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Running vMotion on DATA Network

June 25, 2015, 2:14 pm
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Currently I have my ESXi hosts installed with 4 10GBit Fiber cards. I use 2 of them for my VM data traffic. And two of them for Vmotion traffic.

 

I want to run my VMotion network over the 2 VM data traffic cards now, so I can free up fiber ports. I checked my traffic coming from the ESXi hosts and I only do about 1 Gbit maybe 2 Gbit.

 

Still my co-worker who is senior to me tells me I cannot run VMotion over the 2 Fibers cards I use for my VM traffic(active-standby mode), that it will cause problems and eat up all my bandwidth when I do VMotions. I am not a networking person, it seems unreasonable to assume though that a VMotion could eat up so much bandwidth. He also stated it just would not work, but to me its just adding the appropriate VLAN to my 2 VM data nics, and moving the VMotion kernel port there.

 

Could someone explain why my idea is bad? I am simply trying to do a cost savings by freeing up valuable 10GBit ports.

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Re: How know if my Mac runs Win 10 pro in Fusion VM

June 25, 2015, 2:22 pm
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I'd wait until Fusion 8 is released (or Fusion 7 has Windows 10 support announced), that way you'll know if it's a Fusion problem or your hardware.  Then you can use the 30 day trial of that version to see if it works.

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Run multiple commands during apply guest customization

June 25, 2015, 2:27 pm
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Hi All,

We are working on process of automating VM cloning process. In order to achieve the end result we are using guest customization XML file, making some changes and applying the XML file on the cloned VM.

During customization we need to execute two commands which will start certain batch script.

Is it possible to add those two commands during customization or its not supported?

Please confirm.

Thanks and Regards

Riyas Hussain A

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Re: Upgrading to vCenter 5.5 in 2003 AD Domain

June 25, 2015, 2:27 pm
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Unfortunately I can't tell you whether VMware will continue to support an OS which is no longer supported by the vendor!? Anyway, I actually hope so, because most of my customers are just starting with the migration to a newer server OS (they have extended support for Windows 2003 from MS).

 

André

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Re: There is no recognition of the Hard Disk

June 25, 2015, 2:30 pm
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Re: Win8.1 Guest-Minimize,Maximize,Close Window Icons Corrupted?

June 25, 2015, 2:33 pm
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Hi,

 

Just for fun I searched Google for "Windows 8.1 close icons missing"

and found this hotfix:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2958267

 

I installed the hotfix and it seems to be working but I have not thoroughly tested it.

Just information to anyone else with above problem.

 

Thanks!

 

Jesse

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Re: VMWare Workstation 11.1.2 diskpart hangs VMWare and blocks launching apps

June 25, 2015, 2:35 pm
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Small update here.

 

I had been having issues with the C drive on the Windows7 VM and also shutting it down.  On checking the C drive it turns out it was IDE and hardware version 4.

 

In the end I wound up creating a brand new SATA 200gb C drive and cloning it with Trueimage home.  I then deleted the old drive, moved the new drive to my server and completely defragged the D drive and then copied it back.

 

Then I spent a whole day of elapsed time with 3 different defrag tools undoing the unholy mess that was the fragmented C drive.

 

After all of that, I had finally cleaned up my startup/shutdown issues.  I re ran the WEI assessment and saw a mild increase in graphics performance but no change in the disk or any other performance.  (assume the new tools).

 

Then I closed it all down, did my Windows8.1 updates till they were all gone including optional.

 

Restarted, opened workstation and got everything up and running till it was responsive with 2 VM's, one Windows10 and one Windows7 (cleaned up drive).

 

30 seconds after launching diskpart, hung workstation.

 

However.  As I was writing this, the workstation responded again twice and now diskpart has finally launched.

 

Whilst this is rather annoying (5 minutes of a blocked workstation and diskpart), it's somewhat less annoying than 15 - 20 minutes of a blocked workstation.  So it's clearly linked to the health of the disk partitions on the VM but this is entirely new compared to all previous versions.  The D drive was giving me average transfer write speeds of around 95mbytes/s when copying back from the server so I do not believe that the issue is linked to the health of the D drive.  Even though it's fairly new.

 

Any insight on this would be good.

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Re: Running vMotion on DATA Network

June 25, 2015, 2:42 pm
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vMotion can (and will) indeed max out the available bandwidth. Anyway, I'm running such a configuration (with vMotion in a separate VLAN though) using distributed switches with Network I/O control (default share values) enabled, which works without issues.

 

André

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Re: Script to get serial number of all hosts

June 25, 2015, 2:44 pm
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I'm sorry, can someone help me put this together, I'm not super spiffy with powercli:


"I was able to verify that you can get the correct serial number for the following on ESXi 4.1 and 5 using the Get-VMHostWSManInstance function with OMC_UnitaryComputerSystem and the otheridentifyinginfo field."


Something like maybe?:

$PhysicalPackage = Get-VMHostWSManInstance -VMHost $_ -class MC_UnitaryComputerSystem -ignoreCertFailures | Where-Object {$_.ElementName -eq "otheridentifyinginfo"}


Doesn't seem to work though...

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ROBO licensing - per site?

June 25, 2015, 3:00 pm
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I have a ROBO licensing questions. The packs are 25 VMs per site. What constitute a "site"? Is that a datacenter, cluster or folder object? I'm just trying to get straight on the terminology. I would like to see how many ROBO packs I can add to one vCenter.

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Activating Additional Guest 2012 Servers When 2 OEM Licenses Are in Use

June 25, 2015, 2:21 pm
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We have two Windows Server 2012 Standard (64 bit) servers running as guest OS on an HP Proliant server with VMware EXSi 5.5 as the hypervisor.  The license key for these virtual servers came as OEM with the hardware.

 

We would like to add more virtual 2012 servers to this box, but I am told that in order to activate more than two, we must acquire additional license keys from Microsoft, not from HP. 

 

Since the OEM license keys are passed from the BIOS, how would we enter volume or retail licenses once they are purchased?  There does not seem to be a way to change the license key in the 2012 server properties.

 

HP refers me to VMware licensing, VMware refers me to Microsoft, Microsoft does not seem to know.  I do not want to purchase additional licenses if there is no way to enter them.

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iSCSI port binding disabled in virtual adapter settings

June 25, 2015, 4:08 pm
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Hi

 

I am building a nested ESXi 6 cluster within ESXi 6. I have 6 NICs and bound one to a vDS. However, the option for iSCSi port binding is disabled:

 

Any idea why? The link is up for the port.

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Re: A Connection error occured. Verify that your computer can connect to the VCenter Server.

June 25, 2015, 4:10 pm
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The problem is that the article stated I should use the web client as it exposes more of the options in deploying the ova.

 

In addition, when deploying via vsphere client, it dosn't even ask me which host or which datastore to use - it's using a datastore which has not got enough space.

 

 

VMware force everyone to use the web client and yet it is still buggy, even in v6.

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ESXI Permissions in workstation 11.1.2

June 25, 2015, 4:21 pm
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Hi VMWare community, I'm hoping there is an expert out there who can help me connect to my ESXI guest VMs from workstation.

 

If it matters, my ESXI server is v5.5 and my laptop is running Workstation 11.

 

FYI, if I connect to ESXI using vsphere, I have no problem using the guest VMs.

 

I am also able to connect to ESXI using workstation 11.  I can see the list of guest VMs and can view each guest's console view.  However, I cannot manipulate (i.e., click or type) in any guest VM console when I connect to ESXI using workstation 11.  I wonder if this has something to do with permissions, but I am connected to the ESXI server as the root user so I should have all permissions.  I searched the forums and google but nothing came up so I am wondering if anyone else has seen this problem or can share trouble shooting tips.

 

Thanks for your thoughts and time!

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Re: VMRC limit privlège of resize

June 25, 2015, 4:27 pm
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I have not found a way to configure VMware Tools to stop this. Some remote clients respond to preference file tweaks but VMRC does not. This may be added in the future if there is demand for it.

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Re: Cannot use a virtual machine on a USB stick

June 25, 2015, 4:46 pm
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I've just run into the same problem albeit with a 64GB Kingston HyperX USB 3,0 flash drive. I get the same problem starting a VM on one of these sticks. It doesn't matter whether the VM was created on the drive directly or copied to it before starting it up.

 

What's interesting is that we purchased four of these drives and all of them exhibit the same problem. But I have one that was purchased several months ago that works just fine. The part number on the dongle is identical but the older flash drive works while the newer ones don't. I even copied a VM from the older stick to a newer one. When I start the VM up on the older flash drive it fires up just fine. When I do the same on the newer flash drive I get the same error per the original post.

 

I've tried using the USB 2 port on the Acer laptop that I was using with no difference. I've tried both flash drives on my Surface Pro 3 and again the older stick works while the newer ones fail. I've tried a full format on the stick - both NTFS and exFAT. no difference.

 

Have Kingston come out with a different firmware on the newer drives? Both the old (working) stick and the newer (broke) sticks were purchased online via Staples in Canada. The only subtle difference between the old and new sticks is the dongle has the country of origin in a slightly different place. The working one has "Taiwan" on a separate line below the "eyes" on the dongle while the new ones have "Taiwan" on the third line of the dongle.

 

I have VMware Player 7 on the Acer laptop and VMware Workstation 11 on my Surface Pro 3.

 

This is very frustrating.

 

Fred

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Linux guest cannot randomly connect to another linux guest?

June 25, 2015, 4:48 pm
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I'm running ESX 4.0.  I have two Linux guests. One 64bit, and one 32 bit.  The 64 bit guest is a web server which talks to the 32 bit SQL server.  Both work perfectly fine and there has never been a problem.

 

I recently duplicated the 64 bit guest, gave it a new hostname and IP address and have it connecting to the SQL server too.  But I get connection timeouts once in a while with it.  I can't debug why.  Its works fine for hours, but then two or three timeouts will happen where it simply can't connect to the SQL server.  Yet the SQL server is perfectly fine, even the first 64 bit guest is still using it without a problem.  This connection glitch only happens from the second/new 64bit linux guest. 

 

Anyone off the top of their head have a clue why this might happen?  The SQL guest is running MySQL, the 64 bit web server is running Apache 2.2.  Eveything else is perfectly fine.  I'm lost.

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Re: Wokstation 11.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 has a diplay configuration problem

June 25, 2015, 5:15 pm
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UPDATE.  Reconfiguring the host to use just one monitor didn't help - same error.

A Linux guest VM also can't be powered on because of the same problem.  Any ideas, anyone?  Is the VM Workstation for Linux that bad (previously I've used it only on a Windows host)?

 

TIA,

 

--Anatol

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Linked clones and DatastoreCluster

June 25, 2015, 5:21 pm
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Hi

I am trying to create new VMs based on a snapshot using the New-VM command.

My "base" image is stored on a dedicated datastore for "base" images, let's call it "template"

I have a Datastore Cluster of several "vms" datastores but it does not include "template".

When I run the command to create the linked clone from "source" and store it into the datastore Cluster :

New-VM -Name toto -vm source -linkedClone -ReferenceSnapshot (Get-Snapshot -vm source -Name Base) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster DataStore4VMs) -ResourcePool (Get-ResourcePool "POOL") -Location (Get-Folder Data)

I have the following error saying The Storage DRS requirements of this VirtualMachine cannot be satisfied. storagePlacement The datastore is not compatible with the virtual machine.

Whereas it works if I add "template" datastore into the Datastore Cluster and it also works if I set the VM Datastore instead of DataStoreCluster directly.

 

Is there any restrictions on the command ? Or has anyone been able to do that ?

Thanks all for your help

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Re: "VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal Override of CustomProxy...", for plugin in Web Client 6.0

June 25, 2015, 5:34 pm
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Thanks a lot Peter for your response.That really helped.

 

Yes, I was able to get rid of the VerifyError after following your suggestions of removing CustomBaseProxy and extending my view classes directly from base proxy.

 

Just one more clarification, my plugin is developed using SDK 5.1 and I am in process of making it work with vCenter 6.0.

You mentioned about these proxy related changes might break after the patch release. Could you please elaborate on that.

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