Quantcast
Channel: VMware Communities : All Content - vSphere Upgrade & Install
Viewing all 3263 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

Upgrading 6.5 VCHA with external Platform Services Controllers

October 30, 2017, 10:20 am
$
0
0

Hey Community,

 

I wanted to confirm the upgrade steps for vCenter 6.5 with external platform services controller and VCHA.

 

In my configuration I have two platform services controller that sit behind a load balancer, and vCenter is configured with VCHA utilizing the load balancer's VIP for connectivity to the platform services controller.

 

In order to do the upgrade I figure the steps would be as follows

 

PSC:

  1. Snapshot both Platform Services Controllers
  2. Login to PSC 01 on the management interface, conduct the upgrade through the webgui and reboot
  3. Login to PSC 02 on the management interface after PSC 01 is back online, upgrade through the webgui and reboot

 

vCenter

  1. Snapshot all 3 vCenter virtual machines (witness, peer, primary)
  2. Put VCHA cluster into maintenance mode
  3. Patch the witness node (attach ISO to VM and execute 'software-packages install'. Reboot after patch
  4. Patch the secondary (peer) node and reboot.
  5. Fail over cluster to secondary node after its back online
  6. Patch the primary node and reboot
  7. Fail cluster back to primary node (optional)

 

I didn't find a KB or blog article specifically outlining the upgrade steps for this configuration.

 

Thanks for validating.

↧
Search

VMware NSX Eval with VSphere Essentials Plus Kit?

October 30, 2017, 4:31 pm
$
0
0

Is it possible to use EVAL version of VMware NSX if I have essentials plus license? Again, as I asked in another thread, my purpose is to run NSX for training purposes, and I want to do it in legally, stress-free and good hearted way! But also do not want to spare $7000 per CPU for NSX production licenseQ

↧
↧

updating esxi 6.0 lenovo build

October 30, 2017, 12:03 pm
$
0
0

I would like to update this to the 6.5 lenovo build

any thing to know or beware of or is it pop in the disk boot and it will ask me to upgrade?

↧

Esxi 5.0 Hosts upgrade to Esxi 5.5

October 31, 2017, 8:09 pm
$
0
0

HI,   My Vcenter 5.0 running on Windows 2008 r2 . So do i have to set SPN before the  upgrade? (setspn -Q STS/child-domain.vmware.com)   Or just select the Disk and upgrade? As

↧

ESXi 6.0 on Cisco UCS C220 M5

November 1, 2017, 9:32 am
$
0
0

Getting nfs41client failed to load on install an no valid network adapters found?

 

There are two 10GBASE-T Intel x550 Ethernet ports

 

anyone have any suggestions?  Assume the NIC are supported - going to try 6.5 in the mean time.

↧
↧

vCenter Server 6.5 for Windows OR VCSA 6.5?

February 12, 2017, 5:40 am
$
0
0

Hi All,

 

With vSphere 6.5, can we completely abandon vCenter server 6.5 for windows? is VCSA 6.5 able to take the place of vCenter for windows? 

 

Regards

↧

Noob Installation of ESXi 6.5 with Errors

November 6, 2017, 10:24 pm
$
0
0

I am trying to install ESXi 6.5 from USB Boot for testing and I got these errors. Anyone can help me what to do? Images of Error are attached. Please Help.. Thanks23336518_1497657126955639_2134899322_o.jpg23336375_1497657163622302_2128221323_o.jpg

↧

vCSA 6.5 upgrade parallel build

November 7, 2017, 9:33 am
$
0
0

Hi There,

 

We are running on vSpehre 5.5 with 30 ESXi hosts and one Windows vCenter server, and planning to upgrade the infrastructure to vSphere 6.5 U1.

We would like to follow green field approach for upgrading the platform. That means instead upgrading the existing vCenter server, deploy the new vCenter server appliance (without native HA), install, configure then migrate the ESXi hosts to new vCenter server, finally decommission the Windows vCenter server.

 

Though googled,I could not get right information for this approach I need to follow. When I install new VCSA 6.5, do I need to deploy that linked mode to be able to migrate the ESXi hosts and VMs? What is the best practice for this approach? Could you help me with high level steps ?

 

Thanks in advance

Mahi

↧
Search

Opening Vcenter 6.0 with Virgo Server shows VCenter Servers/DataCenters/Host as empty?

June 3, 2015, 6:51 am
$
0
0

Hi All,

          I recently configured VCenter 6.0 server. Then to connect with that vcenter 6.0, i configured my development machine as it told in SDK docs.

 

After starting "Virgo Server", i opened my vcenter 6.0 server in my browser as follows,

"https://localhost:9443/vsphere-client/"..

 

It login successfully but it shows VCenter Servers,DataCenters and Host as empty.

 

I dont know whether i am missing any other configuration. Can somebody help me pls?

 

Note:

I added my vcenter 6.0 domain name in "hosts" file which is in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc.

↧
↧

VCSA 6u2 check for updates fails using internet proxy

April 28, 2016, 1:18 pm
$
0
0

I am having this problem that if I use Check Updates -> Check URL I get the error "Download Failed." in the VMware Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)

Internet Proxy is configured in VAMI.

 

This problem applies to both of these versions.

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

6.0.0.20000 Build Number 3634791

 

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

6.0.0.10200 Build Number 3343022

 

I am checking

/var/log/vmware/applmgmt/software-packages.log

 

and find

 

Resolving vapp-updates.vmware.com... failed: Name or service not known.

wget: unable to resolve host address `vapp-updates.vmware.com'

 

Yes DNS server does not resolve internet IPs but that is no problem for vRO appliance or older vSphere Update Manager or any internet browser.

 

Actually nothing reaches the internet proxy (logging on firewall) it appears the VCSA does not even try to contact the internet proxy.

 

Anybody an idea what's wrong? I think DNS shouldn't have to forward to internet DNS, I mean VRO and older vSphere Update Manager can do without it as well.

↧

Download of vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi ISO) image and license keys

November 8, 2017, 4:07 am
$
0
0

Hello

 

I am contacting you because I need to clarify a point regarding the download of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi ISO) image (Includes VMware Tools).

 

I am looking for the free version (free trial for 60 days) and I do not know if I have to download the "6.5.0 0a" or the "6.5.0 U1" version.

 

I mean I am currently using a "ESXi 6.0 U2" ISO image on my serveur and now I would like to uninstall this version in order to install the 6.5 one.

 

My questions are:

 

1. Can I download the "6.5.0 U1" for free ? If yes, where can I get the License key ? (a License Key is provided at the "6.5.0 0a" download page and not provided at "6.5.0 U1" download page). If it possible can someone give me the link to download the "6.5.0 U1" with the License Key mentionned ?

 

2. I read that the 6.5.0 version will not completely expire in 60 days but there are new limitations to the usage of it (as long as we do not have a requirement of VM's greater the 8vCPU (Socket or Core) then it will work as previously). Is that correct ? and will I have to enter another key after the 60 days (both for the 6.5.0 0a and 6.5.0 U1 versions) ?

 

In advance, I thank you very much for your help.

 

Damien

↧

Moving vm's from ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 6

September 29, 2015, 1:22 pm
$
0
0

We have four esx v4.0 hosts and a vcenter server on 2003.  Been running 7 years so it's time to retire.

 

The vm's are already on a new Equalogic iSCSI array.

 

I know I can't vmotion between the different hardware platforms, and vcenter server 6.0 won't manage ESXi 4.0 anyway.

 

If I bring up four new 6.0 hosts and a new vcenter server, I'm thinking I can shut down a vm, remove it from the 4.0 inventory, and add it to the 6.0 cluster.  Then boot it up.

 

Would this work?

 

Darron...

↧

The query execution timed out because of a back-end property provider 'com.vmware.vsphere.client.storage.impl.StoragePropertyProvider' which took more than 120 seconds.

November 12, 2017, 8:12 am
$
0
0

Unable to present LUNs to vSphere, timeout on new datastore Name and device selection

 

This error is addressed inkb 2146229 but the workaround doesn’t apply for 6.5.0, in my case I’m on 6.5 U1 Build 5973321

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146229

 

The path to query-server-config.xml is no longer /usr/lib/vmware-invsvc/lib/server/config/

When I finally found query-server-config.xml the<property name="xdbMemPercentage" value="<I>XX" /> is no longer in there.

 

As this was a timeout issue, and in my case I was presenting 12 LUNs with x8 paths, I asked the storage team to just present 4 LUNs at a time and this worked.

 

However I just found that there appears to be an option to set this from vSphere Client.

Right click on the vCenter Server (top of the Navigator pane) > Configuration > General – Timeout Setting

 

vcsa-6-5-settings.JPG

I cannot test this in my current environment, if someone is able to fix this issue through increasing the timeout in the web client please reply and let the community know.

↧
↧

Install ESXi to HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System

November 13, 2017, 6:35 am
$
0
0

Good Day.

I trying launch ESXI on HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System.

I install VMware-ESXi (VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-6765206-HPE-600.10.1.5.19-Oct2017) on 1 of 2 x5460sb g2 ntwk stor blade.

But VMware-ESXi don't see Enclosure storage controller P1210m. (p/n 607190-001)

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

I can't find drivers for storage controller P1210m.

Thanks in advance.

↧

Cannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5 - Internal error occurs during Export of vSphere ESX Agent Manager

March 3, 2017, 1:24 am
$
0
0

Hello,

 

Cannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to VCSA 6.5

always on stage 2 i get this error:


Error

Internal error occurs during Export of vSphere ESX Agent Manager.


Resolution

Send upgrade log files to VMware technical support team for further assistance.

 

i found article https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2147898, but this article applied only to vCenter Server 6.0 installed on Windows

↧
Search

vSphere Upgrade- Scenario

November 16, 2017, 1:17 am
$
0
0

Hello Experts

I have the customer secanrio given below

Current Environment

Production Site : vCenter 5.5 U3, ESXi 5.5 U3, IBM x3850 X5, EMC Storage

DR Site :  vCenter 5.5 U3, ESXi 5.5 U3, IBM x3850 X5, IBM V7000

 

Target Environment

Production Site : vCenter 6.5 U1/U2, ESXi 6.5 U1/2, New Lenovo Rack Servers, EMC Storage

DR Site : vCenter 5.5 U3, ESXi 5.5 U3, IBM x3850 X5, IBM V7000 (No changes to the current DR Site)

 

Customer wanted to achieve fail-over and fail-back of VMs(by using DELL data protection only) .Will this scenario supported?? Kindly advise

 

Thanks

Bala

↧

Upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 fails: Source vCenter Server schema validation found an issue

November 16, 2017, 6:44 pm
$
0
0

So everything was going fine, i am upgrading from vcenter 6.0 windows embedded to vcenter 6.5 appliance w/external psc.  I am at the point where I run the migration assistant on the vcenter and now I am failing the precheck.  I have extra tables or columns, but I dont' know the exact sql query to run.  I will post the whole file, but I will post what I think is the most relevant part of the vcdb_req.err log

 

1 [42000](50000) [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]ERROR ! Extra tables or columns: VPX_BULLETIN_OPERATION.OPERATION_DESC; VPX_BULLETIN_OPERATION.OPERATION_ID; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_FT_NETWORK; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_FT_STORAGE; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_NETWORK; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_STORAGE; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE_DAS_VM.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_FT_NETWORK; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE_DAS_VM.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_FT_STORAGE; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE_DAS_VM.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_NETWORK; VPX_COMPUTE_RESOURCE_DAS_VM.VM_COMPONENT_PROT_STORAGE; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.ACTION; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_END_PORT_ID; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_IP_ADDRESS; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_IP_COMPARATOR; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_IP_PREFIX_LENGTH; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_PORT_COMPARATOR; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DEST_START_PORT_ID; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.DVS_ID; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.RULE_TYPE; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.SEQUENCE; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_RULES.SOURCE_END_PORT_ID; VPX_DVS_IP_ACL_R

ERROR: Cannot execute statement(rc=-1).

BEGIN

DECLARE @err_msg VARCHAR(2000)

DECLARE @err_msg_full VARCHAR(4000)

DECLARE @verid INT

 

Any help in this is much appreciated

↧
↧

Incremental update for v8.5.9 did not work properly

November 18, 2017, 2:39 pm
$
0
0

Yesterday I was invited by VMWare to carry out an incremental update for the version of VMWare that I have on my MacBook Air. The Virtual machine runs windows 10.

After completing the update, which had the graphics go 'fuzzy' during the upgrade, the Windows 1o that is installed does not run particularly quickly. Can you please tell me how to sort out the problem. Ultimately I could uninstall VMWare and reinstall via Time Machine but I am currently loath to do so.

↧

Change IP for VM kernel mgmt of esxi host (trunk port)

August 7, 2017, 10:34 pm
$
0
0

Dear All,

 

I have Two esxi hosts in a cluster. Two NIC in each esxi host are configured as trunk so I have my vm kernel port and also VM network configured in same. One NIC in each host is set for vmotion. Now due to certain requirements I need to change the IP for vmkernel port of esxi. I need to understand changing will effect running VM or not. I am thinking like this:

 

- disable HA in cluster

- remove host from vcenter

-physically change esxi mgmt. IP, restart mgmt. IP

-add the esxi to new vcenter server, since we will be shutting down old vcenter and new vcenter is in new IP range the same as I want to change for esxi

 

are above given steps ok?

 

regards,

↧

upgrading vcenter appliance from 5.5 to 6.0_json

November 21, 2017, 10:30 am
$
0
0

Hi Luc,

 

I have few doubts updating vc appliance 5.5 to 6.0 appliance using json .can you help in json template or suggest where i can route questions to.

↧
Viewing all 3263 articles
Browse latest View live
Search