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• Backup VM con su DB vCenter Server Database dedicated to vCenter Server

  Buonasera a tutti in una configurazione di questo genere e do sia possibile he con backup data led the agent dedicated has he con backup snapshot by the di vCenter Server VM VM?

  He dubbio e he rischio di trovarmi in fase di uno stato di non consistenza restoration. Pero i problemi there it tempi di ripristino del nuovo vCenter Server.

  Grazie

  A questo punto non mi preoccuperei, I'm restoring li avresti ad ogni modo consistenti.

  Se by it backup della VM ICU software UN adeguato, che uses instant e gli TR integra con I VSS, you it consistent filesystem.

  It backs up del DB con e agent e consistent by definition.

  COSA ti turba di tutto cio?

  Ciao

  Francesco

• Backup and restore of vCenter server 4.1

  Currently, vCenter 4.1 is installed on Windows Server2003 enterprise is in what host 4 are added. Now, I want to backup of vCenter server and restore on new installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Mercenaries R2 64 bit OS.

  Please help as how it is possible thanks to windows 2003 migration to windows server 2008 R2 64-bit.

  I wrote a post on how I migrated my vCenter to a new server

  http://blog.mwpreston.NET/2011/11/03/migrating-vCenter-to-a-new-server/

  You might be able to grab a few snippets from there on how to overcome all the data/databases to the new box without actually going live on it (changing the IP, etc...)

• airfare I backup del vCenter Server?

  dopo sleeve attese finalmente abbiamo sistemato he nostro e vCenter 6 host collegati aggiornando tutto alla 4.1u1... He vCenter e stato reinstallato ex novo con he db knew UN sql2008 su una macchina separata. SIA it vCenter server sia there db sound known due VM.

  I backup VM important are fatti delle "come to fossero brother" using a commercial product (arcserve): mi chiedevo to sia it caso di salvare Reed he vCenter server oppure becomes UN eccesso e/o the agent sw di backup poterbbe dare problemi del.

  In parallelo gira Reed the VDR (che nell'ultima versione seems to me andare a po' meglio) che salva Reed vcenter server there. Pero mi chiedo: con he vcenter KB would be possibile fare UN ripristino dello stesso dal backup fatto dalla VDR?

  VDR no ha need di vCenter by he restore... quindi risposta e If.

  Comunque ti basta avere un backup del DB e dei certificati.

  Con the questi due you can simply because reinstallare he vCenter puntando al DB esistente.

  Andrea

• VCenter Server backup

  What is the appropriate procedure for the vCenter Server backup?  What files need to be saved?  How often should they be saved?  I want to make sure that the structure of folders, an existing on the records and all the rest can be recovered in case of failure.

  Thank you

  Yes agree and peace of mind that even the operating system is in backup. However, defining a backup via sql management studio task is pretty simple and you can find a lot of tutorial in google.

• Restore backups of data to different vcenter server recovery

  Hello

  We have separated closed vCenter in our society in different places, I'm just starting to use Vmware Data Recovery instead of VCB for backups. Is it possible to restore the backup of Vmware Data Recovery of Virtual Machines to a different vCenter Server?

  If you can, you could point me to documentation that shows how?

  Thank you

  Glenn

  You can create another device VDR with the same data from disk (or NAS share).

  Then connect to this device (you can also use the VDR plugin when you are connected to a host, not only when you are connected to vCenter) and wait until it import the backup catalog.

  André

• Backup of VM best practices using vCenter Server

  Hi all

  I currently plan to backup my virtual machine in VMWare ESXi 4, I have

  installed the trial vCenter Server 4.0 administration server.

  My 2 x ESXi 4 server connected to a San and sharing a single LUN so

  in this case, I would like to create another LUN in the SAN to

  Hold the Backed up SAN. (see attachment)

  and I'm still not sure about which license should I get for this question? between essential or Foundation

  My goal is to be able to do:

  1 backup and restore using VCB

  2. ease of management of VM creation and the cloned VM management, models and migration (moving between SAN and SATA Local data store) offline.

  HA and VMotion is not important at the moment.

  any suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Kind regards

  AWT

  There is no way to "upgrade to ESX ESXi" without a complete reinstallation of the product.  If you really want instead of ESXi ESX, you should be able to just install ESX, ESXi over and tell him to keep all existing partitions intact VMFS.  You will lose all your settings (vSwitches, etc.), but you shouldn't lose all virtual machines.  In fact if the ESX host is SAN attached so you can just blow everything about ESXi installation and install ESX and reattach the VMFS LUNS to the new ESX host.  You shouldn't lose anything it. Make sure that the ESX host is not attached to the SAN when installing ESX (unplug the cable) than who has been known to cause problems.

  You will get no reduction in functionality if you stay with ESXi.  Once an appropriate license, ESX and ESXi work exactly the same.  The main differences lie in the way you manage servers with the absence of a Service Console on ESXi.  Given that VMware intends to get rid of the Service Console completely in future versions, it might be logical just to go in that direction now and stay with ESXi.

• vCenter Server 5.5 requires a reboot

  Hi all

  We need to restart vCenter Server 5.5, and it is running on a physical server and also hosting DB SQL on the same physical server.

  Please let us know what precautions to take before restarting the vCenter server.

  Kind regards

  Ajay

  You can restart the vCenter server as you would any other server system.

  Once the server is online. Verify SQL service, vCenter, all are running.

  As you run SQL locally, then it would be preferable to set the delayed start for vCenter server service and vCenter management services.

  While the SQL service start first, then the vCenter services.

  as usual, you can take backup of SQL DB or windows system state backup, but this is not a sine qua non for vCenter reboot.

• VCenter server restart - can I just it reboot?

  My SAN works somehow, but I can't access my client vsphere vcenter server through.the.  I get the error: an unknown connection error has occurred, (the request has failed because of a logon failure.  Also, I can not connect via veeam.  Everything else seems to work fine.  VCenter is a virtual machine in my SAN environment.  Can - I just restart the vcenter Server?  Or should I stop all the rest down before doing this?

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  Welcome to the community,

  the virtual machines running on the host computers are not vcenter Server, and at least that actions such as migration, backups or other things are underway which require vCenter Server, you should have no problem restarting it.

  André

• vCenter Server displays the error message: unable to connect to the host

  vCenter Server displays the error message: unable to connect to the host

  Symptoms

  • vCenter Server cannot connect to a host when you perform operations such as:

  •

  o Storage vMotion

  o cold migration

  o cloning a virtual machine

  o the model deployment

  • Newspapers vpxd that contains an entry similar to:

  [2009-06-04 19:27:16.326 error "App" 4444] [VpxdInvtHost] IP address change for 10.223.122.143 to 10.223.127.197 unhandled, verification of the SSL certificate is not enabled.

  • You see errors similar to:

  Unable to connect to the host o

  o [2009-06-04 19:27:09.952 'Libs' 3902384 WARNING] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: unable to connect to peer (numRetries = 2). Error: Unable to connect to the host 10.223.122.143: connection timed out

  • vCenter Server shows the VMS as being disconnected then connected.

  Hello

  Resolution

  Cause

  This problem can occur if an ESX host's IP address is changed while being managed by vCenter Server.

  Check the cause

  To check the cause of the problem:

  1. Log in as root to the ESX host using a SSH client.
  1. In the file etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg, find the IP address of the host. The entry looks like:

     
     10.21.48.121
     

     Note: for more information about editing the files, see installation in VMware ESX configuration files (1017022).

  Troubleshooting

  If the IP address is incorrect, perform the following steps in order. If the operation does not resolve the problem, continue to the next step. Don't skip a step.

  1. Disconnect and then reconnect the host:
  1. Right click on the ESX host in vCenter Server and click Disconnect.
  1. Reconnect the ESX host in vCenter Server.
  1. Restart the VirtualCenter agent on the ESX host:
  1. Stop the service of vpxa with the command:

     # service vmware-vpxa stop

  1. Open the /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg file in a text editor and correct the IP address of the ESX host.
  1. Start the service of vpxa with the command:

     # service vmware-vpxa start

     Note: for VMware ESXi, you may have to restart all the management agents. For more information, see restart the agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490) management .

  1. Rebuild the VirtualCenter agent on the ESX host configuration file:

     Attention: this step removes all the Statistics counters historical host and the virtual machine. If VMware ESX host is running in virtual machines that starts in a permitted CVS environment, you maybe won't be able to add the host without stopping the virtual machines first.

  1. Right click on the ESX host in vCenter Server and click Disconnect.
  1. Remove the ESX host disconnected from vCenter Server.
  1. Backup the file vpxa.cfg with the command:

     # mv /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.oldcfg

  1. Add the ESX host disconnected to the server vCenter inventory.
  1. Run the following command to view the contents of /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg and confirm that the host IP address is correct:

     # cat /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg

• A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  Hello gentlemen,

  I can not only save this virtual machine with Backup Exec 2014 for a long time.

  They are there was no snapshot in snapshot Manager.

  Could you help me?

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  V-79-57344-38260 - failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine is no longer exist, or may be too busy to pause to take the snap.

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\FRPA111PRIM01.

  V-79-57344-38299-\vm\FRPA111PRIM01 ha-data center (DC) VMVCB::\\192.168.204.42\VCGuestVm\ (DC). To try to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it could not be suspended in a file system.

  Hello

  I found the solution.

  I disabled the JOB BE general relativity.

  and the host where the virtual machine belong was not the right time. No Ntp server has been configured.

  I did and now there works.

  I think that the problem can come from this.

• VCenter Server to a new server transfer

  Hello
  I'm doing an update from the 2008 to the 2012r2 server.  I was wondering how to spend my vCenter server.

  We are running the essentials package.

  I thought just build a new server, the connection my hosts in vCenter and then close and delete the old server?
  My thought process is correct, or is there something else I need to do along the way?

  Hello

  The important thing to know with vCenter is the majority of your important information in the SQL database. You're right, install a new instance of vCenter on your new Server R2 of 2012 is the best way to go and make sure that you connect to your existing SQL DB.

  What version of vCenter/ESXi are you running? 5.5? There are a few other things to consider before proceeding, as the backup of your configuration of SSO and service inventory? Do you use things such as tags in the web client? Is your particularly complicated configuration of SSO? If this isn't the case, then you can probably not bother with their backup and restoration.

  If it were me, I'd do the following as a rough plan:

  (1) save the SQL DB to be 100% sure.

  (2) off your old server.

  (3) configure the new server with the old server's IP address. Make the necessary DNS changes.

  (4) 2012 R2 server Setup again.

  (5) for mounting and you are prompted, use an ODBC connection created in your existing SQL DB.

  (6) all the components and installation vCenter.

  (7) test of

  There would be other options to restore SSO / inventory if you want too.

  The plan to uninstall or disable the new server, restore your DB back backup and power on your old server.

  Happy to help you further if necessary!

• Upgrade to vCenter Server to 5.5u2d (5.5.0 build-2183111)

  Hi guys, I just wanted to check with you somethings, I need to run the below to be in compliance with the last safety:

  Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 5.5u2d (5.5.0 build-2183111) or later, our current version is 5.5.0 build-1945274.

  
  

  I previously ran updates when you move the vCenter server, but did not have an upgrade on the same server, it is just a matter of downloading the latest version of the software running in custom mode, the upgrade of each of the parties to vCenter and be careful not to overwrite the database?

  
  Thanks in advance

  I previously ran updates when you move the vCenter server, but did not have an upgrade on the same server, it is just a matter of downloading the latest version of the software running in custom mode, the upgrade of each of the parties to vCenter and be careful not to overwrite the database?

  Yes, just make sure backup your base of data and/or your vCenter VM snapshot and to proceed with the custom installation wizard.

• Safe to stop VCenter Server Services on device?

  I need to make a manual backup of the POSTGRES BD because of stale licenses problem.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2054008

  To do this, I need to make a manual backup of the DB before making changes, which requires that I have stop the Server of VMware Services on the device. What are the potential problems with stopping these services?

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Hello

  totally safe to restart services vcenter (process vxpd).

  Just the users connected to the vcenter sessions will be abandoned.

  Take a look at this:

  VMware KB: Stop, start or restart of vCenter Server Appliance services

  Best regards

  Pablo

• VSphere Web client and client heavy cannot connect to Vcenter server 5.5, web client fails with 2032 error before the connection, then the work after one minutes ferw.

  Hi all

  I really need help here.  I have a new installation of Esxi5.5 and installed the server vcenter build 5.5.0.5201 device 1476389.

  I have host files properly configured for DNS and Server 2008 R2 running that I use to connect with the client or web client heavy.

  Initially, I get an error with the web client to connect, he began to paint Vmware and when it comes to 'r' in the name it fails with #2032, so I can no longer

  access the page at all, he says: connection refused for the page. If I wait a while I can connect again.

  heavy client vSphere fails at this time as well.  However, I cannot communicate directly with Vsphere client to server esxi host and it works all the time.

  There seems to be a problem with the device of vcenter server because the thick client fails, and does not open a backup program using vcenter server

  inventory when this happened.

  Please help, it drives me crazy...

  Dan

  Hello

  Since I found the solution to the problem of connecting to the device of vcenter.  It is a conflict of IP address on the network.  There was a machine with the same IP address virtuall

  as the vcenter server.  This caused intermittent problems etc.. Why web client would still work if I have the vmware client open I do not know

  so thank you for your help.

  Dan