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• Copying files to the data store

  I use the server ESXI 4.0 and a few Linux VM running. I would like to ask if there is a way to copy any file to any directory VM on the host main data store. If there is a way could someone please suggest some tips.

  You can use the data store browser (right-click on the icon for the data store).

  Or VMware Converter.

  Or enable SSH and SCP or FastSCP.

  André

• Copy VM in the data store. 2GB becomes 30 GB!

  Hi all

  ESXi 4, using the vSphere client. I browse the data store, then copy a VM folder into another folder in the same data store. It takes almost 1 hour.

  When I take a glance in the destination folder, the file becomes 30 GB!, the original 2 GB file.

  What is going on? Now I wonder, it takes so long to copy.

  On reflection, it's as if, Thin Provisioning disappears when you are copying. 30 GB is the size of the VM disk.

  What is the best way to create a 'clean' of the virtual machine copy, can I just copy paste the folder?

  Thanks in advance.

  Copy operation to create discs always thick.

  If you want to copy on a thin disk, you must use the vmkfstools command:

  http://www.slashzero.com/2008/10/how-to-thin-provision-an-exsiting-VMware-disk-on-ESXi-without-virtual-Center/

  André

• Error in copy/move in the data store

  When I try to copy/move files from a data store to another store of data in vCenter 4.1, then I get the error message saying "cannot access the file.

  ESXi 4.1

  vCenter 4.1, Windows 2008 R2

  Maybe you should do FastSCP a try? Also, make sure that ISO is not mounted to a guest.

• 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!

• 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 ;-)

• 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.

• 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...

• Unable to update via the App Store system software or download

  Hello

  (I'm new to this forum and hopefully the below is enough for others to understand my problem)

  Since I have my Macbook Pro I have a huge problem for updating the software via the App store or by

  Download the files of the Apple update supports pages (for example osxupdcombo10.11.2.dmg).

  The ONLY way for me to update the software system is through resettlement (command-R during the boot process) of the

  system via the web, which i, in my case, a procedure of 5 hours each time.

  In the appstore, the need for updates is displayed, but when I click on the respective install button, the installation requirements

  are briefly "calculated" for 2-5 seconds, then the process stops without having to install anything.

  When I download the .dmg on the support page file, I can convert it to a .pkg file and start the installation. The process is running

  me through the entire list of subjects required to install (accept the terms, select the location to install etc etc) asks me to restart... but then

  nothing happens / past: the old version of the system continues to operate my MacBook. Using the procedure for re-Setup "command-R-Start-up.

  whenever I have slowly migrated to Yosemite to El Captain lion (now at 10.11.2), but it's certainly in the right way.

  I have been in contact with the local (German) Apple support hotline. They even have access to my computer to watch what I'm doing and how my problem

  If displays on the screen, however, could not help and promised to call back by the technician never happened.

  Recently, I was able to solve a problem of not being able to remove all the cards in 'Contacts' following a detailed recipe posted by Linc Davis in this forum.

  So I thought that Linc or someone else in the forum could help me with my problems of update.

  Thanks in advance

  PETERBBERLIN

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• How to make instant consolidation if the data store is out of disk space...

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that has left many of the snapshot files and now can consolidate using the tool (he always said of disk space to make the consolidation)

  The data store have now 60 GB of free space when the space data store maximum disk is 850 GB and the busy VVMM over almost 700 GB of disk space...

  Can I attach a 3 TB USB drive to the ESXi server and move all the files through or another way to do...

  HELP ~ ~

  With the disk space required on drive E, it may be useful to consider an alternative:

  • create a (much smaller) another virtual disk
  • Stop all of the services entering drive E
  • Copy the data from drive E more to the new virtual disk (for example using robocopy)
  • switch drive letters
  • Once everything is working as expected, get rid of the old virtual disk

  This will not only reduce the disk space used on the data store, but also to ensure that the virtual disk cannot grow more.

  André

• 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
  

  }
  

• Dell virtual disk are larger. You want to increase the size of the data store.

  Hello

  I started the implementation of a server ESXi 5.5 Update 1 this week. I didn't know Dell shipped the server with two virtual disks instead of one. I realized this _apres_ that I had already created the data store and setup a few virtual machines to the breast. I called Dell who sent specific instructions to increase the removal of the second (empty) virtual disk and add it to the main. In the end, I increased the single VD from 2 TB to 3 TB and I want to give the remaining space in my store of data.

  I tried to follow the article here that explains how to do this via the CLI.

  Well, he did not altogether. Fortunately, I was able to recover my datastore my setting start and end sectors to their original numbers. But I'm still left with this almost 1 TB of space that I can not attribute to the data store. After that I reread storage adapters in the client, the new Dell disk size resulted under measurement devices. Click on "increase...". ", generates the following error which led me on the way to the CLI method:

  Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs" to object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi '[myservername]' failed.

  I will paste my notes that I took everything by jobs. Things have exploded the rails when I put 4 partition size to the largest size. Any help, please?

  ---

  I use that as a guide:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2002461

  
  

  1 use start hardware device management tools to increase the capacity of additional disk to the device. For more information, commit your hardware provider.

  This has been done. The new size of the virtual disk is 2791,88 GB (TB 2,79188)

  
  

  2. open a console to the ESXi host.

  Pretty simple.

  
  

  3. get the DeviceID for the data store to change.

  ~ # vmkfstools Pei "/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1 / '.

  System file VMFS-5, 60 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): datastore1

  Mode: public

  Capacity 1971926859776 (blocks of files 1880576 * 1048576), 1042688245760 (994385 blocks) prevail, max size of the 69201586814976 file

  UUID: 534e5121 - 4450-19dc-f8bc1238e18a 260d

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4

  
  

  A couple of things to note:

  a. the device for Datastore1 ID is: naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a

  b. the number of Partition on the disk is: 4 ' [...]: 4 "»

  c. the prefix, "naa," means "Network address authority" the number immediately after is a single logical unit number.

  4. Enter the amount of disk space available on the data store.

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 1. 8T 865.4 G 971,1 G 47% / vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  
  

  5 team of the device identifier, to identify the existing partitions on the device by using the partedUtil command.

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  ~ #

  
  

  According to the table in article KB

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0 - primary #4, type 251 = 0xFB = VMFS, 13711360-3865468766 areas

  | |        |          |   |

  | |        |          |   \---attribut

  | |        |          \---type

  | |        \---se finishing sector

  | \---a starting from sector

  partition \---Numero

  
  

  Also note how the number of section start the old end sector number is + 1.

  
  

  6 identify the partitions that need to be resized and the size of the space to use.

  We want to resize partition 4. I don't really understand the last part of this sentence, however. Read more.

  
  

  7 the number of sector end you want for the target data store VMFS partitions. To use all out at the end of the disc space, remove 1 of the size of the disk in the areas as described in step 5 in order to get the last usable area.

  ESXi 5.x has a command to do this:

  ~ # partedUtil getUsableSectors "/ vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a".

  1 5854986239

  This means that we want 4 Partition of "naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a" to be:

  13711360 - 5854986239 (i.e. the end of the disc)

  
  

  8 resize the partition containing the target VMFS Datastore using the command partedUtil, specifying the original existing partition and the desired end sector:

  Using the above information, our command is:

  resize # partedUtil ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 5854986239

  
  

  9 step 8, the partedUtil command can report the warning:

  He did not. Displacement.

  
  

  10. the tables of partitions have been adjusted, but the VMFS data within the partition store is always the same size. Now there is an empty space in the partition where the VMFS data store can be grown.

  
  

  11 launch this v vmkfstools command to perform a refresh for VMFS volumes.

  Fact.

  
  

  12 reach the VMFS Datastore in the new space using the command - growfs vmkfstools, specifying the partition containing the VMFS Datastore target twice.

  vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 '.

  
  

  It did not work. I got an error:

  / vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d «»

  23001ad809071096d28a:4 ".

  Cannot get device head way /dev/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 information

  
  

  Also the partition was very different to what I asked:

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 1560018942 251 0

  
  

  I fixed it by running these commands:

  ~ # partedUtil resize ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 3865468766

  ~ # vmkfstools v

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  Update:

  Since it was such a new machine, not in active production, we have safeguarded the VMs management off the ESXi host. Then flattened the virtual disk, recreated, and then created a store of data with the right size. (TPG this time, naturally.) We put the management of virtual machines on the data store. For Windows virtual machines, we have restored the using AppAssure. Everything is ok now.

  Need to add a new item to the list of punch: check what Dell has done the configuration of the virtual disks. :-)

• How to create the new virtual machine vm existing in the data store on ESXI

  I have ESXi and couple of virtual machines.

  I have the vsphere client on Windows 7.

  I then deploy the ovf from the vsphere client vm and it began to import my VM 30 GB.

  In the morning, I realized my vm with a vmdk file file has been transferred in the data store

  But I couldn't see any virtual computer.

  Now I don't know how to turn on this vmdk file that is in my data store

  @King_Robert

  It's a very bad habit of yours to just copy and paste content created by someone else, without even mentioning the source (http://www.mustbegeek.com/create-copy-of-existing-virtual-machine-in-esxi-server/)

  André

• Local data store has disappeared from the data store window (necessary emergency aid)

  Dear team,

  I m facing a very strange problem, all of a sudden one of the local ESX datastore disappeared thereafter are full details we have encountered/noticed.

  A local data store disappeared from the data store window.able to see this data store to add storage Wizard, which allows us to format the same.

  * If we take a session putty from here we can see and browse this store of data without problem.

  * Virtual computers that are running on this data store work as well (all files are accessible / VM is accessible on the network)

  * Unable to take backup image do error "the object has already been deleted or was not completely created.

  * Not able to take a «cannot complete the copy file... network» clone »

  Getting from newspapers in vmkernel:

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed, the data of sense H:0 x D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 0 valid: 0 x 4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceToken: 293: Sync IO 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed: error/o H:0 x D:0 x P:0 x 0 2 0 valid sense data: 0x4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu6:4110) capability3: 5354: Sync READ error ('. fbb.sf') (ioFlags: 8): i/o error

  Need your help urgently to solve the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  

  Dear all,

  We have enclosed a case at VMware, please find their findings on the same.

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

  After the webex session, we just had, I discovered the root cause of the problem reported to an underlying problem on the block device (the logical drive, or a problem on the Board) presented to accommodate the data in question store successfully.

  In short, whenever we try to do raw reading from the disk (from sector 0), the same always fail when we reach the 30932992 bytes (31 MB) brand with an IO error (which is consistent, he is always on this region of the disc that read operations fail, no more, no less). This result can be seen, even if no partition is in the disk (using if = / dev/sdb instead of/dev/sdb1 with dd) and even after zeroing on all sectors (if dd \u003d/dev/zero of = / dev/sdb). Strangely, read operations work fine (as he writes zeros of random data) throughout the entire disk. Keep in mind that the tests I did with no VMware tools (I used almost only dd for these operations), which prohibits certainly a VMware problem (in fact, if you were to try to start the server with a Linux live CD and run the same tests that I did, you would see the same behavior).

  I know that there is no report of material of any bad behavior on the table, but data collected with our tests today completely invalid who. The next step is for you to take this to the server provider to check for problems on the table or discs, because they are there and they are the reason for the problem you reported initially.

  Please let me know if you have other questions about it.

  Thank you

  -

  David Meireles

  Technical Support Engineer

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

  Now we have blocked a case from the hardware vendor, to see what the next move will be.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

• 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