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• How to create LUNS target the same data store?

  In vnx5100, we created two partitions (MON) to be shared separately with 2 VM machines for clustering

  The question here is, that I have assigned the size of the LUN to a new data storage. And when I created ROW for a virtual machine, I had to choose the target LUN, but I wasn't able to see the unit number logic I'm looking for (the one that I have allocated for the storage of data, I created).

  The question here is:

  Why the logic unit number assigned to the storage is not displayed in the list?

  Do we need to create a LUN for the data store and a separate LUN target in Vsphere with the same size of the LUN in VNX?

  What is the target LUN in VMware (vsphere client)?

  Kind regards

  To a RDM and VMFS data store, you must create/submit two LUNS for ESXi hosts. What is stored on the VMFS data store is only the RDM mapping file (this will be created at the time wherever you add the raw LUN to a virtual machine), who shows up with the size of the RDM LUN, but requires no available disk space on the data (as a few bytes) store.

  André

• script to create the folder on the data store please

  Hi all!

  I'm having difficulties writing a powercli script to create a file on a data store... we have a mixture of guests ESX 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1, using data storage mounted via NFS.

  For work I do, I need to:

  (1) create a folder on a data store (check that the folder does not already exist).

  2) navigate to the folder

  (3) and check if a particular file exists in this folder.

  The problem is that the context of my current position makes the code does not. the get-location method returns "C:\temp\ESX", being the record that I run the test script to. I try to use set-card with various settings to try to change the location of a particular data store, but it does not yet work-get-location returns "C:\temp\ESX".

  I think that the code for step 3) above is ok, but I can't get any code to work for) 1 and 2).

  can someone please?

  Thank you

  Ross.

  You must use the vimdatastore provider to access your data warehouses.

  It is documented in vSphere PowerCLI Administration Guide, which is installed on the PC where you installled PowerCLI.

  You can use the 'normal' cmdlets to navigate, test and create folders.

  For example:

  CD vmstore:

  LS # will show the upper level

  CD MyDatastore\MyFolder # navigate with the alias "cd".

  test-path MonAutreDossier # check the existence of a folder or file

  mkdir test # create a folder

  I hope this helps

• 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.

• Create a drive to another data store virtual computer

  ESX 3.5 Cluster 2 nodes - all VM are Windows Server 2003

  I can't remember the number of update.

  Subsystem of disk for data warehouses are 4 Gb Fibre

  2 data warehouses:

  datastore1 = SAS drives

  datastore2 = MDL (SATA)

  Name of the virtual machine to add the new drive: GOOFY

  I have this a GOOFY VM in need of a new 100 GB drive attached to it. The VM GOOFY lies in datastore1. The new drive should be created in the datastore2 beacuase it's static data. No change in the files, basically just to read the data of documents high IO performance is not necessary.

  How do I do that?

  Temporarily, I have created a virtual machine called GOOFY_D with this size of attached to the new 100GB.vmdk and assigned to the new drive as the "D:" drive and DINGO and removed from the virtual machine to inventory. It works but I want to do it properly.

  Yes, it was the way of "Mickey Mouse" to do, but hey, it works!... for now.

  Thank you

  I don't have access to a test environment for the moment. However. If you are only asked for the data store, it should automatically create a folder with the name of the virtual machine on this datatstore.

  André

• Rename the directory in the data store

  See the image below.

  When I rename a virtual computer in vCENTER, is not rename directories in the data store for this virtual machine.  It does seem to be a way to do it in the data store Navigator.

  If I want my vm names to match the structure of directory... should I recreate the virtual machines from scratch and just rename/reuse of the .vmdks?

  

  That is expected, you can have the "displayName" be something different than the actual name of the file. If you want to match, you have two choices:

  (1) turn off the virtual machine and manually rename all files, including the file descriptor VMDK

  (2) If you have vCenter & Storage vMotion, you can migrate the virtual machine to a data store in which it allows you to change the name and the files will be all updated nested on the name that you gave

• Create the snapshot in another data store

  Hi all

  On ESXi 4, is it possible to create snapshot in another data store? The reason is that the current data store is almost full. Thank you.

  Hello

  As far as I know, the snapshots are always in the same place as the files of the virtual machine. Then, it is not possible to snapshots in the other data that the VM store.

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

  Please consider providing any useful answer. Thank you!! - Por favor considered premiar las useful responses. ¡¡MUCHAS gracias!

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• Script to create multiple [pooled VM specified data store and resources

  I tried to make the following... writng a powershell script to perform the following operations

  (1) create a resource pool named reservedly set to unlimited

  (2) create 4 Virtuall machines in the yellow resource pool named DB-yellow, yellow-APP1, App2-yellow and yellow-bk

  Yellow-DB

  Yellow-App2, App1-yellow and yellow-bk

  (3) Vrtual all machines must be created in the Datastore YELLOW-OS

  (5) Yellow_DB shoule have a second virtual 8 GB of drive size in the YELLOW-PF data store

  Yellow-App1, App2-yellow and yellow-bk should all have a second virtual 5GB drive size in the YELLOW-PF data store

  Any ideas?

  Kind regards

  (1) create a virtual computer

  Hi Gboskin,

  Take a look at the following doc:

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-6972

  The script can deploy vm in resourcepools, clusters and on esx hosts. You can specify warehouses of data, ip etc.

  On the site of the doc, I have an older version of the script, I will update as soon as possible.

• Best way to add permissions to a shared data store?

  I have an application (Replay), who must be able to restore a computer to an ESX virtual.  She is aware of vCenter and uses it to identify hosts and data warehouses, but he wants then SSH to that host, mkdir on a data store directory, then copy the vm disk data.  Operations of connection and files are unattended.

  
  I created a user on a host ESX 4.1 but that the user has no rights to create a directory on the data store.  I want to be careful to apply permissions because this data store is shared storage between this group and there are production virtual machines running on it.  I don't want to enable the root user access SSH and I don't want the root password is known other demand for proofreading business owners.

  I already tried to add this new user directly on the host, allowing SSH access to it, adding that user to the Administrator role on the ESX using the vSphere client.  I thought that would be enough to allow file operations, but when the user account wants to mkdir there is an access denied error.

  Can anyone recommend a solution?

  Thank you

  Scott

  I would check your permissions on the host computer by using 'su - username'.  Once you are connected as long as user, try to create a directory in the subdirectory appropriate off/vmfs/volumes.

  If it fails, look this user permissions in the folder datastore ("/ vmfs/volumes/datastorename he 's").  In my case, all files owned by user root and group root.  However, by default, permissions are 755 therefore belonging to a group of "root" will not help because the members of the group is not write.  If you can, I test this on a non-essential data store and change the permissions of the directory data store itself be 775 (rwxrwxr-x).

  In addition, if the default group for the user is not root, but users or something else, the new directories in the data store will be created with a bad group membership unless you change the variables in the shell of the user.  I simplify this by ensuring that the default group for the user is 'root '.

  I don't think your NFS here login account.  The data store is read/write to this host and guests and the locking takes place on a basis by the host to the data store subdirectory level.

  I hope this helps.

• Unable to display data from a csv file data store

  Hi all

  I'm using ODI 11 g. I'm trying to import metadata from a csv file. To do this, I have created physical and logical diagrams corresponding. Context is global.

  Then, I created a model and a data store. Now, after reverse engineering data store, I got the file headers and I changed the data type of columns to my requirement and then tried to view the data in the data store. I am not getting any error, but can't see all the data. I am able to see only the headers.

  Even when I run the interface that loads data into a table, its operation without error, but no data entered...

  But the data is present in the source file...

  Can you please help me how to solve this problem...

  Hi Phanikanth,

  Thanks for your reply...

  I did the same thing that you suggested...

  In fact, I'm working on the ODI in UNIX environment. So I went for the record separator on UNIX option in the files of the data store tab and now its works well...

  in any case, once again thank you for your response...

  Thank you best regards &,.

  Vanina

• Error during activation of data store single heartbeat

  Hello

  I have a cluster HA (5.5) newly created using vSAN as a data store unique. HA cluster is configured with das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore, but when I select vSAN datastore in the favorite heartbeat datastore, I get the following error:

  The userHeartbeatDs setting is not valid for the cluster NOMCLUSTER

  Google could not find a single post/page mentioning this error.

  Any help would be much appreciated!

  Perhaps this explains - it.

  VSAN part 9 - host failure scenarios & amp; vSphere HA Interop | CormacHogan.com

  Another notable difference with vSphere HA on VSAN, it's that the VSAN data store cannot be used for the heartbeat of data store. ...

  I guess that this is due to the local VMFS-L version used with VSAN that does not use the same locking mechanism as a VMFS default data store.

  André

• Script to make an inventory of data store

  Experts, I need help in creating a script for the data store information in my vcenter. Just the basic output, capacity, free space and space put into service.

  Thanks in advance.

  Redirect you the results to the Export-Csv cmdlet

  Get-Datastore | Select Name,
      @{N="CapacityGB";E={[Math]::Round($_.CapacityMB/1KB,2)}},
      @{N="FreeSpaceGB";E={[Math]::Round($_.FreeSpaceMB/1KB,2)}},
      @{N="ProvisionedGB";E={[Math]::Round(($_.CapacityMB - $_.FreeSpaceMB + $_.Extensiondata.Summary.Uncommitted/1MB)/1KB,2)}} |
  Export-Csv "C:\report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• Relocation of the unusable VCenter Server after data store

  I needed to move the VCenter server only US planes of the DataStore has located on SAN1 to B data store located on SAN2 because we were retiring SAN1. After connecting directly to the VMhost which housed the vCenter Server VM, closing the vCenter Server and remove the vCenter Server inventory, I scoured data store A and moved the server vCenter to B data store directory. "After the copy is completed, I added the back inot inventory of vCenter Server, it works, toldi it"I moved"and received an error message indicating the file vCentersrvr.vmdk ' was absent.

  A review of the content directory for vCenter data store b shows no vCentersrvr.vmdk, but rather lists a file called vCentersrvr - flat hard. The type of file, the file is listed as "file". I tried to rename this gall and turn on/off the VM, but still no luck. Here are my questions:

  1. Can I save this installation? The original directory no longer exists (it was deleted automatically after the copy of the file).
  2. If I can't save this installation, can I just rebuild a new vCenter Server and Add (2) hosts that are currently managed by the vCenter Server server has failed?

  There is another method to recreate the descriptor VMDK files. http://www.phdvirtual.com/VMDKstubgenerator

• 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

• Combining the VM with files in the data store

  I apologize for the very basic question.

  I have a few ESXi servers and I need to associate each VM with the related directory inside the data store and each direxctory within the data with the associated directory store.

  With the command:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server 192.168.1.1 - user root - < password >

  I connect with the server.

  With the command

  Get - vm

  I get a list of all VM with the State and the amount of memory, the number of vCPU

  • How can I get path for each computer listed virtual, to the related .vmx file?
    
  • How to browse the data store, the list of the .vmx file and for each .vmx file, get the name of the associated virtual machine?
    
  • What manual download to find the emanations of the arguments of the command get-vm and qualifying?
    

  Concerning

  Marius

  The Get - VM by default displays a selection of properties.

  You can ask all the properties

  Get - VM | Select *.

  or some specific

  Get - VM | Select name, Description

  You can even access the real object of the SDK VirtualMachine

  Get - VM | Select Name,@{N="VMX; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.Files.VmPathName}}

  PowerCLI comes with a data store provider.

  It is documented in the vSphere PowerCLI Admin Guide, which is installed with PowerCLI.

  With the provider, you can list the files .vmx on data warehouses.

  To find the name of the corresponding client, you will need to retrieve the DisplayName of the .vmx file field.