster.

  I'll create a Windows VM 'VM2K3' on ESX Server 1, and I intend to add the volume (1 TB) entire VMFS 4th as "D:\". "drive"VM2K3 ". I'll share this disc "D:\". "and it will be mapped as drive"T:\ ". "on the VCB Proxy Server. This disk 'T:\ '. "will be the target for the storage of the VMDK to snapshot backups, in a compressed format. I use VizionCore vRanger software connection to this effect on the server VCB Proxy itself.

  Question 1.

  This scenario will provide the backup off LAN of VMDK instant?

  Question 2.

  In the case of a failure full 1 ESX Server, VMotion will be or a manual movement of the virtual from Windows "VM2K3" machine would affect the LAN-Freee of instant VMDK backup? If so, how will this affect and what will be the impact?

  Question 3.

  The "C:\". "Logic of the VCB Proxy unit number will be a 30 GB SATA LUN and the total size of the RAM on the VCB Proxy Server is 8 GB. The ability to drive "C:\". "30 GB will be sufficient to make faster given the fact that I have about 45 VMs at this point in time?

  Any help or suggestion or two in this case would be very useful.

  Hello

  A physical machine cannot directly access a VMDK in a VMFS. There may directly access LUN, that LUN could then accessible by a VM with RDM or virtual RDM mode. But why would you do it is really beyond me.

  The VCB Proxy running W2K3 and you present all your VMFS volumes (make sure that you don't have a letter assignment drive automatically enabled when you make this presentation). See http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_vm_backup.pdf for assistance with this.

  VCB proxy then read this VMFS and copy data from it to your T:\ drive (MON).

  Remember that no two hosts can access the same logical unit number unless you use a clustered file system.

  Best regards
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• ESX Cluster load - wise host...

  Hi all

  I have 2 groups with the ESX hosts.

  Now I need to get the report for each configuration of cluster and cluster has HOSTs.configuration... I want the report as report cluster resource and the cluster HOST... same

  as below

  NOMCLUSTER |  Total space (MB) | Available CPU (Mhz). Total of the CPU (Mhz).   Total physical memory (MB) |   Memroy available (MB)

  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  Thks for LUKE providing report below. , I received this report of our vmware blogs, its rreport even this only for CLUSTERS

  I hope you understand my problem.

  appreciate your help

  Thank you

  ALDOVMWARE

  # Virtual Center Server
  $VCServerName = 'my servername. "
  $creds = get-Credential
  # Some variables
  $portvc = "443".
  $VC = connect-VIServer-Server $VCServerName - Credential $creds - ErrorAction Stop - port $portvc
  $report = @)
  $clusterName = "MonitoringTestCluster".
  $report = foreach (Get-cluster-name $clusterName $cluster) {}
  $esx = $cluster | Get-VMHost
  # $ds = get-Datastore - VMHost $esx | where {$_.} Type - eq "VMFS" - and $_. Extensiondata.Summary.MultipleHostAccess}
  New-object PSObject-property @ {}
  VCname = $cluster. Uid.Split(':@') [1]
  DCname = (Get-Data Center-Cluster $cluster). Name
  NOMCLUSTER = $cluster. Name
  'Number of guests' is $esx. County
  'Total of processors' = ($esx: measure - InputObject {$_.}) Extensiondata.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuPkgs} - sum). Sum
  'Total core' = ($esx: measure - InputObject {$_.}) Extensiondata.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuCores} - sum). Sum
  'Ability to failover current CPU' is $cluster. Extensiondata.Summary.AdmissionControlInfo.CurrentCpuFailoverResourcesPercent
  'Ability to failover of current memory' is $cluster. Extensiondata.Summary.AdmissionControlInfo.CurrentMemoryFailoverResourcesPercent
  "Configured failover ability" = $cluster. Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DasConfig.FailoverLevel
  "The level of automation of migration" = $cluster. Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DrsConfig.DefaultVmBehavior
  'Recommendations of DRS' = & {$result = $cluster. Extensiondata.Recommendation | %{$_. Reason ;} If ($result) {[string]::Join(',',$result)}}}
  'DRS flaws' = & {$result = $cluster. Extensiondata.drsFault | %{$_. Reason ;} If ($result) {[string]::Join(',',$result)}}}
  'Migration threshold' is $cluster. Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DrsConfig.VmotionRate
  'hosts target loading standard deviation' = "NA".
  "Host current care gap" = "NA".
  'Total physical memory (MB)' = ($esx |) Measure-Object-MemoryTotalMB property-sum). Sum
  'Configured MB memory' = ($esx |) Measure-Object-MemoryUsageMB property-sum). Sum
  'Available Memroy (MB)' = ($esx |) Measure-object - InputObject {$_.} MemoryTotalMB - $_. MemoryUsageMB} - sum). Sum
  'Total CPU (Mhz)' = ($esx |) Measure-Object-CpuTotalMhz property-sum). Sum
  'Configured CPU (Mhz)' = ($esx |) Measure-Object-CpuUsageMhz property-sum). Sum
  'Available CPU (Mhz)' = ($esx |) Measure-object - InputObject {$_.} CpuTotalMhz - $_. CpuUsageMhz} - sum). Sum
  'Total of free space (MB)' = ($ds | where {$_.}) Type - eq "VMFS"} | Measure-Object-CapacityMB property-sum). Sum
  'Configured (MB) disk space' = ($ds |) Measure-object - InputObject {$_.} CapacityMB - $_. FreeSpaceMB} - sum). Sum
  'Disk space available (MB)' = ($ds |) Measure-Object-FreeSpaceMB property-sum). Sum
  }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "Q:\Cluster-Report.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Try this, it's the closest you can get.

  You cannot combine different objects (files) in a CSV file.

  # Virtual Center Server
  $VCServerName = "my servername" $creds = Get-Credential # Some variables
  $portvc="443" $VC = Connect-VIServer -server $VCServerName -Credential $creds  -ErrorAction Stop -port $portvc$report = @()
  $clusterName = "MonitoringTestCluster"foreach($cluster in Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName){
    foreach($esx in (Get-VMHost -Location $cluster)){
      $report += New-Object PSObject -Property @{
          VCname = $cluster.Uid.Split(':@')[1]
          DCname = (Get-Datacenter -Cluster $cluster).Name        Clustername = $cluster.Name        VMHost = $esx.Name        "Number of hosts" = $esx.Count        "Total Processors" = ($esx | measure -InputObject {$_.Extensiondata.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuPkgs} -Sum).Sum        "Total Cores" = ($esx | measure -InputObject {$_.Extensiondata.Summary.Hardware.NumCpuCores} -Sum).Sum        "Current CPU Failover Capacity" = $cluster.Extensiondata.Summary.AdmissionControlInfo.CurrentCpuFailoverResourcesPercent        "Current Memory Failover Capacity" = $cluster.Extensiondata.Summary.AdmissionControlInfo.CurrentMemoryFailoverResourcesPercent        "Configured Failover Capacity" = $cluster.Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DasConfig.FailoverLevel        "Migration Automation Level" = $cluster.Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DrsConfig.DefaultVmBehavior        "DRS Recommendations" = &{$result = $cluster.Extensiondata.Recommendation | %{$_.Reason};if($result){[string]::Join(',',$result)}}
          "DRS Faults" = &{$result = $cluster.Extensiondata.drsFault | %{$_.Reason};if($result){[string]::Join(',',$result)}}
          "Migration Threshold" = $cluster.Extensiondata.ConfigurationEx.DrsConfig.VmotionRate        "target hosts load standard deviation" = "NA"        "Current host load standard deviation" = "NA"
          "Total Physical Memory (MB)" = ($esx | Measure-Object -Property MemoryTotalMB -Sum).Sum        "Configured Memory MB" = ($esx | Measure-Object -Property MemoryUsageMB -Sum).Sum        "Available Memroy (MB)" = ($esx | Measure-Object -InputObject {$_.MemoryTotalMB - $_.MemoryUsageMB} -Sum).Sum        "Total CPU (Mhz)" = ($esx | Measure-Object -Property CpuTotalMhz -Sum).Sum        "Configured CPU (Mhz)" = ($esx | Measure-Object -Property CpuUsageMhz -Sum).Sum        "Available CPU (Mhz)" = ($esx | Measure-Object -InputObject {$_.CpuTotalMhz - $_.CpuUsageMhz} -Sum).Sum        "Total Disk Space (MB)" = ($ds | where {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | Measure-Object -Property CapacityMB -Sum).Sum        "Configured Disk Space (MB)" = ($ds | Measure-Object -InputObject {$_.CapacityMB - $_.FreeSpaceMB} -Sum).Sum        "Available Disk Space (MB)" = ($ds | Measure-Object -Property FreeSpaceMB -Sum).Sum    }
    }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "Q:\Cluster-Report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• Move vc db server to another cluster

  I need to move my VC DB server to another cluster (VC is on another server, it is simply running SQL).  Cluster processors are incompatible so migration won't work.  I think that using the converter would be the way to go.  How I got on moving the virtual machine?  I have to install the converter locally on the virtual machine and to do a conversion with the target server as a host in the cluster of others?

  All systems are vSphere 4.1

  Thank you

  Mike

  Yes, sometimes I seem more complicated things simple.  Assuming that you have shared storage between the host ESX (i) source and destination ESX (i), which will be a very quick and easy solution.

• Add ESXi 4.1 host to ESX cluster

  Can I add a new host ESXi 4.1 to a cluster of ESX 4.0 flawless on the servers in the cluster to the new host ESXi 4.1 once it reconfigures the AP for the HA cluster?

  IF not is there a reason that I can not add the server to the cluster during the day without any problem?

  Thank you for your help with this.

  You should have no problem adding 4.1 host in the cluster.  However, in order to manage a crowd 4.1, you MUST run vCenter 4.1

  .. .on a side note.  Usually, I add hosts in the cluster in maintenance mode.  Once it has been added, exit the maintenance mode so the HA agent can be installed.  In addition, none of this will cause an HA event.

• To VMS in Vcenter standalone esx

  Hi all

  Can someone please give leurs.02 cents on this issue. I currently have a few VMs that are under Vcenter cluster that I would go to a stand-alone server. This server cannot be managed Vcenter, the server will be on a remote site that will not be connected to the hub where the Vcenter.

  Use imaging tools to take the image or move the virtual machine to the data store?

  You can install and run from the prompt in question and convert propelled him into the machine, 'this local machine' or you can install the standalone client on a remote computer and do it this way as well.

  This may help a bit

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/VMware_Converter_Standalone_guide40.PDF

  curious question... How are these present RDMs? Just know that you run in a mode not supported

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/3371739

• Memory for the ESX Cluster stats | Total, Avail, allocated, used...

  Before going out and trying to write a script that does the following, I wanted to know if someone has already written something similar:

  • Collect the total amount of RAM in each
    ESX cluster less the total RAM allocated to virtual machines in the cluster.

  • For example, if
    32 GB of RAM is available in a cluster and there are four 1 GB VMs and virtual two 2GB computers running, then we have 20 GB of RAM remaining to support 20 1 GB VMs.

  • Pull the memory allocated quantity to the VMs system compared to the amount actually used as a measure as well.

  Thank you

  I don't know if you need to calculate the memory available to the virtual machines like that.

  Not all memory in a cluster is available for running virtual machines.

  And a virtual machine does not always all of the memory that you have configured with the memory available to the cluster.

  And of course, this changes over time depending on the activity of the virtual machines.

  Take a look at the total on the cluster by vm and check if the script there is no more sense to what you try to get.

• Common cause of failure of the Mirage server in clustered environment and how customers will be switched to the other server in a cluster

  Hello

  Can someone share me information about common cause of failure of the Mirage server in clustered environment.

  And how customers will be switched to the other server in a cluster to continue their operations from the server failed.

  Kind regards

  C Bathesha

  In general, Mirage servers are not lacking. It is very rare (and not, for example, to problems of storage or endpoitns, which are more common).

  May raise problems of overload, memory or hardware malfunction too little.

  After that you make server standard troubleshooting (the etc system event log), you must file a Service request by VMware.

• Power CLI script to add multiple VLANs with port group name in an ESX cluster

  Hi all

  Can someone help me get a script adds several VLANs with port group name in an ESX cluster?

  Kind regards

  Suresh

  OK, so you just need to do an Import-Csv inside the loop and change the variables accordingly.

  What is the provision of this CSV file?

• Installation and configuration of ISA Server under ESX

  Hello

  What are the requirements to install ISA server under ESX?

  And I need 3 physical network adapters? Or can I use only 2?

  I am looking for a document that tells me how to configure ISA under ESX.

  Thank you.

  It depends on the role of the ISA.

  3-branch network you need at least 3 ESX physical network cards to ensure a physical traffic isolation.

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• VMs migration 3.5 ESX vSphere cluster cluster

  We need migrate approximately 100 virtual machines of the old cluster of ESX 3.5 to a cluster running vSphere. Separate environments of vCenter. What is the best way to do this? Servers in both groups use the same SAN storage. His favorite make migration as quickly as possible with downtime to do online for a longer time. As I see the options are either to present the LUN 3.5 to 4.0 servers and browse the data store and select Add to the inventory or to use the Vmware Converter and do a v2v conversion.

  Is this a correct observation? What happens when you use the option Add to the inventory? Do you need to do a lot of configuration later? I have no ESX environment to test this right now. I guess we can do a Storage Vmotion to "correct" LUNS after virtual machines, we added to the cluster 4.0?

  Converter will probably take a lot of time because the data must be copied.

  Yes is good (remember to answer I_moved the first time you turn on the computer, virtual).

  But you wrote "LUNS are not shared between guests today.

  If new guests can see the LUNS from the old host, that a simple solution (VMS must be turned off and on again after adding it to the inventory).

  André

• Move VMS between server ESXi and vSphere ESX server

  Dear all,

  I want to move some a vSphere ESX server virtual machines to ESXi server.

  I understand that some users will use CPS to move between the ESX servers, but apparently not for moving between different products.

  I'm just using a slow and prone to error method:

  The files of the virtual machine to my deskop PC of vSphere ESX server and then upload to the ESXi server.

  I would advise you to please all of the methods that is better than this one?

  Help, please.

  Kind regards

  Tommy

  If you got a central storage you can move virtual machines between the two products with vMotion. Since you don't seem to have available vMotion, you pouvez use scp. SCP has nothing to do with ESX/ESXi products. It is a Linux/Unix program which is available in both servers.

  So with the CPS, you need a little less.

  The syntax is like:

  SCP - r/path/to/vm/directory user@esxi:/path/to/new/location

  Concerning

• Monitoring selected VM, ESX, cluster hosts

  Hello

  I check if it is possible to select the specified ESX host or Virtual Machines to monitor instead of pulling all the VMS and hosts in Foglight? Thank you.

  Kind regards

  Jamie.

  You can via a user name, but we do not support that.  The problem lies in the case you have a virtual machine, and then you forget about the potential problems with the host.  If you have only a few hosts, it could miss part of a cluster or something else using the storage...  There are many cases where not having not any data could cause problems, so we don't support all a vCenter.