How To Install Network Printer In Vmware Esxi
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In my previous VMware Articles, most featured Intermediate VMware Topics. My next series of articles will concentrate on topics for the VMware Novice; this is the thirteenth article in this series.If you would like to read the other articles in this series, they are listed here for your convenience.
During this series of articles VMware released VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5. These articles are also applicable to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.x and 5.5. For consistency, I have used VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.1 throughout this series.
In this series of basic VMware articles for the Novice, I'll be showing you the basic VMware skills required to install, configure and deploy virtual machines using VMware's FREE VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).
In this tutorial article, we will introduce you to virtual switches, commonly referred to as vSwitch, at the end of this tutorial, you will be able to create new a vSwitch, and add physical network interfaces to existing vSwitch, and connect a virtual machine to a new virtual machine network portgroup.
Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client, see my Experts Exchange article - Part 2: HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client
1. Viewing the physical adaptors in the Host Server.
Before we start creating virtual switches (vSwitch) on the host server, we need to understand physical network interfaces (nics). Select the host server in the vSphere Client, select the Configuration Tab, followed by Network Adapters.This section shows the number of installed network interfaces in the host server, they are labelled vmnic(x), where x represents a number. This section shows the vendor information for the network interface, speed and duplex settings, MAC Address, current vSwitch, and Observed IP Range - this last value is the IP Address range which has been detected on the network interface, this depends on the amount of traffic present on this network which this physical network interface is connected to.
In the screenshot below of a different server, it can clearly be seen, that the physical host server has twelve network interfaces lalled from vmnic0 to vmnic11, and they are distributed over two different models of network interface.
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vmnic0 , vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic3 - Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic4, vmnic5, vmnic6,vmnic7,vmnic8,vmnic9,vmnic10, vmnic11 - Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic0 , vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic3 are the on-board motherboard network interfaces in a Dell R720, vmnic4 to vmnic11 are two additional quad port network interfaces plugged into the PCI-e motherboard bus. To create a redundant network link and reduce a single point of failure, you can see in the screenshot below, physical network interfaces ports have been selected from different physical network interfaces for the vSwitch.
2. Select Networking in the Host Server
select the Configuration Tab, followed by Networking.
The ESXi default installation creates a single vSwitch0, with the physical network interface uplink vmnic0, a Management Network VMKernel Portgroup, and VM Network Virtual Machine Portgroup.
To create redundancy for vSwitch0, and avoid a single point of failure, we will add a new physical network interface vmnic1, to the vSwitch1 as follows.
3. Add a network interface (vmnic1) to vSwitch0
Select Properties of the vSwitch0
Select Network Adapters
Select Add
Select vmnic1, followed by Next, Finish and Close the dialogue.
vSwitch0 now has two physical network interfaces added.
4. Creating a new vSwitch
Select Configuration, Networking followed by Add Networking (far right)
Select Virtual Machine, as we want to create a new vSwitch, for Virtual Machine networking, followed by next.
Select at least two physical network interfaces, to create a redundant vSwitch, and reduce the single point of failure, followed by Next
Enter a network label, I've used the Network Label -
Production LAN - this will be used to select this virtual machine network, in the VM Network Interface settings later, followed by Next, and Finish.This is how networking will look, after the creation of vSwitch1.
The ESXi host now has two vSwitch, vSwitch0 and vSwitch1.
5. Assigning a Virtual Machine Portgroup to a Virtual Machine
Right Click the virtual machine, and select Edit Settings
Select Network adapter 1 in the virtual machine, and change the Network Connection, to Production LAN, followed by OK.
Checking Networking, will show the change, and the virtual machine is using a different vSwitch, vSwitch1.
Congratulations, you have successfully added a network interface to a vSwitch, created a new vSwitch and virtual machine network portgroup, and connected a Virtual Machine to this new virtual machine network portgroup.
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My exploration of ThinPrint in VMware Workstation 7.
With the latest version of VMware Workstation 7, there is one cool feature called Thin Print. The feature I explained in this blog post together with other new functionalities.
The question is How-to enable this feature? Because it’s not enabled by default… I’ve done this test on my laptop running Windows 7 x64. The Virtual Machine used for the test was Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. If virtual printing is enabled in the virtual machine setting, all of the printers installed on the host operating system are available in the guest operating system. When you enable the virtual printer, Workstation configures a virtual serial port 1 to communicate with the host printers.
But, what if the VM does not have serial port? (my case…). I could see actually not ALL my printers available on my laptop inside of the VM, but only one out of three of them … My laptop DOES NOT has serial port anyway…
So I added the Serial port to the VM anyway (FYI: it’s been added as a Serial port 2), to try what’s happens. Nothing, I still can see only one of my three printers installed on my Laptop.(The DEFAULT one). And that’s it. I could see only the Default printer.
Someone could ask. How do you change this printer if you want to print on another printer available on your physical system (my laptop)? Well you just change the default printer on your physical system, and inside of your VM go and refresh the printers window (or hit F5 key). And that’s it. It changes immediately. No reboot or log off are necessary.
Normally when you need to enable virtual printing just follow this step.
First Stop your VM (not suspend) and go to VirtualMachineSettings->Hardware->Add…->Virtual Printer
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Then… That’s it.
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