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  I want to add a port group of VM for about 200 guests vSwitch. This can be done manually, but if anyone can help me to do it with the help of Powercli. We have guests organized on the basis of clusters.

  Virtual machine port group.

  Tag network:-XYZ

  VLAN ID: XYZ

  Thank you

  Pranab

  You could do something like that

  $clusterName = "cluster"
  $pgName = "test2"
  $vlanId = "1111"
  $vSwName = "vSwitch1"
  
  Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName | Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwName | New-VirtualPortGroup -Name $pgName -VLanId $vlanId
  

  It will add the portgroup to the vSwitch on all hosts in the cluster

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• How the Virtual Machine port group communication?

  How the Virtual Machine port group communication?

  Port group is virtual aggregation of ports on vSwitch. A vSwitch can have multiple Port groups which separate the different network traffic. Port groups communicate with vSwitch, and we have physical network maps on vSwitch which establish communication with the external network. We can configure security, NIC teaming, traffic shapping nework political and at the level of the port groups. Once the port group is created, we can assign to vNIC

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• "this host is not no matter what networks of virtual machine, or you don't have the permission to access ' ESXi V4

  I'm sure I'll be stupid on this one, but what does do to ensure that networks of virtual machine?  I get this message when I look at network/properties of a VM adapter 1.

  When the virtual computer runs, my network card think the cable is disconnected.

  I went to the host properties and of course there is a 'Virtual Machine port group"and a"VMKernel Port", both connected to my physical card.

  I don't see anything obvious on the network are disabled or anything like that.

  Please give me a hint?  Virtual machines to run it, but without any network connectivity.

  Thank you

  Joe

  I had this on the virtual machines that I moved from VMware Server 2.0. I found that there is no entry for the "ethernet0.networkName" in the .vmx files Server 2 (and probably Workstation) do not seem to care and connect ethernet0 to the first configured network. ESXi 4 all confused. So for me, the solution was to add

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  for each file .vmx before adding them for ESX. If you have already added the machine, you will need to remove it before you edit the .vmx file.

• Networking between virtual machines on different hosts

  Hello

  I need some advice on the basic approach to networking between virtual machines, each running on a different host machine.

  Consider the following configuration:

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  I have a copy of this virtual machine that I put on another machine.  Call this Guest2.  I have Guest2 running on a separate physical computer, also runs Windows XP SP3 and VMware Workstation 7.x; Call this host 2.

  Now, I would like to guest1 and 2 comments to make networking with eachother.  I wish they were able to ping, SSH, etc., among others.

  This is where I am stuck. I tried setting the virtual machines to use the bridged network mode.  I tried to connect my router on each computer and manually assigning IP addresses to each host and each virtual computer.  When I do this, guest1 can Host1 and Host2 ping, but cannot ping Guest2 and vice versa.

  What is the right way to do this kind of network?  This seems like an obvious application, if you want to perform simulations on multiple virtual machines residing on different computers on the network.

  I apologize if this is the answer elsewhere, I had to dig and was not able to find the solution.

  Thanks in advance!

  Charles

  Guests must be on the same subnet, like 'real' hardware machines.

  1 when you copied the VM and then started, what did answer you the question of copy/move? (this determines if a new MAC address is applied)

  2 view each guest and ' ipconfig/all' results 'ifconfig - a' by the hosts.

  Lou

• Can't export virtual machines: unable to connect to the remote server

  Hello

  I'm working on vSphere client 5.1 (vCenter Server 5.1). Trying to export a virtual machine for distribution model. When I go to file-> export the template OVF..., I get the following error message:

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  Am I missing any customer authorization or plugin for vShpere?

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• public network for virtual machines, private storage and the service console?

  Hello

  So far I had a pretty small facility with 2 servers with 4 physical network adapters each running ESX 3.5, a small box of EqualLogic SAN to shared storage and a few virtual machines on our network of regular reinforcement, routed, not on a private.   The network config was really simple.  I just put everything on real IP addresses on our network of building.

  Now I want to move the SAN and the traffic on a private service console network, but I don't know how to do this.

  Right now I use 2 NETWORK cards on each server:

  vmnic0 is configured on vSwitch0 and has the network of the VM on it that all my use of VMS to talk to the outside world, and it also has the Service Console that uses Virtual Center and I use ssh to it.

  vmnic1 is configured on vSwitch1 and a VMKernel Port and also a Service Console Port for iSCSI Software to talk to my SAN.  (never been clear on why both are needed to talk to the SAN, but doctors say they are)

  My plan is to set up a vSwitch2 and bind it to vmnic2 and implemented a VMKernel Port and the Service Console Port for software iSCSI on the 10.x.x.x network, set up my new (larger) SAN box on the 10.x.x.x network and simply use Storage vMotion to move virtual machines to the new storage space.  As soon as I did this, I would like to not use the Service Console on vSwitch2 and not a Console Service at all on vSwitch0.  Is it possible to delete the one on vSwitch0 and just use a new vSwitch2 for Virtual Center and ssh access?

  So my proposed configuration would be:

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  vSwitch2: VMKernel and Service Console on the network 10.x.x.x, used to access the new SAN, used by Virtual Center to access the ESX, used to SSH in to ESX on private network, associated vmnic2

  If it works?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  VMkernel ports cannot live on the same subnet. So if you have 3 vmkernel ports say: vMotion, iSCSI and NFS. You really need 3 subnets. 1 for each vmkernel port.

  Otherwise how does he know all send properly?

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• networking of virtual machine of the internet does not work

  Hi, I am a beginner in Linux, my friend recommend install me VMware 6.0.3 for practice station. I choose the NAT configuration for my virtual machine, because I have a wireless card on my host (winxp-3 Pack), the period of investigation (get automatically from DHCP server) is 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 is my router to external internet gateway; I set virtual machine sitting in 192.168.88.0 segment. I tried to ping 192.168.1.2 - my physical network adapter, there is no road, looks like icmp knows only 192.168.88.2 (the VMware network adapter is 192.168.88.1), the gateway to the virtual network, but he does not know where to send the packets next hop.

  I put something else to let work?    The snapshot of the configuration is in the attachment.

  Thanks much for any help!

  No, it's quite normal. The gateway by default and DNS for the guest is the IP address of the host VMnet8 + 1 card.

  You can check this by opening the editor of virtual network within VMware Workstation, go to the NAT "tab" and look at the IP address of the gateway. You can also click "Edit", where you can configure (if necessary) DNS servers. But under normal circumstances, the default gateway setting here covers the host DNS queries. They will be transmitted to the DNS server that is configured on the host computer.

  Generally a server should not have multiple default gateways. For the host, it is the default gateway configured on the physical map (otherwise communication would be locked to himself). This is why the army should not have a default gateway on VMnet1 and VMnet8.

  NAT (VMnet8) allows you to communicate with the outside, the guest need default gateway to know where to send the packages which are not intended for the LAN VMnet8 (DNS queries for example). He uses this special IP

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• How to install VMplayer 3 network for virtual machines to comminicate with each other?

  People,

  Hello. I use VMPlayer 3.

  SE host: Windows 7
  Comments to: Windows XP and Oracle Linux 5

  I need to set up the network and activate Windows XP communicate with Oracle Linux 5.

  I followed this tutorial http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_devices_serial_2vms.html to configure 2 virtual machines in Windows 7 host machine.

  I tried to test 2 virtual machines in the way as below:

  In Linux, [user@localhost ~] $ping WindowsXP_HostName
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  At the Windows XP command prompt:
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  Its release: ping localhost 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data...
  Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes = 32 time = 2ms TTL = 128

  
  He meets a few times and then disconnected by itself. It seems that Windows XP is ping itself and not Linux server. The host name of the Linux server is 'localhost' as well. It is a kind of confusion for me.

  
  From the information above, we can see that 2 VMs cannot connect between them.

  Can any folk provides a tutorial or example or case study to set VMPlayer 3 allowing 2 virtual machines communicate with each other by step?

  Very grateful in advance.

  In the guest machine, all I see is click on VMplayer-> VM-> settings-> network-> Network adapter Connection-> select Bridged: directly connected to the physical network. After that, nothing to keep.

  That's it for the network card in Virtual Machine of its parameters, and the rest is done to each guest at the guest OS level.

  In Windows 7 host machine, I don't see anything first.

  What we need to do is to assign 3 IP addresses to 3 machines: Win 7, Win XP Guest and Linux host.

  Why the world can't bring you up Google in a browser and type, the ip static windows xp, then static ip rhea of windows 7 and finally static ip.  As I have already said there are more then enough tutorials on the Internet about how to configure a static IP address by a given operating system then I suggest you Google it!  It makes absolutely no sense to write the instructions step by step for you when there are already dozens of tutorials available on the internet.

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  Fairly new to the world of the VM and was directed to VMWare for possibly a problem for us.

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  VHDs are used by VirtualBox and VirtualPC
  VMware uses the vmdk files

  You start converter on the Win2000 and tell him to "convert THIS machine.
  It then creates a vmx file plus a vmdk file.

  On the Win7 host you install VMplayer or workstation, and then simply double-click the vmx file... If everything works as expected

• Question on networks of Virtual Machine

  I have a host machine running Windows 7. I installed VMware player and I create a virtual computer running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (almost identical to the version 5.5 of Red Hat). In the end I will be installing an application on the virtual machine that is not compatible with DHCP. So, when I install OEL 5.5 I need to manually provide information from network devices (IP address, primary DNS, subnet mask and host name). I've done it before on successfully on a material physical but never before on a virtual machine. On my first attempt I was wrong and my web browser running on the virtual machine can connect to the Internet.

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  • "Host-Only' (VMnet1) - limited to the host and the virtual machines network
  • "NAT" (VMnet8) - network address translation

  VMnet1 and VMnet8 virtual cards that allow the host to communicate with the virtual machines and vice versa.

  Depending on if your virtual machine should be accessible from other systems, you can consider using (in - and outgoing) Bridged or NAT (outgoing mail). With Bridged networking, addresses are usually provided by your router/DHCP server. For NAT, the address of the gateway/DNS is 192.168.x.2. Since the VMware Server DHCP internal for NAT and Host-Only uses 192.168.x.128... 254 for dynamic addressing, you want to select a static address in the 192.168.x.3... range 127.

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  André.

• Virtual machine lost the connection of network after the server crash

  Hello

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  I wanted to remove the network adapters on multiple virtual machines, so I thought that he would do a simple script:

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  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.key = 4000
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  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.deviceInfo.label = "Network adapter 1"
  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.deviceInfo.summary = "dummy"
  
  $_this = Get-View -Id 'VirtualMachine-vm-646'
  $_this.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
  

  Run this doesn't give any errors, but are still all NICs.

  Is there a way to easy or better for this script?

  You must create an entry in the DeviceChange property by the device you wish to reconfigure.

  Try something like this

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  $NICs = 1..6 | %{"Network Adapter $_"}$i = 0
  
  foreach($VM in $VMs){  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec  $Adapters = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $VM|?{$_.NetworkName -like "dummy"}  foreach($Adapter in $Adapters){    if($NICs -contains $Adapter){      $devSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec      $devSpec.operation = "remove"      $devSpec.device += $Adapter.ExtensionData      $spec.deviceChange += $devSpec    }  }  $VM.ExtensionData.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)}