I have one esx 6 host, and I just added a new SSD datastore, how can I move a VM to this new datastore without powering it off?

could you tell me any good blog for Netback software. Any good articles and tips about Netback.

My VCP in 6.0 expires January 31, 2019.  I can take the VMware 2V0-622D exam.  I am waiting for an answer from VMware, I spoke to two different people and received 3 different answers.  What I was trying to find out is, if I were to take the exam for 6.5 and pass it by end of Sept.  Does my new certification in 6.5 pick up Feb 1, 2019 or or do I lose 4 months time because I would get it dated in Sept 2018?  No one seems to know for sure!  Or is it that I still end up keeping the 6.0 cert but it is considered archived for a while?

I am waiting for a call back from VM Ware but something tells me, it won't happen until next week and I can use the study time over the weekend
Thanks guys!!

Hi All,

How can we migrate rdm mapped vm from one cluster to another.

Hello Everyone and as always thank you in advance for your time and insights.
We are about to integrate two new 2016 domain controllers to eventually replace our current two 2008R2 domain controllers with the intention of also leveraging them to raise our current Forest and Domain Function Level from 2008R2 to 2016. We have around 30 MEMBER servers running a mix of
2003 (3 of them on physical servers that are being decommissioned)
and the rest are all 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2 of which about 1/2 are virtual machines hosted on a 3 host ESX VMware 6.0 infrastructure.
I had not come across or read about any issues for only member servers (physical or virtual) when it comes to raising the FFL or DFL to 2016, but then I saw this article (see below) and now I am a bit confused and need to make sure that I am interpreting that correctly. I am assuming they are referring to Domain Controllers running 2016 O/S and 2016 AD (FFL/DFL) being incompatible with VMware hosts of all versions at this point and not merely member servers with 2008R2 or 2012R (running on VMware 6.0) having an issue with functioning with a 2016 AD FFL/DFL because the member servers are virtual and are hosted through a VMware ESX 6.0 environment or am I reading that wrong?
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2071592

I am pretty new to VMware ESXi and was testing it on an SSD drive for a week or two.
That was easy enough. Had no issues and actually found it pretty easy to setup.

I had only 2 VMs...
- a trial of Windows Server 2016 Essentials
- an install of Ubuntu Linux v18.04LTS

I decided I would try to see what the performance was like on a conventional HDD so I imaged the SSD to HDD and was surprised that I had issues with the HDD after reinstalling. VMware would boot but it had problems with the VMs. It seems that the datastore does not show up (there is no storage) but I do not know why - or how to get it "back". The disc partition shows exactly as it should and everything appears to be intact.

If I try to browse for datastores I get an "unexpected" error and the VMware browser session must restart.
If I try to create a datastore (I read somewhere that there would be an option to create or retain existing data) I cannot selection the partition (only free space).
See images - hopefully they help.

How can I get the image to be functional with the original datastore?

Thx!
2018-0920-2228.24-ss--No-Storage.jpg
2018-0920-2227.22-ss--Browse-DataSto.jpg
2018-0920-2224.05-ss--vmware-imaged-.jpg

Need help creating VMware script to simply run the command below and email the output.  This will be setup as a cron job to run daily.   Any assistance is appreciated.

VCSA:~ # df -h
Filesystem                            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3                              11G  6.4G  3.8G  63% /
udev                                   12G  164K   12G   1% /dev
tmpfs                                  12G   40K   12G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1                             128M   38M   84M  31% /boot
/dev/mapper/core_vg-core               50G   13G   34G  28% /storage/core
/dev/mapper/log_vg-log                 25G  8.2G   16G  35% /storage/log
/dev/mapper/db_vg-db                   25G  977M   23G   5% /storage/db
/dev/mapper/dblog_vg-dblog            9.9G  712M  8.7G   8% /storage/dblog
/dev/mapper/seat_vg-seat               50G  5.4G   42G  12% /storage/seat
/dev/mapper/netdump_vg-netdump        9.9G  151M  9.2G   2% /storage/netdump
/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy   25G  173M   24G   1% /storage/autodeploy
/dev/mapper/invsvc_vg-invsvc           25G  981M   23G   5% /storage/invsvc

If we connect two new cross connects directly from vSAN to the md3660i would that help speed up moving the VMS off the vSAN datastore. Also if we were to do that can we have them use the same address space that every other device is using so we can keep it simple and have them same on the vlan. Can someone please advise?

How can i search for vmx files on all datastores in vsphere 5.5. I accidently removed a VM from inventory and have searched through all the datastores so I can add back into the inventory, but cannot find any matching vmx files. The server name may have been renamed after it was created so the vmx file may be under a different name. Is there a way for my to search for vmx files on all the datastores. I will try to add them in one at a time and see if I can get the server I want.

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

Great day experts,
I hope all is doing well. I was wondering does anyone know of any virtualization labs books or software that would give you a step by step (or close to it) that I can purchase? As an example, I have purchased "Lab Manual - Enterprise Network Solution Volume II: Setup An Enterprise Network From Scratch - Step By Step Guide For Dummy".
https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Manual-Enterprise-Network-Solution/dp/1519624182/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1VWJV5XWAECPDPD1N9KA

VMware, Citrix

New Task coming up.

Using vSphere 6.7 (two ESXi Server and VCSA)

I need to set up Micro-segmentation (Distributed Firewall) using NSX.
Test with various firewall settings

What are the steps to get Micro-segmentation working,
Is NSX Manager the first item to be installed ?

Dear Wizards, I setup the ubuntu 16.04 server in vSphere 6.5 with 250 GB hard disk, but days later I increased it to 500 GB, but seems like the VM still had only 250 GB.

How can I claim it back correctly? Many thanks!

regarding the type of vlan trunk mode. what are your benefits on a virtualized platform?