VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

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• ESXi 4 VMs migration from one host to another without HA

  We are facing a problem of automatic migration with VM ESXi migration between hosts in the cluster. Even though we have disabled HA and no reason apparent for migration. We have two virtual machines residing on a host, and the host does not work normally. However, I have noticed that when we have turned off or the other virtual machines and once again, he climbs to another host in the cluster.

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  Hello

  I'm sure that's the reason for your behavior described.

  Concerning

  Andi

• Delete a snapshot in ESXi 5 when data store is almost full

  I'm very skiddish on use or deletion of snapshots after a disaster, I had with them last year. So, I thought I would get your recommendation before you continue.

  I have a virtual machine running on the host with about 700 GB of total space on the data store. The virtual machine uses about 500GB and there is only a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine uses a disc thin provisioned. I received a warning that there is insufficient data on the space store and there are only about 120 GB left. Is it safe to remove the snapshot? Should we double the size of the virtual machine to "consolidate? The last time I did it with multiple snapshots and a lot less space, it's disaster.

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  Here's what it says on the storage to Apollo (the virtual computer name) under summary in vSphere:

  

  The basic disk can only 'baloon' upward only by the amount of data in the snapshot, which is 214 GB function provided screenshot and to be on the safe side, you have to assume that he will do. If you need to at least 214 (I'd Go 220) free on the data store for a safe removal-snapshot operation.

  Worse: these 214 GBs are given new, added after the creation of the snap. You the kickoff of the removal process. Basic disk to grow per GB 214. Currently, it consumes 355 GB so it will grow up to 569GB. Only one time all the data of the snap is committed to basic disk, the snapshot will be deleted. This is why you need some 220 GB free and available on the data store to start the removal process.

  Instant deletion on an engine out of VM might help a little, but looks like not as much as you want.

  If you shut down the virtual, pagefile will be deleted which will free up to 4 GB.

  Also if you delete a wink on the virtual machine performance, actually another cliché will be created to store the changes that VM is done during the delete operation. According to the rate of change of data within your VM and the time required for the delete operation, it will take little extra space on the data store as well. This need for extra space can be avoided by removing the snap while the VM is turned off.

  However, in your case the virtual computer power on off won't help

  Bottomline - if you can, find a way to get 220 + GB of free space on your data store before you delete the snapshot. Otherwise, the next option is VM migration to a different data store with storage vMotion (without interruption) and deletion of snapshots there (once again, potentially without interruption). A last - cloning in another data store that involves downtime.

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• Migration of storage when the virtual machine has several data stores

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  On the "Select the data store" window, click on the button "Advanced". You can specify the location of each VMDK and configuration files.

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  I had to migrate our VCenter Server Appliance VM (5.5 x) that uses the database into another ESXi host.

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• How to migrate from one server to another (home of the workspace) html file

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• Easy way to migrate from one server to another?

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  A copy of the files from the Gr 1 10-10 gr 2-new server and commissioning will not work.

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• Every three months or more, the drive letter for the backup drives jumps from one to another

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• Migrating from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1

  I am planning a migration of ESX 3.5 Uptade 2 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 in September.  Material welcomes VI environment is in place for renewal of the lease.  I build the new environment vSphere and attach to the same storage shared as the existing ESX VI 3.5.  My plan is the following...

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  Any feedback is most appreciated.  Please let me know if I'm missing something.

  Then, you'd weigh your losses.  Do you have the characteristics of the hardware virtual v7 for these virtual machines or can you live with material v4?  Personally, I needed the changed block tracking which requires hardware v7.  It really comes down to what you need.  I recommend bringing them up to v7 but that's just my opinion.

• problems migrating from esx 3.5 to esxi 4.1

  Hello everyone,

  Migrate a virtual machine by host ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1 host.
  No error message or anything.
  I turn on the virtual machine and it gives error "... the file specified is not a virtual disk' to refer to the vmdk.
  In the control settings and see that the drive is properly configured.
  The control data store and I see that the file is there.
  I move the virtual computer on the old host, to verify that nothing has damaged and magically continues without problems!
  I still move VM on the host 4.1 and gives me the same error.
  Past to comb through the newspaper, join, it seems that there is an inconsistency between the size of the disk and the size declared in descriptor.
  How is the 3.5 function?
  I insist on the fact that all other virtual machines, I moved the host esx 3.5 have absolutely no problem...
  any suggestion is welcome.
  Simon

  You are welcome. Please keep us updated on how it goes.

  Good luck.

  P. S.

  A great advantage to the use of converter is that it leaves the original in place. Assuming that it always works, you have as your backup in the case where it is wrong the first time. If you try power off and things will not try to convert the power on the machine. Install Conveter directly on the machine to duplicate.

• Migrating from a virtual computer between two numbers of data center

  Hello!

  I just finished a muddy migration of a virtual machine from one data center to another.

  VMotion was not possible, so do not manually move the files was the only option.

  After downloading and uploading files to separate data warehouses, I have now a running virtual machine with the file to a folder named "TSV-forum", hard and the .vmx file and the working of a folder named "TSV-forum_2" directory

  The reason is that I downloaded the files to a new folder on the new data store named "TSV-forum", and when I created the new virtual machine and set the option to file on hard drive to use the vmx downloaded from the new 'TSV-forum' folder file, it automatically creates the "TSV-forum_2" folder and put the rest of the files for the new virtual machine in this folder.

  How to solve this problem?

  I should, perhaps, created the virtual machine in a different way, in the first place.

  How?

  Hello

  Connection via vSphere Client on the Vcenter server and

  Right-click on this particular VM-> go to change settings of-> click on hard disk and check the DiskFile tab (where is the VMDK file located on what data store)

  After that who go to the inventory-> warehouses of data, find the data for this particular VM store, right click and click Browse data store.

  you will find a folder with your VM file, click the folder where your file VMDK is located in the upper tab

  Find the underside of wink

  After clicking Move he will ask confirmation Move

  

  After you click YES the move items tab will appear

  Click on the data store, then select the Destination folder where you want or create a new folder for this particular VM with naming and click on move.

• Migration of all the catalog items to a different data store in the same storage profiles

  Hello

  is any possibility to migrate everything in the catalog (time and iso files) to a different data store that has the same profile (Silver) storage group?  Because I have 2 groups of data store with the same profile of storage (Silver) and I want to delete one of this cluster.

  I found this kb: http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2058094 but it speaks solely of media files of migration between different storage profiles.

  Have vCD 5.6.4

  You happen to use rapid Provisioning?  This is probably the only problem I can think of.

  Environments that have no linked Clones or shadows created from them, you can just Storage vMotion them between the same storage policy data warehouses.  Just make sure that the data store or a store of data clusters are visible in vCloud Director first of all in the framework of this storage policy.

  When you use linked clones, I don't remember the exact process... I think that I have in my office somewhere (I'm at home now).

• How to give more relevance to one of the column in multi-column data store

  Hi gurus,
  
  When using multi-column datastore necessary to give more importance to one of the other column. How can we achieve the same?
  

  SQL > create table test_sh4 (text1, text2 clob clob);
  
  Table created.
  
  SQL > alter table test_sh4 Add (Text3 clob);
  
  Modified table.
  
  SQL > start
  2 ctx_ddl.create_preference ('nd_mcd', 'multi_column_datastore');
  3 ctx_ddl.set_attribute
  4 ("nd_mcd",
  5 "columns."
  6 ' replace (Text1, "", "") nd, Text1 text1, replace (Text1, "", "') nd, Text1 text1');
  7 ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('nd_mcd', 'separator', 'new line');
  8 ctx_ddl.create_preference ('test_lex1', 'basic_lexer');
  9 ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('test_lex1', 'spaces', ' /--------|-_ + "");
  10 end;
  11.
  
  PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
  
  SQL > create index IX_test_sh4 on test_sh4 (Text3)
  indexType is ctxsys.context
  parameters
  ("nd_mcd of the data store
  lexer test_lex1')
  / 2 3 4 5 6
  
  Index created.

  Here, while querying how can I give more relevant for the text1 Text2 column as column?

  I gave an example below. I added some data to your example. You had tags and columns duplicated in your multi_column_datastore, so I fixed it those. I removed the newline delimiter and added a section with sections of field group and add this section to the index settings group. Allows you to search in each section of field and apply different fats. You can apply weights by multiplying by a value entre.1 and 10 or several times multiplier to reduce or increase the score for a particular section.

  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- table structure you provided:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> create table test_sh4 (text1 clob,text2 clob);
  
  Table created.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> alter table test_sh4 add (text3 clob);
  
  Table altered.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- added data:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> insert all
    2  into test_sh4 (text1, text2, text3)
    3    values ('testword', 'word2', 'word3')
    4  into test_sh4 (text1, text2, text3)
    5    values ('word4', 'testword', 'word5')
    6  into test_sh4 (text1, text2, text3)
    7    values ('test word', 'word2', 'word3')
    8  into test_sh4 (text1, text2, text3)
    9    values ('word4', 'test word', 'word5')
   10  select * from dual
   11  /
  
  4 rows created.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- fixed duplicate column names and tags and
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- removed newline delimiter and
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- added section group with field sections:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> begin
    2    ctx_ddl.create_preference ('nd_mcd', 'multi_column_datastore');
    3    ctx_ddl.set_attribute
    4        ('nd_mcd',
    5         'columns',
    6         'replace (text1, '' '', '''') nd1,
    7          text1 text1,
    8          replace (text2, '' '', '''') nd2,
    9          text2 text2');
   10    ctx_ddl.create_preference ('test_lex1', 'basic_lexer');
   11    ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('test_lex1', 'whitespace', '/\|-_+');
   12    ctx_ddl.create_section_group ('test_sg', 'basic_section_group');
   13    ctx_ddl.add_field_section ('test_sg', 'text1', 'text1', true);
   14    ctx_ddl.add_field_section ('test_sg', 'nd1', 'nd1', true);
   15    ctx_ddl.add_field_section ('test_sg', 'text2', 'text2', true);
   16    ctx_ddl.add_field_section ('test_sg', 'nd2', 'nd2', true);
   17  end;
   18  /
  
  PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- added section group to index:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> create index IX_test_sh4 on test_sh4 (text3)
    2  indextype is ctxsys.context
    3  parameters
    4    ('datastore     nd_mcd
    5        lexer          test_lex1
    6        section group     test_sg')
    7  /
  
  Index created.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> column text1 format a10
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> column text2 format a10
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> column text3 format a10
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- without weighting:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> select score (1), t.* from test_sh4 t
    2  where  contains
    3             (t.text3,
    4              'testword',
    5              1) > 0
    6  /
  
    SCORE(1) TEXT1      TEXT2      TEXT3
  ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
           6 testword   word2      word3
           6 word4      testword   word5
           3 test word  word2      word3
           3 word4      test word  word5
  
  4 rows selected.
  
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> -- with weighting:
  SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> select score (1), t.* from test_sh4 t
    2  where  contains
    3             (t.text3,
    4              '(testword within text1) * 10 or
    5            (testword within nd1)     *  5 or
    6            (testword within text2) * .5 or
    7            (testword within nd2)     * .1',
    8              1) > 0
    9  order  by score (1) desc
   10  /
  
    SCORE(1) TEXT1      TEXT2      TEXT3
  ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
          48 testword   word2      word3
          20 test word  word2      word3
           2 word4      testword   word5
           1 word4      test word  word5
  
  4 rows selected.
  

• ESXi: creation of data store

  has obtained ESXi installed 5.1.

  have a couple of questions regarding the creation of a data store. My VM will reside on a synology 1512 +. the NAS has active windows and NFS file system.

  When I create the data store by using NFS, I just enter the IP address of the NAS and shared folder path (mount point)?

  I need to create a store of data by VM?

  can I import my existing virtual machines after that the data store is created?

  TIA

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• ESX 3.5: copy files using the service console from a network share to the esx host data store

  Hello

  I wonder. Is there a command that I can run the service console that would allow me to copy a file from a network share on the data store on the esx host?

  Eric

  If sharing is a Windows, you can also use smbclient within the service console and ride sharing.

  André

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