Combining the VM with files in the data store

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• Find files on the data store that have been removed from inventory, but not deleted from the disk

  I have ESXi 4.1 and with vSphere Client to manage virtual machines.

  Some of my users continue to use the 'remove from inventory"rather than the option" remove disc "in vSphere when they want to delete the virtual machine.

  This leaves the computer virtual on the data store but not used. I have since removed this privilege among the offending users but I need to do a bit of cleaning.

  I have a lot of files on the data store where users have done this in recent years. Probably about 150 records but only 80 VM listed in the inventory.

  Is there a way I can output, a report showing the data of each machine store directory in inventory so that I can remove anything not on this list? ID rather not to manually check the parameters of all 80 VM in the inventory.

  Out ideal would be something like:

  MyVmNameHere 1, \MyVmDirectoryHere1\ [DataStore1]

  MyVmNameHere2, \MyVmDirectoryHere2\ [DataStore1]

  A great tool to discover all this and much more is RVTools

  André

• VMX file larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  Hi all

  I seem to be getting a strange error trying to a virtual machine that is located on a snapshot VMFS5, to the data store format.

  The virtual machine (VMDK and VMX file) is installed on a thin provisioned 2 TB datastore which has the value VMFS5 formatting.  It is a data store new with no other VM on it.  I had problems in the past with the datastore block sizes (1 MB, 2 MB, 4 MB, 8 MB on VMFS3), however, I thought that VMFS5 got rid of the question, since it's all blocks of 1 MB and all files in the virtual computer are on the same data store.

  The error I get indicates that the VMX file is too large for the data store (used Im saying "unspecified file), however, if I do the independent 2 TB disk snapshots through the fine.  The virtual machine has two virtual disks, a 50 VMDK of GB and a thin 2 TB VMDK (200 GB used).  I tried fast vMotioning the VMDK and VMX to other data formatted VMFS5 stores and still get the same error.

  I'd appreciate any help and ideas.

  Thank you

  Travis

  Although the block size limit is party, maximum 2 TB file size less 512octets still exists. Since a Flash disk can grow waist put in service the basic disk more overhead for the metadata, the maximum size of virtual disk - to be able to create snapshots - is 2032 GB.

  See "calculation time system required by the snapshot files" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384

  André

• Different VM 1 with 3 vmdk in the data store: Migration of data to rename store

  Hello

  I'm here today to ask for your help please.

  In our Organization, we have 1 large VM

  1 vmdk = > The BONES in lun, SAS performance

  1 vmdka = > 1 Tera SATA MON only of DATA

  Another 1 vmdka = > 1 Tera SATA MON only of DATA

  This virtual machine is being tested and we need to rename it to the name of the production.

  When you rename in vcenter you do a data store migration to correct all files with the new name.

  In this case, how can we specify each VMDK to go to the data store specified during migration?

  Because we could all think in the same data store due to the limitation of 2Tera by a data store

  Thanks for your help

  When you "migrate" a virtual machine and choose 'Change Datastore' use the advanced option. This will allow you to specify multiple destinations of data store. Use the drop-down arrow in the current [location].

• VStorage different Motion - copy of the file on a data store vmdk

  Hi all

  Hoping that someone will be able to help with a problem I have right now.

  Configuration:

  NetApp SAN - vmfs data warehouses.

  Data for the migration store is synchronous to a recovery site.

  I planned a day to the next task to migrate a VMDK virtual machines to a non synchronous Datastore to synchronous data store.  When I arrived yesterday morning - the virtual machine has been turned on - but I couldn't access the console and migration was still sitting 89% full.

  Checked the Netapp Filer and found the copy of the snapshot is greater than the instant space on the volume.

  SnapMirror suspend and break.  Delete the copy of Netapp snapshot on the volume.  Once I had done this on the Netapp file server - virtual machine has begun to respond to ping and I was able to access the console.

  I restarted the VM Windows - to make sure everything was fine - as the date / time on the server was out of sync with the date and time - so again, I am happy that my virtual machine is now in place and running.

  Problem. : I migrated virtual disks - one both of the old data store to the new - no problems - until I'm gone make the last record and felt that there is not enough space on the data store - now it would have taken and further investigation found that the virtual disk I wanted to migrate — was already sitting on the new data store.

  Check the settings on the virtual machine shows that the file in question vmdk is still sitting on the old data store - but - I also have a copy of the vmdk - same size etc. - file sitting on the new data store.

  RVtools displays the disk on the new data as a Zombie VMDK store.

  Question: What vmdk file is the one I need to remove?  I think about the new data store - in addition, shown as a zombie in RVTools vmdk - also, shows only not the settings of the virtual machine.

  All find what vmdk file, the system uses permanently.

  Thank you very much

  Open the .vmx file and check the path to your vmdk here.

  If you can, backupo the VMDK at both ends before going any further.

  as the VC (and I hope that the .vmx), as well as RVtools indicate that the destination is a zombie. . I would lean towards this being the one to delete.

  In theory, if you use the browser to store data to try to remove a new and it's in use, you will get an error message, so if it removes OK, you should be good to continue from where you were before.

  Good luck.

• Copy of the file of the virtual machine to the data store

  Hello

  I downloaded 10 GB of ISO my VM 2003 SRV. Now I want to move these files to my data store, so I can mount them when necessary. So far, the only way I see is to move the files to my XP pre-installed and choose Download via the browser of data store. I use ESXI and manage via Vcenter. I have the essentials package.

  I don't know that there is a smarter way?

  TIA

  If you need copy (ISO, vmdk) files in your data warehouse, using the client data via vSphere store browser works. You could also SCP your connection to your ESXi Server files and selecting data warehouses with software like FastSCP or WinSCP.

  If this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• Block size is too small - reformat the data store or create files VMDk 2?

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and so far I absolutely love everything about her!  Well, I was not too happy when I realized that I can't create more than 256 GB a drive without reformatting the VMFS datastore.   Apparently, I accepted the block size of 1 MB by default during the installation...   I now need to configure a file server with about 500 GB of storage.  The data store with a larger block size (4 MB would be fine for me) reformatting is easy enough?  I am currently working on the first host ESXi 4.1 and will move to set up 2 more hosts in the coming weeks.  I read somewhere on the forum that ESXi 4.0 doesn't let you change the block size by default of 1 MB - is this true or relevant to 4.1?

  Currently, I have only 2 small VMs on that host, and these can be easily saved and put offline for a few hours, if necessary.  When starting the server, I created a single RAID array that holds ESXi and all virtual machines - does that mean that I have to reinstall ESXi in order to increase the size of the block?

  An alternative that I can get to is to simply create 2 255 GB VMDK each and load distribution of storage in the guest operating system (Win 2008).   Performance wise, is a disc more great and better (or worse) than the two smaller disks?

  On a related note, what should I choose for the "Independent" option when you add a new virtual disk?  Default is disabled (not independent).

  Your thoughts, focus and expertise are welcome and will be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks in advance,

  Dothan

  Dothan,

  You should power (after the virtual machine backup) remove the current data store and create a new one with the new block size. I did not have this on ESXi 4.1 again, however, he worked on ESXi 4.0.

  The maximum size of VMDK. If you want ot be able to take pictures, make sure you subtract twice the size of block in GB of the documented maximum size.

  Block size 1 MB--> 254 GB (= 256 GB, 2 GB)

  Block size of 2 MB--> 508 GB (= 512 GB - 4 GB)

  Size of block 4 MB--> GB 1 016 (= 1 024 GB - 8 GB)

  Block size of 8 MB--> GB 2 032 (= 2 048 GB to 16 GB)

  André

  EDIT: Just the KB for the maximum sizes. http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1012384

• Copy of VM in the data store to the ext4 Linux file system

  Hi all, I need to "backup" VM by copying its folder in the data store to

  a Linux system with the ext4 file system. Is it safe? I mean will benefit from the VM

  corrupted? I remember reading in the forum about ESXi4 vmfs is a

  Special file system that may have the particularity, others do not have.

  Thus, the copy of the files to another file system vmfs can corrupt the

  files?

  What do you think? Thank you.

  Hello

  No, it won't corrupt VM or VMDK files simply by copying the folder. However, in the guest operating system (e.g. NTFS) file system may be affected. Suggest you take a snapshot or use some backup software.

  If you can afford it, powering the theVM. This will ensure the consistency of applications within the guest OS.

• Find a VM (from the data store, file, the pool and etc..) ID name

  Hello:

  I wonder if there is a way to find the virtual computer (of esx, the data store, file, the pool and etc..) ID name of vSphere CLI power.

  The goal is to find the virtual if name machine ID if known (and the same for esx datastore, record pool and etc..).

  Thank you

  Olegarr

  Hello

  According to my understanding, we can get the managed object ID of the virtual machines,

  $serv = connect-VIServer-Server

  Write-Output $vm. ID

  The same with others, like first Get-VMHost, store in a variable and then the variable. ID gives you the code.

  I hope this helps.

• 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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• My wife and I have laptops and we want to combine the data both on a Mac. Including two Itunes accounts. This is possible by using the migration on each PC asst?

  In what concerns the transfer of data from a PC to a MAC, my wife and I have laptops and we want to combine the data both on a Mac. Including two Itunes accounts. This is possible by using the migration on each PC asst?

  You can bind the whole apple ID using family sharing. If you have trouble doing this, you can go to the apple store, and they would be happy to help you.

• 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.

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• Unable to download the file to the data store

  Hello

  Can someone help me on this, I'm trying to download a file to the local data store on the esxi host, but its failure

  used as below

  $ds = get-data center 'test ' | Get-file "CISCO UCS B200 M3 | Get-VMHost | Get-Datastore "datastore."

  $destination = "\".

  $source = "D:\All Cisco\ENICandFNIC readers for UCSver2.2.C\updated drivers" - this folder

  New-PSDrive-location $ds - name VimDatastore - PSProvider ds-root $destination

  Set-Location ds:------.

  Copy-DatastoreItem-point $source - Destination $destination

  What error messages you get? When I run your script, only an empty folder is performed on the data store. When you add "-recurse" it also copies child items (files and directories)

  $ds = Get-Datacenter "test" |Get-Folder "CISCO UCS B200 M3"|Get-VMHost |Get-Datastore "datastore*"
  

  $destination = "\"
  

  $source = 'D:\Test ' # -- this folder
  

  New-PSDrive -Location $ds -Name ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root $destination
  

  Set-Location ds:\ New-PSDrive -Location $ds -Name ds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root $destination
  

  Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source -Destination $destination -Recurse
  

  But it's only 1 data store, if I understand your example, you are trying to copy to different data stores. This could easily be done like this:

  $DS = Get-Datacenter "test" |Get-Folder "CISCO UCS B200 M3"|Get-VMHost |Get-Datastore "datastore*" | select name,DatastoreBrowserPath
  

  $source = 'D:\Test ' # -- this folder
  

   foreach ($datastore in $ds){
  

  Copy-DatastoreItem -Item $source -Destination  $datastore.DatastoreBrowserPath -Recurse
  

  }
  

• Get the size of the file for a particular file in a data store

  I was wondering if it was possible to get the size of a particular file on a data store. It seems that this should be trivial, but I'm new to PowerCLI and I see not all the properties of size when I invoke the cmdlet:

  PS fs:------> Get-ChildItem "somefile" * | Get-Member

  TypeName: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.DatastoreFolderImpl

  Name MemberType definition

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

  Method of ConvertToVersion T ConvertToVersion [T])

  Equals method Boolean Equals (System.Object, obj)

  GetHashCode method int GetHashCode()

  Type of the method GetType GetType()

  IsConvertableTo method bool IsConvertableTo (type toType)

  String the ToString ToString() method

  PSChildName NoteProperty System.String PSChildName = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSDrive NoteProperty VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Provider.DatastoreProvider.DatastoreDriveInfo PS...

  PSIsContainer NoteProperty System.Boolean PSIsContainer = True

  PSParentPath NoteProperty System.String PSParentPath=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDatastore::\XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSPath NoteProperty System.String PSPath=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDatastore::\XXXXXXXXXXXX

  PSProvider NoteProperty System.Management.Automation.ProviderInfo PSProvider=VMware.VimAutomation.Core\VimDa...

  Datastore property {get ;} VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.DatastoreManagement.Datastore data store

  DatastoreFullPath property System.String DatastoreFullPath {get ;}

  DatastoreId property System.String DatastoreId {get ;}

  FolderPath property System.String FolderPath {get ;}

  FullName property System.String FullName {get ;}

  Property ItemType ItemType of VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.DatastoreManagement.DatastoreItemType...

  System.Nullable'1 [[System.DateTime LastWriteTime, mscorlib, Version = 4.0.0.0 property, Culture = neutral, publ...

  Property System.String name {get ;}

  UID property System.String Uid {get ;}

  Faik, you must use the SDK API to find this HostDatastoreBrowser of information, i.e.

  .

  See for example Re: using SearchDatastore_Task