IT Answers » vSphere 4.0

Presenting a data store to Multiple ESX environment

Nims — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:30:49 +0000

I have a vSphere 4.0 environment and I have some LUNs from an EMC presented to the hosts in the vShpere environment. I have recently set up another environment with vShpere 4.1 and I would like to know if I can present the same LUNs to the new environment (vSphere 4.1) while they are still presented to the old/existing environment(vShere 4.0).

How to move LUNs to new Virtual Machine

PPM7 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:45 +0000

I’m using vSphere 4.0, ESX 4.0, and have a DELL CX 300 SAN with LUNs that are attached to a DELL blade server w/hba. I need to move the LUN’s from the blade serve and attach them to a new VM. I know that I need to use RDM but not sure where to start or how to proceed. Do I have to move or copy data from current LUN’s to new RDM LUN’s or just attach the LUN’s to the VM? Thanks

What all benefits of upgrading to vSphere 4 from VI 3.5

Palajayit — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:57:45 +0000

What all benefits of upgrading to vSphere 4 from VI 3.5?

Windows server 2003 dc promo error on vshere 4.0

JimmyIT — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:11:46 +0000

I am getting the following error when running DCpromo trying to join an existing domain on the server

Operation failed:The network location cannot be reached

I checked and made sure there were no issues with our network connections

VSphere 4.0 Upgrade

Ubersol — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:39:53 +0000

Hi,

I would like to know what is involved in upgrading VMware ESX server 3.5 to VSphere 4.0. Any recommendations on best practices of doing this? Here is a list of questions that I would like to know

What steps are involved for the upgrade process?
How does the upgrade process work?
If something goes wrong during the upgrade is rollback possible?
Are there any step by step documentation doing this
What is your experience for this process?

VMware backtracking on vSphere Enterprise Edition phaseout

JennyMack — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:17:49 +0000

As you may have read, VMware is backtracking on its end-of-availability for vSphere Enterprise Edition, extending its availability indefinitely. Are you confused about it? Relieved? Has this announcement affected your decisionmaking process for upgrades in the future?

Clarrification on VSphere with vCenter

Sudhrsn — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:59:10 +0000

There are 3 Questions that i would like to know of .

Till date , We have our ESX Servers added as part of Virtual Center through its IP address . We are planning to remove and add it using its FQDN . In this scenario , Will we be able to retain the performance data of the ESX Server and Virtual machines as such ?

Is there any impact when we change the name of the data stores with Production VMs running on them ?

How can we reroute VCB backup traffic on to a separate NIC ?

Thanks Sudharsan

Virtual DNS/AD/DHCP Servers with VMWare vSphere

Leewy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:36:39 +0000

I decide to set up a simple server at home on my whitebox server by installing
VMWare vSphere Server as a host server with all my primary DNS, AD
& DHCP as virtual servers on the vSphere Server.

As
there is no dns server to resolve the vSphere Server hostname. During
the initial vSphere Setup, I would not enter any dns server and
hostname. IP address will be static and my XP Desktop will be used to
connect to the vSphere Server to install the Client and to install the
guest OS for DNS, DHCP and AD Server

Would I know it may work? Any important point to take note. Thanks for your advices [!-- [[[ --]

Free version of vSphere 4.0 like ESXi 3.5?

BrentSheets — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:08:54 +0000

Is there going to be a free version of vSphere 4.0 like ESXi 3.5?

Moderator Note: This is a submitted question