use an existing snapshot to start a new instance of a virtual machine?

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• Adding a new drive on a Virtual Machine

  Hello

  I need to add a new disk to a virtual machine that runs as an Exchange Server.   Normally, when you add the new drive I would choose the store with the Virtiual Machine.  Unfortunetrly the Datasotre stored on the virtual machine is virtually complete.  What are the implications of the selection 'Specify a location' during the creation of the disc.  I'll always be able to use VMotion?  and how the disk get stored on the selected locvation.  He appears as a vmdk file in a folder named after the Virtual Machine?  Anything else I should look for?

  Thanks for any advice.

  Concerning

  Kevan

  You mentioned already correctly more points:

  • the vmdk will be stored in a folder with the name of the virtual machine
  • vMotion is not affected until all guests have access to the data store
  • According to the snapshots the ESXi version are either created in the home folder of the virtual machine (before 5 ESXi) or in the folder parent of vmdk

  André

• Is it possible to hide the news of Vmware's Virtual Machine?

  Hello just a small matter of team.

  We have 5 ESX

  Is it possible to hide the news of Vmware's Virtual Machine during the creation of the Virtual Machine (not in registry) that we have a lot of VM?

  Start > run > msinfo32 >

  Thank you

  GoldTipu

  Hello

  It is possible that you could change some things in the registry, but there are many other "clues" as something being a virtual machine, such as the presence of tools VM, MAC address, drivers, etc.

• When a snapshot is complete, so I can start to make changes to the virtual machine?

  When I take a snapshot in merge, a progress bar appears in the window of virtual computer, then disappears in a few seconds.

  But a picture of a clock also appears on the Fusion icon in the dock. Only the clock takes a minute or two to disappear.

  What process is the clock?  What is the take a complete snapshot?  When the progress bar disappears, or when the clock disappears?

  Can I safely begin to make changes to the virtual machine, I want to be able to restore, immediately after the progress bar disappears?

  Or, it is more prudent to wait to make changes until the clock disappears?

  Thank you

  (The progress bar and the clock appear in my Fusion 3 that I use always happy... I don't know what appears in more recent versions).

  While the stopwatch turns, Fusion is busy writing the snapshot to disk, so the performance of your comments and your host could be reduced.

  As long as the performance isn't an obstacle, you can continue to use the virtual machine while the snapshot is taken.  Merger will ensure that the snapshot includes the exact state of the virtual machine at the moment, you started the snapshot: nothing of what you are doing inside the guest, while the snapshot is in progress does not affect the State of the socket.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Using vmrun to obtain an IP address when you run the virtual machine mode headless fails customers

  Operating system: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

  VMware Fusion: Professional Version 8.1.1 (3771013)

  When you run a VM guest in headless mode I can't use vmrun to get IP clients. If I eventually bring to the top/start the merger GUI, the command returns the IP address as planned. It is always reproducible.

  $ vmrun -T fusion start "path/to/MyVMs.vmx" nogui
  2016-06-12T10:55:46.626| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 11515
  
  ... wait for VM to come up. If the VM has a static IP address I can now ssh into the instance.
  
  $ vmrun -T fusion getGuestIPAddress "path/to/MyVMs.vmx"
  Error: The VMware Tools are not running in the virtual machine: "path/to/MyVMs.vmx"
  
  $ vmrun -T fusion checkToolsState "path/to/MyVMs.vmx"
  installed
  
  ... Start the VMware GUI and ensure the VM's console window is open
  
  $ vmrun -T fusion getGuestIPAddress "path/to/MyVMs.vmx"
  192.168.100.23
  

  I tested with open-vm-tools and tools VMware packaged with the merger and the behavior is the same. I also spoke with others on the channel of freenode #vmware who have confirmed that the problem exists for users of workstation as well.

  Hi danandham,

  Welcome in the vmware community. Iyou s really a problem, we try to fix it.

  After a command, you can use as a workaround:

  vmrun t fusion getGuestIPAddress "path/to/MyVMs.vmx" - wait

  See you soon

• Can I use the Windows Vista I had with my Toshiba laptop on virtual machine?

  Hey all

  I have changed Microsoft for Macintosh, but installed on a virtual machine (oracle vm virtual machine) my Windows Vista I got with my Toshiba Satellite A350D Notebook previous. I installed Vista with the recovery disk. Now he asks me the Windows Vista product key. The sticker on the back of my laptop is more readable. I run the Belarc Advisor to get the product key in this way. But right now, he said: "it's the product key installed at the factory by the manufacturer rather than yours. You can change this to your product key here for Windows http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=45668"

  My question: am I not allowed to use windows vista legally, I had with my computer toshiba laptop on other devices? I won't use the Thoshiba laptop. Do I have to delete the record from the Thoshiba laptop? Where can I get a new product key?

  Maybe someone can help me here. Thank you in advance for taking your time to read this.

  Betty

  Recovery disk or recovery image is designed for some cell phone only and is not a kind of universal image that can be used on other devices. It comes with the laptop.

  You can use the Microsoft Windows disk with valid license on each device. Recovery image is not only BONES. This is the package that contains the drivers and tools specific to Toshiba and utilities.
  As you also know recovery image when you install it on your laptop must be turned on not so the license code downstairs just proves you have purchased a valid license with your laptop.
  > Should I remove the record of the Toshiba laptop?
  Not why do this?
  > Where can I get a new product key?
  You cannot get it because you need when you use the recovery image on your Satellite A300D. I think even you will hear of Toshiba.

• Failover storage and a new analysis while running virtual machines?

  The guys from storage must update the firmware on our HP EVA 8000 without. Currently, all my LUN is replicated to another EVA. The guys from storage you want to switch on the other EVA LUN so that they can make updates of the firmware without changing anything. I planned a complete failure of all my virtual machines and hosts so that they can make the switch. Basically stop all virtual machines, stop the hosts, making failover LUNs and then turn everything back.

  My question is there anything that can be done online? We tried it a couple of weeks, and we were hoping to have just the storage team launch the failover and a new analysis on the ESX hosts. All ESX hosts that had run VMs on those LUNS could would not fail on Mon after a new analysis. I have another cluster which can also display these LUNs. They were able to rescan and see the failure on Lun without problem. The only difference is that these other hosts have not the virtual machines running on these LUNs.

  If this working or is this the behavior that we should expect to see? This change in all with vSphere?

  Management has come back and asked why we must take a complete failure and whether it can be avoided in the future.

  > do failover LUNs and then turn everything back. My question is there anything that can be done online?

  Depends on your storage space.  If the LUNS are replicated really, they are up to date and your paths are correct on the ESX AND you use alternating (unfixed) it should work fine.

  This really isn't a function of VM Ware, because technically, storage is really transparent to ESX.  If you can find a valid path to the data, it will use it.  Just to make sure that is not the FIXED path.

• NullPointerException when starting a new instance of a process

  Hello
  
  I was invited to go through this tutorial BPM Foundation Labs/demo thingy, and I encounter an error after that I deployed my BPM project and try to start the workflow.
  
  Check the server logs give the exception ff:
  http://pastebin.com/uT2bpbJk
  
  Someone has an idea or can give me some advice?
  
  Thank you
  
  Roy

  Hi Roy,

  This exception occurred because the error thrown in the BPMN flow has not been processed by the error handlers and reached the scope of higher level. Root cause: com.oracle.bpel.client.BPELFault: faultName: {{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension} runtimeFault} []
  parts: {}
  Summary =

  null
  
  detail =java.lang.NullPointerException
  at oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.model.runtime.util.DataHandlingUtils.performCopy(DataHandlingUtils.java:815)
  at oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.model.runtime.util.DataHandlingUtils.processOutputData(DataHandlingUtils.java:451)
  to oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.map.builder.visitors.impl.ScriptTaskVisitorImpl$ MIProcessOutputDataAssociation.doExecute (ScriptTaskVisitorImpl.java:128)
  at oracle.bpm.bpmn.engine.microkernel.MIBase.execute(MIBase.java:34)

  Of the error, it seems that any assign operation has failed in your process, because the variable/xpath it correspond to null. Make sure you transfer the correct data to start the instance. Follow on EM that exactly where it failed and find the root cause.

  Kind regards
  Anuj

• Get ServerFaultCode exception when trying to get new France for a virtual machine

  Hello.

  I use its builtin SoapClient and PHP 5 to connect to the web service 5.5 vCenter. Connecting and disconnecting functions work but when calling any FindBy method I get the following exception:

  
  

  SoapFault exception: [ServerFaultCode] object has already been disposed or was not completely created

  
  

  I suspect that this is not a problem with the settings but is a general problem with method calls. Please help me get this part of my development.

  
  

  Thanks in advance.
  

  Well Yes, look at your '_this' node, it's empty.  But I just noticed that "Indexderecherche" is capitalized.  Maybe return null b/c it's the name of the property is "Indexderecherche" not "Indexderecherche"?

  $service_instance-> Indexderecherche;

• Size limits to add a new disk to a virtual machine?

  Hello again,

  I have a variety of iSCSI LUNS, and range in size from 500 GB to 1 TB. I've added databases on appropriate LUNS and they were put into shape with a block size of 8 MB he. The problem I encounter is that I can't create a new disk for any computer virtual size of disc more than 256 GB. No clue as to why this is happening? I've recently updated my ESX host with the update package now, cordially.

  Thanks as always...

  I would check that the size of the block is really 8 MB...

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1003565

• My XP guest uses a lot more memory on the new laptop

  I just got a Dell Studio 15 and moved my Windows XP VM to it, and it uses a lot more memory than on my old system.  I don't know how VMWare allocates memory, but on my old system, I saw almost no additional memory used when you start this virtual machine (with the exception of the cache memory), but on the new, it uses almost as much memory that I have assigned to the virtual machine (1024 MB).  It is also worth noting that I use VMWare 7 on a new and 6.5 on the old host.

  Anything I can do to get great efficiency that I was getting on my old system?

  really not use 2 virtual processors on a host that has 2 CPUs.

  What is an Ubuntu 9.10 system?

  Other than adding

  mainmem.backing = 'name '.

  for the vmx file.

  This will slow down the virtual machine, but you wanted to do that ;-)

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• ESXi embedded, cannot start the new virtual machine

  We have installed just a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with ESXi embedded.  That part went well.  I am able to connect through the client.  I can create a new virtual machine.  That's where I met problems.  No matter what I tried the machine does not start.  I ' v tried the host device as CDROM, the device as CDROM, and even customer created ISO W2003 CD and downloaded.  I can't understand why he won't start.   Whenever he tried to boot from the network or when he fails he just says "operating system not found" and stays like that.  I started in the bios of the virtual machine and made sure the startup options are correct, etc.  I'm lost.

  I read this forum for like a day and while I see some who have had similar problems, I have not seen this precise question or a question with an answer that applies to my question.  It could be the pre holiday drink

  I hope someone can advise.

  Thank you

  Take a look at this post and try the instructions to boot from an ISO on the side of client - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1106573#1106573.

• Add hosts with existing virtual machines for 'Greenfield' active DRS Cluster

  I'm currently involved in a project for the hypervisor 5.5 and vCenter. Existing are 2 physical servers with redundant everything and 8 SAS hot swap hard drive bays. Initially, 8 bays only 4 have been populated with hard drives. Hard disks have been removed, ESXi 5.0 has been loaded, 4 virtual machines created on each server and all lived happily ever after.

  Now, I would like to upgrade these servers to 5.5... as follows:

  I filled the remaining 4 bays on each server with some hard disks and created a second strip of sufficient capacity (twice the capacity of the 4 original disks). I'm stop servers, past the stripe for starting a new band of readers and installed ESXi 5.5 on the new band. The old Strip also remains in tact, so that I can start to ESXi 5.0, if I set to boot from the original soundtrack or boot to ESXi 5.5 if I boot to the new band (two operating systems starts very well, are properly networked, configured vCenter, etc.).

  When booting in 5.5, he sees his own, new band and is also the soundtrack which is listed as a second data store attached (I think actually I want to make possible migration of the simple VM from the old to the new data store), both are disk space of LSI, Non - SSD, Type VFMS5.

  Panic sets in when I start both computers in 5.5 and the time comes to add 5.5 hosts in a cluster (I also want to test the vStorage DRS and HA) and I've reached the setting of the, "choose Resource Pool." I'm scared to death that choose the first option, "all of the virtual machines in this updated host in the cluster resource pool root. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "will mean not only a reformatting of the new band which I would like to add to the cluster, but also the still attached old band that includes the data that I want to keep. I don't want to lose data or virtual machines on the soundtrack, but to migrate them in a cluster of 2 servers ESXi 5.5. I was really hoping to migrate data to new tapes on new hosts and then re - purpose boards 2 original (on both computers) as a third table vStorage.

  Issues related to the:

  1. If I choose the option "put all the virtual machines from the host in the pool of resources of the root cluster. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "with all the drives connected, all my data will be lost?

  2. If I pull the 4 original disks (5.0) and use the option 'put all virtual machines from the host in the pool of resources of the root cluster. Pools of resources currently present on the host computer will be deleted. "that with the new arrays connected (5.5) and then reconnect the old paintings after that the hosts are added to the cluster, will be only the re added still get sucked into the tables and data deleted?

  3. choose the second option, "create a new resource pool for virtual machines from the host and resource pools. This preserves hierarchy to pool resources in. the host' a safe option? If this option works, no matter if I have my original array attached when you add hosts to the cluster?

  Last point: by reading all the documents I found it seems strongly suggested to set up guests who have not a deployed virtual machines, that's why I'm going to great efforts to try to keep the new hosts as empty as possible and with 1 port base networking while waiting to complete the configuration. Does it matter if I migrate virtual machines or add them as guests to the ESXi 5.5 before or after I have add hosts to the cluster?

  Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

  I'd go with option C.

  VSAN I would agree has some stupid requirements, but that they were aiming for is almost class company SAN at a decent price by using the SSD as caching tables, but as you said if you don't need not good I would continue to go with a NAS NFS solution.

• Protection group virtual machines do not have consistent snapshop point in time using vSphere replication

  As the title, we feel when capturing instant timestamp for virtual machines in a protection group.

  Which means a group of database servers, applications, and others, when drill us test to start the virtual machines in the recovering site files timestamp in the virtual machines are varied.

  Snapshot work is executed simultaneously for all virtual machines in the group when planning replication hit? Or is it because certain virtual machines (like DB) speak more time to complete the snapshot so than others like apps VM completed early?

  Anyone hit this problem? We use vSphere replication instead of array based replication.

  Thanks /.

  Dylan

  Hello

  It is a behavior expected with current versions of vSphere replication - replication source host Scheduler is not aware of any grouping of virtual machines and starts the replica instance to meet the RPO requirements. The decision when to start a new instance is based on the time of loading and transfer to some of the previous instances.

  Multi-vm coherence is on the roadmap for a future release and will describe what exactly you address issues.

  If you use VR 5.5, you may use multiple points depending on the time (JEREMIAH) and after switching some of the old machines instances (represented by VM snapshots) to match the State of the other machines.

  Kind regards

  Martin

• This error: failed to start the Server Instance because the integrated Weblogic domain has not been built successfully.

  Hi Experts,

  JDeveloper 11.1.1.4.0 version, Windows 7.

  I installed jdeveloper 11g Studio Edition Version 11.1.1.4.0.

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  I tried searching but could not solve this problem.

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  One thing when I go to the folder structure, I can see the default domain contains only the config folder. The rest are missing.

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