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  We set up our VMware environment 4 years ago and want to replace the hardware and upgrade to VSphere. We are now part of a large organization and they are questioning our original facility regarding using a San to host Windows Server guests in this environment. They believe that a San is only for storage and VMware customers have to live on a server. I'm looking for confirmation that we use "best practices" by having the OS guest systems on a San, rather than a server. I'd really like something VMware that says to use a SAN and why. It's our Installer; We have 4 servers ESX 3.5 with dual processors core quad, 32 GB of ram and quad port network adapters. The ESX servers connected to the SAN via redundant fiber via HABs connections. The SAN has 6 TB of storage space and we accommodate 24 people from Windows 2003. I say that we have this right and they say I should welcome the guests on a server and not a SAN. My point is why are in charge of the server OS and everything that comes with it as patching and antivirus and multiple HBA when I can get a SAN form HP at equal or lower cost. I just need help to make my case.

  Shared storage is a requirement for features such as vMotion, DRS, and HA.

  It is certainly having a guest on local storage, but what happens if you have a question of host or need maintenance?   If you use a shared storage and you need to host maintenance you can simply vMotion the VMS to another host and there is no interruption of service.   Without shared storage log off the virtual machines or need to spend downtime to migrate them to another host.   If a host goes down, your VM on local storage is down until the host is repaired.  With HA and a shared storage, another host will reboot the virtual machine and it will be online in a few minutes.

• VMware server wiped the host during the generation of the comments operating system

  Gidday,

  System:

  HP dc7800p sff

  Slackware64-13

  Kernel: 2.6.31.4

  VMware serve 2.01 - build 156745

  I tried to build a guest of windows on the network via a console on vmware server

  We use a tftp boot server and use ximage to copy the image on the machine.

  Everything seemed to go well when my screen was filled with random colors.

  Restarts it tried to boot into windows, it is thoroughly confusing, because it's a dedicated linux machine.

  After starting on a rescue cd, it seems that my old layout (4 sheets), it is now 1 NTFS partition and this partition is filled with a windows file structure and the corresponding files.

  I am always tring to understand how a virtual machine that is supposed to write to a file has managed to clear the contents of my hard drive.

  Someone at - he had similar experiences or ideas on how this could happen?

  See you soon!

  Dave

  Well Yes, there is a SCSI device to passthru in there as well according to what/dev/sg0 described on the host that the client tried to do with this device, which may well explain the host getting wiped.

  Safer to come just the hard and then create a new VM on the Server 2.x using this hard even though it must be said that I have never suffered this deliver me or heard someone else either.

  Guy Leech

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• I can't install vmware server on the same windows server 2008 with Hyper-V?

  I have a server as the active service of Hyper-V, but I want to virtualize a VMware ESXi, andnot with Hyper-V now like to install VMware Server.

  My doubt is: can install two virtualizadores on the same server?

  It is a virtualization server that I have in my environment.

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  Diego Paiva.

  I don't know of anyway to run ESXi in hyper - you can do the reverse to install ESXi and then run Hyper-V as a virtual machine.

  As for your second question - if you ask you can install ESXi on top of Hyper-v - you can, but it will overwrite the Hyper-v Forum

• Cannot install vmware tools on the guest operating system ubuntu!

  Hello

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  According to the guidelines of the screenshot, you typed

  sudo mkdir/mnt/cdrom

  The correct syntax is

  sudo mkdir/mnt/cdrom (note the space after mkdir)

  For details see VMware KB

• Update 10 gr 2 DB to 11 GR 2 while migrating to new server with the same operating system

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  PL see your partners post - DB migration with movement of storage for the new server.

  Move the 10.2.0.5 database and storage on the new server, then install 11 GR 2 on the new server and perform the upgrade according to the upgrade Doc

  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E11882_01/server.112/e23633/TOC.htm

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• Cannot save the virtual machine in VMWare Server 2

  Hi all:

  I created a VM (12.1 OpenSuSE 32bits) in VMWare Workstation 7; then I copied it to a host VMWare Server 2.

  When I try to save the virtual machine via the web, the server fails (or at least interrupts the response from Web page), so I tried to save it via command line.

  After searching a bit I found this:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1006160

  The question is now that I can't find any vmware-cmd anywhere, and when I run vmware-vim-cmd I get the following error:

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  BTW: what is ESX, ESXi and what version of ESXi is included in VMWare Server 2?

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  Luis

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• Impossible to use VMWare Server and Virtual PC at the same time?

  I have a Win 7 box I use VirtualPC (unfortunately, VPN to the employer only supports the 32-bit Win XP).

  If I try to start any virtual machines using VMWare Server, power on and then immediately off.  Tried several different VMs.

  However, if I disable VirtualPC, they all work normally.

  Then... there at - it a known issue with the help of Virtual PC and VMWare Server at the same time?

  BTW, I didn't see this problem when you use Virtual PC and VMWare Player at the same time.

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• Fedora to access VMware server 2 web

  Hello

  I had problems with the interface web vmware server 2. When I first install vmware server 2 on a clean system, it works fine. However, after a reboot, the web interface is more accessible to the general public.

  When I do

  "netstat - anp |" grep vm ' I see port 902 listening however ports 8222 and 8333.

  SELInux is disabled, I also turned to IPtables and ip6tables as well as fedora firewall.

  I tried rerun vmware - config.pl, however this does not resolve the issue. I also tried to restart the management interface and that does not work either.

  When I restart the vmware service, everything seems fine:

  Stop the VMware autostart virtual machines:
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  Stopping VMware management services:
  VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
  VMware Server [OK] host agent
  Stopping VMware services:
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  Virtual machine communication interface [OK]
  Virtual machine monitor [OK]
  Networking networking on/dev/vmnet0 [OK]
  Detection of network host [OK]
  DHCP server on/dev/vmnet1 [OK]
  Host only networking on/dev/vmnet1 [OK]
  Networking networking on/dev/vmnet2 [OK]
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  Virtual machine communication interface [OK]
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  Network invited only on/dev/vmnet1 (background) [OK]
  DHCP server on/dev/vmnet1 [OK]
  Networking networking on/dev/vmnet2 [OK]
  Network invited only on/dev/vmnet8 (background) [OK]
  DHCP server on/dev/vmnet8 [OK]
  NAT service on/dev/vmnet8 [OK]
  VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) [OK]
  Shared Memory available [OK]
  Starting VMware management services:
  VMware Server Host Agent (background) [OK]
  VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
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  I watched acroos the forums and tried quite a few options, but do seem to be getting anywhere, I was wondering if anyone has any other ideas.

  I use a 64-bit version of vmware.

  Thank you

  Hello

  I had same problem - Fedora 14 64 bit & vmware 2.0.2... and nothing on google :-/

  Because I have not found a solution for this problem, so I wrote this post (my first btw :-))

  After you install vmware (and patch before), everything works well before the first server to restart. After reboot - web access (port 8222 & 8333) has not worked.

  For me, it has worked:

  (1) check if vmware - spend is running (when vmware service is started):

  # ps to the | grep vmware - pass

  --------------------------

  root of 1752 0.0 0.6 50760 225708?        SSL 14:36 0:01 / usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd - a d u - /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml

  (2) If vmware - spend does not, try to run vmware - pass manually (without the-d (demon) parameter):

  # / usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd - a u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml

  --------------------------

  (there was no mistake as.. libvmomi.so.1.0: no such file or directory)

  (3) copy (or link) libraries starting from/usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/and/usr/lib/vmware/lib/to /lib64/

  # cp /usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/libvmomi.so.1.0 /lib64/
  

  # cp /usr/lib/vmware/vmacore/libvmacore.so.1.0 /lib64/
  

  # cp /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0 /lib64/

  (4) just try to restart the vmware service or server; I had to run vmware - config.pl new - vmware crashed.

  If this isn't the case, vmware - always come running after you restart, try to rerun manually and wait minute (if it is started).

  I already had virtual machine in vmware, so I got another problem...

  VMware-get started, but just for a minute. After a minute, he wrote something as... out of memory. I tried to rename my vm and vmware has worked well (WebAccess Inc.) ...

  So... Here is the solution to another problem...

  5) simply to stop the vmware service

  judgment of vmware for the service #.

  6) Rename the library libxml2 vmware based

  # mv /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libxml2.so.2 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/BAD-libxml2.so.2

  VMware will skip this library and use a for/lib64 /...

  (7) restart the server and try out it

• VMware Server 2 - installation and questions backup

  I have an application that will use a backend SQL Express and IIS. I want to place this in a virtual machine running Windows 2008 Server on a Server 2008. We will not have many users using this app, so I think that the free server product would be nice. I worked with VMware Workstation for a few years but I did not too much with the server. I guess I can build the right VM in server, just let it run from there, correct?  All the elements 'need to know '?  Also, what is the best way to back up the applications data. I am not too concerned about the guest operating system, only data backup applications. Any help would be great... Thank you

  You can install Vmware server on the host computer and you can then create Win2008 VM.

  Yes you can have the virtual machine running in Vmkware server.

  For bcking the application data. You can do multiple ways.

  You can connecta USB drive to the physical machine and the virtual machine and copy the application data.

  You can map the drive to the virtual computer as a network drive on the physical host and copy it to CD / engraver of DVD or USB drive or another drive partition.

  Please allow point if it helps.

  Thank you

• Generate url for virtual machine installed on vmware server console programmatically

  Hello

  I want to generate URLs for machine vmware console located on vmware server. Are there examples of available in c# code? Any help will be really good.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  There are already several posts/Articles on this subject. What works for ESX should work for VMware Server. The misfortune is that it should be avoided for several reasons:

  (1) there are only a limited number of "consoles" allowed for a given server of VMware

  (2) RDP/VNC is a tool much better for this as there are no such limits

  (3) the security of this method is somewhat limited

  (4) more than one user can access the same VM without protection of the user (essentially a struggle for control)

  So in general, it is best to RDP/VNC in the virtual machine is to use the console.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Licensing for the server on the site of DR

  Not 100% sure of my terminology as I am new to all this, please bear with me!

  At our headquarters, we have a server VMware ESXi 4.0.0 loner and we use vCenter and vSphere 4.0 license (2xCPU).

  So far so good.

  At our DR site, we run the free ESXi 4.0.0

  The recovery site is not a (live) "hot" site, apart from occasional (once or twice a year) tests where we restore from backups for testing and so on.

  We use Veeam backup software, and because their software does not allow direct restore to freedom of ESXi hosts, the restore process is two steps: (1) disk space backup restore temporary; then copy VM to ESXi disk files and start them

  I wonder if I can install my licenses for our live Webcam VMware server to the DR server, given that, apart from the occasional tests, they would never at the same time.

  It would go directly to the backup media to the ESXi host under license, the restore process, rather than the 2-step process.

  Q. What does VMware allow me to perform with my licenses for a DR scenario?

  I have discussed this issue with VMware.

  You can use the same license (no need to buy new) for the remote site if there is no load on ESX remote, and just waiting for if something happens.

  With Veeam, you can use the replication instead of restore backups.

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• Reinstalling VMWare server after every restart (Vista 64-bit)

  Hello

  Been about it: http://communities.VMware.com/thread/182240?TSTART=0

  netstat shows port 8333.

  Services - all except Host Agent are started. From host Agent does not help.

  After you have reinstalled the server, works very well until the next reboot.

  Please help.

  1 Check host VMware Agent - should run.

  2. try: https://127.0.0.1:8333 or https://localhost:8333 or https://computername:8333

  3. If the above doesn't work, try the same thing but http://127.0.0.1:8222 or http://localhost:8222 or http://computername:8222

  J.

  Journal BTW check VMware server and the Windows system log for errors.

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• Ubuntu 9.10 and more recent vmware server 2. Will never run after restart of ubuntu.

  Hello

  I installed VMware server on my box of ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit, P - IV 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM). The problem is that he never runs after a reboot, even if the demons are actually being run. If I run the file vmware - config.pl, it does not work because it tells me the vmci, vmmon and vmnet modules are not standard. I then remove these modules, re-run vmware - config.pl and then it works until the next reboot of the computer.

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  Hello

  OK maybe that you have upgraded the kernel version recently?

  If you use the standard kernels provided with Ubuntu 9.10, always use this one:

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  At the moment (as I know), it is the only way to run a vmware server 2 on ubuntu 9.10.

  A saludo/best regards,.

  Pablo

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• 1. can't connect to VMWare Server when no network 2. Comments or lost when lost network connections

  Hello

  I have two guests of computer virtual on my laptop.

  1. I can't connect to VMWare Server when there is no network.

  This means that I can not launch the guests when I'm at home (with no network) or on the road.

  2. the connections are lost when lost network.

  As a corollary to article 1 above, if I am connected to the work, and that the network is lost, my connections are lost for the guests.

  How to configure VMWare so that this doesn't happen, please?  (I inherited the setup of a colleague who has left, so I don't know how it has been implemented).

  'About' gives:

  VMware Infrastructure Web Access

  Version 2.0.0

  Generation 116487

  VMware Server

  Version 2.0.0

  Build 116503

  T.I.A.

  ALF

  Hello

  If you want to connect, try: https://127.0.0.1: 8333 or https://localhost:8333.

  BTW. You can upgrade your VMware Server to the latest version, as I see you are using the beta version.

  J.

  You can read the document undermine , Impossible to open the VMWare - Server and Remote Console-

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