Re: Connect ESXi 4.1 Hosts with dvSwitches to vSphere 5.1 Server
I am assuming both environments see the same shared storage - I shut down the VM in the vSphere 4 environment and remove it from the vSphere 4 inventory - I would then add the VM to the vSphere 5...
View ArticleRe: Connect ESXi 4.1 Hosts with dvSwitches to vSphere 5.1 Server
Hi,Thanks for your response. Storage is shared between the two environments. I've thought about shutting down and removing from inventory but only as a last resort option. I'd like to migrate the VM's...
View ArticleRe: vLan setup on vDS
Have you added the VLAN to the trunk port on the physical switch? without that being set the physical switch will drop any packets it has received with that VLAN ID leaving the ESX host. Further the...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery
Hi, we have esxi 5.1 system and we want to make disaster recovery scenario . can we make esxi 5.1 to vcloud . i want to buy vcloud services from datacenter firm. how to make it thanks
View ArticleRe: Connect ESXi 4.1 Hosts with dvSwitches to vSphere 5.1 Server
If no downtime on the VM is important, configuring vSwitches would be a safe bet.
View ArticleHow can we know how many Virtual machine I can migrate simultaneously
Guys, I am quite interested in finding, how many VM's I can migrate simultaneously in my environment. Though it depends upon VMkernel Bandwidth and I have only 2 nics and that too shared between SC and...
View ArticleRe: How can we know how many Virtual machine I can migrate simultaneously
Hello, For Esxi 5.x the max is 8 and there is a limit placed by the VC , to add rightly pointed by you it does depend on your network load. Reference doc :VMware vSphere 5.1 Thanks,Avinash
View ArticleRe: Connect ESXi 4.1 Hosts with dvSwitches to vSphere 5.1 Server
Hi, Thanks. I think that is the route I'm going to go down - configuring dvSwitches on the 4.1 Hosts and then connecting to the 5.1 vCenter Server.
View ArticleRe: How can we know how many Virtual machine I can migrate simultaneously
I believe its 4 for 1GbE and 8 for 10GbE connections
View ArticleRe: How can we know how many Virtual machine I can migrate simultaneously
The network configuration also plays a role in vMotion success or failure. VMware augmented network monitoring and optimization options in vSphere 5.1Unlike in older versions, today's vMotion can use...
View ArticleRe: Disaster Recovery
You must try with SRM (Site Recovery manager) for DR scenario. As its broadly used for Disaster recovery even for cloud as well.
View ArticleRe: vpxd consuming all memory -- vCenter slooooooow and cannot connect
We had a similar issue, however I upped it to 10GB from 8GB, but the biggest factor by far was putting the database on a separate vdisk. I had installed it on a seperate D partition because it wasn't...
View ArticleManagement Network on different VLANs
I am looking for some good reading on if there is any gotchas for setting up your management network on two different VLANs. This is only for managemnet traffic, and not for vMotion traffic, or FT...
View ArticleMinimum required permissions for vMotion
hi guys Environment: Vmware 5.5 I need to set a user permissions for vmotioning VMs (one cluster 8 hosts). I found the minimum permissions for Storage vMotion but not for vMotion specifically which is...
View ArticleRe: How can we know how many Virtual machine I can migrate simultaneously
As mentioned before, the concurrent migrations are limited by the bandwidth. However, you don't have to take care of the limits manually. If you start more migrations than supported, vCenter Server...
View ArticleRe: Minimum required permissions for vMotion
AFAIK you should enableQuery vMotionMigrate powered off virtual machine(Previously known as Relocate)Migrate powered on virtual machineAt thr resource. That should be enough for vMotion. Try these...
View ArticleRe: Management Network on different VLANs
Can you give more details? Do you mean that one set of servers will have a VLAn for Management and another set of servers will have another vLAN for Management?If that is what you mean then it will...
View ArticleRe: Can we use vcac6.0 -Identity Appliance as sso broker for VC5.5 VA?
I have heard it works the other way round i.e you can use the SSo of VC 5.5 for vCAC. I doubt if you will be able to use IA for vCenter.
View ArticleRe: Minimum required permissions for vMotion
thanks a lot I just tested those and vMotion is working Resource.Query vMotionResource.Migrate powered off virtual machine(Previously known as Relocate)Resource.Migrate powered on virtual machine
View ArticleSpace required on vCenter Server for increased statistics level
I'm running vCenter Server and it's SQL database on separate VMs. I've sized my SQL database for statistics level 2. How big does the virtual hard disk on my vCenter Server need to be to support...
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