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Re: vSphere 6.0U3 EAM Error

offlinetn — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:32:49 GMT

I tired everything under the sun to get eam to run. The chmown worked perfect. I am no able to upgrade vcenter 6.0 to 6.7.

chown eam:cis eam.properties

Thanks,

Chris

Re: P to V for DR

offlinetn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:02:12 GMT

Well I am looking for something that will do like a deduplication backup does where changes on the Physical server are perodically updated to the VM.

Re: P to V for DR

offlinetn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:45:53 GMT

The converter won't help, I need to keep the physical server up and running and duplicated to a VM at the same time.

I will look into Platspin.

Thanks you both for your input.

P to V for DR

offlinetn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:08:41 GMT

I have been set with the task to find a solution to setup Physical to Virtual Machines for Disaster Recovery. The company I work for is a hosting / colocation company. We want to be able to offer our customers a way keep their physcial servers (non-vmware) up and running but do some type of deduplication to a VM so if their server goes down they can do a fail over to the VM. I was wondering if anyone has done this? Is there a utility for doing this? A third party app would be fine.

Thanks for any help,

Chris Edwards

Re: Rolling out ESX for the first time

offlinetn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:11:07 GMT

Thanks for all of the advice! I will buy the book and give VMWare a call to se see if they can recommend someone to help with our capacity planning.

Chris

Re: Rolling out ESX for the first time

offlinetn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:31:56 GMT

Sorry, we have two EMC separate EMC's that we will be using to connect the 1950's and 2950's to, The new one is a CX4-240 with iSCSI and FC the older is a CX3-40.

Re: Rolling out ESX for the first time

offlinetn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:23:13 GMT

Thanks for the help guys! I just attend the VMWare infastructure class and have played with our lab equipment. We will be using Dell 1950's and 2950's depending on wether they need HBA cards for the EMC SAN or not. We do not have an experienced VMWare tech on had, your looking at it.

What is the best way to do this...

Have you done your

sizing analysis yet? Worked out your VM per core rations, RAM per VM

ratios (in normal model and in maintenance mode, aka down a host). Have

you done your cluster sizing yet? Are you scaling up or scaling out. If

you don't get the balance of RAM vs CPU right you are going to waste a

bit of money. Has VMware or a partner run a Consolidation Estimate yet?

It has good data to feed this analysis.

Thanks Again!

Chris Edwards

Rolling out ESX for the first time

offlinetn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:43:19 GMT

We are converting our data center with 300 plus servers and I am trying to collect some information from other people who have deployed ESX...

Basically we need to figure out a starting point for reserve resource allocation etc. IE a best practices or what other people are doing kind of thing. I'm sure these will change once we start using it, but I'd like to make a best guess attempt.

IE for memory if we a Windows server should we by default set it up to reserve 25% of it's memory when we create a new virtual machine. So for 1GB we would reserve 256MB etc.

Same thing for CPU, should we reserve say 10% of the cpu. So if we had a single proc VM we would reserve 10% of 1 cpu, if we had dual proc we would reserve 10% of 2 cpu's etc.

Should we make the SAN LUNs RAID 10, or are most people doing RAID 5 etc.

Any other best/recommended practices.

I know that most of these answers will not apply to every situation, but I'm just looking to get defaults.

Thanks for any help,

Chris

Re: Splitting a VM size and preformance question.

offlinetn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:10:11 GMT

We are running version 3.5. I need to break up an existing VM from a customer and transport it over a secure connection. Thanks for the help.

Re: Splitting a VM size and preformance question.

offlinetn — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:05:26 GMT

Makes sense! Thanks for the answer and quick reply.

I still need to know if there is MAX size for a VM that can be split? Example.... Can I split a 200gig VM into 2gig slices? Can I split a 900gig VM into 2gig slices? The reason I want to know is to transport a very large VM accross the Internet.

Thanks!

Chris Edwards

Splitting a VM size and preformance question.

offlinetn — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:28:34 GMT

I found the answer for my first question at http://communities.vmware.com/message/770441#770441 that allows me to split a monolithic VM into 2 gig slices. Here are my next 2 questions.

1. Is there a MAX size of a monolithic VM that can be split?

2. Is there any performance problems with leaving the VM split and running it on the 2 gig slices or should I reassemble it back to the monolithic form?

Thanks!!!!

Chris Edwards