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• VM Converter Standalone can convert a vm running on a standalone ESX 2.5.5 server directly to a stand-alone server ESX 4.1?

  Based on documents - VMConverter http://www.VMware.com/PDF/convsa_43_guide.PDF

  Destinations and source pages 22-26 - supported

  VM Converter Standalone 4.3 v can convert a vm running on a standalone ESX 2.5.5 server directly to a stand-alone server ESX 4.1? It appears that it can in the guide. Is this correct?

  VM Converter Standalone cannot convert a power off vm on an ESX 2.5.5 standalone server directly to the ESX Server 4.1 by guide unless the 2.5.5 ESX Server is managed by vCenter 2.5. Is this correct?

  Please confirm. There is some contention about this topic with their peers.

  All points will be awarded.

  Thank you.

  According to the documentation you can hot covert one ESX 2.5.X, if you manage the ESX with Virtual Center 2.5 or higher server.

• Import a model again standalone ESX server

  I hate to ask this question, but apparently I do not know the answer...     I just built a new ESX Server and I need to build a new VirtualCenter.  I have a cluster running with a Windows 2003 model - existing is tehre any way I can import this model on the new standalone ESX Server or I need to build my first VM for VirtualCenter .iSO?

  Thanks in advance,

  Steve

  If licenses permits, you can temporarily add the standalone ESX host to your vCenter server and deploy a new virtual machine in your model.

  Then remove your host the vCenter and add it to your newly created vcenter server.

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• Migrate VMS in vCenter former 3.5 to new vCenter 5.1

  I had (no license maintenance) situation where I have not maintained old environment VMWare vcenter and esx servers running in version 3.5. SAN is mixed two IBM N3300 iSCSI/NFS. All this will be removed from use. Then I got new brilliant vCenter 5.1 environment (new licences), is EMC e iSCSI SAN.

  I was wondering if I could really get the old N3300 on new vcenter, start the computer virtual and storage vmotion them away? But how VMWare reacts if the storage is mounted on two different groups? I should probably remove old vcenter storage before going up again?

  Hosts sharing the same LUN do not need to be in the same cluster, or even in the same environment - I'd go ahed and add logic unit number to the new environment to ensure that you are able to see the storage as well as the files that make up the VM - the steps that I follow are:

  1. Turn off the virtual machine
  2. Reove the VI3 environment (right click on the virtual computer name and select Remove from inventory)
  3. In the new environment, navigate to the location of the VM configuration file (.) VMX) on the LUN and add it to the inventory
  4. Turn on the virtual machine

  You can delete the original ESX host storage and adds it to the new environment - virtual machines should be discontinued for as long you need to add the storage to the new environment and the machine virtual to the new environment, but I think that the above method will be less intrusive and provide a more reliable migration

• Is it possible to apply a provisioning in vCenter or ESX level?

  Hi all

  Is it possible to apply a provisioning in vCenter or ESX level?

  Best regards / yazri

  yazri,

  I am unaware of the way in which only a provisioning can be applied to a newly created VMDK. I think that there is a configuration option required for the creation of new virtual machines, it is not possible to 'apply' only a provisioning.

• vCenter Standalone Converter

  I have 2 machines to esxi 5 that are managed by vcenter 5. I try to use VMware vCenter converter standalone to move 1 vm to another virtual machine. I click on convert machine, then put the IP address to esxi1 and select the virtual machine that I want to spend, he is arrested. Then I put the IP address for esxi 2 and the error I get is access to the settingsis host resource limits for the x.x.x.x (IP to the vcenter server) server which manages the host. Use the destination administration server.

  I tried to remove the virtual machine from the inventory on the original machine, but then the program don't see it. My vcenter is installed on one of the esxi server, in this case, it would be the destination for the virtual machine. I don't think that has nothing to do with it, but just FYI.

  How can I fix this so I can use vCenter Standalone Converter to migrate virtual machines between esxi servers.

  Thank you

  gymiv wrote:

  I use the ip address of the destination server. When I click Next after completing the info of the destination, it's when I get the error described above.

  You IP address vCenter Server, not the ESXi host.

• Try to mark all the VMS in vCenter to 'upgradeAtPowerCycle' to install VMTools

  Page 258 - Yes reference Hal Rottenberg book I bought it, no, I have not read all of this

  Try to mark all the VMS in vCenter to 'upgradeAtPowerCycle' to install VMTools

  Errors and details below. All points will be awarded. Thank you.

  PowerCLI C:\ > $spec = new-object vmware.vim.virtualmachineconfigspec
  PowerCLI C:\ > $spec. Tools = new-object vmware.vim.toolsconfiginfo
  PowerCLI C:\ > $spec. Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle".
  PowerCLI C:\ > $vmview = get - vm | % {(get-vue $_).} MoRef}
  PowerCLI C:\ > $vmview. ReconfigVM ($spec)
  The method call failed because [System.Object []] does not contain a nam method
  ED 'ReconfigVM '.
  On line: 1 char: 19
  + $vmview. ReconfigVM < < < < ($spec)
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (ReconfigVM:String)], Runtim
  eException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: MethodNotFound

  PowerCLI C:\ > $spec

  
  ChangeVersion:
  Name                         :
  Version:
  Uuid                         :
  InstanceUuid:
  NpivNodeWorldWideName:
  NpivPortWorldWideName:
  NpivWorldWideNameType:
  NpivDesiredNodeWwns:
  NpivDesiredPortWwns:
  NpivTemporaryDisabled:
  NpivOnNonRdmDisks:
  NpivWorldWideNameOp:
  LocationId:
  ID:
  AlternateGuestName:
  Annotation:
  Files                        :
  Tools: VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
  Flags                        :
  ConsolePreferences:
  PowerOpInfo:
  NumCPUs:
  NumCoresPerSocket:
  MemoryMB:
  MemoryHotAddEnabled:
  CpuHotAddEnabled:
  CpuHotRemoveEnabled:
  VirtualICH7MPresent:
  VirtualSMCPresent:
  DeviceChange:
  CpuAllocation:
  MemoryAllocation:
  CpuAffinity:
  MemoryAffinity:
  NetworkShaper:
  CpuFeatureMask:
  ExtraConfig:
  SwapPlacement:
  BootOptions:
  VAppConfig:
  FtInfo                       :
  VAppConfigRemoved:
  VAssertsEnabled:
  ChangeTrackingEnabled:
  Firmware:
  MaxMksConnections:
  GuestAutoLockEnabled:
  ManagedBy:
  MemoryReservationLockedToMax:
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  PowerCLI C:\ > $spec. Tools

  
  ToolsVersion:
  AfterPowerOn:
  AfterResume:
  BeforeGuestStandby:
  BeforeGuestShutdown:
  BeforeGuestReboot:
  ToolsUpgradePolicy: upgradeAtPowerCycle
  PendingCustomization:
  SyncTimeWithHost:
  LastInstallInfo:
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

  PowerCLI C:\ > $vmview

  Type                                    Value
  ----                                    -----
  VirtualMachine vm-1419
  VirtualMachine vm-1481
  VirtualMachine vm-1134
  VirtualMachine vm-1098
  VirtualMachine vm-1099
  VirtualMachine vm-1097
  VirtualMachine vm-1094
  VirtualMachine vm-1182
  VirtualMachine vm-1432
  VirtualMachine vm-974
  VirtualMachine vm-976
  VirtualMachine vm-975

  etc etc etc.

  Your $vmview variable contains an array of objects VirtualMachine, not a single object VirtualMachine.

  And the ReconfigVM method is called on a VirtualMachine object, not on a table.

  What you can do

  $spec = new-object vmware.vim.virtualmachineconfigspec $spec.Tools = new-object vmware.vim.toolsconfiginfo $spec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = 'upgradeAtPowerCycle'
  get-vm | % {
      $_.Extensiondata.ReconfigVM($spec)
  }
  

  The appeal for each VM of separately in a foreach loop.

  The VirtualMachine object is available through the Extensiondata property. So, you can call the ReconfigVM method on this property.

• 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

• Und vCenter Server ESX Patch Abhangikeiten

  Hallo zusammen,

  WIR betreiben zur Zeit Vcenter Server in Version der 5.5u1 mit ESX Server auf der gleichen Version. WIR wollen die approximately auf 5.5u3 al environment. As das update

  the Vcenter Server haben wir eine unavailability die aber sehr knapp bemessen ist. WIR können die schon auf 5.5u3 al before ESX host? ICH habe leider nichts found was

  ER clearly verbietet oder allows...

  Danke fur Tipps

  Alex gruss

  Willkommen im Forum,

  vCenter Server 5.5 updated 1 supported lt. VMware product interoperability matrices alle current ESXi 5.5 - ER versions (and more), d.h. die update-Reihenfolge ist in diesem Fall in beliebig.

  Noch zwei short Anmerkungen:

  • every Update 3 should besser Update 3a zum Einsatz kommen (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2133118)
  • a so auf den vCenter servers sonst noch? I.d.R. ist eine unavailability as vCenter Server Dramatisches nichts. HA works auch ohne vCenter, nur die administration und z.B. vMotion/DRS etc. nicht really werden können.

  André

• Run the Workstation VMS in Vcenter 5

  Hello

  I'm trying to run a virtual machine in workstation, which is nested within the virtual machine created in Vcenter. I try to start the virtual machine, but get the following message is displayed:

  Running on a virtual machine VMware Workstation requires the external virtual machine is configured to run a VMware ESX guest operating system. You can not power on a virtual machine until the external virtual machine is reconfigured.

  I know that you need to configure a file, but I couldn't see all the documents on the Workstation 7 configuration details.

  Any help is really appreciated. (Workstation VM's linux, Vcenter vm windows 2003)

  Kind regards

  Older versions of workstation have a conflict between the of the VMware Tools on the level of comments and libraries of VMware Tools on the level of the host.  Ideally, you do want to run both on the external virtual machine, since it is the guest of the physical machine and a host of nested virtual machines.  With Workstation 7, it was not possible.

  The monitor_control option I suggested earlier will disable VMware Tools comments for external virtual machine level.  However, it seems that you have installed, which will pose problems for VMware Tools at the level of the host.

  You should put off the virtual computer, remove the monitor_control option, turn on the virtual machine, uninstall VMware Tools, power off the virtual computer, add the monitor_control option, turn on the virtual machine and reinstall the workstation.  Then, I think that things should work.

  10 workstation doesn't have these problems.

• Current tools for vCenter or ESX monitoring / analysis?

  Looking for suggestions for monitoring tools / analysis to examine the controls system and common parameters against the reference/hardening guides. Tripwire was ConfigCheck and Configuresoft compliance auditor; However, I do not think that they are up-to-date with the latest versions of ESX/vCenter. Is there the current tools available?

  Config checker is still freely available up to 5.0 hardening guide for VMware vSphere.

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/evalcenter?p=compliance-chk&LP=default&CID=70180000000MJsHAAW

  Of course the paid vCM solution is also available.

• Register VMS in vCenter inventory data store

  All of the scripts of the guru out there, Hi

  I am putting together a DR solution for our virtual machines, we currently use the IBM midsize V7000 with Remote Copy to replicate some data warehouses.

  Now I have done some extensive testing and found that, when you make a switch of PROD to the doctor there is a bit of a process to get the running virtual machine.

  1. I have to do a full sweep of the HBAs again. Under storage cards, you can see the assigned as mounted storage devices, however you should always access the storage and go the the Wizard "Add Storage" to readd the data store with the option volume resignaturing. So this part is not painful except it adds a different naming convention in the name of the data store, example a data store named prd_lun100 is named snap-5a18365a-prd_lun100 , so I have to rename the default data store.

  2. I have to go through data warehouses and add each virtual machine in the inventory which is very tedious, and the part very I need to automate.

  I tried that one line, I found here-> http://www.wooditwork.com/2011/08/11/adding-vmx-files-to-vcenter-inventory-with-powercli-gets-even-easier/

  New-VM-VMFilePath"[prd_lun100] SERVER01/SERVER01.vmx"-VMHost"VMHost01.local"

  If possible, I would like to expand on this point, in the following way:

  1 Add the warehouses of data with the correct naming convention, using the identifier for naa to the LUN or LUN ID # to automate, possibly pull this info to a CSV list.

  2. Add a lining above, but a VM list CSV, however add is a DRS rather ESXi Cluster host, if possible priority add virtual machines by a kind of Pavilion of groups in the CSV file.

  3. turn the VMs based on a priority.

  I would really really appreciate if someone can help with this, I know that probably a big ask, but scripting is not my forte and don't know where to start.

  This shouldn't be too difficult.

  Read file names from a CSV file and then checks each VMX file you will find if it is in the list.

  Something like that

  $targetVMX = Import-Csv C:\vmxnames.csv -UseCulture
  $Cluster = "LON_PROD1" $Datastores = "lonservers*" $VMFolder = "LondonAppServers" $ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1 foreach($Datastore in Get-Datastore $Datastores) {
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore
     $ds = Get-Datastore -Name $Datastore | %{Get-View $_.Id}
     $SearchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec   $SearchSpec.matchpattern = "*.vmx"   $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser   $DatastorePath = "[" + $ds.Summary.Name + "]"   # Find all .VMX file paths in Datastore, filtering out ones with .snapshot (Useful for NetApp NFS)
     $SearchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($DatastorePath, $SearchSpec) | where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot"} | %{$_.FolderPath + ($_.File | select Path).Path}
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore
     foreach($VMXFile in $SearchResult) {
       if($targetVMX -contains $VMXFile){
        New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $Folder -RunAsync    }
     }
  }
  

• Modify the script to manage multiple VMs in Vcenter or host - IOPS / s IOstats

  Native of:

  http://derek858.blogspot.com/2011/06/PowerCLI-script-to-dump-VM-IO-stats.html

  
  This script works very well for a VM that is unique to collect iostats, IOPS max...

  I would like a version which will create a CSV file for all the VM on Vcenter server, and I couldn't quite make it work with only 1 output file (and not a bunch of them). Another option would be to each HOST server.

  I think that it will be converted into a function called for each active guest VM.
  Then I would like a way to plan his schedule to start the collection of statistics. I hope WIn 2008 on-demand tasks can do this for me.

  Any help appreciated.

  Thank you!

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

  # diskio - stats.ps1 vmname minutesback (max 60 for real-time)

  $vms = $args [0]
  $time = $args [1]
  $metrics = "disk.numberwrite.summation", "disk.numberread.summation".
  $start = (get-Date). AddMinutes(-$time)
  $report = @)
  $stats = get-Stat-Realtime-Stat $metrics - entity $vms - start $start
  $interval = $stats [0]. IntervalSecs
  $date = get-date-format 'dd-hh-mm-ss.

  $report = $stats | Group-object - property {$_.} @entity.name}, Instance | %{

  $AvgIOPS = [math]: Tower ((($_.)) Group | `
  Group-object - property Timestamp | `
  %{$_. Group [0]. Value + $_. Group [1]. Value} | `
  Measure - Object - average). Average / $interval), 2)

  $MaxIOPS = ($_.) Group | `
  Group-object - property Timestamp | `
  %{$_. Group [0]. Value + $_. Group [1]. Value} | `
  Measure - Object - maximum) as /$interval

  $WriteIOs = ($_.) Group | Group-object - property Timestamp | `
  %{$_. Group [0]. Value} | Measure - Object - sum) .sum

  $ReadIOs = ($_.) Group | Group-object - property Timestamp | `
  %{$_. Group [1]. Value} | Measure - Object - sum) .sum

  $TotalIOs = ($_.) Group | `
  Group-object - property Timestamp | `
  %{$_. Group [0]. Value + $_. Group [1]. Value} | `
  Measure - Object - sum) .sum

  $ReadRatio = [math]: around (($readios / $totalios), 2)

  $WriteRatio = [math]: around (($writeios / $totalios), 2)

  New-object PSObject-property @ {}
  VM = $_.values [0]
  AvgIOPS = $Avgiops
  MaxIOPS = $MaxIOPS
  WriteIOs = $writeios
  ReadIOs = $readios
  TotalIOs = $totalios
  ReadRatio = $readratio
  WriteRatio = $writeratio
  }
  }
  $report

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\_admin\IOPSMax-report-$date.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  If you look at my script in the post to get the OPS are / s maximum , you will notice that in this line of script #5 gets all virtual machines powered.

  If you change the line #28 to

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\_admin\IOPSMax-report-$date.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  the CSV file contains the data for all virtual machines.

  If you want to limit the virtual machines, you can easily update line #5 to have a selection of virtual machines.

  For example,.

  $vms = get-VMHost-name MyEsx | Get - VM | where {$_.} PowerState - eq "Receptor"}

  will produce a CSV file with only the virtual machines that are running on the server MyEsx and are powered.

• Need a list of MAC addresses for all VMs in vcenter

  How go on sending a query to vcenter, and he pulled out a text file that contains all the mac addresses for all of my VM and vm name. Any help will be welcome. Thank you

  Hello, RadarG-

  You can do this quickly with something like:

  Get-View -Viewtype VirtualMachine -Property Name, Config.Hardware.Device | `    Select name,        @{n="MAC(s)"; e={($_.Config.Hardware.Device | ?{($_ -is [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard])} | %{$_.MacAddress}) -join ","}} | `    Export-Csv c:\temp\VMMACsInfo.csv -UseCulture -NoTypeInformation
  

  "It was essentially my post vNugglets.com" find VM with PowerShell - Fast as NETWORK card MAC address!.  If you are wanting just a list ivnventory of MAC addresses of your virtual machines, will be good.  But, if you are looking for a virtual machine by MAC address, or are perhaps looking for duplicates, there are other easier ways.

  Recently, I did 3 three MAC address of related messages (see to The MAC address of label to vNugglets).  There are to find virtual machines by MAC address, find MAC address duplicated and configuration of the MAC addresses on the VMs.

  Enjoy.

• Clone of VMS on a single ESX 4?

  Hey all, I am under a test with a single ESX 4 server environment and can not find the clone wizard.  I know it's available in VI3 cannot see by using the xshpere client.  Did I miss something on ESX 4?  If not possible through the user interface, can someone send a link for a command line option?

  TIA

  Jim

  VMware Converter standalone tool is available from the download page of VMware. You can close the comments and make the clone with the ESXi server as source and destination or use 'published on machine' and point to the machine to duplicate and the destination is the ESXi server.