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Volume One Host Isolation 34 Disabling VMware HA 43 Connect to a Virtual Server 43 Go to the Cluster Summary 44 Edit Cluster Settings 45 Wait for Task to Complete 46 Getting Familiar ... Enabling SSH Access to the ESXi Shell 51 Enabling SSH from the DCU.I 51 Enabling the SSH from the vSphere Client 52 vSphere Client Notification When the ESXi Shell and SSH Are Enabled 53 Installing the vCL.I 53 Installing the vCLI on Windows 53 Installing the vCLI on Linux ...
Volume One Host Isolation 34 Disabling VMware HA 43 Connect to a Virtual Server 43 Go to the Cluster Summary 44 Edit Cluster Settings 45 Wait for Task to Complete 46 Getting Familiar ... Enabling SSH Access to the ESXi Shell 51 Enabling SSH from the DCU.I 51 Enabling the SSH from the vSphere Client 52 vSphere Client Notification When the ESXi Shell and SSH Are Enabled 53 Installing the vCL.I 53 Installing the vCLI on Windows 53 Installing the vCLI on Linux ...
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... server has 2x 1GB or 2x 10GB network cards connected to access shared storage. SOFTWARE CHECKLIST: VMware vSphere/VMware ESXi installation media is downloaded. VMware vCenter™ Server appliance is available. ESXi host 3 hostname. STORAGE CHECKLIST: All servers can ...Subnet, netmask and default gateway for vMotion network. VMware vSphere® Client™ is installed. Datastore 3 name. Subnet, netmask and default gateway for management network. Datastore 2 name. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 11 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - ESXi host 2 hostname. Worksheet...
... server has 2x 1GB or 2x 10GB network cards connected to access shared storage. SOFTWARE CHECKLIST: VMware vSphere/VMware ESXi installation media is downloaded. VMware vCenter™ Server appliance is available. ESXi host 3 hostname. STORAGE CHECKLIST: All servers can ...Subnet, netmask and default gateway for vMotion network. VMware vSphere® Client™ is installed. Datastore 3 name. Subnet, netmask and default gateway for management network. Datastore 2 name. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 11 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - ESXi host 2 hostname. Worksheet...
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...HA to provide basic high availability services for proper operation. The following : • Ensure that you have access to administrators. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - In the event of a failure of the application, HA can also monitor the application running on each... are online. • Have at the infrastructure layer. Volume One vSphere Evaluation Tasks High Availability Introduction Ensuring the availability of paramount concern to VMware vCenter™ utilizing the vSphere Client. Specific areas of this process. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 12 Prerequisites Before...
...HA to provide basic high availability services for proper operation. The following : • Ensure that you have access to administrators. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - In the event of a failure of the application, HA can also monitor the application running on each... are online. • Have at the infrastructure layer. Volume One vSphere Evaluation Tasks High Availability Introduction Ensuring the availability of paramount concern to VMware vCenter™ utilizing the vSphere Client. Specific areas of this process. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 12 Prerequisites Before...
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Volume One Figure 1. Connect to your virtual server instance. Connecting to Virtual Server Using the vSphere Client, connect to Virtual Server VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 13
Volume One Figure 1. Connect to your virtual server instance. Connecting to Virtual Server Using the vSphere Client, connect to Virtual Server VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 13
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... This should be enabled within the cluster. This will notice that are powered on the systems within the cluster. Click this point, VMware HA is now providing protection for the virtual machines that a section for Cluster Status here. Tasks Showing Completed Status Wait until all ...now shown under the cluster summary screen. At this to bring up the HA Cluster Status screen. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Under the Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client, you general information about the configuration of HA After enabling HA, you can use to Complete ...
... This should be enabled within the cluster. This will notice that are powered on the systems within the cluster. Click this point, VMware HA is now providing protection for the virtual machines that a section for Cluster Status here. Tasks Showing Completed Status Wait until all ...now shown under the cluster summary screen. At this to bring up the HA Cluster Status screen. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Under the Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client, you general information about the configuration of HA After enabling HA, you can use to Complete ...
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... the system tm-pod1-esx01.tmsb.local to examine the virtual machines hosted within the cluster. Checking Virtual Machines First, use the vSphere Client to fail. In this event occurs, VMware HA will identify the failure of the host and will attempt to restart the protected virtual machines on the host that you... your environment and ensure that at least one is online on a functional host. Removing Power from a Host TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 30 Figure 22. Figure 23. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - You need to fail.
... the system tm-pod1-esx01.tmsb.local to examine the virtual machines hosted within the cluster. Checking Virtual Machines First, use the vSphere Client to fail. In this event occurs, VMware HA will identify the failure of the host and will attempt to restart the protected virtual machines on the host that you... your environment and ensure that at least one is online on a functional host. Removing Power from a Host TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 30 Figure 22. Figure 23. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - You need to fail.
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This shell will enable you will notice that the vSphere Client displays a warning message. Log in to the shell using the user name and password specified for the host, hit Alt-F1 to access the ESXi Shell. Enabling ESXi Shell From here, select the Enable ESXi Shell option to the host. Accessing the ESXi Shell At the ESXi console for the host. Figure 34. vSphere Client Warning Message Once you do this, you to remove the network connections to enable the ESXi Shell. Figure 35. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Figure 33. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 37
This shell will enable you will notice that the vSphere Client displays a warning message. Log in to the shell using the user name and password specified for the host, hit Alt-F1 to access the ESXi Shell. Enabling ESXi Shell From here, select the Enable ESXi Shell option to the host. Accessing the ESXi Shell At the ESXi console for the host. Figure 34. vSphere Client Warning Message Once you do this, you to remove the network connections to enable the ESXi Shell. Figure 35. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Figure 33. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 37
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Identifying Host Isolation Using the vSphere Client, select the host from the left-hand navigation pane and select the Summary tab. The host will be identified as being isolated both at the top of the screen and in the vSphere HA State notification. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 39 Volume One Figure 37.
VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Identifying Host Isolation Using the vSphere Client, select the host from the left-hand navigation pane and select the Summary tab. The host will be identified as being isolated both at the top of the screen and in the vSphere HA State notification. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 39 Volume One Figure 37.
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...-established. Volume One Figure 41. This warning is due to disable ESXi Shell access. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 42 This will show you can utilize the vSphere Client to examine the events for the host. Examining Events for the Host Once you restore the uplinks for the host, you that the host still...
...-established. Volume One Figure 41. This warning is due to disable ESXi Shell access. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 42 This will show you can utilize the vSphere Client to examine the events for the host. Examining Events for the Host Once you restore the uplinks for the host, you that the host still...
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...walk you through the required steps before continuing on to your virtual server instance. Verifying That Host is Operating Normally Use the vSphere Client to show all of HA, disabling HA is now operating normally and has reconnected to a Virtual Server Figure 44. Connecting ...to a Virtual Server Instance Using the vSphere Client, connect to the next topic. Volume One Figure 43. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 43 Connect to the cluster. Disabling VMware HA As with the enabling of the hosts within the cluster and...
...walk you through the required steps before continuing on to your virtual server instance. Verifying That Host is Operating Normally Use the vSphere Client to show all of HA, disabling HA is now operating normally and has reconnected to a Virtual Server Figure 44. Connecting ...to a Virtual Server Instance Using the vSphere Client, connect to the next topic. Volume One Figure 43. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 43 Connect to the cluster. Disabling VMware HA As with the enabling of the hosts within the cluster and...
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...Click the check box next to Turn On vSphere HA to modify the settings of HA on the systems within the cluster. Viewing the Progress of the Unconfigure Task of VMware HA Under the Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client, you can observe the progress of the unconfigure... task of the cluster. Edit Cluster Settings VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Figure 46. This will unconfigure VMware HA. This will close the wizard...
...Click the check box next to Turn On vSphere HA to modify the settings of HA on the systems within the cluster. Viewing the Progress of the Unconfigure Task of VMware HA Under the Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client, you can observe the progress of the unconfigure... task of the cluster. Edit Cluster Settings VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One Figure 46. This will unconfigure VMware HA. This will close the wizard...
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Enable ESXi Shell from DCUI Enabling the ESXi Shell from the DCUI Perform the following steps to enable the ESXi Shell while logged ... Access to enable the ESXi Shell on the host, you must enable the ESXi Shell. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 50 Complete the steps in to the vSphere Client. • Select the ESXi host and choose Configuration -> Security Profile. • From the Services section, select Properties. • Select the ESXi Shell option and choose...
VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Enable ESXi Shell from DCUI Enabling the ESXi Shell from the DCUI Perform the following steps to enable the ESXi Shell while logged ... Access to enable the ESXi Shell on the host, you must enable the ESXi Shell. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 50 Complete the steps in to the vSphere Client. • Select the ESXi host and choose Configuration -> Security Profile. • From the Services section, select Properties. • Select the ESXi Shell option and choose...
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...ESXi Shell from the ESXi console, you can also enable SSH services to allow remote access to the ESXi Shell. Enable ESXi Shell from vSphere Client Enabling SSH Access to the ESXi Shell In addition to running commands directly from the DCUI: • Log in to the ESXi host... DCUI. • Select Troubleshooting Options. • Select Enable ESXi Shell and press return. • Press Alt-F1 to access the ESXi Shell. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Enabling SSH from the DCUI Perform the following section shows how to enable SSH access to the ESXi Shell. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER /...
...ESXi Shell from the ESXi console, you can also enable SSH services to allow remote access to the ESXi Shell. Enable ESXi Shell from vSphere Client Enabling SSH Access to the ESXi Shell In addition to running commands directly from the DCUI: • Log in to the ESXi host... DCUI. • Select Troubleshooting Options. • Select Enable ESXi Shell and press return. • Press Alt-F1 to access the ESXi Shell. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Enabling SSH from the DCUI Perform the following section shows how to enable SSH access to the ESXi Shell. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER /...
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Enable SSH from the vSphere Client: • Log in to the vSphere Client. • Select the ESXi host and choose Configuration -> Security Profile. • From the Services section, select Properties. • Select the SSH option and choose Options. • Select Start to start SSH on the host. Enable SSH from DCUI Enabling the SSH from the vSphere Client Perform the following steps to enable the ESXi Shell from vSphere Client TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 52 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Figure 58. Volume One Figure 57.
Enable SSH from the vSphere Client: • Log in to the vSphere Client. • Select the ESXi host and choose Configuration -> Security Profile. • From the Services section, select Properties. • Select the SSH option and choose Options. • Select Start to start SSH on the host. Enable SSH from DCUI Enabling the SSH from the vSphere Client Perform the following steps to enable the ESXi Shell from vSphere Client TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 52 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Figure 58. Volume One Figure 57.
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Installing the vCLI on Linux The vCLI installation package for Linux includes the vCLI scripts and the VMware vSphere 5.0 SDK for Windows includes the ActivePerl runtime environment, along with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces guide for information on a Linux server. Installing the vCLI on Windows The vCLI installation package for...Microsoft Windows, Linux, and with the vMA The vMA includes a Linux environment, the vCLI, and other prepackaged software. Volume One vSphere Client Notification When the ESXi Shell and SSH Are Enabled Any time the ESXi Shell or SSH is enabled on a host, the...
Installing the vCLI on Linux The vCLI installation package for Linux includes the vCLI scripts and the VMware vSphere 5.0 SDK for Windows includes the ActivePerl runtime environment, along with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces guide for information on a Linux server. Installing the vCLI on Windows The vCLI installation package for...Microsoft Windows, Linux, and with the vMA The vMA includes a Linux environment, the vCLI, and other prepackaged software. Volume One vSphere Client Notification When the ESXi Shell and SSH Are Enabled Any time the ESXi Shell or SSH is enabled on a host, the...
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... of vSphere PowerCLI and PowerShell code, but will not provide all knowledge to a vSphere Host or vCenter With vSphere PowerCLI, you have the ability, as with vSphere PowerCLI On your start menu in the VMware -> VMware vSphere PowerCLI folder...vSphere PowerCLI • vSphere PowerCLI Administration Guide • vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference • vSphere SDK for .NET API Reference • vSphere SDK for .NET Dev Guide It is highly recommended that the same cmdlets could be used to both vSphere hosts and vCenter servers. Volume One Getting Started with the vSphere Client...
... of vSphere PowerCLI and PowerShell code, but will not provide all knowledge to a vSphere Host or vCenter With vSphere PowerCLI, you have the ability, as with vSphere PowerCLI On your start menu in the VMware -> VMware vSphere PowerCLI folder...vSphere PowerCLI • vSphere PowerCLI Administration Guide • vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlets Reference • vSphere SDK for .NET API Reference • vSphere SDK for .NET Dev Guide It is highly recommended that the same cmdlets could be used to both vSphere hosts and vCenter servers. Volume One Getting Started with the vSphere Client...
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - You would need to go to the host and clusters view, select a host, click the configuration tab and select the time configuration setting to get an overview of any virtual administrator's job. Within the vSphere Client, it is a time-consuming part of ...VMHost cmdlet can be managed correctly or they were created. vSphere PowerCLI includes multiple cmdlets to allow you would need to be used in the vSphere Client, you to work with other cmdlets to repeat this in vSphere PowerCLI, type Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNTPServer Figure 103. ...
VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - You would need to go to the host and clusters view, select a host, click the configuration tab and select the time configuration setting to get an overview of any virtual administrator's job. Within the vSphere Client, it is a time-consuming part of ...VMHost cmdlet can be managed correctly or they were created. vSphere PowerCLI includes multiple cmdlets to allow you would need to be used in the vSphere Client, you to work with other cmdlets to repeat this in vSphere PowerCLI, type Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNTPServer Figure 103. ...
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... created in large numbers in the normal manner within vCenter and attributed to the user who is connected to this vSphere PowerCLI session. Figure 105. Snapshots in the vSphere Client must be recorded in vSphere PowerCLI. The following example shows how to create a snapshot on all virtual machines having names that any task produced... Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select VM, Name, Description, Created, SizeMB | Format-Table In addition to create a snapshot on each virtual machine. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 78 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide -
... created in large numbers in the normal manner within vCenter and attributed to the user who is connected to this vSphere PowerCLI session. Figure 105. Snapshots in the vSphere Client must be recorded in vSphere PowerCLI. The following example shows how to create a snapshot on all virtual machines having names that any task produced... Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select VM, Name, Description, Created, SizeMB | Format-Table In addition to create a snapshot on each virtual machine. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 78 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide -
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...-pod01-esx01.tmsb.local in the knowledge of iptables, and rule sets define port rules for each service. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 81 VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One group called "Company X" on vSwitch0 for automating all aspects of this exercise, you will stop this exercise... > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters view. 2. The design of the selected ESXi host. For remote hosts, you can configure using the vSphere Client or at the command line with esxcli interfaces. You can specify the IP addresses or range of the following components: 1. Prerequisites The evaluation...
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In this example environment, you can test if any client can connect to Host1 (tm-pod01-esx01. tmsb.local) on Host3 (tm-pod01-esx03.tmsb. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 85 local) to establish the SSH session, as shown in Figure 115. You can use virtual machine VM_02 running on TCP port 22. Figure 115. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - The connection times out with SSH Service Stopped After stopping the SSH remote access service, you can launch the PuTTY tool to establish a SSH session with Host1. Volume One Testing Access with a network error, as shown in Figure 116.
In this example environment, you can test if any client can connect to Host1 (tm-pod01-esx01. tmsb.local) on Host3 (tm-pod01-esx03.tmsb. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 85 local) to establish the SSH session, as shown in Figure 115. You can use virtual machine VM_02 running on TCP port 22. Figure 115. VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - The connection times out with SSH Service Stopped After stopping the SSH remote access service, you can launch the PuTTY tool to establish a SSH session with Host1. Volume One Testing Access with a network error, as shown in Figure 116.