VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host?
I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster. We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off. I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do. - John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189
Hi, The last time I did this it was on a VCenter 5.01 server but when I did do it I would put the host in maintenance mode before doing this as you didn't know whether machines would move for other reasons. This was all using the VMWare client, if I had to do it now I would use PowerShell or another CLI because I think the web based console isn't so accessible. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> Sent: 11 September 2020 20:32 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host? I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster. We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off. I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do. - John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
You mean migrating the virtual machine from one host to another? I moved one virtual machine to another host by right clicking on the virtual machine name, selecting migrate, and then following the prompts. I shut the virtual machine down first. But that seemed to work fine. After a while, I right clicked on the virtual machine again and powered it up. The problem is I just randomly chose another host to move it to. How can I tell if a host is no longer hosting any virtual machines so it is safe to remove it from the cluster? I would like to use vcenter. But I'd use something else if its not too much work. I don't want to waste too much time learning VMWare when the whole point of what I am doing is to get rid of our VMWare cluster. On 9/11/20 3:13 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Hi,
The last time I did this it was on a VCenter 5.01 server but when I did do it I would put the host in maintenance mode before doing this as you didn't know whether machines would move for other reasons. This was all using the VMWare client, if I had to do it now I would use PowerShell or another CLI because I think the web based console isn't so accessible.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> Sent: 11 September 2020 20:32 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host?
I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster.
We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off.
I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do.
- John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Hi,
The last time I did this it was on a VCenter 5.01 server but when I did do it I would put the host in maintenance mode before doing this as you didn't know whether machines would move for other reasons. This was all using the VMWare client, if I had to do it now I would use PowerShell or another CLI because I think the web based console isn't so accessible.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> Sent: 11 September 2020 20:32 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host?
I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in
Download and install rvtools. It gives all kinds of information from your VCenter server and can even export it all to spreadsheets. As for migration, I use powershell (powerCLI) to do those tasks. -----Original Message----- From: John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:25 PM To: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io>; Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host? You mean migrating the virtual machine from one host to another? I moved one virtual machine to another host by right clicking on the virtual machine name, selecting migrate, and then following the prompts. I shut the virtual machine down first. But that seemed to work fine. After a while, I right clicked on the virtual machine again and powered it up. The problem is I just randomly chose another host to move it to. How can I tell if a host is no longer hosting any virtual machines so it is safe to remove it from the cluster? I would like to use vcenter. But I'd use something else if its not too much work. I don't want to waste too much time learning VMWare when the whole point of what I am doing is to get rid of our VMWare cluster. On 9/11/20 3:13 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster.
We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can
take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off.
I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to
figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do.
- John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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