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• Virtual machine is unable to ping host ESX

  I have a server host to ESX 3.5 Update 4 and I had a weird problem.  I searched for days and can't find an answer then perhaps someone could help me.

  My ESX host works perfectly.  I can manage it by Internet or by customer VI.  Setting up and installation of virtual computer very well market.  The problem occus with the networking of several virtual machines.  I have a group of virtual ports for the virtual machine that is connected to a virtual switch that is bound to a physical card.  The service console is also connected to a single virtual switch. The problem is that only the first virtual machine that is put on will be able to connect to the internet and other devices and computers on the network.  I have 5 different VM with different operating systems and the same network settings.  Any one that I first start will work, but only that one first.  The rest of the virtual machine can ping only this virtual machine that was started first.  They don't ping to the ESX host or anything on the network.

  The network gateway is 192.168.1.254, the ESX host is 192.168.1.110 and the VM is 192.168.1.111 - 115, the DNS is 192.168.1.50

  All virtual machines have static IP.  They each have their own respective intellectual property, the walkways are all set to 192.168.1.254 and DNS to 192.168.1.50

  Yet even as the first market works, and it works perfectly, can see everything on the network and connect to the internet.

  SuryaVMware is absolutely perfect with his suggestion. I went through the same scenario on the 3750's a few months back myself.

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• Weird question on which the machine virtual ESX 3.5i

  Hello world

  I have a question very very weird on 2 x HP DL380 G5 boxes with ESX 3.5i U3 loaded on each.

  The installation program:

  DL380 G5

  2 x Quad core

  2 x 72 GB Raid 1 + 0

  6 x 146 GB Raid5

  32 GB OF RAM

  I installed esx 3.5i u3 according to the normal, created vm. But when I copy data to a network in the virtual machine folder spikes the cpu and the virtual machine does not respond. What makes it worse, is if I copy a large file on the c: to another folder on c: VM does not - high cpu and ping meets about 200ms. vmdk bones all over the 72 GB Raid 1 + 0 datastore. When I add a data from the store of raid5 data drive the same phenomenon occurs. If I copy the c to this drive on the raid 5 data store the virtual machine gets does not and pings hover at about 200ms.

  Any ideas?

  I have no idea why this is happening, Ive deployed the same configuration with a bunch of vm and no problem.

  I don't think its network since you said that you have the same problem copy from c: to c: on the same machine.

  Looks like the machine is waiting for e/s finish. Check if you can see if I/O is blocked somewhere

  Are there messages in the system log of Windows indicating disk problems?

  Check your RAID controller. It is on the HCL?

  Your write cache is configured correctly?

  Arnim - van Lieshout

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• I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I was able to ping before the update. Test management system also fails to ping the default gateway.

  I sent a private message you, could answer you on this one here? Got iso's, he's now testing in my lab, but I don't have that kind of network cards, you will need to do the real test for me.

• Questions about connecting to a host ESX 3.5 to vCenter 4.1

  I need to migrate 7 hosts 3.5.x ESX ESX 4.1. I did not have a test environment and will work with live on committed production systems (not clustered). vCenter 4.1 and two new 4.1 ESX hosts have been configured to handle live Vmotion (cluster will come later). I activated the license point server towards the old VirtualCenter 2.5 in the hope of being able to disconnect a host ESX 3.5 live the old virtualcenter and reconnect to the new vCenter 4.1 without rebooting the host ESX 3.5. VUM is not an option at the present time, so I intend to do a full install base upgrade.

  (1) I know that I can disconnect the ESX 3.5 server the old virtualcenter without problem. My first question is, if I try to join the new vCenter (config pointing to the old license server) box of 3.5 will be vCenter 4.1 need to install the new management agent in the box of 3.5 and therefore require the host restarts?

  (2) if the agent of 4.1 management is not installed on the host ESX 3.5, its virtual machines can be migrated (cold) to one of the new servers?

  I should add that the licenses are not a problem, we are migrating to the latest keys but have sufficient old licenses to manage the transition. The VMs are on SAN LUNs that are visible to guests old and new.

  Especially, I want to know what to expect through are exactly what will to restart is required and have not been able to locate that particular point.

  Thanks in advance.

  hensonj7

  When we went from 3.5 to vSphere, is that big of a deal.  Just disconnected the vCenter server host and updated the vCenter keeping the existing license server, and then re-attached to the new Victoria Cross.  It will establish links with the new 4.1 software, but it shouldn't require a reboot at all.  I did mine with all virtual machines out of it, but I think you can do all this live... Since a little while I did this upgrade

  -Kyle

  «"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

• 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).

• 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.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator

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• Satellite L670D - keyboard is very weird

  Good, everyone

  I just got my laptop Toshiba L670 before I had a pixel that is stuck in my screen and send it back, so they gave me a new one, but now I got another problem since today my keyboard is very weird, as it keeps stuck sometimes when you type, my friend told me that it was something with ghosting. But I tested a USB keyboard on this subject and that everything worked well.

  Can someone please help me how to solve this problem, it is still able to fix or should I return again...

  Tom's right. These questions are always set by the BIOS updated.
  Please visit the Toshiba BIOS download page and check for the latest update of BIOS - http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_bios.jsp

• Impossible to ping Host

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  Dear Madlabs

  Please activate the correct network card as part of management network of DCUI

• Windows 7 64 bit host works very slowly after discontinuation of VMWare Workstation

  I am running 64 bit Windows 7 on a Dell laptop with an i7, 6 GB ram and VMWare Workstation 9 processor. Everything works well on the host and the VM, while the virtual machine is powered on but after the suspension of the virtual machine and station work out of the system host becomes very slow and applications become desensitized. This lasts for several minutes after the stoppage of work. In general, I have executed only a VM at a time, but even when I got a couple of them run both the host system and they are very sensitive. I started the task with great difficulty Manager when this occurs to see if I can see problems with the free time of processors and memory use, and everything seems fine. So far all my research turned discussions about this kind of problem during execution of the virtual machine so I am at a loss to know even where to go next to make this diagnosis.

  Kind regards

  Bruce Brandt

  This is because windows is the collection of memory the vmware used in the system and marking of these blocks of memory piece by piece as 'free '. If you shutted down of the virtual machine (not paused) then the memory can be returned to the system immediately. I guess if it was caused by the Intel RST driver because I noticed about there is also no question AMD computer used by my colleague.

  You can wait until the stops of HDD-light, keeping the stats of light, constant in the meantime try avoid to activate any application of consumption-e/s disk / operations.

• Host ESX 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade

  Hi all

  In my organization I have assigned to a task of the Host ESX 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade.  I came through the VM KB documents.  Y at - it videos available that shows the upgradation via the Service Console.

  Thanks for all the entries...

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You don't need a video, its very simple.

  1. simply download: upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  2 use VUM guests 4.0 to 4.1.

  In addition, you can do command line...

  1. download: pre-upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  2. download: upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  3 using esxupdate

  Thank you

• Weird question. Captivate 6 do not let me pick a script for a tip Action

  Hi, so I am faced with this very weird problem on a captivate project 6 I built. I have to add an Action in advance on an exit of blade action. This was previously defined as "Continue", and now I want to put this to 'Execute the Action Advanced' (an action script advanced that I just wrote). The thing is that when I change the property on the output of 'Run of advanced Actions', I'm not able to select a script in the menu 'Script '. I have tried everything from:

  • modification of machines and doing so on different computers with 6 Captivate
  • Make copies of the file and try those
  • Closure of Captivate and restart my computer
  • Ensure that the blades are not locked

  but can't seem to understand this. Also oddly, if I try to set the property on the output of let's say slide 67 as "Perform advanced Actions" (when he was already all just 'continue'), all other slides also change to this, sense of ownership on output for all other slides also changed from 'Continue' to 'Perform advanced Actions'.

  I've been stuck with it for the last 6 hours and that you can't fig this out.

  Help, please!

  -Sean

  Your question sounds suspiciously like a corrupted project.  Did you do a lot of copy and paste to duplicate slides maybe?

  Anyway, check out some of the troubleshooting tips in this post:

  http://www.Infosemantics.com.au/Adobe-Captivate-troubleshooting/basic-troubleshooting-tech wheat

  If kill the Preferences folder does not solve your problem (see Tip #8) then you might want to try to copy your current slides in a very empty new project of the same size. You will lose all current in the process advanced actions (because you're on Cp6) but it turns out something useful to get rid of corruption all in recovery always content.

• Cannot ping my esx Server

  Hi all

  I hope you can help, this problem has been driving me crazy for some Richard now!

  Firstly a bit of history... We have a Compaq ML760 running esx 3.0.1 attached to 2 SCSI disk bays. On weekends, this system was powered down by our partners to outsource in replacement of the ups in the rack. When turning the power on it we lost communication with the inverter boards... a new case, few new readers and reconstruction of the RAID the latter we have an ESX that starts in the log on screen with no obvious errors.

  So, the problem is that since we cannot ping or connect to any other way of our ESX Server. Now, before that I have to go any further in my opinion, it is worth noting that I'm not an expert of linux/esx I know enough to login as root and run a few commands.

  I have read several discussions around this issue and none seem to apply to my situation. Not only did I not ping my ESX, when I log into the ESX I can't ping any device, even the entry door. I had a quick glance at the configuration (should not have changed during the upgrade of the UPS!) and everything looks ok to me, feel free to correct me, the info is here:! esxcfg-NICS. JPG!

  

  

  any ideas would be appreciated!

  Thanks in advance,

  Adam

  Adam - I had a very similar problem in my test once environment. Everything was going well, all settings have been properly etc... but no connectivity ntwk. I had to remove my network config and rebuild. You can try just a little at a time to see if it works. Try to create a new vSwitch, move your top Service Console and assign a network adapter with the appropriate vlan information. See if it works then. That should give you an idea if there is a kind of corruption with the current configuration of ntwk.

  This site will give you all the commands necessary to accomplish these tasks:

  http://B2V.co.UK/b2vguide2vmware3.htm

• Planning of the names of the dns infrastructure and host esx (FQHN)

  Greetings,

  We plan our virtual environment for ESX 3.5 on IBM xSeries hardware. The environment will be made up (initially for short term) of two ESX host machines and a server that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for virtual center and VCB to backup proxy functions. My questions and concerns, consider installing the management network and the host names of the servers themselves.

  I want to ensure the safety of the ESX servers and management functions by choosing a servo for all ESX hosts IP subnet and the virtual Center. Anyone done this? The back of the draw are more limited communication with the "machines" or more complicated infrastructure network that you need to add an interface on a router or an internal firewall for proper computers can access the host ESX and virtual Center. - What someone else? Are there better ways?

  I also have questions about a naming convention good/responsible for all vmware hosts. We have example.com as a public domain. Someone also created a domain in active directory (who did not understand what they were doing) in the same domain, so my structure active directory looks like "host.example.example.com" - silly, I know. I guess that it is more appropriate to not place ESX or other host vmware in the same logical domain/dns as members active directory. While the leaves creating a separate field or using the public domain from example.com (esx.example.com). I thought for security and separation, it may be more appropriate to use "esx.example.local". This command removes any way for virtual infrastructure mingle in the public domain. All comments, thoughts, carries on this?

  I also intended to appoint guests something like the following: ESX1.something.tld, ESX2.something.tld, etc. and virtual center something like VC.something.tld. Since virtual center needs to be a member of active directory to allow the mapping to user accounts, those who cause any issies with the ESX host with different domain names complete? Are there other ways to connect to active directory without being a domain member machine? Is anyone doing or having problems with it from a security point?

  ccandia wrote:

  fhrivers,

  Thank you. I suppose that by 'local management LAN', you hear the internal local production lan do you use?

  We actuallu use 2 subnets now, private, internal, and a DMZ for guests in public (although it's hard to keep everything under this distinction more). I assume that your recommendation is just to meet the host ESX and virtual center under the internal local subnets, even as the other hosts internal and access control on virtual Center allows to regulate access to the VI3. Certainly address more easily. You have concerns the fact that VC is running on a windows platform and is therefore vulnerable as such? I was trying to come up with a good armor for VC. I guess that windows firewall is always an option, or stop the services and other standard precautions. What is your opinion of securing virtual Center?

  You're right, I want to talk about the normal subnet that all servers and users are connected to.  This works in my environment, but may not work in environments more serious questions of internal security.

  I actually run VCenter as a virtual machine in a HA cluster to eliminate the scenario of hardware failure, but I do not see why the vCenter running Windows makes it more vulnerable than any computer on your network.  Like any other essential service, I would make sure that running the server vCenter vCenter only and that essential services only run including a client anti-malware.  I tend to take an approach more inside-out security and not an outside in approach.  I'm more concerned with security at the application layer to the edge of the network.  Again, which works best for my environment.

• Copy files from my computer to a host ESX 3.5

  Hello

  Relatively new to the naked ESX Server with me on this one. I built on an ESX host with the intent to use it to restore an Exchange mailbox for one of our users. I have 3 comments of the machine (a domain controller, an exchange server and a vista client to reconnect the mailbox). I have those 3 vms on a single internal vSwitch. The problem is that the Exchange database files that I restored are sitting in a folder on our production network. My question is, how do I copy these files to the vm of the exchange on my host ESX Server? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

  There are two ways you could do this.

  You can add a second vnic to the Vista client. the vnic would uplink for a vswitch with access to the network of prod. Give the client Vista a static IP from the network of production on the new vnic and copy files on via SMB (i.e.
  prodserver\c$ \somepathwheremyfilesare\)

  You can also set up a temporary virtual router (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9617)

  Or I guess you can burn the files to an ISO then transfer the ISO in a data store on the ESX host and then mount the ISo as a CD image (don't forget to clear the bit read only)