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• Analytics data drive free space is less than 15% > Vcops begin the deletion of data

  Hello

  I'm new to vCOps, please bear with me.

  We have vCOps running in a configuration of test for about half a year now. Recently, he has been given these administrative alerts on the virtual analytical computer:

  «Storage disk (/ data) of free space is less than 15%.» vCenter Operations Manager will start the deletion of data to recover disk space. To avoid the automatic deletion of the data, add an additional drive.

  I was looking into that, but I can't understand what data are removed or how vCOps chooses to delete data.
  For example, VM Analytics metric history goes back only 3 weeks, some metric hosts history goes back to early August. Another metric story hosts return early September.

  So I guess that vCOps has been clear data to recover disk space, but...

  Is there a logic on what data are removed?

  Is there a documentation on that?

  We have 110 guests and about 1250 VM. What is the recommended size of the unit of storage/data?

  Thanks in advance.

  It will be cleaning older data of historical metrology.

  But if your installation is that fresh, more likely of allocated disk space is less than the recommended size.
  As far as I know, those appearing at the beginning of the administration guide.

  here:
  -KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057607
  -Administrator's guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcops-5-installation-guide.pdf

• ESXI 4.1, 348481 Question about data store, not be able to use all the free space?

  I am working on installing ESXi 4.1 on a Dell R710 with 3.7 to with SATA, RAID 5 disks. My problem is when I'm going to create my store of data it shows I have 3.7 TB of free space. I told him to use all but the data store comes out 1.63 TB. I deleted that and made a 1 TB data store, but when I went to create a new one he would not give me the ability to use the remaining free space. I'm really green when it comes to the implementation of VMWARE for any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you, Don

  Hello.

  The maximum size for a single volume must be 2 TB - 512 bytes, as described in KB 3371739.  Use the RAID Dell utilities to carve up the storage volumes of that size or smaller.

  Good luck!

• Free space in the data store is lower we shouldn't

  Hello

  I'm under VMware ESXi on HP Proliant DL380 G5 server - the data store has a global capacity of 678 GB, with now 34 GB free. I have 5 VMs running:

  reader1/lecteur2

  (1) Win2k3: 50 / 100

  (3) Win2k3: 50 / 50

  (1) Windows XP: 10

  Oh - and the two models, one for the server (50) and a XP (10)

  Yesterday, I created a couple of clones of the XP, 1 with Vmkfstools - i and the other with vConverter - especially for the practice, but they are only 10 GB. Before my creations, free space read about 115 GB - then she got at the moment, I noticed 34GB. I deleted the two new virtual machines thinking I came home back from space, but no dice. Math is not my best subject, but this does not seem to add up. Do something wrong, I missed something?

  Is it possible to reclaim that space? Before I thought to check with you guys, it dawned on me that I could stop all VMs and restart the host, but if there is another way, I want to know it.

  Linda

  Browse the data store - go to the "Home" view - inventory - data warehouses, click a data store, and then select Browse.

  Look in the subdirectory for each virtual computer and determine that seem abnormal large size files and total size of all files that exceed the size of the virtual disks assigned to the virtual machine.  If you specify then what are the names of the files a plan for how to get rid of them.

• Low free space on the data store.

  Hi ladies and gentlemen

  I have 3 connected to my server from Vsphere data warehouses, data warehouses are a Terrabyte each but only have about 65 concerts on the free space on each of them.

  How this small space affect my ability to take pictures? Take a snapshot potentially cause data warehouses to run out of space?

  Thank you very much for all the tips...

  Concerning

  Clint.

  Dear Sir.

  Snapshot response potentially cause data store run area is YES.

  The explanation is dependent on the setting of the snapshot, configured manually, automatically configured (by any agent backup) or?

  Sorry, I'm not explain in detail here.

• Find the store of data with more free space.

  So I'm trying to build a script to configure the virtual machine.

  I'll have it retrieve the node to keep newly available vm out based on the cluster, I said to use. I'm just using the Random function to do that then I select a node in the cluster.

  Where I have questions, how can I

  find the data store less used, based on a particular data store naming scheme.

  I want to say is:

  Hypathetically, I for example named data warehouses:

  store data-prod-01 200 GB free

  store data-prod-02 500 GB free

  free data-prod-03 10 GB store

  free data-qa-01 200 GB store

  free data-qa-02 1000 GB store

  I want to throw in a piece of code to tell him to watch data warehouses "datastore-prod *" and place the virtual machine on the store of data with the most space. (that's assuming that the vm will agree on the DS and let fresh generals)

  I guess I want to know if it is possible?

  I would also be concerned about scenario that perhaps the vm should I build just will not match on any of my other data store. I guess I need a logic to check if it is still possible.

  This is more than a wish rather than a necessity. I'm thinking if I just read the info, or use a cvs file after running the script. Any recommendations would be greatly appreacted.

  Hello, drivera01-

  You should be able to do this with a very small amount of code.  Download all data warehouses that correspond to the model name, sort free space (in descending order) and select the top one.  As:

  ## get the datastore matching datastore-prod* that has the most freespace$oDatastoreWithMostFree = Get-Datastore datastore-prod* | Sort-Object -Property FreespaceGB -Descending:$true | Select-Object -First 1
  
  ## if the freespace plus a bit of buffer space is greater than the size needed for the new VMif (($oDatastoreWithMostFree.FreespaceGB + 20) -gt $intNewVMDiskSize) {<# do the provisioning to this datastore #>}else {"oh, no -- not enough freespace on datastore '$($oDatastoreWithMostFree.Name)' to provision new VM"}
  

  The second part, where it checks for sufficient freespace on the data store that has the most free, can be updated to behave as you need, but that should be the basis.  How does this look?

• Ability to store data about the free space is not the same in VMware and 3PAR

  Hello

  I'm running vSphere version 5.1.0 Server build 799731 and all my ESXi hosts running the same version: 5.1.0 799733.

  I use 3PAR as a storage system for my VMware environment, but on some of my LUN created, I get a different number on what is currently available as a free space on the LUN.

  On a LUN (LUN2_R5), vmware says that is has a capacity of 3 to and free pace on TB 2.08 (and it has been updated this morning).

  But if I look in my view of 3PAR system, the same number of unit logic (LUN2_R5) has a size of 3 TB, but the size of the user used in 85% (2.6 TB of data).

  If I do a look of VMware in the LUN, corresponds to the size on the LUN with the VMware view server, but I do not understand why 3PAR has another number.

  Can you help me?

  Kind regards

  Carl-Marius

  Your storage system only "knows" what's on the VMFS file system. As soon as the space is allocated, it is marked as used from the point of view to the storage.

  André

• Store of data for a single data Windows drive must free space for snapshots or any other reason?

  I have a machine virtual it is partition C: is on a data store. I have a data store separate 500 GB and I want to give all of the 500 GB for this virtual machine as a D: partition. I think that for this virtual machine snapshots will reside on the data store that is home to the C: partition. Is this correct or should I leave little free space on the data of 500GB store?

  In addition to the vmdk, a small header file (a few bytes) is created in the data store. You may need a few (a few MB) of additional space if you use the modified block followed for example backup and replication. So I recommend that leave you little free space.

  Make sure that the database VM store is configured with at least a 2 MB block size so you can fix the vmdk on the virtual machine.

  André

• check the free space on the data store before making svmotion

  I'm trying to understand how to check free space on the data store until the proceeds of the svmotion.

  Example:

  -must first check that that sizeof (VMs to be moved) < sizeof (destination) - 50 GB before in terms of the

  -should leave a 50 GB buffer so that the script ends when all the VMS are moved from source data store or there are only 50 GB left on the source data store

  -must move VM to store data source to the destination data store 2 at a time, until the completion

  -must create a local log file, and then send this log file using the relay smtp server.

  I just started using powershell and have played with different things for about a week. I'm trying to understand this problem, anyone has advice or suggestions for me?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated...

  Hello

  Yes, the $vmname is empty, change the line as below

  Move-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name $vmm.Name) -Datastore (Get-Datastore -Name $DSname)
  

• Installation problem: (there is not enough free space to store the temporary files of Windows installation)

  I install Windows 7 Ultimate update on Vista Ultimate. Compatibility check says I can go for it.

  I have 348 GB of free space and 2.4 GB of Ram. I run Disk Cleanup and is are free programs on hard drive. When I run the installer, it gives me this message

  There is not enough free space to store the temporary files of Windows installation.

  I'd appreciate any help to overcome this problem.

  Tried the fix you suggested. He changed nothing

  You may be able to mark the partition on which is installed the operating system as being active.

  1. Open Control Panel by clicking the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
  2. Click system and Maintenance.
  3. Click on Administrative Tools.
  4. Double-click computer management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  5. In the navigation pane, click the disks as storage management.
  6. Select the volume that contains the existing installation of Windows Vista. In general, it is the C drive.
  7. Right-click on the volume and select Mark Partition as Active.
  8. Click Yes to confirm the action.

  Could also contribute to:

  If you have several hard drives remove all except the one that you install Windows 7, and then replace it after Windows 7 is installed.

  Disable startup programs:
  (A) click Start, type MSCONFIG in the search box and press ENTER.
  OK the authorization of user account control and password if necessary
  If you are using XP: click Start, run, and type: MSCONFIG and click OK.
  (B) on the general tab, click Selective startup.
  (C) just below the selective startup, clear the checkbox "Load Startup items".
  (D) click the Services tab, check "Hide all Microsoft Services", and then click Disable all.
  (E) click OK, and then restart the computer.
  (F) try the upgrade again.

  (NOTE: If the upgrade fails and you continue to use your rear security software, then also go back into MSCONFIG and under the general Tower XP/Vista tab, click "Normal startup", and then click OK to exit.)

  Also:

  You need more than half of your drive is empty instead upgrade. If your reader is 1.0 TB (1, 000 GB), you need 500 GB + to be free.

  If you cannot free enough space, you need to move data to external storage.

  Free space - increase the hard disk space

  The following procedure cleans the files associated with your user account. You can also use Disk Cleanup to clean all the files on your computer.

  1. click the button start, in the search box, type disk cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.
  2. in the drives list, click the drive you want to clean, and then click OK.
  3. on the Disk Cleanup tab, select the types of files to delete.
  Note: To delete all Points except the most recent system restore - click on "Clean up System Files" and you will get another tab called more than Options. Now click More Options, and then click 'Clean up' under ' System Restore and shadow copies "and then confirm the deletion.
  4. click OK at the bottom of the window cleaning disc and in the message that appears, click on delete files.

  Reduce the amount of space allocated to system restore.

  1. start--> panel--> system and safety--> system
  2. then click on the "System Protection" link located at the top left.
  3. in "System Properties" window, click on the "System Protection" tab
  4 locate the 'Settings of Protection' box and select / click on the drive letter (usually c :))
  5. now, click the "Configure" button to change the settings to restore "disk space".
  6. move the cursor to reduce the amount of space system Protection can use (min. 2 GB).
  7. click "Apply" and then the "OK" button after setting the disk space.

  Questions about installing Windows 7?
  FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions from Installation Windows 7 & responses

• How much free space should I leave on a DATA partition?

  I can find discussions about why we should give adequate free space on a Windows 7 OS partition, but I can't find anything about the question to know if performance suffers if a partition used strictly for the * data * is too full.  For example, Windows 7 has a requirement to free space for Defrag to work properly?  If so, what is it?  I know that for XP defrag wouldn't even run with less than 15% free space in partition, but I don't see anything on such a restriction in 7.  And are there other aspects?  Thank you.  (Wasn't sure to put this question in "Performance and Maintenance" or "files and folders," so I chose the first.)

  AFAIK, the hard disk Windows fault detection mechanism, where the CHKDSK command is a part (the big cannon), which allows to cope with errors in small scale more or less on the fly. If the problem worsens, CHKDSK is called, and Windows stops and restarts to give a best shot at fixing the issue without distractions of CHKDSK.

  If you're lucky, CHKDSK will report the broken clusters as death, moving away from the dead zone data, and Windows will continue as usual. If the disk is full to the top, none of the foregoing can or will happen, there is no room for errors of any kind.

  So, let us free space on the disk... A data reader may not get the rigorous use that gets the C drive, but it's always a dynamic environment where files are read and re-writings on demand.

  Some bad clusters on a disk is no big deal, and the player works pretty well. The trouble begins seriously when the grapes begin to fail on a regular basis, and you will get WARNING that because Windows will appear to hang during playback of files. If you ignore this warning, CHKDSK will be finally called whenever the computer is started.

  So, no, you do not rush out and buy a new hard drive, all simply because a few bad clusters have been detected.

  Large free space reduces the loss of data? Just as much as Windows has a fairly reliable place to re - write files that had been a real struggle read less of good grapes. In this way, it also buys you time to do regular backups until you can plan to replace the drive

  Even if the 15% limit has been removed from the Defragmenter, you must always leave at least 15% free especially if you store large file sizes, but it is only a recommendation, not a hard and fast rule. Personally, I think it was a mistake to remove the limit that it just encourages computer users to fill the readers to the absolute ability to believe that everything will be fine.

• Deployment of a virtual machine from a store of data with less space, but enough for the virtual machine

  I received this delicate task, and I can understand not just how to replace all parts.

  I need to create a script that will be smartly decided what data store to deploy a virtual computer.  We do not want to deploy in a data store that has the most space, we want to deploy to the data store that has the least space but can still account for the space for the (vm + 5%) and still leave 50 GB free on the lun after the move.

  Thus, for example, if the virtual machine is 40 GB, we want the script to select the data store that has a close to 90 GB available without being under.

  So my thought for this approach is:

  • Create the query to get all the relevant LUNS.  This excludes all the LUNS with the 'local' name in it and excludes all LUN owners (who have a slightly different naming convention then our general shared storage LUNS)
    • This piece, which I partially understood
      • Get-datastore. WHERE-object {($_.)} Name: corresponds to "PAR0 [1-4] _ [edp] * disk *")- and ($_.) "." Name - notmatch 'local')}
    • Now, I need to get all of their total size and free space.  Perhaps export this list to a CSV, however if I have to.
    • Create a variable that contains: the size of the total virtual machine to the virtual machine that is deployed before its deployment.
    • Deduct vm size against each data store size and pull in some way that that also close to 50 GB free on the data store and still facilitates the deployment of the vm.
      

  I have a few other scripts, I scrounged on the internet that I tried to restore... but I just don't calm not having all the pieces...

  • Get-Datastore. Where-Object {$_.} ParentFolder-match 'Internal'} ' | Select-Object - property data center, FreeSpaceMB, CapacityMB name, ' | Tri-objet-property FreeSpaceMB
  • Select-Object Name,@{n="CapacityGB";e={[math]::round (($_.)) {{(CapacityMB/1024))}}, @{n = "FreeSpaceGB"; e = {[math]: round (($_.))}} {{(FreeSpaceMB/1024))}}, @{n = "FreeSpacePercent"; e = {[math]: round (($_.))}} FreeSpaceMB / $_. {{(CapacityMB*100))}} | Sort-Object FreeSpaceGB

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  -Knotz

  Try something like this

  # Get all data warehouses

  $ds = get-Datastore. Where-Object {($_.)} Name: corresponds to "PAR0 [1-4] _ [edp] * disk *")- and ($_.) "." Name - notmatch 'local')} |

  Select-Object Name,

  @{n = "CapacityGB"; e = {[math]: round (($_.))}} {{(CapacityMB/1024))}}.

  @{n = "FreeSpaceGB"; e = {[math]: round (($_.))}} {{(FreeSpaceMB/1024))}}.

  @{n = "FreeSpacePercent"; e = {[math]: round (($_.))}} FreeSpaceMB / $_. {{(CapacityMB*100))}}

  {foreach ($vm in Get - VM)

  # Find possible candidates

  $candidates = $ds | where {($_.)} FreeSpaceGB - $vm. (UsedSpaceGB-50) - gt 0}

  # Find the best candidate

  $target = $candidates | Tri-objet-property FreeSpaceGB-descending | Select - 1 first

  Write-Output "VM $($vm.). Name) can go to $($target.) (Name) ".

  }

• Sort free space data warehouses in a cluster

  Hello, I am trying to sort data warehouses on a cluster of the amount of free space available, so I can return the cluster and the data store to a virtual machine on so far, I have this:

  Var data center is Server.findForType ("VC:Datacenter", "vc06vc.lab.601travis.jpmchase.net/datacenter-22");.

  clusters of var = datacenter.hostFolder.childEntity;

  var host = new Array;

  warehouses of var data = new Array;

  var dataStoreMostFreeRank = new Array;

  System.log (clusters);

  for each {(VcComputeResource in clusters)

  var clusterName = VcComputeResource.name;

  data var store = VcComputeResource.datastore;

  dataStores.push (datastore);

  System.log (NOMCLUSTER + "" + data warehouses);

  for each (var I in the data store) {}

  var dataStoreName = i.name;

  var dataStoreFreeSpace = i.summary.freeSpace;

  function sortDataStores(a,b) {}

  Back to a.dataStoreFreeSpace - b.dataStoreFreeSpace

  }

  var dataStoreRank = new Arrary;

  dataStoreRank.push (dataStoreFreeSpace);

  dataStoreRank.sort (sortDataStores)

  }

  }

  }

  but I get a syntax error when I run it in cli vco

  Rather than to troubleshoot your code, I thought I should share the code, I've had for a few years. I just he added to the tab documents of this community here: Action of storages of data sorting and workflow example

• Script of VM inventory for VM name with the location, the name of the Cluster and data storing total size and free space left in DS.

  Hello

  I wanted to collect script inventory VM VM name with location, name of the Cluster and data store total size and free space left in Datastore.I have script but his mistake of shows during its execution. Any help on this will be apreciated.

  Thank you

  VMG

  Error: -.

  Get-view: could not validate the argument on the parameter "VIObject". The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try
  the command again.
  E:\script\VM-DS-cluster.ps1:7 tank: 20
  + $esx = get-view < < < < $vm. Runtime.Host - name of the Parent property
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get-view], ParameterBindingValidationException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

  Get-view: could not validate the argument on the parameter "VIObject". The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try
  the command again.
  E:\script\VM-DS-cluster.ps1:8 tank: 24
  + $cluster = get-view < < < < $esx. Parent - the name of the property
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get-view], ParameterBindingValidationException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

  Get-view: could not validate the argument on the parameter "VIObject". The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try
  the command again.
  E:\script\VM-DS-cluster.ps1:9 tank: 24
  + += get-view $report < < < < $vm. Store data-name of the property, summary |
  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get-view], ParameterBindingValidationException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

  It seems that your copy/paste lost some.

  I have attached the script

• Space in the store of data not released when a virtual machine is removed

  Hey all,.

  I have a game fairly simple up - two servers ESXi 2 Terminal servers. I'll have a problem, but with space in the store of data not be released on one of them after that I got a clone to the virtual machine, made my changes and removed the original. I can find no record anywhere, using vSphere (not in the inventory or when I browse the data store), but the HARD drive space using the server is still assigned somewhere.

  Any body have tips on where to find or how to fix this if it is indeed a problem?

  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Thank you.

  How bout refreshing your data store? tab Configuration-> storage-> refresh?

  vcbMC - 1.0.6 Beta

  Lite vcbMC - 1.0.7

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