vCenter Heartbeat on another subnet WAN

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• Overview journal and vCenter Heartbeat

  What are the implications of the use of Log insight with vCenter Heartbeat?  If vCenter server heartbeat Eve, insight Journal will continue to operate without interruption or loss of newspapers as the failover takes place?

  Are there special configurations specific to the use of Log Insight with heartbeat?

  The vCenter Heartbeat is to keep a backup of vCenter server available at all times. This is achieved through a mechanism of steps that ensures that everything that happens on the primary instance of vCenter server is also on the secondary server instance, vCenter. Given that the configurations of the server vCenter instances are guaranteed the same, newspaper Insight would not be able to tell the difference.

  However, vCenter heartbeat supports three types of configuration: LAN, stretched LAN and WAN. For LAN and LAN stretched assets vCenter Server's IP address is moved during failover. For WAN, during a failover Exchange IP address of the instance of vCenter server, but pulse warns DNS change. Because with LAN and LAN stretched the IP address of the instance of vCenter server remains the same, newspaper Insight will continue to work as expected once the recovery has taken place and the new primary instance of vCenter server sent a free ARP. In the WAN configuration, the IP address of vCenter Server changes. If you have configured Log Insight to connect to the instance of vCenter Server by IP address then after failover Log Insight will not be able to collect information from the new vCenter server IP address. In this case, you must change the configuration of log Insight and the new IP address would be considered a completely separate vCenter server instance. If you have configured Log Insight to connect to the instance of vCenter by FULL domain name server then Insight journal will pick up the change on the next polling interval. If you end up in a State where Log Insight is no longer perceives the information from one instance of vCenter server, once the issue has been addressed, Insight Journal will collect information all gaps between where he was and where it was fixed. In short, Insight journal keeps track of the latest information collected from one instance of vCenter server and can collect the missing information.

  In short, Journal Insight should work with vCenter Heartbeat even if it only is not officially supported at this time (by the interoperability matrix). If you use vCenter Heartbeat in a WAN configuration, then you must enable vSphere integration with a FULL domain name for the vote will continue to operate after the failover. I hope this helps!

• vCenter Heartbeat and vCenter Failed

  If vCenter Heartbeat is used to replicate the vCenter Server, then that server vCenter can't then some esxi hosts this vCenter Server manages will be they will automatically move to the other server vCenter Server or we need to do it manually?

  vCenter Heartbeat is a cluster solution that protects services vCenter, so you will have two primary servers and secondary, one of the server would be active and others being passive.

  Incase if the Active Server fails, HB will failover services vCenter vCenter to the passive node. No further action to perform.

• NIC physical or virtual dedicated & vlan for vCenter Heartbeat?

  I am writing a paper on the recommendations and requirements of vCenter Heartbeat 1...

  It seems unclear to me if the functionality of pulsations of vCenter need dedicated physical NIC when VC is running in a virtual machine?

  VC goes. Heart rate requires dedicated physical NIC or only vNIC & lt;-& gt; dedicated vSwitch is required?

  Thanks in advance

  : o).

  I guess that your VC is running in a virtual machine? VC with Heartbeat requires a minimum of two vNIC with every heartbeat (each vNIC, but the first) vNIC on a dedicated vSwitch. Since a physical NETWORK card can only below a unique vSwitch, this configuration requires at least two cards physical network. Basically, this means that you need at least two network adapters for and two physical network adapters to configure the heartbeat in a VC run in a virtual machine. For redundancy reasons, it makes sense to have multiple physical network cards in a vSwitch for grouping of NETWORK cards. Therefore, you should really have at least four physical NICs (two by vSwitch) in a production environment.

• Cloning of vCenter Heartbeat

  
  Documentation, 6.5.1 support physical-to-virtual and virtual (from an ESXi) to virtual (to an another ESXi)

  What's on the use of VMware Converter to clone a vCenter virtual running on an ESXi 5.1 (stand-alone server to unique laboratory) to a virtual machine that will be animated by a VMware Workstation 8, they present a vCenter with failover to run updates on the single ESXi Update Manager and do not have to use command lines to update this single server?

  Another tought. Is the server running under VMware Workstation should be considered as a physical node under Heartbeat definition in connection with the server running on the ESXi 5.1?

  If you can use the converter to clone the machine, you will be able to install vCSHB on two virtual machines, one on the ESXi 5.1 and the other in the workstation.

  As for the second question, no, you don't have to take account of the virtual machine running on the workstation as a physical.

  The main difference between a physical and a virtual seconday, is that the virtual is a clone of the primary prior to installation of vCSHB and in the case of a physical Seconday, vCSHB not cloning during installation.

  Another possibility for you would be to simply install a virtual machine on VMware Workstation with the same specifications as the one running on the ESXi (processor, memory, disk, OS) and then during the vCSHB select install secondary is physical. In this way vCSHB will do cloning.

• vCenter Heartbeat memory Pages / s value exceeded

  Hey community,.

  I get the following error...

  "VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat yellow alert: warning of the Application.". This happened to my Jul 20 11:13:01 CDT 2009 on the primary SVCTEST-OLA01 while active. "More information if they are available: triggered rule: Memory Pages / s exceeded value." When this error is triggered, the replication seems to hang and it's hard to pass. I need to restart the heartbeat on both servers to get going again. This happens several times a day

  VMware vCenter server / Heartbeat run in a V2V environment. Each virtual machine has 4 GB of Ram, 1 vCPU, C:\ 16 GB (OS), D:\ 12 (DB data), E:\ 20 GB (VUM). The primary VMDK is sitting on a disc of 8 Raid 10 FC LUN on a CX700 (LUN as moderate maximum use). The school sits on a LUN of similar specifications except on a CX500.

  The real kicker is that this environment is entirely free of charge and test environment. A single test host is registered with this vCenter. No VMs are saved. It is a deployment of Wan through a VPN from a data center in the Central time zone to a data center in the Pacific time zone.

  Anyone has any ideas what can cause this error?  Maybe it related to only 1 vCPU on the VM?

  Thank you

  Jkasal

  Jkasal, the settings defined for the system of operat performance are the typical recommendations of Microsoft by default, and may need to be adjusted to a base line can be set for the implementation of action. Also this alarm will delete itself once that the return of values to normal then it may be just a case of enrichment at the start or even because state you it is a vacuum environment.

  I suggest to monitor the value with perfmon and adjust the value if necessary.

  Justin King

  Specialist products - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vCenter-server-heartbeat/

• migrate from vcenter host to another host ESXi while offline?

  I need to move the virtual computers that host my vCenter and vCenter database to ESXi servers in another cluster, the new cluster uses CVS is not the case of the old Cluster. So I need to turn off two virtual machines to migrate them on.

  Would this work and be the best method?

  Stop vCenter and stop virtual machines for vCenter and the vCenter DB.

  Log in to the old esx server and unregister the VM

  VMware-cmd - s unregister /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter-db/vcenter-db.vmx
  VMware-cmd - s unregister /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter/vcenter.vmx

  Connect again esx Server (in the new cluster) and register VM

  VMware-cmd - s register /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter-db/vcenter-db.vmx
  VMware-cmd - s register /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter/vcenter.vmx

  Connect again esx Server (in the new cluster) and start the virtual machines

  VMware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter-db/vcenter-db.vmx start
  VMware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/XXX-XXX/vcenter/vcenter.vmx start

  No, you cannot vmotion - the virtual machines will be still low - will connect you directly to the ESXi hosts - unregister the form the old host vm - connect to the new host and redisster virtual machines to the new host and light - and remember cautious on the DB server first

• Vcenter replacement with another server?

  Hi, I have a client who has there VCenter server as a physical box on windows xp.  The box was funny for a while acting, needs to be restarted often.

  There are only 3 hosts ESXi with HA installation, nothing really more than that.

  So I was planning just on VCenter running on a virtual machine with windows server 2003.  I don't want to convert the physical area more because he has all these problems, so I want to do a new installation.

  I was hoping I could just install a fresh VM on VCenter, then simply add the ESXi hosts for it.  Is it as simple as that.

  I don't to lose performance data.  HA is easy to configure again.

  So what happens when I try to add an ESXi host that already belongs to another server Vcenter?  Im hoping it let me know and just made me add a new and Rob configurations such as the old HA off the server information.  Is that what happens?

  Hoepfully that makes sense.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Mike,

  First of all, Remove your old VC ESXi server. If you don't like that, this box is of course out of cluster. So adding the same server ESXi in another VC and configuration HA & DRS is not warn and do not threaten you.

  The above suggestion is reserved when you don't care HA configurations and performance data.

  Happy installing!

  Thank you

  Ganesh

• Relocation of vCenter Server to another domain

  Here's the situation:

  I have a 2 vCenter 4.0 update server that I need to join another AD area, which is located in another forest with no trust relationship.  I also need to move my vCenter 2008 the SQL server to the new domain.  In short, so I need to move a vCenter server and SQL server field ABC to XYZ area.  The two servers running Windows 2008 R2.

  Should what order I move these servers to the new domain?

  What and in what order should I fill out to do this?

  I know that I will have to recreate my accounts of service in the new domain and change my ODBC connections.

  What about ESX hosts?  There are 3 hosts in a cluster.  They should all be moved to the new domain as well.

  Anyone have any suggestions to help me do this? Point of departure?  Thank you!!

  Okay, that's easy.  Remove from the old domain, restart.  Add to the new domain, reboot.

  Piece of cake.

  What and in what order should I fill out to do this?

  Use SQL authentication because Windows will not work if the 2 domains are not approved

  What about ESX hosts? There are 3 hosts in a cluster. They should all be moved to the new domain as well.

  NOPE.  ESX are not joined to a domain.  Change areas is one thing, changing IP is quite another.  If they are STILL accessible by the intellectual property after the domain change, then nothing else to do with ESX.

• Best method to move vCenter VM to another ESX host?

  Update Manager has refused to allow us to stage an update for our ESX host our vCenter VM running on. So we have to move the other host our vCenter ESX just update this ESX host. But as we use vSphere Standard that does not come with vMotion and storage vMotion, we must stop vCenter and make a manual transfer.

  Did you guys a better method to do that in order to copy files from local storage ESX VM vCenter to the PC running the VI Client on and then copy the file vCenter VM from the PC to the local storage of the other local ESX storage? Because we do not have a usable for the moment SAN storage.

  BTW, we tried Storage vMotion with the year evaluation license last to move vCenter and it failed.

  We use mainly use the converter for the conversion or 'movement' of VMs from one region to the other because it is a GUI based process.  We have quite a few movements/conversions per week, so we have standardized on the converter.  If we have problems with converter (several failures, etc.) we will perform a dorsal scp of the actual VM files.  I agree that this method is faster, but in our case, we did not want to open the console for jobs like that, it seemed a more dangerous process from the console (deleting files etc...).  We used the converter to convert physical movement to virtual, virtual virtual clone, convert virtual from one version to another (workstation to esx for example).  I also like that the sysprep process can be automated in the process, but also some virtual machine configurations.  If we say PCS had a virtual machine to another location and we created a clone in the new location, we would have to scp, starting the virtual machine and then treat the sysprep (Windows) and rename, configuring ip etc...

• PIXMA MX920 on another subnet not detected with installed software

  Hello, could someone install a Pixma MX920 network on a different subnet from the PC using the installation of Canon software?

  I have a user who has purchased a Canon Pixma MX920 and strive to set up the printer to work with a wired LAN connection. I have configured a static IP address for the printer and easily can ping and access the Web INTERN of the Pixma page.  We are a school and have a lot of features, so we have a separate VLAN for printers and other deivces.  For example, the printers IP address is 192.168.1.20 and the customer has 192.168.0.195 (it comes to 24 networks).  Canon, install the software from the CD (v1.1) through most of the process and then runs its program of network which fortunately says he found nothing and will not let me type in the IP address.  Also, I used the Pixma Web page to disable IPv6 because I could not understand how to do it from the console printer (the printer is so strong with each key that I didn't spend time to play with him).  For what it's worth, the printer is on firmware 2.020 as reported by the Web page as well.

  I tried to install with Windows, which allows me to type the IP address, but when Windows detects the printer, he could not say what kind of NIC using the printer was and I've not seen a way to add something to this list.  FYI, I have already installed the printer drivers, it is a separate step when Windows tries to determine how to communicate with the NETWORK card in the printer.  So far, only one computer is connected via USB and works very well for a computer.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if is to say that this printer is ONLY intended for home networks with a subnet and a few devices.

  Thank you for your response.  I agree that a printer with a DHCP assigned IP would be unusable.  I've already put the printer with a static IP address (which is why I mentioned 192.168.1.20).  We have 300 wired computers and about 500 wireless devices, as well as several in network printer, so we use different subnets (this is why I mentioned the 24 CIDR nomenclature, which means that we have our to 255.255.255.0 for the cable networks subnet mask).

  Anyway, I don't have Windows to install the printer as a device of Web Services, but it was very slow.  What I did to get the Canon intall software to work was to put the PC on the same network as the printer (if the pc went from DHCP to use 192.168.1.195) and the Canon software was perfectly happy to install correctly.  Once I changed the rear PC network, everything continued to work properly.

  So the right answer, in this case, is, "the installation of Canon software search subnet of the PC for printers, it does not have time to research all possible networks, which would be quite an intensive task.  The solution would be to allow the user to manually in an IP address when the detection of the printer fails, or tell customers not to buy from home printers for commercial use.

• Vcenter move to another host

  Hello

  looking for a counsellor on move my vm to host 5.1 vcenter to a new host 5.5.

  do I have to turn off all the prior vm or do I have to do a migration of the vcenter?

  Thank you

  an other options use vmware converter and do a v2v for vm on vsphere 5.1 in the old storage to vsphere 5.5 in the new storage.

  Shutdown vc on vsphere 5.1 and power on vc on vsphere 5.5.

• VCenter move to another area

  We use our vCenter to set permissions for our vm´s.

  Permissions are granted to our users to Active Directory.

  Now, we have installed a new domain and move the new domain, so we vCenter man grant persissions to the users from the new domain.

  So my question is: How can I move vCenter 4.1 from domain A to domain B?

  Remove the server from the domain Windows has and join it to the domain B. fact

  What could cause trouble is if you use domain accounts to start the vCenter services or if they are used for DB Login etc.

  In order to check that before you move to the new domain and change to local if necessary accounts.

  Concerning

• Manage esx in another subnet using Vcentre

  Is Hi possible to manage from a different subnet which will be managed by vcentre esx 4.1U1 to a different subnet using ESX 41 U1

  For example my ESX ip is 192.168.0.x can I use vcentre with ipsegment 172.16.0.x in computer management? as I have 192.168.0.x esx & 172.16.0.x I want to be managed by a single instance of Vcentre.

  No Yes No problem, as long as you have the correct IP settings and if there is no firewall correct ports open to communicate.

  Mark

• vMotion - another subnet, VLAN different

  I'm under ESXi 4.1. I have two hosts. Currently, the management network of my hosts are on the 192.168.5.x subnet and this subnet exists in its own VIRTUAL LAN. My vMotion Setup is also included in this subnet and VLAN. What I want to do is move my vMotion for a different subnet configuration and VLAN.

  How would I go to do this? Every time I change the IP address of the vSwitch vMotion, I lose connectivity him given that I should change the gateway by default as well. When I update the default gateway, the default gateway of the management gateway is updated as well. I have to have management and vMotion on the same subnet network?

  As long as the vmkernel ports used for vmotion are on the same subenet there is no need to configure a gateway on that subnet as the traffic will never leave the subnet-