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• Hot migration is possible with VMWare ESXi 5.1.0 without an ESX server management

  Hot migration is possible with VMWare ESXi 5.1.0 without an ESX server management?
  I wonder for a future issue, a scenario where a system administrator must build a Win2008 + DC on local storage, server
  then, once the physical box is integrated into the class network, the physical box is connected to the classified SAN storage.
  Is it possible to hot - migrate the server Win2008 + CC local storage to SAN storage at this time, with only the
  free version of VMWare ESXi 5.1.0?

  Welcome to the community - I guess that you are looking to do this, while the virtual machine is currently running - this is not possible without a management server, also called vCenetr, but all is not lost because you would be able spend the VM local storage to the San with the VM posered using the client storage management features

• Anyone run a Terminal servers virtual with VMware ESXi 3.5 If Yes please share your experiences?

  Hello guys,.

  We are runnig Terminal Server with Windows Server 2003 Ent in a cluster environment (TS 7), we plan to go with VMware ESXi 3.5 to virtualize the TS. Does anyone have any kind of experiences that can help make a decision?

  Thank you.

  Keep an eye on the side esxtop ESX and see your % RDY meters in this output.  Don't forget, as underlined chamon, with high vSMP values do not match always the best performance.  Typical scenarios citrix/ts use 1-2 vCPU for more effective results.  If you bump up to a larger number of users, you also want to watch the overcommitt on your processors and vCPUs in the box.  Many users a lot of switching and use heavy context on the processors for the management of the OS and the user.  1-2 vCPU seems to be the sweet spot.  What kind of applications are underway within the environment?

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• How a production server of vmware ESXi ghost/acronis?

  Hello, I am new to VMWare, just installed a VMWare ESXi 3.5 on HP DL380, it works really well.

  is it possible to gogo/acronis/clone that server ESXi physical together to a USB HDD or something like that?

  Thanks in advance.

  Follow up - with Ghost for Linux, you will begin your ESX host off an ISO serious on CD media, and then start the CD media box. From there, you will have options to write the image to disk elsewhere. I use an FTP server as a destination for the image so I have all my images of ESX host in the same place, designated as what size disk and the type of machine and date by writing a long file name that is the description. Then, if I need to restore an image to the native ESX host, I get a list of the names of files from the FTP server during the restore and just choose the correct image in the list.

  I am not sure if the G4L will recognize your USB drive or not - probably depends on what is the chipset and if the G4L kernel has support in his favor. If you can lower your host ESX and G4L being free I just try and see what happens.

  Datto

• Getting started with VMware ESXi

  Please forgive me, because I'm just getting started with virtualization in the data center (ESX and ESXi). I been using virtualization desktop and server (player and GSX Server and Workstation) for several years now and I'd like to see if ESXi would be a good choice for an amateur system in order to use a training platform.

  Are my limited infrastructure management tools, or are there third-party or community free equivalents that will make the most much (not necessarily all) Infrastructure functions for me getting started with ESXi? I can't afford the cost of a license of Infrastructure to learn just the platform and also have a few questions regarding the ESXi environment.

  ESXi abstract everything, or I can pass through some devices (for example, a map of Zaptel for VoIP Asterisk) to a guest operating system? That would be my only reason for the use of a Linux host and stick with VMware Server instead of going completely virtual.

  Any assistance to the start-up, as well as good resources for someone new data center virtualization (no virtualization in general) would be very appreciated. I tried to read some briefs VMware tech directly, and a part of the documentation can be downright confusing.

  Thanks in advance, and I look forward to the next meeting.

  ESX are equipped with a fully functioing 60 days trial license - ESXi when correctly entered, you will receive an unexpiring licenses to run ESXi - discover https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=esxi

• HP Proliant Gen8 DL380e not charge controller B320i with VMWare ESXi 5.0 U3

  Hello community.
  
  Iam trying to install VMWare ESXi 5.0 U3 on a HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 server that has a B320i controller, I'm using support custom installation of HP, but yet when I select target the device doesn't show anything, I tried to raid 1+ 0 and raid 5, but I get No result.
  
  Ce is ISO which I download.
  

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/details?downloadGroup=HP-ESXi-5.0.0-U3-OCT2013 & ProductID = 229

  
  try Added to ISO customize the controller driver, but the ISO tells me that that driver already exists.
  

  http://h20564.www2.HP.com/hpsc/SWD/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_0a122ebcbbac4c469ca9acd1ae

  
  In le BIOS J’ai activated the next option.
  

  http://h20564.www2.HP.com/hpsc/doc/public/imageServlet?docid=emr_na-c03907472-1/c03871500.jpg

  You can try the custom HP VMWare 5.5 ISO instead? Or do you need a reason 5.0 any?

  I'm running a Gen8 DL380e with 5.5 Update 1 without problems. 5.5 Update 2 has some problems about the new version of the hpvsa driver that gives massive drops in virtual machines to run.

  You have a BBU (battery backup) installed?

  It is also for the execution of the last PSP (Proliant ServicePack) to get the latest firmware and the BIOS before installing.

• VMware ESXi free 5.0 to paying

  If I have ESXi free 5.0 installation in a real environment and I want to switch to paid one, is it as simple as just enter the new license code, once I buy VMware? Is there some thing other anythign I need to do?

  Thank you

  For a stand-alone host, you'll just have to change the license key.

  If you use vCenter you'll want to deploy what and you can manage your licenses here.   Your host may need additional configuration to advanced features (for example, network vMotion).

• Clustering with VMware ESXi 4

  Hello

  Please can anyone provide me with step by step instructions on how to create a Quorum for use with Windows 2003 clustering on VMware ESXi 4.

  I need to know what I am doing on the server and how I then associate creating newly Quorum with the nodes.

  Thank you

  Andy

  Andy,

  You are welcome.

  Don't forget to set the thread to answer and consider to mark correct or helpful answers.

  André

• Channel Port LACP with VMWare ESXi IP hash Message: % SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: < MAC > host in the vlan 1 is flapping between port

  Hello

  Currently I have a VMWare ESXi host with 2 network including 6 cards (3 of each) ports are connected to a X 3750.  I configured LACP on the switch and the Port of vDS group road based on IP Hash (802.3ad), my looks of config as follows:-

  src-dst-ip port-channel load-balance

  Interface Port-channel15

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/15

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/16

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/17

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/18

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/19

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  !

  interface GigabitEthernet1/0/20

  switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

  switchport mode trunk

  bandwidth share SRR-queue 10 70 25 5

  form of bandwidth SRR-queue 10 0 0 0

  priority queue

  MLS qos trust dscp

  spanning tree portfast

  channel-protocol lacp

  active in mode channel-group 15

  Currently I see many MAC beat in the log of the switch.  From my understanding, I expect the MAC address out all ports, because that's what'd ESXi when you use 'route based on the hash of the IP.  I'm worried about the impact this might have on the CPU / switch.

  August 6, 09:42:05.700 TSB: % SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: 0050.569e.0939 to host in the vlan 1 is flapping between port gi1/0/16 and article gi1/0/15

  August 6, 09:42:16.479 TSB: % SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: 0050.569e.28e4 to host in the vlan 1 is flapping between port gi1/0/20 and 0/article gi1/17

  August 6, 09:42:18.719 TSB: % SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: 0050.569e.7f6a to host in the vlan 1 is flapping between port gi1/0/19 and article gi1/0/20

  August 6, 09:42:20.766 TSB: % SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: 0050.569e.0939 to host in the vlan 1 is flapping between port gi1/0/16 and article gi1/0/15

  Is it by design, if so can I disable the message?  If this isn't the case, please can you advise where I can check/change the configuration?

  Thank you

  Peter

  It is really gud who... .you mentioned your solution here.

  Can you please mark this question as answered, thatâ so it can help the other guys.

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• CUCM 8.5.1 with vmware ESXi 5 on UCS C250 M2 supported?

  Hi all.

  My name is Shin Jcob.

  I'm Korean.

  So I can't speak English.

  But I have question and I want to know this information.

  Now, my client use the CUCM 8.5.1 with vmware ESXi5 UCS C250 m2.

  Unfortunately, it was to issue. T.T

  Problem is error Vmware host.

  Error message is I/O latency.

  But I have my doubts C250 M2.

  Because I tried to find the CUCM 8.5.1 with C250 not manage the text but I couldn't it.

  Maybe if you know, then answer me.

  Thank you very much for reading my poor English text.

  Have you already reviewed the wiki of virtualization?

  UC in a virtualized environment

  http://docwiki.Cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_in_a_Virtualized_Environment

  This server does not show in the

  Tested baselines (CRT)

  http://docwiki.Cisco.com/wiki/Tested_Reference_Configurations_%28TRC%29

  HTH

  Java

  If it helps, please note

  www.Cisco.com/go/pdihelpdesk

• How to configure vCenter Server with an external smtp server?

  Is it possible to configure vCentere Server with an external smtp server?

  In our environment, we must configure vCenter server to send email alerts when the alarms are triggered. We use the google apps (smtp.gmail.com) server as our official email server.

  I know the steps to do the same?

  You must authenticate external messages. Here is one of this tutorial. http://paulgrevink.WordPress.com/2011/02/06/configuring-vCenter-for-email-with-SMTP-authentication/

• vCenter Server with vSphere Essentials best practices for small business

  I hesitated to post this thread for fear of redundancy, but I wasn't able to find an answer in previous discussions.

  I read the installation documentation for vSphere Essentials vCenter Server installation.

  
  Is it a good idea to install vCenter on my ESXi host as a virtual machine?  I don't understand how the server can be installed as a virtual machine if she must always be on.  What happens when I do the updates of the hypervisor, ESXi (4.0 to 4.1)?  This would not cause the vCenter Server to disconnect?

  Because I have Essentials, I don't have a HA and cannot migrate the server vCenter Server to another host as shown in the installation documentation.

  Thank you

  It should not be a problem - if you manually perform the update using either the esxupdate or vcenter command vihostupdate does not at all in the game - if you use VUM he actually intitiates the vihostupdate order - when restarting the host to be reconnecting to vcenter once it is running.

• Physical transfer Ubuntu Server with VMWARE Converter

  Hi I'm trying to transfer an already built ubuntu 8.04 server to VMWare ESX server with the coverter bootable cd.  When I use the wizard all is fine until I get to the part of the data store and I get an unknown error.  I transfer the logs so that I can display them but cannot do anything about newspapers.  Is it still possible to do, or is there something that I am missing.

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  You might want to try the Converter 4.0 BETA .

  Good luck!

• 2808 LAG for use with VMware ESXi and Linux collage

  I posted the month last about setting up my work with groups LAG http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-switches/f/866/t/19537080.aspx servers (I'll effectively implementing implement this Saturday)

  I decided to buy a 2808 for my ESXi server get more aggregated connections to my staff iSCSI Linux server but now I'm worried I might have made a mistake to buy the 2808.

  After looking in the manual before I realized I could have been mistakenly assuming that the 2808 had STP and LACP, as I can't find LACP anywhere in the PDF file. I guess that the configuration of my Linux machine for 802.3ad is out (a hope to make mode 4), so now for the configuration of my house, I wonder (* 1 *) that I have to configure my VMware NIC team like and what mode of binding should I use on my Linux host? As for the section at the top (my working configuration) (* 2 *) I don't know what to do about the road other than the leave as 'route based on originating virtual port ID "? (This is how our other data centers are configured, but I'm waiting for my admin network as agglomerates ESXi hosts are configured with the channels of port on our cisco switches)

  For the House, I want to try to increase the bandwidth by using three NICs in each server, I was hoping that it works:
  VMware: Route of IP hash function?
  w/Linux: balance-alb?

  -VMware:
  Before you begin:

  • The default load balancing strategy is route based on the port virtual origin ID. If the physical switch uses the aggregation of links, route based on the IP hash load balancing should be used. For more information, see host requirements for the aggregation of links for ESX and ESXi (1001938) and the guide of VMware Virtual Networking Concepts .
  • LACP support was introduced in vSphere 5.1 on distributed vSwitches and requires additional configuration. For more information, see activation or deactivation of LACP on a group of ports Uplink using the vSphere Client Web (2034277).
  • Ensure that the Protocol of aggregation VLAN and link (if any) are correctly configured on the physical switch ports.

  -Linux:
  * Descriptions of bonding modes *.
  + Mode 0 balance-rr: Round-robin policy: transmit packets in the sequential order of the first available through the last high school. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.

  + 1 active-backup mode: Active-backup policy: only one slave in the link is active. A different slave becomes active if and only if, the active slave fails. MAC address of the binding is visible from the outside on a single port (NIC) to avoid confusion between the switch. This mode provides fault tolerance. The first option affects the behavior of this mode.

  + 2 balance-xor mode: XOR policy: transmit based [(adresse MAC XOR avec destination MAC traiterait de source) modulo County slave]. This selects the slave even for each destination MAC address. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.

  + 3 broadcast mode: broadcasting policy: transmits everything on all slave interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance.

  + Mode 4 802.3ad: IEEE 802.3ad dynamic aggregation of links. Creates aggregation groups who share the same speed and duplex settings. Use all the slaves in the active aggregator according to the 802.3ad specification.

  -Prerequisite:
  -1.Ethtool support in the base drivers to retrieve the speed and duplex of each slave.
  -Switch 2.A which takes care of IEEE 802.3ad dynamic aggregation of links. Most of the switches will require some type of configuration to activate 802.3ad mode.

  + Mode 5 balance-tlb: Adaptive load balancing transmission: Channel link that doesn't require any special switch support. Outgoing traffic is distributed according to the intensity of the current (relative speed) on each slave. Inbound traffic is received by the current slave. If the receiving slave fails, another slave takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving slave.

  -Prerequisite:
  -1.Ethtool support in the base drivers to retrieve the speed of each slave.

  + 6 balance-alb mode: Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-tlb plus receive balancing (rlb) for IPV4 traffic and doesn't require any special switch support. Receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation. Link driver intercepts the ARP replies sent by the local system on their way and replaces the hardware address of source with the unique hardware address of one of the slaves in the bond as different counterparts use different physical addresses for the server.

  The topic dell nearest you, I have found a useful was: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/networking/f/4454/t/19415629.aspx

  my previous post was more concerned with VLAN tagging and spanning tree issues, but now I see I should have feared groups LAG it as well.

  Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance all :)

  -

  PS. http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/dell-powerconnect-2800-series-spec_sheet.pdf said that the 2800 series supports LACP, so if I'm worried about anything on my iSCSI side slap me please in the face, but I guess even in this case, I'm still not sure how to configure the ESXi host because it does not support LACP without vSphere and my original configuration is a free version , so I have no web vSphere management needed to make the LACP allow the change.

  Not sure if it is of no use: example configuration of EtherChannel / switches control protocol LACP (Link Aggregation) with ESXi/ESX and Cisco/HP (1004048), but that's where I was to base the choice on IP hash from.

  It must have the support of layer 3 to achieve IP hash, IP addressing is a 3-layer technology, so a 6200 series or higher or the soon to be released N3000 series.

• Best practices for Exchange 2003 with VMWare ESXi 3.5 and iSCSI SAN

  Hello guys,.

  Here's the Q? We have 1 physical Exchange 2003, the HOST of 4 and 1 iSCSI SAN with LUN 3, 1 for data, 1 for VMWare and 1 for SQL, if we're going to virtualize it, I don't know where to put data Exchage and newspapers. I do not think that that is a good practice to put together the data but I do not have another SAN. So, what can I do?

  Thank you.

  We have 813 mailbox.

  I agree with cainics, start an average size and go from there.  I know it's a production mail server and you can not exactly 'play' with the settings because this requires time, but if you do the VM too big, you would have nothing left for other virtual machines.

  I would go 2 vCPU and at least 4 GB of RAM, maybe 8GB.  There must be parameters for the Exchange mailbox 813 and X users # to implement your environments in order to get an idea of the amount of RAM that will be... 4GB seems minimal to me, but 8 GB would probably be better like that.