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• VMtools upgrade, great environment

  Hello

  I have a question of upgrading the tools.

  Great environment, 2 main vCenter managed data centers, one in U2, the other on U3. [1311175 and 5.0.0 5.0.0 ESXi 1489271]

  I intend to create a software package to upgrade a client OS (mainly windows servers) if necessary.  I want only to upgrade the tools on the guests running on hosts U3.

  Is there a registry key in Windows that gives the status of upgrade available to VMtools?

  Thank you...

  Ted

  the point on what I'm doing.  Remember, I use a 3rd third-party tool to monitor the deployment.  This is the first command file which will test (additional lines exist for testing, as well as statements of break - they will be deleted) if the tools are installed, if they are not the output.  Then test the guest machine status - whether an upgrade is available.  If installation script is available, that she, the 3rd third-party tool, will inaugurate the real.  If it isn't available, it ends with an error code and the installation will not continue.  It is only for host servers running a Windows operating system.  The file under work, not completely tested cmd on all older versions, but it works on 2008 R2, 2008 x 86 and 2003 x 86.  Once again, this will be useful if you use 3rd party tools.

  I intend to add a version on the installation script check to ensure I don't patch not an older version of tools was never patched and that a host may not be on U3.  I use: ("VMwareToolboxCMD.exe - v") to check the installed version of vmtools to ensure or control how many versions back I will allow this update.

  Echo Off

  Echo line is removed, it gives upgraded status necessary before the test of the values

  "C:\Program VMware Tools\vmwaretoolboxcmd.exe" improve the status

  Break

  Audit of ECHO to see if the VMware Tools have an update is available for this host.

  In the CONTRARY CASE exist them 'C:\Program VMware Tools\vmwaretoolboxcmd.exe"GOTO NOTINSTALLED

  ECHO VMtools installed, check if an update is required

  "C:\Program VMware Tools\vmwaretoolboxcmd" improve the status | findstr /i "up-to-date" > null

  IF NECESSARY OF GOTO %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1

  GOTO NOTNEEDED

  : NOTINSTALLED

  ECHO VMtools NOT installed.

  pause

  OUTPUT/b 1

  : NOTNEEDED

  ECHO complete Test, VMtools are up-to-date.

  pause

  OUTPUT/b 1

  : NEED TO

  ECHO Test complete, VMtools update available, go to the installation script.

  pause

  OUTPUT/b 0

• Vmtools upgrade always causes a restart of comments?

  All updates of the Vmtools always cause a reboot of the guest operating system? Or is it sometimes slight improvements that could be made without a reboot?

  ESX/ESXi 4.x on the host and any Windows server OS, say 2003 and later versions.

  Yes, it's the same for new installations, upgrades and even re-installation of VMware tools.

  I'm not sure if the restart is required all the time. I think that this was included in the package to be on the side "Save."

  André

• Disable the VMTools upgrade

  Hello

  I work in a store of Linux and one of their main problems is that the automatic updates of the vmtools corrupts the fstab on many machines during power on. Is there an easy way to prevent virtual machines of auto update to power on, actually to stop vmtolls to do this?

  I'm new on the VIToolkit so something simple reeeaaaally would be much appreciated.

  WARNING: what follows will make you even more enamored with PS

  You can use several techniques to filter around the Get - VM cmdlet.

  A few examples:

  (1) only the virtual machines in a specific resource pool

  Get-ResourcePool  | Get-VM | Get-View | %{
  ....
  

  (2) only the guests with a specific name.

  All virtual machines whose name starts with 'ABC '.

  Get-VM ABC*| Get-View | %{
  ....
  

  (3) only guests with a specific operating system

  This selects all the guests with a name of operating system (as discovered by VMware Tools) that begins with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

  Get-VM | Get-View | where {$_.Guest.GuestFullName -match "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3"} | %{
  ....
  

  ... and there are many more opportunities

• UpgradePolicy vmtools

  Hi guys,.

  I'm new to vmware anyone can check the UpgradePolicy of the vmtools?

  see you soon

  Petter

  for the list

  Get - VM | Select Name,Guest,@{N="UpgradePolicy; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.Tools.toolsUpgradePolicy}} | Export-Csv c:\toolsstate.csv

  to sort due to upgradeatpowercycle

  Get - VM | Select Name,@{N="UpgradePolicy; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.Tools.toolsUpgradePolicy}} | Export-Csv c:\toolsstate.csv

  ##################################################################################################

  To filter only the customers who have no manual or UpgradeAtPowercycle you can use the Where-Object cmdlet.

  The conditions uses the operator - notcontains.

  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine. where {"manual", "UpgradeAtPowercycle" - notcontains $_.} Config.Tools.toolsUpgradePolicy} | %{

  $_. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  }

  #################################################

  put upgradeatpowercl

  Foreach ($v in (get - vm)) {}

  $vm = $v | Get-View

  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".

  $vm. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  }

  or

  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine. %{

  $_. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  }

  ###########################################################################################################

  upgrade manual

  Foreach ($v in (get - vm)) {}

  $vm = $v | Get-View

  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "manual".

  $vm. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  }

  ################################

  That's what we did in our environment to set it to automatic, as we were upgraded to 4.1 to 5.5 and require vmtools upgrade when the server restarts as there are several servers and be lazy guys I tried powercli on our Xen desktop environment.

  You can also follow LucD for any substance powercli, he is the master of powercli.

  Hope that this will also help in your environment.

  Leme know if it works for you...

  Concerning

  Rahul

• Upgrade VMware Tools on Linux based virtual appliances

  I just updated a cluster of 5.1 to 5.5, some of the VMS are virtual appliances based on Linux (most of them on CentOS) which are fairly locked down (no easy access console) critical how's this for upgrade these types of virtual machines to the latest version of VMware Tools? I'm a little OCD and it bothers me that some of the VMS are VMware Tools reports that are "Stale" :-)

  Thank you.

  I know what you mean about the annoying notification bit... However, most of the providers WILL group and test vmtools as well as the Virtual Appliance that they release.

  The answer isn't vmtools upgrade, it has upgraded the Virtual Appliances.

  for example

  Installation of NetScaler virtual appliance on VMware ESX - Citrix eDocs

  You have a list of virtual appliances and you run versions?

  Chris

• VMtools and ESXi 5.0 update - can I do ahead of time?

  Hello

  I have a host running ESXi 4.1 (build 260247) I intend to upgrade to ESXi 5.0. This server hosts a few Windows 2003 and 2008 boxes that have need for committing patches to Windows and install VMtools is also obsolete. For the moment, I think the appropriate course of action would be: -.

  (1) apply Windows patches to virtual machines

  (2) stop the virtual machines

  (3) ESXi upgrade to v5.0

  (4) to set up the virtual machines and upgrade VMtools

  (5) restart the virtual machines.

  This seems a bit complicated, so I want to see if it is possible to do it like this:-

  (1) apply Windows patches to virtual machines (no reset)

  (2) VMtools upgrade to the version provided with ESXi 5.0 (no reset)

  (3) stop VMs

  (4) ESXi upgrade to v5.0

  (5) set up the virtual machines

  This would eliminate the need to perform an additional restart for virtual machines. Is this possible?  ESXi 4.1 will work with VMtools of ESXi 5.0? I suppose also that using the Update Manager to manage the implementation to date will not erase the local VMFS containing virtual machines?

  See you soon

  JD

  Hello

  5 VMTools is fully compatible with ESXi 4 see here

  However you are missing 1 step

  (1) apply Windows patches to virtual machines (no reset)

  (2) VMtools upgrade to the version provided with ESXi 5.0 (no reset)

  (3) stop VMs

  (4) ESXi upgrade to v5.0

  (5) set up the virtual machines

  Before set you up the virtual machines, you must upgrade the virtual hardware to ver 8 (ver 7 on vSphere 4)

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• VMTools support required

  Salvation;

  Just need a few clarifications vmtools and versions of card driver NETWORK;

  Running ESX 3.5i build 213532 with WIN2K3 hosts;

  Reading other resources, I understand that there are 3 versions of vmxnet - 2 3 vmxnet.

  Driver settings is listed as the system OS: -.

  VMware PCI Ethernet Adapter with a driver date of 01/19/2009 and version 2.0.3.6;

  (a) someone can tell me if it's the standard vmxnet driver or driver vmxnet 2?

  (b) if it is not version 2 How can I get the required VMTools upgrade?

  Thank you very much

  Kern

  With ESX 3.x you have vmxnet or enhanced vmxnet (aka vmxnet2).

  On a virtual machine, you can also have E1000.

  To see which driver you use properties see VM / properties of the NETWORK card.

  André

• Upgrade to vSphere 4

  Hello

  Currently, we have 4 hosts of ESX 3.5 and a single Virtual Center Server the Update Manager aswell runing. The VC server is also the license server.

  I wanted to install Vsphere 4 and upgrade the virtual machine.

  I was going to migrate all virtual machines to a host ESX and format and install 4 Vpshere on it. Once the VC server is ready, I went to migrate the virtual machine here and upgrade the hardware. Format host ESX 3.5 next...

  Can someone tell me please the order in which I should do this? as the old environment will be runnning the long side whislt the upgrade is in progress.

  Thank you

  Hello

  upgradepath is:

  1.) Vcenter (prior to that, make a backup of you vcenterdb)

  2.) If you pass your MUV

  3.) upgrade now your host (you can create a baseline in your VUM)

  4.) vmtools upgrade (you can create a baseline in your VUM)

  5.) youvhardware upgrade (you can create a baseline in your VUM)

  MCP, VCP

• Best order ESX3.5U4 cluster upgrade

  Hello

  I just wanted to check that it was the best way to upgrade a cluster to U4.

  (1) scan and clean up host 1

  (2) restore the cluster host 1. Move virtual machines on it. Start on host 2

  (3) continue until all hosts are updated.

  (4) once all the guests are at a level compatible patch, VMTools upgrade on all clients

  Specifically, I want to know if it is OK to have guests with old VMTools (e.g. from U2) running on the hosts U4 - or if there are traps that I should know of.

  See you soon!

  I guess we can take the upgrade of vmware-tools as recommended but not required immediately. If the upgrade level of your hosts and vmware-tools upgrade schedule. VM will work fine even with tools of U2, but with U4, they will run better

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Migration of virtual machines in ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 to new hardware

  I'm new to VMware and our company bought 4 new servers and a SAN to replace our old VSphere 4.1 installation of 12 year.  The old configuration consisting of a server VCenter 4.1 physics 2003, 2 Dell 2900 ESXi hosts and 1 MD300i SAN.  Gen9 again the Installer 4 HP DL360 (3 host 1 VCenterServer) and MSA 2040.  Can someone please explain to me what would be the best way to go about moving more of our VM current for the new hardware? I found this from a previous post here, but it does not move the virtual machine to a SAN to another.

  Migration of the VMs of ESXi 4.x to 5.5

  "If I understand your question, continue to build the new environment of 5.5 with your 3 hosts from scratch 'ignoring' your old hosts. Once your new environment up & running, connect 4.1 guests to your new server vCenter Server and vMotion to move virtual machines while they run to the new cluster (live migration without interruption).

  VMTools upgrades do not have place automatically during migration.

  Once your virtual machines on new hosts, update tools as usual and you can then also upgrade virtual hardware of your virtual machines.

  Virtual HW update is optional, though; If you do not have the VMs that need the new features you can skip this last step and keep them as they are. »

  TYIA.

  The previous answer is pretty good, but I would like to add a few elements.

  You can 'disconnect' your 4.1 hosts of your old vcenter with running virtual machines, and then when you connect the hosts in your environment of 5.5 it will import your VM running as well.  As long as you have properly configured virtual networks you can live migrate vmfs old host and the old store of data simultaneously via the web client as long as your esx license allows it.  Otherwise close your virtual machines down to 1 at a time to migrate them above.

  Alternatively, you can consider running your vcenter as a virtual machine within the cluster it manages.  This gives you some DRS and HA for vcenter, plus a 4th host for virtual machines.

  If you don't have additional license you can also install your new hosts of 5.5 and run for 60 days before that you upgrade your 4.1 licenses to apply to your new host.

• Use virtual servers to ESX 3.5 in ESXi 5.0

  Hello everyone

  First of all, sorry for my bad English. It is not my language.

  So, I have a question. For the moment, let's have an ESX 3.5 Server 2 virtual servers. (Windows Server 2003)

  Now, we want to improve our ESX 3.5 to 5.0 ESXi. We bought a new server on which we want to run ESXi 5.0. So is it possible to simply copy these virtual machines in ESX 3.5 to 5.0 ESXi? (Updated the vmTools) Or I need to reinstall all of these machines?

  Best regards

  Dominik

  Welcome to the community...

  The new host (ESXi 5.0) is going to be autonomous? If so, you can use Vmware Converter to import the virtual machine to the new host ESXi 5.0

  If you have the shared storage and assign to 5.0 ESXi host, you can remvoe the virtual of ESX 3.5 machine and it add new virtual host, VMtools upgrade equipment, etc...

  You need to remove hidden devices that you are moving to new hardware.

• Host CPU is not compatible

  Recently, I have rebuilt my VM relax from U 1 4.0 ESX to ESXi 4.1 with the latest updates. I have a 3 hosts who are identical in specs, all three are ML370 G5 HP servers. I have a Virtual Machine that gives me headaches. I can not migrate from the last host, I created. I get the following error message:

  Host CPU is not compatible with the requirements of the virtual machine to CPUID level 0 x 1 'ecx' register

  Bits of the host: 0000:0100:0000:1000:0010:0000:0001

  Required: x 000: x 000: 0000:10xx:xxx0:xx1x:xxxx:x 001

  Inconsistency detected for these features:

  * General incompatibilities

  If possible, use an active cluster with vMotion compatibility (EVC) Enhanced; See article 1003212. In the absence of EVC, see article 1993.

  The weird thing is that I can move to two other guests very well. I have all hosts patches at the same level, VMtools upgraded the virtual machine. I have no problem moving any other VM to this host. I'm going to create a cluster, but I want to assure that I can move all the VMS to all guests, first of all. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Pete

  If you can try this

  1. Turn off the virtual machine.
  2. Click on the link change the settings of the virtual machine.
  3. Click the Options tab.
  4. Select mask CPUID under Advanced.
  5. Click Advanced.
  6. Click on reset default.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click OK again.
  9. Turn on the virtual machine and migrate.

  .. .or you can just try and it turns off, remove the inventory, browse the data store, add to the inventory on the other host.  Then see if you can vMotion.

• Help! VM does not start successfully after the conversion of Server VMware ESXi 4.1

  Hi, I have install my first server ESXi, everything seems OK and stable. Had a few PtoV machines, but to start I thought I propose our only current VM from VMWare server on our ESXi server.

  The VMware host is Win2003/32 running VMware server 1.0.6 and the prompt is also Win2003/32. I shut down the VM, installed the stand-alone converter on the VMware host and let it do it's thing. Successfully completed and took 20 minutes.

  When I try to start the virtual machine of the ESXi server, it looks OK, but hangs on "Application Startup Scripts", possibly the login screen appears, but then I get messages from "Remote RPC server not available" when you try to open an RDP session. A local login hangs right on the application of personal settings.

  Network everything seems fine, can ping the VM, etc.

  May not work on why the virtual machine should start any differently? Any ideas, anyone please. I am new to ESXi and migrate the virtual computer, but have used VMware Server a lot in the past.

  All advice appreciated...!

  That's good news.

  Which explains, normally, you must do the VMTools upgrade, then the virtual machine hardware, so if the converter upgrades the equipment, the order is bad. Of course, it is recommended to upgrade the hardware to ver 7. So now that it works you can improve the tools and then the vHardware. It might be interesting, if you have enough resources on the ESXi host, make a clone to the virtual machine and the test on the clone in a State (disconnect vNIC) offline.

  Please allow Points if it is useful

• upgrade VM NIC drivers for a computer virtual once VMtools and HW version upgrade to version 7

  Hi people,
  I just wanted to know your opinion on the VM NIC driver update once the VMS migrate from ESX3.5 to ESXi4.1 and as I am course upgrade VMware Tools 4 to 7 HW version. Please let me know as
  as the current network adapter is E1000. Need to move the VM NIC as well?

  Thank you
  vmguys

  as the current network adapter is E1000. Need to move the VM NIC as well?

  Hello

  you don't have to

  1. upgrade Vmware tools
  2. upgrade from version HW - don't forget that with version 8 VM can run only on ESXi5
  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers