VSphere 5 and P2V

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• Demonstration of vSphere and P2V in a classroom environment

  I teach a class on virtualization in a University of Minnesota.  Students have received a license for VMware Workstation 7 365 days and worked on assignments to practice using the application.

  I have a number of students who would like to play with vSphere and P2V, but I can't get ESXi to work on my laptop because of the material have not integrated the VT technology.

  Is it possible to use P2V with VMware Server 2.0?

  Mike

  Hello.

  If you use the standalone converter, you can certainly use to a destination server.  You can get detailed information about the supported source and destination types in the user's Guide.

  Good luck!

• This virtual machine to become protected vsphere HA and HA can not try to restart after a power failure

  I got a 5.1 cluster with some problems HA.

  a few virtual machines are showing this

  This virtual machine to become protected vsphere HA and HA can not try to restart after a power failure.

  When I try to reconfigure HA on the host. It times out and fails.

  any idea?

  Instead of reconfiguring HA on the concerned host, have you tried to disable HA on the cluster and enable again? See: VMware KB: State of the virtual machine changes from protected to Unprotected

• VMware vSphere: optimize and [5.5] course is worth doing or not advice to scale

  Hi all

  Need some advice, as I am preparing to take the exam of the VCAP-DCA 5.5 in April.

  Will makes VMware vSphere: optimize and adapt training aid [5.5] or would be using the DCA official study guide book suffice?

  Just take peoples opinons, before I decide to spend money on the course.

  Thank you all very much.

  JIT

  Personally, I think that if you have below you don't take it out not before, then follow the course (unless you miss the VCP and the requirement of course)

  1 watch the video of Pluralsight VCP and VCAP

  2 buy the VCAP-DCA-5 study study guide bonus ebook on the VMware press - practical site reviews includes in the book

  3. go on the official and unofficial study guide CLI guide study

  4. do you have a host laboratory and practice and practice and make sure you only go on all the (MOST important) action plan.

  Enjoy autolab

  5. If you really need to take the course... you can do the lab connect version of the course which is $ 300 to $ 500.

  If the course if the company paid for the course, and he is not from your Pocket then of course the course.  But your hard-earned income is better spend in

  buy yourself gear lab, subscription VMUG and VMware books.

• vSphere replication and RDM

  Hello

  I have a site that I put in place which has Windows 2012 R2 invited with RDM in physical compatibility mode.  When I go through the wizard of replication vSphere for these servers I can configure replication for the comments and as expected I can not set up for the RDM (which is fine, I have those covered by the SRA) but on the last stage it errors with the following:

  Configure a virtual machine for replication

  VRM Server runtime error. Please check the

  documentation for troubleshooting information. The

  detailed exception: "HMS can't put disc UUID for"

  VM disks: ManagedObjectReference: type =

  VirtualMachine, vm-34 = value, serverGuid is C5ABE757 -.

  9697-4C6A-A36B-F98F72EFB5GG'.

  Contoso\tdaley

  VC1.contoso.com

  02/09/2014 14:49:40

  02/09/2014 14:49:40

  02/09/2014 14:49:41

  Is it not possible to ignore the RDM or is not my problem?

  Thank you

  Thom

  Physical RDM mode is not supported by vSphere replication and there is a known issue, you cannot configure replication for VM with RDM physical mode even if you exclude this record of replication.

  Check the release notes: VMware vSphere replication 5.5.1 Release Notes

  Cannot configure a virtual machine with disc RDM in physical mode even if the disk is excluded from replication.

  If you configure a replication of a virtual machine with the physical mode, the following error message may appear:

  VRM Server generic error. Check the documentation for any troubleshooting information. The detailed exception is: HMS can not set disk UUID for disks of VM : MoRef: type = VirtualMachine, value = , serverGuid = null'.
  

  Workaround: No.

• VSphere APIs and compatibility ESX

  I've implemented the backup of a VMWare VM and application of recovery with vSphere API and VDDK. The development has been done entirely on 5.0 ESX servers. The following discussion provides an overview of how I implemented the restoration.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/2130483#2130483

  When another person has tested my application, he noted the rollback feature does not work. When I've debugged, I found parameter spec unit to CreateVM_Task behaves differently 5.0 Esx to Esx 4.0. In the case of Esx 5.0, it works perfectly, where as in the case of Esx 4.0, none of the devices that I fill before the CreateVM_Task is created and the restore fails because of this.

  How can I understand the compatibility of the Esx and the vSphereAPI versions? I assumed that the SDK should be retro-compatible with Esx Server? Can someone shed some light how this problem can be solved?

  Thank you

  . / Siva.

  Hi Siva,

  That sounds good, maybe, we'll get you going even faster than I expected:

  As already noted William

  lamw wrote:
  but in general, the more recent editions of vSphere will support previous editions of vSphere. vSphere 5.1 supports vSphere 4.x and 5.0

  the only thing being that if new properties are added to a data in 5.1 object then you can not use in 4.x or 5.0.

  It seems to me that your code is based on 5.0 WSDL generated by gsoap stubs. It is ultimately you generate SOAP requests that are supposed to work with 5.0, 5.1, 6.x one as well now. Yet, when he delivers the SOAP messages to 4.x, it is likely that you include a property that is not defined in the WSDL of 4.x.

  Attached is a diff of the definition WSDL VirtualMachineConfigSpec of 4.0 to 5.0 Quick. Look at line 27 and following

  
  27              
  ====
        !>      
  ====
  28              
  

  Here, you can see that numCoresPerSocket property was not available in 4.0, but was added in 5.0. It is also what we said the documentation centre: for vSphere API 5.0.

  You declare that numCPUs is affected but memoryMB not. Between the two numCoresPerSocket has been inserted to 5.0. It seems that the 4.0 Server reads your VirtualMachineConfigSpec until numCPUs then encounter numCoresPerSocket and abandoned.

  So far my theory.

  What I don't understand is that this seems to happen in silence as you don't declare any exception. Yet, says William

  wlam wrote:
  As you know, there will be new properties in new versions of vSphere such as 5.1, that if you try to assign to an older version of vSphere, it will throw an unknown error...

  As you can learn from the attached diff we serveral more properties that have been added to the 5.0. Might well want to comment on all those in your current code and re-run CreateVM_Task against server 4.0.

  Perhaps this might solve the problem.

• Possibility of setting up new vSphere 4 and pass the ESX 3.5 hosts?

  The upgrade path makes me nervous (am I too paranoid?).

  In any case, I have enough material and storage SAN to configure a new vSphere environment.

  Is it possible to install a new enviornemnt and separate vSphere 4 and then migrate the 3.5 environment hosts? The doc has always start with VC upgrade to version 4 and be careful not to break stuff...

  I actually finished a project a few days ago in this respect. I deleted the machine virtual old inventory, moved with the former VM of the LUN to the storage for the new environment group and added to the inventory again. Of course, if you do not use the same storage, it will be more in depth, but it certainly can be done. The plan was to do what weinstein said in his post, regarding the old host to the new Victoria Cross add, but I move the first LUN and had to finish like I did. It went well and I don't have problems with the virtual machine again.

• What is the main difference between VMware vSphere 4 and VMware Infrastructure 3

  Hello friends,

  What is the main difference between VMware vSphere 4 and VMware Infrastructure 3?

  Kind regards

  Mustafa Rashid

  Take a look at the following documents, there are so many out there:

  http://communities.VMware.com/community/VMTN/vSphere (there is a new features pdf doc)

  http://blogs.VMware.com/VMTN/vmware_infrastructure_3/

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/small-business/features.html

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/21/vSphere-linkage/

  Here twopages which shows some of the different features and takes what licenses are supported which: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html and http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/buy.html

  Yet once if you just browse some of these links, you will get everything you are looking for and the wait is the product GA will tomorrow so look on release notes, etc.

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  repository scripts vGhetto

  http://Twitter.com/lamw

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• vSphere DPM and IPMI does not

  I followed the instructions by integrating Cisco UCS with vSphere Distributed Power Management on one of the hosts in my new UCS cluster, but I can't get vCenter to update IPMI information without up a:

  Connection error: the request failed because the remote server "vcenter" took too long to respond. (The order has expired because the remote server taking too long to respond.)

  Error stack

  Call "HostSystem.UpdateIpmi" to "vmhost8.rx.umaryland.edu" the server vCenter Server 'vCenter.rx.umaryland.edu' object failed.

  I check the account/pwd vmware/cisco123 are fairly easy to type, so I'm reasonably comfortable, I have not repeated typo.

  sudo nmap - sU Pei 623 134.192.XX. XX

  [sudo] password xxxxxx:

  From 4.11 Nmap ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) 2012-10-03 11:34 PDT

  Interesting ports on 134.192.XX. XX:

  SERVICE OF THE PORT STATE

  623/udp open | filtered unknown

  but one

  ipmitool h 134.192.XX. XX - U vmware Pei cisco123 salt

  Error: Cannot establish the LAN session

  SALT ordering info failed

  I'm little a lost what to try next. I'd like to get the DPM installation program, but seem to have run into a wall here.

  Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

  -

  Tim

  I would like to test with ESX 5.1 and get back to you.

  Stay tuned.

  Robert

• vSphere 6 and RS 6 - PSC external need?

  With vSohere 6, do you need external CSP for SRM 6 works correctly?

  You needn't external CSP for MRS. 6 to work. This is supported, and I would say is pretty commonly used:

  Site Recovery Manager 6.1 Documentation Center

  My understanding is that the aforementioned vSphere deployment document talks about 'replication' of the PSC itself - i.e. balancing PSC in HA mode. Not that the environment will use SRM/replication.

• Regarding vSphere VCA and vMotion

  Hi all

  I have several questions about vMotion and VCA, can anyone help?

  1. If I mix several types of CPU (from the same supplier of CPUS) in a vSphere without EVC cluster active, what will happen? can I vMotion VM on the host?

  2. I can vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Assume that CVS is not activated on the two groups.

  3. can I vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Assume that CVS is not enabled on the source cluster, but active on the destination Cluster.

  4. I can vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Suppose that EVC is enabled on the source cluster, but not active on the destination Cluster.

  5 can I vMotion of virtual machine of a stand-alone ESXi host on an active EVC cluster? Assume that the CPU is the same.

  6 the KB "EVC and CPU compatibility FAQ" below, if we disable CVS on a cluster, the virtual machine can only be migrated to hosts with CPU even or more.

  Why virtual machines is only able to move to other ESX/ESXi hosts that are in the same generation of CPU or more? It's in front of my knowledge.

  VMware KB: EVC and CPU compatibility FAQ

  What is the impact on vSphere features of the Cluster when I turn off the CVS mode?

  To turn off the CVS on a cluster mode, it affects vSphere Cluster features in the following ways:

  • vSphere HA (High availability): vSphere HA is not affected because of the cyclic power failover virtual machines when you start on a new host. This allows the VM picking up the new ID CPU and it allows to start without problem
  • vSphere DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler):
    • vMotion: virtual machines is only able to move to other ESX/ESXi hosts that are in the same generation of CPU or more. If the DRS is configured for fully automated, this can result in virtual machines, eventually migrating to hosts on the cluster with the generation of CPU more old where they cannot be moved via vMotion on different hosts with a newer processor generation.
    • Storage vMotion: virtual machines are able to be moved to Storage vMotion with EVC mode disabled in a cluster
  • Location of the pagefile: it is not affected.

  Thank you.

  1. If I mix several types of CPU (from the same supplier of CPUS) in a vSphere without EVC cluster active, what will happen? can I vMotion VM on the host?

  (a) you very well can vMotion virtual computers between the hosts with identical processors within the cluster.

  (b) for vMotions on different hosts, it depends on CPU instruction set parity and orientation, i.e. the older generation-> new generation or vice versa.

  Consider the following: when a VM is turned on at the start, it is presented in UC sets from the physical host, where it has been turned on. It must keep these settings until the virtual machine is turned off, any host it is migrated to in the meantime. Therefore, as long as a host provides these CPU instruction sets, it can be vMotioned it. Further instructions on new hosts games is irrelevant for this and just hidden-away of the guest. So old-> new should be fine, but new-> old most likely will not work because the virtual machine works with games of additional CPU instructions that only is simply not supported by the older physical processor.

  2. I can vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Assume that CVS is not activated on the two groups.

  Yes, generally vMotion shall function in older generations of CPU to the most recent, the same common CPU instruction sets are supported by the destination CPU host and enabled in the BIOS.

  3. can I vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Assume that CVS is not enabled on the source cluster, but active on the destination Cluster.

  4. I can vMotion VM Cluster with older CPU for the Cluster with more recent CPU? Suppose that EVC is enabled on the source cluster, but not active on the destination Cluster.

  Yes, the same general vMotion as explained above requirements. If CVS is enabled on any, both or a cluster does not matter (of course provided a configured VCA level is not reverse the physical hardware capabilities 'new' and 'old').

  5 can I vMotion of virtual machine of a stand-alone ESXi host on an active EVC cluster? Assume that the CPU is the same.

  Yes, the same general vMotion as explained above requirements. A stand-alone host is exactly the same thing treated as a non - active EVC cluster.

• Update for vsphere client and ESXi host, now getting errors

  Did a upgrade for my client vsphere, VMware-viclient-all - 6.0.0 - 3016447.exe file name

  Now I cannot view comments consoles, cannot add new guest OS (option is grayed out), and I get an error when the Client program starts (see first image)

  

  Here is the error when I try to view the console to the guest operating system. Can I use Remote Desktop connection to connect to the guest operating system (R2 for Windows Server 2012)

  

  Here is the version information

  

  Also improved the host system of the ESXi server to update to U1 using the VMware-VMvisor-Installer - 6.0.0.update01 - 3029758.x86_64.iso

  VMWare Tools never seems to complete the installation for the guest operating system.

  What can I do now?

  Client runs on a desktop computer Windows 7 Pro with 24 GB of RAM.

  ESXi is a server Dell Poweredge T110-2 with 32 GB of RAM

  I ran into the same issue and Re: VMware-viclient-all - 6.0.0 - 3016447.exe broke Console hosts 6.0 ESXi and ESXi 5.5 fixed it for me.

  André

• vRO 6, vSphere 6 and Tags

  Hi all

  I'm starting a new project and start with v sphere 6!      The idea of the project is spreading surface and back-end storage on the virtual computer relationship.   I think using tags, but don't see any tag actions/workflows in the vRO 6.    It seems that people use PowerShell to manipulate tags.      Could you guys tell me how best to manipulate the vRO vSphere tags?

  Thank you

  Mike

  Thanks Ilian. I assumed that this would be part of the vCenter plugin, but it may not be the case. Seems strange to me to put a tag on a VM vCenter vCenter, you need two different plug-ins, but certainly the tag underlying API doesn't do not part of the SDK vCenter.

• VSphere hypervisor and Vsphere connecting the same machine

  Hi guys,.

  I have a basic question that drunk that I can't seem to find an answer.

  I'll put up a test of domestic/vmware server environment, but I only have one computer. I want to install ESXi on this computer, and then run VSphere via localhost to manage computers from the VM on the same host. So far, I've always set up ESXi on a host machine and then managed remotely, with my laptop. But I don't have the option here. Is there something in ESXi that allows this configuration?

  Thank you

  Gareth

  You can certainly run a Windows VM on the ESXi host, but you will still need another system to access. ESXi itself does not provide a graphical interface, and I'm not aware of any 3rd third-party tool that adds this feature either.

  André

• vSphere PowerCLI and replication

  Hello

  I ve seen a discussion about this in the forum, though none recently.

  Would it not possible to trigger a failover of PowerCLI?

  My thought is to trigger a script of our UPS in case PowerFailure to stop a virtual machine and it lights on another host in another location. I have only a virtual Center and the two hosts attached to it.

  The script should do the following.

  1. Stop the machine source
     
  2. Activate failover
     
  3. Turn on the destination on the new host machine.
     

  Would this be possible?

  Hello

  The original question was about turn on/off the VM another host on a different location. I guess that there is no storage shared between the two locations. vSphere replication could be used to replicate the VMDK, but yes, there is currently no Automation (unless using the API of SRM and SRM currently requires two vCenter servers - each manage its location).

  Kind regards

  Martin