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• Upgrade vmware tools with Update manager

  Hello

  There seems to be some discussions about this.  I was not able to get a solid answer of «Yes, you can, and that's how...» "or"no, you can't "by following these discussions.

  So, can we use the Update Manager today to upgrade the tool invited?

  Thank you

  Daniel

  taken from the VMware vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide

  Manager update allows you to update the host ESX/ESXi, virtual appliances, VMware Tools and virtual hardware to virtual machines to a newer version, with the opportunity to decline the upgrade in case of failure. You can also configure preupgrade and postupgrade custom scripts to run before and after an upgrade. Upgrades for the host ESX and ESXi virtual machines and virtual appliances are managed through baselines and groups basic

• How is it important to enhance virtual machine hardware level if you don't need the extra features the latest offers?

  Are there benefits or reason to pass the levels of virtual machine hardware if you don't need new features later versions give you?

  We are getting ready for VSphere 6 and begin to migrate some of our guests.  Most of our virtual machines are at levels 7, 8 or 9.

  From what I've seen, the features of material level 10 and 11 are not everything what we need on most of our virtual machines.  I'm happy to walk if later versions of material are better, more stable, etc and we should upgrade the hardware even if we don't need the extensive features.

  Mike O'Donnell

  Hi Mike,.

  VMware sees as a best practice to run on the latest version of material (see the section of the Virtual Machines on this page: KB VMware: vSphere 5.x upgrade to vSphere recommended 6.0) and if you encounter a problem with a virtual machine, support may ask you to update the version. In practice it might give you more stability or some performance enhancements.

  I was like you although I don't necessarily keep my VMs up-to-date at the hardware level. I make sure they are relatively recent but.

  You want to make sure that all cluster hosts are compatible on all hosts. the last thing you want is to have a failure and knowing that the client cannot run on a different host due to incompatibility.

• virtual machine XP in w7 run with directx 9?

  If I have a program designed for directx 5, running xp with directx 9, but do not work with vista...
  with windows 7 in virtual machine xp I will find the support of directx 9?

  The Virtual Machine hardware is quite limited, it emulates a bog standard audio card and a video card with 3D acceleration no.  So, you will find that most non - 2D games work in it. Paul Smith - MVP for Windows desktop experience... I crawled off NNTP - for now. Detachment Aldershot, United Kingdom. On the internet at windowsresource.net and dasmirnov.net. Please post back to let us know what works and what does not. :-)

• The former "cannot change the power state of virtual machine: the process has exited with an error: end of the error message" thing again (Fedora 8/Server 1.08)

  OK, this problem beautifully undescriptive I've seen caused by what seems to be dozens of things happening for me.

  I made the mistake of horrible update my FC8 kernel to the latest one (2.6.26.8 - 57.fc8).  Mind you, that's all that's changed.  It was with a 1.06 server with happiness and perfectly good computers running virtual in use before the upgrade.

  After the new kernel and reboot, I had to rebuild vmmod.  I had to get a fix of any - any later that I used with my previous kernel (116 does not solve the problem of compiling) so I used all-any117d.  Update like a champion.

  Try to turn on a VM and Ihanta!, the above error.

  Nothing else was changed.

  I tried the upgrade to VMware Server 1.08.  Used all-new any117d - update OK.

  Error again.

  I have re-run the compilation, this time to say 'yes' to what the installation script to "adjust the permissions of all virtual machines in xxxlist" or whatnot.

  Error again.

  1. status of /etc/init.d/VMware

  Networking networking on/dev/vmnet0 is running

  Invited only on/dev/vmnet1 network is running

  Network invited only on/dev/vmnet8 is running

  NAT networking on/dev/vmnet8 is running

  Responsible vmmon module

  Loaded module Vmnet

  FWIW, I compile as long as root, but have always run VMware server from my UID nonroot.

  What now?

  I'm in the same boat.  Fedora 8 2.6.26.8 - 57.fc8 #1 SMP

  I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling v1.0.6 thru 1.0.8 with all 116 updates and 117d.   117D compiles with every version of server but when I try to turn on a virtual computer I get this error.

  Cannot change the power state of virtual machine: the process has exited with an error:

  vmxvmdb: name of the Index generated by the configuration file

  POST (no connection): Version mismatch with vmmon module: expected 138.0, obtained 168.0.

  You have a bad version of the module kernel "vmmon.

  Try reinstalling VMware Server.

  POST (no connection): failed to initialize the surveillance apparatus.

  Failed to initialize the virtual machine.

  End of the error message.

  I found several posts other people have this problem but

  they are months with no recent activity and nothing that solved the problem.  I found appeared

  to get a fix, one updated the all an update that corrects the problem for

  2.6.26 performing several nuclei, but the link for the update on TI-psycho appears to be dead.  Here is the link to the discussion

  http://Fedoraforum.org/Forum/showthread.php?t=199026&page=2

  Of course, I would like to know how to solve this problem as well.

  Thank you

• License VCS\VCSE of virtual machine hardware migration.

  Hi all

  I want to migrate my hardware to virtual VCS\VCSE.

  Both servers are covered by the active maintenance contract.

  How licenses work in this case? What is the procedure of transfer?

  Any cost?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  About Cisco VCS, you want to migrate virtual machine hardware, you will need to purchase a new license to make the transfer. These are the partnumbers you need:

  R-VMVCS-C-M-K9

  HW migration to E - Delivery Virtual VCS only controls

  R-VMVCS-E-M-K9

  HW migration to E - Delivery Virtual VCS Highway only

  Please contact your Cisco representative for more information.

  After purchasing the license, the license of the VM device rehost will be made by a specific Cisco team, not the team of global license, it is a process different rehost. You will need to send your request to [email protected] / * /, this team will provide instructions to rehost your VCS license correctly.

  I hope this helps.

  Concerning

  Paulo Souza

  Please note the answers and mark it as "answered" as appropriate.

• vROPs - you can create a report to show when a virtual machine has changed and what has changed?

  I can't currently developing a report/view that can show me what I'm looking for.  I thought since it's related capabilities vROPs can keep track.  Is there a way to see the when a virtual machine has changed and what has changed?  Looking mainly vdisk, vCPU or vRAM.

  Thanks for help or suggestions.

  Hi newbski1,

  There are few things you can try to help him with this.

  1. the events view shows you changes in resources, it is not terribly detailed, but it will help

  2. depending on your version, you can also view in Configuration Manager that is part of the vRO suite that will show you the changes to configurations.

  See you soon

  @iiToby

• Workflow for the upgrade hardware and tools with vShield.

  Hello

  I start with the vCO and JavaScript!

  I start in the workflow that Cody Bunch created at this url and made a few changes to add vShield drivers to update tools and upgrading VMware Hardware (compatibility).

  

  When I hit a virtual machine with the hardware to the latest version of the accident of workflow. So, I wanted to add a decision point before the Hardware Upgrade VM Workflow.

  

  If the virtual machine incorporates the latest Version of hardware I want to skip the hardware upgrade VM version. I want to write a simple script that look like this:

  If (VMHardware version is updated) {}

  Returns false;

  }

  else {}

  Returns true;

  }

  I'm looking in the IPY research in vCO to find the good of the hardware Version and I can't! Can someone help me with this? Where can I find it?

  I know that I can do this with the Update Manager, but I want to use vCO to practice and integrate this type of workflow in vCAC!

  Thanks for all your help!

  VM.config.version - where vm is a VC:VirtualMachine object... results will be something like 10 - vmx, vmx-09, etc... You can then base your logic on these results.

• 2 network K1 but only 4 GPU cards appear with nvidia-smi and no share option of PCI device to add virtual machine hardware

  We run Dell R720 servers with 2 cards NETWORK K1, ESXi 6.0 Update 1 b and that you have installed the NVIDIA drivers vGPU-vGPU-Kepler - 352 VMware_ESXi_6.0_Host_Driver, 70 - 1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 NVIDIA VMwareAccepted 2016-01-29.

  Why only 4 GPU appear not when I run the NVidia-smi command?

  Why don't I see "Shared PCI Device" when I change the settings of the virtual machine in vSphere?

  Screenshots below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  

  NVIDIA-smi

  Thu Jan 28 22:40:50 2016

  +------------------------------------------------------+

  | NVIDIA-SMI 352.70 driver version: 352.70.

  |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  | GPU name persistence-M | Bus - Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

  | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage / Cap |         The memory usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

  |===============================+======================+======================|

  |   0 GRID K1 on | Off 0000:06:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 36 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   K1 GRID 1 on | Off 0000:07:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | N/A 37 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   GRID 2 K1 on | Off 0000:08:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 31 C P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  |   GRID 3 K1 on | Off 0000:09:00.0 |                  N/A |

  | S/O 33 P8 10W / 31W |      8MiB / 4095MiB |      0% by default.

  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  | Process: GPU memory.

  |  The name of Type PID GPU use process |

  |=============================================================================|

  |  No common process found |

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  After the removal and reinstallation of the vib a few times it displays all the 8 GPU - there are 2 installed with 4 GPU cards each.

  Also, when I upgraded the hardware in the virtual computer to version 11 I could choose the "Shared PCI Device" and add the K1 GRID of NVIDIA.

  Thanks for the reply.

• Update hardware VM virtual machine running vCenter and VUM

  Curious to know how to upgrade hardware VM (from 4 to 7) of a computer virtual running vCenter 4 and the Update Manager.

  you will have to do it manually.  Connect to the host ESX (i) in which the virtual machine is hosted on, arrested, upgraded and on material (after the VMware Tools) power.

• upgrade vmware tools with orchestrator

  I still have many armies ESXi 3.5 although I updated my environment to ESX 4 3/4.  The task of rehabilitation for the vmware tools upgrade does not work for virtual machines running on esx 3.5.  Can orchestrator automate the task of upgrading vmware tools on a host ESX 3.5 and reboot the virtual machine.  Does anyone have an example to help out me with?  I know probably possible, but I have just install Orchestrator and did nothing with it yet.  I was thinking that this may be a task well start with.

  vCO server comes with a plug-in of VC4.0 with which you can configure some hosts/VC only 4.0 and later versions. In order to run workflows on ESX 3.5 hosts, you need to install the plug-in, VI3.5 there in vCO/extras/plugins server. The file has the extension VMOAPP, you can change to .jar then check out the plugin VI3.5 .dar file. After installing correctly, you can then drill library of built-in workflow, for the category of the VMware Tools, which you can find the upgrade tools workflow. It would automate the up-gradation of the tools, as long as the toolsAutoUpdateSupported is set to true in the virtual machine. In addition, this API works successfully if the tools are not updated. For ESX 3.5 hosts, you must run the workflow in the VMS VIM3 management category.

  Hope it will be useful.

• Migration of virtual machines to vCD and again in a standard ESXi cluster itself?

  We currently have a relatively small cluster of ESXi (5.0.0 1489271) which uses a dedicated installation vCenter (5.0.0 1300600) and an instance of vCD (vCD 5.1.2.1068441).  Our goal is to move the virtual machines running in this configuration to our standard ESXi clusters (5.5.0 1892794) supported by installation of different vCenter (5.5.0 1891313).

  The instance of vCD seems to add additional parameters to the level of the virtual machine that prevents the VM of to be easily transferred out of the instance of vCD.  What we are looking for is a way to easily migrate these servers on and completely remove the vCD of the equation.  The only details around that we found cause downtime for exports out of vCD can be extended to reason the total amount of drive to the VM and VM level, which we really do not think it is an option to open a window of time to stop long enough to work through this process.

  Did someone went down this road before?  We have approximately 120 virtual machines in the cluster vCD using about 52 TB of disk.

  Maybe we're wrong understand something fundamental about the nature of migration of VMs on the vCD instance, but we have not been able to find many details on what options exist to make this move.  We have spoken several times with VMware support in this regard.  They mentioned a potential tool in the work within engineering migrate vCD to vCAC (which isn't really fall under our goal unless vCAC would then provide a clear path to return the virtual machines to a standard ESXi cluster).

  Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

  I am a colleague of GTC and wanted to just sent to our discussion of this topic with the help of VMware.  Basically, we should be able to Setup VMs in vCenter, outside of vCloud Director, pointing them to the same files VMDK and MAC then power off VM vCD and power on VM vCenter.

  : The NASA-EAST region

  Moment of validation: 2014-09-05 11:32 EDT

  Severity of the request for assistance: 4 - low

  Description of the request for assistance: we are looking for ways simple and less disruptive migrate VMS off vCloud Director and vCenter management.

  We have the advantage of a single principle in vCloud, managed by a vCenter and the network configuration is simple with no VXLAN.

  What are the problems with the realization of the following?

  vCD 5.1 is managed by vCenter 5.0, the final result will move VMs in vCenter even

  -Create a new virtual machine in vCenter that points to the same vmdk files as virtual machine in vCD you want to migrate, allocate same configurations of processor, memory, and network (we do not use the vCD with advanced networking)

  -Turning off the virtual computer in vCD

  -Once the vCD WHAT VM is off, power on VM in vCenter

  We must ensure that the VM vCD never gets turned on again and then when we are completely finished with all migrations of VMS in vCenter we abandon vCD.

  Of course there are details to help users migrate to how they use the vCD to vSphere vCenter client web interface or web interface.

  Entry date: 04/09/2014

  Since the opening of the case, I had interviews with several members of VMware support staff and these additional points were added.

  -Configure vCenter VM with the same vNIC driver MAC and like vCD VM vNIC

  -Rename VMDK files to make for easier management, or if not renamed then detach from the propelled out of vCD VM

• Virtual MACHINE disk SSD and SATA III?

  Hello

  I am building a new workstation tech support and will greatly appreciate your advice:

  In short, I am migrating from a 92 GB 32-bit Win7 with the only platform of RAM 4 GB, for a Win8 - 64 bit with 32 GB of RAM platform. From experience, I know that it will take months of "free time" until I can complete installation, configuration, data migration and upgrade of all Win8 software I need to run my business on a daily basis. In terms of continuity of activity for the moment, my way of thinking is to:

  Install a fresh Win8 64-bit in a C: partition of 125 GB on a new 250 GB SSD.

  Create logical partition D: on the remaining 125 GB SSD.

  I'll then P2V old Win7 on a new VM VMware on the D: partition.

  BTW, I'm not looking for methodology on the mechanics of the P2V here, because it is beyond the scope of this post and I know how to do this with the VMware products and 3rd party utilities.

  This should help:

  1. gradually get the host physical Win8 upward and entirely configured at my convenience, being able to continue to run Win7 in the VM for my daily activities.

  2. enjoy benefits and features of productivity which offers VMware Workstation on the competition.

  3. enjoy the impressive speed expected to have the VM Win7 on an SSD.

  4. several months from now when I need is more VM Win7 for daily activities, move the VM Win7 off the SSD (more than one pin SATA III), delete the D: partition out of the SSD and resize the partition of Win8 to use any DSS.

  If I do the migration of this way, Win8, I can do (part 3) full backups / incremental of Win8 C:partition and partition D: Win8 (which holds the VM Win7), the image separately as an activity based on required on these partitions. Yes, with the stop of the VM or suspended of course during imaging of 3rd party partition.

  The $64 questions are therefore:

  5. the sound that precedes like a plan?

  6. or, it would be better to just install Win8 on the SSD of 250 GB of space (with VMware Workstation installed of course) and put the VM Win7 on the pin SATA III that contains my other virtual machines? My 3rd party software Imaging allows full/incremental file, so I could just save the VM Win7 directory on this axis. I can see potential disk latency issues in this scenario, if I have the old VM Win7 running and at the same time also work on (for example) two guests Windows Server of pre-production with a few guests of Win7/Win8 (to test ERP software or question MSSQL). There are five virtual machines running on this SATA III 7200 RPM spindle.

  Sorry, that was so long. I look forward to your thoughts and comments.

  Kind regards...

  Personally speaking I use the SSD together as a single partition and have a low spindle drive where you can run your file exchange and the VM, it would be different if you were running multple VM and wanted that they have spun fast and enjoyable, but as it's a loophole to stop until you get all migrate by then I don't see why you want to divide the SSD.

  My MSI laptop has 2 SSD mSATA, the operating system of the House and a brooch my VM and file exchange and tbh I don't suffer at all with performance, I even was called to run virtual machines running (plural) from a device USB 3 instead.

• Random virtual machines after vMotion and Storage vMotion network loss

  Hi all -

  I have a couple of tickets open with VMware and our supplier of SAN, EqualLogic, on this issue.  Since the configuration of our production and DMZ clusters we noticed that the virtual machines will sometimes drop network connectivity after a successful vMotion and Storage vMotion.  Sometimes, although much less frequently, virtual machines also spontaneously lose network overnight.  What happened only a few times.  The strange thing is that the other guests on the VM host are fine - they lose any network.  Actually, I can do no more than 3 computers virtual host to another, and 2 of 3 can switch correctly, so that we lose the network.  The work around?  Simply 'disconnect' from the virtual NETWORK card 'reconnect' and the virtual machine will start the return packets.  I can also switch the VM troubled return to the host State and it will find the network.  I can it reboot and re - win network.  I can re - install the virtual card completely, and she re - win network.

  VMware has seen a lot of mistakes of SAN in our log files in order to update us our SAN firmware to the latest version.  That seems to have fixed that but we still have the issue.  Here are some of the specifications - all environments are virtually identical except for memory:

  Of PowerEdge R810

  NICs Broadcom 5709

  EqualLogic SAN running 5.0.5 F/W

  We use frames.  ESXi is fully patched.  I haven't seen a boss or not, it is only some guest operating system that loses the network, but we are a Windows environment.

  When a virtual machine loses the network, we can not:

  • Ping to it
    
  • Ping it
    
  • Ping him at the virtual machines on the same host or vSwitch
    
  • Ping outside our network
    
  • resolve DNS, etc..
    

  I followed some KBs VMware without success, including:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003839
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1002811 (port security is not enabled)

  -All the VMware tools have been updated to the latest version correct and corresponds to the ESXi host
  -Connected to the service ESXi console, I cannot ping the VM problem by name of host or IP address, but I can ping do not affected by the issue of the OTHER virtual machines.  I can also pings the service console.
  -Connected to the troubled virtual machine itself, I cannot ping other virtual machines, I can't resolve host names, I cannot ping by IP.  The machine virtual CAN ping itself by IP, but not hostname.  I cannot ping other virtual computers on the same virtual switch or network by either IP or host name.  I can't ping the vSwitch network management.
  -All vSwitches are configured in the same way and the same.
  -Notify the switches is set to yes
  -There are a lot of available virtual ports
  -We tried the E1000 and VMXNET virtual cards with no difference.
  -All cards are configured to negotiate, but we tried to force individuals speeds as well as with no difference

  I appreciate your help.  I have problems getting anywhere on this issue with the sellers.

  wkucardinal wrote:

  Still having the issue...

  Sometimes, it might be useful to really check that all uplinks VMNIC for all VLAN does work them. Try this is to create a new portgroup on the vSwitch used by your virtual machines on the host of the first, put a test VM on the portgroup, then go into the NIC teaming policy from the new portgroup and select "Override switch command failover."

  Then down vmnic all except one in unused, then only a single VMNIC is active. Then set the portgroup VLAN to a production of VLAN and try to see if we could ping some expected from the different addresses. If it works, then move VMNIC work until unused and move up to another asset. Try again, and this for all the vmnic. If it works, then you have verified that the configuration of VLANS and other settings are correct on the physical switch in the face of this host ports.

  If several VLANs, repeat the process for all other productions VLAN. Then repeat on the other hosts.

  While that may take some time, occurs if everything is properly configured on the physical switches. When occurs a vMotion virtual machine gets a new "Port code" and is assigned to a new outgoing VMNIC. If there is an error of configuration on one or more physical ports that might seem random, but may still happen on VLAN x on y VMNIC. Given that Port ID policy you use indeed spread randomly VMs on the vmnic these problems may be difficult to diagnose. (Make a disconnection of the VM vNIC gives the virtual machine a new port-ID, which it will move to a new outgoing VMNIC, which might seem to solve the problem.)

• How to get the MAC address of the virtual machine on which vmware tool is not installed

  Hello

  In our project, we communicate to vCenter/ESX and details of virtual machines using the VI - Java 4.0.0 SDK APIs

  I use PropertyCollector for details.

  But in the following cases

  1. a virtual machine is poweredOff.

  2 VMware tool is not installed on the virtual machine.

  I am not able to get the mac using the PropertyColector address.

  To get the macaddress property I use after crossing spec:

  rootFolder (folder)-> childEntity (data center)-> hostFolder (Folder)-> childEntity (ComputerResource)

  -> host (Hostsystem)-> vm-> guest (GuestInfo)-> net (GuestNicInfo)-> macaddress (in Virtualmachine)

  I know the vSphere client uses the VI SDK to perform all operations, and I am able to see the macAddress of VirtualMachine in cases using vSphere client.

  Is any body please help me get the macaddress of VM in the two cases.

  Thank you

  Deepak

  Take a look at the dashboard feature of the virtual machine and specifically "VirtualEthernetCard": http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.device.VirtualEthernetCard.html

  When you assign a new vNIC to each virtual machine, a unique MAC address generated is given by default. If you still want to map the actual interface of the guestOS, then you would take a look at guestInfo as you may have noticed IF you have the VMware Tools. Although the default is whence the MAC address

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