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Importing VMDK file created on ESX2.5 to ESX3i

myemmi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:05 GMT

Hi Everyone,

First time in this community. I was just wondering if anyone tried or knows if we can import VMDK files created using ESX2.5 enterprise version into ESX3i (free version)?

Thanks You very much.

Mourad

Converter error

kanoute696 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:42:28 GMT

Hi Kelly,

I've put this on a different thread but said I would ask you as you have been of such help in the past

Converter errors

Im running vmware converter standalone, ran on a W2k3 server (importing an online physical server,i.e itself ) . I am trying to P2V itself and send it to out to our ESX3.5 server\datastore (destination)

sorry I cant explain it any better than this.

Hi All, I'm getting this error

Unknown error returned by Vmware convertor Agent

and in the logs its saying

2009-10-29 15:18:11.119 'ClientConnection' 5028 info Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-converter-4.0.2

2009-10-29 15:18:11.135 'ClientConnection' 5028 info UFAD interface version is vmware-converter-4.0.2

2009-10-29 15:18:11.150 'P2V' 5028 info task,277 Task execution completed

2009-10-29 15:18:11.181 'P2V' 5028 info ufaSession,129 DoImport called

2009-10-29 15:18:11.181 'P2V' 4256 info task,275 Starting execution of a Task

2009-10-29 15:18:11.181 'P2V' 4256 info ufaTask,207 Successfully connected to VMImporter

2009-10-29 15:19:20.149 'P2V' 4256 error task,296 Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.ImageProcessingTaskFault)

Is there no way I can P2V it to itself and then copy it to the datastore

(when i try this, it just doesnt see a file the file even though its there)

What is the best P2V tool out there?..

Thanks for any help provided

vSRM VLAN configuration?

vikash_roy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:14:15 GMT

I am planning to start POC for vSRM using ESX3.5 U2. I have done demo and it went through but could not show all the functionality. Currently for POC purpose I need to design VLAN.

My question what kind of approach should I take for VLAN. Shall I use "streached VLAN's" as few/NetApp says or shall I re-ip those machine?

If someone can point me to understand from pros/cons as well as "How To" that would be great help.

Thanks,

Vikash

VDI Justification

bckirsch — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:30:34 GMT

Good Morning,

I am a little new to the VIOPS so hopefully this won't be a repeat to anyone. Currently I am an IT Architect at a very large Children's Hospital located in Wisconsin. One of my current projects is writing a business case for VDI. Now I came from a fortune 500 company before this so writing white papers is not foreign to me but I am struggling with this one a bit.

Server virtualization is pretty easy to justify due to the high cost of servers but on a desktop side the hardware costs of a desktop are so cheap and the server side hardware and software licensing for VMware View are such a high initial capital cost it's a very tough sell in today's economy. Currently I am focusing on the power savings of the thin clients, however that savings is in a operational budget and not a IT budget. Of course it saves the entire organization money but saving money for another group is a hard sell sometimes.

If I focus too much on the labor savings to re-provision desktops I get the desktop teams scared they are going to lose their jobs (and I have stressed to them that they will get busier since there will be more thin clients because they are cheaper to put in).

Any thoughts, insight or suggestions would be helpful...additionally I would be happy to share the documents contents with the VIOPS site if it can benefit anyone else.

VMworld 2009

bckirsch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:22 GMT

Time is ticking, who is planning on going? I just got the okay today to starting looking at travel costs and permission to start begging my vendors for tickets to the event

Partition sizing via Kickstart script

ron999 — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:13:54 GMT

Hello everybody.

I'm a little bit confused with the partition sizing under vmware via Kickstart script. I created a script with following parameters.

# Partitioning
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 251 --ondisk sda --asprimary
part swap --size 2047 --ondisk sda --asprimary
part / --fstype ext3 --size 5122 --ondisk sda --asprimary
part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size 4095 --ondisk sda
part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 1020 --ondisk sda
part None --fstype vmfs3 --size 126590 --ondisk sda
part None --fstype vmkcore --size 110 --ondisk sda

After installation i checked the size with the Infrastructure Client and saw that the partition size is not the same as in the script. As example the partition size of the VMware Diagnostic is 101.98 MB and should be 110 MB. I thought that the size parameter is in MB? The same is for all the other partitions (see attachment).

Any idea?

ron999

After installation of ESXi update 4 patches, VMs Hang/crash

Naseer — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:09:46 GMT

1. Have many HP blade servers installed with ESXi 3.5 Update3 (installed on local HDD and not USB key).

2. Have upgraded some baldes with ESXi 3.5 Update 4 using update manager.

3. After the upgrade (1-2 days), all the VMs on the host hangs (does not ping also) and only option is to reboot the ESXi host.

4. This happened with all the VMs of the hosts that were upgraded to ESXi3.5 U4, the Hosts that were not upgraded did not see this issue.

5. Suspecting this to be an issue with upgrade process (update manger) , re-installed the ESXi 3.5 U4 fresh directly, but the issue re-occured.

6. This looks to be bug with ESXi 3.5 U4 as I have seen similar issue with few other customers (all who upgraded to ESXi 3.5 U4). This issue is not seen with ESX 3.5 U4 classic.

Has anyone faced any similar issue and have got any solution/workaround ?

Or is there any PR created for this?

Deploy ESX 3.5 Update 3 via Kickstart Script

ron999 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:16:50 GMT

Hello all together,

i hope anyone can help me. I have created a Kickstart Script but the whole %post section doesn't work. I have now idea why. I have searched through the www but found nothing that helps me in my problem.

Thanks a lot for any help.

Regards

ron999

Improved RSS feeds for VI:OPS

Rodos — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:30:14 GMT

For those who like to use RSS to keep up with the flood of information that comes your way each day you will appreciate that VI:OPS now feeds in full text rather than truncated summaries.

This means you can keep up to date on all of the VI:OPS content in your favorite RSS reader which give you more time to contribute!

Rodos

VOXWare on VMware

myovish — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:50:16 GMT

Has anyone implemented or have experience in performance improvements for VOXWware application running in a virtualized environment?

Thanks

Mark