What vmnic Storage vMotion use?

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• What vmnic driver to use for the spine of 10g

  Hi any recommendation on what vmnic driver to use for the virtual machine if I have a spine of 10g? I use Vcentre 4.1 U2

  Hello.

  This will depend on the guest OS, but if you just want pure performance then VMXNET 3 would be the one to try. Also check out the kb VMware "choose one network adapter for your virtual machine.

  Good luck!

• Senza thanks storage VMotion

  Hello to all

  Premetto che he mio e uno scrupolo più una domanda che in quanto credo, unfortunately, gia di know the risposta :-D

  veniamo al therefore: sto valutando the della functional di senza thanks introdotta nella versione 5.1 storage vmotion use;

  He problema e che i 2 cluster hanno a level di VCA different (stessa Intel architecture), quindi mi viene da Winegardner che he processo di validazione fallirebbe, my non ho trovato nessun esplicito re questa limitazione nella doc ufficiale di questa characteristic specifica.

  The mia speranza, ops domanda e secondo voi e possibile quindi?

  Saluti

  Ciao,.

  is non ho capito male, 2 cluster hai con lo stesso tipo di CPU Intel, pero con configurati 2 livelli VCA different. Perch is the sound CPU all equal?

  The VM you want migrare che da a cluster all'altro, risiede su uno No thanks dai storage 2.

  Ad ogni modo migrazione non Può avvenire has accesa VM, che lo storage sia thanks o meno, in quanto nel passaggio VM TR troverebbe ad andare a run known una che could avere delle istruzioni o diverse functional CPU. Abilitando the VCA in ogni caso, vai a mascherare o "castrare" in queste functional.

  The Unico modo che hai by migrare VM e da spenta.

  Ciao

  Francesco

• Storage VMotion and what it actually does?

  Hello

  I recently started to use the VM to my new company and I am migrating various VM out of ESX host for them (level 4 of ESX 3.5 Patch) patch.

  Now, I met my first VM installed on a local storage on an ESX host. I understand that I must use Storage VMotion to migrate this and that there is a plug-in that allows you to do so (SVMotion VI-Client Plugin). I also read the prerequisites for Storage VMotion Administrator's guide and I covered.

  However, I do not entirely understand, what this process done. On an online resource that I found it says the following "However, with SVMotion the VM guest stays on the server it resides on but the Ramdisk that VM is what is happening."  Now, if I need to restart this ESX host is that this goes to the impact of this machine virtual comments?

  I do not understand what this distinction between 'Comments' and 'VM virtual disk' would mean in terms of impact on the system for the service providing VMS.

  Notice to lovers?

  Tom

  Storage VMotion allows you to migrate pwered VM transparently to end users. But you can always turn off the virtual machine and migrate to another data store.

  ---

  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• b/w esx hosts VMotion using CF Storage share.

  Hi, I wanted to know the esx communicate anything to the storage when its doing a vmotion. Lets say I make a vmotion between 2 esxi hosts share the same storage. I have a private just vnic to vmotion and a separate management and logging FT.  My vmkernel default gateway is the management of vnic. I do all the fiber channel for the shared storage.

  Once a vmotion over, the new esx host must tell the storage that the vm now lives on me. If storage is all CF, how do?

  Yes, locks are on the VMFS file system, so the connection of storage is used.

  André

• Using CLI - check what vmnic is active and standby?

  Here's the scenario:

  Two vmnic - vmnic0 and vmnic1 on vswitch0... vmnic0 is active and vmnic1 is in standby.  If I simulate a failover, y at - it a cli command that I can run which will tell me precisely what vmnic is active and which is pending at the present time?

  Esxtop run and type "n" for the network.  The output will show you what physical NIC and what vSwitch uses each vNic interface and/or vmkernel/vswif.

  -KjB

• Spend RDM to VMFS using Storage vMotion

  I have a server that is running Windows server 2003 SP2 Enterprise edition.

  This server is using a SAN EVA8000 raw device mappings. We want to get rid of the device mappings gross and use instead a regular VMFS data store.

  I tried to use storage vmotion to migrate the storage of a new vmfs datastore, hoping it would pass all the data from the mapping of raw device to a new VMFS datastore.

  Completion of storage vmotion to the new data store, I still connected to the server raw device mappings.

  It is still possible to migrate data on a raw device mapping to the data without downtime and manual filecopy vmfs store?

  Is it possible to move from physical to virtual mode?

  You can turn off the virtual machine, remove the diskette RDM and readd in virtual mode.

  André

• Is it possible to use Storage Vmotion with VMFS and RDM virtual tool?

  Hello!

  You can use the tool Storage Vmotion to move a server that is running both VMFS disks and RDM virtual drives inside?

  Both SAN is EMC and Vmware ESX and Virtual Center can be reached.

  Thank you!

  For storage on the SAN again the two hosts will need access to the storage. You can then you copuld cold migrate the virtual computer. First, you will need to stop the virtual machine and delete the mapping of RDM. Once the virtual machine is the new data store re-create the mapping of RDM (Bothe hosts will need to access the LUN backend).

• Random virtual machines after vMotion and Storage vMotion network loss

  Hi all -

  I have a couple of tickets open with VMware and our supplier of SAN, EqualLogic, on this issue.  Since the configuration of our production and DMZ clusters we noticed that the virtual machines will sometimes drop network connectivity after a successful vMotion and Storage vMotion.  Sometimes, although much less frequently, virtual machines also spontaneously lose network overnight.  What happened only a few times.  The strange thing is that the other guests on the VM host are fine - they lose any network.  Actually, I can do no more than 3 computers virtual host to another, and 2 of 3 can switch correctly, so that we lose the network.  The work around?  Simply 'disconnect' from the virtual NETWORK card 'reconnect' and the virtual machine will start the return packets.  I can also switch the VM troubled return to the host State and it will find the network.  I can it reboot and re - win network.  I can re - install the virtual card completely, and she re - win network.

  VMware has seen a lot of mistakes of SAN in our log files in order to update us our SAN firmware to the latest version.  That seems to have fixed that but we still have the issue.  Here are some of the specifications - all environments are virtually identical except for memory:

  Of PowerEdge R810

  NICs Broadcom 5709

  EqualLogic SAN running 5.0.5 F/W

  We use frames.  ESXi is fully patched.  I haven't seen a boss or not, it is only some guest operating system that loses the network, but we are a Windows environment.

  When a virtual machine loses the network, we can not:

  • Ping to it
    
  • Ping it
    
  • Ping him at the virtual machines on the same host or vSwitch
    
  • Ping outside our network
    
  • resolve DNS, etc..
    

  I followed some KBs VMware without success, including:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003839
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1002811 (port security is not enabled)

  -All the VMware tools have been updated to the latest version correct and corresponds to the ESXi host
  -Connected to the service ESXi console, I cannot ping the VM problem by name of host or IP address, but I can ping do not affected by the issue of the OTHER virtual machines.  I can also pings the service console.
  -Connected to the troubled virtual machine itself, I cannot ping other virtual machines, I can't resolve host names, I cannot ping by IP.  The machine virtual CAN ping itself by IP, but not hostname.  I cannot ping other virtual computers on the same virtual switch or network by either IP or host name.  I can't ping the vSwitch network management.
  -All vSwitches are configured in the same way and the same.
  -Notify the switches is set to yes
  -There are a lot of available virtual ports
  -We tried the E1000 and VMXNET virtual cards with no difference.
  -All cards are configured to negotiate, but we tried to force individuals speeds as well as with no difference

  I appreciate your help.  I have problems getting anywhere on this issue with the sellers.

  wkucardinal wrote:

  Still having the issue...

  Sometimes, it might be useful to really check that all uplinks VMNIC for all VLAN does work them. Try this is to create a new portgroup on the vSwitch used by your virtual machines on the host of the first, put a test VM on the portgroup, then go into the NIC teaming policy from the new portgroup and select "Override switch command failover."

  Then down vmnic all except one in unused, then only a single VMNIC is active. Then set the portgroup VLAN to a production of VLAN and try to see if we could ping some expected from the different addresses. If it works, then move VMNIC work until unused and move up to another asset. Try again, and this for all the vmnic. If it works, then you have verified that the configuration of VLANS and other settings are correct on the physical switch in the face of this host ports.

  If several VLANs, repeat the process for all other productions VLAN. Then repeat on the other hosts.

  While that may take some time, occurs if everything is properly configured on the physical switches. When occurs a vMotion virtual machine gets a new "Port code" and is assigned to a new outgoing VMNIC. If there is an error of configuration on one or more physical ports that might seem random, but may still happen on VLAN x on y VMNIC. Given that Port ID policy you use indeed spread randomly VMs on the vmnic these problems may be difficult to diagnose. (Make a disconnection of the VM vNIC gives the virtual machine a new port-ID, which it will move to a new outgoing VMNIC, which might seem to solve the problem.)

• Storage vMotion with Syncrep on Equallogic San

  Hello

  We recently bought 2 San Equallogic (PS6510ES) and turned on synchronous replication between them.

  We use ESXi 5.5 and followed the best practices guide to disable TCP ack and 60 logintimeout value.

  Everything seems to work fine until we tried Storage vMotion/migration and cloning VMS on the San.

  When we did the migration of 2 volumes on the EQL SAN storage (the target volume has active syncrep), the target volume will be out-of-sync and then the storage vMotion will hang sometimes.

  The worst is when such a problem has occurred, all other volumes on the EQL constantly to respond also. All volumes will not respond until we rebooted the corresponding ESXi host (NOTE: simple shut down/power outside the host won't help.) The San EQL will only return to normal after a reboot of the ESXi host).

  If we pause / off the syncrep before Storage vMotion, the problem will not happen.

  Is this normal or not?

  In addition, whenever the problem occurred, the latency of writing the corresponding volume will be dry and we will receive alerts similar to the following:

  connection iSCSI target ' xx.xx.xx.xx:3260, iqn.2001 - 05.com.equallogic:xxxxx - test-volume ' initiator 'xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxxx, eqlinitiatorsyncrep' failed for the following reason:

  Initiator, disconnected from the target when connecting.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi Joerg,

  What is a #SR? I opened a record of support to 24 June and still waiting for Dell to contact me.

  Ryan

• flying over the vmdk files after storage vmotion

  People,

  I finished a few vmotions storage and I see that there are some vmdk files left belonging to a virtual machine by flying over in the source data store.

  Storage vmotion however was very good. Time last modified files are several months old.

  If the vmdk files are old players was dismantled some time back?

  There are also a few - zdump.000 left side files in source data warehouses. should you be worried about those?

  Rahul-

  Although I suppose the files are orphans, I always double-check for use before deleting. Virtual disk file (hard) can be changed only in case Active snapshots exist for them. What you can do is run RVTools, to see if these files appear as 'Zombies' and if so, I would say you first create a subdirectory and move the "orphans" files above and - if everything continues to work as expected - delete at a later date. Alternatively you can check the vmware.log of the virtual machine file to see if the files appear here.

  Zdump files are created if something unexpected occurs. However, it is difficult to say what the brought to be created and if they are old and have any problems, you can delete just them.

  André

• Storage vMotion + vmdk files in different folders

  Hello

  Storage vMotion will spend the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same data store for the moment] in the same folder while that migrated to the different data store?

  Why the vmdk files are in 2 different folders:

  Windows 2008r2 was misconfigured evil so anything by rebooting, it went to the system recovery. Was not able to recover the system.

  The system was rebuilt, and 2 D: and E: drives were attached ["use an existing virtual disk"] as of the existing vmdk disks to the new virtual machine.

  So drive C: [rebuilt VM] vmdk file is located in files vmdk D: & E new-vm-folder & readers are old-vm-folder.

  So "storage vMotion will pass the vmdk files [in 2 different folders on the same data store for the moment] in the same folder while that migrated to the different data store? I know that storage vMotion and change of name of the files/folders works well.

  If this is not the case, what would be the best practice to get is sorted?

  Thank you very much

  Pawel

  Welcome to the community - Yes it will be. The other option would be to turn off the cold and virtual machine migrate the virtual machine to the correct data store.

• Storage vMotion-Direct between ESXi hosts

  Hi all

  It is my first time on the boards, I hope it's the right way to go on this subject.

  I have problems with Storage vMotion, it's not a set up us would use normally, rather than by necessity with the current scenario.

  We have a desktop which has 2 x 5.1 ESXi hosts. They do not have a budget for SAN with the installation of HBA, and it is only a single requirement. I have to migrate virtual machines from one to the other, but with no external storage. I wait with Storage vMotion directly from a local data store to another.

  I activated the software iSCSI on both ESXi hosts

  Created a vSwitch separated with a VMkernal on two physical hosts

  The two VMkernals are on a separate subnet * 172.16.1 and production vSwitch is 192.168.5. *.

  The NIC allocated for the 172.16.1 network. * is both connected to the same physical switch.

  I ping the VMkernal and the vmkping the VMkernal

  Scan for storage again and nothing shows up.

  I used software iSCSI before, for a long time so I'm probably rusty. Dynamic discovery is normally indicated in the SAN to pick up storage, and finds it just local storage on each host itself.

  In this scenario, I told the IP address of the ESX2 VMkernal on 172.16.1 ESX1. * since I have no external storage. I think it is, I'm wrong, but I don't know what else to do to recover local data warehouses.

  Any ideas to try would be very appreciated.

  Thank you

  Sorted by using 5.1 feature Shared-Nothing vMotion

• Storage vmotion - Vaii integration?

  I find myself being unclear about what integration VĂII means and how to activate it, and I'm not sure when / if and under what circumstances one table will perform most of the work of a storage vmotion.

  using vshpere 5.1 business + and a new array of netapp - want to migrate data from a former EVA4400 to the new netapp. If we vmotions storage, one or other of the storage devices will do the real work of data movement or guests will have to make it to the top of the layer of software?

  And if the berries will participate (which makes the process faster and less cycles consuming cpu on the host computers) is there anything I need to do, to allow the integration of VĂII on one of these paintings?

  This FAQ will be a good read on VAAI.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1021976

  using vshpere 5.1 business + and a new array of netapp - want to migrate data from a former EVA4400 to the new netapp. If we vmotions storage, one or other of the storage devices will do the real work of data movement or guests will have to make it to the top of the layer of software?

  in this scenario, VAAI cannot do much, since the soruce LUN and target are on different storages. For the improvement of VAAI both source and target storage vmotion LUN must be on the same storage which is compatible VAAI.

  And if the berries will participate (which makes the process faster and less cycles consuming cpu on the host computers) is there anything I need to do, to allow the integration of VĂII on one of these paintings?

  Side table we don't need to do much. Just check with the seller to array storage OS is compatible VAAI and his default license.

  On the side of the host, VAAI is enabled by default.

  To determine if VAAI is enabled by using the vSphere Client.

  1. In the vSphere Client inventory Panel, click on the host.
  2. Click the Configuration tab, and then click Advanced settings under software.
  3. Make sure these options are set to 1 (enabled):

     DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove
DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit
VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking

  Consult the above KB to enable VAAI if this is not enabled by chance.

• Storage Vmotion - have

  Olá Senhores, tudo beleza?

  UM client adopt Vmware no ambiente quer usar Doi/place CF, pretende usar Storage Vmotion, HA hosts alem, ele thought em HA of storage.

  Pergunto:

  Docks e os pre-have technical material para what a coisa h.? SEI nao e only comprar o vSphere Enterprise, tem, but things a consider.

  E, em um mesmo ambiente, vale a pena adopt Doi storages fazer para Storage Vmotion? OU seria desnecessario, works as storage so, em um e totally redundante ja.

  Valeu!

  Ivanildo,

  Quando você faz storage vmotion, ele copia o servidor e leva para o outra lun do storage você estiver utilizando, or ate mesmo para um storage diferente, very ele nao mantem an original of copia, ele move os dados e pronto.

  Em relaçao has ter experiencia voce precisar a lun of e origerm a lun of destino do no host wave esta VM. Em caso migrar by um mesmo as a VM atualmente esta diferente storage, basta as host VMware have access o e have a lun mapeada.

  Caso VM is em disco local, e serums migrada para o storage, Sera necessario desligar a virtual machine.

  Caso a snapshot of o have VM, voce ter than deletar, snapshot dependendo da versão VMware than used, senao POIS voce me engano na versão 5.X ja e fazer storage vmotion instant com possible.

  E tem also one part of licença as voce ja says.

  Segue documento com maiores details sober requerimento e limitacoes.

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-4-ESX-vCenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.vSphere.dcadmin.doc_41/vsp_dc_admin_guide/migrating_virtual_machines/c_storage_vmotion_requirements_and_limitations.html

  Como o Rafanovo says, o Storage Vmotion or o DTS sao nao para manter alta Tranquilo storage, nesse caso você precisa replicar um storage os dados para outro of forma com você sempre uma copied storage Principial has no storage of contingencia preferencia em tempo real, para as voce garanta than seus dados are atualalizados.

  Usually some storages ja tem essa characteristic of sincronismo e copy os dados.