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• Error 'select virtual disk format.

  I try to configure replication for VM with disks on two storages. I was following the blog of Ken Werneburg , but I get error 'Select virtual disk format' every time I use the advanced drive configuration. How to continue?

  

  We use the unique vCenter server scenario.

  I guess the only solution for you is then rename vmdk files. Make sure you that you back up your VM first or clone it somewhere for testing purpose to see if it will work for you. Here is an article that describes how to rename a VM http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002491VMDK files. Hope it will be useful to you.

• Impossible to extend warm a virtual disk with VIC

  When I change the properties of the guest in VIC esx 3.5 and try to extend the current virtual disk I get the error message "a general system error occurred: internal error.  I am trying to extend the partition D 1200 Go 1 300 Go and I have enough space for 1440 GB.  I was not able to try to extend the drive when the prompt is disabled, but as it is a critical server that requires little downtime. I am also able to expand virtual disks on the other guests, but not this one.  Suggestions as to how I can get this virtual drive to extend hot would be welcome.

  You cannot extend a drive over 1 TB in gui in ESX 3.5... bug in vmware.  Take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008528

  What you need to do, is extend the command line in ESX.  To do this, you should close the virtual machine. 994 Ko has more details on that. Basically:

  Log in to ESX

  Stop the virtual machine

  Use the vmkfstools command to extend the drive

  for ex:

  vmkfstools x 1300G

  It's been a while since I did it, so please check me, but I'm pretty sure the syntax.

• 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.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

  Master virtualization technology

  Globant Argentina

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• The virtual disk is either corrupt or not a format supported.

  We have a 2008 R2 SP1 VM Datacenter we cannot snapshot.

  A manual snapshot of in the Client vSphere indicates the following in the tasks and events:

  The virtual disk is either corrupt or not a format supported.

  Our NetBackup software is automatic snapshots for VM backups and generates these three errors in the tasks and events:

  Cannot run a snapshot operation
  

  Operation timed out
  

  A general error occurred: VMX protocol error.

  The virtual machine has two virtual disks:

  [vmds-standard: (1) default] outhostname/ourhostname - 000001.vmdk

  [vmds-standard: (1) default] outhostname/outhostname_1 - 000001.vmdk

  Virtual disk files seem to be the usual file names. Instead, they resemble snapshot files or something similar.

  I don't know what is happening. Can anyone help?

  The file names are correct, since there is an active snapshot on the virtual computer. I found a few entries in the log file that we/you can see:

  08:01:25.543 Mar 23: vmx | DICT scsi0:2.deviceType = scsi-disk hard
  08:01:25.543 Mar 23: vmx | DICT scsi0:3.deviceType = scsi-disk hard

  There are some entries of old/orphaned for already deleted virtual disks! However, it should ask the question.

  21:13:06.212 25 March: vmx | In SUMMARY: SnapshotBranch failed: changes, followed by target file already exists (5).

  That's what I think is related to the question. For me, it looks like a problem once with block change tracking, which may have left orphans. What I would do, is first of all to delete all the .ctk files in the folder of the virtual machine on the data store (they will be recreated, only the next incremental/differential backup will take more time). If this is not enough, you can try to disable - at least temporarily - CBT for the virtual machine or remove the virtual machine to inventory, delete the .ctk files and then add it to the inventory...

  André

• What are the steps to create, format and install a new virtual disk in Windows

  I swear I've scoured the Internet for days trying to find the details of this process, and I'm embarrassed to have failed in my quest to understand what I must be a very simple thing.  The best I can do is this:

  Step 1: Create a new vmdk using vmware-vdiskmanager

  Step 2:?

  Step 3: Get your vmdk newly formatted using vmware-mount, or using "Map Virtual Disk" of the Workstation option

  Now, you will see that somewhere between step 1 and 3, it is an essential step of the new vmdk format so that it can be recognized and mounted.  Simply, I can't find any example online how to do this.  I just know someone will say "just attach to a virtual machine and format her", to which my answer is "how?  It won't let me get an unformatted disk.  When I try to go directly to step 3 after step 1, I get the following error, "error reading volume information.  Please select another file to disk.

  Help!

  VM--> change the settings.

  Hardware tab.

  Add the button.

  Select "hard drive".  Follow the instructions in the wizard.  At the selection of create new floppy or use existing, select "Use an existing virtual disk" and find the vmdk file, you have created.

• Poor ESX4 + CX500 write when formatting performance second virtual disk (data volume)

  Hi all

  In a bit of panic goes live on Monday with the first virtual machine. Host of ESX4 implemented, no probs... followed by all the guides... vm os installed without probs... performed tests of copy file... seemed good.

  I went to add a new virtual disk and format it. The performance is comparable to the workstation cruddiest, collecting dust in the corner. I checked by the parser and this lun is blockage at 60 MB/s - of similar results in summary ESX.

  Here's the Info

  ESX4 on DL380, Qlogic QLA24xx. CX500, flare19. RAID group is 6x300gb FC 10 k disks. I have read/write cache LUNs and table, watermarks of 60/80... 500 GB LUN put VMFS-shaped...

  Don't know what else to add for the info, but I have a sick feeling in my stomach now...

  I was looking for the other threads, and it seems that people are just 60-80 MB r/w? I am more than one administrator to 'feel', and it seems that when I put in the form of virtual disks and run tests on sata II test whiteboxes, put in shape was nearly instant... I remember having 130 - 150 Mbps when executing simple hdtach benchmarks on physical servers to SAS.

  I'm confused... Any help is greatly appreciated...

  You use a quick format? The normal format is slow and very intensive I/O.

  And turn off the stats on SP.

  André

• Script to export the virtual disk information in a specific format

  Hi all

  First too all the Scripting Guys who I borrowed the code here, thank you!

  Now, I was able to get all the information I want vcenter but I have problems with two of the scripts I wrote.  It is with regard to obtaining information on the virtual disks associated with all virtual machines in the environment.

  I was able to export the data, but I get a line by VM that does not work for the way in which we want to use the data.

  What I am looking for is a csv export with one line per virtual machine that looks like:

  VM number 1, hard disk number 1 name number 1 datastore, path of vmdk number 1 hd, hd number 1 capactity, number 1 hd, hard drive controller number 2 name,... up to 7

  name of number 2 VM...

  Thank you!

  Alec

  OK, I see what happened.

  The 2nd block is to create empty properties in the object.

  The value should be $null like this

  $report = @()foreach($vm in Get-VM){  $row = New-Object PSObject -Property @{Name = $vm.Name}  $i = 1  Get-HardDisk -VM $vm | %{    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk #$($i) Name" -Value $_.Name -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk #$($i)" -Value $_.FileName.Split("/")[1] -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)path" -Value $_.FileName -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Capacity(MB)" -Value ($_.CapacityGB*1024) -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Controller" -Value ($_ | Get-ScsiController).Name -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Datastore" -Value $_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[') -MemberType NoteProperty    $i++  }  while($i -le 8){    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk #$($i) Name" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk #$($i)" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)path" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Capacity(MB)" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Controller" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $row | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($i)Datastore" -Value $null -MemberType NoteProperty    $i++  }  $report += $row}
  
  $report  | Export-Csv -path virtual_disks2.csv -notype
  

• Reference Dell HDS - recommended VMware virtual disk - drives provided - basic and dynamic thin and thick.

  Can someone point me to the literature on best practices for guest disc formats?

  I know all the Compellent thin-provisions. However, in VMware 5.5, when you set up a virtual disk in the comments you have several choices:

  • Lazy provisioned to zero thickness
  • Eager provisioned to zero thickness
  • Provision of thin

  And then, at the level of the OS, you have the choice of:

  • Base
  • Dynamics

  I would like a pointer to the technical document explaining the advantages/disadvantages of each choice and recommended best practices.

  Kind regards

  Kath

  I would like to either thin or thick lazy to zero.  The two will take the same amount of data on the HDS.  The main decision is where you want to manage your storage space?  If dilute you on thin you need to make sure that you make no provision in both places.  If you have thick lazy to zero, then you can only on commissioning on one side.

  Say that I always thin on thin.  Recovery of the space at the level of the virtual computer is not officially supported immediately, but maybe someday.

  In a virtualized environment, always keep it simple.  There is no dynamic performance with virtualization

• Virtual disk expansion

  I've added four new hard drives at 8 on my ax100 and configured ' DISK POOL 1, include 11 records. A drive is configured as a hot spare. Then, I have expanded the "Virtual Disk 1' to include all the"POOL1 DISC' again. I was expecting the SAN will appear as a 6 to drive in Win2003. However, it proved that I need to format the 4 additional disks and set up as a new partition. I need a shared 6 to disk, not two separate 4TB and shared 2 TB drives. I plugged a different server in the same San using the switch, but it also shows the SAN as two separate partitions.

  Is there an operation that is not destructive to consolidate all readers, both old and newly added, in a huge partition/drive and see it as such in Win2003? It would be difficult to make two backups one 6 to SAN, destroy the virtual disk, recreate a large drive virtual and end of restoration. Help, please. Thank you.

  
  

• MD3000 cannot change virtual disk ownership / preffered path - ERROR 29

  Current configuration

  PowerVault MD3000 (deleted by the moderator) - attached to two servers PowerEdge R610 using Dell SAS 5/e card in each r610. The R610s act as a host ESX VMWare ESXi 5.5.0

  We have created multiple LUNS on the storage array and noticed that traffice all happening through a RAID controller or another module (and it seems to me not change without prompting when you look at the storage Bay). I turned off a two different virtual machines to try to change the path and had an error with a certain delay - I stuck this error below. I also tried to redistribute virtual disks tab the MDSM software nothing works support.

  By reading, it seems that the LUN should be attributed to a particular raid controller before all I / 0, but I still feel like're missing us something as to why we cannot distribute the traffic properly.

  According to some records for a MD3200 -.

  "If the host has a path of data unique to the MD, the virtual disk storage array.
  must be owned by the controller to which the host is connected.
  That's what we're trying to accomplish. I don't know if the hosts are to be physically detached from the SAN, or if there is a bit of software to fail us.
  Thank you in advance! If I failed to provide all the details, please let me know and I'll try to gather the information.
  Here's the error output:

  OPERATING ENVIRONMENT DATA

  Name of the client system: FLMGMT01
  Client OS: Windows Server 2008 R2

  Application version: 03.35.G6.88
  Storage management of version table: 03.35.G6.88
  Name of storage array: VAB-NAS-01
  Firmware version: 07.35.39.64
  Management class: devmgr.v1035api01.Manager

  **************************************************

  DATA ERROR

  Command sent to the RAID controller module to the location: 0
  Host name: 192.168.19.233
  IP address: 192.168.19.233

  Return code: error 29 - this operation cannot complete because there was a failure of authentication of security on a parameter in the command sent to the RAID controller module.

  Try the operation again. If this message persists, contact your Technical Support representative.
  Operation when the error occurred: PROC_assignVolumeOwnership
  Timestamp: August 25, 2014 16:18:59

  DATA BATTERY

  devmgr.v1035api01.Sam.JAL.ManagementOperationFailedException:
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.jal.SYMbolClient.dispatchOperation (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.issueCommand (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.sendCommandCommon (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.sendCommand (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.jal.StorageArrayFacade.assignVolumeOwnership (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.sam.configuration.controller.ChangeControllerOwnershipDialogPanel.performCommitAction (unknown Source)
  to devmgr.v1035api01.shared.wizard.DialogPanel$ NotifyBackgroundTaskAdapter.performOp (unknown Source)
  at devmgr.v1035api01.shared.AbstractTaskAdapter.run (unknown Source)

  THREAD DATA

  Thread [reference Manager 10, System]
  Thread [finalizer, 8, System]
  Thread [dispatcher Signal, 9, System]
  Thread [attach auditor, 5, System]
  Thread [Java2D grinder, 10, System]
  Thread [TimerQueue, 5, System]
  Thread [Swing-Shell, 6, System]
  Thread [AWT-closure, 5, main]
  Thread [AWT-Windows, 6, main]
  Thread [EventQueueMonitor-ComponentEvtDispatch, 5, main]
  Thread [Thread-3, 5, main]
  Thread [AWT-EventQueue-0, 6, main]
  Thread [DestroyJavaVM, 5, main]
  Thread [SwingWorker-pool-2-wire-1, 5, main]
  Thread [ChangeDetector, 6, main]
  Thread [PreferenceStoreChangeDetector, 6, main]
  Thread [LogMsgThread, 6, main]
  Thread [Np_Link_Monitor0, 6, main]
  Thread [DMVGarbageCollectorThread, 6, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-27, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-28, 6, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-30, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-31, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer 0, 6, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-35, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-36, 6, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-38, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-39, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer 1, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer 2, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer-3 6, main]

  
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-48, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-49, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer-4 6, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-53, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-54, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer-5 6, main]
  Thread [SwingWorker-pool-2-wire-2, 5, main]
  Thread [RecoveryProfile-69, 6, main]
  Thread [NEA-70, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer-14, 6, main]
  Thread [Timer-91, 6, main]
  Thread [host 2.3, principal of the Image]

  Hello MrRedPants,

  Since you are using a configuration not redundant you will have problems trying to modify the paths between the controllers since the two hosts have only a single connection to the MD3000.  What you could do if possible is to get 2 more SAS cables & connect ports second on the MD to RAID opposite that the host is currently connected to.

  Now, if this isn't an option so that you can make is to have 2 disk groups and assign the virtual disks / LUNS that are connected to each host in their own disk group.  If you go to each host their own groups of disks, then you will need to stop the e/s as you move the Ramdisk to the new group of disks so that you want to discard any data loss.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Re-create a virtual disk (RAID 1) of two existing drives

  After several power outages, my server Dell PowerEdge T110 ii starts plu. The virtual disk (RAID 1) has disappeared, but the two physical disks are still visible and a State of readiness.

  Is it possible to create a virtual disk Raid1 of two existing disk which was composed the original virtual disk without losing any data?

  If this is not possible, is there a way to recover the data (image) and re - create a new virtual disk?

  I hope someone can help me.

  I don't think, because the process would have initialized the disc, which formats.

• MD1220 disk expansion & expansion / resize virtual disk

  I seek to add 6 new MD1220 to a current configuration of 6 who are chained together.  Two quick questions on this...

  (1) is there as a limit to how many MD1220 can be connected?

  (2) once the virtual disks were created in all of my original 6 devices, is it possible to resize or add to this Setup?  Or I should blow away and recreate?

  Thank you
  Greg

  Hello Greg,.

  (1) is there as a limit to how many MD1220 can be connected?  You can put a maximum of 4 cases with the MD1220 can be chained together (which gives a total of 96 disks per SAS port).

  (2) once the virtual disks were created in all of my original 6 devices, is it possible to resize or add to this Setup?  Or I should blow away and recreate? You can add disks to your virtual drive and can increase the size, but depending on how much space you add that it can be faster to back up data and then recreate the virtual disk and restore your data.  A virtual disk expansion is really slow and it may take weeks or even months depending on the size of the virtual disk.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• MD1000 attached to MD3000. Virtual disk not on the preferred path

  Hello

  I have a MD3000i box connected to 2 boxes of MD1000, these are connected to a Dell Power Vault Storage server 2003 running.

  Last night I connected the 2nd MD1000 and added in 25 TB of drives worth. I had initially hurt mapping the new virtual disk after 20 minutes or so, I noticed that I had shot the Ethernet cable plugged into the Module Raid 0 by mistake. I plugged it back in and was able to map the drive and started the initialization of disks.

  I came this morning to check how everything is done and found an error on the table. Disk not on favorite virtual path, preferred owner: at location 0 RAID Controller Module. Current owner: Module to slot 1 RAID controller. Group MD1000_2 of disc. Ramdisk: Virtual4.

  Now, it seems that influence the new virtual disk that I created. I checked the path virtual disk property and all the other virtual disks are using path 1 and try that I created to use channel 0.

  The virtual disk seems to be working for the moment it is detectable and to initialize itself in the area of operations of MDSM. I'm under pressure to get the space of storage as soon as possible, so I can't really afford to have to blow the virtual disk and restart the initialization. I'm hoping a simple reboot of the storage array will cure the problem, but I guess I can't do so until the end of the initialization of the disks. I could also remap the path to the virtual disk, but I saw online that it does not solve the problem, and I always have to wait until the initialization is complete.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello

  I deleted the disk group and created a new one that even once, did not help even after that I tried to change the path. I deleted again and created a new and then changed to RAID 1 controller quickly while he was still on the controller 0 (before it came with the failure of the path) as the preferred path that has cleared the error. There must be a mistake with the controller or the wiring to it.

  Thank you

• Virtual disk MD3000i not on the preferred path

  Our MD3000i rpet table is not optimal and that a virtual disk is not on the preferred path.

  We have two RAID sets on it with a VD each.  The former says her favorite way is controller 0, the second said his preferred path is controller 1.  But the controller 0 like take charge of both.

  Using MD storage manager, I can change VD2 owned by controller 1.   But in the current for the next several hours, it passes backward, and the MD3000i starts orange flashing again.

  If I restart the server that is attached to it, the question usually begins without having to wait a few hours.

  I changed out Ethernet cables, and it did not help.  Either way, it all started when we changed the MD3000i attached to hosts.  It was attached to two Dell servers, now it is only attached to one.

  After looking through everything, it seems that the iSCSI initiator is configured incorrectly. It seems that you only have one configuration of IP and the MD has two available. Here is a link that has a step by step on setting up the MD3000i and the MPIO.

  http://paulgrevink.WordPress.com/2012/02/21/configure-Dell-MD3000i-MPIO-with-Windows-2008-R2/

  I would like to know how this happens. Also the only link that you have custody fall itself which normally points to a network problem may therefore need to look in the configuration of the switch as well.