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• VMWARE Newbie - installation problems with the guest operating system

  I heard a lot about the use of VMWARE for a long time so I downloaded and then installed ESXI 3.5 on a test area.  I installed the client and have been able to create a new virtual machine.  However, I run into some difficulty with installing a guest operating system.  All the pdf that I could find have suggested that simply by putting a CD in the server's drive and then turn on the virtual machine would start the my guest operating system installation process.  Unfortunately, my VM doesn't seem to see my CDRom and tent drive a start-up network, followed by a brief wait for the message 'Operating system not found' timeout.

  Can someone please help me find a way to create a new guest OS on my VM so that I can.

  1. understand the process

  2 start testing.

  Thank you in advance.

  If you have installed of course the VI Client to create the VM, and you insert the CD into the ESXi host? You can go to change settings on the virtual machine, click the CD/DVD and select the option use the host device. Also ensure the connection to turn on is checked.  When you turn on the virtual machine, it should see the CD that you inserted in your ESXi host. Once you get the operating system to load, you can configure to allow remote desktop connections and access the VM as a traditional physical machine, rather than relying on the console of the VI Client view.

• VMware newbie question

  I have a basic question...

  In a physical server environment, the network adapters have IP addresses on them... ok, easy

  But what about in an ESX environment? Let's say I have a physical server with 4 virtual machines on them... how many subnets should? Suppose I need a subnet for each virtual computer... so that's 4 here... what else? VMotion? physical network adapters receive IP addresses, too? The host ESX Gets an IP address?

  Thank you!

  So in a normal environment, you will

  ESXi management VMKernel - routable IP address (Note: default gateway must respond to ICMP, otherwise, you must modify the avancΘs das.isolationaddress to make HA work correctly)

  vMotion VMKernel - IPs Non routable w / dedicated VLAN (you can have several for vMotion VMKernel in vSphere 5 use multi-nic vMotion)

  Fault tolerance VMKernel (if necessary) - IP Non routable dedicated VLAN

  (One or more) VMKernel/s of IP storage (iSCSI/NFS if necessary) - IPs Non routable w / dedicated VLAN

  Hope that helps

• New Player installs on XP - features not present on the CPU box

  Hello!  VMWare newbie here.  I just got a nice work stations, new.  I thought I could use VMWare Player to take an image of my old computer and import it and have just in case autour.  My old computer is a 32-bit single-core 2.4 ghz is running XPsp3.

  I just downloaded VMWare player, VMware-player - 6.0.4 - 2237854.exe and tried to run, I get a splash screen and then an error box:

  

  So, is there a way to fix this, so I can create an image on my old 32-bit box, move to my new 64-bit box and then run it with happiness?

  Thank you.

  Josh

  ch - old box has 512 MB of RAM if that is the question

  Perhaps, VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.

• Is it possible to host ESX 3.5 VMotion with ESX 4 online?

  VMware newbie

  Is it possible to host ESX 3.5 VMotion with ESX 4 online?

  It is possible.

  And it is necessary to do a guest upgrade without interruption of service.

  André

• Moving Virtual Machine to 3.5 4.0?

  VMware newbie here.  I installed virtual machines on an ESX host 4.0 under the terms of the trial for VSphere license.  I have much more 32-bit 64-bit servers... so I created two ESXi 3.5 servers, and if possible, I would move the virtual machines in ESX 4 box in the area of ESX 3.   Using VCenter and try to 'move' the machine it tells me that I can't because of the HAL or something to that effect.

  Question is can I manually copy the virtual machines in the data store for these machines and change a file or something to make them moved?

  Thank you

  Josh

  If you used the default, you will need to download VMware converter

• ESX error after power failure.

  Hi all

  I am desperate because this weekend we had a power failure and two of our ESX VM cannot start.

  E-mail error is "cannot open the disk...". »

  Reason: Error handler e/s no valid.

  What can we do?

  A big thank you in advance.

  Check your store for data, the VM configuration, disk descriptor (hard) or anything related to your storage space.

  You can try to create the new virtual machine, add new vritual disk to existing aid & turn on the virtual machine...

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• Slow down the process to boot ESX 3.5

  I had a problem with a generator and the power lost to one of my data centers.  When the site is back the ESX 3.5 server started before the SAN be ready to present LUNS to the ESX Server.  Therefore ESX server could not automatically start the server VM to comments from the data store was not available.  I was able to just scan the HBA, and then put on the server hosts with no problems.  If this happens again I want the ESX Server to wait an additional 5 minutes at start-up to allow the SAN compleley come and do the avialable LUN auto start the guests.  Does anyone know how to change the default timer on the initial splash screen in ESX to allow extra time for other devices to come online before the start of ESX?

  Thank you

  You can do your ESX waiting a little bit more time before it start to begin your kernel by setting the timeout to config(/boot/grub/grub.conf) GRUB bootloader. By default must be within 10 seconds. Just simply wait for your San is ready.

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• HA does not not as expected on the ESX host

  Hello

  I have a cluster with ESX 3 (v3.5 Update4) node that is configured to use HA & Drs During a practice session to the ESX host that I found that if I simulate a hard failure of one of the nodes in the cluster, ESX all guests arriving to run on this host VM will automatically starts not themselves on another ESX host after x amount of time. What I've done so far to solve problems is the following:

  1. allowed Virtual Machine put in power under the Configuration tab on each ESX host. Then, I moved that no matter what VM Autostart submenu in there appearing. This step is repeated on each ESX host

  One thing to note after that: when the host has been stopped, the virtual machine would properly failover to another ESX host but not itself power on. I got feed manually on the client.

  2. I disabled the resource constraints under the Cluster Edition settings Menu to enable the machine to power on no matter what

  There is nothing to change the question

  3. I fiddled with the priority of restarting the virtual machine in question to see if it would help, but it made no difference

  4. I enabled Virtual Machine control and settings left to 'High '.

  It has nothing

  There are two messages that I keep seeing in the case where the window of the Cluster:

  Failure of failover for the guest in question Warning Message

  Not enough resources for the warning of the cluster failover

  There are many resources available, so I do not know whence this second message. DNS seems in good condition I can solve the hosts & guests all with success in a direct and reverse search.

  My goal here is to have the guest virtual computer turn itself on one of the other guests of the ESX cluster.

  Any help would be appreciated... Thank you

  Look in "response to isolation" on setting HA. Did you put it "Leaves the virtual machine" setting turned on or turned off?

  If market, your host another try not to put the virtual machines from the virtual machines might still running on the original host, which can cause some collide ie.swap in use, the locked configuration files & etc.

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• How to check the progress of instant removal?

  I commit snapshots (using 'Delete All' in the Snapshot Manager), but of course it happens to expire at the end of 15 minutes on the recent task with an error.

  I guess the process is still running in the right background of time - how can you check on the command line if the snapshot deletion process is actually running? (the two snapshots are 10 GB and 20 GB)

  $vimsh

  $vimsvc/task_list

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• New image a .vmx existing VM

  VMware esx server using vmware viclient

  In the data store, I have an existing image to vmware .vmx and hard in a separate folder. record (1)

  I copy the contents of the above (folder1) folder in a folder (folder2) separated in the data store.

  Now folder2, I want to make it appear the .vmx image in folder2. I know how to use the hard in one file but not in a position to make a way to reuse the existing .vmx

  This is a Herculean task to understand. !!!

  Thank you

  Kishore

  If I'm not mistaken, u want just only appear the .vmx in folder2. Right-click, choose Add to the inventory. You may need to change the uuid also.

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• V2V between ESX hosts

  I just want to ask, I have to do cold V2V a VM on Wan via fibre-optic line and intend to use the 4 converter to resize the original hard during the process.

  ESX HAS | VM A (source) | VMFS on local disk-

  ---

  migrate - & gt; ESX B | (destination). VMFS on shared storage

  My question is, do I need an additional license for Converter 4 making the migration from different ESX hosts without vCenter?

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  No, you don't not need another license for Convertter as long as you use an instance of mono converter - also be warned converter on the WAN will take some time.

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• HA error on one of the three hosts

  Hello

  I have set up a cluster with three servers and active HA.  Two servers work fine, however, one of the servers (esx1) has an error saying HA 'agent on esx1 cluster in MCC MCC has an error.  I checked the logs and looks esx1 determines that esx3 is the main agent, but it is impossible to connect to it so that it determines that there is no agent that runs on esx3.

  I made sure that I could ping esx1 esx3 and I can't.  I also made sure it solves with the short name and the FULL domain name, and it does.  Not sure why it cannot connect... ideas?  The log is attached.

  When the full domain name is configured properly, sometimes I just uninstall vpxa issues ESX host, disconnect & remove then add it to your cluster.

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• Storage SAN (data store) cannot be seen by guests

  Hi all

  I have a strange problem with a newly added SAN (LUN) storage device.

  I have 3 hosts running with a shared data store (SAN) which works very well. Now I have a new machine SAN shared connected to all guests, but when I "add storage" on host1 and refresh the storage to other hosts (Setup - & gt; storage - & gt; discount), I can see the data store created only on host1 and host3. When I choose 'add a storage' on host2 it destroyes the data store created and create a new one that is visible to host2.

  I tried several times to add and refreshment, but the same results come once again.

  Any help would be appreciated

  It would take a while for these hosts another to see the new store of data created on another host. How end restart your host 2?

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• Try adding a custom to VC role

  Hi guys.

  Ive always used the built in roles in VC, but now I need to create a custom role, when I goto option in the client Virtual Infrastructure his gray and can't be selected. First thing that crossed my mind was permissions but I'm logged on the server and the VI client as the local administrator, so I have full access.

  Any thoughts on why this could be involved?

  What do you mean by "grey"?

  Administration-> roles-> right click-> Add?

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