Vmware Free Server

[Glynis Waughtal]

VMwareServer can preserve and revert to a single snapshot copy of each separate virtual machine within the VMware Server environment. The software does not have a specific interface for cloning virtual machines, unlike VMware Workstation.

VMware released version 1.0 of Server on July 12, 2006, replacing the discontinued VMware GSX Server product-line. VMware Inc continued to develop the VMware Server 1.0.x series, issuing a maintenance release (version 1.0.10) on 26 October 2009.

VMware Server 2 runs on several server-class host operating systems,[4]including different versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008, and mainly enterprise-class Linuxes. The manual explicitly states: "you must use a Windows server operating system". The product also runs on Windows 7 Enterprise Edition.

Server 2 uses a web-based user-interface, the "VMware Infrastructure Web Access", instead of a GUI. For web interfaces, VMware Server 2 and VMware vCenter 4 use the Tomcat 6 web server, while VMware vCenter 2.5 is based on Tomcat 2.5.

VMware server 2 supports the Microsoft Shadow Copy service. (Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 also supports Shadow Copy.) Virtual machines that support this service can be backed up without stopping.

I have a very simple setup. I have 1 esxi 6.0 server which hosts 1 windows 2012 virtual machine. I need my Network Management Card to shutdown the virtual machine and the esxi server. I'm confused on how to do this. I assume that I need to install PCNS agent on my 2012 server. However, when I go to install the agent on my virtual machine, I'm a little confused because it asks if I want to enable vmware support and then at the end, it launches a wizard that is asking me for all of my vmware host information. I don't understand why it is asking for the vmware host information. Also, I found the link below which seems to be the information on how to configure for vmware. I'm just a little confused by this document though - do I really need to setup an appliance on my vmware server in order to properly shutdown esxi host? I'm just all sorts of confused.

Install PowerChute on the Windows system and when asked select enable VMware support. Then when running the configuration wizard select Standalone VMware host and enter the host information. Once PowerChute has been configured you will need to verify that VMWare tools is installed on each VM and follow the instruction in Knowledge Base document FA159688 to configure the ESXi host to power down the VMs. You should review VMware knowledge base document 1008182 for assistance with shutdown of the VMs.

You should not install PowerChute on the Server 2012 VM. You should install PowerChute Network Shutdown Appliance on the ESXi host. Once installed configure for standalone host and add the host information. PowerChute will shutdown the host and the host will be responsible for powering down the VMs. Knowledge Base document FA159688 will help you with configuring the host to power down the VMs. You should also review PowerChute Network Shutdown VMware User's Guide. Help configuring Standalone VMware host begins on page 14 of the User's Guide.

Thank you for the response. So, it sounds like nothing at all is installed on the actual virtual machine? Instead, I need to create the network shutdown appliance on the esxi server? I did review the vmware User's guide but it seems to assume that I have vcenter which I don't so I don't really know how much of this guide applies to my situation. The guide keeps showing screenshots of what looks to be a powerchute agent (green screenshots). That confuses me a little as I have no idea where they are even accessing this screen. Seems like they forgot to mention an entire step.

Once you install the Appliance on the host (See the installation guide for assistance page 51) you access the PowerChute configuration wizard to configure PowerChute to communicate with the host. To access the wizard open a web browser and enter address of the appliance:6547 The wizard will launch and walk you through configuring PowerChute.

If the Windows system is connected to (plugged into) the UPS that the ESXi host is connected to I suggest the Windows option since most people prefer to work with Windows OS. If the Windows system is not connected to the UPS then I recommend using the Appliance.

Great. Thanks for all of the input and help. I will likely go the windows route since I am more knowledgeable with windows. So just to clarify, I install nothing (no agent) on the actuallyVMWare virtual server as long as I've followed the article for

We have a FreePBX installed on a virtual machine in our environment and wanted to utilize the secondary NIC card on the server to connect to the SIP trunk that our ISP has provided us. My question is how do we set this up in the FreePBX so that the system knows which NIC is for management and which NIC is for SIP? The ISP (Conterra) provided us an private IP with gateway that is on their SIP server vlan. What external IP do we need to put in our FreePBX and is this possible to do? Can someone provide examples of the routing?

Your ISP will give you an IP scheme which you will apply to that second NIC. But do not apply any Gateway, you leave it blank. When your PBX needs to communicate to that network, it will need to be told, which you do through a route statement. A route statement will direct the PBX to send traffic out the second NIC to the ISP

Thank you for the quick reply. Do I need to do anything special considering it is a VMWare server? Do I need to assign the IP address on the host side of VMWare the IP that the provider gave us? Also, Can I do what you recommended in the GUI or does this have to be done through SSH? I currently have my FreePBX on our local LAN right now with an IP address in that subnet.

An example we were assigned the following for SIP: 10.200.1.21/24 with GW of 10.200.1.1? You said not to add a gateway on the ETH1 that is connected to the SIP trunk, but the provider did provide that information. Their VOIP or SIP server address for example is 10.200.6.12.

Would it be accurate to assume your VM server has multiple network cards. Set NIC1 (ETH0) would be your 192.168.141.X network and NIC2 (ETH1) would be connected to the 10.200.1.X network or directly to SIP providers hardware.

Only 1 gateway - correct. The gateway address is where your computer will default send all network traffic that it it has NO SPECIFIC rule set for. 192.168.141.1 will get the PBX to your phones and out to the internet etc.

I think we are almost there. I can ping the route. The problem I am having now is no ringing when calling and audio not working. I can see the FreePBX getting the call, but no voice/audio or any sounds. What do I need to do?

It just sounds like a NAT issue to me that is preventing this from working now. If, from your PBX console, you do a traceroute to the IP of the provider, and its going out ETh1, its likely some sort of firewall or NAT problem blocking it now.

To create true HA you need shared storage, Windows 2016 has S2D feature, but it's available in Datacenter license. In Hyper-V it's easier to create an HA because you no need any additional licenses (vCenter) and it's available right from the box. All S2D features can be used starting from four nodes, if you're using fewer nodes, here is the nice topic describing it -s2d-vs-starwind-virtual-sanBTW, here is the step by step guide on how to deploy a Hyper-V cluster. -us/library/jj863389(v=ws.11).aspx

Surprisingly Hyper-V can run like VMware better in some ways, there is a major gotcha that Microsoft throws in there which I will put at the end. I am not going to go into too much detail about networking as that is a different topic.

Two shared storage appliances, Using the builtin Hyper-V replication you can have Fault Tolerance in that the vhdx files are kept in sync and through SCO and SCVMM you can configure if a VM goes down the other one will be spun up to take its place.

Extremely hard to setup. You need to have 3 different servers for each of the SC products, I was using the Eval Copies but as far as i know in production each product must be on physical boxes (3), and if one goes down you will lose the functionality of the that server so to ensure your environment never goes down you have 2 servers (6) that are clustered and in sync.

The Eval copies were not easy to setup there is very little documentation online however the Microsoft Virtual Academy has some really great walk through videos that if you manage to get all the systems setup and to the most recent build numbers (Very important!!!) walk you through how to setup and configure everything. Also make sure your SCVMM server name does not contain SCVMM.

Now I have a server with the restored SQL installation and the empty drives. Only problem is that the SQL server is deprecated. When trying to do a SQL system database restore from Commvault, I would get the message, that the SQL server is not running, which is correct, as it cannot start without the system databases.

My only problem is that I have 600+ SQL servers running that I need to protect, and most of them are configured differently, so I hoped that there was a easier way to handle the restore of a Vmware SQL server :-)

We are not using discovery but want to begin inputing our Configuration items. We are 90% Vmware and want to enter each of our virtual machines (Windows and Linux virtual servers) into the CMDB. If we add them under the Windows Server class it wants asset and serial number information which a virtual machine doesn't have. it also then creates a blank asset record. If we add them as a Vmware Virtual Instance it doesn't ask for Operation system and other important information. Is there a way we should do this out of the box or are we going to have to customize the CI classes?

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