Connect to ISO image on the data store

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• VCenter 4.1 connect to iso image on the local disk

  Hello

  I have a question about certain permissions in vcenter 4.1 until now, we have used vcenter 4.0 and we had a few asigned security role with permisions them following: all privileges: Virtual Machine: Interaction: configure support CD; Configure floppy Media; Interaction of the console; Turn on; Power off; Reset.

  It is basically the minimum requirements for some of our clients to witch we sell vps servers.

  My problem is: given that I've updated vcenter 4.1 security to configure cd media does not seem work apropriately. The only option witch is not grayed out is connect to the host device. The possibility to connect to iso image on the local disk or connect to the physical drive D: (local client CD-ROM) are greyed out.

  Someone knows something about this security role change and what kind of extended privileges do I have to add in order to make it work?

  Hello

  I think you should also "connection device"...

  In addition, there may be one advanced virtual computer that denies this capability... Here are the parameters of the isolation and many guides say to turn it off.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  Host communities, VMware vExpert,

  Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the 2nd business edition

  Podcast: the Podcast for security virtualization of resources: the virtual virtualization library

• 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  The virtual machine has been previously connected to an ISO on the local data store, but it has since been replaced by client device.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.

• copy the iso in the data store? ESXi?

  Hey guys,.

  I was wondering if there is any way I can copy an iso image / a bone in the data store instead of use a disc to load it up.

  I use an esxi 3.5 hypervisor, I don't think it's possible, but I'm guessing that it might be a way.

  Please help.

  Thank you

  RJ

  We will all live a virtual life...

  in the click of VIC on your ESXi host, then double click on the data store in which you want to download the iso, there is an option to download files...

• Target iscsi ESXI 5.0, active path connected, mounted, are not not in the data store data store

  HI -.

  I am looking for help to point me in the right direction.  This problem occurred after a reboot of the system.

  I'm in vmware esxi essentials 5.0.0 821926

  I use the starwind software as my iSCSI target

  I use ISCSI to connect to my server from storage to the esxi hosts.

  I have 2 warehouses of data showing inactive under clusters of data storage and the data store.  I have a third-party data store on the same server that is loading properly.

  I currently have the same behavior on three esxi hosts:

  under configuration - storage adapters is the ISCSI path is active. Data warehouses appear under devices and mounted.  In data warehouses, they are inactive. On the same storage server

  on the starwind Server - I have

  built a new target

  removed and added the databases to the new target

  Changed the IP address of the target.

  On Esxi hosts, I removed the ISCSI server, discover places BOF dynamic and static and added under the same or IPs news discovery

  I can restart esxi hosts & storage servers and get to that same point.

  Whenever I find myself in the same place - course assets, devices mounted, inactive in data warehouses

  I don't know what else to share, let me know what you need to know to help out me.

  Thank you

  Dylan

  OK, incase someone crosses my ramblings, it may help.  My original question was warehouses of data that would not rise.  They were visible as devices in the area of storage under devices and as devices in the scsi adapter.

  When I would try to force mount them, add storage, keep the signature, mount they wouldn't mount.  I did some research and my question was after a failed mount attempt strength as got data attached as snapshots warehouses.  I then mounted force them and he tells will data warehouses and I got them back.

  I followed this KB to identify and resolve the problem

  manipulation of vSphere detected as snapshot LUN LUN (1011387)

  When it was over, I tried to add vms back and found a new show.  Power of vms would expire.  the vmkernel.log showed;

  2014 05-27 T 07: 20:40.010Z [verbose 'Vmsvc' 564D7B90] Vmsvc: filtering Vms: ignored not ready to request power state vm vim. VirtualMachine:75

  AND

  (2014 05-27 T 03: 45:47.821Z cpu4:2052) NMP: nmp_PathDetermineFailure:2084: SCSI cmd RESERVE failed on the vmhba35:C0:T1:L0 path, booking on eui.cff548d1952b1e4c of device status is unknown.

  I had latency huge read write showing upwards, 3K and more

  After several searches, I had in the ESXShell and found that there is no conflict of booking.

  On a whim, I took inventory all virtual machines that are now inaccessible.  I then added a DOS virtual machine. Alto! the latency down to version 1.2 a.7 ms for all data warehouses.

  ultimately the instructions said you may need to add virtual machines in the inventory, but does not remove all virtual machines first.  I was grabbing vms that were not in stock, so I didn't remove the old virtual machines in the inventory.

  A recruit Mennonites, Yes.

• Copy the ISO to the data store

  Hello!

  I want to copy an ISO to the local data store. My server does not have the DVD, so I think that to install VM ISO e.

  I guess I need to some ftpd or tftp on ESXi host. Is this possible?

  Another way to copy the ISO til the local server data store?

  RS

  Hello

  Client session launch the vsphere host, select configuration, then storage, browse the data store, and then download the ISO on the data store.

  See you soon!

• How can I add an ISO to the data store?

  How can I add an ISO to the data store?  It doesn't let me access the ISO.

  of the error, it seems that your iso is bad.

  hitting a md5 checksum or re-download the iso

• Recommended minimum on the data store when free disk space you use connection vRanger 5

  I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the recommendation is on the left of free space on a data store. I use 5 vRanger connection to back up my VM to another physical server. As such, I will not take snapshots 'manual '. I'm not sure if vRanger connection, running on a separate server, creates additional files on the data store.

  I've read a few threads on this site and some are advocating to let free, 20 to 25%, while that of others, offer 10% left free may be sufficient. Is there an official number for this or if anyone can share valuable experince?

  Welcome to the community,

  I generally recommend to have about 20% of free space on each data store. However, this depends on the activity/writes to disk during backup. vRanger connection - as well as any other backup software - create a snapshot, back up the virtual machine and then remove / commit the snapshot again. This is necessary in order to access the virtual disk files. Usually the backups are made during hours, so snapshots should not grow too much. However, you must also take into account the fact that in the case of a mistake - if the snapshot cannot be deleted - it will grow until it is deleted manually.

  André

• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• Install centos6.4 of the data store

  Hello

  Does anyone know how can I install centos 6.4 on vm. I have the file iso centos on centos6.4_2.iso and vmware server /vmfs/volumes/isos/centos6.4_1.iso

  I selected vm - material - cd/dvd-> iso datastore stressed the centos6.4 - 1.ISO, then connect to option is under

  When I start the VM in a single step, he asks where is the binary located [cd/dvd, nfs, hard drive mounting and url] how can I tell the virtual machine it needs to install from the data store [which is on vmware server 5.x]

  -Sagar

  Hello

  during the installation process will be o.s. installed from cd/DVD, as in the physical environment and it is not necessary specify a data store location. I think you may have an invalid ISO. Check its integrity...

• How to UN Manual/Auto-Clenup, use the data store

  There are so many records in the data store that do not connect to any model, but still there is anyway that I have ran manul clenup?

  I check the datasotre and no doubt that the "length of the string' are '0' (I consolidate them) and no matter what clone a link on that particulat data store. When I log on to the server and check the data store, I see more than 50 files in 6VMs here and only in LM.

  Upon consolidation, I found that the LM has lost contact to esxhost very often, I have to manually restart the agent to get the connection works, is - what the cause of reason left old metadata in the esxhost and do not delete not come out correctly?

  The United Nations use forder delete directly in the vCenter?

  Yes.  Cut out the documentation:

  Garbage collection is automatic detection and release images that are no longer in use. Lab Manager does not immediately remove the files associated with a virtual machine.

  Lab Manager stores the virtual machine files in a tree of related related clones. Each pass of the garbage collector involves an attempt to delete the nodes that have no dependencies. Several passes over time may be required to free space associated with a virtual machine.

• Please help: measure is missing from the data store

  Hello

  I have an a 20 TB drive data store and a magnitude of about 40 TB (local disks, areca raid controller).

  Long story short, I had to delete and re-create the volume 40 to on the RAID controller (without initialization, of course).

  Now all the data is there but eui has changed for the 40 to volume and vmware is unable to mount.

  log/hostd.log:2016-05-10T07:17:16.107Z of information pass [3D380B70] [Originator@6876 sub = Vimsvc.ha - eventmgr] event 118: a connected device eui.001b4d2051676528:1 may be offline. [Backvol1, 55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36] file system now is in a degraded state. While the data store is always available, parts of data residing on the extent which went offline may be inaccessible.

  [root@esxi2:/vmfs/volumes/55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36]

  esxcli instant vmfs storage list

  Volume name:

  VMFS UUID:

  Can mount: false

  UN-mountability reason: a few missing extensions

  Can will: false

  Reason for non-resignaturability: some missing extensions

  County of measure pending: 1

  Can someone help me please?

  Thank you!

  Hello
  You asked for instructions on how to readd a missing measure.
  Basically, it's pretty easy:
  in the VMFS to VMFS-based volume header section, you can assign extends it.
  Lets say that the basic volume is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T3:L0:1
  first of all extend is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T4:L0:1
  second extension is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T5:L0:1
  Then you will see this string in the VMFS header:
  vmhba1:3:0
  and a little later

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T3:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T4:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T5:l0:1
  Just change the list of stretches.
  But: normally you can't change this section at all, and to add to the confusion, these values are stored in RAM is not trivial to change this value correctly.
  I highly recommend that instead of try it yourself and repeat all the mistakes I made while learning it - call me.
  I rather help you personally to give dangerous advice that will probably make things worse.

• ESXi 5.5 only 4 TB usable for the data store

  Hi all

  Although in vSphere Client 5,46 TB of capacity is visible, I can only use 3.64 TB to a data store.

  Configuration:

  -HP Proliant Microserver N40L

  -HP Smart Array P410/512 MB BBWC, FW 3.66 Controller

  -4 x 2 TB as a Raid5

  HP-ESXi - 5.5.0 - iso - 5.72 A

  I read a lot of articles on > limits of 2 TB of older versions of ESXi or controllers, limitation of 4 TB of c# vSphere Client, old firmware and esxi driver problems, etc.

  But I could not understand the problem.

  The P410 controller shows 5.5 TB:

  ~ # esxcli hpssacli cmd - q "controller connector = 1 see the config.

  Smart Array P410 in slot 1 (sn: PACCRID110510NR)

  Array A (SATA, used space: 0 MB)

  logicaldrive 1 (5.5 TB, RAID 5, OK)

  then 2I:0:5 (port 2I:box 0:bay 5, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:6 (port 2I:box 0:bay 6, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:7 (port 2I:box 0:bay 7, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:8 (port 2I:box 0:bay 8, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  MS (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, model SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 5001438013D9F37F)

  ESXi obviously knows the same size:

  ~ # Esxcli storage core devices list

  NAA.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e

  Full name: Serial Attached SCSI disk HP (naa.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e)

  Definable display name: true

     Size: 5723091

  Device type: Direct access

  Multichannel plugin: NMP

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e

  Vendor: HP

  Model: VOLUME LOGIC

  Review: 3.66

  SCSI level: 5

  (etc.)

  But does that 4 TB:

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 T 3.6 2.1 T 1. 5 t 58% / vmfs/volumes/mainstorage

  vfat 249.7 M 177.2 M 72.6 M 71% / vmfs/volumes/aeda2aeb-c934ad60-46ce-cb77abdfabaa

  vfat 249.7 M 175.9 M 73.9 M 70% / vmfs/volumes/c8ace7e9-a96a5914-16 d 4-a697ad4634d9

  vfat 285.8 M 191.4 M 94.4 M 67% / vmfs/volumes/55d7af6e-a25f7c97-c3ec-6805ca0de93c

  I tried to increase the size of the data store, last used area was 11720890367 and last sector was 11720890510 which doesn't really seem to translate into an increase of 1.8 to.

  Thanks for your help.

  DC

  Your output, it shows that there are two partitions vmfs

  3 10229760 3907029134 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

  4 3907031040 11720890367 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

  A partition with 1.8 to and another with 3.8 to.   That's the reason why you see only 3.8 to

  I don't know why the 1.8 to vmfs volume is not list anywhere (which does not appear in the list of file system of storage of esxcli also). Do you have any before partition created manually. If you think that if there is no data in this 1.8 to vmfs partition you can remove it by using the partedutil command and then use this free space to extend the existing 3.8 to. But do not forget before you delete the partitiaon

• VM attached to the data store, but not in the config

  I have a few virtual machines that show that they are attached to a store data, but when you look at the parameters of the client both in the vmx file there is nothing that refers to this data store.  And, to top it off, the data store is just a deposit of file I only download iso files to mount for CD-ROMs.  I have made sure that the iso is not mounted on the machine (of course) and have paid through any other part of the config, but still it shows attached to that store of data, by the customer and by a powercli script.

  When you browse the data store, there is no folders or files on there that refer to this virtual machine.  I have about 10 machines all in this difficult situation.  Any ideas?

  Thank you!

  Hello..

  VM snapshots come with a .iso mounted for them? If so, that would explain it...

  / Rubeck

• 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.