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...Updated Information 9 About This Book 11 Getting Started 1 vSphere Components 15 Components of vSphere 15 vSphere Client Interfaces 17 Functional Components 17 Managed Components 19 Access Privileges Components 21 vCenter Server Modules 21 vCenter Components That Require Tomcat 22 Optional vCenter Server Components 22 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere...Host 25 Stop an ESX Host Manually 26 Starting vCenter Server 26 Start the vSphere Client and Log In 27 Stop the vSphere Client and Log Out 28 vSphere Web Access 28 VMware Service Console 29 3 Using vCenter Server in Linked Mode 31 Linked Mode ...
...Updated Information 9 About This Book 11 Getting Started 1 vSphere Components 15 Components of vSphere 15 vSphere Client Interfaces 17 Functional Components 17 Managed Components 19 Access Privileges Components 21 vCenter Server Modules 21 vCenter Components That Require Tomcat 22 Optional vCenter Server Components 22 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere...Host 25 Stop an ESX Host Manually 26 Starting vCenter Server 26 Start the vSphere Client and Log In 27 Stop the vSphere Client and Log Out 28 vSphere Web Access 28 VMware Service Console 29 3 Using vCenter Server in Linked Mode 31 Linked Mode ...
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..., datacenters, resource pools, and clusters. Configuration includes identifying the virtual machine's resources, such as VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion™, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Update Manager, and VMware Converter Enterprise. vSphere Components 1 VMware vSphere™ includes components and operations essential for virtualization. vSphere works with several client interfaces and offers many optional components and modules, such as storage...
..., datacenters, resource pools, and clusters. Configuration includes identifying the virtual machine's resources, such as VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion™, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Update Manager, and VMware Converter Enterprise. vSphere Components 1 VMware vSphere™ includes components and operations essential for virtualization. vSphere works with several client interfaces and offers many optional components and modules, such as storage...
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... networkA, they can appear in two datacenters and be unique within each virtual machine folder. Chapter 1 vSphere Components Solutions and Applications You use the Solutions and Applications panel to access vCenter Server extensions installed in your...VMware, Inc. 19 For example, you enable VMware DRS on a cluster, the resources of hosts, can access the VMware vCenter Guided Consolidation extension and the VMware vCenter Update Manager from host hardware failures.See the Resource Management Guide. Managed Components Managed components are merged to more easily manage...
... networkA, they can appear in two datacenters and be unique within each virtual machine folder. Chapter 1 vSphere Components Solutions and Applications You use the Solutions and Applications panel to access vCenter Server extensions installed in your...VMware, Inc. 19 For example, you enable VMware DRS on a cluster, the resources of hosts, can access the VMware vCenter Guided Consolidation extension and the VMware vCenter Update Manager from host hardware failures.See the Resource Management Guide. Managed Components Managed components are merged to more easily manage...
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...roles with specific sets of formats, to the user or the user's group on the same managed host machine concurrently. Chapter 1 vSphere Components Templates Virtual machines vApps A master copy of a virtual machine that can be upgraded ...managed virtual machines. The server determines which vSphere Client objects appear in to apply updates and patches across ESX/ESXi hosts and all hosts and virtual machines within the vSphere environment. Selected sample roles exist. VMware modules include: VMware Update Manager VMware Converter Enterprise for packaging and managing...
...roles with specific sets of formats, to the user or the user's group on the same managed host machine concurrently. Chapter 1 vSphere Components Templates Virtual machines vApps A master copy of a virtual machine that can be upgraded ...managed virtual machines. The server determines which vSphere Client objects appear in to apply updates and patches across ESX/ESXi hosts and all hosts and virtual machines within the vSphere environment. Selected sample roles exist. VMware modules include: VMware Update Manager VMware Converter Enterprise for packaging and managing...
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... you see a list only of these virtual machines changes to sort them by sales representative. VMware, Inc. 43 If the state of any inventory panel displaying a list, click the arrow next... are in the text and wait for all the managed hosts and virtual machines in the dialog box, and click Save. Chapter 4 Using the vSphere Client Filter a List View You can export a ...user session. Then use the new attribute to each virtual machine or managed host, as appropriate. A custom attribute is on . The list is updated based on the various Inventory panels. Filtering is a one second,...
... you see a list only of these virtual machines changes to sort them by sales representative. VMware, Inc. 43 If the state of any inventory panel displaying a list, click the arrow next... are in the text and wait for all the managed hosts and virtual machines in the dialog box, and click Save. Chapter 4 Using the vSphere Client Filter a List View You can export a ...user session. Then use the new attribute to each virtual machine or managed host, as appropriate. A custom attribute is on . The list is updated based on the various Inventory panels. Filtering is a one second,...
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vmwHbaModelName vmwHostBusAdapterEntry 5 The model name of the adapter. The PCI ID of the adapter. VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB The VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib file provides variables for identifying the VMware software running on a managed system by VMware MIB files. Table 5-9. VMWARE-TC-MIB The VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib file provides common textual conventions used by product name, version number...
vmwHbaModelName vmwHostBusAdapterEntry 5 The model name of the adapter. The PCI ID of the adapter. VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB The VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib file provides variables for identifying the VMware software running on a managed system by VMware MIB files. Table 5-9. VMWARE-TC-MIB The VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib file provides common textual conventions used by product name, version number...
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...number of licenses. Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client connected to a vCenter Server system, display the inventory and click the managed host to reflect the change. 80 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to the managed host, but for some reason cannot ... managed host version can disconnect and reconnect a host that the managed host is appended to disconnect a managed host from vCenter Server; If the managed host is disconnected, the word "disconnected" is not already being managed by vCenter Server. All associated virtual machines are updated ...
...number of licenses. Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client connected to a vCenter Server system, display the inventory and click the managed host to reflect the change. 80 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to the managed host, but for some reason cannot ... managed host version can disconnect and reconnect a host that the managed host is appended to disconnect a managed host from vCenter Server; If the managed host is disconnected, the word "disconnected" is not already being managed by vCenter Server. All associated virtual machines are updated ...
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... the Guided Consolidation section of Consolidation services. Configuring Consolidation Settings It is updated daily. This information is recommended that servlet container. For example: DOMAIN\...features and extensions might also be present inside a generic servlet container labeled VMware vCenter Management Webservices. Procedure 1 Click Change in them from a domain, you specify...are specified. The Configuration tab displays name, location, and health of the vSphere Client. Chapter 8 Consolidating the Datacenter About Consolidation Services Guided Consolidation can be...
... the Guided Consolidation section of Consolidation services. Configuring Consolidation Settings It is updated daily. This information is recommended that servlet container. For example: DOMAIN\...features and extensions might also be present inside a generic servlet container labeled VMware vCenter Management Webservices. Procedure 1 Click Change in them from a domain, you specify...are specified. The Configuration tab displays name, location, and health of the vSphere Client. Chapter 8 Consolidating the Datacenter About Consolidation Services Guided Consolidation can be...
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... when you no longer tracks its condition. vCenter Server removes references to remove the virtual machine from the host and vCenter Server. VMware, Inc. 137 Adding Existing Virtual Machines to vCenter Server When you want to the virtual machine and no longer have the correct ... files remain at the time you suspended the virtual machine are identified, and the vSphere Client updates the list of virtual machines. Prerequisites Power off , or suspend a virtual machine at a designated time. Chapter 12 Managing Virtual Machines 2 Do one of the following: n Select the virtual machine and ...
... when you no longer tracks its condition. vCenter Server removes references to remove the virtual machine from the host and vCenter Server. VMware, Inc. 137 Adding Existing Virtual Machines to vCenter Server When you want to the virtual machine and no longer have the correct ... files remain at the time you suspended the virtual machine are identified, and the vSphere Client updates the list of virtual machines. Prerequisites Power off , or suspend a virtual machine at a designated time. Chapter 12 Managing Virtual Machines 2 Do one of the following: n Select the virtual machine and ...
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...specific to consume a disproportionate share of processor (or CPU) time. Appliance Options Virtual machine options for ESX. Power Management Virtual machine Suspend behavior. NOTE Not all guest operating systems support SMP, and some that communicate over a serial connection...> General Acceleration, logging, debugging and statistics. This makes the host and other Advanced options. VMware Tools Power Controls behavior, VMware Tools scripts and automatic updates. vSphere Basic System Administration 8 Under I/O Mode, decide whether to configure this serial port to use ...
...specific to consume a disproportionate share of processor (or CPU) time. Appliance Options Virtual machine options for ESX. Power Management Virtual machine Suspend behavior. NOTE Not all guest operating systems support SMP, and some that communicate over a serial connection...> General Acceleration, logging, debugging and statistics. This makes the host and other Advanced options. VMware Tools Power Controls behavior, VMware Tools scripts and automatic updates. vSphere Basic System Administration 8 Under I/O Mode, decide whether to configure this serial port to use ...
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... of the active virtual machine. Large numbers of snapshots are difficult to manage, take that snapshot. With snapshots, you do not use a snapshot as a restoration point during a linear or iterative process, such as installing update packages, or during a branching process, such as an alternative solution.... create restore positions in a linear process. When you revert to a snapshot, you return all the virtual machine's virtual disks NOTE VMware does not support snapshots of raw disks, RDM physical mode disks, independent disks, or of the virtual machine at the time you don...
... of the active virtual machine. Large numbers of snapshots are difficult to manage, take that snapshot. With snapshots, you do not use a snapshot as a restoration point during a linear or iterative process, such as installing update packages, or during a branching process, such as an alternative solution.... create restore positions in a linear process. When you revert to a snapshot, you return all the virtual machine's virtual disks NOTE VMware does not support snapshots of raw disks, RDM physical mode disks, independent disks, or of the virtual machine at the time you don...
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...by default. You can manually update the reports by adding or removing columns. In the vSphere Client, for the object's ...Update. Reports are updated every 30 minutes. You can display and review statistics for all virtual machines that have the vCenter Storage Monitoring plug-in the Storage Views tab. For example, if the inventory object is a datastore, you can display information for different categories depending on storage attributes and keywords. VMware...Monitoring Storage Resources 19 If you use vCenter Server to manage your ESX/ESXi hosts, you can review information on...
...by default. You can manually update the reports by adding or removing columns. In the vSphere Client, for the object's ...Update. Reports are updated every 30 minutes. You can display and review statistics for all virtual machines that have the vCenter Storage Monitoring plug-in the Storage Views tab. For example, if the inventory object is a datastore, you can display information for different categories depending on storage attributes and keywords. VMware...Monitoring Storage Resources 19 If you use vCenter Server to manage your ESX/ESXi hosts, you can review information on...
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...mode Account created, Account removed, Account updated. Host connected, Host disconnected. Connection lost, Cannot reconnect host. Lost network connectivity, Lost network redundancy, Lost storage connectivity, Lost storage path redundancy. 240 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 21-9. Cannot...expired, No license. Cannot connect host, Host already managed, Incorrect Ccagent, Incorrect user name, Incompatible version, Ccagent upgrade, Network error, No access. Cannot start secondary VM, Cannot update secondary VM configuration. No compatible host for secondary VM....
...mode Account created, Account removed, Account updated. Host connected, Host disconnected. Connection lost, Cannot reconnect host. Lost network connectivity, Lost network redundancy, Lost storage connectivity, Lost storage path redundancy. 240 VMware, Inc. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 21-9. Cannot...expired, No license. Cannot connect host, Host already managed, Incorrect Ccagent, Incorrect user name, Incompatible version, Ccagent upgrade, Network error, No access. Cannot start secondary VM, Cannot update secondary VM configuration. No compatible host for secondary VM....
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...on datacenters. Host has extra HA networks, Host has no available HA networks, Host is missing HA networks, N.o redundant management network for host. Custom field value changed Inventory Host added, Host not in cluster. vNetwork Distributed Switch merged, renamed, ...on some hosts differed from failure. Already authenticated. VMware, Inc. 241 General error information Host error, Host information, Host warning. Cannot complete DRS resource configuration, Resource configuration synchronized. Permission added, removed, updated. Chapter 21 Working with Alarms Table 21-10...
...on datacenters. Host has extra HA networks, Host has no available HA networks, Host is missing HA networks, N.o redundant management network for host. Custom field value changed Inventory Host added, Host not in cluster. vNetwork Distributed Switch merged, renamed, ...on some hosts differed from failure. Already authenticated. VMware, Inc. 241 General error information Host error, Host information, Host warning. Cannot complete DRS resource configuration, Resource configuration synchronized. Permission added, removed, updated. Chapter 21 Working with Alarms Table 21-10...
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... Alarm Settings dialog box. 5 Edit the alarm general settings, triggers, reporting, or actions, as needed. VMware, Inc. 253 The list of Alarms You can enable a disabled alarm at any managed object in column lists the object on which the alarm is not This object, click the object name. The... Defined in the inventory. Required privilege: Alarm.Modify Alarm Procedure 1 Display the object in column. 4 Double-click the alarm to a system file, a list of the alarm and updates ...
... Alarm Settings dialog box. 5 Edit the alarm general settings, triggers, reporting, or actions, as needed. VMware, Inc. 253 The list of Alarms You can enable a disabled alarm at any managed object in column lists the object on which the alarm is not This object, click the object name. The... Defined in the inventory. Required privilege: Alarm.Modify Alarm Procedure 1 Display the object in column. 4 Double-click the alarm to a system file, a list of the alarm and updates ...
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... search field is not displayed, select View > Filtering. 4 Click the search field arrow and select the attributes to create and manage scheduled tasks. Table 23-1. Change resource settings of a profile Checks that has not run once in the Recent Tasks pane of ...of a resource pool or virtual machine Changes the following table. Clone a virtual machine Makes a clone of the vSphere Client. VMware, Inc. 281 Required privileges: n Manual tasks: Tasks.Update Task n Scheduled tasks:Scheduled Task.Remove Task n Appropriate permissions on the host where the task is running task ...
... search field is not displayed, select View > Filtering. 4 Click the search field arrow and select the attributes to create and manage scheduled tasks. Table 23-1. Change resource settings of a profile Checks that has not run once in the Recent Tasks pane of ...of a resource pool or virtual machine Changes the following table. Clone a virtual machine Makes a clone of the vSphere Client. VMware, Inc. 281 Required privileges: n Manual tasks: Tasks.Update Task n Scheduled tasks:Scheduled Task.Remove Task n Appropriate permissions on the host where the task is running task ...
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... system image into a virtual machine that task. This scheduled task is available only when VMware vCenter Converter is installed. This task is available only when VMware vCenter Update Manager is installed. Scheduling one scheduled task on a host that host. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 23-1. Remediate Downloads any new patches discovered during the scan operation...
... system image into a virtual machine that task. This scheduled task is available only when VMware vCenter Converter is installed. This task is available only when VMware vCenter Update Manager is installed. Scheduling one scheduled task on a host that host. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 23-1. Remediate Downloads any new patches discovered during the scan operation...
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... extension (plug-in) Affects VC only Unregister extension Update extension Unregisters an extension (plug-in) Updates an extension (plug-in) VC only VC only ... the source and destination. User interface element - vSphere Basic System Administration Extensions Extensions privileges control the ability to create and manage folders. User interface element- In order to have... Object Folders Folders plus parent object Folders Folders, source Folders and destination Folders Folders 296 VMware, Inc. Table A-6. Inventory drag-anddrop VC only Changes the name of a folder. ...
... extension (plug-in) Affects VC only Unregister extension Update extension Unregisters an extension (plug-in) Updates an extension (plug-in) VC only VC only ... the source and destination. User interface element - vSphere Basic System Administration Extensions Extensions privileges control the ability to create and manage folders. User interface element- In order to have... Object Folders Folders plus parent object Folders Folders, source Folders and destination Folders Folders 296 VMware, Inc. Table A-6. Inventory drag-anddrop VC only Changes the name of a folder. ...
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... Hosts (ESXi only) Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts VMware, Inc. 299 HC and VC Hyperthreading Enable and disable hyperthreading ...restart, and stop SNMP agent. No user vSphere Client interface elements are associated with this privilege. No user vSphere Client interface elements are associated with this privilege.... Configure internet services, such as SSH, Telnet, SNMP, and host firewall. Manage iSCSI. Host Configuration tab > Advanced Settings, Inventory hierarchy context menu HC and...Update the host firmware on ESXi hosts. Appendix A Defined Privileges Table A-10.
... Hosts (ESXi only) Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts Hosts VMware, Inc. 299 HC and VC Hyperthreading Enable and disable hyperthreading ...restart, and stop SNMP agent. No user vSphere Client interface elements are associated with this privilege. No user vSphere Client interface elements are associated with this privilege.... Configure internet services, such as SSH, Telnet, SNMP, and host firewall. Manage iSCSI. Host Configuration tab > Advanced Settings, Inventory hierarchy context menu HC and...Update the host firmware on ESXi hosts. Appendix A Defined Privileges Table A-10.
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vSphere Basic System Administration Fibre Channel NPIV settings 150 floppy drives 144, 158 guest operating system 120 guest operating system customization 173 guest ... installer) 125 VMware Update Manager 21 VMware vCenter Management Webservices 91 VMware vCenter Orchestrator 22 VMware Virtual SMP 115 VMWARE-ENV-MIB, definitions 56 VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB, definitions 57 VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB, definitions 60 VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB, definitions 60 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB, definitions 56 VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB, definitions 61 VMWARE-TC-MIB, definitions 61 VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB, definitions 62 VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB, ...
vSphere Basic System Administration Fibre Channel NPIV settings 150 floppy drives 144, 158 guest operating system 120 guest operating system customization 173 guest ... installer) 125 VMware Update Manager 21 VMware vCenter Management Webservices 91 VMware vCenter Orchestrator 22 VMware Virtual SMP 115 VMWARE-ENV-MIB, definitions 56 VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB, definitions 57 VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB, definitions 60 VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB, definitions 60 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB, definitions 56 VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB, definitions 61 VMWARE-TC-MIB, definitions 61 VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB, definitions 62 VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB, ...