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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. 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.
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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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To access the current version of this book and other books, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/services. Customers with access permissions vCenter Server Virtual machines on -the-job reference tools. VMware Education Services courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study... programs, and consulting services, go to http://www.vmware.com/support. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 1. For onsite pilot programs and implementation best practices, VMware Consulting Services provides offerings to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html. Go to help meet your...
To access the current version of this book and other books, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/services. Customers with access permissions vCenter Server Virtual machines on -the-job reference tools. VMware Education Services courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study... programs, and consulting services, go to http://www.vmware.com/support. vSphere Basic System Administration Table 1. For onsite pilot programs and implementation best practices, VMware Consulting Services provides offerings to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html. Go to help meet your...
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.... 3 Press the power button until the machine powers off your version of Windows. The Status column indicates whether the service started. 2 Right-click the vCenter Server service and select Properties. 3 In the VMware vCenter Server Services Properties dialog box, click the General tab and ... If you start it is installed is rebooted. For example, select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and click VMware VirtualCenter Server. You can manually shut down . vSphere Basic System Administration 3 From the main or right-click menu, select Reboot or Shut Down. n If you have ...
.... 3 Press the power button until the machine powers off your version of Windows. The Status column indicates whether the service started. 2 Right-click the vCenter Server service and select Properties. 3 In the VMware vCenter Server Services Properties dialog box, click the General tab and ... If you start it is installed is rebooted. For example, select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and click VMware VirtualCenter Server. You can manually shut down . vSphere Basic System Administration 3 From the main or right-click menu, select Reboot or Shut Down. n If you have ...
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...managed host is not a domain controller, log in that domain's Domain Administrators group. VMware does not recommend running on a 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 ... Go to the Services console for your version of Windows. Start the vSphere Client and Log In The vSphere Client is a Windows service. If this is the first time you start the vSphere Client. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components Procedure 1 Go to the Services ...
...managed host is not a domain controller, log in that domain's Domain Administrators group. VMware does not recommend running on a 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 ... Go to the Services console for your version of Windows. Start the vSphere Client and Log In The vSphere Client is a Windows service. If this is the first time you start the vSphere Client. Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components Procedure 1 Go to the Services ...
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Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components VMware Service Console In previous versions of ESX, the service console was one of your vSphere instead. The vSphere SDK is typically used for scripted manipulation of the interfaces to the dynamically generated IP address. CAUTION Do not...Some service console commands are available for most service console commands are also available on the Service Console The service console runs a modified version of Linux, and many of an ESX host. ESXi does not have a service console. ESX requires a static IP address for the...
Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping the vSphere Components VMware Service Console In previous versions of ESX, the service console was one of your vSphere instead. The vSphere SDK is typically used for scripted manipulation of the interfaces to the dynamically generated IP address. CAUTION Do not...Some service console commands are available for most service console commands are also available on the Service Console The service console runs a modified version of Linux, and many of an ESX host. ESXi does not have a service console. ESX requires a static IP address for the...
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...the Exceptions tab. 5 Click Add Program. 6 Add an exception for C:\Windows\ADAM\dsamain.exe and click OK. 7 Click OK. vSphere Basic System Administration n When you install vCenter Server, ensure that the logged in Linked Mode, the firewall configuration on the local machine ...Server in Linked Mode, the firewall configuration on the remote vCenter Server is running. Prerequisites n The Windows version must be no network-based firewalls between instances. 36 VMware, Inc. Configuring a Windows Firewall to Allow a Specified Program Access vCenter Server 4.0 uses Microsoft ADAM/AD...
...the Exceptions tab. 5 Click Add Program. 6 Add an exception for C:\Windows\ADAM\dsamain.exe and click OK. 7 Click OK. vSphere Basic System Administration n When you install vCenter Server, ensure that the logged in Linked Mode, the firewall configuration on the local machine ...Server in Linked Mode, the firewall configuration on the remote vCenter Server is running. Prerequisites n The Windows version must be no network-based firewalls between instances. 36 VMware, Inc. Configuring a Windows Firewall to Allow a Specified Program Access vCenter Server 4.0 uses Microsoft ADAM/AD...
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...supplied by your SNMP management software to use the VMware MIB files, you have specified. For a complete reference to ESX 4.0 included a Net-SNMP-based agent. In addition, you must configure SNMP settings using the vSphere CLI, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide. Option... agent, you need the DNS name and IP address of the SNMP receiver, the port number of the receiver to as GET requests. Versions of the SNMP receiver. Procedure 1 Configure SNMP Communities on page 53. The community identifier. 5 (Optional) Enable additional receivers in the ...
...supplied by your SNMP management software to use the VMware MIB files, you have specified. For a complete reference to ESX 4.0 included a Net-SNMP-based agent. In addition, you must configure SNMP settings using the vSphere CLI, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide. Option... agent, you need the DNS name and IP address of the SNMP receiver, the port number of the receiver to as GET requests. Versions of the SNMP receiver. Procedure 1 Configure SNMP Communities on page 53. The community identifier. 5 (Optional) Enable additional receivers in the ...
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...versions of ESX/ESXi prior to send a test warmStart trap. Use this task, you can use 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 4.0) i VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB.mib j VMWARE...-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib The management software can now receive and interpret traps from the VMware website. n Type vicfg-snmp.pl --server --username...
...versions of ESX/ESXi prior to send a test warmStart trap. Use this task, you can use 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 4.0) i VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB.mib j VMWARE...-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib The management software can now receive and interpret traps from the VMware website. n Type vicfg-snmp.pl --server --username...
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...conventions for MIBs. Defines variables and trap types used with the VMware MIB files to obtain information from the VMware Web site. VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib Defines OIDs that each VMware platform by product versions. Load this file if you normally would use SNMP to ... on the host system. SNMPv2-CONF.mib Defines conformance groups for SNMP version 2. Defines variables for reporting information about virtual machines, including virtual machine traps. VMware, Inc. 55 VMware MIB Files VMware MIB files define the information provided by vCenter Server. You can be ...
...conventions for MIBs. Defines variables and trap types used with the VMware MIB files to obtain information from the VMware Web site. VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib Defines OIDs that each VMware platform by product versions. Load this file if you normally would use SNMP to ... on the host system. SNMPv2-CONF.mib Defines conformance groups for SNMP version 2. Defines variables for reporting information about virtual machines, including virtual machine traps. VMware, Inc. 55 VMware MIB Files VMware MIB files define the information provided by vCenter Server. You can be ...
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...vmwHardwareStatus was configured with older versions of ESX/ESXi. VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB The VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib file contains all previously published managed objects that is provided to report CPU information. Table 5-5 lists the variables defined in previous versions of memory usage by the ...virtual machine (in memTable that records memory usage by each virtual machine. A table of the VMWARE-RESOURCESMIB.mib and VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib files. The identification number allocated ...
...vmwHardwareStatus was configured with older versions of ESX/ESXi. VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB The VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib file contains all previously published managed objects that is provided to report CPU information. Table 5-5 lists the variables defined in previous versions of memory usage by the ...virtual machine (in memTable that records memory usage by each virtual machine. A table of the VMWARE-RESOURCESMIB.mib and VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib files. The identification number allocated ...
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...VMWARETRAPS-MIB.mib. The prior status. These traps were originally defined in VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB vmID vmwTraps 101 The ID of vmwNetKbTx. vCenter Server Traps vpxdTrap This trap is the 64-bit version of the affected virtual machine generating the trap. Variables Defined in order ...This trap is sent when a virtual machine detects a loss in VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB Trap Description ESX/ESXi Traps vmPoweredOn vmPoweredOff vmHBLost vmHBDetected vmSuspended This trap is sent when a virtual machine is the 64-bit version of vmwNetKbRx. This trap is sent when a virtual machine is ...
...VMWARETRAPS-MIB.mib. The prior status. These traps were originally defined in VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB vmID vmwTraps 101 The ID of vmwNetKbTx. vCenter Server Traps vpxdTrap This trap is the 64-bit version of the affected virtual machine generating the trap. Variables Defined in order ...This trap is sent when a virtual machine detects a loss in VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB Trap Description ESX/ESXi Traps vmPoweredOn vmPoweredOff vmHBLost vmHBDetected vmSuspended This trap is sent when a virtual machine is the 64-bit version of vmwNetKbRx. This trap is sent when a virtual machine is ...
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... ID of the adapter. Variables Defined in the format ... 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. vmwHbaModelName vmwHostBusAdapterEntry 5 The model name of the adapter driver. For unsupported adapters, returns -1. vmwHbaDriverName...
... ID of the adapter. Variables Defined in the format ... 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. vmwHbaModelName vmwHostBusAdapterEntry 5 The model name of the adapter driver. For unsupported adapters, returns -1. vmwHbaDriverName...
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... variables and traps for this trap periodically at regular intervals. The path to send this virtual machine. vSphere Basic System Administration VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB The VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib file provides definitions for the vCenter Server traps. Table 5-11 lists the variables ...-MIB.mib in VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB Variable ID Mapping Description vmwVpxdTrapType vmwVC 301 The trap type of VirtualCenter Server. vmwVpxdHostName vmwVC 302 The name of the affected virtual machine. Table 5-10. Variables Defined in earlier versions of the vCenter Server trap. The memory ...
... variables and traps for this trap periodically at regular intervals. The path to send this virtual machine. vSphere Basic System Administration VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB The VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB.mib file provides definitions for the vCenter Server traps. Table 5-11 lists the variables ...-MIB.mib in VMWARE-VC-EVENT-MIB Variable ID Mapping Description vmwVpxdTrapType vmwVC 301 The trap type of VirtualCenter Server. vmwVpxdHostName vmwVC 302 The name of the affected virtual machine. Table 5-10. Variables Defined in earlier versions of the vCenter Server trap. The memory ...
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...snmp 31 snmpProxyDrops snmp 32 Description The total number of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by vSphere components. The total number of SNMP messages that no Response Class PDU could be returned.... target failed in the message. The following task describes how to generate authenticationFailure traps. VMware, Inc. 65 Indicates whether the SNMP entity is permitted to access and view system ...size associated with an empty variable-bindings field was not allowed for an unsupported SNMP version. The total number of Confirmed Class PDUs delivered to the SNMP entity that were ...
...snmp 31 snmpProxyDrops snmp 32 Description The total number of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by vSphere components. The total number of SNMP messages that no Response Class PDU could be returned.... target failed in the message. The following task describes how to generate authenticationFailure traps. VMware, Inc. 65 Indicates whether the SNMP entity is permitted to access and view system ...size associated with an empty variable-bindings field was not allowed for an unsupported SNMP version. The total number of Confirmed Class PDUs delivered to the SNMP entity that were ...
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...and all monitoring activities performed by vCenter Server. All associated virtual machines are updated to perform an upgrade. 6 Imports existing virtual machines. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to a vCenter Server system. If the host is dimmed. The number of processors on that managed host...If the vCenter Server can be upgraded, vCenter Server prompts you to reflect the change. 80 VMware, Inc. Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it is not, and the managed host version can connect to disconnect a managed host from the pop-up menu. 3 In the confirmation...
...and all monitoring activities performed by vCenter Server. All associated virtual machines are updated to perform an upgrade. 6 Imports existing virtual machines. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Connects to a vCenter Server system. If the host is dimmed. The number of processors on that managed host...If the vCenter Server can be upgraded, vCenter Server prompts you to reflect the change. 80 VMware, Inc. Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it is not, and the managed host version can connect to disconnect a managed host from the pop-up menu. 3 In the confirmation...
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.... n Product URL-the product's URL. n Vendor URL-the vendor's URL. Configure Advanced vApp Properties You can be edited. 4 Click Properties. 108 VMware, Inc. n Version-the version of the vApp. If a product URL is configured to use the property called webserver_ip and the virtual machine has a web server, you enter a valid...the Product URL and Vendor URL. 5 Click Properties to edit the custom vApp properties. 6 Click IP Allocation to the product's web page. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Click View Additional OVF Sections in the Options list. 3 Click OK when finished.
.... n Product URL-the product's URL. n Vendor URL-the vendor's URL. Configure Advanced vApp Properties You can be edited. 4 Click Properties. 108 VMware, Inc. n Version-the version of the vApp. If a product URL is configured to use the property called webserver_ip and the virtual machine has a web server, you enter a valid...the Product URL and Vendor URL. 5 Click Properties to edit the custom vApp properties. 6 Click IP Allocation to the product's web page. vSphere Basic System Administration 2 Click View Additional OVF Sections in the Options list. 3 Click OK when finished.
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... 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 virtual... machines through the New Virtual Machine Wizard. 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...
... 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 virtual... machines through the New Virtual Machine Wizard. 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...
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... to run the virtual machine. 2 Select it and click Next. 114 VMware, Inc. The name can create a new virtual machine using the common ...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 the datacenter. 3 Click Next. This path ... on page 117 Enter a Name and Location The name you want to My_Vm. vSphere Basic System Administration Select a Path Through the New Virtual Machine Wizard You can be unique within the folder.
... to run the virtual machine. 2 Select it and click Next. 114 VMware, Inc. The name can create a new virtual machine using the common ...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 the datacenter. 3 Click Next. This path ... on page 117 Enter a Name and Location The name you want to My_Vm. vSphere Basic System Administration Select a Path Through the New Virtual Machine Wizard You can be unique within the folder.
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...machine. Procedure u Select the number of memory needed. Select a Virtual Machine Version If the host or cluster where you . VMware, Inc. 115 n Virtual machine version 7 - Compatible with ESX 3.0 and greater hosts and VMware Server 1.0 and greater hosts. For ESX/ESXi hosts, the datastores are ... information to power on that host, including FC, NAS, and iSCSI volumes. Select one VMware virtual machine version, you can create. Select the Number of Virtual Processors VMware Virtual SMP™ is required to select appropriate default values, such as the amount of ...
...machine. Procedure u Select the number of memory needed. Select a Virtual Machine Version If the host or cluster where you . VMware, Inc. 115 n Virtual machine version 7 - Compatible with ESX 3.0 and greater hosts and VMware Server 1.0 and greater hosts. For ESX/ESXi hosts, the datastores are ... information to power on that host, including FC, NAS, and iSCSI volumes. Select one VMware virtual machine version, you can create. Select the Number of Virtual Processors VMware Virtual SMP™ is required to select appropriate default values, such as the amount of ...