powering down a VM is not storage vMotion. If you can take the dowtime, that is the easisest way. When the guest is powered off, choose migrate, you can then "change both host and datastore"
Re: virtual machine datastore move
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Re: Raid necessary for ESXi 5.0?
Thanks all for your answers!
I think I got what I need and will close this discussion.
And sorry for my vague questions.
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Re: Vmware View use of USB for a Document Camera
Thanks jskaife but the client was a full windows 7 using the VMware View Client verso I don't think that pertains but thanks. I did test with version 5.0 and 4.6 of the VMware View Client with simular results.
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Failed to prepare the disk mounted for shrinking
The goal for today was to remove any and all unwanted and unnecessary applications and files on a virtual machine running on my Windows 7 PC with the intention of reclaiming the unused space.
The virtual machine is running with VMware Server.
Disk space is not preallocated for the virtual disk.
I downloaded the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit to have access to vmware-mount.exe and vmware-vdiskmanager.exe utilities required as defined in the Virtual Disk Manager User Guide - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=virtual%20disk%20manager%20user%20guide&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fpdf%2FVirtualDiskManager.pdf&ei=hdBoT7EWj7_RAd-JuawJ&usg=AFQjCNE3yYYbyJRxVJdObxwNiwTh1lyvow
I was able to mount the VMDK file but to prepare the drive for shrinking I ran 'vmware-vdiskmanager -p M:' and I received the following error:
Failed to prepare the disk mounted M: for shrinking
Google returned the following vmware discussion:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/34605#34605
This thread was unable to help me.
I had been running all the commands thus far within powershell so I decided to give it one more try within a Windows command prompt. I really didn't expect anything different but I get stubborn sometimes.
Within the command prompt I was still able to mount the VMDK file, and I still received the error 'Failed to prepare the disk mounted M: for shrinking' when I ran the command 'vmware-vdiskmanager -p M:'
This time I decided to give the shrink a try, so held my breath and gave it a chance.
Here's the error I received when I tried to run 'vmware-vdiskmanager -k M:'
'Failed to open the disk 'M:' : You do not have access rights to this file
'Failed to shrink the disk 'M:' You do not have access rights to this file
Ah-ha! Since I log into my VMware server as a non-administrator, I quickly saw the error of my ways. "Runas /user:administrator cmd" took care of that annoying problem.
This was definately a doh! moment. I decided to post my experience in case anyone else has the same problem.
I suppose it goes without saying but you need to be a local administrator when managing the virtual disks in VMware Server.
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Re: How to Start/Stop/Restart Tools in CentOS
Thanks nirvy, that did it!
Can I simply stick services.sh in /etc/rc.d/init.d and use chkconfig/ntsysv to configure its startup/shutdown?
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Re: Increasing the cloning performance
can't you connect the host to both storage systems and perform a migration?
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Re: How do you get HardDisk Size and Free Space including mountpoints
I'm afraid there is no FreeSpace property on the HardDisk object.
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Re: Movimentação entre datastores
Sim, eu to ligado que depende de vários fatores, era só pra ter uma base de quanto tempo levarei.
Valeu!
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Re: Current response time from VMware Certification
Here's a couple of quotes from my now colleagues in the Certification team at VMware:
"We delivered a record number of exams on February due to the upgrade deadline which has result in a record number of cases. We have as many people as possible dedicated to cases. Patience is requested on all sides. We are answering cases in the order in which they were received. We request that you NOT send multiple emails on the same topic as it creates additional cases, adding to the backlog. Those who tested by March 4th should see the transcript updated by month's end."
"Another thing that can help folks is that they can always call in, and many times depending on the issue, calling in can result in a quicker response time. Of course, if they are trying to hurry along the certification process (welcome kits, etc.) and they were part of the recent upgrade surge, calling won't speed the process up, but it might give them a more positive experience to at least talk to someone and understand the situation. Here is the number: +1-866-377-4710."
So there you go folks!
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Re: Contact information for VCP Certification enquiries
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Re: virtual machine datastore move
Thanks. Did not realise move both host and datastore would work even though datastores are not shared between hosts on different clusters.
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Re: View 5 video showing actual performance?
So I've tried adding up to 4 cores, 4GB RAM, and 1GB RAM reserved...still stuttering/lag and overall unacceptable performance.
I haven't configured any GPO settings since those look like bandwidth tuning settings and I am on a LAN...in fact my PCoIP clients are connected to the same switch as my View eval hardware (and vCenter/vConnection).
May SAN is an EMC VNX 5100 with 15K drives. This View eval is the only thing running on the SAN. vCenter, vConnection, and a few View virtual desktops - that's it. It's starting to sound like Flash/SSDs are required to get great performance, but I have yet to see that in action since I can't find any videos of actual View performance. I probably won't have the budget to add SSDs to my SAN, so I'm about at the end of what I can configure and optimize.
Back to my original post question - where are the actual day-to-day Windows View usage videos? It's starting to seem...telling...that there aren't any out there. Maybe no one is getting great performance so no is posting?
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Re: Rendere una infrastruttura View su LAN privata. accessibile dalla rete pubblica, avendo un solo IP pubblico....
Nella prima schermata non vedo cosa c'è sull'1 rosso.
Ma, dalla seconda schermata, immagino che sia un datastore schiantato.
Bisogna vedere quale.
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Re: How to Start/Stop/Restart Tools in CentOS
Doh.
[root@asdf init.d]# chkconfig --add vmware
service vmware does not support chkconfig
[root@asdf init.d]#
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Re: Disable debug?
Realize that the whole POINT of a test/debug/beta application is to run in debug so that the developers can get feedback on what works and doesn't.
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Re: Raid necessary for ESXi 5.0?
I almost forgot to answer your question,
yes it has the BBWC and we just need to enable it.....
On our hp box there are two 72GB and six 450GB.
Hence we are planning to RAID 1+0 on 72GBs and split the 72GB into two logical drives (32GB with ESXi 5.0 + 40GB empty)
For the six 450GB we will RAID 1+0 also but we are going to leave it as physical drive (1.35TB).
Any feedbacks?
Thank you
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Training Lab - a different take - lots of individual questions
I know this question has been asked ad-nauseum in various ways I'm sure, but what I need more of a general answer to it.I can dig up white box specs on various web sites. That's not what I'm asking. My actual question will follow more of my background first to help this all make more sense. Please feel free to rip apart any of my assumptions below, I don't mind citiciscm if it's constructive!
What I want to set up is a real physical (as opposed to virtual) lab. Please no "You can run ESXi on Workstation 8" type responses, I've moved well beyond that... I know enough now to be dangerous lol!
What I've never seen is any kind of answer to setup relating to a bare minimum HIGH AVAILABILITY / FAULT TOLERANT hardware only lab (which can scale out) that is specifically for learning all the features vSpehere/ESXi 5 offers... vMotion being a big one. I want something where I can pull the plug on one box to test if I've developed something that can handle hardware failures. I also want to break out the storage and learn iSCSI on the (affordable) hardware level.
Right now, so you know where I'm coming from, I'm running the following for a lab:
1. 1 physical box that is a dedicated Windows 2008 R2 AD Server. A typical 4GB desktop generic box. This is always static so I can tear down the other elements of my lab and re-build immediately. IP: 192.168.1.5
2. 1 generic whitebox that is an all-in-one server and all parts are on the VMWare HCL:
- 32GB of Ram
- 2 - 8Core AMD processors
- Supermicro motherboard
- 2 TB of internal drives
- 4 Nic's (though I have issues if I use more than 2, not sure why? They constantly would start/stop under ESXi4.1)
- I set one NIC for the VM's another for management (though with this setup i guess that's pointless)
- I set this box to IP: 192.168.1.2 and joined it to the domain
This whitebox runs the following Virtual Servers:
- A second Win 2008 R2 AD Server IP: 192.168.1.6
- A Windows 2008 R2 vCenter Server IP: 192.168.1.7
- At any given time 2-10 various Windows 2008 R2 or linux Servers for learning other software
What I'd like to do is move away from the single monolythic ESXi box, and get rid of my external primary AD server for the lab. I've got money I can spend (to a point), so this is what I was thinking I need:
- 3 identical physical boxes that can each run ESXi 5 hypervisor. (Amount of VM's I want to run aside...) how many NIC's should each box have? I'm assuming 1 is the minimum, but there will be literally no actual traffic, so I don't need to team nics for traffic only purposes, or deal with "cable failure" issues in regards to HA or FT. But having dedicated NIC's for learning purposes to separate out the management network, vs the VM networks vs the VMotion network is something else, as it relates to configuration learning aspects.
- I'd also like to set up the entire domain in VM's so I'll need resources to handle the following (evenly spread out 3-4 VM's per box):
- 2 Win2008 R2 AD Servers that will replicate DNS and DHCP info
- 1 Win2008 R2 Server dedicated to vCenter
- 1 Win2008 R2 Web/SQL server
- 2-6 Additional Win/Linux servers
- Assume each VM server is setup expecting 2 cores and 4GB of ram
I know with minimal traffic and how vSphere can share resources I don't need full specs for the RAM/CPU, but I'd like the system to stay 100% live (albeit I know slow) if one box fails and the the VM's on that box having to migrate to the other 2 and strain resources. I hope this makes sense? So would each whitebox having 16GB of RAM and an Intel or AMD 4 core CPU be adequate? Or would a 4 core CPU not be enough to handle 4 concurrent VM's, let alone more and not bog down to unusable? What if 2 boxes failed? Could one of these boxes still manage all this (Yes, I know it would be dog slow, but could it?)
I'm also looking into something like a Buffalo Technology iSCSI NAS or a whitebox self built OpenFiler iSCSI NAS. I'd like it to be small but fast, as in 6-128GB SSD drives in a raid 5 setup maybe? How many NIC's? Just 2? 4?
I currently have a 16 port Gigabit unmanaged switch everything is running through. Should I replace this with a managed Cisco switch? more than 1? how many ports?
I know this is a ton to ask in one post, so I hope the general over-arcing question is apparent!
Thank you for any help and advice!
~Michael
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Re: Power cli for adding NTP server and starting ntp service on more than 150 ESX servers
Try something like this
Import-Csv '\esxhosts.csv' | %{ Connect-VIServer $_.Name Add-VmHostNtpServer -NtpServer "192.168.201.10" -VmHost $_.Name $ntp = Get-VmHostService -VMhost $_.Name | Where {$_.Key -eq 'ntpd'} Set-VMHostService -HostService $ntp -policy "automatic"
Restart-Vmhostservice $ntp -Confirm:$false
}
Your CSV file should look like this
Name
esx1
esx2
esx3
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Re: Administrator account used for QuickPrep does not have sufficient
It references QuickPrep so I would make sure the account I specified when I setup composer has those required permissions.
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Re: Help with Creating VM from External Hard Drive
looks ok to me
have a cooffee or watch a Startrek episode ;-)
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