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• You can create a new virtual machine snapshot from another machine?

  Hi all!  I was wondering - is it possible to create a new virtual machine with an existing snapshot of a running virtual machine?  Or should I essentially clone the machine to a new virtual machine and then go back to the snapshot I want?

  I use ESX Server 3.5 with a Lefthand SAN - and was curious to know if there may be either a separate utility, I can run or if the VI Client contains all the tools I would need?

  Thank you all for your time!

  Good question, I know you can do this with VMware Workstation:

  1 VM > overview > Snapshot Manager

  2. Select the snapshot > Clone

  However, for VMware ESX, I think you should use vmkfstools to the service console.

  Basically, you have already created a snapshot and just need to copy the vmdk files, create a new virtual machine and attach an existing drive. I think that's what you're looking for: cloning a Virtual Machine running using the Console Service

• rename several virtual machines based on the State of food & VM name

  I'm looking for a powershell script to rename the virtual machine based on the state name and vm power.  For example, I have several virtual machines with a - temp at the end of the name of the server.  Some are turned on and some are turned off.  I am wanting to rename only those who is off

  Thank you

  tjw82

  Assuming that - temp is part of the name

  Get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq "poweredoff"} | foreach {Set-machine virtual - VM $_ - name (($_.name).)} Replace ("temp", "delete"))}

• How can I move the "Virtual Machines" folder to the My Documents folder?

  VMwareFusion is to put the "Virtual Machines" folder in the Documents folder in the home folder (/users/ [username] / Documents), how can I move elsewhere (as/Library/Application Support)? The user Documents folder is not the right place for automated it system files, it is intended for personal documents.

  
  

  I am running VMware Fusion on OS X Yosemite (and the virtual machine is Windows 7).

  You can keep your virtual machines anywhere you want. Here are the steps to move:

  1 exit VMware Fusion. You can stop first of all of your running virtual machines.

  2. drag your virtual computers folder or the individual VM "files" where you / them. Filenames usually end in ".vmwarevm". There is no need to call the new folder "Virtual Machines" - you can call it anything you like.

  3. Launch VMware Fusion. If the library of the Virtual Machine window is not open, open it (Windows menu-> Virtual Machine library).

  4. ensure that all of your icons for the virtual machine are light gray and say "file not found".

  5. right click on each virtual machine in turn, and select Remove. When you are done, leave the window of Machine virtual library empty open.

  6. in the Finder, drag the icons of file virtual machine in their new location and drop them in library of virtual machines VMware Fusion window. Drop them one by one in the original order, you got, or rearrange icons later.

  7. run your virtual machines as before.

  When you create new virtual computers, navigate to the desired file before the Save.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: If you your folder of Machines ~/Documents/Virtual excluded from backups Time Machine, don't forget to change the exclusion to the new folder.

  Time Machine backups are not reliable for virtual machines. You must have another strategy. (I shut the virtual machine down, compress the 'file', and then move the compressed file to a folder that is included in the Time Machine backups. This isn't the only strategy, but it works for me.)

• Cannot add to the inventory if virtual machine running on the other guests - iSCSI and VMFS5

  5.5 ESXi hosts free standalone version

  iSCSI mounts with multiple paths - relatively new unit with more modern hardware

  CHAP not used

  I'm running a few hosts in order to climb the same iSCSI data stores. The iSCSI LUN is visible and editable by all hosts. If Host1 is to map the iSCSI LUN (VMFS5) and a VM is powered, Host2 can add that VM to the inventory. It's possible with NFS iSCSI for a reason any. This is for a specific reason? Only when I turned off the virtual computer can I add it to both hosts. Other that just lock files are placed in the directory, I missed something related to the lock?

  From now on, adding new esxi hosts does not allow me to add existing virtual machine, less than the voltage first. Once again, NFS does, iSCSI, this isn't. Any ideas?

  It is not specific to ISCSI but rather to the use of VMFS. NFS has no awareness VM VMFS is and why it is not possible to do that with iSCSI / VMFS. There is a lock on the disk for each virtual machine of (race), and that's why the second host is not able to add this host to its inventory. With vSphere HA, this lock is released when a failover should occur.

• Start the virtual machine based on the load of another virtual machine

  Hi all

  I am looking for a solution that will start the VM on request depending on the load on the other virtual machines, perhaps in the same resource pool. Essentially, the expected result would be something like this:

  -When the dv01 reaches 75% CPU usage for 15 minutes,

  -Boot VM02

  -Once dv01 was less 40% use for 30 minutes,

  -Close the VM02

  This could also be a new virtual machine that is upwards of a model and Sysprep, rather than one that just sits there, offshore and unused.

  I hope that the final objective is clear. Does anyone have recommendations on how to do it? I just did a quick search on certain clauses that I thought would be relevant and did not really turn anything upwards.

  Thanks for your comments!

  -James

  jamesgreen wrote:

  Hi all

  I am looking for a solution that will start the VM on request depending on the load on the other virtual machines, perhaps in the same resource pool. Essentially, the expected result would be something like this:

  -When the dv01 reaches 75% CPU usage for 15 minutes,

  -Boot VM02

  -Once dv01 was less 40% use for 30 minutes,

  -Close the VM02

  This could also be a new virtual machine that is upwards of a model and Sysprep, rather than one that just sits there, offshore and unused.

  I hope that the final objective is clear. Does anyone have recommendations on how to do it? I just did a quick search on certain clauses that I thought would be relevant and did not really turn anything upwards.

  Thanks for your comments!

  -James

  with raise vm02, you can set the alarm action to run a script that will start vm02.

  PowerCLI command would be

  Start-VM - vm VM02

  you could probably add an alarm if dv01 has a less than 40% cpu

  run another script

  the command is:

  stop-vmguest - vm-VM02

• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• Can not power on virtual machines "cannot access the file because it is locked.

  Virtual machines have been working well - then the storage system is down.  After the storage system returns upwards that I can't turn on a number of virtual machines.  Get this error when I try to turn it on:

  Cannot power on vmname on esxhostname.xxxxx.com. Unable to access file < unspecified file name > because it is locked
  error

  1. To check the locks on the Service Console on non ESXi servers, run the command:

     lsof | grep

     COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE SIZE NŒUD NOM_PERIPHERIQUE
     71fd60b6-3631 root 4r REG 0.9 10737418240 23533

     Note: If there is no Console of Service process the locking file, you should receive no printed output. If you receive results, however, file a support request to identify the process and to determine the causes.  If it is a third-party process, however, contact the appropriate provider to determine the cause before you kill the process ID, because it can happen again in the future.

     Stop the process and the lock ID using the kill command. In the example above, the process ID is 3631:

     kill the 3631

     After the termination of the process, you can try to turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  2. To check if the virtual machine is always a world ID assigned, run these commands on all ESX/ESXi hosts:

     CD/tmp
     VM-support - x

     Available to debug worlds:
     WID =

     On the ESX/ESXi host where the virtual machine still works, kill the VM, which releases the lock on the file. To kill the virtual machine, run the command:

     VM-support - X

     Where the is the ID of the world of the virtual machine with the locked file.

     Note: this command takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Answer No to "can I include a screenshot of the virtual machine", and answer Yes to all subsequent questions.

     After the termination of the process, you can turn on the virtual machine or access the file resource.

  Deleting the file .lck (NFS only)

  The virtual machine files can be locked via NFS storage. You can identify this as reported by .lck files. # (where # is the ID of the world that holds the lock file) at the end of the file name. It is a NFS file lock and appears only when you use the ls command as it is the hidden file.
  Beware: they can be removed safely only if the virtual machine is not running.

  Note: VMFS volumes have no .lck files. The locking mechanism for VMFS volumes is managed within VMFS metadata on the volume.

  You must kill the process that is locked, if it is not the case, you probably need to restart the VMware host.
  I tell you from experience most likely end up rebooting it.

• How can I get a virtual machine to see the graphic material?

  Environment:

  1. I use a computer HP Pavilion dv8327us laptop is equipped with a nVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics card.

  2. I am running VMWare Workstation 7.x

  3. I'm under Ubuntu 10.04 as a virtual machine.

  4. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 as the host machine.

  Location:

  1. the virtual machine seems not to be able to use advanced graphics card features.

  2. the VM sees the card as a SVGA II adapter.

  3. the virtual machine can't determine the system LCD screen refresh rate.

  4. the virtual machine can't do use an external display.

  Workarounds failed:

  1. an attempt to solve this problem by installing the latest nvidia 260.19.44 graphics driver failed. The installation of this driver has resulted in an error message indicating that no supported hardware can be detected. The conclusion I draw from this is that either or however the machine emule virtual graphic adapter in the system is not quite the same as what is emulated.

  Question:

  1 is wrong to think that we could install drivers of graphics cards in a virtual machine and wait to turn the virtual machine to see the graphics card in the same way as the host machine? If Yes, then how can we do?

  2. is it possible for a virtual machine to use an external monitor?

  Thank you.

  Virtual machines have graphics cards ATI and NVIDIA - or else.

  Use of virtual machines VMware SVGA 2 cards - support or VMware SVGA cards with 3 d

  You need the drivers included in the vmware-tools - install other drivers is the sabotage of the machine virtual and not useful!

• Rename all the virtual machine files in the data store

  Hello

  We have renamed one of the name of the server of our virtual machine running on esx3.5. In addition, we have renamed this server in VC to reflect the new name of the server. Please tell us how we can rename all files in this virtual machine residing in the data store to reflect the new name of the server.

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Thanks in advance...

  You can use sVMotion and move it to another data store or migrate from cold.  Two tasks will rename the underlying set of files.

• the request to turn off this virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script didn't run successfully

  using vmware fusion 2.0.5

  the request to turn off this virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script didn't run successfully

  now vmware cant off power

  is vmware tools script to run when windows is running

  If I power off (mac - force quit) now... what happens

  VMware Fusion 2.x...

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > Shutting Down a virtual machine operating system

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > Options for VMware Fusion food orders

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > VMware Fusion help > running VMware Fusion and Virtual Machines > orders of switching power supply from the default Options

  ==========

  Note: It's like pulling the plug of the wall on a physical computer. Whatever this is not saved will be lost and there is always the possibility of corrupting the file system where preforming a hard stop! (Even if you have no choice but to do.)

  VMware Fusion menu bar > VM > press the option key and select Power Off

  By pressing the keys alt/option "Shutdown called" changes to "Power Off".

  Note: It also changes orders of "Suspend comments" and "Restart Guest' too.

  Or if this does not work then...

  On the library Virtual Machine ctrl - click on the target of the Virtual Machine and select Show in Finder and delete the .vmss file, the ctrl + click the target package of Virtual Machine, and then after the merger closed. Note: All that was not justified for the suspended state will be lost by deleting the .vmss file. Note: However: you have no other choice if the Virtual Machine does not suspend/resume/stop/start correctly.

• What is the rate of transmission between the virtual machines connected to the same virtual switch?

  Hi guys,.

  I am trying to determine if the rate of data transmission between virtual machines connected to the same virtual switch is equivocal to 10 GB ethernet or faster.

  Thank you

  MK

  If it's the same vSwitch in the same ESX, should be the speed of the bus

• The Exchange 2010 on Esxi 5.0 virtual machine snapshot

  Dear Experts,

  We have Exchange 2010 VM under windows 2008 R2 on Esxi 5.0. I need to make the updates of windows on this machine. I want to inform if it is okay to take instant Exchange 2010 machine before performing windows updates and then delete the snapshot once the updates are performed successfully, OR it is not good to go for the snapshot and back problems due to the behavior of the application exchange 2010 I/O.

  Please let know us your opinion.

  Kind regards

  Jocelyn

  But by the way in this case once the updates are successful and we want to remove the snapshot that we took earlier by turning off the virtual machine, to remove again he must turn off the Exchange 2010 VM?

  No, you don't have to. turn off the functions of the virtual machine as a precaution to ensure that you capture a consistent instant State of the virtual machine and it is the system of files/databases, in the cases where you may need to restore the virtual computer. It is not necessary when the snapshot is deleted.

  Towards the end of the removal of snapshot operation, the virtual machine will be soon stun/unstunned to merge the last exceptional blocks into the basic disk. This basically any time a break the VM to stop him from delivering IO and the creation of delta data more, but it's transparent to the client (similar to a vMotion). You can see a loss of ping or two, or clusters of DAG can initiate a failover the virtual machine is a little inaccessible, but it should be no. impact on or be heard by the customer.

  Merging delta of the snapshot in the basic disk can take a long time, depending on how big the delta grew at the same time and the amount of data continues to be changed upon removal. The process will put some additional IO load on the storage, so I recommend you usually do the delete operation during off-peak hours. Also, make sure that you have enough free space on the data store to meet the growth of delta file.

  If we don't take any snapshot for this virtual machine, we can also directly proceed the updates of windows as we do in the event of physical Exchange Server, right?

  Yes, there is no difference for physical systems in this regard.

• Virtual machine unavailable during the snapshot

  Hello

  I wanted to check with others to see how snapshots affect your virtual machines. I work in several small VMware environments and have seen similar effects when taken snapshots VMs.

  Today I made a SQL server (Windows 2K 8 running SQL 2008) fueling a sharepoint site. The snapshot lasted about 30 seconds and during this time, the sharepoint site was not available. In this case the ESX Server runs on a 1.5 3.5 years HP DL380 G5 with a HP MSA2324 G2 SAN on the back-end.

  After noticing the outtage service I tried taking a file & server snapshots print somewhere else, in this case running ESX 4.0 on a HP DL380 G6 with an EMC CX300 on the back-end. In this case, I also experienced a service outtage, I was unable to access file shares when the snapshot. In this case, the snapshot took a few minutes to complete, I guess it is because data drives are on 7.2 K disks. During the first minute of the snapshot I couldn't access the shares, once he got close to 100%, I was able to access file shares.

  In both scenarios, I only lost a ping, from the beginning of the snap. When deleting snapshots, I have not experienced any loss of service.

  Is this a normal experience or could it be caused by a misconfiguration or a lack of resources?

  Thank you

  I would have a look at the Snapshots of understanding . Depending on the options that you have chosen with your snapshot - suspend or memory from the operating system will freeze activity until the snapshot is completed. Also take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5962168

• Turn off the virtual machine to remove the snapshot?

  I discovered that, even though my Snapshot Manager says that there are no photos, I have several virtual machines with the snapshot files. I tried to create a new snapshot and then remove it, but it does not work. I tried to shut down the VM, and then create a snapshot and remove - that works. What is the difference? Why would it works when the virtual computer is disabled but does not work when the virtual machine is turned on?

  And even if you go to snapmgt you can not delete them?

  Download rvtools tool, there is an instant writer and see if there's trully snaps and might send a screnn for me!