Mayur_Patel's Accepted Solutions

SO, you could leave it this way, but is is not recommended to do so. This is basically saying that when this LUN was formatted and a signature written on it, it was presented as LUN X, now th... See more...
SO, you could leave it this way, but is is not recommended to do so. This is basically saying that when this LUN was formatted and a signature written on it, it was presented as LUN X, now this LUN is appearing as LUN Y. I don't know about the MSA 1000, but in the EVA (HP SANs) in the management GUI, when I present a LUN to a HOSt, I can choose which LUN I would like it to be presented as to that host. I alway make sure that all of the hosts that I present this LUN to have the same LUN. Anyone know how to do this for the MSA 1000??
That's the ideal congiuration. Although, you can put vmotion nics on a network shared with other traffic, but it's better to isolate the network traffic, you'll get a better ratio of success. ... See more...
That's the ideal congiuration. Although, you can put vmotion nics on a network shared with other traffic, but it's better to isolate the network traffic, you'll get a better ratio of success. In ESX 3.x, some guys even put the console nic and vmotion on the same vswitch, with 2 uplinks(pNICS) connected and separate the traffic via VLAN tags. I prefer to separate the networks personally.
In you're case, There's no worry about the database connection, this is not changing. The only thing is that you may have to disconnect and reconnect the hosts in Virtual Center. Alos, you may... See more...
In you're case, There's no worry about the database connection, this is not changing. The only thing is that you may have to disconnect and reconnect the hosts in Virtual Center. Alos, you may have to make sure that the License Server setting is updated for each host. Mayur
As I understand it, the vpxa service is installed when you add the ESXX host to VC 2.x (You are talking about Virtual Center 2.x right?) you can enter rpm -qa |grep vpx to make sure that the R... See more...
As I understand it, the vpxa service is installed when you add the ESXX host to VC 2.x (You are talking about Virtual Center 2.x right?) you can enter rpm -qa |grep vpx to make sure that the RPM is installed. If not, then search the forum for manuall install of VC agent. You may have to ry to install it manually. Mayur
To answer your original question, yes, you can just copy the vmdk & vmx files of a VM to a separate location. Then, if something goes wrong, copy them back and re-register the vm. Mayur