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• Report on the vmdk files that make up a virtual machine

  Hello
  Is it possible to create a report/dashboard that would map a virtual machine to its VMDK files in vFog Pro 6.0?
  Example: vmname - data name/ID - vmname.vmdk, vmname1.vmdk store...
  THX

  samardak,
  I think it's possible to pull this information from vFoglight. SOM of our API calls should remove this information of the Victoria Cross.
  That said, it would be wise to either contact your landlord account for assistance in the creation of this report. Your account owner can facilitate the resources needed to help you with a personalized report. If you don't know who is the owner of your account, you can contact support, and we can refer you to the right contact person or group.
  -LM

• Flat VMDK files after trying to delete files from data store

  I tried to delete a VMDK file in a data store, because I thought that it was not in use, and I need space. I couldn't get the VM you are looking for the name of the VMDK file, so I thought that the VM has disappeared. Turns out that someone had renamed the virtual machine, when it was actually being used, so I could not remove the VMDK file.

  I searched for the files with Powershell in a data store, and that's how I found this mysterious file in the first place.

  After giving me the error that it couldn't be deleted, the file does not appear in the search more and the name of the file has been replaced by *-dish. VMDK, I think, and the column by specifying the Type just said file, instead of virtual disk. In addition, files not included in the research more.

  Today, a day after, everything is back to normal. Everyone knows this behavior before and could tell me what happened?

  Each virtual disk is actually 2 files: VMname.vmdk and VMname - flat hard

  Unfortunately, the data store browser displays only the VMname... VMDK, but it gives the properties of VMname - flat hard. Use PuTTY, connect to the ESXi host via ssh, navigate to the folder of the virtual machine and use: the - lahtr to list the contents of an authoritarian way. You can also run: - ch to check actual use.

• Reset cbt - cannot get rid of the ctk vmdk files

  Hi, I have a known problem with the backup of my virtual machines where I need to reset the CBT. The procedure I have the backup software is as follows;

  Solution:

  Please follow the steps below to reset the CBT for a specific virtual machine.

  1. turn off the virtual machine

  2. right click on the virtual machine, click on "Change settings", find the 'Options' tab and click 'settings of Configuration.

  3. set the value of 'ctkEnabled' to false

  4. set the 'scsi0:x.ctkEnabled' to false for each disk of the virtual machine in question

  5. open the source folder and remove all - CTK. VMDK files.

  6. turn on the virtual machine

  7. power off the virtual machine again. This step is necessary to update the table of CTK.

  8 turn on the virtual machine

  9 replay backup task.

  So I have 2 VMs. VM1 and VM2. Both are win2k12 r2 (they are created the same day, the same way, installation of r2 std win2k12, patches, etc...). In step 5, for both servers, even if I delete the ctk.vmdk files, they are automatically reproduced so I can't delete them. Then I continued with the neverthless steps. After step 8, I saw that for VM1, has more ctk.vmdk files so that they are deleted somewhere in the process by the server itself. So my guess is that step 5 is not relevant. The problem I have is that even if I did exactly the same thing for VM2, ctk.vmdk files are never deleted. I reboot 3 times, I tried to manually remove them several times, they always, never to return, they are deleted.

  So, basically, I can't reset the cbt on VM2. I double check this ctkenabled are all 'fake' (tried also uppercase) still no luck. Any ideas how I could get rid of these ctk.vmdk files?

  Thank you

  Hi, proved that there was a snapshot. As soon as I deleted it, the ctk files disappeared.

  Concerning

• Is there a way to repair the VMDK file after that vdiskmanager.exe says it can not be repaired?

  Hello

  I have a VMDK file that is damaged due to a host controller problem. I am running Workstation 12.1 on 8.1 Win x 64. VMDK output below with log.

  [ADMIN]: PS >.\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe r 'D:\dalliandt2\DALIANDT2.vmdk '.

  The virtual disc, "D:\daliandt2\DALLIANDT2.vmdk", is corrupted and cannot be repaired.

  OK, after spending the whole day, trying to find a solution, I found how to fix it.

  Download converter (free) V2V download StarWind V2V Converter | StarWind Software

  I converted by broken disk dynamic extension for a dish and started Windows, file corruption detected and began to run repair.

• VMDK file corrupted

  I have corrupted files vmdk and tried a few elements in order to retrieve the data, and have so far not had much luck.

  I downloaded the virtual disk Development Kit and ran the vmware - vdiskmanager.exe on main vmdk file.  All I get is that the file is corrupted and cannot be repaired.  I tried to install the trial of the workstation Pro... happy to pay for it if she fixed my drive... and that did not help much.

  I tried to use Stellar Phoenix data recovery Virtual Machine ... who actually was able to see the files... most of them at least... but recover them I have to pay $300.  I'd rather pay money for Pro workstation so I have something to use later $300 for recovery I need I hope just this one time.  Then... Are there additional options?  Is there a data recovery integrated with Pro Workstation somewhat like what is the use of Stellar?

  Thank you!

  Get 12 WS very probably not help.
  I need some details - call me via Skype if you want

  Ulli

• How to shrink a virtual disk (vmdk file)

  I use VMware Workstation 12.1 Pro on Windows 7 x 64.

  I have a virtual drive of 140 GB that I converted to stretch of prealloue (with excellent yesterday using continuum here).

  First, in Windows Disk Manager, I lowered the score of 140 GB GB 70, leaving the end 70 GB unallocated (unused). So I thought it would be easy to reduce the 140 GB vmdk file to 70 GB.

  I ran the vmware - vdiskmanager.exe command line with the-k option on the file vmdk from the host with the virtual machine off. Then in the virtual machine powered on, the command prompt, I ran VMwareToolboxCmd.exe fret C:\.

  These two options gave me a disc that was essentially the same size than what I started with. Looks like there should be an easy way to drop that last unused 70 GB, but I can't. Which offer a suggestion?

  Thank you!

  Joe

  To effectively reduce a vmdk extensible, you must be able to write to these locations with the trash.
  You resized the partition - which means that the trash is outside the accessible area in writing.
  Options:
  create a partition at the end of the disc, wipe it by filling it with zeros, when the partition is completely filled with zeros - shrink again and remove the fake wall when done. I suggest this order:
  Start: preallocated 140 GB vmdk
  1 defragment the partition from inside the guest
  2. resize the partition to 70 GB
  3. turn off the virtual machine completely and simply cut the flat.vmdk to 71 GB with a dd command
  4. adjust the description of the measure in descriptorfile

  result: a vmdk préallouée 70 GB

• Need a power-Cli report which shows pools of resources, including CPU, memory, reviews, DS, VM, VMDK files in an HTML report.

  LucD

  Hi LucD,

  I'm working on a script that is basically a lot of information on the whole cloud (including several clusters). The information I need is like that

  Script creates a format of report (in HTML) of the resource pool, and each report represents a single pool that contains information of CPU, Mem, comments, warehouses of data, use the data store VMDK files and free space. We fundamentally need this information in order to understand the use of the customer as each pool represents each client.

  Could you please help me out on this then that would be great . Thank you. in advance.

  Nauman

  OK, added a line with the VMDK file name.

  $a = ""

  $a = $a +""

  {foreach ($cluster Get-cluster)

  foreach ($rp in Get-ResourcePool-location $cluster) {}

  $report = foreach ($vm in (Get-VM-location the $rp)) {}

  Get-disk hard - VM $vm |

  Select @{N = "Cluster"; E = {$cluster. Name}},

  @{N = "ResourcePool"; E = {$rp. Name}},

  @{N = "VM"; E = {$vm. Name}},

  @{N = 'HD'; E={$_. Name}},

  @{N = "Datastore"; E={($_. Filename.Split(']') [0]). TrimStart('[')}},

  @{N = 'Filename'; E={($_. Filename.Split('_') [1]). "Split('/') [0]}},"

  @{N = 'Path VMDK'; E={$_. File name}}.

  @{N = "Format"; E={$_. StorageFormat}},

  @{N = ' Type'; E={$_. DiskType}},

  @{N = "CapacityGB"; E={$_. CapacityGB}}

  }

  $report | ConvertTo-Html-head $a | Out-file - FilePath "C:\temp\$ (cluster$.). (Name) - $($rp.) "(Name) - report.html.

  }

  }

• Remove the vmdk files

  I have a situation here: more than 40 GB of vmdk files.

  So, I would like to know it is possible to remove these files and how can I do this.

  Thanks in advance for any help

  

  renatob, read my previous comment.  You should not delete these files you will break your virtual machine.  The reason why you have so many files vmdk is because they are currently divided into 2 GB files.  Following the indications that I have described in the previous post to convert all these split files in a single disk VMDK file.  Then I recommend to perform a disk cleanup to compress the VMDK and reclaim space.

  Yo this by going to the settings of the VM, click general, and then Clean Up the Virtual Machine.  I hope this helps!

  

• How to get rid of a Zombie vmdk file

  Hi all

  We have a VMDK file approximately 172 VM who is sitting on our SAN, consuming expensive storage, but that is not actually used by any VM.

  Everything has idea how rid the Zombie vmdk file? Thanks in advance.

  Thank you

  vmk2014

  If you want to be sure, just do as I told you on my previous post... move the zombie file to another folder before deleting (if the file is in use will be impossible to move the file, because the file is locked)... and you can just wait a few days after the zombie file and before you permanently delete.

• Check orphaned vmdk files are not used before deleting

  Hi all

  I'm working on a site and after looking through the vSphere platform, it came to light that there are THOUSANDS (well more than 10,000) of orphaned VMDK files, it seems that there is a bug in the backup solution (you think).

  In any case I was hoping someone could help me please do you know if there is a way to confirm that a vmdk is certainly not necessary, the tools I've used to identify the orphaned VMDK are the script here practically Jason: orphaned VMDK files and RV tools (health tab).

  What I need to do now is to automate the removal of the VMDK if possible, but I need to run a test of consistency first to ensure that the files are actually orphans.

  Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

  Hello

  I can give you only a few rough concepts and advice because I do not know the details.

  First, he yells for PowerCLI, below, you will get a few commands. If you are not familiar with PowerCLI/Powershell I highly recommend to get a grip on it.

  Second, I'll assume that orphaned files = unused files. If this isn't the case, you can rename/move file instead of delete and wait as these phone calls / tickets

  Thirdly, since we will work on files on data warehouses, we will use "vmstores" PSDrive. Get-PSdrive cmdlet will give you all the readers, that you, one of them is vmstores

  C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSDrive
  
  Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root                                                                                                                   CurrentLocation
  ----           ---------     --------- --------      ----                                                                                                                   ---------------
  Alias                                  Alias
  C                  52,39         44,97 FileSystem    C:\                                                                                                                   Windows\system32
  Cert                                   Certificate   \
  D                 218,60        149,80 FileSystem    D:\
  E                                      FileSystem    E:\
  Env                                    Environment
  Function                               Function
  HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  Variable                               Variable
  vi                                     VimInventory  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vis                                    VimInventory  \
  vmstore                                VimDatastore  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vmstores                               VimDatastore  \
  WSMan                                  WSMan
  

  To get your typical data warehouse 'cd ":

  CD vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster

  On each level, you can do 'ls' or 'cmd '. Tab completion works on everything in order to use it

  From now on, all depends on what you already have and what it looks like. These files have a naming pattern names containing the name of the virtual machine or other information ("backup", "tmp" etc.)? You have these names stored somewhere? In text or csv file?

  I guess you have the list of files in the text file. So much more simple method would be to be scan all data warehouses and all files. As you can imagine it is very time and resource consumption, so not recommended to all

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  cd vmstores:\your_vcenter\your_cluster
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
  #we're recursivly looking for file stored in $_ special variable (current object)
  $deleteme = Get-ChildItem $_ -Recurse
  #deleting the file
  Remove-Item $deleteme.PSPath
  }
  

  If the file names that you already can somehow correspond directly to the VM, then we could use a more intelligent approach.

  Let's say we have the testVM001 - bak003.vmdk and VMname file is testVM001. We can remove all characters after the 9th tank and then work on it:

  #we're importing filenames to variable
  $oldfiles = Get-Content your_text_file.txt
  
  $oldfiles | ForEach-Object {
      #getting VM name
      $vmname = $_.Remove(9)
      #getting VM path
      $vmpath = (Get-VM -Name $vmname |Get-Datastore).DatastoreBrowserPath
      #combining full path
      $fullpath = $vmpath + "\" + $vmname
      cd $fullpath
      #deleting the file
      Remove-Item ./$_
  }
  

  These are simple ideas, it could be useful.

• Missing application VMDK files

  We are still in our phase of testing for the Volumes of the App, but I had a night to occur today ' hui / last odd number.  All the VMDK files for all applications assigned to a specific group has been removed from the data store.  Applications are always in Volumes App Manager...  When I signed up this morning with this same test user, I saw a lot of mistakes in the VMDK files missing vSphere Client.  The metadata file is still there, but the VMDK disappeared.  I'm looking through my logs, but all I can find are the newspapers of Volume of the App to the last time these applications were attached, which was last night while I was testing with this specific group.  Our linked clone pools are set to delete on logoff desktop... it's the only thing I can think that maybe my test user disconnected and before that applications have been detached office has been removed by the sight and somehow see deleted these files VMDK app as well.  I also put my models in Volume of the App, but I did on the middle of the day yesterday and did a lot of tests after that.  Just try to list everything that has changed...

  I'm on Volumes App 2.7 and 6.1 view Horizon.  vCenter 5.1U1, ESXi 5.1U3.

  All my other AppStacks are very well is that these 8 apps in this group that I was testing with

  Has anyone meet this or perhaps an idea of what past?  I will recreate my apps today and try to find a combination of events that repeat what has happened.

  I've tested the new 2.9.0 version and since my initial tests problems has been resolved.  See this post as well:

  Re: VMware Appvolumes 2.7 | Linked clone view Horizon pool PROBLEMS

• Old vmdk files

  Hello

  I have some data stores that have a few folders with a few old VM names, we used earlier in our infrastructure, but do not exist today. These files contain nothing more than hard files that are attached to other virtual machines, and they are still in use (the date of modification to files hard comes this week). File hard names are always based on the old virtual machines that were used previously. My question is:

  Is it possible to know which virtual machines using these hard currently files?

  Elodie

  Maybe this PowerCLI help script: http://vniklas.djungeln.se/2011/12/05/virtual-machine-vmdk-file-report-with-powercli/

  If you prefer an additional tool, RVTools might help.

• Cannot create a virtual machine with a vmdk file copied from another location, please find the attached error

  Hi all

  I copied a file from one place vmdk and try to make a new virtual machine with this vmdk file. But when I turn on after the creation of vm error is coming. Error in the text and the image below

  Power on the virtual machine: cannot open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 31/03/2015-14:40:05

  Target: DBServer

  vCenter Server: vcsa

  Error stack

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on DBServer VM.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/543d140b-feb33d52-7640-90b11c9796c3/vmdk/kapuatdb.vmdk'

  Could not open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  This error message generally if the hard files have been copied hosted as VMware Workstation product, which uses a format of sparse file that is not supported on an ESXi host. Instead of the hard copy, you can use VMware Converter, or - if you prefer - you can convert the hard using vmware-vdiskmanager (before transfer) or vmkfstools (after downloading). I deal to use vmkfstools you will need to load the mutliextent module (see for example "Clone or migration operations involving virtual discs non-VMFS on ESXi fail with an error" vSphere 5.1 Release Notes)

  André

• Incorrect (inflated). The VMDK file size

  Hi all

  I am running VMware Workstation 10.0.2 build-1744117 and scratching my head as to why the size of my. The Guest Windows 7 x 64 newly deployed VMDK file is so great despite having supplied a vDisk 60 GB and opting for do not pre-allocate space.  My VMDK file size is close to 60 GB, while on the comments, it shows only ~ 21 GB consumed.  I tried without success the compaction.  It is not compatible with other virtual machines, I in which the VMDK file size corresponds to the capacity in use on the vDisk. Please find below the screenshots of corroboration.  It would be much appreciated if someone could shed some light on why this is the case.

  COMMENTS:

  

  

  HOST:

  

  

  Thanks in advance, see you soon!

  Sorry I lost all time clicking on this post.  After a nominal amount of research, I discovered the error of my ways and proceeded to reduce the volume.

  See you soon!

• Workstation cannot find the VMDK file, but it exists.

  I backed up a Windows 7 year last to Carbonite. He had several defined virtual machines and I now have to watch a Windows 7 computer. I downloaded and unpacked the entire file, I think. When I try to run it with my computer it says

  Could not open the folder "D:\Windows 7 Vaio\Windows 7.vmdk":

  The system cannot find the specified file.

  But the file is actually in the folder where it is looking and he had the same name. Why can't he see the file? How can I solve this problem?

  Depending on the file format of the virtual disk, virtual disk may consist of several hard files, and the error can occur because of one or more of the required . VMDK files is not being restored. If the . a VMDK file is a small text file, it must contain the names of all the -s #. VMDK files.

  André