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• Merger of two data centers separated with a different license.

  Due to the fusion of the IT departments, we have two data centers and vCenter servers.  The IP network is a network of flat class.  ISCSI are on two physically separate networks.

  Data Center 1 (DC1)

  vCenter Foundation 5.5

  3 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (6 cpu)

  1 series 6200 Equallogic SAN

  Data Center 2 (DC2)

  vCenter 5.1 Standard

  2 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise (4 cpu)

  1 SAN Equallogic 4000 series

  We would like to:

  1. move the Standard of DC2 on DC1 and the license to the Foundation from DC1 to DC2 (Swap licenses)
  2. import of DC2 in vCenter on DC1 and then unmold on DC2 Foundation license.
  3. Finally have two data centers operating from DC1 vCenter running Standard Edition 5.5

  Is this possible at all?  How would we do this.

  Thanks in advance

  With licenses owned by the same company, the steps you mentioned should be ok.

  However, from a technical point of view, you can plan the migration according to the features you use. A few things you can do is to disable HA and DRS on DC2 environment before migrating the hosts to DC1 (just to avoid potential problems), and you can also make sure for example on DC2 data store names do not match the names on DC1 to avoid confusion after the migration.

  Unless the special functions are used on DC2 which must be supported before the migration, you can simply unplug the hosts of DC2 and add them to a DC1 with operational virtual machine. Host CPU licenses must move automatically with the hosts.

  André

  PS: TheSMO: licenses are based on major versions, i.e. 5.x., so there is no need to up - or their decommissioning in this case.

• copy root alarms in multiple data centers

  Hello.

  I try a few scripts, read some discussions and Web sites, but have to meet our needs without success.

  We have vcenter 5.0 with some data centers, where some of them have esx cluster and some of them have independent esx hosts.

  We create new alarms to run external scripts. everything works very well and now we want to our more granular alarms on each of our data center. to copy these alarms will be the easy way.

  I don't want to make new manual alarms and the alarm on the root.

  what I need is a handy script that copy three alarms to the root (or the folder hidden data center) to all data centers but two of them and optionally disable this three alarms in root.

  I try LucD 'alarms-move-them-around', some variants of this and other scripts, but ends up with a lot of mistakes that I don't understand.

  The PowerCLI Version: VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.0 build 435427

  Thank you!

  with the help of lucd I arrived to our needs. I have attached the script to work (while you need not read all messages)

  Online 70 that you can put in the alarms to copy to all other domain controllers in the connected vcenter and change line 69 for domain controllers that you don't need.

  and thanks again to the Holy lucd

• Virtual data centers how to a campus of double site?

  We begin to plan for a migration of vSphere 4.1 and 5.1.  We have two data centers several miles share a link 10 gig.  In our current setup, we have a virtual data center that includes the host esx on both sites.  VMotion and storage vmotion work well on the link 10 gig.  HA and DRS are not currently configured, but it will be included in the new configuration.  I'm looking for the advantages and disadvantages to continue having a virtual Datacenter, against two, one for each physical site that includes only the servers at this place, that is, buildling1-vdc, would include esx1 bldg1, bldg1-esx2, etc., and construction2-vdc, would include construction2-esx1, bldg2-esx2, etc.. We would be able to preserve the beaches of IPS to each site in the case of a link failure.    As I understand it, we would not power of vmotion or HA and DRS established between the two virtual data centers.  Other have a virtual infrastructure of several location connected by links broadband?  If you do, how much virtual datcenters you have and how they are configured?

  Please ask questions if you need more specific information to answer the question.

  a "Datacenter" vCenter object is a limit for the vMotion and distributed vSwitches. So, if you want to migrate virtual machines between the buildings / clusters these groups must be part of the object of data center. Also if you want to have similar networks on both sides and you want to use Distributed vSwitched then you will need to have both part of clusters of the same domain controller so that the VDS objects are pushed down.

• How to create the new folder in the title of data centers

  I have a data center called 'DR', which I can't seem to create a folder under the root with PowerCLI. Whenever I try to try: new-folder-name-location Test (Get-Data Center DR) it does not place the folder everywhere perceptible in the GUI. I only see it if I do: Get-folder or Get-file-name Test.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you.

  You are in the computers view virtual and models of vSphere Client by chance?  Because the file is not there.  It'll be in the hosts and Clusters discovered.  You can tell by the 'Id' of the folder property in your screenshot.  The 'h' in "File-group-h265" essentially tells the view of "Hosts and Clusters".  You should see a 'v' here instead of him was in the models and virtual computers discovered.  An excerpt from the "New folder" command help page for help:

  -Map

  Specify a container object (for example, a folder, a list of resources and so etc.) where you want to place the new folder. If a data center is specified for the - Location parameter, then the file is created in the folder "hostFolder" and contains hosts and clusters. The "hostFolder" is a system folder and is guaranteed to exist.

  Since a data center can contain folders, objects VM and host and cluster, you must specify what "view" to create your folder in.  There are some files hidden (for lack of a better term) that technically the child objects are data centers.  We're called 'vm' and another is called 'host '.  So, if you were to run this command:

  Get-Folder vm
  

  You should get a record returned for each datacenter, you (and all the folders that you simply named 'vm' because the folder names need not be unique).  You could also run ' host of Get-file ' and also to get a folder of "host and Cluster view" for each datacenter you have.

  Given that the cmdlet New-folder by default is the 'host' of the data center specified folder, a way you could force it to be created in the "vm" folder with a command like this:

  Get-Folder vm | ?{$_.Parent.Name -eq "DR"} | New-Folder "YourNewFolderName"
  

  Maybe it's not the quickest way to accomplish the task, but it should work for you, assuming that my intuition need you according to the evil the vSphere Client inventory is correct, of course.

• Using CLI, I would clone a virtual machine between different data centers

  Hello!!

  We have two data centers.

  We want to clone a virtual of DataCenter1 to DataCenter2 machine.

  We cannot with vSphere.

  Does anyone know how we can do this? any idea?

  Thank you very much

  Jose.

  Cloning is a feature of vCenter Server, not a host ESX (i). You need to connect to vCenter, that's why you get the error because this operation is not supported in a host ESX (i)

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• HP workspace: where are located the workspace of HP data centers?

  Hey everybody,

  Where are located the workspace of HP data centers?

  Thank you

  Bill

  HP workspace is currently supported by seven, SSAE16-SOC certified, regional data centers, serving many countries. Data centers are located in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and two in the United States (California and Virginia). The workspace of HP team will be allowing multiple data centers in the coming months to provide global coverage for customers. To see a current list of regional data of the workspace of HP centers refer to www.hpworkspace.com.

• Using node NHP groups in multiple data centers

  Hello

  I was looking for information, I'll implement a distributed deployment of ISE.   We have two data centers, each will have its own group of PSN node (load balancing), I need a strategy where we can ensure that all the DNA do not point to a single group of PSN node.  In the config switch that I only noticed that the radius server registration option where first is referenced and secondary IP is used only if the primary Radius Server is unavailable.  We have many sites of the direction we want to deploy ISE, we would like to distribute the RADIUS AuthC/AuthZ evenly between the two DC.

  Thank you

  -Amin

  Just so we are clear, ISE node groups did not-load balancing, you need a for this external load balancer. If you are actually using a balancer for each domain controller, then you might have half of your switches just manually use a vip for primary and secondary school, and the other half upside down. Also, if you use aaa server groups in your switch, you can also do a local switch 'balancing', based on the current session how are radius on each server in the group.

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/iOS-XML/iOS/sec_usr_rad/configurati...

• How to migrate exadata overall in data centers?

  How to migrate exadata overall in data centers? Forklift (lift & shift) is only option for this kind of migration since we are talking about migration unit?

  Best practices/experiences around these migrations?

  Thank you

  Aerts

  Hello

  We recently had a data center move and moved some exadata machines to a new location.

  There are a few things to consider before the move is going;

  (1) prepare the network on the new data center and make sure all connectivity (for example, you can remote access to it) work.  In our case, the new centre has same network IPs.

  (2) download the seller who transported material Machines.

  (3) on the last day before moving, stop the Exadata Machine (close the database, RAC nodes db stop, knots of cell, endless tape etc...)

  (4) turn off the Exadata Machine

  (5) disconnect all network cables.

  (6) let the equipment cool.

  (7) transportation to the new location and move the machine to fix the Bay and wait for the machines to be acclimated

  (8) connect the network cables.

  (9) power on Exadata.

  I found a Support which also notes, you can view; What must be done when moving Cluster nodes to a new data center (Doc ID 1332423.1)

  HTH,

  Pradeep

• Custom data centers

  I created several CDC that we use for the management of capacity, but recently noticed that it does not automatically update with the new groups added to the environment in. Does anyone know how I can get a CDC auto add new members in the area which I define as my CDC

  Here it is my CDC production and as you can see the new cluster its not added. It doesn't seem to be a parent object that I can select (in this case windows or linux) that will automatically add new groups

  

  Today, custom data centers do not have an automatic fill criteria are met that statically. However, I agree with you that it would be an advantage to have this capability, similar to the how custom groups to have rulesets. Others that the obvious benefits of Datacenter Custom ojcts be exploited with WLP capabilities, I use these global organizational construction groups of cluster for the analysis of high level. This high-level analysis is in the form of capacity planning, calculation, efficiency and so on. This cap of model capabilities are not present in custom groups (CGs simply show the distribution of the population), which make the data centres custom unique positions for the aggregation of CLuster and analysis without the need to be creative with the SMs and the views to try to make them 'cap-model-like. "

• You can cluster consistency of data centers?

  We currently lack two separate groups of coherence in the different data centers. One is prod the other DR.

  Would it not possible for nodes in each cluster to create a cluster that spans two data centers? Then in a failover scenario data would be available.

  I know that pulse of nodes of coherence between them to keep the members of the classes and there is a TTL parameter to determine the life of package. Would have nodes in data centres resulting in pulses being missed or TTLs killing packages?

  Did anyone had success with this?

  Performance of coherence is related to the latency between the nodes. Having a single distributed cluster on 2 data centers might harm performance (some wait times might have to be changed to prevent the nodes from A data center to claim another node in datacenter B is out of scope/possibly dead).

  When you lose the network connectivity between 2 data centers (note I do not say "If you lose connectivity". This WILL happen), you are welcome in the 'world of split brain', each half of the grid to believe the other is dead and who claim to be the 'master '. And so if you have a replicated data on N nodes, master backups are sent back in each data center, performance for a few minutes (the time of course depends on many parameters...). And of course the data will no longer be synchronized between 2 data centers. The quorum must be thought out and stuff like that...

  I could be wrong, but as far as I know I'd rather have 2 separate groups. I think 12.1 has new features to replicate the data the main grid to the Dominican Republic one, I was not through any new documentation.

• Download of understanding 'Download VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0 - Open Source'

  Can someone explain to my what download "VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0 - Open Source" actually offers?

  His text is 'Open Source Code for VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0' and the OpenSource_VDP_6.0.0.zip ZIP file contains files like commons-validator - 1.4.0 - sources.jar (Apache Commons Validator).

  I guess that it may just be a reference of what free software was used for the construction of POS, but what is the practical use for this download all custmers?

  Thanks for me, illuminating Tom

  I guess that it may just be a reference of what free software was used for the construction of POS, but what is the practical use for this download all custmers?

  VMware, as virtually every software development company, incorporates certain open existing in their own proprietary source code. More open source licenses like the popular GNU General Public License (GPL) legally require you must publish the source code modified with your distribution of binary software (often under the same license).

  There is not really much of a practical use for end users, but it may be useful for other developers and software 3rd party development.

• vSphere Data Protection

  Hello

  Review on the vsphere data protection, can take us image backup of windows server by using POS, its more fast or slow as clone

  It depends, but the benefits of taking a backup using the VDP is the next backup will be faster than the first, since only changed blocks are copied. And another advantage is that POS dedup backup, in this way it uses less space storage than a clone.

• Is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief not

  Hi friends,

  1. is it possible to migrate ESXi host between data centers, if so please provide a brief walking distance.

  2 can we perform vMotion and Storage vMotion while ESXi is turned on.

  3. is it possible to extend the VMDK disk while it integrates snapshots in it.

  Best regards,

  Sirot Vijay

  Yes the vmotion and svmotion works but one by one.

  1 - vmotion is posssible to power on State, but you can't svmotion the vm simultaneously. The storage will remain same

  2 svmotion is also possible to power on the State, but you cannot vmotion virtual machine simultaneously. the host will remain the same.

  3 vmotion and svmotion is possible together when the vm is off power. the host and storage can be changed simultaneously on this State.

• Copy of models between data centers

  Hello

  I have a couple of VM being cloned to models. These models need to be copied in other data centers VMWare. I got it all to a using PowerCLI PowerShell script. If I understand well I can't do just a simple copy of a data center to another. First of all, I need to upload the template, then download to the data center target to get these models where they do.

  Does anyone have an idea how I could do this task and it is able to be accomplished using PowerCLI?

  TIA

  OK, you could do something in this direction.

  $vmName = "MyVM.

  $templateName = "template".

  $tgtDC = "dc".

  $dc = get-data center-name $tgtDC

  # Get the VM source

  $vm = get-VM-name $vmName

  # Clone VM and move it to the target DC

  New-VM - $vm - name $templateName VM | Move-VM-Destination $dc

  # Convert the VM cloned a model of

  Get-VM-name $templateName | Set-model