Adding new disks to the ESX server

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  In the VI Client connected to your ESX host, select the storage adapters tab and highlight the Fibre HBA. Right-click and select Rescan. If you have correctly configured the SAN and the Fibre switch, then the LUNS now appear under the fiber HBA. Go to storage and select Add storage. Follow the wizard through to add LUNS and VMFS format. Do this for each ESX host that you want to see the LUNS.

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• Specification of disk for the ESX Server

  I set up a new ESX Server.  Internal drives will be used for ESX - no data warehouses.  Complete 7.2 K rpm SATA drives (RAID-1), or is there an advantage to walk up to the 15 K RPM SAS drives?

  ESXi does not fast disks (or any disk at all). You can even install ESXi on a USB stick or SD card. Once loaded, ESXi running in memory and only to rewrite the disk configuration changes.

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• Adding new disks in the PS4100

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  I have a PS4100 with 12 600 GB disks in RAID-50 (4.18 TB), and both drives are spare.

  I want to develop more 1 TB and need to know if I can buy more discs and adding the existing pool.

  Or I have to buy more than 3 disks for a RAID-5?

  After placing a new drive, the total space of the pool will be available for expansion?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You cannot run the different RAID levels on the Member of the same group.  Once you set the RAID policy only politics is possible on this physical member.  Also, you can add just a few readers to expand current RAID set.  If the table is filled with 1/2, the upgrade option is only to add another 12 discs of the same type size.  If you use larger disks, will only be used for the capacity of the smallest disk.

  Readers must also be purchased from Dell and especially for the EQL San.  Generic disks won't work.

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• The local disk on the ESX Server 4.0 workspace

  I have a Dell 2950 GEN III 2 x Quad Core 2 GHz 16 GB Ram, and 6 x 2 TB SATA hard drives and cards 6 network

  I am only able to create a unique database small.  I have 6 drives in a hardware Configuration RAID 5.   How can I use 100% of apx 10 TB of disk space local invited several flavors of Linux and Windows.   I understand that I will probably have several data stores.

  Do not hesitate to ask questions, I look forward to working this to enjoy this local storage

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• Adding a new NETWORK adapter to the ESX Server

  I have an ESX 3.5 server that has two NIC onboard.  I decided that I will join the ESX Server to the SAN, so I need these two NICS for iSCSI.  I'm going to install a NETWORK card in the PCI - X slot.  Unfortunately, without GUI, I'm confused as to how it will work.  Can someone give me some advice on how to add a new NETWORK card?  I checked esxcfg and I don't know if that's what I'm trying to use.  Any help would greatly be appreciated.

  In the VI client, you should be able to go on the tab network management under configuration see the NIC it to add them to the correct vSwitch.

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• VMDK file unreadable after migration of VM & update of the ESX Server

  Last night we have updated the ESX servers here and in the migration process machines from one node to the other (by placing a single node of the cluster in maintenance mode). During this migration, the VMs one has stopped running. When we finished the migration and had updated the ESX Server, we brought the system to the top and tried to start this virtual machine.

  First, we looked in the directory of the virtual machine and saw that the VMDK file has a different name, with - dish at the end (before hard). We have renamed the file, removing the - flat extension, and this is where we saw these messages. ESX Server always gbehaved as if the file did not exist or was unreadable. Here is an extract from the log:

  14:40:08.232 27 Feb: vmx | KHZEstimate 2931923

  14:40:08.232 27 Feb: vmx | 2932 MHZEstimate

  14:40:08.232 27 Feb: vmx | NumVCPUs 1

  14:40:08.247 27 Feb: vmx | UUID: location-UUID is 56 4 d d4 6 to 87 30 4 c 0 b - 74 63 41 09 76 a7 1A f8

  14:40:08.247 27 Feb: vmx | WORKER: Create a new group with numThreads = 2 (2)

  14:40:08.337 27 Feb: vmx | Mainmem mapped as pageable

  14:40:08.361 27 Feb: vmx | MStat: Creation vm.uptime Stat

  14:40:08.361 27 Feb: vmx | MStat: Creation vm.suspendTime Stat

  14:40:08.361 27 Feb: vmx | MStat: Creation vm.powerOnTimeStamp Stat

  14:40:08.369 27 Feb: vmx | VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading of raw configuration

  14:40:08.376 27 Feb: vmx | Cannot find the file cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk

  14:40:08.378 27 Feb: vmx | Cannot find the file cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk

  14:40:08.378 27 Feb: vmx | DISC: Scsi0:0 OPEN 'cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk' R [(null) persistent]

  14:40:08.380 27 Feb: vmx | Cannot find the file cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | DISKLIB-LINK: 'cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk': cannot open (the system cannot find the specified file).

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | DISKLIB-STRING: 'cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk': cannot open (the system cannot find the specified file).

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | DISKLIB-LIB: cannot open "cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk" with flags 0xa (the system cannot find the specified file).

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | Msg_Post: error

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | http://Msg.disk.FileNotFound VMware ESX Server cannot find the virtual disk 'cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk '. Please check that the path is valid and try again.

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | http://Msg.disk.noBackEnd can't open the Flash 'cognos4dios.zurich.ibm.com.vmdk' or one of the disks disk that it depends on.

  14:40:08.382 27 Feb: vmx | http://Msg.disk.configureDiskError reason: the system cannot find the specified file. -.

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  14:40:08.399 27 Feb: vmx | Power DiskEarly module has failed.

  14:40:08.399 27 Feb: vmx | VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0

  14:40:08.401 27 Feb: vmx | WORKER: asyncOps = 0 maxActiveOps = 0 maxPending = 0 maxCompleted = 0

  14:40:08.752 27 Feb: vmx | vmdbPipe_Streams could not read: OVL_STATUS_EOF

  14:40:08.752 27 Feb: vmx | Output of idle VMX

  14:40:08.764 27 Feb: vmx | VMX VMDB Flushing connections

  14:40:08.771 27 Feb: vmx | IPC_exit: disconnect all discussions

  14:40:08.771 27 Feb: vmx | Exit VMX (0).

  14:40:08.772 27 Feb: vmx | VMX has left the building: 0.

  The VMDK file is indeed the most, but VMware seems unable to open it. For what it's worth, it was also noted a .hlog file in the directory of the virtual machine on the server:

  cognos4dios. Zurich.IBM.com - 3 c 377802 .hlog:

  C2 C0 71 17 14 6 b6 01-49 fb 00 1 a 64 35 20 e9

  Anyone can shed some light on this? Done-flat suffix in the VMDK file have a special meaning? Any recommendations for the rescue of this virtual machine?

  Thank you very much in advance.

  Kind regards

  Michael L.

  -Flat.vmdk file is your data file where all of your actual data has been stored. Name back to the original value.

  It seems that you have lost the descriptor file (vmname.vmdk). If you have not an extraction backup the following procedures to re-create this file

  http://www.aMIKKELSEN.com/?p=93

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/115063

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  Recently, I used SSMove to migrate our datastore LM set a new LUN.  It's really simple to use.  This KB gives complete instructions on SSMove http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006694&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=8456583&stateId=0%200%209407965

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• Added new line at the top of tabular form in APEX 5.0 and universal theme (topic 42)

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• Problem with adding new storage to the CDV provider profile

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  I created tags and he attributed to the data store and I see the new VM storage through the vSphere web client policy.

  I can also see VMS on the VCDDB the dbo.storage_profile_inv the new storage policy table and when I create new provider TDC I can't.

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• DEOs change to the political necessity of round robin to restart the ESX Server

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  When set politics multi-path set to Round robin, is it necessary to restart the ESX Server?

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• [CARS] Add the new disk in the database running environment

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  I want to ask a question about oracle RAC especially to add a new disk.

  Here's the situation for existing oracle RAC

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  2. There is a demand to add a new disk to existing diskgroup

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  I read document oracle (How to add a new disc to year Diskgroup existing RAC Cluster or stand-alone Configuration of ASM (Best Practices).) (Doc ID 557348.1()

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  1. that I should stop the database, ASM and CRS when add a new disk to existing diskgroup?

  2. are there steps that has already been proven to add a new disk in an operational environment?

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  2. are there steps that has already been proven to add a new disk in an operational environment?

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  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asmdiskgrps.htm#OSTMG10070

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• Problem connecting to the ESX Server in the Windows domain controller workstation

  Nice day

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  If someone could please provide suggestions as to where I could look, I would appreciate it.

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  See my notes http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-network-advanced.html

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• Legend on the screen of the ESX Server

  Hello

  I have two x 3550 of IBM servers.

  I have install ESX on my first server.

  Because of the problem on the motherboard, I put hard disks that stood on the raid1 in to another server in x 3550 IBM.

  After the reconstruction of hard drive (raid 1) and when ESX started, I saw a strange legend.

  In my ESX server appeared with a caption in red letters:

  "(TSC: cpu0 1918613 ) Init: 461: The Disable/No run run CPU is enabled for this machine.

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  Try to activate the parameters of memory Protection No.-Execute under processor (under Advanced Options) Options in the BIOS

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• License available when one of the ESX Server is in maintenance mode

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  I just tested it, and the number of licenses available for my 3.5 servers has not changed after that one has been placed in maintenance mode.  I wouldn't really expect him if she is always powered, but unfortunately I can't supply a stop for the moment.

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