I am attempting to migrate a VM located on a ESXi 4.1 host to a ESXi 5.0 host changing the datastore completely. I have researched through VMware site and I see a few methods which are exporting the ova, using the update manager, even a 3rd party tool called VEEAM. I tried to use VEEAM but it failed due to version restrictions. Yes I am using a free version of VM on the 4.1 server. I am currently testing the OVA method as we speak, but I figured I would ask what is the quickest and secure method to do the transfer?
connect both ESXes to same vCenter , there you can use migrate option to migrate host and datastore
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Here is my working context;
no internet (I use my company's intranet)
Linux CentOS 7.9 remote server with my source files
PhpStorm 2021.3.2 on my development PC
My wish is to develop on my PC on remote sources. Your new JetBrains Gateway solution seems to meet my expectations on paper.
However, in practice, I have the impression that it is not possible to use this solution without internet ? Indeed, the connection process stops on this failure:
Looks like your solution is trying to download an IDE client to install on my machine. Which from my point of view is a weird behavior because I already have a client to install on my machine: PhpStorm. Why not use my PhpStorm client already installed on my machine ?
Thank you for your reply
The "Jetbrains Client" mentioned in the error message is not for your local machine, but for the Linux server:
Once the IDE version and project directory are selected, Gateway will download the IDE to the remote server, unpack it, and launch it with your project loaded.
It acts on the remote server as a "backend IDE" to which the client on your local machine connects:
The JetBrains Client runs locally and provides the user interface for the IDE backend.
You would not even require the full PHPStorm IDE, the Jetbrains Gateway is a standalone app that comes with a "thin client" that can connect to the backend IDE:
This whole process is managed by JetBrains Gateway, a new, compact, standalone app that provides everything you need to get started with remote development. Since it’s standalone, it’s the only thing you need to install locally to start working and is ideal for less powerful laptops and in cases where a full IDE install isn’t desired.
See https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/12/03/dive-into-jetbrains-gateway/ for a more detailed look at how it works.
To answer your question: it is not possible to use Jetbrains Gateway without an internet connection.
I'm attempting to build some custom automation to handle the import / export of VM's to / from an on-prem vmware cluster.
So far I have authenticated the rest api, can get a VM's info, but I cannot work out how to approach exporting the selected VM.
I believe I'll need to create a download session & iterate through its files, saving them to disk one by one whilst keeping the download session alive, but the documentation seems to skirt around the concept of exporting a VM and focus predominantly on deploying.
Does anyone have an example / list of steps required to achieve exporting a VM via the Rest API?
As of 7.0U2, that functionality doesn't exist in the vSphere Automation (REST) API. Here are the top level VM functions: link
If you're open to using the vSphere Web Services (SOAP) API, there's an exportVM function available: link
If you want to automate VMs import/export I recommend to use OVF Tool / PowerCLI.
I leave you a KB with example https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1038709
Currently I'm trying to create a vm in a Esxi server using Perl SDK provided by the vmware. The Vcenter host and name must be specified in create_vm.pl to create the vms in the Esxi server directly.
Is there any other SDK(like java) supports to install the vm directly on the Esxi serve without specifying the Vcenter.
link:https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/doc/utilityappsdoc/vmcreate.html
You just use the IP or hostname of the ESX/i host where it asks for vCenter. Keep in mind write operations are only supported on licensed versions of ESX/i so if you are using the free version it wont work.
I havent used PERL SDK for VMware, but I have used PowerCLI and PyVmomi for my tasks and the APIs require Host/vCenter IP as their host input.
When you provide VC as the host input, you get the objects related to vCenter for that VM, and if you provide ESXi host IP, you can create,manipulate VMs based on the limits of an ESXi server
I've recently moved a Virtual machine from a server to another one.
Both the servers are running Windows Server 2012 R2 as the guest host.
The generation 2 VM run almost perfectly, but it doesn't recognize the network adapter.
Integration services are updated (if I try to re-install it it says they are already updated and doesn't let me repair it).
On device manager I see the exclamation mark left to the adapter.
If I let it search for drivers in C:\Windows it says that the "Network adapter for Hyper-V" is found, but it isn't digitally signed, so it won't be installed.
Anyone could help me making this adapter work?
I couldn't figure out how to remove and re-install integration services either...
Ok, I found a solution.
I had to Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in the advanced boot options.
Since yesterday I can't connect through ssh to all of my Debian wheezy instances on my google cloud. I can connect only through the web console. When the web console tries to negotiate the session, there's a message telling me to update the Linux guest environment. But for wheezy, there is no Linux guest environment package.
Do you have any idea to resolve this issue ?
Debian 7 images were deprecated a while a go and as there are no update packages for the Guest Environment, the best approach would be to migrate to Debian 8 or 9.
To access your VMs you might try one of the following options:
1) According to this public issue the old guest environment still work with deprecated keys. If you have an SSH client configured with an old private key, you might still have access to your VMs through it.
2) Accessing the VM via the serial console
3) Mounting, as secondary, the original disk or a copy of it in a VM you do have access to. The steps are very similar to the section “Inspect an instance without shutting it down” on this document". That would allow you to recover your data.