Vcenter Scans; Deleting The Vcenter; Exporting Profiles - Lenovo CN4093 Application Manual

vCenter Scans

Deleting the vCenter

Exporting Profiles

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Once the vCenter is assigned, the switch will periodically scan the vCenter to
collect basic information about all the VEs in the datacenter, and more detailed
information about the local VEs that the switch has discovered attached to its own
ports.
The switch completes a vCenter scan approximately every two minutes. Any major
changes made through the vCenter may take up to two minutes to be reflected on
the switch. However, you can force an immediate scan of the vCenter by using one
of the following ISCLI privileged EXEC commands:
CN 4093# virt vmware scan
-or-
CN 4093# show virt vm -v -r
To detach the vCenter from the switch, use the following configuration command:
CN 4093(config)# no virt vmware vcspec
Note: Without a valid vCenter assigned on the switch, any VE configuration
changes must be manually synchronized.
Deleting the assigned vCenter prevents synchronizing the configuration between
the CN4093 and VEs. VEs already operating in distributed VM groups will
continue to function as configured, but any changes made to any VM profile or
distributed VM group on the switch will affect only switch operation; changes on
the switch will not be reflected in the vCenter or on the VEs. Likewise, any changes
made to VE configuration on the vCenter will no longer be reflected on the switch.
VM profiles for discovered VEs in distributed VM groups are automatically
synchronized with the virtual management server and the appropriate
hypervisors. However, VM profiles can also be manually exported to specific hosts
before individual VEs are defined on them.
By exporting VM profiles to a specific host, BNT port groups will be available to
the host's internal virtual switches so that new VMs may be configured to use
them.
VM migration requires that the target hypervisor includes all the virtual switch
port groups to which the VM connects on the source hypervisor. The VM profile
export feature can be used to distribute the associated port groups to all the
potential hosts for a given VM.
A VM profile can be exported to a host using the following ISCLI privileged EXEC
command:
CN 4093# virt vmware export <VM profile name> <host list> <virtual switch name>
(Scan the vCenter)
(Scan vCenter and display result)
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