A cluster of vCenter will share a single data store on a NAS?

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• How long does take to dismantle and re-scan a single data store

  Hi all

  I am currently using vSphere 5.0 to manage 3 x 5 ESXi hosts. I am trying to use the host VM 2 for surebackup data store and virtual laboratory of Veeam. I had already used the same data store and removed. Now try when I set up again on the same data store, it generates the error Create NAS Datastore - specified key, the name or the identifier already exists.

  After reading about the issue, I've seen the way to solve this must dismantle and Reanalyze the data store that produces the error. As I've never done this before that I was wondering if someone could share their own experiences? I need to move the exisitng s VM from the data store before I have to dismount and perform a new analysis or any point throughout this process?

  Some details on the data store:

  Composed of disks SAS 4 x 300 GB in RAID 5 with a total of 831,50 Gb. There are 8 VM running on this server using 400 GB on the Go 831,50. 4 virtual machine are essential and must be operational during the time leading to opening (9 - 5.30 pm). These total 222 + 39 + 33 + 69 = 363 GB. The data store is not shared between hosts.

  The migration of virtual machine for the other guests, I'm able to estimate (if necessary). What I'm really interested in is the length of time that it will dismantle and Reanalyze the data in question store.

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  Thanks in advance.

  Kind regards

  Haydn

  You must move the virtual machines before you take it apart

  or close the virtual machine and to unsubscribe to esxi.

  given that the data store is not shared, you must do the migration of data store for virtual machines such as migration cold.

  Disassemble and analyze new shouldn't take more time, let's say less than 2 minutes if each works fine.

• Several versions of the bridge (CC and CS) will share a single cache?

  You may be wondering why I'm running several versions of the bridge - but aren't. As the new versions of bridge and PS are multiplying like rabbits, I don't want to discount cache of tens of thousands of photos.

  Move on to the General bridge Discussion

• mount the windows share in the data store

  is it possible to mount a windows share in esxi 4?

  I want to access my actions of iso on a windows share 7.

  In esx 3.5, I could use 'smbmount '.

  Is not possible on ESXi.

  You must use NFS.

  André

• How can I restrict a resource pool to a single data store?

  I am setting up an environment to exercise for different groups of users and you want to limit/permissions to users in each resource pool so that they see only the data store where their enclave of virtual machines.  I was able to configure the actions of CPU and RAM correctly, but access to storage is stumping me.  Clarification: I'm not worried about storage i/o, just permissions/quotas on the data store itself.  Did anyone done this before?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

  Exactly what I need.  Thank you very much.

• ESXi 5.5 will not see the data store when it is installed on the HP SD flash card

  Today, I installed an HP 4 Gb flashdisk on a new server HP ML350p gen8 Bion P72 (most recent). This server contains 4 300 GB SAS drives in a RAID5 configuration with 1 logical drive. This drive works fine. When you install a Windows Server live on this subject, the logical drive that appear.

  Installing ESXi 5.5 I choose 2 location to install to, a SD flash disk and the logical disk of SAS. I installed it on the SD flash drive. But after that I started the vSphere client and any data store is seen here. The RAID5 logical drive is not there.

  During installation 5.5i directly on the logical volume Raid5 ESXi, vSphere sees the logical volume and can use it.

  How do I install ESXi 5.5 on the SD HP flash disk and use the logical disk as data store? Why I can only see the drive now?

  THX!

  1. it works both on customized HP iso and ISO VMware 5.5i

  2 when installing ESXi 5.5 on the RAID 5, the rest of the volume, she prepares as VMFS, because it is disk0'.

  If you do not use the raidvolume for the installation of VMware, you must configure it in the vSphere client. There, you have to format the raidvolume.

  It does not work.

• vCenter showing this vm in two data stores (a used display 0.00 B of 12.66 GB space)

  I have a couple of VMs that according to vCenter are present in multiple data stores. In all cases a data store would be showing 0.00 B of xx.xx GB used space.

  

  Is there a way to fix this? All I can think is that at some point the virtual machine could have migrated from one to another data store. It's never been renamed; Among the stores of data has no file like below...

  vCenter 5.5.0 2183111

  ESXi 5.5.0 2456374

  last vm compatibility of equipment and tools.

  What is visible on the page summary for the virtual machine:

  

  But if you look at the two warehouses of data - the virtual machine is present in the data store 4:

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore4/dc1

  Total 13286440

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4480 25 Mar 08:34.

  drwxr-xr-t 1 root root Mar 23 1820 10:17...

  -rw - 1 root root 134344704 6 March 18:42 dc1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 310 6 Mar 18:38 dc1 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 1895952384 24 March 15:16 dc1-000002 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 343 24 March 15:03 dc1 - 000002.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 50458624 25 March 09:14 dc1-000003 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - 000003.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 16904192 24 March 15:17 dc1-000004 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 24 March 15:17 dc1 - 000004.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 28969 6 Mar 12:35 dc1 - Snapshot1.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 29000 6 Mar 18:47 dc1 - Snapshot2.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 32015 24 March 15:17 dc1 - Snapshot3.vmsn

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 120 24 March 15:17 dc1 - to the .xml

  -rw - 1 root root 2147483648 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - bbbf052e.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 64424509440 6 March 12:35 dc1 - flat hard

  -rwx - 1 root root 290136 24 March 15:17 dc1 - vss_manifests3.zip

  -rw - 1 root root 8684 Mar 25 08:35 dc1.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 540 6 Mar 11:01 dc1.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 24 Mar 1245 15:17 dc1.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3536 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 0 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx.lck

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 3258 24 March 15:17 dc1.vmxf

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3535 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx ~.

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 554141 6 March 12:35 vmware - 3.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 225262 6 March 18:36 4.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 160708 6 Mar 18:42 vmware - 5.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 219307 Mar 16 11:21 6.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 245326 24 March 15:17 7.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 214032 24 March 16:19 vmware - 8.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 192487 Mar 25 08:35 vmware.log

  -rw - 1 root root 114294784 25 March 08:34 vmx-dc1-3149858094 - 1.vswp

  data store 3 has nothing and I am sure that this virtual machine was never renamed etc.

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1

  LS: / vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1: no such file or directory

  Your virtual machine based on the list of files, runs from snapshot and maybe the State of the virtual machine before taking the snapshot has been using the ISO on the old data store. If you can, try to remove the snapshot and the reference to the old data store will be deleted.

• Script to list all the warehouses of data in a cluster, the virtual machines on the data store and the host of the virtual machine is on

  We have warehouses of data which are seen by more than one cluster. I need a script that will display:

  all stores of data seen by a cluster

  the virtual machines on the data store

  the host of the virtual machine is on

  the cluster the host is in

  The output I want is

  name of the store of data, the VM name, host name, the name of the Cluster

  any help would be appreciated

  Pretty sure this will do what you need:

  $report = @()
  Foreach($cluster in Get-Cluster){
      $datastores = $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore
      foreach($datastore in $datastores){
      $vms = $datastore | Get-VM
      If ($vms.count -ge 1){
          foreach($VM in $vms){
          $object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
                Datastore = $datastore.Name
                VM = $VM.Name
                HostName = $VM.VMhost
                Cluster = $cluster
              }
          $report += $object
          }
  
      }
      }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv C:\Temp\VMs.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  If you only want to shared data warehouses you can then use

  $datastores = $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Extensiondata.Summary.MultipleHostAccess -eq $True}
  

  Hope this helps

• Relocation of the unusable VCenter Server after data store

  I needed to move the VCenter server only US planes of the DataStore has located on SAN1 to B data store located on SAN2 because we were retiring SAN1. After connecting directly to the VMhost which housed the vCenter Server VM, closing the vCenter Server and remove the vCenter Server inventory, I scoured data store A and moved the server vCenter to B data store directory. "After the copy is completed, I added the back inot inventory of vCenter Server, it works, toldi it"I moved"and received an error message indicating the file vCentersrvr.vmdk ' was absent.

  A review of the content directory for vCenter data store b shows no vCentersrvr.vmdk, but rather lists a file called vCentersrvr - flat hard. The type of file, the file is listed as "file". I tried to rename this gall and turn on/off the VM, but still no luck. Here are my questions:

  1. Can I save this installation? The original directory no longer exists (it was deleted automatically after the copy of the file).
  2. If I can't save this installation, can I just rebuild a new vCenter Server and Add (2) hosts that are currently managed by the vCenter Server server has failed?

  There is another method to recreate the descriptor VMDK files. http://www.phdvirtual.com/VMDKstubgenerator

• Store of data for a single data Windows drive must free space for snapshots or any other reason?

  I have a machine virtual it is partition C: is on a data store. I have a data store separate 500 GB and I want to give all of the 500 GB for this virtual machine as a D: partition. I think that for this virtual machine snapshots will reside on the data store that is home to the C: partition. Is this correct or should I leave little free space on the data of 500GB store?

  In addition to the vmdk, a small header file (a few bytes) is created in the data store. You may need a few (a few MB) of additional space if you use the modified block followed for example backup and replication. So I recommend that leave you little free space.

  Make sure that the database VM store is configured with at least a 2 MB block size so you can fix the vmdk on the virtual machine.

  André

• ESX 3.5: copy files using the service console from a network share to the esx host data store

  Hello

  I wonder. Is there a command that I can run the service console that would allow me to copy a file from a network share on the data store on the esx host?

  Eric

  If sharing is a Windows, you can also use smbclient within the service console and ride sharing.

  André

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• HA will only work if I share NFS data store in the cluster

  Hi all

  Please help me with my question below?

  HA work if I share NFS data store in the cluster? Even if if works is it advisable?

  Thank you

  Lucette

  Yes, but a VM restarts on a host within the same cluster VMware only.

• Share a single SIM card between two iPads.

  Share a single SIM card between two iPads.

  I want to get an iPad pro and already have an iPad 2 air. I want to be able to use my ATTdata package on both devices, if possible.

  Can I change the activated SIM card back on the fly between the two devices?

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• To a new cluster of vcenter 4.1

  I have two vmware 4.1 with separate storage clusters.  The two groups have no direct access to the storage of each other.  I am all of my VM migration to the new cluster.  The latest VM on my list is vcenter himself.

  I use vswitches distributed on my new cluster.

  I'm trying to think of a simple way of migration and drop my vcenter server from one cluster to another without falling on many problems.  I can't stop it and do a server/storage vmotion because I need vcenter to vmotion.

  One idea I had was to use vmware converter to move it to the new cluster.  It power off on the old cluster and on the new power.  Everyone thinks it would work ok?

  Billy

  If you have a mount LUNS or NFS temporary swing in clusters (or at least a host of each), you can do the following:

  1 put the temp data store online in both groups

  2 storage vMotion your vCenter for storage to the swing server

  3 vSphere client as root on the host where the vCenter

  4. free off the vCenter Server

  5 unregister it / remove inventory (don't delete disk of course)

  6. client vSphere as the root of the host target in the new cluster who sees the same storage

  7 browse the approriate time shared data store, right-click the .vmx and save it

  8. Select the port vDS group appropriate to change the settings, then turn on the computer, virtual

  8. give him the time to get online and update of the inventory of the hosts

  9. open client vSphere vCenter Server

  10. notes that the summary page of the vCenter VM specifies the correct host in the new cluster

  11. when the content, svMotion in the data store permanent desired

  As always, make sure you have good backups, or a clone of standby, you can switch to if you experience complications (unlikely).  I would also make sure the target VLAN has been tested on the new cluster.  If you have problems with vCenter get the update of the inventory (unlikely), you can restart the agents of management on the source and target hosts.

• Vcenter list, name of the cluster, the details of the data store, exported to CSV

  I would like to be able to list the details of the data store for 12 vcenters (vcenter, data store space free in the UK, used in GB, GB total) but I'm new to powershell. I found a lot of scripts that lists similar information, but without the Vcenter. Anyone know where I can find a script for this?

  Something like that

  foreach($vc in $defaultVIServers){
      Get-Datastore -Server $vc |     Select @{N="vCenter";E={$vc.Name}},       Name,       CapacityMB,       FreeSpaceMB,       @{N="UsedSpaceMB";E={$_.CapacityMB - $_.FreeSpaceMB}}
  }