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Re: ESX Host 3.5 is getting powered off during the VM powering up.

Hi,
In order to run ESX3.5 and power on virtual machines, you'll need to install VMware workstation 6.5 afaik.

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Audio - Apple 24" LED Cinema Display USB Audio - Sharing between Windows VM OS and Mac OS - Sound Ou

There appears to be an issue with using the new Apple 24" Cinema Displays with integrated USB audio, VM Ware and virtual machines.

When the display is plugged into a Mac Book Pro notebook, via USB, normally Mac OS will see the external UBS audio and switch to it from the notebook speakers. If you look in Mac OS System Preferences>Output, Internal Speakers and USB Speakers are shown. But, when VM Ware is running, and Windows Vista is running as the guest OS in the virtual machine, the Virtual Machine takes over the USB audio for Windows Vista, and is unavailable to Mac OS X. In this scenario, when looking in Mac OS System Preferences>Sound>Output, only the Internal Speaker for the notebook show up, and when in Mac OS, the audio is coming from the notebook computer, but when audio is playing from Windows Vista, it is coming from the Apple Display. Any Clues???

Re: Backups and Time Machine

Thanks, Woody. Now I can get it right the first time.

Re: Backups and Time Machine

GaryFlorida wrote:
Does this mean that the folder "Virtual Machines" inside "Documents" inside my home icon folder is all I would drag and drop?
Does this have all the Windows XP OS and supporting files, or just my data?

Yes and by default normal file based Fusion Virtual Machines are created in the "/Users/${USER}/Documents/Virtual Machines" however that doesn't stop the User from placing them elsewhere. The Virtual Machine Document Package is a folder that, by default, has a hidden extension of .vmwarevm and this Package contains the files the comprise the Virtual Machine and the .vmdk files are the virtual hard drive that contains the OS/Applications/Data. Backing up the entire Package is what you want to do.

finally, excuse my ignorance, but what are abbreviations you used: FWIW, YMMV, AFAIC

You could Goggle it or try something likehttp://www.acronymfinder.com

FWIW = For what it's worth

YMMV = Your mileage may vary

AFAIC = As far as I'm concerned

Re: Backups and Time Machine

Does this mean that the folder "Virtual Machines" inside "Documents" inside my home icon folder is all I would drag and drop?
Does this have all the Windows XP OS and supporting files, or just my data?

finally, excuse my ignorance, but what are abbreviations you used: FWIW, YMMV, AFAIC

Thanks

Re: Boot Camp partition preparation failing

With Fusion closed delete the following folder which contains the Boot Camp and the Helper folders:

"/Users/somersam/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines"

Then start Fusion and try running the Boot Camp partition again and if it fails then attach the following log file:

"/Users/somersam/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Helper/naos-1.0.vmwarevm/vmware.log"

Re: VM starts up after ESX Host left isolation mode ?

Power failure happened last night for both (2 together) in a VI Cluster last night. After power is resumed, VMs on ESX1 started up properly. However, a specific VM (and the only one) on ESX2 doesn't start up. We have to start it up manually.

Do you have any suggestion ?

Thanks

Re: Basic OS install problem

Setting the boot delay did allow me to access the boot menu and although I set the CD drive to the first boot device and had it "connect at power on" and had it set to use the host device all I get is the PXE boot. I am able to use the CD drive on the client device, but since my client device is across a network from the ESXi host system (and my laptop/client device has a relatively slow CD drive) this isn't the most efficient means of installing an OS. I also tried setting the CD drive to "Emulate IDE" and "Passthrough IDE" which are the only possible choices in that area.

The CD drive on the host does work since that is how I installed ESXi.

Seeing as there aren't that many possible CD configuration possibilities (and I think I've tried all variations anyways) it seems that I don't have the ability to install an OS in a ESXi vm any way except using the drive on my client device. It shouldn't be this difficult.

Re: Backups and Time Machine

FWIW Time Machine may not be reliable in the Backup/Restore of Virtual Machines and while YMMV many Users have reported TM didn't Backup/Restore their Virtual Machines properly.

That said TM cannot backup User Data Only that resides within the Virtual Machine and you should employ appropriate measures to preform User Data Backups.

AFAIC The best way to ensure the entire Virtual Machine is properly backed up is to shutdown, not suspend, from within the Guest OS and then close Fusion and either then manually copy the Virtual Machine Document Package to another hard drive other then the one the original resides on and or to Optical Media as well or if not manually then via Scripting or some Application other then TM and also generate md5 or sha1 sums to validate the copies against. Sounds like a lot of work however on my Production Virtual Machines that I may have spent 24 ~ 40 hours building out originally I'm not about to
not be absolutely sure I can restore that work when need be and without any issue.

Virtual Machine Won't Start.

I have a trial version of VMware Workstation Installed on Vista 64, 8GB RAM, 3GHz, Quad Core CPU (virtualization on) and the install goes fine with no errors. After the reboot, I try to create a new VM (any guest OS) and then run it and nothing happens. The VM is created, but there is no window indicating that it's running and there are no error messages either.

Are there particular Windows services that need to be running in order for the newly created VM to run? I also copied over a preconfigured linux VM to run, but that doesn't work either.

I've tried reinstalling 3 times, firewall and anti-virus turned off.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Miklos

Re: Newb VCB Question

Hi one3cap, to answer your questions individually:

1) Your VCB proxy needs enough space to hold the VMs only if you are doing image-level backups. File-level backups do not have any disk space requirement on the proxy.

2) Yes, the proxy does need to be connected to your SAN and have access to the VMFS LUNs if you want to perform LAN-free backups. You could use VCB to back up through the Service Console, which wouldn't require SAN connectivity, but this would not be "LAN-free", which is a major selling point of VCB.

3) The article you reference does detail most of the set up. The VCB integration with BackupExec is purely script-based and isn't that feature-rich. There is a new add-on that Symantec sells for BE 12.5 that is much more comprehensive, but it is also a bit more expensive.

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-Amit

Re: OS X 10.5.6 + Fusion 2.0.1 + XP guest won't boot

FWIW Time Machine may not be reliable in the Backup/Restore of Virtual Machines and while YMMV many Users have reported TM didn't Backup/Restore their Virtual Machines properly.

Also I never allow Windows Automatic Updates to do anything more then notify me that Updates are available and then before running Windows Update I create a Restore Point in Windows then shutdown the Virtual Machine and take a Snapshot. Then boot Windows and run Windows Update and afterwards if all is okay then I delete the Snapshot and or I have a current full backup that was not created in TM to restore from if something go wrong. Then it just doesn't matter what happens I don't have to employ all the other standard Windows troubleshooting/recovery measures which can certainly be more time consuming and ultimately end up with having to clean build a new Virtual Machine if a clean backup isn't available.

So you need to employ all standard Windows troubleshooting/recovery measures as this is most likely not Fusion related.

Post P2V newb Question

I have been doing plan consolidation or hot P2V's lately successfully. Now after I am done what is the recommended? I see in device manager on my windows server there is ACPI multiprocessor because the physcial systems had dual procs. I also notice that my disk is bus logic and I do see LSI logic. Also there are USB ports that carry over to the vm's

These new vm's are one way procs..... do i need to change device manger to uniprocessor. Should I change my disk from bus logic to lsi logic? Should I remove the USB ports?

Any common practice or recommended post P2V task would be helpful. I just want to do it right to make sure my vm's are performing the best they can.

Re: Backup agent and VirtualCenter Server on same machine?

Jeff, you can run them together. Best practice is to lock it down but most people don't, if you are a small shop and all your IT people have access to everything you can do a risk assessment and go for it. Technically, there is no problem. Of course you also have the issues of dependency, might you want to reboot one without taking out the other? Probably not, but these are the things to consider.

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Newb VCB Question

Does anyobody have any good links or articles on VCB with syamntec backup exec?

Does my proxy server need to have enought local disk space to "mount" the vm's before the tape backup?

Does the VCB proxy need to be connect via FC to my FC SAN where my vms are?

I did find this:http://www.soft-tronik.cz/web/drivery.nsf/0/36371aad30172c03c125739800371e90/$FILE/Integrating%20Symantec%20Backup%20Exec%2011d.pdf

Is this basically all I need to do to use VCB with symantec BE 11d?

I have never done this before as much lamen term help would be greatly appreciated.

Network On an Off in Debian

Base System: WinXP

VM: Debian

I've setup my VM to have a bridged network connection. I've setup debian to have a static ip. When the vm boots the eht0 interface is up, but does not work most of the time (yes sometimes for whatever reason it does work).

By it does not work I mean, I can not ping to or ping out from the VM, no communication. If I issue an ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0 if starts working, or if I go
to vm players devices area and select "nat" from "bridged" then go back to "bridged" it
starts working again (this all without changing ANYTHING in the debian
vmware) the pings just magically start working again.

any ideas?

here is my vm config

#!/usr/bin/vmware
.encoding = "windows-1252"
displayName = "Linux 2.6.x Host"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"

memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.fileName = "20G.vmdk"
ide1:0.fileName = "C:\Documents and Settings\spope\My Documents\downloads\debian-40r5-i386-businesscard.iso"

DEFAULT SETTINGS UNDER THIS LINE

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "-1"

uuid.location = "56 4d b2 de 5e 40 b1 e9-84 fc 84 39 b7 b9 1e 55"
uuid.bios = "56 4d b2 de 5e 40 b1 e9-84 fc 84 39 b7 b9 1e 55"

uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:b9:1e:55"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

usb.present = "FALSE"
sound.present = "FALSE"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualdev = "lsilogic"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "disk"
scsi0:0.mode = "persistent"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"

scsi0:1.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide1:1.present = "FALSE"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

extendedConfigFile = "template.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

fileSearchPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\spope\Desktop\linux;."

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "19202048"

Re: HP ML150 G5 integrated NIC with ESX 3.5.0 Update 2 (Build 110181)

Can someone please post network card and SATA controller please.. too many option on HP site.. not sure which one works.

this is what i am thinking to buy

What to add and what to remove?

System Parts (1): HP ML150G5 E5405 NHP SATA US Svr

1 450162-001 HP ML150G5 E5405 NHP SATA US Svr
1 461840-B21 HP 4GB REG PC2-5300 2x2GB LP Kit
1 458941-B21 HP 500GB 7.2k NHP MDL SATA 1y Wty HDD
1 447328-B21 HP HH SATA DVDRW Optical Kit
1 411508-B21 HP Smart Array E200/128MB Controller
1 457692-B21 HP NHP SAS/SATA 4Port Cbl Kit

Backups and Time Machine

I have VM Fusion installed on my Mac. Am using OS: Windows XP and Leopard 10.5.5

Does anyone know, if I do a Time Machine backup from the Mac OSX side, will it see and backup the Windows XP data and files?
Or do I need to "ignore" that my XP is running on a Mac and do a Windows driven backup?

Thanks all.

Re: Backup agent and VirtualCenter Server on same machine?

Amit, this was once the case but it was fixed.

Rodos
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Re: VM starts up after ESX Host left isolation mode ?

I think that it's working as designed. I always prefer to work in terms of examples.....

Let's say you have an HA cluster with ESX1, ESX2 and ESX3 as member hosts. Then, let's say ESX1 hosts VM1 and VM2 on it, ESX2 hosts VM3 and VM4 on it, and ESX3 hosts VM5 and VM6 on it. If ESX1 becomes isolated, let's say that the isolation response on both VM1 and VM2 is set to "power off". Those VMs are powered off, and once ESX2 and ESX3 realize that ESX1 is no longer alive, they will attempt to power on VM1 and VM2 according to their resource availability. If ESX2 and ESX3 only have enough resources (RAM and CPU) to power on VM1, VM2 will not get powered on automatically, even if ESX1 eventually comes back (HA uses priority and then alphabetical order to determine the order of VM restoration). This might be what's happening to your VM.

Please help me out by awarding points for a "helpful" or "correct" response if you feel that it was useful!

-Amit