ESXI on Virtual Box and vDR

[fadyfawzey]

Good Eveninig;

I have implmented 2 ESXI servers as a Virtual boxes in VMware workstation ,and as the VMware restrict long mode (64bit) on ineer Virtualization layer (Virtual ESXI) ESXI i can't deploy the VDR appliance on my virtual esxi .I doing that for learninig and testing purposes.

So i implemented the vDR Appliance as VM on VMware workstation ,But i can't connect to it by its DNS or IP address of the vDR appliance using the vDR Plug-in ,I Checked that it should be deployed on ESX\ESXI (but i can't deploy any 64bit OS on Virtual ESXI ) I need a solution for that situation please.

I hate to stuck while i'm doing a lot of information collecting and knowlage building ,So please help me as quickly as possible on that situation.

[a_p_]

But i can't connect to it by its DNS or IP address of the vDR appliance using the vDR Plug-in

Can you ping the VDR at all?

How did you configure the VM? Manually?

Which ethernet adapter is configured for the VM? --> Ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

André

[fadyfawzey]

Thanks for trying to help a.p .

1-Sure i don't configure the VM Manually , i deployed it from ovf so all the config is preconfigured by VMware i don't change anything. Also i said that i run it on Workstation ,so there is no e1000 !!!!!! .

2-All the esx and the vcenter can ping with the DNS and IP address the vDR and also vDR can ping all esx and vcenter.

Sure its not a Network problem its about 64bit inside Virtual ESXI .(Nested VMs ) or how can i connect the vDR as VM on workstation to vCenter , It says " The Specified Data Recovery Appliance couldn't be located " , but both vCenter and vDR ping each other correctly.

Any solutions availabe to this operation please ??????

[fadyfawzey]

Any Help or Suggestions Please ...........

[spoonuk]

I'm in the same boat matey...

nslookups, pings, trace routes - everything works.

works as well.

"Error: The specified Data Recovery appliance could not be localed."

I seems as vCenter cannot find vDR if its not sitting as a VM on one of the hosts...

P.S. did you use ovf tool to convert the .ovf to .vmx? I had to do that to just run the god damn thing!

I came across this:

but no way of adding to a standalone VM.

@Everyone else looking

Any ideas?

[LifeGood]

Yes, I got the same error when I tried testing vDR with 2 ESX4 in VMware workstation.

I think the vDR VM must be deployed on ESX and managed by vCenter.

Vincent

[fadyfawzey]

Thanks for sharing my pain ..

[LifeGood]

However, you can install vDR v1.0.x on ESX (installed in workstation) ..... since it is with 32-bit OS.

I just tested today and it worked fine with vCenter/ESX 4.1

Vincent