please see the blog of me to get an idea about the vmware workstation networking.
http://pibytes.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/vmware-workstation-networking-basics/
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Re: vmware workstation 9 bridged networking not working
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How does HA treat vApps
Does HA respect the boot order of VM's within vApps? I have heard yes and no so I thought I would check here hoping I could get a confirmation for one or the other.
Let's reference my question to 5.0 and 5.1 in case there is a different answer depending on the version.
Thank you all
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How to backup b4 moving from ESXi4.1 to vSphere essentials 5.1
Just bought vSphere essentials. But I have a VM running under ESXi 4.1 free that I cannot lose. How can I backup the old host installation with it's VM before upgrading the host to ESXi 5.1 and managing it with the new essentials kit? I assume I could install some portion of the new package to allow me to backup.
Also, VMware is not very clear about what gets installed where. I want to manage from an old dual core XP PC. I know VMClient will install there, but what else. There will be a windows server VM but I am no installing that until the rest is done. Looks like vCenter installs on the Win server, I see there may be another way to install it (as a non-windows virtual appliance). Is that correct?
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Need help on mounting 4TB USB External Storage device to ESXi 4.0.
Good day folks, I am currently running ESXi 4.0 and planning to upgrade to v5.1. Prior upgrading, I need to backup all my VM images to a 4TB USB external storage device hooked up to my VMWare host server directly.
I already created a single partition using these steps below.
- Run the command:
fdisk -u /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0 - Type p and press Enter to list partition information.
- Type d and press Enter to delete existing partition information.
- Type n and press Enter for new partition.
- Type p and press Enter for a primary partition.
- Type 1 and press Enter.
- For the First cylinder prompt, press Enter for the default.
- For last cylinder or +size, press Enter for the default.
- Type t and press Enter to change volume type.
- Type 1 and press Enter to select the first partition.
- Type fb and press Enter.
Note: fb is the hexadecimal code for VMFS volumes. - Type x and press Enter to enter Expert mode.
- Type b and press Enter to start the process of changing the starting block of the partition.
- Type 1 and press Enter to select the first partition.
- Type 128 and press Enter to set the starting block to 128.
- Type w and press Enter to save the changes and exit fdisk.
fdisk -lu /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0: 4000.7 GB, 4000752599040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60799 cylinders, total 976746240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0p1 128 4294967294 17179868668 fb VMFS
When I tried to use the vmkfstools command to format the new partition as a VMFS-3 datastore.
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 8m -S USBDatastore/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0p1
I got this error.
Device path name "/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0p1" is not a valid absolute or relative path
Failed to resolve device name path /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0p1
Usage: vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/vml... or,
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/naa... or,
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhbaA:T:L:P
Error: No such file or directory
I also tried
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 8m -S USBDatastore /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0:1
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 8m -S USBDatastore /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0:p1
Same error
Then I tried
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 8m -S USBDatastore /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0
got this error
Creating vmfs3 file system on "mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0" with blockSize 8388608 and volume label "USBDatastore".
/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0: Permission denied. (Have you set the partition type to 0xfb?)
Error: Permission denied
What did I do wrong? I know that there is a partition created under this name below. Why can't I format it?
/dev/disks/mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0p1 128 4294967294 17179868668 fb VMFS
~ # ls -alh /vmfs/devices/disks
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Apr 24 05:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Apr 24 05:20 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 3.6T Apr 24 05:20 mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0
~ # esxcfg-mpath -b
mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0 : Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L0)
vmhba34:C0:T0:L0 LUN:0 state:active Local HBA vmhba34 channel 0 target 0
mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L1 : Local USB Enclosure Svc Dev(mpx.vmhba34:C0:T0:L1)
vmhba34:C0:T0:L1 LUN:1 state:active Local HBA vmhba34 channel 0 target 0
mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 : Local HL-DT-ST CD-ROM (mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0)
vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 LUN:0 state:active Local HBA vmhba0 channel 0 target 0
Anyone please help.
Thanks.
York
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Linking issue
How to link 2 incedents? There is a linking option in call details but what to do after you click on linking? Can I link any service request or change request togather?
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Re: vApp networks must connect to Org network?
Also you need to power the vApp on for the Portgroup to be created.
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Re: How does HA treat vApps
Hi,
vApp is basically a resource pool. In order to configure HA restart priorities we need to use the Cluster settings.No matter what version of ESX/ESX we are running HA wont make use of vapp boot order
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Re: Moving 2008 R2 Standard Domain Controller to ESXI 5.1
this has been the general fear thats kept me doing the demotion and conversion. would you say that going into active directory restore mode and doing the vmware conversion while the domain controller is in that state would ensure a successful conversion?
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Re: VLan tagging issues
Could you post the configuration (show run) from the physical switch ports?
Is the VLAN 1955 something that you use on your physical network and have configured other physical switch ports as access mode in that VLAN?
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Re: vSphere HA not cover failures on vSwitch?
fernandoquinino wrote:
In this scenario of failure nothing happens because master host remains receiving heartbeats. So, my virtual machines using this vSwitch haven't any network connectivity and they still on in a host with network failure.
First, the actual vSwitches only exists in ESXi memory and should not be able to failure by themself. If you mean all incoming physical NICs fail into a vSwitch then the vSwitch will still "live", but only be able to communicate with other VMs on the same host and vSwitch.
If I understand your general question correct then you are right in that HA only detects host failures, in the sense that ESXi is either down (or lost access on the Management network and/or the storage network). However, there is nothing in HA that can detect if all paths to a vSwitch with only VMs have failed. So if the Management network is up, but all links to your VM vSwitch is down - then no HA action will take place.
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Re: Moving 2008 R2 Standard Domain Controller to ESXI 5.1
You would still have to be very careful to never let the original host ever have contact with the network, since that would break the converted DC as well. (In the case that it would need some quite difficult AD remove and clean up operations.)
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Re: Moving 2008 R2 Standard Domain Controller to ESXI 5.1
how would you do the domain controller conversion and what has worked the best in your experience? In regards to that last post you made I would make sure to unplug the network cable on the converted physical domain controller after the conversion is complete.
thanks for your advice
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Re: Moving 2008 R2 Standard Domain Controller to ESXI 5.1
I am personally more comfortable with doing a new dcpromo on a virtual machine and then demote the physical (after if needed moved FSMO roles and changed all DNS pointers from clients). However, depending on the environment the DNS part could take some work to identify all static pointers to the old IP.
If you first make sure all replication is in fact working (run repadmin /showrepl *) - paste the result here if you need help with verify - and then restart the VM into directory service restore mode (make sure you know the DSRM password!), do the conversion, make sure there are no physical network connectivity on the original machine - it should be safe for you to then start the converted VM. Be also sure to verify that the replication does work with the repadmin command above.
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Re: Scripting move of vApp from OVDC to another
Can you PM the VMware SR Number.
Our Team should have a way to do it.
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Re: high memory usage in windows os system
Thanks for your reply,
I have attached the files to show that the OS does not run any more program but in the task manager memory usage is very high.
Can you give me some information?
Thanks.
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Re: Moving 2008 R2 Standard Domain Controller to ESXI 5.1
"I am personally more comfortable with doing a new dcpromo on a virtual machine and then demote the physical (after if needed moved FSMO roles and changed all DNS pointers from clients). However, depending on the environment the DNS part could take some work to identify all static pointers to the old IP."
this is how I have been doing it, I just wanted to see if doing the active directory restore mode way is a reliable effective alternative to accomplish the conversion without USN rollback occuring?
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Queries on Production and UAT segregation
hi all,
sorry if i am asking a repeated question i have tried searching around in the forums but can't find what i am looking for.
need advise with the following:
I have 3 x ESXi servers
which is connected to 1 SAN.
my ESXi are segregated into 2 segment.
2 for Production
1 for UAT
1 phyiscal machine (standalone) - for vCentre on 192.168.9.x
all 3 ESXi are connected to 192.168.9.x but for the UAT the guest OS is supposed to talk to 192.168.11.x
is this achievable? If so, how?
oh and 1 more, VMKernel and Management should it be of different IP? Because when i gave my management port a different IP (192.168.10.x) it throws a warning citing vSphere HA agent on this host could not reach isolation address 192.168.10.x
thanks alot for any response given. 
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Re: 新規作成時の仮想マシンのバージョンについて
jmurataさん
固定とは違いますが、仮想マシン作成時に、ESX 4.1.0のホストを選択して新規仮想マシンを行えばバージョン７で作成されると思います。
上記手順で運用回避はいかがでしょうか。
Kisaragi
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Re: VMWorkstation 9 - ubunto merge split vdisk
Try this. Searched with Google in less than a minute. You CAN try this at home.
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Re: Backup - Consigli
Ad essere onesti anche BE può gestire il backup delle VM.
Però l'agente costa parecchio (esiste in due versioni, una licenziata per host e una per processore fisico) e non escludo che (se non hai la licenza dell'agente) ti costi meno Veeam (o qualche altro prodotto nativo per la virtualizzazione).
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