Creating a virtual file server on ESXi. Limit of 2 TB will be a problem?

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• New virtual file server using an existing virtual disk

  Hello world

  Recently, I update our hosts ESX3.02 3 vSphere4. Everything went well

  I am now trying to build new Server 2008 R2 64-bit virtual machines. I just finished the print server and am now looking at the level of the file server.

  I created the virtual machine and configured the latter as I want with a boot partition and the C drive with the installed operating system... The next step is to sort the data side, i.e. the readers of corporate network. Rather than create and assign the new virtual disks to the new server and a data copy server current to the new, I think a much more simple and less time would be to point to my new file server on the virtual disks of current servers, then assign drive letters in Windows Server.

  I suspect that it is not possible to have two servers sharing the discs at the same time, but this isn't a problem that, off hours, I close the current, start a new, point to the current virtual disks, assign letters D and E test and then delete the old file server.

  Is this possible and if so what are the implications re file sharing, permissions etc.? The current folder and the file ACL to stay?

  Any info would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  You are right. You can detach a disk from a Windows VM and attach it to the other. You can "do simultaneously, unless you use some sort of cluster management system.

  About the ACL, I am not able to guarantee that they will continue, but I think that NTFS is "good enough" to do this.

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• The. HIS file was prepared on a MAC - but it will open without problem on a PC?

  Someone sends me a .its (or .sesx) file that has been prepared on a Mac.

  I have to open here on my PC.

  Problems or not?

  If it has been prepared on a mac, it will certainly be *.sesx and not * .its.

  N ° at worst he will not be able to find audio files. But if you keep the relative to the same media paths (i.e. the subfolder structure is the same) then it should connect automatically to all audio files.  The *.sesx file is simply an XML file, so you can open it in a text editor, scroll down and see where the file sesx think records should be.

  -C

• Best practices for virtualized file servers?

  Hello

  I wonder if anyone has a best practice ideas for a virtualized file server.

  I need to virtualize file server Windows 2003 with data from the 400GO file. Virtual machines are stored on an ISCSI SAN (MSA2012i). There is plenty of space on the VMFS

  I'm trying to decide if it will be better to put the data from file server (IE file shares) on the VMFS as a virtual drive or the data to another volume of SAN and present it to the file via ISCSI initiator server.

  I know that I can do both - I'm looking for some advice.

  Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  How will you do your backups?

• Cannot create a virtual machine with a vmdk file copied from another location, please find the attached error

  Hi all

  I copied a file from one place vmdk and try to make a new virtual machine with this vmdk file. But when I turn on after the creation of vm error is coming. Error in the text and the image below

  Power on the virtual machine: cannot open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 31/03/2015-14:40:05

  Target: DBServer

  vCenter Server: vcsa

  Error stack

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on DBServer VM.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/543d140b-feb33d52-7640-90b11c9796c3/vmdk/kapuatdb.vmdk'

  Could not open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  This error message generally if the hard files have been copied hosted as VMware Workstation product, which uses a format of sparse file that is not supported on an ESXi host. Instead of the hard copy, you can use VMware Converter, or - if you prefer - you can convert the hard using vmware-vdiskmanager (before transfer) or vmkfstools (after downloading). I deal to use vmkfstools you will need to load the mutliextent module (see for example "Clone or migration operations involving virtual discs non-VMFS on ESXi fail with an error" vSphere 5.1 Release Notes)

  André

• Copy Virtual Machine on the ESX Server windows file server (files)

  I made a copy of a computer virtual with Vmware converter and it is sitting on the windows file server, is there a way to copy the files to the server, ESX4?  Something like a copy and paste?

  Thanks in advance!

  Simply right click on the data store you want to place the files on (Summary tab when selecting one of the hosts connected to this data store), select "Browse the data store" and then use the button "transfer files to this data store. You can use it to download a folder or file from a target, that you access from your system. It might make things easier if you create a folder in the store of data first, and then download the files one at a time. Make sure that the virtual machine is turned off when you do.

  Another option might be to vMotion/migrate it from current storage to a data store in the ESX environment. I did not the same type of migration before, it will or will not be, works correctly. I moved files VM from a source, see my workstation, up to a data store that the ESXi host has a connection to before without problem (with the virtual machine powered off course).

• Get a virtual machine of the esxi Server 4

  Hello

  I'm trying to get a virtual machine Server esxi for backup reasons, I found no way in the windows of vSphere client.

  Could someone show me how please?

  Welcome to the community,

  one option is to export the virtual machine (in the 'File' menu) as an OVF/EGGS.

  André

• create the virtual machine from windows NT 4 server with adaptec raid 5

  I have an old Dell (1998) server running windows NT 4.0 sp6a.  He had a raid 5 configuration using the controller raid adaptec SCSI 2940.  2 discs failed who broke the raid set.  I had a disk recovery company to recover the data and they have scratched off readers and gave me a SATA with all volumes.  I found a procedure to create a virtual hard disk (.vhd) and then converted to a hard and used to create a virtual machine in VMware workstation 7.  When I turn on the virtual machine, it begins the process of starting windows, shows the boot menu, select normal or mode VGA, goes through the process of NTdetect, display processor and memory but then gives a BSOD with the message inaccessible_boot_device.

  I changed the hard to affect the buslogic ddb.adaptertype, but it gave me the same problem.

  is there a different driver that I need for an adaptec raid controller or if the typical SCSI drivers should work?  If the typical SCSI drivers should work, so my problem might be in my Boot.ini because it shows that he is supposed to start on the partition (4) and this sata drive may not have scores exactly as they were on the raid configuration.  I tried to mount the volumes not in read-only mode, but the partition that I need to change the boot.ini file is partition (2) what mapping VMware won't let me open mode not readonly.  whenever I have, select it and it opens the partition (1) mode not readonly.

  I know this sounds complicated then I hope I described with precision.

  Hello
  I live in Germany, but my internal clock seems to be adapted to the New York Times.
  Very useful, because most repairs or recovery to the VMware is done the evening or at night.

• "Unable to create the virtual SCSI device to the scsi: 0:0" import *. EGGS in ESXi 5.1u2

  Hi, I need to deploy a VM of *.ova in my cluster with 5.1 ESXi hosts u2 (1900470), but when I try to run it I get this error:

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/51e7fc6b-85806744-fb38-0021286bb22a/xxx.vmdk'

  Unable to create the virtual device. Stack 16 or 255 sectors per track is not supported.

  
  

  The same deployment works in another cluster with 5.1 ESXi hosts (700733) and on my vmware workstation 10.

  I have tryied compatibility material upgrade\downgrade with wmware workstation and download directly to my host but still do not

  I formatted the hard drive hard by ssh and readded to the inventory, I tried to convert vm to work cluster... nothing to see...

  Any suggestions? Thank you

  Solved! I don't know why but the import of virtual machines with 5.1u2 ESXi, heads, and sectors in *.vmdk file are reversed:

  BEFORE:

  ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "16".

  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "255".

  DDB. Geometry.Heads = "16".

  DDB. Geometry.sectors = "255".

  AFTER:

  ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255".

  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "16".

  DDB. Geometry.Heads = "255".

  DDB. Geometry.sectors = "16".

  Connect to a host with SSH and editing *.vmdk file with VI will be the virtual machine starts without problems!

• Cf11 VFS error: The Global memory limit 1000 MB for virtual file system in memory exceeded.

  Greetings,

  I have a new standard CF11 installation on Windows 8 server x 64

  16 GB of ram

  Parameters to the JVM:

  -serveur - Xmn1024m-Xss1024k - XX : PermSize = 256 m - XX : MaxPermSize = 2048 m - XX : + UseParallelGC - Xbatch-Dcoldfusion.home={application.home}-Duser.language=en-Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}-Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/lib-Dorg.apache.coyote.USE_CUSTOM_STATUS_MSG_IN_HEADER=true-Dcoldfusion.jsafe.defaultalgo=FIPS186Random

  Min heap: 2048 mb, Max 6144 mb

  Parameters of VFS:

  VFS global memory limit: 1000 MB

  Memory per request of VFS limit: 400 MB

  
  

  CF is currently 1.7 GB of ram

  
  

  I have a 6 applications on this server. 1 use the VFS.

  The others are applications simple cfm that have NOTHING to do with the VFS system.

  
  

  I have a scheduled task that calls simple cfm pages to update the tables in our database. During her run of these tasks, I get an email from the overall error (which I have the installer if there is an error in CF) and most of the error is
  

  Browser	CFSCHEDULE
  DateTime	{ts ' 2014-08-16 15:07 '}
  Diagnosis	The overall memory limit 1000 MB for virtual file system in memory exceeded. < br > increase memory VFS limit in the ColdFusion administrator. < br / > the error occurred on line 17.
  GeneratedContent	[empty string]
  HTTPReferer	[empty string]
  Mailto	[empty string]
  Message	The overall memory limit 1000 MB for virtual file system in memory exceeded.

  QueryString

  [empty string]

  RemoteAddress

  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

  I have a utility I can run to show all files in the VFS. and there are currently a total of 8 cfm files that comprise 4064 KB of space in the VFS.

  The 1 application that actually uses the VFS has several functions. Which essentially writes the CFM files includes the MTC as a contained variable and returns the variable.

  Under CF9 we also remove disk ram CFM files after their inclusion. But under CF11 it fails with an error indicating that the modification date is not found. I removed from the part of the file delete and the system works but we get this error of memory with the VFS.

  Can someone shed some light on this for me?

  It's not since.

  Thank you

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I'm sorry to tell someone else that my find this question, I could not solve it.

  Thanks for all your great suggestions and help in the BK.

  We are just past the entire system to the hard drive. This will eventually hurt us in the end, but at this point we don't have an option, our system has been down since the day wherever we improved to CF11. We did a lot of testing before the migration of load and our tests, it worked. But there were many problems with the IIS connectors and we also installed new memory. There has been a lot of things and it is difficult to find the exact cause.

  However, the error should always be reported as a bug. It gives a wrong idea, which is actually the issue and this will lead to someone else in the future in a ghost rabbit hole that does not exist.

  Thank you

  Tim

• VMWare ESXi 4 as a file server?

  Hello

  Got a server on VMWare ESXi 4, currently with a virtual more to come Linux machine.

  My goal is to use the server as a server from file/place of storage within the network of the company but also to test the environment (this is what I need several virtual machines for).

  My question is: is it possible to use ESXi 4 as a file server separately from the installed virtual machines? Or do I have to use one of the virtual machines as a storage place? If Yes, is there some way I can connect to this storage place WITHOUT using VMWare vSphere (that I currently use to manage the server)? Say, add network drive from Windows on the desktop.

  Those who resembles a fundamental questions for me however I am quite newbie here so I'm not really sure what can be done

  See you soon

  Hello, welcome to the forum

  As far as I KNOW, no, you cannot use VMware ESXi itself as a storage/file server.

  You must use VM in it and this VM should get this service to another customer.

  So you want to use this host (ESXi) as your test environment (put some VM on it to test it), you should pay attention to your bandwidth and the e/s, may be the test VM needs a lot of bandwidth or i/o and if your host may not respond to all virtual machines must (file server and test virtual machines) you will see a low performance.

  If I'm missing something; Please correct me, thank you.

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• Cannot import Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4.

  Hi team,

  I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to import certain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware ESXi 4, using another Windows Server 2008 R2 as the machine Agent Converter. Well, the agent connects to the Windows VM source very well (I used the net use command to create a line of conduct...), perhaps no chance to connect to the computer target VMware ESxi 4 and make the converter doesn't work...

  Following is the error message:

  "Unable to connect to the host specified" from the converter agent machine. " It is perhaps because the host is not available on the network, there is a problem with the network configuration or management on this host services do not react. Check all components of converter to be able to connect.

  So, my question is; is it possible to create a work around (like the net use Windows command above) to make possible the connection of the converter Agent on Linux VMware ESXi 4 machine Windows machine, to directly import the virtual machines of Windows Hyper-V to Linux VMware?

  Thanks in advance,

  It's even easier than that

  Use this: http://www.winimage.com/

  Which will convert *.vhd *.vmdk, so you don't need to do all this... Of course, another way is to start the machines, leaving them on Hyper-V and go through the network and process virtual machine as physical machines and do a P2V on the network...

• Windows Server backup - Reporting failure, but creates a backup file

  Currently have a Server 2008 R2 running. Also runs Hyper-V with 3 than VMS. VM can be found on the D drive, so I have given up trying to save with C, since it was time.

  I don't have a setup of daily - just VSS full backup disk Local (c), no bare metal recovery or backup the system state. It's backup on a network drive shared on a different server.

  Daily backup status comes back as having failed. However when I go to the destination that the backup must be going, I see a 280 GB VHD file, which is the size expected to see.

  The error reported in the Windows Server backup is "one of the backup files could not be created. "Error: the parameter is incorrect".

  WSB is horrible to provide crash reports useful on what is the real problem.

  Anyone have any idea why it's create a large file of backup, but reported as having failed with this error?

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• I accidentally loaded a .iso file on my PC and can not get rid of it. When I try to delete the file it says that the file is opened by the system. Also the file created 3 virtual drives like E:, F: and G: __Please let me know how I can remove this .iso

  I accidentally loaded a .iso file on my PC and can not get rid of it.  When I try to delete the file it says that the file is opened by the system.  Also the file created 3 virtual drives like E:, F: and G:
  Please let me know how I can remove this .iso file.

  Try Safe Mode. Repeatedly press the F8 key as the computer starts getting the menu diagnosis. Use the arrow key to select Mode without failure. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• How to count the number of virtual machines on an ESXi server via command line

  I want to know the number of virtual machines running on ESXi. What is the command so that it...?

  "vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms"

  This order list of the early running of the ESXi Server virtual machine, but I want the number (integer)

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  M@RK! V

  Hello

  You can use the PowerCLI command to get a VM number:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server "ESXi host or vCenter server.

  (Get-VM-location 'ESXi host') .count

  Elodie