vSphere 4.0u2 activate VCA with running virtual machines?

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• Closing and reopening the workstation with running virtual machines

  I have recently upgraded to 10 Workstation and I am having a strange problem. In preferences, I have checked option which says "continue to VMs run after the closure of workstation. In workplace planned 9 this option worked exactly, but workstation 10 seems that partially works as expected. In Workstation 9 I could close my computer, and then open then in from the tray icon to always see my virtual machines running with the small green icon play on them. However, in the 10 workstation I close the workstation and all my virtual machines continue to run, but when I reopen it workstation all my virtual machines appear in the workstation as if they are off; but they run because I can RDP for them. If I right click on one of them all is grey with the exception of mark it as a favorite and delete. I can't power off, change the settings, see the console, or anything like that. The shows the icon that VMs are being run, but even suspend, stop or suspend tray icon options or background open VMs do not work either. The only way I found actually to get my computer working again is to use the Task Manager to kill the task of vmware - vmx.exe. As soon as the task is killed for each workstation running, they operate again in the workstation.

  If anyone has encountered this problem, or know a fix for this? I have run several virtual machines and never have any idea that vmware - vmx.exe is for what VM when needing to change something on one of them. I make sure that I can kill them all in order to make a change to one of them.

  David Moore

  Ok. I have this problem. However, the fix has been an awareness in desperate need of repair. I ended up uninstalling the VMware Workstation and then remove all references to the registry with REGEDIT. I then restarted the computer and reinstalled VMware Workstation again. After this heavy treatment, it works again the way it should work. It seems that the upgrade to the latest version of Workstation 9 to the latest version of 10 break something somewhere.

  By the way, Dayworker, it was and is version 10.0.3.

• Need more disk space to run virtual machines on R710 server with no available drive slots

  Hello

  We have a server R710 with five $2.5 146 each and three 600 GB SCSI disks SCSI.  We have no more slots.

  We want another 2-4 TB of space.   This server is used to run virtual machines to test software applications.  We have need for decent speed, but more important still need a cost-effective solution for running virtual machines.

  The budget would be in the $1000 range give or take.  I might be able to get $3000, but a $10,000 would be too.  We could consider removing disks from 146 GB 5 and replacing them with those larger, but that might not be the first choice.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you!

  What you ask for is really difficult to do within the budget without sacrificing important performance (from what you have right now in performance).

  Any external storage solution (Dell) is out of the question for $3 k (think MD1200/1220).

  The market, 2.5 "drives max out at 1 TB at 7200 RPM, 900 tr/10 k or 300 GB @ 15 k RPM.

  Dell has disks 1 to 7200 RPM 2.5 "company (for PowerEdges) for ~ $440 (see here). These are not the best choice if you want any kind of good performance.

  You might look into upgrading to 900GB 10 k rpm drives. These run $799 each today on the Dell website (see here).

  If you replace one of the 146 both each and let rebuild you could then use the extra space to another virtual disk. This would give about 2800GB.

  If you can't budget 5 of them, according to the current setup of raid, you can watch a backup and restore of the virtual disk of some 146.

  You could:

  -use 2 of the existing 146 in raid 1 for operating system and the extra space

  -use 3 x 900 in raid 5 (which would give a crude 1800 (Go so ~ 1674 usable))

  -Use the 3 600 existing RAID 5 (which would give ~ 1116 GB usable)

• You can run virtual machines created by merger in other operating systems

  If I install Windows 7 as a virtual machine using Fusion OSX and store the virtual machine on an external hard drive, it is possible to connect this drive in a computer running Windows or Linux and run the same virtual machine using something like VMWare Player? The idea is that if users have a Mac at home and a PC at work, we welcome with a virtual machine instead of a laptop.

  Thank you!

  OVF is a small and open format mainly used for the transport of virtual machines. After you deploy it, you will work with a normal vmdk, etc files (as far as I know... but I'm still learning new things here in this community)

  Now, performance, which is the other discussion. VMware has proved to be more solid and trusted platform... and for Windows VMS, I saw better than other hypervisors performace. It would make a difference, it will depend on how intense are your processes and the ratio of group you want to reach.

  To facilitate the management, security and stability, I highly recommend to use VMware. Performance should be better too, but it's harder to see sometimes. For a scenario of development where the snaoshots are very used, VMware will make a big difference.

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  elgreco81

• How to share a USB with a virtual machine raw device?

  Hey,.

  I have a TEMPer PCSensor USB device I want to share with a virtual machine.

  When he connect on my MacBook, I see it as a USB device in System Profiler as shown here:

  

  The problem is that there is no OS X driver that is appropriate for that. So while it has detected the USB device and read data from string device, Snow Leopard is not actually load anything to support this material. This means, in my view, that he does not see merger as a USB device is valid to be shared with the virtual machine.

  

  Does anyone know how to force the merger of share this USB without driver with the virtual machine please? The VM knows EXACTLY what to do with this device.

  Thank you

  Tom

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  VCP, VCI, MBCS CITP

  If System Profiler can see the USB device, it should appear in the list of devices that can be connected to a virtual machine. The only exception is if it is a HID-class, which are automatically filtered device. See USB HID the User Guide running A VMware Fusion for an explanation and a workaround.

• What windows key you use to activate one of the virtual machines on my Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 Std

  I installed my Hyper-V role and now wants to activate one of the virtual machines, but the key is not recognized.  Should what key I use?

  Hello

  Your question is beyond the scope of this community.

  I suggest that repost you in the Forum of Hyper-V on Technet.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?Forum=winserverhyperv

  Or:

  TechNet Server forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• Find all the unique ID associated with a virtual machine

  is there some sort or any command that I could find all the unique ID associated with a virtual machine?

  I mean like ID: ID hardware, CPU ID, UUID, MAC address and etc...

  This should help you

  https://psvmware.WordPress.com/tag/VM-UUID/

• where can I report a problem with a virtual machine died, which I can't save now?

  It looks like a lot of places, but it is not clear where I should take this problem to.

  where can I report a problem with a virtual machine died, which I can't save now?

  He is buried in the VMware Community Infrastructure - here is the link to this forum - http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vi/esx3.5

• How the physical machine can communicate with the virtual machines as well as the internet should work on a virtual machine

  Hi team,

  I ask that you forgive for asking a silly question without doing a free search.

  I'm using VMware workstation 6.5. I am able to communicate with both machines by selecting 'only option of home. "

  Is there a way by which the physical machine can communicate with the virtual machines.

  At the same time through the VMS, is it possible to access the Internet from the physical amchine.

  Help, please.

  Concerning

  Sriapti

  When you use a bridged vNIC the customer acts as any other host, so that you can access is by his IP (or name if a DNS configuration exists as you acceding to any other host.) What tools you can use depends on the guest operating system and the software available.

  I assume you mean access deskopt. Then you can use RDP (Windows Terminal services) or VNC (tight/tiny).

  For Linux, you can use this last or all the flavors of SSH. In the case of Linux, I use VNC through SSH tunnel. You can also tunnel X through SSH, so if you have an X server on another host (such as the Hummingbird for Windows), you can open your own office remotely there.

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'Useful' answers and answers. Thank you!!

• ESXi 4.0 really slows with only 4 minimum of running virtual machines

  My ESXi server is a processor Quad Core (2.4 GHz) server with 8 GB or RAM

  It works very well with the three virtual machines it seems, but when adding the fourth they all slow to a crawl.

  There are several tabs that don't make sense, for example:

  I watch tab resource allocation, it shows capacity 8149 MHz CPU - so I guess he uses 1.5 GHz which is a lot, but I can live with that, but says memory total RAM capacity is 1572 MB - if the system uses more than 6 GB of RAM? What is the problem?

  I look at the physical memory - Configuration tab and it says memory: Total 8114 MB, MB system 5288, physical Machines virtual 2826 MB

  Currently, there are three machine running - an I limited to 512 MB (currently using 52MO and the host uses 127 MB), another is limited to 1.5 GB, but it uses only 600 MB (host uses 1014 MB) and has no limit, but has only 1 GB allocated (it is currently using 80 MB and the host uses 913 MB)

  BTW Machines 1 and 2 above are limited to 500 MHz and 3 Machine is limited to 1200 MHz.

  Until the devil is the problem? Where are all my resources going? My VM are not using almost nothing. If I try to start a virtual machine, which is limited to 512 MB and 500 MHz of 4th, all useless machines. Connections network starts to fall sharply, RDP cannot connect, the console window is only good for trying to stop him. As soon as one of them is off, it works well again.

  I tried tons of parameters of affecting all unlimited and obliging all for unreasonably low speed and memory and nothing works.

  Where should I start to understand this?  I have dealt with this for over 6 months and I am very frustrated.

  You can put the latest bios on this system as well as check that the default bios are defined (with the exception of things vt

• Data store growing VMFS with the running virtual machine

  Hey, gentlemen.

  Have a quick question. We have configured incorrectly datastore VMFS on VM production, basically, is size of the SAN LUNS to 1.99 and virtual disk was created as thin provisioned and 2 TB.

  vSphere shows no free space. I intend to grow data store, we found 100 GB also on SAN and I have an add on vsphere.

  I'm not sure we need to stop the VM to make this change?

  I guess not, because Guest OS should see no change - drive keep 2 TB, changes will happen only at the level of vSphere.

  If I have good documentation of VMware on VMFS, one of the main benefits of VMFS is:

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/VMFS-best-practices-WP.PDF

  Facilitates the dynamic growth

  Through the use of a volume management layer VMFS allows an interface to storage resources so that several

  types of storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE) can be presented as warehouses of data on which virtual machines can

  resident. What allows a dynamic growth of these storages of data through the aggregation of storage resources provides the

  ability to increase a shared without incurring downtime storage resource pool.

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Thank you in advance!

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Yes, you need not shutodown comments and/or host.

  Just check out this recommendation from VMware:

  Note: If the LUN knows a high i/o rate by cultivating the VMFS, the ESX host isn't able to complete the operation. In this case, repeat the operation after hours and when backup operations are not executed. If the problem persists, turn off some of the virtual machines that reside on the LUN, and then try again.

  Source: VMware KB: growing or expand a VMFS volume or data store

• Replication of vSphere SRM - replica of the lack of virtual machines

  Hello

  I use SRM with vSphere replication and all my virtual machines are properly replicated from my site for my recovery.site as you can see:

  

  My problem is that I don't see all the replica of the VMs replicated in the inventory of the recovery site:

  

  So when I was looking for in the web client vSphere replication monitor, I saw that all the virtual machines that are in the inventory of the recovery site are all managed by SRM. And all virtual machines managed by VR finally does not appear in the inventory.

  
  

  Someone at - it never I have this problem or know the solution?

  Concerning

  Hello and welcome to the community of VMware

  The behavior you describe is planned. Between VR and SRM, is SRM work to create what is called 'space reserved VM' on the recovering site.

  If replicate you a virtual machine using vSphere replication but skip protection by SRM, there is no virtual machine being recorded on the recovering Site until you run the RV GUI recovery operation.

  Can I ask you why do you need to see the virtual machine on the recovering site? Even if it is there, you are not able to turn on.

  Best regards

  Stefan Tsonev

• vMotion is not migrate running virtual machines

  It is a new installation of 2 host VSA.  I can only migrate computers when they are turned off.  When I try to migrate a virtual computer running, I get this error:

  Migrate virtual machine: a general system error occurred: vMotion migration failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect to the network for vMotion.  Check network vMotion and physical network configuration settings.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 14:47:04 09/11/2012

  Target: Test 1

  vCenter Server: MW-VCENTER-01. DerseInc.com error stack migration vMotion failed because the ESX hosts were not able to connect to the network for vMotion. Check network vMotion and physical network configuration settings.

  vMotion migration [173015045:1352494025051601] could not create a connection with the remote host

  < 10.80.0.4 >: ESX host the failed to connect on the network for VMotion Migration [173015045:1352494025051601] unable to connect to the remote host < 10.80.0.4 > < 10.80.0.5 > host: Timeout the vMotion failed because the destination host has not received the data from the source on the vMotion network host. Please check your network vMotion and physical network onfiguration settings and make sure they are correct.

  I have 2 VLANS on my extreme switch.  I can not vmkping by the hosts for the vMotion IPs.  What VLAN the vMotion IPs should be in?  Front-end or Back-End?  Here's my intellectual property structure:

  MW-VSPHERE-01 (VSA-1)	10.80.0.1 front End VLAN
  MW-VSPHERE-02 (VSA-0)	10.80.0.2 front End VLAN

  Default gateway	10.80.0.62
  vMotion on host MW-VSPHERE-01	10.80.0.4 front End VLAN
  vMotion on host MW-VSPHERE-02	10.80.0.5 front End VLAN

  VSA Cluster	10.80.0.8 front End VLAN
  VSA Cluster service	10.80.0.9 front End VLAN
  Mgmt IP for VSA - 1	10.80.0.10 front End VLAN
  IP for VSA - 1 data store	10.80.0.11 front End VLAN
  Primary IP address for VSA - 1	192.168.0.1 back-End VLAN
  vSphere functionality IP for MW-VSPHERE-01	10.80.0.4 front End VLAN
  Mgmt IP for VSA - 0	10.80.0.12 front End VLAN
  IP for VSA - 0 data store	10.80.0.13 front End VLAN
  Primary IP address for VSA - 0	192.168.0.2 back-End VLAN
  vSphere functionality IP for MW-VSPHERE-02	10.80.0.5 front End VLAN

  What is different when migrating a computer running and an engine out of VM migration?

  I've attached screenshots of the network for guests and the VSA Cluster configs.  What other information can I provide for troubleshooting?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  Tzuriel

  If ESXi hosts are still able to communicate with each other via a network that is enabled for management, the host is not partitioned.  Do you have other vmk interfaces enabled for management traffic?  If so, the two hosts would still be able to communicate with each other and would not be considered an event of host isolation.

  Take a look at the excellent deep dive HA post of Duncan.

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/VMware-high-availability-deepdiv/#HA-50isolated

• Failover storage and a new analysis while running virtual machines?

  The guys from storage must update the firmware on our HP EVA 8000 without. Currently, all my LUN is replicated to another EVA. The guys from storage you want to switch on the other EVA LUN so that they can make updates of the firmware without changing anything. I planned a complete failure of all my virtual machines and hosts so that they can make the switch. Basically stop all virtual machines, stop the hosts, making failover LUNs and then turn everything back.

  My question is there anything that can be done online? We tried it a couple of weeks, and we were hoping to have just the storage team launch the failover and a new analysis on the ESX hosts. All ESX hosts that had run VMs on those LUNS could would not fail on Mon after a new analysis. I have another cluster which can also display these LUNs. They were able to rescan and see the failure on Lun without problem. The only difference is that these other hosts have not the virtual machines running on these LUNs.

  If this working or is this the behavior that we should expect to see? This change in all with vSphere?

  Management has come back and asked why we must take a complete failure and whether it can be avoided in the future.

  > do failover LUNs and then turn everything back. My question is there anything that can be done online?

  Depends on your storage space.  If the LUNS are replicated really, they are up to date and your paths are correct on the ESX AND you use alternating (unfixed) it should work fine.

  This really isn't a function of VM Ware, because technically, storage is really transparent to ESX.  If you can find a valid path to the data, it will use it.  Just to make sure that is not the FIXED path.

• Is that a catastrophic problem with BootCamp / virtual machines or something else?

  Just had a catasrophic with BootCamp problem

  My MBP was running a bit lazy, so Apple gave me a few instructions on how to fix this, including linking the installation discs for the disk utility and empty all of my folders cache under OSX.  Don't know if any of this slow and crashing was something to do with the installation of the latest update to OSX

  All of a sudden when I came back to Windows in the usual manner, the installation of windows in the VM required activation. Needless to say I had to activate windows every time I spent Bootcamp in OSX and/or then the merger to get to Windows, I had to re-activate so finally that Microsoft is beginning to think that someone is to install Windows on multiple computers and telephone activation becomes a nightmare.

  But even worse, when I managed to understand what product key that I used for bootcamp and started windows, EACH CONFIGURATION MADE OVER A YEAR or so AND EACH SOFTWARE INSTALLATION HAD DISAPPEARED, I HAD!  Without a windows installation process, I've been frame with a soft-install windows desktop with all my lost favorites. Leading to an even bigger nightmare in the re-installation of hundreds of evidence hours of software.  He had two meager records to show that I was in the right place and that everything is not contained in another folder and a file or two, but I wonder if all these installation information is contained in a cache in the directory structure Active Directory OSX? If so, is it possible to identify the files or the folders in which cache directory must be saved?

  If this is the case, I never dreamed that something to do with the windows installation was contained in the OSX directory structure?  Surely if this is the case, there should be a strong warning on it?   Admittedlythe Windows Setup WAS a bit slow before the "incident", but I doubt that there is something deeply wrong, and in any event I ran just a fully updated Adaware and Spybot so this problem is probably not a virus. (I don't use email merge)

  If this is the case, is - can anyone identify records needing backup before you empty the caches under OSX?  I don't think THAT many here would have been recovered by the take a snapshot could it? (anyway, I could not in windows without this activation)

  FWIW, the only way I can see what is a matter of merger is if by chance you're under Fusion 2.0.0, which had a fatal flaw it would partition Boot Camp Virtual Machine to take a snap, and if you did not start in native mode again you probably will not notice immediately that all changes have been written in a disc rather than the disc file physics itself and then if we deleted the virtual Boot Camp Machine partition a situation such that you described could have similar results.

  Another thing to look at is C:\Program Files in the Windows directory and see if it contains all the applications you have installed once and if she doesn't then it's quite possible that you run Windows from a default registry hive, which of course contains no information on changes since Windows has been installed but you have really not provide adequate details on what you were in fact under the leadership of Apple technology to get where you currently are, so there is not much that I can offer.