Cannot remove the data store

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Possible to remove the data store shared without deleting content?

  Is it possible to delete a data store shared a host, without actually deleting content?

  

  If there are several hosts who share a store of data and for some reason any I delete the data of one of them, store connection can I do this without a deletion of all the virtual machines on the data store, as shown in the warning above?

  You can delete single LUN on the side storage (for example by hiding the it).

  Before that... do not forget that without virtual machines are running on it.

  After that... do a rescan storage adapters.

  André

• 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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• Cannot create the data store: the current licence or ESXi version prohibited the execution of the requested operation.

  using vicfg-nas I am unable to create/remove a datastore nfs on my lab running esxi 6 at home. Is this not supported? Listing them works well. I can create/delete data warehouses nfs using the client to vcenter very well, but it's a little embarrassing.

  I guess that the host is allowed with the free edition of hypervisor! One of the few restrictions of the free version of hypervisor is access to the API. In order to have "write access" (i.e. change things rather than the list of them) you must run the host in evaluation mode, or license (Essentials or better).

  André

• Cannot expand the data store after you have developed the LUN size

  Greetings:

  I have an interesting problem that happens with my server ESXi.  I've expaneded a 1 logical unit number. 5 t 3 t, re-read the SAN of the host itself (not) yet ESXi always reports the LUN size as 1. 5 t and not extensible.

  SAN is an EMC VNX and Unisphere, in fact, reports the size of the LUN 3 t.  The VMFS on this logical unit number is at version 5.54.

  I did updates and renumerisations a single host and nothing does change regarding the size of the LUN as reported in VMware.  I can't imagine what is a tissue issue given that the underlying data is always available and functional.

  Does anyone have any suggestions to try this?

  Ron

  You have a RecoverPoint of installation for this logic unit number? I fell right on the same problem as you described and found this article. It worked for me.

  http://www.mikes.EU/index.php/how-to/254-how-to-resize-a-LUN-that-is-already-replicated-by-EMC-RecoverPoint

  ~ Tim

• alleged connection to the data store local preventing vmotion

  I have a VM that signals a connection to the local data store on its host, and therefore can't do vMotion elsewhere.  The virtual machine has two virtual drives, which are both on a SAN storage.  The virtual machine has been previously connected to an ISO on the local data store, but it has since been replaced by client device.  He always insists that he's using something on this data store, however.  I've looked through the vmx file and don't see any reference to it.  I also tried to remove the data store, but he claims that the file system is in use.  The hosts have been recently updated to esxi 6.0 U2, and it's the only VM that now seems this behavior.  Any suggestions on what could be the cause?  It is a server important enough in this environment, and be locked into a single host makes me a little anxious.

  Turns out it was because of an old cliché.  If you get an ISO from a data store and take a snapshot, the virtual machine will keep a link to that store of data even after changing the client machine.  As soon as you delete the snapshot, this relationship goes, and access to this database is therefore more a review when searching valid hosts.

• 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

• Swapping hard drives for change/increase the size of the data store

  Hello:

  I have an ESXi host 4.1 with 2x146GB RAID1 array (datastore1), 4x300GB RAID5 array (datastore2).  I need more space so I intend to replace 2x146GB by 2x2TB.  I'll first move virtual machines from datastore1 to datastore2, then stop the machine, Exchange records and build the new table.

  • What I need to remove ESXi cfg datastore1. before you physically remove the drives, or will start ESXi gracefully and allow me to remove the data store?
  • I'll be able to add the new data store (2x2TB) to ESXi, ago, i.e. ESXi should see table once initialized on the machine?
  • Existing data warehouses have 1 MB block size max vmdk is 256GB.  I want the new data store to have the block size of 8MB so I can have more VMDK.  I think I can fix the block size of data store when it was created, are, i.e. the ESXi installation can have warehouses of data with different block sizes, are?

  
  

  Thanks a lot for the ideas you have!

  
  

  Bob

  1.) why not just delete the GUI data store before you remove the discs?

  2.) If your controller has the disks properly there should be no problem with their detection.

  3.) Yes, each data store may have a different block size. The block size can be selected when creating the data store on disk/LUN.

  André

• How to remove a data store abandoned?

  Hello! I am the systems administrator for my organization where we have HP P6300 storage attached to our cluster of ESXi5. Usually, if we need a new Vdisk to any virtual computer, we create a new vdisk in storage and add them as a new data store in Vsphere, then we create the file within this new data store vmdk. I had to remove a disk of a virtual server. The steps are as below:

  1 remove the data from the drive

  2. remove the disk from the virtual machine and delete the vmdk file

  3 remove the data from the cluster of data store store

  4. remove the data store

  5 remove the vCenter store data (inventory------Clusters data store and data warehouses-right click on the data store and delete)

  6 - anyone the vdisk to ESXi hosts

  7 remove the vdisk to Storage Manager.

  But I made a mistake and missed the STEP n ° 4 and 5.

  Now I see the attached message whenever I'm trying to remove it. Guidelines for this problem and remove this missing data store in the vCenter?

  Thank you

  Ali

  OK, you have a way of death. The only way to fix it must restart the host.

  Kind regards

  Julien

• Remove a data store

  I need to remove a data store so that I can reformat vmfs3 to vmfs5. It is my understanding that vcenter will not introduce any APD or correct payday loans? The LUN will remain visible to all guests, as I said I just need to remove the data store on this subject, so I can recreate it with vmfs5.

  I guess after I remove it, I should questions some hosts renumerisations (except done automatically vcenter) before I recreate?

  Thank you.

  You are right, since you don't anyone the LUN, there is no problem with ODA...

  Simply remove the data store and create a new one. After that you can rescan all hosts so that they detect the new format.

  André

• File is greater than the maximum size supported by the data store "Datastore1".

  Okay, I'm trying to create a virtual machine from 350 GB.  I need to run a database of 283 GB to test / Proof of concept that will grow more than 325 GB. I get this error message

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  Error

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  File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore 'Datastore '.  vm name.domain.com/server name.domain.com.vmdk

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  Ok

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  I have read that I need to increase the size of the block, but I need to remove the data store. Is it the same on ESXi 4.0?  I have 4 other VM about 150 GB. Please tell me I'm wrong.  Please...

  Same rules apply.  Create an another LUN with the correct block size and away files or hang the lun and recreate

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• 0 blocks free PTR - cannot create new files on the data store

  We have been experiencing problems trying to power on virtual machines. When attempting to power on virtual machines, we see the error "cannot extend the pagefile from 0 KB to 2097152 KB".

  We checked the .vswp file are created in the folder of the Virtual Machine on the data store. Connection to the ESXi host, we have seen the following in vmkernel.log error message:

  (2016 01-16 T 21: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) WARNING: Res3: 6984: "freenas-6-ds": [rt 3] No. Space - has not found enough resources after the second pass! (requis_:_1,_trouvé_:_0) 2016-01 - 16 T 21: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) Res3: 6985: "freenas-6-ds": [rt 3] resources t 0, e 0, PN 16, BM 0, b 0, RCs u 0, i 0, 4031 nf, pe 0, 0 2016-01-16 T 21 oe: 19:40.556Z cpu1:4971732) WARNING: SwapExtend: 683: impossible to extend the pagefile from 0 KB to 2097152 KB.

  This was surprising given that we have about 14 TB of space available on the data store:

  [root@clueless:~] df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 20.0 T 5.4 T 14.6 T/vmfs/volumes/freenas-six-ds 27%

  However, when we use "dd" to write a 20 GB file, we would get "no space left on device:

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040/deleteme] dd if = / dev/urandom of = deleteme bs = 1024 count = 2024000

  DD: writing "deleteme": no space is available on the device

  263734 + 0 records in

  out 263733 + 0 reviews

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040/deleteme] ls - lh deleteme

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 19 Jan 255,1 M 01:02 deleteme

  We checked that we have free inodes:

  The ramdisk name system include in reserved Coredumps used Maximum reserved free use pic free maximum allocated Inodes used Inodes Inodes Mount Point

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  root of true true 32768 KiB 32768 KiB KiB KiB 99% 99% 9472 4096 3575 176 176.

  true true etc 28672 KiB 28672 KiB 284 KiB 320 KiB 99% 99% 4096 1024 516/etc

  Choose true true 0 KiB KiB 0 KiB KiB 0 100% 0% 8 1024 8192 32768 / opt

  var true true 5120 KiB 49152 484 516 99% 90% 8192 384 379 KiB KiB KiB / var

  tmp false false 2048 KiB 262144 KiB 20 KiB 360 KiB 99% 99% 8 256 8192/tmp

  false false hostdstats KiB 310272 KiB 3076 KiB 3076 KiB 99 0% 0% 8192 32 5/var/lib/vmware/hostd/stats

  
  

  We believe that our cause is due to have 0 free blocks of PTR:

  [root@clueless:/vmfs/volumes/55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040] vmkfstools Pei - v 10/vmfs/volumes/freenas-six-ds.

  System file VMFS-5, 61 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): freenas-six-ds

  Mode: public TTY only

  Capacity 21989964120064 (blocks of files 20971264 * 1048576), 16008529051648 (15266923 blocks) prevail, max supported size of the 69201586814976 file

  Volume creation time: Fri Jul 10 18:21:37 2015

  Files (max / free): 130000/119680

  Blocks of PTR (max / free): 64512/0

  Void / blocks (max / free): 32000/28323

  The secondary blocks of Ptr (max / free): 256/256

  Drop blocks (approve/used/approve %): 0/5704341/0

  Blocks of PTR (approve/used/approve %): 64512/0/0

  Void / blocks (approve/used/approve %): 3677/0/0

  Size of volume metadata: 911048704

  UUID: 55a00d31-3dc0f02c-9803-025056000040

  Logical unit: 55a00d30-985bb532-BOI.30-025056000040

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6589cfc0000006f3a584e7c8e67a8ddd:1

  Instant native is Capable: YES

  OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleaned.

  WORKER: asyncOps = 0 maxActiveOps = 0 maxPending = 0 maxCompleted = 0

  When we turn off a virtual machine, it will release 1 block of PTR and we would be able to on another VM / create the 20 GB file using "dd". Once we reached 0 free blocks of PTR, we are unable to create new files.

  Can anyone give any suggestions on how we may be able to clear the blocks PTR? We have already tried to restart all services of management on all ESXi hosts connected.

  FreeNAS is not running on a virtual machine.

  We solved the problem by finding a lot PTR blocks have been used by many of our models of virtual machine. Remove the disk models solved the problem.