Update of ESX 3.5 hosts cluster?

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• ESX host Cluster Versions...

  I have a general question...

  If I have a 3 host cluster, and 2 guests are on 3.5.0 (no updates) and another host is 3.5.0 update 3 is the default value for the entire cluster to 3.5.0?

  I ask this question because I realized that I have a few guests who were not updated that I'd ever thought, and while trying to deploy VMWare View for development, we cannot use linked clones.  I suspect that this is because the cluster is not 3.5.0 with appropriate update.  Update VCenter Update 4 (2.5.0), and while I have a host that is consistent with the requirements of the view (upgrading ESX 3.5.0 U3 host)

  Although it is a little irrelevent because we are working on the updating of the entire cluster to 3.5.0 U4, and the server VCenter 2.5.0 U4 it does not raise a question in my mind to understand how the cluster works when you have multiple hosts with different versions... maybe that is why we have trouble with vmotion between updated host and the other guests...! = O

  Yes, if you have incompatible CPU is that vmotion is affected, but the basic version of 3.5 or U2 will not vmotion cause stop.

  The only way to get the 53xx and 54xx to vmotion is to activate EVC, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1991 or replace the mask, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1993

• Can update VMware ESX to ESX 4.1 U2 U1 4.1?

  Hello

  Am new here.  But my question is simple.

  Dowloanding the ESX 4.1 U2 .zip bundle...

  Can I update the ESX Server 4.1 U1 to ESX 4.1 U2 (without lossing the VM Machine on the host)...

  Thank you

  That's about all.

• Upgrading memory on ESX 3.5 hosts

  Hi all

  We are trying to upgrade the memory of our esx 3.5 hosts.  If we properly close the guests, then we properly stop the host, will be the guests of vmotion.  According to me, they won't, but I was curious to know if it is happen.

  If the guests are turned off, then stop you hosts, there is no HA/DRS.  All guests will stay in an engine out of State until the ESX host come back online.

  If you have vCenter with vMotion/DRS, you can do a rolling upgrade.  vMotion all guests to another host in the cluster, put vacuum host in maintenance mode, it off, add RAM, if power return, exit maintenance mode.  Rinse and repeat.

• NEWBIE: vSwitch in a matter of the host Cluster Configuration

  Hello

  I'm pretty new to vmware and will be starting my first implementation in the coming days.  I had training and have a very good understanding of what it is I'm doing it but have a few issues of networking.

  If we do not have Enterprise Plus and must use Standard vSwitches on each host in the cluster (using 3 host cluster), that mean each virtual NETWORK adapter configurations on each vswitch hosts will be exactly the same?  So, if I put the vMotion group of ports on host A to use the physical network (vmnic0 and vmnic1) interface cards whose 192.168.10.1 IP address et.2.  It means that I then configure the same IPS for vMotion Port Group (vmnic0 and vmnic1) on host B and C of the host in the cluster?

  If this is the case then wouldn't NIC physical on the three ESX hosts in the cluster need to have same IP configs, in which case wouldn't that cause conflicts of intellectual property, no?   Please advise if I am not clear enough.  Thankx.

  Rick,

  You would need separate IP addresses for each VMkernel port that you are creating.  Thus, for example, if you create 2 VMkernel ports per host, 1 host could avoir.1 et.2, host 2 may avoir.3 et.4 and host 3 can be affectee.5 et.6.

  But remember, you are not assigning IP addresses for uplink adapters (vmnic), you will then assign to the VMkernel Ports.  Your ESXi host will have a VMkernel default port for management (created during installation) which will have the IP address of your hosts assigned management.

  If you create a separate network for vMotion (recommended), this would require a VMkernel port separated with the checkbox "Use this port for vMotion" checked, and who would live on, most likely, a separate vSwitch with its own uplinks.  The VMkernel port would have its own unique IP address.  You will need to repeat this configuration (with specific to host IPs) on each host.

• Displacement of the ESX 4.0 host a VCenter server in different Windows domain

  Hi people,

  Current situation: two ESX 4.0 host controlled by a VCenter 4.0 Server (Cluster) within a Windows Server 2003 - field. All the user access control is done with the users in the domain of the old domain. The cluster and all the VMS are running fine without any problem.

  There is a Windows 2008 domain. We want to set up a new server VCenter 4.0 inside the new domain and move both ESX 4.0 hosts to the new cluster / VCenter Server 4.0.

  What is the right way to do it without block me out Vcenter / ESX?

  1) implemented the new vcenter one create a cluster

  (2) removing both the old cluster ESX servers

  (3) joining the two ESX servers to the new cluster

  (4) granting the domain users from access to the new domain to virtual machines...

  Is it really that easy?

  Should which accounts I include both ESX hosts to the new vcenter/cluster? The root-password? We have forgotten, but there is a way to reset it (single user mode), this shouldn't be a big problem.

  Thank you for your kind support,

  Wolfgang

  You must add the hosts to the new cluster through their DNS names and supply the root password when prompted.

  Make sure that select "piggyback pools of resources of the host" If you want to keep your pools on the new vCenter. To do this you must enable DRS in the new cluster too.

• Mix of ESX 3.5 and VMware ESX in the same cluster

  Hello

  I'm currently involved in ESX 3.5 Migrating virtual machines to a new vSphere environment.  All ESX 3.5 hosts running on obsolete kit and will be decomm had at the end of the project.  All hosts are managed by the same server vCenter.

  The only problem is, I have to add an additional ESX4 server, but there is not enough available physical switch ports.  I have decomm one ESX3.5 servers in order to free ports, but they run at 2 knots, and I will lose redundancy if a hardware problem arises.

  My proposed Solution: -.

  I think decomming ESX3.5 host 1 and move it to the new vSphere cluster.  The type of brand/model/CPU is different between the old and the new servers and I am not concerned by VMs DRS'ing between 2 environments, however, I understand that I have would be protected by HA if anything disastrous happened.  All hosts are connected to the same storage.

  You don't see any problem with that?

  You can have a mixed cluster, but this must be managed by vCenter 4.x.

  And you also need a license for the former hosts of 3.x server.

  HA will work.

  If the CPU is compatible VCA, then as VMotion, DRS, VCA will work.

  André

• Update Manager fails to analyze host to upgrade.

  I just recently updated Virtual Server 4.0 Update 1. My next step is to update my servers ESX 3.5 to 4.0 Update 1. After going through the steps and the creation of a reference database that I was unable to analyze the host in order to get it updated. I received the following error message.

  VMware Vcenter Update Manager had an unknown faliure. Responsible for check and tab events and logs for more details.

  Got this error?

  Thank you

  Now, I have the solution. You can find it in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_vum_40u1_admin_guide.pdf on page 45:

  -vCenter Server and Server Update Manager are installed on the same host and their database instances are on

  two different hosts.

  If you separate the VirtualCenter 2 databases and the UpdateManger to different SQL servers.

  Without having to disassemble, I get the following error message:

  Setup has found that several schemes exist in the database, please remove the additional schemas before you continue.

  If you can not ignore this message, you should really separate the VirtualCenter DB of the UpdateManager-DB.

  What's new with 1 updated in ESX V4.0, it wasn't a problem.

• How update of ESX 4 Update 1

  Hello all, I need help for the upgrade of our ESX servers.

  We have 7 ESX 4 Server (Advanced) and a (Advanced) Vcenter server. I moved the virtual machines of 2 ESX servers to other servers and installed

  the news using the iso file to update 1. There is therefore 5 left ESX servers to update, but I don't want to do this by the migration of virtual machines to others

  servers and installation of the host with iso update 1.

  So I downloaded ESX - 4.0.0 - update01.zip and Vmware Vsphere Upgrade Guide. What is the good guide? Chapter 14 (update an ESX/ESXi host using Offline bundles with the vihostupdate utility) is the right one for me, OK?

  I don't really understand how to upgrade hosts with the vihostupdate command. I installed the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance on any of the ESX host and now?

  ESX 4.0 U1 server upgrade is not supported with vSphere Host Update Utility. You can use vHUU for the upgrade to ESXi 40-U1 with online portal.

  : +: VCP, RHCE, EMCPA.

• Connect an ESX host 4.0 in a store of data VMFS 3.31 with vMotion, and ESX 3.5 hosts

  Hello

  I moved 2 x a new vCenter 4.0 3.5 ESX hosts.  I also have a new ESX 4.0 host.

  Can I connect this ESX host 4.0 for the data store using the 2 x ESX 3.5 hosts?  It is a VMFS 3.31 on a CX3-20 SAN data store. I was then going to vMotion virtual machines to the new host and reinstall the old.

  I just fear that the new ESX 4.0 host will do something to the data store that make it incompatible with the older ESX 3.5 servers.

  Thanks in advance,

  Euan

  Yes, you can connect and use these data with ESX versions warehouses. If you have sVMotion it will work as well. On ESX 3.5 you can only move the guest as a whole on an ESX 4.0 host, you can move the vDisks independently.

  It is perhaps unnecessary, but when I update the ESX 3.5 servers 4.0 I unplug the storage until the update is running. Just in case...

  AWo

  VCP / vEXPERT 2009

• Update only one item in the cluster while avoiding race conditions

  I have a cluster called "Inputs" that has a bunch of data within all kinds of data types.

  I have several loops in the code I want each of them to update a specific element within the cluster.

  I have to get the cluster use this Bundle by name on the specific item and then rewrite in the cluster.

  This way I have racing conditions because two loops can 'be' the cluster at the same time, but when they rewrite a wiil overwrites the other.

  How can I avoid these race conditions?

  I am familiar with Globals functional if it is connected to a possible solution (I have the feeling that it is..)

  Thank you!

  I still think that my suggestion to use the value of data references would be easier. The structure of the International preliminary examination will block the concurrent access to the data cluster: no race condition.

  

  The last loop (option) shows how to query the State of the heap of data.

• Need a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter

  Hi all

  If someone can help me with a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter, create a role called admin and give all access except the root. This shoulb be past by a virtual centre.

  Very much appreciated to help him.

  Kind regards

  MelLvin

  I suspect that you posted your question to the wrong thread

  This requires only a minor change to the script above actually.

  Something like that

  $groupName = "group"$accountName = "user"$accountPswd = "password"$accountDescription = "A user"
  
  $esxlist = Get-VMHostforeach($esx in $esxlist){    Connect-VIServer -Server $esx -User root -Password "password"
  
      Try {      Get-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -Group -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null    }    Catch {      New-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -GroupAccount | Out-Null    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    Try{        $account = Get-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -ErrorAction Stop |        Set-VMHostAccount -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -AssignGroups $groupName    }    Catch{        $account = New-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess -AssignGroups $groupName    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    New-VIPermission -Entity $rootFolder -Principal $account -Role admin
  
      Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false}
  

• Custom list VIB in ESX 4.1 hosts?

  Hi people,

  Is there a quick way to enumerate all VIB custom in ESX 4.1 hosts running data center?

  I got about 30 VMhost and wondering if it is possible to enumerate all of these custom VIb before I level to ESXi.

  Thank you.

  As you can see on the returned object, there is no piece of software in there.

  The vibs can be registered with this method in vSphere 4

• Upgrading to ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 4.1 where the VCenter is installed on the guest system

  Hello

  I try to find measures to upgrade to ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 4.1 where the vCenter Server 4.1 is installed on the system of comments on this host.

  Any suggestions are welcome.

  Thank you

  Georgi

  Should I move the virtual machines from the first RAID at one of the others? Whipe then come out the scores and perform ESXi 4.1 installation?

  Yes, it's a way to do this.

  Unfortunately, the ESXi 4.1 installation wipe the disk to complete installation (or logical volume) as you have experienced. Assuming that "logical partitions VMFS" you mentioned are logical volumes actually created in the RAID configuration (presented as individual of the operating system disks), you can migrate the virtual machine that is currently stored on data store of the installation disk to a data store on one of the other logical disks and then install ESXi.

  André

• Is it possible to use GPFS or another build is a SAN storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts?

  We have a license GPFS and SAN storage. I am trying to create a storage shared for multiple ESX and ESXi hosts share existing virtual machines. We tried once NFS, it of a little slow and consume too much bandwidth LAN.

  Anyone can help answer? Thank you very much in advance!

  It depends on your storage space.

  You must connect all hosts to the same San, then follow the configuration guide of ESXi and specific documentation for your storage space (for sharing LUNS on multiple hosts).

  André