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Thanks for your help guys!!!. Are there any instruction avaliable for adding the old VIC to the licensing section on the new vCenter. Any gotcha's? Thanks again!
HI ALL. I ahve a project coming up to upgrade my current ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere 5. both environments will be up at the same time ( new hardware etc). If possible i cant ahve any down t... See more...
HI ALL. I ahve a project coming up to upgrade my current ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere 5. both environments will be up at the same time ( new hardware etc). If possible i cant ahve any down time. Current Environment: 2 ESX 3,5 Hosts Fiber Channel Storage, EMC CX4-120 about 25 VM's (including Exchange 2003, DC's and 3 SQL servers) New Environment 2 ESXi5 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise License iSCSI Storage, EMX VNX backup with Datadomain and Networker. As i mentioned before, the new environment will be built along side the old one, so i need to HOT migrate the guests over. Whats the best way to do this? can i add the old hosts to the iSCSI network and vStorage Motion (is it even possible on 3.5, also should i be concerned about moving Exchange 2003 and SQL like this) is my only alternative p2v. if i am P2Ving should i do a cold migration of exchange and the SQl servers. if possible i would like to uitilise VMFS5 and the unified 1 mb block size. I am also planning on using the vCenter Virtual appliace. whats the down side to using this with 2 hosts for a SMB. thanks in advance!!!
Hi All, I have a question about the best way to setup the network ports on two new esx hosts i have. each host comes with 6 ports (4 on and 2 on a PCIe card) i have 1 internal network, 1... See more...
Hi All, I have a question about the best way to setup the network ports on two new esx hosts i have. each host comes with 6 ports (4 on and 2 on a PCIe card) i have 1 internal network, 1 DMZ, and i need 1 iSCSI network and then management and vMotion. What is the best way to set this up. I would like to have 8 NICS but this is not an option for me. i was thinking of: vSwitch0 Port Group VM internal: NIC 0 NIC1 Port Group VM DMZ NIC 2 NIC 3 Port Group : VMKERNAL NIC 0 NIC 1 vSwitch1 Port Group iSCSI NIC4 NIC5 Im sure this is not the best way to do it. should vMotion be segmented to iSCSI network? suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Thanks guys. I disabled it without running into any issues.
Dear all, I have 5 ESX hosts with promiscuous mode enabled. I need to disbale it on all hosts. Is there any issues with doing this during production time on production hosts with running VM's.... See more...
Dear all, I have 5 ESX hosts with promiscuous mode enabled. I need to disbale it on all hosts. Is there any issues with doing this during production time on production hosts with running VM's. Also should it be done at the vSwitch level and then on all Port groups? Thank you in advance.
Hi all, I have a client with four ESXi 5 hosts in a cluster. each host has 8 pNICS. Each host has about 7 VM guests. FC shared storage in place. Currently on each host they only have one vS... See more...
Hi all, I have a client with four ESXi 5 hosts in a cluster. each host has 8 pNICS. Each host has about 7 VM guests. FC shared storage in place. Currently on each host they only have one vSwitch configured. the vSwitch is set for VM port group and mamagement vmkernal. only four of ht pNICs are used and default load balancing is used (based on virtual port ID with no etherchannel on switch side) I can not have any down time on the running VMs'. the management vmkernal only used two of the NICS in active passive. and the VM port group uses all four NICS as active. Does this setup need to be changed to follow best practice> two nics for management and HA setup active/passive and then another vSwitch for VM portgroup. Or does the current setup give me the desired redundancy. the NICs go into redundant switches. Also they ahve a DR site with NFS storage. they dont have a seperate isolated subnet for storage. how can i sell them on this? Please go over benefits. Also they dont ahve the in house expertise to set this up and maintain it. is it even worth it for them, thanks in advance.