vSphere API - how to determine if a virtual computer is storage vMotioned?

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• Can not put on the virtual computer after Storage VMotion

  I use the snap for the customer VI do some storage vmotion, where I can best use our space on our tables. I have a particular virtual machine that I transferred autour storage that has a total of 3 VMDK, all on separate LUNS. As soon as I moved them all in the right place, where I wanted them, I can't turn on the virtual machine because it says there is no space available on the device. I am trying to boot the machine with 4 GB of memory, the boot LUN more than 400 GB free on it. The other two LUNS have 225 MB, and 192 MB of free space. I can only start the machine if I change the memory of 192 MB or less. I know that problems with the file exchange and memory overhead, but this virtual machine has always run with these two LUNS with very little space. I can only assume it is somehow related to the storage vmotion. The pagefile is set to store the virtual machine and I'm still having the problem. Need help.

  Storage vmotion the VMX file of the LUN with more space (easier) or add manually a config parameter (settings, Options, general, settings) sched.swap.dir = / vmfs/volumes/DS/Machine

  (where DS and Machine related to your environment).

• How to determine if my Virtual Center is the correct version

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  Hello

  When I try to migrate a virtual computer to another data store (using storage vmotion - change datastore option on migration Assistant) I still see this warning on the migration wizard: this virtual machine must be powered off to perform this function.

  I'm completely lost, because I check the requirements to make a storage vmotion:

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  3. no snapshots: OK

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  What can I do? (of course I can't turn off the virtual machine).

  Thanks in advance.

  Which is my point... The message is related to the option greyed out only...

  / Rubeck

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• How to determine the vSphere edition

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  Because the different editions have different characteristics, ex: profile host is ok for the Enterprise Plus edition , but not the company.

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  (1) Yes (If yes or no do you while the virtual machine is online is totally based on the question of whether the operating system supports or not)

  (2) I don't know what ' TTL you are referring?

  I would say take a look at the previous documents, I've linked to familiarize yourself with what you can do and another great reference point is the vSphere API itself doc: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html and make use of Research to see what properties/attributes are available on the entities/objects.

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• VSphere API is available in VMware vSphere Essentials Kit?

  Hello

  TL; DR: I would like to know if the vSphere API is available in VMware vSphere Essentials Kit.

  We evaluated VMware vSphere to build an environment very small test & dev to work. Since vSphere worked well during our assessment, we will buy vSphere licenses.

  We only need to operate a single ESXi host and we don't much care our virtual machines because they are used for testing only. Thus, we don't need features such as vMotion.

  However, take us pictures and we depend on the vSphere API, because we use pyVmomi to administer our virtual machines.

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  Please see KB

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  I have the vsphere client on Windows 7.

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• Determine the maximum use of the processor for a virtual computer in the custom user interface

  I want to determine the maximum use of the processor for a virtual computer in the custom user interface.  How can I do this?

  If I use a supermetric, there is no kind of attribute under CPU called "maximum use.

  Certainly, you get points for a long question! Although to be fair, it's probably my fault to feed you so much information to digest at once.

  1. I would say you can do two ways visually. Use the operations > detail view for 'normal ranges' use the upper limit of the normal range as your typical max. You want an absolute peak, add the metric of a graph or observe that highlight high and low watermarks.

  2. There are a lot of ways to display data, but if you want to display a single metric over a period of time, we could use the following widgets [on top of my head]:

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  Weather map

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  3. you can have it apply to several virtual machines - it's just a widget capable of being an independent provider or receiving widget (metrics, DO NOT choose to select resources). Each resource/metric will add to the widget and you can remove them if you like after it is added. You can certainly all the time you visit... It is date and time standard options you have in all the other widgets chart. With the widget data distribution, you want as much time as possible to get an accurate histogram of the cycles of workload.

  4. This is similar to the question above. You can certainly add parameters of individual resource or a DM that summarizes or AVG groups of resources. And as above, the delay is configurable, along with the other graph widgets.

  5. it's part of Q4 - you can sumN or avgN up to any number of resources with a SM, then discovers that SM in the widget of data distribution. When I said container, I mean an application, group resource pool... all that acts as a container parent within the vCOps.

  6. that's correct, SMs calc using data collected last points... aka single period of time. When you are referring to the longest period, I gave you a few examples of the attributes that are composed of several periods of time which are calculated and created by the adapter for VMware vCenter behvaior. In this case, you have the GVA 15 min CPU 1.5; These specific simple mobile GVA can be specific OR a copy using SMs. Next, you will have the chance is to find a way to distribute what you need through a widget [at that time].

  7. the distribution of data is not for export, it is for Visual functions. If you want the data in CSV, just use a typical chart of metrics and export to a csv and calc your own pics, avg, 95th, whatever.

  8. This is a bit of a mix of all your questions, put in place.

  You are right, if you added those 3 VMs, then calc was the 95th of the AVG. Like Q7, you would not export the data of the distribution of data because the raw data points are not - you do not pass the metric to a metric graphics standard and export via csv.

  Take advantage of...

• How to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) of one data store

  Hi guys,.

  I have a VM with 4 virtual disks (for example, 1.vmdk, 2.vmdk, 3.vmdk and 4.vmdk) all located on a SAN volume (e.g., SANVOL03). How can I move one of the virtual disks (for example, 3.vmdk) of its current volume of SAN to another (e.g. from SANVOL03 to SANVOL04) without turning off the virtual machine? It's vsphere 4.1

  Detach the VMDK virtual machine and move it manually on the desired data store.

• How can I type of NETWORK adapter in the virtual computer a vCloud?

  I'm trying to write a script that compares the type of NETWORK card in vCloud NIC type in vCenter to work around a bug in vCloud 1.5.  I can get the type of NETWORK adapter in the virtual computer a vCenter by getting the vCenter VM up and running:

  
  

  $vcvm | Get-NetworkAdapter | FT-auto
  Name Type NetworkName MacAddress WakeOnLanEnabled
  ----              ----           ----------- ----------        ----------------
  Network adapter 1 isolated EnhancedVmxnet 00:50:56:01:00:33 True

  
  

  I do not get the same results when you perform an action similar to vCloud:
  $vcdvm | Get-CINetworkAdapter
  
  
  Connected primary index IPAddressAllocation IPAddress ExternalIPAddress VM
  ----- ------- ---------  ------------------- ---------       ----------------- --
  0 true true manual 192.168.10.30 nic1
  
  
  I can get all the other info NIC, such as the network, IP, MAC, etc, but not the type:
  ($vcdvm. ExtensionData.section) [2] .networkconnection
  
  
  Network: isolated
  NeedsCustomization: false
  NetworkConnectionIndex: 0
  IP address: 192.168.10.30
  ExternalIpAddress:
  IsConnected: true
  MACAddress: 00:50:56:01:00:33
  IpAddressAllocationMode: MANUAL
  Get_anyattr:
  VCloudExtension:

  For the moment, I get the type of NIC the vCloud himself database vCloud.  Thanks for any help.

  I use VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1 build 793510

  I could tell you where to find it, but there is a bug in the API that shows only as PCNET32 anyway (sleep if she could be VMXNET3). Keep doing what you're doing with the database query.

  See you soon,.

  Jake

• 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.

• Question so that the migration of the VM using the vSphere API

  Hello

  I am having some problems during the migration of a virtual machine using vSphere SDK.

  I have install the vSphere environment as there are two hosts esxi installed on different physical machines with multiple virtual machines above them.

  Now I want to migrate one say the virtual macines VM1 fron host1 to host2. I did it via vCenter uses the vSphere client and it worked fine. Now, I have to perform the same task using the vSphere API. For this I use the template of "VMotion" located in the com/vmware/vm directory. I run the command as follows:

  targethost $ run.bat url username password, shows targetpool

  I'm not sure of the targetpool argument and I need advice on what I need to specify a name of pool of resources here. Acorrding to:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/Vim.virtualmachine.html#migrate

  If the pool parameter remains disabled, current pool of the virtual machine is used as target the pool. I tried specifying the pool of resources such as:

  [- targetpool]

  but it gives the error:

  Error: List of resources target not found.

  Looking forward to all the advice. Thank you.

  Even if you do not have resource pools, it is actually a 'root' list of resources"which will be still exists. Try to specify 'Resources' as the name of the targetpool and allow you to migrate your VM.