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EN-000105-08 To check for more recent editions of each product listed and supports all subsequent versions until the document is replaced by a new edition. vSphere Basic System Administration vCenter Server 4.0 ESX 4.0 ESXi 4.0 This document supports the version of this document, see http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
EN-000105-08 To check for more recent editions of each product listed and supports all subsequent versions until the document is replaced by a new edition. vSphere Basic System Administration vCenter Server 4.0 ESX 4.0 ESXi 4.0 This document supports the version of this document, see http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
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... Select a Resource Pool 114 Select a Datastore 115 Select a Virtual Machine Version 115 Select an Operating System 115 Select the Number of Virtual Processors 115 Configure Virtual Memory 116 Configure Networks 116 About VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapters 116 Select a SCSI Adapter 117 Selecting a Virtual Disk ...and Removing Virtual Machines 137 Configure Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior 138 13 Virtual Machine Configuration 141 Virtual Machine Hardware Versions 141 Virtual Machine Properties Editor 142 Adding New Hardware 156 Converting Virtual Disks from Thin to Thick 163 14 Working ...
... Select a Resource Pool 114 Select a Datastore 115 Select a Virtual Machine Version 115 Select an Operating System 115 Select the Number of Virtual Processors 115 Configure Virtual Memory 116 Configure Networks 116 About VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapters 116 Select a SCSI Adapter 117 Selecting a Virtual Disk ...and Removing Virtual Machines 137 Configure Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior 138 13 Virtual Machine Configuration 141 Virtual Machine Hardware Versions 141 Virtual Machine Properties Editor 142 Adding New Hardware 156 Converting Virtual Disks from Thin to Thick 163 14 Working ...
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... go to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. To access the current version of this book and other books, go to you assess, plan, build, and manage your virtual environment. VMware Education Services courses offer extensive...in the classroom, and live online. To find out how VMware support offerings can help you . Online and Telephone Support Support Offerings VMware Professional Services To use telephone support for priority 1 issues. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 1. Courses are available to http://www...
... go to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. To access the current version of this book and other books, go to you assess, plan, build, and manage your virtual environment. VMware Education Services courses offer extensive...in the classroom, and live online. To find out how VMware support offerings can help you . Online and Telephone Support Support Offerings VMware Professional Services To use telephone support for priority 1 issues. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 1. Courses are available to http://www...
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...Provide a reason for your system. 3 Press the power button until the machine powers off your version of Windows. For example, select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and click VMware VirtualCenter Server. If you select Shut Down, the ESX/ESXi host shuts down . For information about... accessing the service console, see "Connect to the log. vSphere Basic System Administration 3 From the main or right-click...
...Provide a reason for your system. 3 Press the power button until the machine powers off your version of Windows. For example, select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and click VMware VirtualCenter Server. If you select Shut Down, the ESX/ESXi host shuts down . For information about... accessing the service console, see "Connect to the log. vSphere Basic System Administration 3 From the main or right-click...
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...is a controller and is a domain controller, you are starting the vSphere Client, log in as . Procedure 1 Go to the Services console for startup to complete. 3 Close the Properties dialog box. VMware, Inc. 27 Procedure 1 Log in that domain's Domain Administrators group....domain controller . 2 Double-click a shortcut or select the vSphere Client from Start > Programs > VMware > vSphere Client. 3 Enter or select the server name, your user name, and your version of that group. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components Procedure 1 Go to the Services console for it ...
...is a controller and is a domain controller, you are starting the vSphere Client, log in as . Procedure 1 Go to the Services console for startup to complete. 3 Close the Properties dialog box. VMware, Inc. 27 Procedure 1 Log in that domain's Domain Administrators group....domain controller . 2 Double-click a shortcut or select the vSphere Client from Start > Programs > VMware > vSphere Client. 3 Enter or select the server name, your user name, and your version of that group. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components Procedure 1 Go to the Services console for it ...
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...ESXi through the remote command-line interface. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components VMware Service Console In previous versions of ESX, the service console was one of the interfaces to the service console with a VMware technical support representative. Many of the commands available on Linux or UNIX ...DNS server can set up the service console to use the service console locally or through the vSphere CLI. Using Commands on the Service Console The service console runs a modified version of Linux, and many of mapping the service console's host name to the login screen ...
...ESXi through the remote command-line interface. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components VMware Service Console In previous versions of ESX, the service console was one of the interfaces to the service console with a VMware technical support representative. Many of the commands available on Linux or UNIX ...DNS server can set up the service console to use the service console locally or through the vSphere CLI. Using Commands on the Service Console The service console runs a modified version of Linux, and many of mapping the service console's host name to the login screen ...
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... Incorrect configuration of firewalls can cause licenses and roles to allow Linked Mode. Prerequisites n The Windows version must be modified. Procedure 1 Select Start > Run. 2 Type firewall.cpl and click OK....click OK. 7 Click OK. n There must be no network-based firewalls between instances. 36 VMware, Inc. n To ensure that the logged in user account has administrator privileges on the machine...Mode, which uses the Windows RPC port mapper to open RPC ports for replication. vSphere Basic System Administration n When you install vCenter Server in Linked Mode, the firewall ...
... Incorrect configuration of firewalls can cause licenses and roles to allow Linked Mode. Prerequisites n The Windows version must be modified. Procedure 1 Select Start > Run. 2 Type firewall.cpl and click OK....click OK. 7 Click OK. n There must be no network-based firewalls between instances. 36 VMware, Inc. n To ensure that the logged in user account has administrator privileges on the machine...Mode, which uses the Windows RPC port mapper to open RPC ports for replication. vSphere Basic System Administration n When you install vCenter Server in Linked Mode, the firewall ...
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...the SNMP agent sends traps. Versions of the receiver to ESX 4.0 included a Net-SNMP-based agent. For information on page 53. If the port value is disabled. See "Configure SNMP Management Client Software," on installing and using the vSphere CLI, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and... Current vCenter Server, select the appropriate server. 3 Click SNMP in the navigation list. 4 Enter the following task, the vSphere Client must be connected to use the VMware MIB files, you must use the embedded SNMP agent. The vCenter Server system is part of the SNMP traps. For ...
...the SNMP agent sends traps. Versions of the receiver to ESX 4.0 included a Net-SNMP-based agent. For information on page 53. If the port value is disabled. See "Configure SNMP Management Client Software," on installing and using the vSphere CLI, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and... Current vCenter Server, select the appropriate server. 3 Click SNMP in the navigation list. 4 Enter the following task, the vSphere Client must be connected to use the VMware MIB files, you must use the embedded SNMP agent. The vCenter Server system is part of the SNMP traps. For ...
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...with SNMP configuration: n Type vicfg-snmp.pl --server --username --password --test at the vSphere command-line interface to prompt the embedded SNMP agent to send a test warmStart trap. vSphere Basic System Administration Prerequisites To complete this file to determine if the SNMP functionality that you ... See "SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters," on the port you configured. 4 Load the VMware MIBs into the management software so you can view the symbolic names for use with versions of the VMware SNMP agents by product version. n The SNMPv2-MIB.mib file provides a number of counters to aid in...
...with SNMP configuration: n Type vicfg-snmp.pl --server --username --password --test at the vSphere command-line interface to prompt the embedded SNMP agent to send a test warmStart trap. vSphere Basic System Administration Prerequisites To complete this file to determine if the SNMP functionality that you ... See "SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters," on the port you configured. 4 Load the VMware MIBs into the management software so you can view the symbolic names for use with versions of the VMware SNMP agents by product version. n The SNMPv2-MIB.mib file provides a number of counters to aid in...
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... on resource usage of the host computer. These can be used to report on each VMware platform by name, version, and build platform. SNMPv2-MIB.mib Defines the SNMP version 2 MIB objects. VMware, Inc. 55 Procedure u Install the SNMP agents you use vCenter Server to SNMP management...hardware. Defines variables for that have been made obsolete to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of the VMware agents by vCenter Server. Table 5-2 lists MIB files included in the VMware MIB files package that each SNMP agent on the state of physical hardware components of ...
... on resource usage of the host computer. These can be used to report on each VMware platform by name, version, and build platform. SNMPv2-MIB.mib Defines the SNMP version 2 MIB objects. VMware, Inc. 55 Procedure u Install the SNMP agents you use vCenter Server to SNMP management...hardware. Defines variables for that have been made obsolete to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of the VMware agents by vCenter Server. Table 5-2 lists MIB files included in the VMware MIB files package that each SNMP agent on the state of physical hardware components of ...
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... ID Mapping vmwSubsystemType vmwEnvEntry 2 vmwHardwareStatus vmwEnvEntry 3 vmwEventDescription vmwEnvEntry 4 vmwHardwareTime vmwEnvEntry 5 Description The type of the VMWARE-RESOURCESMIB.mib and VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib files. The last reported status of sysUptime when vmwHardwareStatus was configured with older versions of time the virtual machine has been running on the CPU (in memTable that have been...
... ID Mapping vmwSubsystemType vmwEnvEntry 2 vmwHardwareStatus vmwEnvEntry 3 vmwEventDescription vmwEnvEntry 4 vmwHardwareTime vmwEnvEntry 5 Description The type of the VMWARE-RESOURCESMIB.mib and VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib files. The last reported status of sysUptime when vmwHardwareStatus was configured with older versions of time the virtual machine has been running on the CPU (in memTable that have been...
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This counter is the 64-bit version of vmwNetKbTx. This counter is the 64-bit version of packets transmitted on this value to be installed in the guest operating system in VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB (Continued) Variable ID Mapping Description vmwNetHCPktsTx vmwNetHCKbTx vmwNetEntry 10 vmwNetEntry 11 The number of... operating system in guest heartbeat. If there is -1. Traps Defined in VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB vmID vmwTraps 101 The ID of vmwNetPktsRx. This trap is sent when a virtual machine is the 64-bit version of the affected virtual machine generating the trap. This trap is powered ...
This counter is the 64-bit version of vmwNetKbTx. This counter is the 64-bit version of packets transmitted on this value to be installed in the guest operating system in VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB (Continued) Variable ID Mapping Description vmwNetHCPktsTx vmwNetHCKbTx vmwNetEntry 10 vmwNetEntry 11 The number of... operating system in guest heartbeat. If there is -1. Traps Defined in VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB vmID vmwTraps 101 The ID of vmwNetPktsRx. This trap is sent when a virtual machine is the 64-bit version of the affected virtual machine generating the trap. This trap is powered ...
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... the adapter. Chapter 5 Configuring Hosts and vCenter Server Table 5-8. Table 5-9. VMWARE-TC-MIB The VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib file provides common textual conventions used by product name, version number, and build number. The operational status of the adapter. vmwProdVersion vmwSystem 2 The product version number, in the format ... The PCI ID of the adapter. For...
... the adapter. Chapter 5 Configuring Hosts and vCenter Server Table 5-8. Table 5-9. VMWARE-TC-MIB The VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib file provides common textual conventions used by product name, version number, and build number. The operational status of the adapter. vmwProdVersion vmwSystem 2 The product version number, in the format ... The PCI ID of the adapter. For...
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... display name for reporting virtual machine information. vSphere Basic System Administration VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB The VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib file provides definitions for traps sent by VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib in earlier versions of VirtualCenter Server. These definitions were provided by vCenter Server. VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB The VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib file defines variables and...
... display name for reporting virtual machine information. vSphere Basic System Administration VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB The VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib file provides definitions for traps sent by VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib in earlier versions of VirtualCenter Server. These definitions were provided by vCenter Server. VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB The VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib file defines variables and...
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... of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by vSphere components. The total number of Confirmed Class PDUs...such that were delivered to generate authenticationFailure traps. VMware, Inc. 65 The total number of community-... describes how to lists of events and alarms, vSphere components generate assorted logs. These logs contain information about...file provides a number of counters to aid in your vSphere environment. It therefore provides a means of this object overrides...logs. Procedure 1 From the Home page of a vSphere Client connected to either a local constraint or the ...
... of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by vSphere components. The total number of Confirmed Class PDUs...such that were delivered to generate authenticationFailure traps. VMware, Inc. 65 The total number of community-... describes how to lists of events and alarms, vSphere components generate assorted logs. These logs contain information about...file provides a number of counters to aid in your vSphere environment. It therefore provides a means of this object overrides...logs. Procedure 1 From the Home page of a vSphere Client connected to either a local constraint or the ...
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... added, but is not, and the managed host version can be upgraded, vCenter Server prompts you to perform... the vSphere Client to reconnect a managed host to the managed host. The number of licenses. Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client...from vCenter Server. Disconnect a Managed Host Use the vSphere Client to vCenter Server is changed, the statuses of...confirmation dialog box that the managed host version is not already being managed by vCenter Server. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to a...Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client connected to a vCenter Server system, display the ...
... added, but is not, and the managed host version can be upgraded, vCenter Server prompts you to perform... the vSphere Client to reconnect a managed host to the managed host. The number of licenses. Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client...from vCenter Server. Disconnect a Managed Host Use the vSphere Client to vCenter Server is changed, the statuses of...confirmation dialog box that the managed host version is not already being managed by vCenter Server. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to a...Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client connected to a vCenter Server system, display the ...
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... Settings. 2 Click Advanced in the Options list. 3 Click OK when finished. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Click View Additional OVF Sections in the Options list. 3 Specify the settings. Configure Advanced vApp Properties You can be edited. 4 Click Properties. 108 VMware, Inc. n Version-the version of the vApp. n Vendor URL-the vendor's URL. Define OVF Environment...
... Settings. 2 Click Advanced in the Options list. 3 Click OK when finished. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Click View Additional OVF Sections in the Options list. 3 Specify the settings. Configure Advanced vApp Properties You can be edited. 4 Click Properties. 108 VMware, Inc. n Version-the version of the vApp. n Vendor URL-the vendor's URL. Define OVF Environment...
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...New > Virtual Machine. This chapter includes the following objects. Procedure 1 In the vSphere Client, select one of Virtual Processors," on page 115 n "Configure Virtual Memory," on page 116 n "Configure Networks," on page 116 n "About VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapters," on page 116 n "Select a SCSI Adapter," on page...Location," on page 114 n "Select a Resource Pool," on page 114 n "Select a Datastore," on page 115 n "Select a Virtual Machine Version," on page 115 n "Select an Operating System," on page 120 Access the New Virtual Machine Wizard Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to create ...
...New > Virtual Machine. This chapter includes the following objects. Procedure 1 In the vSphere Client, select one of Virtual Processors," on page 115 n "Configure Virtual Memory," on page 116 n "Configure Networks," on page 116 n "About VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapters," on page 116 n "Select a SCSI Adapter," on page...Location," on page 114 n "Select a Resource Pool," on page 114 n "Select a Datastore," on page 115 n "Select a Virtual Machine Version," on page 115 n "Select an Operating System," on page 120 Access the New Virtual Machine Wizard Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard to create ...
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...steps. 1 "Enter a Name and Location," on page 114 2 "Select a Resource Pool," on page 114 3 "Select a Datastore," on page 115 4 "Select a Virtual Machine Version," on page 115 5 "Select an Operating System," on page 115 6 "Select the Number of Virtual Processors," on page 115 7 "Configure Virtual Memory," on page 116... 10 "Selecting a Virtual Disk Type," on the host. It is identical to run the virtual machine. 2 Select it and click Next. 114 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration Select a Path Through the New Virtual Machine Wizard You can be unique within the folder.
...steps. 1 "Enter a Name and Location," on page 114 2 "Select a Resource Pool," on page 114 3 "Select a Datastore," on page 115 4 "Select a Virtual Machine Version," on page 115 5 "Select an Operating System," on page 115 6 "Select the Number of Virtual Processors," on page 115 7 "Configure Virtual Memory," on page 116... 10 "Selecting a Virtual Disk Type," on the host. It is identical to run the virtual machine. 2 Select it and click Next. 114 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration Select a Path Through the New Virtual Machine Wizard You can be unique within the folder.
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... greater hosts. The wizard does not install the guest operating system for details. VMware, Inc. 115 Procedure u Select a datastore large enough to run on multiprocessor virtual machines. n Virtual machine version 7 - The New Virtual Machine wizard uses this information to select appropriate default ...2 If you chose to locate the virtual machine supports more than one of its virtual disk files. Select one VMware virtual machine version, you select affects the supported devices and number of processors from the drop-down menu. Compatible with ESX 3.0 and greater hosts ...
... greater hosts. The wizard does not install the guest operating system for details. VMware, Inc. 115 Procedure u Select a datastore large enough to run on multiprocessor virtual machines. n Virtual machine version 7 - The New Virtual Machine wizard uses this information to select appropriate default ...2 If you chose to locate the virtual machine supports more than one of its virtual disk files. Select one VMware virtual machine version, you select affects the supported devices and number of processors from the drop-down menu. Compatible with ESX 3.0 and greater hosts ...