Upgrade Vsphere 3.5 to Vsphere 5.1
Hi allwe have 5 Vsphere 3.5 Esx servers with a vCenter server 3.5 in (HP EVA storage)shared storage. we are plaining to upgrade this in Vsphere 5.1 in EMC VNX5300 (Block Level) shared storage.Our Old...
View ArticleRe: Moving VMs from VMFS3 to VMFS5 with local storage
Hi, You are correct the Virtual Machines will work on VMFS-5 if copied across. There should be no converting as such. You will have the option of upgrading the hardware version to vmx-9. This is a...
View ArticleRe: Time of upgrade relative to SQL Server database size?
Hi, I can't really answer the datebase size against time question but happy to relay my experience. Our vCenter DB is around 30Gb and when we upgraded the vCenter portion (if I remember correctly) it...
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VMStartTomcatImmediate not starting 1603 error. Now ....MainEngineThread is...
Starting a New Discussion thread. So i started with this issue... TomCat reporting 1603, being unable to start.... But all i got from the logs was: CustomAction VM_Start Tomcat Immediate returned...
View ArticleHow to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
I am planning to migrate two esx 4.1 hosts to esxi5.1 by wiping them and doing a clean install. Each host is connected to two iscis sans, with 4 luns from each san attached to each host. Each lun is...
View ArticleRe: How to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
You will need to upgrade vCenter Server first. Then you can vMotion all guests to one of the hosts that vCenter is managing and do the clean install of the other host. Once the install is complete,...
View ArticleVirtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
Hi, I've done a fresh install to vSphere 5.1 (previously 4.1 installed which works well). No vCenter for the moment. One virtual machine on LAN is running Paessler PRTG under Win 2k3 x64.This virtual...
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
Do you have the vSwitches configured the same way on each ESXi host? Is the network label in the VM properties pointing to a valid network, and can the VM ping anything?
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
vSwitch0vmnic0 : LANPort VMKernel, vmk0 : 172.20.10.10 (the IP my VM can't ping)VM Network LAN1 : All VMs in LAN are here vSwitch1vmnic2 : DMZ vSwitch2vmnic1 : not used for the moment PRTG in the VM...
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Is vSwitch0 as well as the VM port group configured with defaults (i.e. no VLAN tagging, Route based on port ID, ...)? How many uplinks do you use for the vSwitch?Did you double check the host's...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade Vsphere 3.5 to Vsphere 5.1
I'm not sure whether EMC's "SAN Copy" supports HP EVA's.Anyway, depending on the EVA you have your options may be limited. What you could do, is to find out which (common) ESX versions are supported...
View ArticleRe: Time of upgrade relative to SQL Server database size?
Thanks killeroo. SSO was the first thing we figured out, at least for our environment, and that piece is already installed along with the Inventory/Web Client servers we're going to deploy in the...
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Re: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
As it begun to be hard for me to understand which point you wants, I've done some screenshot.I hope it will give you your expected answer :
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Wrong. Unfortunately, it should not work. You cannot remove ESXi from cluster without putting it into maintenance mode - migrating vms are obligatory.
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
According to the screen shots, the subnet mask you are using in your LAN is 255.255.0.0. As a first step, please run ipconfig /all within the VM to verify the VM is configured with the same subnet...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
You can disconnect it and then remove. It should work.
View ArticleRe: Virtual machine can't ping host on fresh vSphere5.1 install
I'm going to dig a very big hole and jump inside.I have done a mistake under PRTG where ip was changed between 172.20.20.10 and 172.20.10.10
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Ok then sorry, this does work, but I am unable to re-add host in the cluster now - THe host cannot be admitted to the cluster's current Enhanced vMotion Compatibility mode. Powered-on or suspended...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
If you have EVC you will need eventually to power off all VMs when doing the new vCenter. Do you have different hardwares? Can't you disable EVC?
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Yes I have different hardware. What I did is that I added it as standalone server in Datacenter object and drag&drop to cluster. Could that be a problem?
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