Upgrading ESX 3.0.2 for 3.5 - best practices and tips

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• looking for a networking best practices publication

  The following quote re ESX host network configuration came from one of our technical pre-sales representatives IBM in the Vancouver area...

  "IBM and VMware have long have jointly published a best practice of the 2 Ethernet interfaces (1 Gb/s each) have teamed up for a redundancy and bandwidth - separated into 3 VLANs - to serve the three channels (management, vmotion and vmnetwork).

  Someone at - it a link to this document?  I can't seem to find it, and I really want to read.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Did not see the document you are looking for, but if you want to learn more about some different network configurations have a look here:

  http://www.NetworkWorld.com/community/blog/7119

  -Pal-André

• Best practices and security on ESX 3.5

  Can someone point me to some documents final regarding the ESX Server security and best practices related to securing the ESX host.

  Things like not to use the account Root, regular patching esx low locking? ...

  Thank you.

  Concerning

  Joe

  Hello.

  Try the Security Hardening Best Practices document.

  Good luck!

• I have upgraded to vista 64-bit for windows 7 64-bit and all the photo files have http://www.jikos.cz/~Mikulas/links/screenshots/jpg.html extension and will not open.

  I changed just jpg extension and tried to open in Photo Viewer, but he says that he has no support for this file. Any thoughts of a solution?

  Hello

  I suggest that you try to open the same pictures using Windows photo manager and see if that helps.

  Right-click on a jpeg photo and try open Manager of picture Windows or Windows live photo gallery.

  Keep us updated with the results once you try the steps above.

• Authorization for each VM (best practices)

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that I want to give a user access to through the VI client. However, I want to only that user to have access to this virtual machine. Is it possible to leave to installation so that when a user connects to customer VI the only virtual machine that they see is them they gave authorities too?

  As always, I would appreciate help with this guy.

  See you soon,.

  Pedro.

  Is this a configuration vCenter ESX Server or standalone? Whatever it is, you can define all other virtual machines to no access for this user account, then apply specific permissions of read-only, read / write, etc for the unique virtual machine that you want them to see. If you use only the ESX authentication, keep in mind that this account is performed on the ESX Server itself - one of the benefits of the use of vCenter and AD authentication is that you can simply add AD to this user account permissions on the host computer.

  They connect the VI client and will only see as VM - test first with their powers.

  -mike

• What is Microsoft's best practices and utilities available for conversions P2V and V2V for Hyper-V, without using SCVMM?

  As a Partner of MS we recommend Hyper-V as the platform of choice virtualation for our SME customers. What does Microsoft recomemend and are available for P2V and V2V for Hyper-V conversions without using SCVMM most SMEs do not have access to

  concerning

  David

  Hi David,
  I advise you to post this question using the link below.
  TechNet is for the professionals of the company and the server, so I don't know that anyone in this community will have some information about this.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/search/en-us/?refinement=112&query=P2V%20and%20V2V%20conversions
  B Eddie

• the upgrade to vista 64-bit for windows 7 64 bit.

  I recently bought a pack of conversion from microsoft for windows 7 64 bit.

  It downloaded as files from the BOX and im extremely frustrated, I can't do anything with these files. I assumed it would be a simple download and upgrade to vista 64-bit for windows 7 64 bit and have tried everything available to me.

  Please help someone

  You can download the .iso file correct 64-bit instead:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/software-OS/w/microsoft_os/Microsoft-Windows-and-Microsoft-Office-downloads.aspx
  The format of the box is the old version.

• best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  Refer to VMware best practices documentation to get the depth on the networks.

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-practices-vSphere6-0.PDF

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.PDF

  See also below article for best practices documentation relating to the different versions of vSphere.

  http://vmwareinsight.com/articles/2016/5/5798853/best-practices-for-VMware-vSphere-architecture

• Best practices for upgrading from 2.5u5 to vCenter 4.1

  Hello

  We are currently running a vCenter 2.5 5 update on Windows 2003 32-bit Standard that we need to upgrade to vCenter 4. Unfortunately the latest version 4.1 needs a 64 bit OS...

  What is the best practice to update our vCenter 4.1 and keep all performance data? I suppose we ought to do it in severalsteps or not?

  (1) vCenter 4.0 Update 2 update

  (2) a copy of the updated vCenter database backup

  (3) to perform a new installation of Windows 2008 64-bit

  (4) to perform a new installation of vCenter 4.0 Update 2

  (5) to restore the database

  (6) update for vCenter 4.1

  Is this correct or am I missing something? Is there a more easy/better way?

  Any help appreciated.

  Hello.

  KO 1022104 contains best practices, and the Upgrade Guide is also a great resource to use for this upgrade planning.  Follow the steps in the Upgrade Guide and everything should go smoothly.

  This is a really difficult list of steps, confirmed by the Upgrade Guide:

  01 build of new VMS 64-bit for vCenter

  02. prep new vCenter VM for connectivity / SQL dependencies

  03. backup of the existing database.

  04 data backup current vCenter using Data Migration tool

  05 use the data migration tool to start the setup of the vCenter server and restore the configuration of the server vCenter to the destination machine.

  06 turn off from the old server vCenter.

  07 restore the vCenter Server Configuration and installing vCenter Server on the new server

  08 updated vCenter Server name of Plug-Ins (if the new vCenter has a different name)

  09. test cycle

  Good luck!

• What is the best practice for the double management interfaces?

  Hello community!

  I'm upgrading to a few host ESX to ESXi 4.1U1 4.0 in the coming weeks. My question is about how to configure the management networks. Obviously in ESX 4.0 Classic I have a Service Console port (on vSwitch0) group and a group of ports VMkernel (also on vSwitch0) which provides my host with SC and vmotion capabilities, as we all know. Note: my vSwitch0 has two vmnic attached to it, is pending and is active. That's just how we have our double installation of switches, so it must be active / standby.

  I got to thinking (book the great from HA and DRS deepdive Duncap Epping and Frank Denneman), that I should consider carefully when my network mangement I improve these hosts to ESXi 4.1 - which of course done away with the Service Console and use the vmkernel instead.

  The question is, in which best practices and account with my setup: I have two vmkernel ports? If so, how should I configure each for traffic management and vmotion vmkernel?

  I think it will be a good discussion to have.

  Thank you all,

  Matt

  The NIC vSwitch0 value active/active, the vswif (and future vmkernel management) team of NIC Active vmnic6 and vmnic1 ensures and leaves the vMotion vmkernel NIC team as is.

  This will allow you to use two physical network interface cards at the same time while having a failover plan and keep your physically separate management and vMotion traffic.

  In the end:

  vSwitch: vmnic1 vmnic6 active, active.

  VMK (Mgt): active eve of vmnic1 vmnic6.

  VMK (vMotion): active standby, vmnic6 vmnic1.

• VCenter 6.0 upgrade vCenter Server 6.0 best practices?

  Can someone help me best practices for best practices of vCenter server 6.0

  These KB should help you to best practices and upgrade guide

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-60-upgrade-guide.PDF

  Deployment Guide

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-vCenter-Server6-deployment-guide.PDF

  Best practices

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  and new features have the peculiarity of cross

  http://featurewalkthrough.VMware.com/#! / vsphere-6-0

• Best practices for backup service console configuration

  Hello

  When you install our ESX servers, I did what I thought was best practices and created a "backup" vswitch with a second service console. Two service consoles have IP addresses on the same subnet.

  They work very well for several weeks. But today, I had a problem connecting to the consoles of the virtual machines on one of our ESX host. After much troubleshooting, I found doc below...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?language=en_US & externalId = 749640

  In point 8, it is said to make sure that you do not have 2 consoles of service on the same network. (Either by the way once I removed the backup vswitch I could access the consoles.)

  I so wanted to check this - should I not create these backup service consoles?

  TIA,

  H

  You don't have to second service console, just a second link to SC.

  Add a NIC to portgroup SC (it can be standby NIC), which would be enough.

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Best practices to configure NLB for Secure Gateway and Web access

  Hi team,

  I'm vworksapce the facility and looking for guidance on best practices on NLB with webaccess and secure gateway. My hosted environment is Hyper-v 2012R2

  My first request is it must be configure NLB, firstly that the role of set up or vice versa.

  do we not have any document of best practice to configure NLB with 2 node web access server.

  Hello

  This video series has been created for 7.5 and 2008r2 but must still be valid for what you are doing today:

  https://support.software.Dell.com/vWorkspace/KB/87780

  Thank you, Andrew.

• Best practices for the application of page multi Landscape/Portrait

  Hello
  I am looking for information on track to develop auto guide demand in pure actionscript with new components of qnx.fuse, but there is not a good example in real code. Every time I tried to make it resizable layout to get deformated fluid only components in portrait or landscape mode.

  I have a simple application with the point main and 3 displays:

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      private function handleTwoClicked(e:Event):void
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          var layout:RowLayout = new RowLayout();
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          container = new Container();
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  Is there for example some best practices how to modify this code to have pages and components with the same sizes in portrait and landscape? On presentation buttons size always 150 width and height 45 and wil containers have stageWidth and stageHeight.

  Thank you if someone could help with this problem

  Hello

  Try listening to a shift in focus screen with this code:

  stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResizeHandler, false, 0, true);
  

  You can only change the width/height of your components to the event based on the width/height of the floor.

  I will guard against specifying specific sizes, if you want your code to work on devices BB10. I recommend using %'s.

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• HTML and CSS best practices for Eloqua?

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