Greetings,

We moved a cluster to a datacenter in another city and would like to rename the hosts in the cluster accordingly (the hosts are named by the city they're located in, so I need to change from OLDCITYvmhost01, 02, 03, 04 to NEWCITYvmhost01, 02, 03, 04). I believe the process to be:

Put the host into maintenance mode.
Disconnect the host from the vCenter server.
Connect to the host directly (I am using the stand-alone client).
Go to Configuration > DNS and Routing > Click Properties... then edit the name accordingly.
Click OK.
Go to vCenter web client.
Go to the cluster.
RIght-click cluster and choose Add Host.
Choose renamed host and configure through wizard.
Exit maintenance mode.

Will VMs migrate back to this host, now with a new name? I suspect they will in that the host is part of the cluster and the cluster is configured for HA and DRS. However, I wasn't sure if the VMs that were migrated off of the renamed host when it was put into maintenance mode would have some issue moving back.

Please let me know if there are other locations I need to update the host name, any caveats or errors I may encounter with the cluster, or if there is a reason besides personal preference to use the host's web client to do this.
 
Much appreciated.

VMWare Host complaining about a fault. Lost connection to NFS Server. Whats confusing to me, nothing has been lost- everything is up and working fine. the only thing I did a while back was add an additional host as a test then took it out of the farm. ive restarted everything too and still getting same error.

Not sure how to further troubleshoot this.

Hi,
I am re-building my Veeam serveur moving for 4.x to 9.5 and want to be sure and safe I'm doing the right thing,

A consultant put in place a few jobs but didn't seems that sure of the configs to put.
I want a full backup set out every friday and full on-site every nights (one to a NAS and one to a local USB drive)

My main job goes to a NAS.
As 20 restore points
"Configure secondary destinations for this job" is not check
It's a Incremental
"Enable application-aware processing" is checked
"Enable guest file indexing" is checked
runs daily

got a Weekly on F: drive
1 restore point
"Configure secondary destinations for this job" is not check
Incremental
"Active full backup - Create active full backups periodically on Thursday"
This job I remove every Fridays and bring home and I rotate it using 8 hd
"Enable application-aware processing" is checked
"Enable guest file indexing" is not checked
Runs everyday at 8pm

And got a BackupCopy job called "backup on external drive"
Target is E: removable HD
31 restore points
Runs continuous

1- Is all configs efficient?
2- And is there anyway on the job "backup on external drive" I could bitlocker that drive when it is not in use.
I activated bitlocker but coudn't create a batch job that would decrypt before backup and re-crypt afterwards.

tx!

I have 5 ESXI hosts. All EXI Hosts can see/have connections to 2 HP fibre Sans and a few ISCSI SANS.
Each ESXI has an add on HP 8GB FC to PCI Express HBA Card.

one of the ESXI host had the system board replaced. When ESXI came back up, it had no problems seeing the ISCSI SANS. But it was unable to see the 2 HP fibre SAN. Looking at the storage adapters, Vsphere client shows "VMHBA1 fibre Channel unknown" while "VMAHBA2 Fibre Channel online"

I have rescan for hardware changes. I see no options to re-attached/mount storage back. How do I get the VMHBA2 to reconnect to the HP SAN? All the other ESXI hosts can see it.

HI Exeprts

we upgraded our Vcenter to 6.7  9433894    on windows

and our ESXI servers to  VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 8169922


my question that i heard that Vmware will stop Vcenter on Windows . is this right and on which version

plus is really the appliance will be good enough to cover all we need . our vcenter on windows with MSSQL DB standard edition work very well

and what about the new appliance is really can cover third party plugins and vcenter linked mode  etc

plus they said in 6.7  they will have full HTML GUI and flash will go away in which version

also said for GPU sharing with new version we can make Vmotion  even if the VM on

kindaly advice

I have a physical HP DL 380 G7 server 80 GB of memory, 900 GB storage, 1 CPU (Processor cores per socket 4 and total logical processors 8, with hyperthreading enabled).

Every client (5 guest in total) are working via their own terminal server, connected via a remote desktop gateway and asa 5510 firewall on their own vlan. OS is WIN 2008 r2,VMWare version is V6, with latest HP servicepacks on it.

Memory total is 26 GB used

Harddiskspace used is 576 GB

I gave all the guests a total of (vsocket x cores per socket =) 14 VCPU. But as i can see i have only 8 VCPU available, so am I overprovisoning?

My clients are complaining about peformance and freezing of the Remote desktop they run on. I can also see it sometimes. The screen stops, my ping times are rising to 15-25 ms in 2 seconds and than it disappears again and they can work. (i did this from a terminal server from a client and pinged the firewall and the internet).

Is this because of the over-provisioning (14 VCPU in stead of 8 VCPU available ??) does anyone has a solution or has experience with this kind of slowness in VMWare?

I'm looking for some feedback or ideas on how to handle multiple HTTPS servers sharing same public IP behind a SonicWALL.

For example:

https://exchange.mydomain.com/owa = flows to Exchange server
https://application.mydomain.com/app = flows to application server

My client has an on-prem Exchange server.  I know from experience that you cannot just use a redirected port with Exchange because the server is constantly rewriting the URL (minus the modifications) making it inaccessible.  Exchange must use 443.

However, my client also wants to publish another site, on another IIS server on the same LAN as the Exchange server, behind the same Public IP, and is not keen on using a custom port.  The desire is to keep the URL as simple as possible for all the staff in the field.  This new IIS server will see a lot of traffic and is considered Mission Critical.

I know with the SonicWALL I could split the Internet connection, get a second Public IP from the ISP, therefore providing a second WAN interface.  That would solve the problem by presenting a second Public IP, but it would also have a negative effect on the available bandwidth for the first WAN connection.

There is absolutely no interest in moving Exchange to another port.  I'm not even sure that's entirely possible, but even if it is, Exchange is too well established where it is, and since it's already working I'd rather not tip over that apple cart regardless.

SonicWALL has a feature that I've seen called …

Wondering how to combine output from get-vm and get-adcomputer into the same CSV.

I am doing a project where I need to update VMWare Tools, but only dev domain joined Windows servers.

I am hoping to combine the outputs from get-vm and get-adcomputer into a master list, and matches records based on "Name".

For example:

$ADServers = Get-ADComputer -Filter {(OperatingSystem -like "*windows*server*") -and (Enabled -eq "True")}
$VMs = get-vm

CSV includes $VMs.Name, $ADServers.Name, $ADServers.DistinguishedName, $VMs.PowerState

$ADServers.Name and $VMs.Name should match in theory, however not all VMS will be joined to the domain so $ADServers.Name and  $ADServers.DistinguishedName may be empty on some records.

Is this possible?.

Cheers
String :-)

Greetings,

I am running several VMware 5.5 hosts on OEM servers, with each using a MegaRAID LSI 9260-4i SATA RAID controller card with accompanying battery backup unit.   Hosts are managed by a VCenter 5.5  virtual server.  Drive configurations on each host are SATA drives paired in RAID-1 configurations.  I recently got an alarm sounding on one of the servers that 1 of the SATA drives had failed.  I installed the Avago StorCLI utility, and using a  SHOW HEALTH command saw that the state of the virtual drive was degraded, and that the failed drive was on the LSI controller's connector P1.  I shut the system down, pulled out the failed SATA drive, and replaced it with a same-size SATA drive.  On startup the controller card began to beep again, as it was still detecting the degraded virtual drive.  I hit CTRL-H to enter the LSI controller's WEB BIOS and went to add the replacement drive to the degraded virtual drive.  Unfortunately, I could not remove the failed drive from the original RAID-1 Drive Group 0, as it still showed the failed drive in the original mirror setup, as a MISSING PD.  As such I could not add the replacement drive into the original Drive Group 0.  When I tried to add the replacement drive into the Logical Drive setups, the interface created a new Drive Group 1 and wanted to add the new drive to that.  Ultimately I had to declare the new drive as a Global Hot Spare, and I then saw the system start  to rebuild the Drive Group 0 using the new hot spare …

Need to make sure our Standard vSwitches and Port groups are doing what we want them to for Vmotion.

We have 4 nics on each ESXi host.

On each Host 2 are 10g interfaces and 2 are 1g interfaces

Here is the 1st problem, We have Vmotion and Management on the same Vlan/subnet.  I know this is wrong but it is what it is in this environment and that's how its been since before me.  

If we need to change it, then we will.

For Vmotion Portgroup we want the 1G interface to be on Standby and the 10G interface to be active

So we currently have the following:


This is vSwitch0



Management Port Group on vswitch0



This is vSwitch1



Vmotion Portgroup on vSwitch1

Now I noticed that on Vswitch0 we have the vnic teaming set to Vmnic2(10G) to Active and vmnic0(1G) to Standby.  But on Management Port Group we have an Override set to have Vnic2(10G) to Standby and Vnic0(1G) to Active.  So we are not using the 10G interface as active on management.  


On vSwitch1 and Vmotion portgroup, they are set the same.  So it looks as though Vmotion will use Vmnic3(10G) for vmotion right?  But we see the traffic on solarwinds and it caps at 1Gb so something is wrong.

I think we may just have to change the nic teaming on the Management Portgroup on vSwitch0 to have vmnic0(1G) as…

So I have no ability to boot from UEFI on a Proliant ML350 Gen8 which makes my 8 2tb drives useless in a raid 10... The 2tb limit comes into effect. I tried ESXI but could not get that to work either.. Any ideas?

Hi,

I am having an issue with VMWare workstation 15.0.2 (build-10952284)

What happens is when I run guests sometimes the host freezes for 45 minutes - cant use the mouse or anything.

However the host machine can be pinged - so at some level it is responding.

After this time it comes back to life as if nothing happend after about 45 minutes.

My host is running the latest version of Windows 10 Pro and it has 64 GB of Ram.

I have checked that I am running the latest Windows 10 upadtes. BTW the freeze only happens when I am
running VMWare with guests running. If VMWare is not running then I have no machine issues.

Any suggestions on how to resolve.

Thanks,

Ward

I create VMs to a esxi and i would like to use on of the VM is the Domain controller and join the other VMs the domain.
I add the roles of active directory,DHCP,DNS to the domain controller vm.


The problem is that when i tried to join the domain from other VM then i receive the error:
Note: This information is intended for a network administrator.  If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been recorded in the file C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt.

The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for domain "test.local":

The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period expired."
(error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.test.local

The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:

(no addresses found)
Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS servers is running.

Also the vswitch topology is presented to the attached.
What is the problem ?