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Is it necessary to rescanhba when creating nfs datstore?

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I call createNasDatastore  method to create nas datastore. I read the doc of createVmfsDatastore, but i do not know is it necessary to call rescanHba method. If  it is necessary, i should do it before the createNasDatastore  or after createNasDatastore  method?

 

Is there anybody who knows? I will thanks very much.


Re: VMWare Workstation making FreeBSD 10 to hang on AMD CPUs/APUs

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Please enable "full debugging" in the VM settings, and then upload the vmware.log file (as an attachment) after the hang.

Re: ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor Web Console

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I think I'm confused because this KB seemed to address the main thrust which was that the free version could be used to put the vm into a state in which the thick client could no longer be used to manage the vm (i.e. upgrading the vm to version 10 hardware). This seems to have returned to users of the free version the ability to run and manage their vms with the thick client at the same level they could with lower hardware versions. Apologies if I missed something.

Re: Custom workflow hanging - please help troubleshoot!

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Just curious - had you reviewed the "Get virtual machines by name" Library workflow before writing this? It may be a bit more efficient - have a look... As quick reference, here is the scriptable task code from it Input: "criteria" (string)

Output: "vms" (Array/VC:VirtualMachine)

var sdkConnections = VcPlugin.allSdkConnections;
vms = new Array();
for (var i in sdkConnections) {    var host = sdkConnections[i];    var found;    if (host.isInventoryServiceAvailable()) {        found = host.getAllVirtualMachines(null, "matches(name, '" + criteria + "')");    } else {        found = host.getAllVirtualMachines(null, "xpath:matches(name, '" + criteria + "')");    }    for (var j in found) {        vms.push(found[j]);    }
}

Note the use of the filters when calling the getAllVirtualMachines method If you only have a dozen or so VMs in your vCenter, I'm sure your code will be fine, but the library workflow noted above would certainly be more efficient.

Re: VMWare Workstation processor configuration

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>>> ... how much RAM and CPU should i specify to virtual machine (Mac OS X 10.10 or 10.9).

Sorry, but I can't help you with this as running MAC OS as a virtual machine is only supported (allowed by Apple's EULA) on Apple branded hardware, e.g. a MAC with VMware Fusion running on it.

 

André

Re: vCloud Director - Edge Gateways/Sub-Allocate IP Pools

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It's been a while since I've done stuff with vCD via vCO, but have you looked at this old package I had uploaded to the Documents tab of this community?

vCloud Director Load Balancer Workflows.

I don't know if that has what you're looking for, but it may get you close.

Re: Fusion 7 is running VERY SLOW on the GM of Yosemite

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Thank you for the early investigation results.

The workaround "Putting the Mac to sleep" has worked out for me as well. (That saved my day, THANK YOU wickedstealthy!)

Yesterday I fixed the performance issue with a verify disk run on my hdd with disk utility. Today this task doesn't work out.

 

KR

Marcus

 

My config:

Yosemite and VMWARE Fusion

  Model Identifier: iMac12,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 3,4 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 4

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 8 MB

  Memory: 16 GB

Re: ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor Web Console

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The article specifically talks about a failure with the VCenter VSphere management console.  The console that comes with ESXi is still effectively useless with 5.5 unless you go through contortions just to have a working VM that you can manage.

 

VMWare has effectively made their "free" ESXi practically unusable to anyone who isn't a paying customer.


Re: Import unmanaged vCenter vm's programmatically.

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That updated workflow package will fix (I think) the piece of the import workflow which is breaking.  It looks like the step that is breaking is due to the previous step returning a null value for the vCenter vm.  That updated packaged should resolve that issue.

 

Make sure when you import the package that you force all items to import.  By default I believe most of the items are not going to be checked.

Supported Firmware/BIOS Stack for Dell Hardware Running ESXi 5.5?

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Hi,

 

Anyone know if there's published guides on supported Firmware/BIOS stacks for Dell Hardware running ESXi 5.5? (e.g. M620.)  I know HP does this with their solution recipe guides that tie together ESXi builds/drivers with SPP firmware sets to create supported configurations, but I've yet to find anything from Dell.  Any links/guidance on this would be outstanding!  Thanks in advance!

Re: Newbie looking to setup home virtual lab to do Windows Server 2012 R2 Labs for school

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>>> Client computers will need to point their Nics dns settings to the servers IP

This might be the key point. Did you do this on the systems you want to join to the domain? In the link I provided before, you can find a sample configuration which may help.

 

André

Re: How to migrate management (vmk0) to a new IP+subnet with host on a vDS

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Have you tried by disabling the rollback feature?

Re: EDU-ICM-1400 - Buying the full version

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Hello Doug,

My main goal is to practice what I have learned from the course as well as to prepare for vcp5 - dcv.

Thank you,

Yaron

Re: what is VMkermal mean?

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VMkernel is a POSIX-like operating system developed by VMware and provides certain functionality similar to that found in other operating systems, such as process creation and control, signals, file system, and process threads. It is designed specifically to support running multiple virtual machines and

provides such core functionality as:

• Resource scheduling

• I/O stacks

• Device drivers

Re: vCloud Director - Edge Gateways/Sub-Allocate IP Pools

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Thanks but yes I have already looked at it and it does not have what I'm looking for.


Re: Teaming policy and "Failback"

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Hello,

 

This may be more historical than anything and then again architectural. Consider the case where you are sharing two networks on a pair of pNICs. For arguments sake we can call the first network the management network (where access to this network implies you can own the systems easily) and another network, say a DMZ. Now we have them setup as follows:

 

Outside (VLAN 200) <-> pNIC1 <-> vSwitch0 <-> pgDMZ (VLAN 200) <-> DMZ VMs

Inside (VLAN 100) <-> pNIC0 <-> vSwitch0 <-> pgMgmt (VLAN 100) <-> Mgmt VMs

 

On failure of pNIC1, traffic for DMZ would route through pNIC0 as the uplink would include VLAN 100 and 200. If we did not failback to pNIC1 when it came back online then we would run into a fairly major security issue from Availability concerns as a DMZ is a Noisy neighbor during a DoS attack, which could prevent management actions such as starting a vMotion, etc. In a degraded mode things like this are possible and hence why failback is enabled by default. If you are not using VLANs then traffic could co-mingle and you would have some other serious security issues around confidentiality and integrity of your actual hosts.

 

Granted, ideally you would never mix these two VLANs on the same vSwitch but if you use 10G links your port costs are much higher than 1G links and therefore you may only have a pair of 10G links to use.

 

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011,2012,2013,2014

Author of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. 'VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.

Virtualization and Cloud Security Analyst: The Virtualization Practice, LLC -- vSphere Upgrade Saga -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Re: Limitations of ESXi 5.5/vSphere networking question

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Hello,

 

You may have more networks than the 3 you mentioned that need to be considered:

 

* Management

* vMotion

* Fault Tolerance (not available for free)

* Storage

* Production VMs

 

In this case I would not comingle any of these networks as they each represent different security trust zones. But if you had to, and are using VLANs, then Mgmt and Storage, vMotion and FT, and Production as its own. If not using VLANs then you should use different pNICS and pSwitches per each network.

 

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011,2012,2013,2014

Author of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. 'VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.

Virtualization and Cloud Security Analyst: The Virtualization Practice, LLC -- vSphere Upgrade Saga -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Re: Health Check the Physical Network

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Hello,

 

Could you explain what you are trying to accomplish? Would this be related to the proper port settings for ESXi, VLAN trunking, etc? Health check means so many different things a bit of clarification is necessary.

 

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011,2012,2013,2014

Author of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. 'VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.

Virtualization and Cloud Security Analyst: The Virtualization Practice, LLC -- vSphere Upgrade Saga -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Re: guest script manager package - Powershell error

Re: Fusion 7 is running VERY SLOW on the GM of Yosemite

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On point 6)

It seems very repeatable on my iMac. I removed the debug and checked what happend with the interrupt rate.

Before putting the iMac to sleep when starting the VM it is in the same magnitude as you mentioned. As soon as I put it to sleep and wake it up. The interrupt rate on CPU0 drops to a normal level.

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