Cannot add a new data store

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• Cannot add the new data store

  VM dear supporters,

  My vSphere environment: 1 vCenter Server Foundation, 3 vSphere 4.0 Enterprise 5.0 and vSphere Client 5.0

  1. read the error message in the attachment:

  "hostdatastoresystem.queryvmfsdatastorecreateoptions...". »

  2. already the ESX02 reboot but still unable to add the new data store.

  New size of the data store = 3.1 TB

  Need to vmsupport on this subject.

  Thank you

  Hello

  Size Max LUN VMFS is 2 TB-512 MB in vSphere 4 (your hosts are in version 4), if you want to add 3.1 TB LUN first upgrade ESX hosts to version 5

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• Failed to get the disk partition information when you add the new data store

  Hello

  Update my ESX to version 4 Update 1 (4.0.0, 256968). Now, I'm trying to add a new data store to a cluster in vCenter and receive the following error message when I will review the current structure of the disc "error when configuring the host: failed to get the disk partition information. When I click back, then next, there's no error message but in the formatting window, I get the error "Object reference" not set to an instance of an object.

  I see this question has been asked before, but I can't seem to find an appropriate response. Anyone? The interface using CLI instead of vCenter isn't an option (alignment VMFS, workload and so on)

  I use Dell R900 with an EMC Symmetrix VMax SAN

  The size of the LUN I want to add is 741 GB

  Concerning

  Marius Aulie

  If you have a virtual machine for Windows test, you could do the following, to ensure that the logic unit number has a clean partition table:

  -set the LUN as a GROSS physical to virtual machine device

  -Run diskpart, select the drive and run the CLEAN command

  -detach the LUN to the virtual machine

  -try to create the data on the LUN VMFS store

  The size of the block of the data store where the VM test can be a problem with the above. Due to the size of the LUN, the size of the block of the data store must be at least 4 MB. Attach the LUN to a physical test system could be an alternative.

  André

• Add the new data store

  Hello

  I'm sorry if someone already asked this question before.

  I'm just starting with VMWARE.

  my main at work gave me an old DELL Poweredge 2950 and asked me to install esxi 5 and set up a network and separate area to work with.

  This server got a limitation of 400 GB of HARD drive. I want to use the external USB HDD as additional storage. I got the rank of server 2 TB external HARD drive to use.

  in the start-up phase, is to recognize the HARD drive, but when I want to add as a data store, it does not show anything.

  is there a way I can use the HARD disc as data store extra or not. If I can, can someone please help me with this.

  Thank you

  Krishna

  Unless this HARD drive can be connected to a supported interface card you won't have much luck. You don't mention the interface - if "Server Grade" arrives as meaning 'external SAS port to support RAID card' then it should 'work '.

  From what you describe, I'm imagining a USB - this is not taken care of for a data store.

• Issue of SDRS to vCloud Director after you add the new data store to the Cluster of DTS

  Hi people,

  We use vCloud Director 5.5 in a vSphere full 5.5 environment.

  We have several DTS Cluster in vSphere and connected to vCloud Director.

  Following problem.

  When I add a data store to a Cluster of DTS and connect this to the corresponding storage profile data store, the storage profile is not available to vCloud Director more.

  After removing the new store data in the cluster of DTS, the profile becomes available again.

  Any ideas?

  Concerning

  Jean

  How did you the storage profile associated with the data store?  via c# client or vSphere web client?

  If you did the wrong way (c#) there no storage class label appropriate against it.

  A data cluster store has the storage class who would have all preparations of data contained inside.

  I think that you should check the service class is associated properly in vSphere web client (before adding to the DS Cluster).  Once it displays correctly, and then add the data store to the cluster.

• Cannot add the new nfs datastore

  Hello

  I would like to get some advice how to add a new nfs data store. Here are the steps I did:

  (1) I have setup a stand-alone ESXi 4 server. I configured the VMNIC0 with 192.168.100.1/24 IP with Vswitch0.

  (2) I have setup a NFS storage. The NFS share is file://\\192.168.200.2\share. I tried using a Windows laptop and I can access the share.

  (3) ON the ESXi server, I created another Vswitch1 with VMNIC1 IP 192.168.200.1/24. I connect my storage to VMNIC1. ESXi, I'm able to ping my storage 192.168.200.2.

  (4) I connect my Windows laptop (IP 192.168.100.2) to VMNIC0. I am able to Vsphere Client to the ESXi server.

  (5) using the Vsphere Client user interface, I click on 'add the new data store '. The fields that I get are "192.168.200.2" and "share". I got the below error message:

  "Error while configuring the host: NFS error: unable to mount filesystem: unable to connect to the NFS server.

  What it went wrong?

  Kind regards

  Kent

  No claim, the NFS must be in the same subnet as your ESX VMKernel Port and your VI Client must be in the same subnet as the Console of the ESX Service / Management Port. But in many cases (especially with ESXi and if not configured otherwise) management and VMKernel are on the same Interface / subnet.

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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• Strange problem after moving from the virtual computer to a new data store

  I am migrating our VM existing (8 in total) a 'problem' RAID to a new table on a new controller and am having a strange problem. Here are the steps I took (host OS is Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS x 64):

  (1) off the power the virtual computer from the Web interface

  (2) the directories created for each virtual on the new RAID array computer (in this case a RAID 10 array on LSI 9750-8i controller)

  (3) rSync used to copy the data from RAID1 to be RAID2

  4) has created a new data store on the new RAID through the Web Server of VMWare user interface.

  (5) removed VM of the inventory through the Web, their return, added user interface then choose files .vmx on new data store on RAID2

  They have all power save fine... but three of them are not accessible on the network. I can open a console in the Web Server of VMWare user interface and they all run normally... but I can't their ping or access the respective virtual machine Web GUI. It seems quite arbitrary that those who work and those who are not. In this case... the VM that don't work is a license Autodesk, a Squid proxy server and a VM of cactus. All three of these virtual machines are 32-bit Ubuntu Server VM (two 8.0.4 and a 10.0.4)... and are the only Ubuntu VM on this host. It must be signifigant but I'm not see how.

  If I delete these three virtual machines of the inventory again and add to their original location (on the RAID1) they light up AND work normally. A consultant that we were working seemed surprised, as he had also done this experiment with some of the older VMWare products. I don't see how it would be the physical location of the files of the virtual machine. Any ideas?

  We rely on the migration to ESXi soon but in the meantime, we get these a few VM out of this RAID array problem. I'm stuck.

  Depending on the application, it may be enough to reconfigure the IP parameters (they are very probably on DHCP now) for the newly detected virtual NIC.

  André

• Comment fails to power after moving to a new data store.

  I had this problem a lot where migrate machines. I navigate to the data store appropriate and right click on the folder of the guest, and I select "move". I choose the new data store and sit back and watch the progress bar. Once its migration adds the guest to the inventory and try to power on. Sometimes it works, sometimes I have to repeat the steps above twice. Why missing files when trying to turn on when I move the files this way?

  Right-click on the virtual machine, click on migrate.  Follow the prompts for destination until you reach the Select data store.  Click the radio button "Move virtual machine and virtual disks configuration files" and select the new data store.

  -KjB

• How to migrate Office persistent link clones of workstations for the new data store

  Hello. We have clones of persistent link to view running in the environment from our view. We need to migrate these desktops to new storage. Rebalancing is out as this will include a refresh operation - destroy anything and everything installed in c:\ of the user. Is there a method to migrate Desktop clone link persistent to a new data store, while keeping the office in the same exact state (i.e. c:\ is not updated).

  Thank you

  Never say impossible. I came across the solution when I read the article by Duncan Epping:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/03/15/Dr-of-view-persistent-linked-clone-desktops/

  I have that for my situation. Basically, replicate data from view in the new storage warehouses. Set up data warehouses replicated without re-signing with the cluster of ESXi. Turn the power off and unsubscribe the vCenter view workstations. Save the workstations from the data store replicated/mounted to vCenter and power over desktop computers.

  VCenter, nothing dramatic has happened if she sees just as vm being unregistered and re-recorded activity from the same exact data store (the same UUID). View Admin is happy because he sees just the events as desktop computers that have been turned off and then subsequently in reverse. Nothing has changed regarding the database to view ADAM, we still use the same data warehouses.

  I have already tested before for a scenario of View DR, and he succeeded. Between remembering who and Duncan's article helped me to adapt the same process for this. Nothing is impossible

• PowerCLI, vm of moving to the new data store

  Hello

  I have to move vm to a new data store

  What are the good commands powercli

  my version of my CV is 5.0xxxx

  Thanks for your help

  
  

  You can use the Move-VM cmdlet to move a virtual machine to another data store: for example:

  Move-VM - VM "MyVM1" - data store "MyDatastore1".

• Impossible to add storage as data store

  Hello

  I started with 4 esxi servers 5 to test the object with the method of assessment and added the common datastore on all 4 servers for virtual machines that worked very well. but the tests I formatted 2 esxi servers and installed ESXi 4 top, now when I am adding common storage in these 2 ESXi 4 Server I get the error attached, I have found the solution so that it can delete the partition with fdisk command to this logical unit number, but this LUN is common for all 4 servers and virtual machines running on it for 2 ESXi 5 host , so please, someone has the solution to this problem

  Another problem is that showing time in hostd.log file is different because I have configured in Setup esxi why its different time showing.

  Thank you Sam

  Please mark question answers

  Frank

  Am 03.09.2012 um 18:49 wrote sagar_arora [email protected]<>[email protected]>:

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  Impossible to add storage as data store

  sagar_arorahttp://communities.vmware.com/people/sagar_aroraresponse > in VMware ESXi 5 - see the discussion complete onhttp://communities.vmware.com/message/2108663#2108663

• Move a vmdk file finely put in service a new data store - now it's thick?

  Hi all

  To elaborate a little bit on the title, I installed a second hard drive in my ESXi 4 server.  All my VMs use discs finely put into service, however, after that I moved the files of the virtual machine to the new data store (using mv) and readded the virtual machine to inventory, the disks are provided are thinner but are thick.  This behavior is expected?

  This is behavior expected - don't use mv to VMDK!

  Use rather
  vmkfstools-i thin d

  who should be faster, more reliable and give you a choice for the type of provision

• ESX 3.5 move VM OS to a new data store

  Update of ESX 3.5.0 Build 4 153875

  I have a front-end server, Exchange 2007 (2008 x 64 OS), which has only a single drive (OS) configured on a data store presented by Clarion AX4.5 SAN. I wanted to move this disk in another data store that has more free space and the highest performance, but I'm not sure of the exact procedure.

  1 so I wanted instead of the disc on the data store runnign run it on the data store 2.

  Can I clone it to the same ESX host and simply select the new data store? Or would it be preferable to P2V to the new data store. This seems like it should be simple, but I'm stuck on what is recommended for this. Of course, since it is the front-end exchange I want nothing to screw.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  If you have virtual center the easiest might be to cold migrate stop the virtual machine and migrates - you can leave it on the same ESX host, but will give you the ability to move the virtual disk.

• Copy of VM to the new data store

  I need to copy an existing virtual machine to one datatstore to the other, initially, I thought that I would be able to register to the VM, clone the virtual machine and then unregister the virtual machine.

  Unfortunately the VM I will be copying is the virtual Center VM and therefore this action must be carried out while it is connected to a host and cloning is a feature of VC.

  Is the best method to use the New-TkeDatastoreDirectory and TkeDatastoreFile-copy to copy these through to the new data store?  I think I read earlier that it does not work or is very slow for large VMDK files?

  Thank you

  Alan

  Jobs published post PS converter. See the work of automation Converter Enterprise with ch

• Attempt to add a new data with a script store

  I have an interview put in place where I remove a store of data once a week and he re-clone of our SAN.  I'm stuck with the script to add to the store of data back.

  I try to get the LUN ID of the new store of data to add.

  What I have so far is:

  I have remove the vSphere data store and delete the SAN volume.

  Then for a list of the currently available SCSI LUN:

  Get-VMHostStorage - RescanAllHba

  Get-ScsiLun | Select CanonicalName | Out-file c:\scripts\Before.txt-largeur 120

  $Before = get-Content c:\scripts\Before.txt

  I have it dumped to a file to make sure, that it was not truncated at all.

  Then, I create the new volume on the SAN and get the new list LUNS:

  Get-VMHostStorage - RescanAllHba

  Get-ScsiLun | Select CanonicalName | Out-file c:\scripts\After.txt-largeur 120

  $After = get-Content c:\scripts\After.txt

  Then to set the variable to the new LUN ID:

  $LunID = compare-object $Before $After

  The problem I have is that the $LunID variable is set to

  @{InputObject = eui.0134d870bf1f182f6c9ce90064ee16c5; {SideIndicator == >}

  Instead of the value eui.0134d870bf1f182f6c9ce90064ee16c5 that I need.

  Is there a way when I set the variable or run the object - compare to select only the part of this line?

  The result should be in $LunID.InputObject.