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I installed vCenter 5.0 last week, but I've only added 1 machine with no hosts so far, should I install a new machine with 5.1, so that I don't have the headache of upgrading later?
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:45 |
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FISHMANPET posted:I installed vCenter 5.0 last week, but I've only added 1 machine with no hosts so far, should I install a new machine with 5.1, so that I don't have the headache of upgrading later? With VMotion and VUM updating really isn't a headache unless you are short on resources. I have to wait till vmware decides to list view as supported with vsphere 5.1 any how, my teacher said he was going to give it a month or two until they fix some of the kinks with it.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:50 |
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I was planning on leaving the actual server at 5.0, just install 5.1 for vCenter, since vMotion and VUM can't really take care of your vCenter server, and I don't want to deal with the stuff luminalflux did.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:52 |
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vCenter 5.1 can manage 5.0 hosts, if that's your question.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:56 |
Corvettefisher posted:Wait, what are you doing? Sorry I was under the impression this was just some box sitting around for labs and stuff. It's my home server, I use it for a variety of things, mostly just messing about to improve my VMware/linux knowledge - I decided to move all my files on there and at the same time experiment with using RDMs on local drives, seems to me that if ESX shits the bed then it is one less thing to worry about it if I can just chuck disks into any other windows machine to get the data.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:58 |
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FISHMANPET posted:I was planning on leaving the actual server at 5.0, just install 5.1 for vCenter, since vMotion and VUM can't really take care of your vCenter server, and I don't want to deal with the stuff luminalflux did. Ah vCenter. Honestly, I could probably live without vCenter for an hour for an upgrade later on, but seeing how you are deploying new that changes a few things. The question is which one have you tested with? I wouldn't put something into production unless I had first deployed a test run of it. 5.1 does have a lot of cool improvements but if it breaks your environment then what better is it? You have to keep in mind he was using Express as well not a separate DB server, which if I recall what you were doing correctly, you aren't going to want to use express. kyojin posted:It's my home server, I use it for a variety of things, mostly just messing about to improve my VMware/linux knowledge - I decided to move all my files on there and at the same time experiment with using RDMs on local drives, seems to me that if ESX shits the bed then it is one less thing to worry about it if I can just chuck disks into any other windows machine to get the data. Ah, okay that is one way to do it. To me it would be simpler to re-install esxi and migrate existing data stores, or install esxi to an 8gb flash drive, re-import the VM, and power on but which ever way works for you. Best of luck. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 26, 2012 |
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FISHMANPET posted:I was planning on leaving the actual server at 5.0, just install 5.1 for vCenter, since vMotion and VUM can't really take care of your vCenter server, and I don't want to deal with the stuff luminalflux did. Updating ESXi was smooth. Right now it's only VUM being a jerk, so it gets to sit in the corner for a few days until it can behave.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 15:10 |
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What are people doing for AV in a VDI setup? Is vShield Endpoint worth using, and if so, which partner solution has worked out?
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# ? Sep 27, 2012 16:02 |
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Mierdaan posted:What are people doing for AV in a VDI setup? Is vShield Endpoint worth using, and if so, which partner solution has worked out? Yeah trend micro Deep Security is good for VDI. http://www.trendmicro.com/us/enterprise/cloud-solutions/deep-security/index.html And vShield will be needed, but should come with any part of a vdi solution http://www.trendmicro.com/cloud-content/us/pdfs/business/sb_vmware-agentless-security.pdf Interested to hear what others use. Also: Are you using persistant disks of non persistant?
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# ? Sep 27, 2012 16:24 |
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Mierdaan posted:What are people doing for AV in a VDI setup? Is vShield Endpoint worth using, and if so, which partner solution has worked out? We're using Deep Security for our AV solution on our servers. It's buggy as gently caress and generally eats about an hour or two of my day getting everything green again. It does work though. Expect to spend a good deal of time working with trend micro support, which is pretty good.
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# ? Sep 27, 2012 16:45 |
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Corvettefisher posted:Also: Are you using persistant disks of non persistant? We're not using anything, so that's why I'm asking. We're starting a small test pilot soon and I didn't know if some of the partner AV solutions are worth it, since we'll be getting the vShield Endpoint licenses anyways.
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# ? Sep 27, 2012 16:47 |
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Mierdaan posted:We're not using anything, so that's why I'm asking. We're starting a small test pilot soon and I didn't know if some of the partner AV solutions are worth it, since we'll be getting the vShield Endpoint licenses anyways. Gotcha, the ones I know off the top of my head are SEP(Symantec), MCafee MOVE, and Trend. I think Sophos and Kaspersky have some as well but I am not sure.
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# ? Sep 27, 2012 16:57 |
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I need to copy my entire VM from a remote location and post it to another location and back it up. I have no clue how to do this I've never used vSphere or VMware and i'm tired of google-ing. Anyone have any ideas of how I can do this (if it's even possible) I'm using vSphere Client VMware ESXi, 4.1.0, 348481 Thanks
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 21:48 |
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gnarkillx3 posted:I need to copy my entire VM from a remote location and post it to another location and back it up. I have no clue how to do this I've never used vSphere or VMware and i'm tired of google-ing. Anyone have any ideas of how I can do this (if it's even possible) If you're in the vsphere client on the host summary tab, right click on the datastore , choose browse datastore, and locate the directory that contains your VM. Then right click on the directory and select download. Once you have the files you should be able to copy them wherever you want. This process will take a while and there are much better and faster ways to do this , but this is probably the least complicated way.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 21:58 |
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In the datastore browser, download the folder that contains the VM, as that should have everything you need, and then you've got the files and you can do whatever you want with them.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 21:58 |
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Even though everyone hates Veeam (I am slowly beginning to as our scope for it expands), download the free version of Veeam and use Veeam Zip. Easy peasey.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 22:14 |
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FISHMANPET posted:In the datastore browser, download the folder that contains the VM, as that should have everything you need, and then you've got the files and you can do whatever you want with them. Which one contains the VM? Is it a certain type of file? Also: When I try and download the file the connection to the server times out.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 22:42 |
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Moey posted:Even though everyone hates Veeam (I am slowly beginning to as our scope for it expands), download the free version of Veeam and use Veeam Zip. Easy peasey. Yeah, agreed, for this it should be a-ok.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 22:43 |
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gnarkillx3 posted:Which one contains the VM? Is it a certain type of file? .vmx is configuration info, .vmdk is a disk image.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 22:44 |
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Those are the two files you'd need at a minimum, but I'd just grab the whole thing to be safe. There can be multiple vmdks depending on if there are snapshots and how the disk was made. But if there's an RDM don't grab those files, that will be bad.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 23:15 |
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Thanks for all the help, I will let everyone know how it goes.
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# ? Sep 28, 2012 23:26 |
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gnarkillx3 posted:Thanks for all the help, I will let everyone know how it goes. Really just use Veeam zip. It will compress it and be alot faster.
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# ? Sep 29, 2012 04:54 |
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yeah if you grab it at the folder level you should be fine, just make sure your build numbers are at least the same or higher, otherwise you might hit some problems.
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# ? Sep 29, 2012 19:47 |
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Is anyone aware of a vscsiStats clone that runs on a bare-metal Windows or Linux host? I'm not aware of anything for either platform that provides as holistic a picture of disk workload characteristics as vscsiStats, but I'm curious about the information for our physical hosts.
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# ? Sep 29, 2012 22:13 |
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Misogynist posted:Is anyone aware of a vscsiStats clone that runs on a bare-metal Windows or Linux host? I'm not aware of anything for either platform that provides as holistic a picture of disk workload characteristics as vscsiStats, but I'm curious about the information for our physical hosts. Not that I am aware of... What exactly are you trying to gather? From the sound of it you are looking to something that reports what host is pulling what workload to storage. If you want I might be able to work with my teacher and up a custom script together for you.
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 03:38 |
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Corvettefisher posted:Not that I am aware of...
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 06:40 |
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I'll look that up for you tomorrow, top priority. I'll let you know what I find.
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 06:49 |
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Oh wow. After having some issues with SQL Server 2005 Express and vCenter 5.1 after upgrading (Apparently I was still running 2005 instead of the 2008 that was upgraded to...), I upgraded the database, which apparently borked since the schema was all wrong and no stored procs were loaded. Thinking "Nah I'll just nuke it and reinstall from scratch" (since that was what #vmware was basically saying), I did a fresh install of vCenter on a new database. Now I can't connect to my existing ESXi 5.1 hosts. Or rather, I can connect, they'll show up for about a minute, and then go back to being disconnected. Not sure what to look for in the logs (since they're chatty as gently caress), and what looks like the big culprit isn't giving me any good results in google (besides making sure that the ports are open and restarting the Mgmt agent on the hosts). Does quote:[10512 error 'vpxdvpxdVmomi' opID=01E5A73D-00000092-bd] [VpxdClientAdapter] Got vmacore exception: Server closed connection after 0 response bytes read; in vpxd.log ring a bell for anyone? Otherwise it looks like I'm going to spend monday with support to get my management up and running again (production hosts are running but I have no way of doing stuff with them)
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 14:32 |
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Try removing and reinstalling management and HA agents on the hosts. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003714#5
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 14:43 |
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Will do, I did the restarting thing but that didn't help. edit: Nope, same thing happened again luminalflux fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Sep 30, 2012 |
# ? Sep 30, 2012 15:12 |
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OK, try it again, but this time after running VMware-fdm-uninstall.sh, delete or rename /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg. Then try to reconnect.
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 17:31 |
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Something similar happened to me long ago, racking my brain trying to remember what ended up fixing it (the "host will connect for like 30 seconds then drop" thing). Verify that all your vSphere hosts and the vCenter have correct forward AND reverse DNS entries and that forward and reverse match up exactly. Also log into the hosts directly and make sure they aren't having issues connecting to their datastores. It was an older version so may not apply, but I'm pretty sure one of those 2 things was my issue.
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# ? Sep 30, 2012 17:35 |
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It seems that the for some reason HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware VirtualCenter\heartbeatPort was configured to port 922 instead of 902, and 922 wasn't open while 902 was. vpxd was pushing this down to the agents upon reconnect, while vCenter was listening on the default port. Naturally no heartbeats were getting through, which forced the disconnects. At least I hope, but it hasn't disconnected yet, let's let this run for a day or so. edit: I would have caught this a lot earlier, if I were looking at the correct file. Apparently on the host there's both /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg from an older ESXi version and /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg which is the running config... luminalflux fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Oct 1, 2012 |
# ? Oct 1, 2012 09:35 |
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luminalflux posted:It seems that the for some reason HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware VirtualCenter\heartbeatPort was configured to port 922 instead of 902, and 922 wasn't open while 902 was. vpxd was pushing this down to the agents upon reconnect, while vCenter was listening on the default port. Naturally no heartbeats were getting through, which forced the disconnects. How did that happen?
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 14:27 |
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I probably did a lot of stupid stuff while reinstalling when the database was in the wrong state, is my only guess.
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 15:33 |
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Is it just me or does SSO seem sort of buggy?
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# ? Oct 1, 2012 18:21 |
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Docjowles posted:.vmx is configuration info, .vmdk is a disk image. Okay so I have everything downloaded, Now I need to put that configuration to the virtual server at my office. How do I import it so it's a mirror virtual server of the remote server?
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:41 |
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I just managed to PSOD ESXi5.1. Apparently VCSA + ChromeOS + a Windows 2k8 domain controller = boom. VCSA has to be started first and then ChromeOS, it'll PSOD within a few seconds.
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:48 |
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gnarkillx3 posted:Okay so I have everything downloaded, Now I need to put that configuration to the virtual server at my office. How do I import it so it's a mirror virtual server of the remote server? Upload the files to the datastore if you have not done so already. Then browse the datastore, right click the .vmx file, and select "Add to Inventory." You will probably also need to edit the VM network settings as well as answer the UUID question when the VM is powered on at the new location.
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 20:11 |
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Corvettefisher posted:Is it just me or does SSO seem sort of buggy? Yeah it is, being dependent on it for all VC authentication to function is making me nervous. Especially since their HA option can't recover from losing contact with AD.
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# ? Oct 2, 2012 20:57 |