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I recently had a question that came in from our field where a customer needed to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with a specific MAC Address which was a requirement to ensure property connectivity within their network. This type of network requirement is not really new or unique, it is a common practice used to ensure only valid VMs with a static DHCP reservation can actually connect to a specific network but it certainly was the first time I had heard of this request for the VCSA.

With the default VCSA installer workflow, there is currently not a way to modify the network MAC Address which is automatically generated after the deployment of the OVA. Having said that, I have spent quite a bit of time exploring the various non-standard methods of deploying the VCSA in the past (see here, here and here) and with that information, you definitely can affect the MAC Address while still maintaining a valid VCSA deployment. With a bit of trial/error, there are two options depending if you are deploying the VCSA directly to an ESXi host (for initial setup) or to an existing vCenter Server. To demonstrate how this works, I have created a basic shell script called VCSAStaticMACAddress.sh which you can easily adapt to for a Windows-based environment.

The trick is that when you deploy to a vCenter Server endpoint, the required OVF properties are persisted which would allow you to only deploy the VCSA but not actually power it on and there you can easily augment a number of settings including the MAC Address. In the case of deploying directly to an ESXi host, OVF properties are not persisted and hence a challenge if you wish to make changes prior to powering on the VM. In earlier versions, it was possible to set these OVF properties by way of using the extraConfig property of the VM but it looks like this trick no longer works and requires a slight variation of the workflow which is described in the instructions below.

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Step 1 - Edit the VCSAStaticMACAddress.sh script to include the path to the VCSA OVA (in my example, I am using the latest 6.7 Update 3 release) and uncomment the vCenter deployment section along with the specific values for your VCSA deployment

Step 2 - Run the script which will deploy the VCSA to an existing vCenter Server and set the respective OVF properties but not actually power on the VM

Step 3 - Use the vSphere UI to update the desired MAC Address of the VM and then power it on and wait for the installation to complete (can take up to 30min). If everything was configured correctly, during the installation, you should be able to open a browser to https://[VCSA]:5480 and watch the progress of installation.

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Step 1 - We need to first convert the VCSA OVA (in my example, I am using the latest 6.7 Update 3 release) to an OVF. To do so, you will need OVFTool and here is the command to run:

ovftool --allowExtraConfig VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-6.7.0.42000-15132721_OVF10.ova VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-6.7.0.42000-15132721_OVF10.ovf

Step 2 - We need to add an additional line to the network section of the OVF with the desired MAC Address as shown in the example below.

Step 3 - Edit the VCSAStaticMACAddress.sh script to include the path to the modified VCSA OVF and update the ESXi section along with the specific values for your VCSA deployment

Step 4 - Run the script which will deploy the VCSA to an ESXi host and automatically power on the VM and using the --injectOvfEnv option to inject the required OVF properties to properly configure the VCSA. If everything was configured correctly, during the installation, you should be able to open a browser to https://[VCSA]:5480 and watch the progress of installation.

Regardless if you are deploying the VCSA to a vCenter Server or ESXi endpoint, the results will be the same and you will now have a VCSA with a customized MAC Address as I have shown below 🙂

If you do not want Stage 2 to automatically run which would allow you to make further changes to the networking configuration (such as IP Address, hostname, etc), simply change VCSA_STAGE1ANDSTAGE2 variable to False. Once the VCSA is on the network, you will need to connect to the VAMI interface https://[VCSA]:5480 to finish the configuration as shown in the screenshot below.

VMware, a leader in the development of software for creating and managing virtual machines, provides free tools that are very useful to help the users to manage virtual machines in their work environment. One of these is precisely VMware vCenter Converter, a free software mainly useful for converting physical machines into virtual machines, but which can also be used to reconfigure existing virtual machines. This tool can be downloaded from this link.

Let’s analyze what are the strengths of this tool: 2011 lotus elise for sale.

• Quickly convert local and remote physical machines to virtual machines without downtime.
• Allows simultaneous conversions that facilitate large-scale virtualization implementations.
• The centralized management console allows you to queue and monitor many simultaneous conversions, both local and remote, for example at headquarters and in branch offices.
• It supports many physical machines of different origins, including desktop and server versions of Windows and Linux and also the conversion of third-party virtual machines such as Hyper-V and KVM.

vCenter Converter at a glance allows to convert virtual machines for the VMware vSphere platform (ie ESXi hosts, ESXi hosts managed by a vCenter Server, or a standalone VMware virtual machine) physical machines, VMware Server virtual machines or Workstation, Hyper-V virtual machines and system images.
So it immediately shows a truly powerful and complete tool.

In this article we will see what kind of installation this software allows and how to convert a physical machine into a virtual machine.

Installation

The installation of VMware Converter can be done either on a physical machine or on a virtual machine.

There are two types of installations: a Local and a Client-Server (see image below)

The Client-Server installation allows you to select the converter components that you want to install on your system:

• Server
  The server manages conversion tasks. Manages communication between the converter client and the converter agents. This component can not be installed alone. In fact, the converter server must be installed together with the remote access module or with the client module or both.
• Remote access
  If remote access is installed, the converter clients (both local and remote) can connect to the local converter stand-alone server. With remote access, you can create and manage remote conversion tasks.
• Converter Agent
  Install the converter agent so that the local computer can be a source computer for conversions.
• Converter Client
  If you install only the converter client, you can connect to a remote converter server. You can then use the remote machine to convert hosted virtual machines, managed virtual machines, or remote physical machines.

The local installation installs all components for local use (the server, the converter agent, and the converter client), and then the remote access form is excluded.

Conversion of a virtual machine

Converting a physical machine into a virtual one using the VMware vCenter Converter is very simple.

When opened, the program shows a window where you can immediately open the wizard to start the conversion (see image below)

VMware vCenter Converter – Initial window

Pressing the ‘Convert Machine’ button will open a window where we will first enter the data of the machine we want to convert (see image below)

VMware vCenter Converter – Select Machine of Origin

Here you can choose whether the source machine is on or off. Adobe after effects free mac full.

In the first case you can choose a physical PC (Windows or Linux) accessible remotely or the local machine itself.

Vcenter Converter Linux Machine

Otherwise you will have to choose the host you want to connect to (VMware vSphere, WMware Workstation or Hyper-V), and enter your login information (see image below).

The next step is to choose the destination datacenter on the ESXi host where you are logged in (see image below)

VMware vCenter Converter – Target destination Datacenter

At the end of this operation, the window to choose the Cluster/Host/Datastore (depending on your destination configuration) will be opened. In this section it will also be possible to choose the hardware version of the virtual machine to be created. (see image below)

VMware vCenter Converter – Target Datastore Selection

At this point it will be possible to edit the hardware settings (number of CPUs, the amount of RAM, etc) of the virtual machine that is about to be created (see image below)

VMware vCenter Converter – Modify virtual machine hardware

The last tab shows the summary of the details of the virtual machine being generated (see image below).

VMware vCenter Converter – Modify virtual machine summary

When the ‘Finish’ button is pressed, the job that initiates the creation of the virtual machine is created, with details on progress and remaining time. (see image below)

At any time you can cancel the job or add others that will work simultaneously.

VMware vCenter Converter is a very useful software to proceed with the virtualization of IT assets, to speed up management and reduce costs.

For more information on this topic, refer to the official documentation available through this link

Benefits of virtualization

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Virtualization increases the agility, flexibility and scalability of IT assets, as well as significantly reducing costs. IT infrastructure is easier to manage and requires less money, both on a monetary and operational level, thanks to faster deployment of workloads, improved performance and availability and automation of operations.

Other important advantages are the following:

• Downtime reduced to a minimum or eliminated.
• Improved productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness of the IT infrastructure.
• Faster provisioning of applications and resources.
• Enabling Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
• Simplification of data center management.

Backup & Restore

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Once tools such as VMware vCenter Converter have been used to convert an IT infrastructure to virtualization, one of the most important aspects to be faced is that of backup and disaster recovery. In fact, it is essential to set up a software for the backup of virtual machines (ESXi, vCenter, ESXi Free) and to plan it in incremental or differential mode (CBT) to have more recovery points of virtual machines. There are certainly many tools available on the market to perform these operations, but certainly one of the best ESXi virtual machine backup software is Iperius Backup. To see how easy it is to back up VMware virtual machines with Iperius, see the related tutorial.

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