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Monday, February 9, 2015

System Center Universe APAC 2015

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Monday, February 2, 2015

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Cannot Deploy Vmware VM From Imported VM Template–“The virtualization software on host does not support setting NumLock”–ID10638

We was trying to deploy a VM from VMM 2012 R2 to Vmware host. We have completed the integration to Vmware Vcenter and imported Vmware VM Template. However encountered below error message when deploy a VM

Product:-

VMM 2012 R2
Vmware Vcenter 4.1
Vmware ESX 4,1

Error message:-

The virtualization software on host does not support setting NumLock. Specify a host that is running Windows Hyper-V and then try the operation again

ID: 10638

Resolution:-

Update VMM 2012 R2 to Update Rollup 4. Click here

Restore Azure Virtual Machine Configuration

It is time for us to look on how to restore Azure Virtual Machine Configuration. We assumed that you probably has accidentally delete the VM configuration however the virtual disk is still intact.

[Configuration]

Use Import-AzureVM cmdlet to restore and create backup VM Service Name and bind to existing virtual network. By default, Export-VM cmdlet does not export the configuration of the virtual network

Import-AzureVM –Path “E:\Testbackup01.xml” | New-AzureVM –ServiceName “TestBackup01” –VnetName “ms4uvnet-azure”

Condition for import to be successful:-

Cloud Services is still exist
Virtual Network is still exist

Error if import without vnet : “The virtual network ID cannot be null or empty”

[Result ]

Result after import

VM Configuration has successfully imported and VM will automatically power on. In our next round, we will check out on how to restore a virtual disk.

More information:-

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Backup Azure Virtual Machine Configuration

Previously we have configure blob snapshot to backup virtual disk on Azure. Blob Snapshot did not backup the VM configuration. To do so, we need to use Export-AzureVM cmdlet.

[ Configuration ]

Get azure vm list and identify your virtual machine service name and name.

Get-AzureVM

Backup VM Configuration file and store at your local computer either when VM in power off state or running state.

Export-AzureVM –ServiceName “VM Service Name” –Name “VM Name” –Path E:\vmname.xml

[XML result]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PersistentVM xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<ConfigurationSets>
    <ConfigurationSet xsi:type="NetworkConfigurationSet">
      <ConfigurationSetType>NetworkConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType>
      <InputEndpoints>
        <InputEndpoint>
          <LocalPort>5986</LocalPort>
          <Name>PowerShell</Name>
          <Port>5986</Port>
          <Protocol>tcp</Protocol>
          <EnableDirectServerReturn>false</EnableDirectServerReturn>
          <IdleTimeoutInMinutes xsi:nil="true" />
        </InputEndpoint>
        <InputEndpoint>
          <LocalPort>3389</LocalPort>
          <Name>Remote Desktop</Name>
          <Port>64669</Port>
          <Protocol>tcp</Protocol>
          <EnableDirectServerReturn>false</EnableDirectServerReturn>
          <IdleTimeoutInMinutes xsi:nil="true" />
        </InputEndpoint>
      </InputEndpoints>
      <SubnetNames>
        <string>App</string>
      </SubnetNames>
      <PublicIPs />
      <NetworkInterfaces />
    </ConfigurationSet>
</ConfigurationSets>
<DataVirtualHardDisks />
<OSVirtualHardDisk>
    <HostCaching>ReadWrite</HostCaching>
    <DiskLabel>disk_vmware-vm1_00_os.vhd</DiskLabel>
    <DiskName>disk_vmware-vm1_00_os.vhd</DiskName>
    <OS>Windows</OS>
    <IOType>Standard</IOType>
</OSVirtualHardDisk>
<RoleName>TestBackup01</RoleName>
<RoleSize>Basic_A1</RoleSize>
<RoleType>PersistentVMRole</RoleType>
<NoExportPrivateKey>false</NoExportPrivateKey>
<NoRDPEndpoint>false</NoRDPEndpoint>
<NoSSHEndpoint>false</NoSSHEndpoint>
<ProvisionGuestAgent>true</ProvisionGuestAgent>
<ResourceExtensionReferences>
    <ResourceExtensionReference>
      <ReferenceName>BGInfo</ReferenceName>
      <Publisher>Microsoft.Compute</Publisher>
      <Name>BGInfo</Name>
      <Version>1.*</Version>
      <ResourceExtensionParameterValues />
      <State>Enable</State>
    </ResourceExtensionReference>
</ResourceExtensionReferences>
</PersistentVM>

Do keep the XML file in safe location and may come handy when restoration. Stay tuned for our next post about virtual disk restoration and configuration file