Just performed a P2V using Vmware Convert 5.0.1 to ESXi 5.1 this weekend, took a snapshot of the vm prior to booting, but now the vm auto reverts to the latest snapshot during boot. If you remove all snapshots, the vm boots normally. Any ideas?
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Performed P2V to ESXi 5.1, vm auto reverts to snapshot during boot
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Browse VA Marketplace Not Accessible from the vSphere Client
Browse VA. Marketplace Not Accessible from the vSphere Client. Getting the Message Page Not Found. But accessing it directly via web browser from www.vmware.com/appliances is working. Anyone any idea why now it is not accessible from the vSphere Client?
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interactive vmware tools upgrade or automatic tools upgrade
In some OS when we are installing vmware tools then they are asking about interactive vmware tools upgrade or automatic tools upgrade but in some it is not. Anyone who can tell me why is that?
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ESXi 5 welcome web page & vSwitches
Hello,
I have a question about the welcome web page on a ESXI 5.
I have two vSwitches on the ESXi:
vmnic0: vmk1: VMKernel 10.y.y.y
vmnic1: vmk0: Management Network 192.x.x.x
The welcome web page of the ESXi 5 is accessable from both networks.
I thought it is only accessable from the Management Network.
Is there an option the disable the access on the 10.y.y.y network or disable it completely
because I didn't need it at all, becaue I am using vSphere Client to connect and configure?
Thanks for the help.
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ESX 5.1 detected one half of my RAM
Dear Community,
I just built a new system to host multiple vm's: AMD FX 8320 (8 core), 32GB RAM with 2 1TB disks. The BIOS sees all 32GB of RAM. After installing ESX 5.1, it's reporting only 16GB of RAM. I added my license, but still only 16GB of RAM.
What do I need to do for ESX to recognize all of my memory?
Thank you.
Darin
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HP Smart Array P420i warning
Hi,
I got a brand new DL380p gen8 Server with 8 300GB SAS disks in 2 raid 5, and installed esxi from the branded image: VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-HP-5.34.23.iso on the first raid.
Everything seems to be working fine but I get a warning for the Smart Array P420i controller in the Hardware Health Status.
I checked ILO and everything is ok there. I have uploaded the machines Active Health System log to HP and they say everything is working properly.
Has anyone else had a similar Problem?
rgds,
franz
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ESXi 5.1 hosts unable to access iSCSI VMFS Luns
Hi, there,
a customer of our's, running three ESXi 5.1 hosts connecting to two HP storage systems via iSCSI, had some planned downtime this weekend.
Upon bringing back up storage and Servers, they found the had no access to the VMFS volumes.
The LUNs can bee seen via the devices tab all right - but they cannot be seen as datastores.If I connect manually, I am only asked to initialise the LUN.
One thing I noticed: In the vmkernel.log, I have lines stating that devices could not be mounted by any fs driver which sounds like a bad thing for me..
Any thoughts what could cause the trouble here? As far as I know no configuration changes have been made, the stuff has been running nicely for months. I am at a loss....
Thanks in advance
Dirk
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system logs on non-persistent storage
after a big morning upgrading one of our datacenters, I have only one problem left, not serious, but as I've been trying various things and not getting anywhere with it, I'm asking for help.
I upgraded 5 hosts in all to 5.1. Two hosts were esx4 and 3 were esxi5. All upgraded, but the two esx4 hosts are now saying that the sttem logs are stored on non-persistent storage. I'm sure this has to do with the changes from esx to esxi, but I have now configured the syslog parameter and the message, about non-persistent storeage erm.... persists.
I looked at my esxi5 to 5.1 upgraded hosts and their syslog points to [] /scratch so I configured my esx4 to 5.1 global syslog to the same. These hosts have local storage, I'm not doing any sort of flash drive booting or anything unusual, just standard boot. I have rebooted after changing the syslog location though I don't think it is necessary, just trying to cover all bases. I will probably install the syslogger on the vcenter and use remote logging for convenience of having all log files in the same place eventually, but I want to get rid of the little yellow triangle!
Thanks for any help at all.
Bill
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VMware HA comparison with other HA solution like HP Service Guard / IBM Power HA
Dear All,
I am new bee in VMware world. recently completed VCP-5. While stuyding I tried to compare VMware HA with other HA solution like HP has SG and IBM has HACMP also Redhat has own cluster suite. We can implement VMware HA/FT within my VM's. At the same time we can alos use othe HA solution. Why we will use other solution where as VMware has their own HA/FT? Yes, all vendors has their own special technology. Which is suitable incase of VMware solution? Should we go for other solution or we will choose VMware HA/FT?
Please advice. Thanks in advanced.
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Using pre-populated HDD in ESXi 5
Hi Guys,
New ESXi user here. Just a really quick question, if I have a SATA HDD with data already on it (which I want one of the VM's to be able to access (Win7x64Ent)), and throw it in the server and add it as a datastore, will ESXi format it?
If so, what is the easiest way to get my harddrive and all of the files mounted on the VM?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt
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SQL Server Best Practices
Hi,
I have several SQL Servers that I need to consolidate and upgrade to 2012. I can't find a Vmware ESXi 5.1 best practice guide for SQL Server 2012, can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm looking for information on sizing number of vCPUs, memory, etc
Thanks
Dan
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Free Backup / Cloning Solution with Scheduling for ESXi 5
Hello.
I’m fairly new to ESXi, so I pre-emptively apologize if this is a dumb question. I found only one similiar question on the forum with a single response.
I’m currently working with a small company that no IT staff and has a very simple VM setup / backup solution. They have a pair of physical file servers, each with VMware Server 1 installed. They have a single SBS 2003 VM that runs on the primary file server. Every night the virtual SBS Server shuts itself down and is copied to the backup file server. The copy is already registered on the second server – the files are just overwritten nightly. This way all they need to do if they have an issue on the primary physical server is log on to the backup server, start the VM and click the ‘I moved it’ dialog. This solution is simple enough for them to handle.
Their server hardware is getting replaced. They can choose either Windows Server 2008 or ESXi 5. I’d rather go with ESXi for them, but I need to be able to replicate their failover process so all they need to do is start the copy of their SBS server on the backup server if they have an issue with the primary server. I’m trying to find a free solution on ESXi that does this.
The solutions I’ve found so far:
Veeam Backup – the free version doesn’t support scheduling, and their download page says doesn’t the free version doesn’t support the free version of ESXi.
ghettoVCB - backs up to another datastore on the same host, not a different host. It can be scheduled, and it has experimental rsync support, but this also looks like it synchronizes with another local datastore.
ghettoClone – no longer works with the Free ESXi because of the read-only datastore changes?
Thinware vBackup – looks like the free version may support scheduled backups.
VMware Standalone Converter – has no scheduling features built in. The converter-cli seems to be able to take xml job files as an input, and may be an option.
Are any other community members using any of these tools to pre-emptively stand-up a backup copy of a VM (versus restoring at the time the VM is needed)?
Are there other/better solutions I’m missing here?
Could I simply log into the primary ESXi box and FTP/SCP the files to the secondary on a nightly basis?
Thank-you for any guidance you can provide!
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ESXi 5 backups
I am curious to see what people are using for backing up their ESXi servers. Our current ESXi setup has 15 vm's running on it and I want to start looking into backup solutions. I see that Acronis has "vmProtect 7" and "Backup and recovery 11 server" for windows but not sure how well they work and the diff is between the two. Is anyone currently using them and if not, what else is out there?
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backup VMs on local disks of ESXi 5 server...
I'm going to setup an ESXi 5 server just to host a few development boxes. They're not very important but I would still like to have a backup of them once a week. However, I was wondering if I can use the local disks to have the vmdk files on but then back them up somewhere else. Our other backup utility for the machines can use a CIFS/NFS mount, but in this case if the VMs were on the local disks that would not be possible.
Is there any way for me to get at those disks so I can make a backup of them if they are using the local disks as a datastore?
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Working out which vmnic is trunked as the ESXi Management ?
Can anyone advise if there is an easy way of working out which vmnic is the ESXi Management connection without having to get someone in a remote secure datacentre to physically disconnect the one labelled 'ESXi Management' so that I can see which one changes from enabled to dsiabled at that point?
I've just completed a remote build of ESXi 5.0 and I have 10 physical NIC connections on the server, all trunked on the Cisco swith for ESXi Management, VM Management, Public Data, Backup. When I try to assign a static ESXi management IP address to the one cable that is appropriately VLAN trunked on the physical switch, I'm left with 10 vmnics on the ESXi screen with no way of knowing (that I know of) which was is Management. I did try the first and second, but neither were the correct one (it ended up vmnic8). Eventually I had to raise all sorts of security forms for someone to go into the DC and pull the cable (as above).
I've a lot of servers to do and this could be a pain (unless the are all the same model of server. Any advice would be appreciated.
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How to run the VM of Workstation9 on ESXi5
Hi guys
I have installed RHEL5.6 in a VM on Workstation 9 & want to run that VM on ESXi5.
on workstation9 I tried to Export to OVF... & after that on ESXi5 i tried to Deploy OVF Templet... but it is giving me error:
so what sould i do to run that VM on ESXi5, or any other way to do this? any suggestion would be pleasure.
thanks
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putty connettion
what is that ? is there any problem ?
The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.
VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools. Please
see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details.
The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the
vSphere Security documentation for more information.
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External esata RAID enclosure
Hi,
I'm planning to build an ESXi 5.1 whitebox. I have a question regarding external esata RAID enclosures (for example http://www.ssi.com.tw/en/goods.php?act=view&no=34 ).
Will the ESXi se the external esata raid volume or just the individual disks?
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ESXi 5 Vsphere Windows Time Sync Problem
Hello community,
we have a time sync problem on one of our Windows 2008 R2 x64 guests which runs time critical tasks.
We have a Windows domain with two domain controllers, member server should sync the time from the domain, on all guests in Vmware Tools the option "Time synchronisation between virtual machine and host" is not marked.
In the Windows system protocoll on that certain machine we have a lot of these events:
Protokollname: System
Quelle: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General
Datum: 10.03.2013 01:15:12
Ereignis-ID: 1
Aufgabenkategorie:Keine
Ebene: Informationen
Schlüsselwörter:Zeit
Benutzer: SYSTEM
Computer: schnullerbacke-01.luluby.private
Beschreibung:
Die Systemzeit wurde von 2013-03-10T00:13:47.180157400Z auf 2013-03-10T00:15:12.489000000Z geändert.
Ereignis-XML:
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General" Guid="{A68CA8B7-004F-D7B6-A698-07E2DE0F1F5D}" />
<EventID>1</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000010</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-03-10T00:15:12.489000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>35255</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="1336" ThreadID="1500" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>schnullerbacke-01.luluby.private</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="NewTime">2013-03-10T00:15:12.489000000Z</Data>
<Data Name="OldTime">2013-03-10T00:13:47.180157400Z</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
As you can see in the example, time differs from time to time round about 2 mins and that is too much for the time critival task we're running on this machine.
Any suggestions what we can do to avoid this?
Thanks in advance, Tom
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Time between SPO and move the VM Process
Hello, I have a question:
How long is the time between Single Point of Failure and changing the VM Process to another Cluster Member in a Fault Tolerant environment.
Hardware and Software Szenario: Two Server with ESXi5 a vCenter Server and redundant Storage-System and the vLockstep Technologie. One Virtual Machine to move from one Server to another without loosing Data. The VM lies on the Global Storage System.
Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Germany
Michael Burkhardt
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