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• ESXi crash happening with vCSA?

  Hello

  I have 4 ESXi 6 hosts in a HA cluster.

  What will happen if the ESXi host falls down and vCSA was running on this host?

  The vCSA always automatically starts on a different host? (I think: this must be a vCSA action, but when it is low nothing will happen.)

  Is there a way to avoid this? I know I can build 2 vCS of Windows in a cluster, but I really don't want that.

  Kind regards

  S

  vSphere HA is not to have a dependency on the server vCenter after successful configuration.

  so if your ESXi Host which hosts vCenter VM fails, HA will still be able to detect this failure and launch the failover, so in a few minutes, you will find your device being powered in a healthy host in your cluster HA of vCenter.

• Upgrade of a single host with Shared Storage

  Getting ready to upgrade my ESX 3.5 hosts to vSphere.  I've already upgraded to vCenter.  I have two hosts managed by vSphere, and both hosts have a storage area of channel shared fiber that guests are on.  Each server can see all shared data stores.  I want to upgrade a single host first, then later upgrade the other host.  I've migrated the guests running to 2nd host whose I am not upgraded at the moment.

  My question is can I upgrade the first host using Update Manager?  What happens to guests in data warehouses that run on 2nd hosts?  Will they be affected?

  > My question is can I upgrade the first host using Update Manager?

  Yes.

  > What will happen to customers in data stores that run on 2nd hosts? Will they be affected?

  They will not be affected.

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• ESXi hosts with VCSA 5.1 patch

  Hello

  I use the 5.1 VCSA in our environment with a mixture of standard and enterprise more 5.1 ESXi hosts.  My question is what are my options to patch (apply the updates of security and minor improvements) as VCUM offers in an environment strictly Windows?

  Thank you

  I know from a normal vSphere Manager installation of update you specify port 80 of the vCenter server. Have you tried this port number?

• A single VM of VCS running on dedicated hardware

  Hey all,.

  As noted in another post, the announcement of the end of life has been made for physical devices VCS - of which we have 50 dot at various locations. However, while it is perhaps possible to accommodate the SCV - C as a virtual machine within or organization support for farms (assuming that the strict hardware requirements and CPU:vCPU and memory mappings are met), welcomes the VCS are perhaps another question.

  With us, these are logically located outside of an organization in a MPLS cloud and physically we have several devices located in the other location - there is no host in place at those places that could accommodate the VCS-E. Thus, one will essentially seek a single host server to run a single instance of a virtual computer: hmm sounds a bit like one using the tool! Even the Cisco Small Server would be a stretch mass for this. I guess a small general-purpose host that meets the requirements for ESXi would suffice, but this seems a bit ridiculous to me.

  Someone at - it other thoughts?

  See you soon

  Chris

  The announcement of the end of life (link) is only for devices of generation 1 physical.  There is always the possibility to buy the VCS control on the hardware of the UCS C220 (CTI-CE500-ORL-K9).

  Wayne
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• Manager Update on the VMware host updated

  I have two VMware hosts with vCenterServer running in a virtual machine on a host.  Manager of update is loaded and it works very well.

  I would like to be updated (install patches) the host who has VCenterServer on this.  Technical support said that he could not tell me that it was OK to make a staging of the update with UpdateManager on the host.  My plan was to push updates on, then use vSphere client to manually restart the host that is home to the VCenterServer.  It makes sense that it would work, but the tech told me to create a second vCenterServer on the other host.  It's a lot of work.

  Anyone has successfully done what I was planning to do?  I look at UpdateManager patch the first host, it seems that Update Manager pushes updates to the host, and then goes into maintenance mode and restarts.  Why not push updates, then restart manually?

  Any other suggestions or ways to do from the console?

  You can update the hosts through command-line if you stop vcenter.

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2012/02/quickest-way-to-patch-an-esxesxi-using-the-command-line.html

• install vCSA single host and manage this host of "inside".

  Hello

  This is probably a stupid question, but I have found no reference or information about it:

  is it possible to install vCSA on a single host, which will be then handled by the same vCSA?

  background: there is only a single physical server available.

  are there disadvantages with such a configuration, and if there is, which could be problematic? same starting the server cannot, because it does not find the vCSA server to validate its license?

  I know that an update manager will not be usable, as the upgrade of the host, all virtual machines must be turned off and the host is in maintenance mode. This isn't a problem, as a manual upgrade of a single server is really easy.

  Best regards

  Mayr Oskar

  I agree with Gortee about the DVS, because that would be a factor limiting.  Since it is a single host it is useless to DVS anyway (unless you need the ability to scrutinize traffic in native mode).  I use the full vCenters blown on my main data centers, but I have a bunch runs exactly as you mentioned (about 60 sites with single host + VCSA + vStandard Switch).  No problems.  Good thing is that you can define the order of auto start since you do not HA.

• ESXi 5.1 upgrade to ESXi 6.0 with 2 warehouses of data on the local host

  Hi, I'm a little new for vsphere stuff...

  I currently have a 5.1 ESXi host who I want to spend to 6.0. I did with another host with several virtual machines on which had a unique and just ran data store Installer, robbed the store of current data so it updated the system, but kept all my config and VMs in tact.

  However, with this other host, its data store has been expanded at some point, and rather than extend the data store, they have created an additional.

  So my question is now, if I run the Setup, what data store I point to and there are likely to be problems I might encounter?

  Thank you and I look forward to hearing from someone soon

  Ben

  Hello

  a multiple data store or data store is no question during the upgrade or install ESXi.

  I guess, you start using ESXi Server ISO.

  Select storage (disk or USB/flash storage) where old ESXi is installed during the Installation (upgrade).

  This allows to detect the existing ESXi installation invites you to upgrade instead of doing the new ESXi installation.

  During the upgrade, select preserve existing and upgrade VMFS ' option to make sure that you keep the old virtual machines and old configuration ESXi.

  Thank you

  Hentzien

  Virtual Admin

• Purple screen on HOST with Esxi 5.5

  Good afternoon

  I'm upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5 esxi servers.

  I've updated 5 servers without problems but the sixth, I had a problem.

  This morning when I've updated a host everything worked fine. Suddenly, an hour later, host was unreachable and when I checked in the server room

  I got a purple screen. I manually restarted the host, and everything seems to work.

  In my research, one user has this kind of problem, and it's cyclical. I'm doing research in this type of case a way to fix this bug.

  I took a quick glance at 2 positions:

  VMware KB: ESXi hosts with larger workloads can generate partial core dumps

  VMware communities: All content-all communities

  Is that someone already had this kind of screen? Understand what the purple screen?

  Kind regards

  Definitely check your versions of firmware on your server, BIOS, NETWORK card, card Raid array.  What type of server is it?

• Vista running slow after update 11/05/2011 dealing with Outlook 2007

  Vista Home Prem running slow after update 11/05/2011 dealing with Outlook 2007. Now, it takes 30 to 45 seconds to open Outlook, or any program. I'm under IE 9.0.8112.16421.

  The installed updates were:

  Update of security for Microsoft Office System 2007 (KB2540162)

  Update for the filter of junk e-mail in Outlook 2007 (KB2536413)

  Update of security for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB2535818)

  Update for Windows Mail Junk e-mail filter [May 2011] (KB905866)

  Windows malicious software removal tool - may 2011 (KB890830)

  Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB2509470)

  Can anyone help?

  Thank you

  Tony

  Hi Tony,.

  You can try the following steps and check.

  Method 1:

  You can try to run the performance fix and check.

  Check out the link:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/slow_windows_performance/

  Method 2:

  You can also read the following article and try the suggested steps.

  How to troubleshoot performance issues in Windows Vista

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950685

  For more information, see the links:

  Optimize your computer for peak performance

  http://www.Microsoft.com/athome/Setup/optimize.aspx

  Hope this information is useful.

• Best way to migrate virtual machines to new ESXi hosts with a different configuration of networking.

  We currently have a cluster of 6 Dell machines that move VM 120 or so on ESXi 5.5. Networking consists of a dVswitch with 6 uplinks that map to 6 x 1gig physical NETWORK adapters on each host ESXi... These are grouped into 3 trunks / gal, so we have 2 GB by SHIFTING of the bandwidth and failover. The LAGS are configured as follows:

  LAG1

  Traffic to our (NFS) shared data store and management of ESXi. (vmk0)

  LAG2

  Access to the network of the VM - groups of different ports on different VLANS

  LAG3

  vMotion (vmk1)

  We just bought 6 new Dell machines that have connections fiber 2 x 10gig each. The idea is to bring together in a 20Ggig LAG by machine that will handle all of the traffic, so traffic NFS data store, network traffic from the VM, vMotion and traffic management ESXi.

  
  

  What is the best way to migrate the virtual machine in the cluster existing to the new machines? Many of the virtual machine are essential, so we cannot stop time.

  
  

  Can I create the new DELAY on existing dVswitch and put it as an auxiliary card? I'll be able to do it for all 3 of the above both above LAGS?

  
  

  Thanks for the info Alistar, it's almost here. The bit that was me stumping was that after establishing a new dVswitch I received messages that the new dvSwitch was not reachable on the old host, when I tried to migrate the virtual computer.

  The solution (with the permission of VMware Support) was that I need to add the two dVswitches to one of the old hosts, then assign a physical alternative on this host uplink to a temporary 3 uplink on the new dVswitch. I then tag all the relevant VLAN that uplink.

  This way I can first migrate the virtual machine to the new dVswitch networking so I can move the computer to the new cluster.

  Obviously I can only migrate from old to new cluster with a single host. each virtual machine must be a double for the host with 2 switches, and then to the new cluster. I also had to have the two dVswitches to the same version.

  Fortunately, I had a physical rising spare on the hosts of the old, otherwise I would have had to break one of the trunks and re-use of one of these uplinks.

  Oh and be aware, impossible to use the same names for groups of ports 2 DV switches, they must be unique!

  Nick

• Fixed host with Virtual SAN - host of recovery objective chess

  Hello community,

  I have a question about the failures of the host with Virtual SAN.

  We have 6 x ESXi hosts with (a 1 SSD and 7 hard drives) virtual SAN enabled. It is therefore possible to lost 2 ESXi hosts without a failure. Correct?

  Is it possible to define a rule based on the host that defines who is ESXi host target failure?

  
  

  For example:

  When host 1/6 breaks down, host 4/6 should start the VMs.
  

  When the 2/6 host goes down, host 5/6 should start the VMs.

  When the 4/6 host goes down, host 1/6 should start the VMs.

  When the 5/6 host goes down, host 2/6 should start the VMs.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  Best regards from the Germany!

  Yes & No :-)

  To lose 2 ESXi hosts and continue to run all your virtual machines, you must define the number of failures to tolerate = 2 VM storage strategy and set this policy to the virtual machines.

  There is no way to create areas of the fault to VSAN currently however. Then VSAN will determine where them reconstructed objects when the failure of a host - this isn't something you can order now.

  HTH

  Cormac

• Can you have a cluster with a single host?

  Hello

  I'll put up a new VMware infrastructure, which includes a cluster with 2 guests in a place and a single ESX host in a second location.  They will all be managed by server unique vSphere.

  It is possible that the second site can earn an additional ESX host at some point in the future.  So, my question is if I have to create a cluster for the second site and have just the single host in it for now, so its ready if we add a second host?  Is it possible to have a cluster with a host, and what are the consequences of this?

  Thank you

  Joe

  Technically, Yes, you can have a Cluster to a single node and if you plan to add another node in the cluster later it makes sense to set up the first node.

  And, both from a technical point of view, but especially from a point of view BAU.  Mulitnode cluster promotion will be less intrusuve there is no additional software to add on the pre-existing main node, therefore you Board change will be less nervous about the piece of work, because it won't change the node pre - that does not exist.

  From a personal point of view my current client runs a number of single-node clusters, in their environment.

• Cannot upgrade to ESXi 4 Update 1 via vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0

  Hello

  can someone tell me why I can't update ESXi 4.0.0 build 219382 to ESXi 4 Update 1 via vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0? The doesn´t utility see the update.

  The problem is, I can't download the update on http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4 because I always get the error

  "I'm sorry, at the moment you are not allowed to download VMware ESXi 4.

  Update 1 Installable.

  You have the following options:

  "

  How can I get the update or the update with the host update utility?

  I already have an activated ESXi 4.0 license!

  219382 is the latest version. You already update 1.

• Update Server ESXi 4 Update 1 in a HA cluster with Update Manager

  I have currently a node two, HA on VSphere 4 cluster each host running ESXi 4. I want to update ESXi 4 Update 1 by using Update Manager. My question is, I'd do one host at a time to ensure that the guests stay up? The update to ESXi 4 update 1 requires even the hosts restart? I still have an option to update only one host at a time?

  I just want to know if there is a way to update the two nodes in the cluster without interruption of the comments.

  Thank you.

  You can do the remidiation at the level of the cluster by using Update Manager

  in your case, Manager Update wll start theremidation the first host and repeat the failure of the virtual machine on a second host (hope you have activated the DRS for the VMotion). Once the restoration is complete and host will start, it will do VMotion to improved host and continue sanitation on the second host.

  Update Manager also supports remidiating each host in the cluster.