VIrtual Center unavailable - effects on Virtual Machines?

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  I am running Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 enviornment.

  I am creating a P2V Conversion in the P2V Assistant and 'Conversion of information' section, I get the following error message:

  Error (3210):

  And\pr boot volume system \\?\Volume{2dbb99c1-ba73-11de-97ae-806e6f6e6963}\ was not selected or is not found on the

  source machine >.

  Recommended action:

  Selected machine > cannot be virtualized. Verify that the system volumes and boot are selected for migration. So try

  try the operation again.

  Environmental information:

  Source server:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
  • Roles: Domain Services Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, printing and service of documents, files, & network policy and Access Services
  • Discs: C:\(OS) & D:\(File Share)

  Destination server:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
  • Roles: Files, Hyper-V services (IIS) Web server
  • Discs: C:\(OS) & D:\(VHD Files)

  Information about the conversion:

  • Configuration of the volume: (selected Volumes-C:------, D:\ & disk: Partition 0: 0)
  • "Offline conversion" because of the following warning: disk hardware or the file system on the volume \\?\Volume{2dbb99c1-ba73-11de-97ae-806e6f6e6963}\: is not supported by Volume Shadow Copy Service.

  I don't know what the problem or prevent this from happening. Assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  Hi Christophe,

  According to the description looks like you have a problem with a particular program in Windows server 2008, I suggest you post this question in this forum for further assistance.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer

  Hope this information helps. If you have questions about Windows do not hesitate to answer and we will be happy to help.

• 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.

• Orchestrator 5.1 REPORT-all the virtual machines in the data center and create a CSV file

  Hello

  What I basically want to do is create a report CSV of all virtual machines in the data center with various information (VMname, domain name FULL, IPaddress, status, data warehouses, tools etc...).  The export list in the client feature is insufficient (especially for any KPI report).

  Problem: (workflow is still under construction so real email send does not not and need to clean the code)

  I am stuck at the part of the creation of a table that can be parsed correctly in the CSV file.  2 ways I've tried will produce a report of single object or combine all of the table into a single string (where I am now).  I think the main problem I have is that I have to create a 2D within my service to push toward the final table that is written to the CSV format.  Basically, I do not understand how to push my variables in a loop of a table.

  Any help or assistance?

  Thank you

  B

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• The most effective way to retrieve a number of virtual machines in an org?

  Hi all, what is the most effective way to retrieve a MV of County in an org. I am currently recovering all CDV in an org, then all the vApps, then all of the virtual machines and pushing them into a table, then do a vms.length on the table filled by all virtual machines.

  It takes a horrible time, and there MUST be a better way.

  Open to any suggestion. Thank you

  Good, as administrator of the organization then: (I have not tried as a normal user account)

  var vdcs = new Array();
  var orgVMCount = 0;
  var vcdHost = org.getHost();
  
  var queryService = vcdHost.getQueryService();
  var expression = new VclExpression(VclQueryOrgVdcField.ORGNAME, org.name, VclExpressionType.EQUALS);
  var filter = new VclFilter(expression);
  var params = new VclQueryParams();
  params.setFilter(filter);
  
  var resultSet = queryService.queryRecords(VclQueryRecordType.ORGVDC,params);
  while (resultSet != null) {
  
      var records = resultSet.getRecords(new VclQueryResultOrgVdcRecord);
      for each (var record in records) {
          var vdcVMCount = getVdcVMCount(record.href, vcdHost);
          System.log("VDC "+record.name+" VM Count: "+vdcVMCount);
      }
      orgVMCount += vdcVMCount;
      resultSet = resultSet.getNextPage();
  }
  System.log("Total Organization VM Count: "+ orgVMCount);
  
  function getVdcVMCount(vdcHref, host){
      var vmCount = 0;
  
      var qs = host.getQueryService();
      var exp = new VclExpression(VclQueryVMField.VDC, vdcHref, VclExpressionType.EQUALS);
      var exp2 = new VclExpression(VclQueryVMField.ISVAPPTEMPLATE, false, VclExpressionType.EQUALS);
      var exps = new Array(exp,exp2);
  
      var expFilter = new VclFilter(exps,VclFilterType.AND);
      var queryParams = new VclQueryParams();
      var vmArray = new Array();
      queryParams.setFilter(expFilter);
      var rs = qs.queryRecords(VclQueryRecordType.VM,queryParams);
      while (rs != null){
          var vmRecords = rs.getRecords(new VclQueryResultVMRecord);
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          rs = rs.getNextPage();
      }
      return vmCount;
  }
  

  It takes a little more code because the ".ORG" field is not available for the non-Admin queryVMField, but the. VDC IS, so we start by retrieving the TDC for the Org, then for each one, ask the number of vm for VDC.

  Post edited by: Burke - had accidentally initialization of orgVMCount as new Array(); -changed second line to 'var orgVMCount = 0;

• VMware View 4.5 - number of virtual machines deployment through Virtual Center

  Hello

  After an update to VMware View 4.5 Solution, thanks to an automatic pool sliding the virtual Center creates now six machines at the same time.

  Before this update the VC never fired on two machines at the same time...

  It of Nice to have this indictment, but is it possible for me to configure the number of virtual machines created on same time?

  Thanks for your help

  Kind regards

  If you go into servers and change the login information from vCenter there is an Advanced tab.  Click this tab and you can set the maximum amount of concurrent provisioning operations you want.

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• How to record a custom message / event in the virtual center of the virtual machine

  Is it possible to record a personalized message in the virtual center of the VM?

  I use a vCLI script to reset a virtual machine. I want to report where (PC) this script is launched.

  And it would be great if it is possible to report to the event list or task of the virtual machine that will be reset.

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  #
  use strict;
  use warnings;
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  use VMware::VIRuntime;
  
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  Opts::add_options(%opts);
  
  Opts::parse();
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  Util::connect();
  
  my $vmname  = Opts::get_option('vmname');
  my $username, my $compname;
  ($username = `echo %USERNAME%`) =~ /(\S+)/; $username = $1;
  ($compname = `echo %COMPUTERNAME%`) =~ /(\S+)/; $compname = $1;
  
  my $EventManager = Vim::get_service_content()->eventManager;
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  my $vm_ref = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => {'name' => $vmname});
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  };
  if ($@) {print "Error: ". $@ . "\n";}
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• Accident of ESX 3.5 but virtual Center did not perform vMotion on virtual machines

  Hello

  We have 3 ESX servers on Virtual Center 2.5. One of the ESX Server suddenly restarted due to hardware failure. There were 5 virtual machines on this particular ESX host.

  When we check all the VMs who resided on the ESX host touched, he has just restarted and didn't vMotion for the rest ESX servers

  The question is why don't the vMotion VMs to the rest of the other servers. The rest of the ESX host have more than enough CPU and RAM to accommodate all 5VMs

  My understanding of vMotion would be when an ESX host is down, all the virtual machines will be migrated to other ESX hosts on the cluster.

  When an ESX host is down, the migration of all virtual machines to other ESX hosts in the cluster is not a VMotion functionality, but this is a feature of VMware HA. The vSphere availability Guide:

  "VMware HA offering high availability for virtual machines by pooling their and the hosts they reside on in a cluster." Cluster hosts are monitored and in case of failure, the virtual machines on a failed host are restarted on alternate hosts. »

  Therefore, enable HA of the cluster to achieve the desired result.

  Best regards, Robert

  Post edited by: RvdNieuwendijk

• Virtual machine unavailable during the snapshot

  Hello

  I wanted to check with others to see how snapshots affect your virtual machines. I work in several small VMware environments and have seen similar effects when taken snapshots VMs.

  Today I made a SQL server (Windows 2K 8 running SQL 2008) fueling a sharepoint site. The snapshot lasted about 30 seconds and during this time, the sharepoint site was not available. In this case the ESX Server runs on a 1.5 3.5 years HP DL380 G5 with a HP MSA2324 G2 SAN on the back-end.

  After noticing the outtage service I tried taking a file & server snapshots print somewhere else, in this case running ESX 4.0 on a HP DL380 G6 with an EMC CX300 on the back-end. In this case, I also experienced a service outtage, I was unable to access file shares when the snapshot. In this case, the snapshot took a few minutes to complete, I guess it is because data drives are on 7.2 K disks. During the first minute of the snapshot I couldn't access the shares, once he got close to 100%, I was able to access file shares.

  In both scenarios, I only lost a ping, from the beginning of the snap. When deleting snapshots, I have not experienced any loss of service.

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  Thank you

  I would have a look at the Snapshots of understanding . Depending on the options that you have chosen with your snapshot - suspend or memory from the operating system will freeze activity until the snapshot is completed. Also take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5962168

• Virtual Center and Virtual Machines do feed not on after outage

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  Over the weekend, we had a power outage in our data center which resulted in the loss of power to our HP blades that make up our ESX cluster.  Power was restored after a few minutes, and fed up ESX Server, VirtualCenter, which works as a virtual machine, does not, no has yet no virtual machines.

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  If electricity is cut to the complete chassis, and all went down at the same time?  "If so, you might want to look into the Virtual Machine start/stop" settings for your hosts and see if the settings are configured the way that you expect to be.

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• Virtual Center stops all the virtual machines in a cluster HA

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  I have a question about vCenter machine. We have deployed

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• Virtual Center audit for virtual machines and ESX hosts

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  Looking for information on ESX, versions hostnames, Virtual Machines running on each host and the types of each virtual machine, the IP address of each virtual machine OS.

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  3. create a cluster via Virtual Center that has been installed on the virtual machine residing on the

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  4. I'll add the other 3 r900 to the cluster.

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  I agree no problem, unless you have a problem on the host computer that contains your VC you have to be able to solve the problem of the esx console.

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  You can use this logged as root - vmware-cmd /nas/vms/FreeBSD/FreeBSD.vmx startas as an example to start a VM FreeDSD stored on a NAS device

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• Unable to see uptime in a virtual Center on a virtual machine

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