I can't seem to find a procedure on how to upgrade EXSi v7 free version with patches.
The question is twofold
How do I find the relevant patches? The vmware site is far from user friendly
How do I patch the free version of EXSi v7?
Look on this page ; https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-702-release-notes.html
Section: "Patch Download and Installation", you will find informations on how upgrade your esxi without vCenter.
I have done once, a long time ago, you should be sure you can log into your esxi, copy vib files on it, place your esxi in maintenance mode, execute your command. You should read the full procedure on VMware website to be sure.
You can also reinstall with a VMware ISO of esxi 7, it will ask you if you want to reuse your old datastores or delete them. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-77D42D81-F47E-4FE9-B4B2-B15AB16C9C1A.html
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I use VMWare Workstation Pro 15.5.7 installed on a Windows 10 laptop (host) to run Windows 10 virtual machines (guests).
The laptop has git and some other tools to maintain source code repositories, while all development tools (IDE, compiler, etc...) are installed on the guest VMs.
To access the source files I use VMWare Shared Folders feature. Everything works almost fine in terms of I/O performance, even if a little slower than Windows native sharing (SMB), which by the way is disabled by company policy restrictions.
However, when a file on the shared folder is updated inside the guest, the directory update notification is not sent to all open applications on the guest itself. The result is that, as an example, if you have a file open in your source editor (say Notepad++), the application does not detect the file change. This leads to some unexpected behaviors when using IDE or other tools with code syntax features and/or other "live" features while coding.
Also the same happens when you modify a file or folder from the host.
In both situations the only way is to force a folder update (example refreshing files with F5 key).
This seems to be related to a missing feature as stated here by one of the VMWare developers.
I would like to know if the same issue is currently present on the latest release VMWare Workstation Pro 17. Alternatively, is there a workaround for this? Am I missing some additional driver or tool? (I have VMWare Guest tools installed).
Here you can see my question on the VMWare official forum.
I have just installed VMware ESXi 7 as a virtual machine just for learning. I have seen it is feasible to create nested vms using VMware Player Workstation plus Intel chipset: my testing purpose is to create a virtual machine inside a virtualized ESXi server.
Actually I cannot install any vm, probably due to the fact I have not created any datastore yet.
In order to create a datastore I thought to edit the partition of the free space avalaible (for a linux vm 20GB are enough), but when I try to edit partition I get such summary in which I cannot configure anything at all (see pics).
Have you any suggestion?
When you install SO it's not a good practice to add it as a datastore. Please turn off you VM and add another disk to ESXI. After you boot up server again you will be able to create a new datastore.
How to download quickstart VM 5.x for virtual box for windows 10? I have installed oracle virtual box. But for cloudera qickstart VM I am not getting any source. I have searched a lot in google and youtube but the link or site all are referring is no more there. Can anyone please help?
The first thing to realize, is that a VM which can be run on any operating system by leveraging tools like VMware and Virtual Box.
Cloudera in fact no longer provides a quickstart VM for the legacy CDH 5 platform, this can be seen here as you get redirected to CDP datacenter.
However be aware that CDH 5 relates to a very old distribution. I believe CDH 5 goes end of life this year. Even CDH 6 is not recommended for new clusters, as CDP 7 is already GA for a while. CDP, the Cloudera Data Platform is the successor to both CDH and HDP.
If you want to check out the latest version, there is a trial which should serve for most purposes that you may wanted to use the quickstart. This can be downloaded here.
Full disclosure: I am an employee of Cloudera, the company behind both CDH and CDP.
I have a production server that hosts 3 VM's over Esxi 5.5.
Back in the day, I used a customized HP image to get ESXi installed on the Proliant server.
I have purchased a new server with Esxi 6.7 installed and wonder if I can move my 3 VM's hosted on the old HP server onto my new server (running ESXi 6.7).
The HP server sits 1500Km away so is challenging to test.
Did anyone come across any challenges removing VM's from one Host to another running different ESXi versions?
Thank you
You won't have any problems in the transportation process, but need to decide which transportation method use.
You can install vCenter Server Appliance then migrate with Storage vMotion.
If you do not want to install vCenter, you can turn the VMs power off and get an OVF copy to export (more on OVF here on vmware.com's site). You can then add this again from the deploy OVF section.
Link below for Vcenter installation.
https://www.tayfundeger.com/vcenter-server-appliance-6-7-kurulumu-bolum-1.html
https://www.tayfundeger.com/vcenter-server-appliance-6-7-kurulumu-bolum-2.html
Thanks.
VM objects are fairly backwards compatible and most go back quite a few years and a handful of versions, so you should be fine between those particular versions.
The biggest consideration is normally how to get the VM object data from point A to point B. Example:
Are you using storage based replication?
Are you SCPing the data directly from the hosts?
Are you exporting the VMs, transporting the data, and importing them?
Etc.
Yes, you can. The things you must take into account are:
1 - Hardware version. It's not possible to downgrade HW version through the ESXi UI. This won't be a problem in your case, as you are moving the VMs to a higher ESXi version that still supports ESXi 5.5's HW version. Once you have the VMs in the target server you can decide to upgrade to the most recent HW version for your new platform.
2 - VMFS version. ESXi 6.7 allows the use of VMFS-5 or VMFS-6, which is a newer version of the VMWare file system. You can indeed move VMs from VMFS-5 to VMFS-6. Nonetheless, unless it's unavoidable to do so, I would use the same VMFS version, as performing a cross-file system migration can make you fall into some incompatibilities that you should avoid.
3 - You will have to move your VMs over IP. If you don't own a VMWare license that allows you to migrate them, you can use an ESXi backup tool from 33hops.com that is compatible with unlicensed Free ESXi.
This XSIBackup-DC is a well-tested tool that allows to live migrate VMs over IP in licensed or unlicense versions of ESXi.
I'm trying a particular software in a VM on VBox and VMWare Player with SLES and Opensuse Leap, everything works fine. The same setup on VMWare ESXi and ProxMox is unstable.
The software consists in many services. Some of these services simply don't start.
Curiously enough, if I copy the problematic VM from ESXi to VMWare Player it works like a charm.
Before giving some more details, are there known issues with Suse products (Tumbleweed, Leap and SLES) and specific hypervisors like ESXi or ProxMox?
SLES on VMWare looks like it's end of life since 2014, so probably not surprising it doesn't behave well on the recent version of SLES on recent version of ESXi...
(https://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware.html)
You can check the compatibility here:
(https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software)
Might also want to make sure if you installed vmware tools? hope this helps.