Cannot download the files of the virtual machine for the data store

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• Migration of storage when the virtual machine has several data stores

  How can I (or can I) use Storage vMotion on ESX4.0 U1 to migrate part of a virtual computer to a new data store?  I have a virtual machine with 5 data stores attached and move 1 data warehouses to a LUN of larger size.  What is the best method?

  On the "Select the data store" window, click on the button "Advanced". You can specify the location of each VMDK and configuration files.

• What is the advantage to affect multiple virtual machines in a data store?

  Hello

  Quite a question stupid and basic, but I can't answer . What is the advantage of having multiple virtual machines in a store of VMFS data instead of having each VM in another VMFS data store? (eg. 3 VMs in 1 data store or 3 data warehouses and each virtual machine in one of them). I can only think about the ease of management for storage administrator because it creates only a single large LUN.
  
  Thank you

  By allowing multiple virtual machines in a data store, you can run more than 256 virtual machines in a DRS cluster.

  As a host has a limit of 256 scsi identification numbers, which means that it accesses no more than 255 LUNS shared. 1 scsi ID is used for local storage.

  In a DRS cluster as each host must be mapped to the same data warehouses to ensure that virtual machines can be moved on the cluster and run on any of the hosts.

  Now in my life as an architect VMware PSO I saw that a lot of virtual machines that require a single data store. The main reason to isolate a virtual machine on a data store must provide sufficient i/o performance. This can be achieved with other solutions than to isolate a virtual machine on a data store. Having a properly architected storage subsystem is crucial, vSphere can get out of a very large number of the IOPS / s. With technologies such as SIOC and DRS for storage, you can check that the virtual machines receive IO performance according to the needs.

• VDP: Cannot access the data store

  Hello!

  I have a problem.

  Every day I see error for one of my servers in "reports":

  2016-07 - 05T 06: 00:47.971 + error 06:00-[7F2F3FA5E700] [Originator@6876 = transport sub]

  Cannot use hotadd mode to access the FileSrv1/FileSrv1_1.vmdk [Cisco2-datastore]: can't get using this method.

  (Mounting VM using vm-3198 transport hotadd failed: cannot access the data store for one of the drives of the Machine virtual FileSrv1..)

  At the same time, I havn't this error for the other servers.

  "FileSrv1" has not has installed "VMWare tools". After the instalation "VMWare tools" on this server, the problem is resolved.

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Add virtual machines to a data store while changing the name?

  I am trying to create a virtual machine in standby (or more, I do not have a final number) in a second datacenter.  The goal is to have a copy of a group of virtual machines updated once a week as a relief.

  I'll use our SAN replication to keep them up-to-date, so once a week, I stop all virtual machines in the data store, remove them from the inventory and remove the data store.  Then on the side of SAN, I'll create a new copy of the data store, then add this data store to vSphere.  We will do a few rounds of network to ensure we have not any change in the network that should be taken in the virtual machine.

  The only changes to the virtual machine that needs to be done, are changing the vSwitch is logged in, that I understood, and to rename the virtual machine, either before being added, or when it is added.  Since it is a copy of a virtual machine running, I'm not able to add all virtual machines to the new data store.  I need either change the name of the virtual machine before being added, or when it is added.  All I have to do to change the name is add something like - backup at the end of the name of the virtual machine.

  Is it reasonably simple way to do this?  It seems that he was promised that we could do that and now I need to find a way to make it work.

  Thank you

  You can search the data for the VMX store you want to register a script like the one you'll find in VMX Raiders revisited.

  To change the name of the virtual machine, you will need to replace the line that contains the New - VM cmdlet with something like this

  $newName = $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath.split('/')[1].Split('.')[0]New-VM -VMFilePath $path -Name ($newName + "-backup") -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder -RunAsync
  

• HELP - how to get the number of virtual machines on a data store?

  Looking at the inventory of the data store in the VI client, there are a "number of Virtual Machines:" according to the General information for the Summary tab... I'm looking for a script that retrieves this information for me...

  I started the script but I'm stuck... I am very new on this...

  Get-Datastore. WHERE-object {$_ .name - like "wlp" ' "} #this gives me all the data which are not local warehouses

  Could someone give an overview on how to script to retrieve the number of virtual machines on data warehouses...

  Thank you, Lee

  Sorry, something went wrong with the copy - paste

  Get-Datastore | where {$_.Name -like "vmfs*"} | Sort-Object -Property Name | %{$_ | select @{N="DSname"; E={$_.Name}},
                                                                        @{N="VMcount";E={($_ | Get-VM | Measure-Object).count}}}
  

• ESX host cannot see the data store

  Hello team, I have vcenter management 5 2 host esxi5. now added an esxi4 in the cluster and added iniitators for file systems. I can see the paths under this host of esx4 showing the LUN of the registrants. but I'm not able to see the data to store. When I tried to edit a newly created virtual machine to find the iso from the data store, it shows only the local hard disk of the host, which is a UCS blade. exsi5 hosts the two ok to see all data stores. can someone tell which part is wrong? Thank you!

  Looks like there is no problem with the presentation of the logic unit number since you can see the path to the LUN from the host.

  Is - these created data VMFS storages are 50 ESXi? If so, the VMFS version 5 (VMFS 5) which is not supported in ESXi 4.1.

  In this case, its expected that the host ESXi 4.1 will not show VMFS5 data warehouses.

• Cannot remove the data store

  Hello

  I am trying to remove a shared in Vsphere 5.0 SAN data store, and it fails to say that the datstore is in use. When I try to take it apart there is a red cross next to the statement that no virtual machines must be present. The data store is empty and afaics no point of virtual machines don't have any disk pointing it at all. He got a present HA heartbeat folder but I've reconfigured HA no to use the DS and could then remove the folder HA and empty so the DA, but still in use reports

  Gerry,

  Is it possible that your virtual machine contains a cd connected to the data store? I came across that once where a virtual machine was showing that the use of two data warehouses, but there files were only in one. I found that I had connected the reader of cd/dvd via the client to a file that was in this other data store. Just a thought.

  The f

• Cannot remove the data store in esxi 3.5 - can help you

  OK - I have a problem. I messed up and now I'm stuck.

  I was "apparently" in the middle of a converter working, and I deleted the comments of esxi3.5, while the converter still worked.

  I selected the rafale and made a removal of the disc that worked, however the structure of associated file (windows 2000 Server) for this guest has not been deleted, so I chose my data store (datastore1) and - do you have a store of navigation data and when I try to delete the folder associated with the guest, I deleted I get the following error :

  "General failure caused by file" (with a "/" on the next line) and all I can do at this point is to click OK box to acknowledge the error and I can't delete the folder. I can't rename it either.

  I don't know how to get rid of it. I tried to create a new client with the same name as the folder and delete the comments again, but that does not work either.

  I'm really stuck - I'm afraid to go into maintenance mode because I have no idea what I'm going to be confronted here since I never used the maintenance mode.

  any help or ideas would be really appreciated.

  You can try to do a refresh of the data store. The folder structure is not re read very often. In the data store Navigator, click the folder root on the left side and click on the Refresh button.

• Cannot create the data store

  Hello!

  I installed ESX 3.5 update 4 with success, but I met following problem: I can not create the data store!

  Customer VI can't see my hard drive!

  Once the connection directly to the ESX Server using ssh, we see:

  # esxcfg-vmhbadevs

  #            # empty!!!

  # df h

  Size of filesystem used Avail use % mounted on

  / dev/hde2 3.5 G 1.4 G 2.0 G 41%.

  / dev/hde6 24% 19 M 61 M 84 M/Boot

  No 124M 124M 0 0% / dev/shm

  / dev/hde7 525M 20 M 479M 4% / var/log

  # vdf h

  Size of filesystem used Avail use % mounted on

  / dev/hde2 3.5 G 1.4 G 2.0 G 41%.

  / dev/hde6 24% 19 M 61 M 84 M/Boot

  No 124M 124M 0 0% / dev/shm

  / dev/hde7 525M 20 M 479M 4% / var/log

  devices/vmfs / 33M 33M 0 0% / vmfs/devices

  # fdisk-l

  Disk/dev/hdk: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  + Device boot start end blocks Id system.

  FB/dev/hdk1 1 16709 134215011 unknown

  FB unknown/dev/hdk2 16710 24321 61143328 +.

  Disk/dev/hdi: 1500,3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 bottles

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  + Device boot start end blocks Id system.

  /dev/hdi1 * 1 182401 1465135968 unknown fb +.

  Disk/dev/hdg: 1500,3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 bottles

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  + Device boot start end blocks Id system.

  /dev/hdg1 * 1 182401 1465135968 unknown fb +.

  Disk/dev/hde: 500,1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  + Device boot start end blocks Id system.

  / dev/hde1 1 96 763904 5 extended

  Partition 1 does not stop the cylinder limit.

  / dev/hde2 97 548 3630690 83 Linux

  FB/dev/hde3 618 60802 483425304 unknown

  / dev/HDE4 549 617 554242 82 Linux swap +.

  / dev/13 27 fc 112624 unknown hde5

  / dev/hde6 * 2 12 88326 83 Linux

  / dev/546178 95 28 hde7 83 Linux +.

  Partition table entries are not in the order of disc

  Disk/dev/hdc: 1500,3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 bottles

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  + Device boot start end blocks Id system.

  / dev/hdc1 43932 182401 1112260275 7 HPFS/NTFS

  /dev/hdc2 * 1-11252-90381658 7 HPFS / NTFS +.

  unknown/dev/hdc3 11253 43931 262494061 FB +.

  Partition table entries are not in the order of disc

  #

  The partitions are present, but vmware won't do an analysis.

  Is there a way to understand what happened?

  My setup

  motherboard: Tyan Thunder n3600m S2932GRN

  disks: SATA seagate and WD.

  NIck

  I see the barebone specification and seem that your controller is a 'soft' RAID

  Take a look at the configuration of the SATA controller.

  When your drive will be recognized as/dev/sdXX, then you can create your data store.

  André

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• Show of virtual machines on a data store when they are actually on another

  We strive to delete old data store and moved everything out of him, but we can't delete it. We get a message saying call 'HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore' of object ' datastoreSystem-11599 "on vCenter Server 'servername' failed. ".

  If I go into the store of data view it shows 2 VMs there but if you look at the location of their virtual disks they are on a different data store.

  One thing I noticed was that a cluster of virtual machines was ISOs attached to their CD players who used to be on the data store, we want to remove but are no longer there. I was able to detach all the but the 2 problematic VMs always show an attachment in the data store, even if I managed to detach the ISOs.

  I was able to use the removal of the option of inventory and he disappeared from the view of the data store, but as soon as I added it back he appeared on this data again store even if the files are on a different data store.

  In the screenshots, the data store we want is missing is called delete. I have read that sometimes you can rename it, and then it will allow you to remove it but no go for me. I also read that you can remove it to connect to a host and then remove it, but that didn't work. You can also see that there is no ISO standard attached plus.

  We do not take it apart.

  You are the man! There were snapshots on virtual machines, and I removed and now its all cleared up. Thank you.

• How to copy a virtual machine from a data store

  I was trying to speed up my make my VM to an EXSi Server (no used vmotion) test to a new ESX Server by downloading the records of the data bank on the ESXi server to store data on the new ESX Server.  Can someone give me instructions or point me in the direction on how to create a virtual computer from new data warehouses, I can see the new data store but I'm unable to create VMS of him.

  Thank you

  Browse the data store and find the .vmx file, right-click on it and choose "add to the inventory.

• Move the virtual machine in another data store

  I don't know what's going on, I have two data warehouses and I moved my vm from one to the other, I had to create a new virtual machine to import the files migrated, when I opened the store of data for import only saw two files vmdk files, the first 00001 others a single vmdk file that contains 00 001 not opened when you import the second succeeded, but when the server starts, it goes up a very old version, as if it was newly installed windows 2003, I saw in the dishes, delta files files but don't know what to do, I tried to check the Snapshot Manager, but did not find anything there.

  Have you ever tried to fix things? The attached .vmx file points to the correct instant hard file (scsi0:0.fileName = "Cezzanne - 000001.vmdk"), but the parentCID in this hard file is not correct!

  In any case, after replacing "Cezzanne - 000001.vmdk" with that of archive attached, you should be able to restart the virtual machine. BTW. You can delete the file «.lck...» ». This is necessary on a NFS datastore.

  Next time you copy a VM, do not create a new virtual machine. Only delete the virtual machine to inventory before moving and after moving it, click right the VM .vmx file and choose "add to the inventory.

  André

• Match each data store its Lun ID and the list of virtual machines in each data store

  Hello

  Can anyone help? I'm looking to create a report that will show each Monday name and store data to data warehouses, the list virtual machines belonging to the storage of data and the name of the VCenter at the top of the report. I tried several combinations but was more difficult to get the Monday. Any help appreciated gratefully.

  Thank you

  If you use only LUNS is an easy way to get the canonical name:

  Get-datastore. {Select-Object Name,@{Name="CanonicalName"; expression = {$_.extensiondata.info.vmfs.extent.diskname}}

  I don't understand your requirement regarding the name vCenter, but for everything else

  Get-datastore. foreach {($MyDatastore = $_)} | Get - vm | Select-Object @{Name="Datastore";expression={$MyDatastore}},@{Name="CanonicalName";expression={$MyDatastore.extensiondata.info.vmfs.extent.diskname}},Name

• Virtual machines use a data store file?

  I think I have a couple of orphaned files hard in one of my data stores, but I hesitate to delete it without confirming that it has been adandonded. I know that I can use the menu change the settings to manually search on each virtual machine if the file in question is in use, but is there an easier way to determine this on the opposite side?

  I would like to be able to tell what VM a special hard (or any file in the data also store) is linked to.

  Thank you

  You can use something like RVTools to check your inventory