Data store in vCenter

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• I have a data store called VCENTER

  I have a data store called vcenter.  When I take a SAN and hold the host offline, it will also in offline mode.  I'm curios, what is the store of data vcenter for because I'm about to remove the SAN and former host for good.  I've used storage and vmotion to move the virtual machine to a different host and the different data store real vcenter.  I need to move this so vcenter data store? Not too sure what since everything seems to work with it offline. Thank you

  Ok. Browse the data store and make sure that you have all of the files within the data store. Once done, you can remove the host data store and the LUN / Datastore

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2004605

• Adding/viewing ESX hosts the local data store in vCenter

  Hey all,.

  I am pleased to join these forms and hope I have don't get dessu down for not having a cert VM (I train hard knowledge where and how get it)

  I have recently graduated from networking and am on the fast track in my new career. Now things are as clear as possible so I will try to fill as much

  ESXi 1 - Dell G6, running, 1065491 5.1.0

  Storage adapter - Smart Array P410i

  vmhba0

  Details - Serial Attached SCSI disk HP, ID (naa. #...), name of Runtime: vmhba1:c0:T0:L0, mounted the Non - SSD, block adapter, 1 TB)

  ESXi 2 - Dell G7 5.1.0 running, 1065491

  Storage adapter - Smart Array P410i

  Details-HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk, ID (naa. #...), name of Runtime: vmhba1:c0:T0:L1, mounted the Non - SSD, block adapter, 1 TB)

  vCenter - Win Server 2008 r2 (working on the features of powershell to work with packages from CodePLex)

  ESXi hosts in a single datacenter, with one single Cluster... in this cluster is a SAN that the two hosts can access without problem

  When I click on Cluster 1-> summary-> Storage (local storage shows ESXi 1 and SAN storage) NO ESXi 2 of local storage.

  When I click on ESXi 1 host in vCenter and then click on summary or Configuration (Storage)... it will show the SAN and hosts local storage

  When I click on ESXi 2 host in vCenter and then click summary or Configuration (Storage)... it will show the SAN and NOT hosts local storage

  How can question I view and manage local storage of 2 ESX via vCenter?

  At the moment I have to hand, log in to ESX 2 via vSphere thickclient and see its local data store.

  I was talkin to some people on #vmware in IRC, but can't seem to understand why... is something mmiss configured? I thought that this would have been a no-brainer... I tried to 'find new warehouses of data' on the ESX 2 in vCenter, no dice.

  Help

  Welcome to the community - I would try to remove the host to vCenter and see if you can see the local storage.

• Data store renamed after failover

  Hello

  I use vSphere U2 with SRM 5.0 5.0.  Storage is a synchronous of NetApp V3210 at FAS2240-4.

  I did a cover of the SRM and I found that the data store in vCenter was renamed snap-xxxx-datastore_name.  Why the data store has been renamed?  Can I prevent SRM to rename the data store?  Is it possible to get the data store named return to what it was originally?  If so, how can I do it?

  Thank you

  Frank

  This is the default behavior of MRS, and yes it can be changed.  Page 89 of the Administrator's guide.

  Keep the SRM of renaming of the warehouses of data recovery | virtual insanity

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/srm_admin_5_0.PDF

• A cluster of vCenter will share a single data store on a NAS?

  I have a vCenter 3 ESX host cluster. I want that these 3 hosts to share a single data store on a NAS (Dell Powervault md36xxi).

  
  

  The goal is that if one of the hosts go down, the other two still have access to the unique shared data store on the NAS.

  So far, I've been able to create a separate data store for each host on my NAS.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  Since we normally have a 1:1 mapping between LUNS and data store, if the three hosts share the same LUN, then they will also share the data store even... just the map the LUN to all three hosts, using the vCenter create a store of data with vmfs format and three guests will share the data store. If after having create the data store on the hosts of the first, if other hosts do not see yet the store data, just try to rescan the host for new storage devices and data warehouses.

• vCenter showing this vm in two data stores (a used display 0.00 B of 12.66 GB space)

  I have a couple of VMs that according to vCenter are present in multiple data stores. In all cases a data store would be showing 0.00 B of xx.xx GB used space.

  

  Is there a way to fix this? All I can think is that at some point the virtual machine could have migrated from one to another data store. It's never been renamed; Among the stores of data has no file like below...

  vCenter 5.5.0 2183111

  ESXi 5.5.0 2456374

  last vm compatibility of equipment and tools.

  What is visible on the page summary for the virtual machine:

  

  But if you look at the two warehouses of data - the virtual machine is present in the data store 4:

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore4/dc1

  Total 13286440

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4480 25 Mar 08:34.

  drwxr-xr-t 1 root root Mar 23 1820 10:17...

  -rw - 1 root root 134344704 6 March 18:42 dc1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 310 6 Mar 18:38 dc1 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 1895952384 24 March 15:16 dc1-000002 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 343 24 March 15:03 dc1 - 000002.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 50458624 25 March 09:14 dc1-000003 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - 000003.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 16904192 24 March 15:17 dc1-000004 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 24 March 15:17 dc1 - 000004.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 28969 6 Mar 12:35 dc1 - Snapshot1.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 29000 6 Mar 18:47 dc1 - Snapshot2.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 32015 24 March 15:17 dc1 - Snapshot3.vmsn

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 120 24 March 15:17 dc1 - to the .xml

  -rw - 1 root root 2147483648 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - bbbf052e.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 64424509440 6 March 12:35 dc1 - flat hard

  -rwx - 1 root root 290136 24 March 15:17 dc1 - vss_manifests3.zip

  -rw - 1 root root 8684 Mar 25 08:35 dc1.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 540 6 Mar 11:01 dc1.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 24 Mar 1245 15:17 dc1.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3536 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 0 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx.lck

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 3258 24 March 15:17 dc1.vmxf

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3535 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx ~.

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 554141 6 March 12:35 vmware - 3.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 225262 6 March 18:36 4.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 160708 6 Mar 18:42 vmware - 5.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 219307 Mar 16 11:21 6.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 245326 24 March 15:17 7.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 214032 24 March 16:19 vmware - 8.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 192487 Mar 25 08:35 vmware.log

  -rw - 1 root root 114294784 25 March 08:34 vmx-dc1-3149858094 - 1.vswp

  data store 3 has nothing and I am sure that this virtual machine was never renamed etc.

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1

  LS: / vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1: no such file or directory

  Your virtual machine based on the list of files, runs from snapshot and maybe the State of the virtual machine before taking the snapshot has been using the ISO on the old data store. If you can, try to remove the snapshot and the reference to the old data store will be deleted.

• Cannot add host to vCenter server as data store is shared with an existing host to vCenter

  Recently, I removed a physical host to a virtual appliance of vCenter Server and am not able to add it to vCenter Server because I get an error message on the existing data store.  I run a simple server vCenter environment with two physical hosts and shared storage.  I've only been administering vCenter for a few months, so I'm relatively new on the technology and processes.  I searched the Internet for a few days now, but have not found documentation everyone has the same problem I have (which I find strange considering the simplicity my problem and configuration), so I tried to get help from the community of VMware.

  I received an error message a day this vCenter Server cannot connect to either of the two hosts so I removed the host (rather than disconnect and plug as I should have done).  Now, I am not able to connect to the host to vCenter server because the shared storage data store comes into conflict with the same data store used by the host in vCenter Server.  I get the error message is ' "Datastore"datastore_name"is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (ds: / / / vmfs/volumes/UUID /), but is supported by different physical storage." "  I try to remove the host data store, but get the following error message: "resource" data store name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: UUID' is in use. ".  The error stack said: "'HostStorageSystem.UnmountVmfsVolume' call failed for object 'storage system' on ESXi"IP address"."  Cannot unmount volume ' data store name: datastore_name VMFS uuid: 'UUID' because the file system is busy. Correct the problem and retry the operation. "I tried to delete all virtual machines of the inventory, put the hosts in maintenance mode, restart physical hosts, but none of my troubleshooting contributes.

  I don't know what steps to take to get this data store driving with the host so that I can add it in vCenter Server.  You can provide me with any help is appreciated.

  Good thing you already moved the VMs on.  For what is 'disconnect', 'remove' or 'delete' might work anyway.  You should maybe put the host in maintenance mode or even reboot the host before you can remove data warehouses.  In an extreme case, I even had to remove the host and the hypervisor installed completely rebuild on the spot.  It is not that difficult or does not take long to reinstall, so be not afraid on this subject.  A clean reinstall could still save time compared to the deletion of data warehouses.

• Vcenter/VSphere/ESX 5.0.0 question: could not download /opt/vmware/www/build/Tenacity.iso for the san-core8 data store. == > Build fails

  I built this different ways now, and I still get this same exact error. I spin as 'Admin' and I have so any available privilege.

  There are no special characters in the password, I tried this file generation and he got away on my computer than this (v-soft bootable with interface).

  Please help me get to the next step, I'm stuck here.

  Everything seems fine until:

  09/10/2013 18:00:25 [info] validation available disk space...

  09/10/2013 18:00:25 [info] prepares the operating system installation files.

  09/10/2013 18:00:25 [info] looking for /opt/vmware/www/ISV/ISO/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso

  09/10/2013 18:00:25 [info] Validating md5 checksum for /opt/vmware/www/ISV/ISO/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso (may take a few minutes)

  09/10/2013 18:01:15 [info] verification of repositories of request for the installation of the packages packet...

  09/10/2013 18:01:16 [info] creating package repositories...

  09/10/2013 18:01:16 [info] create the virtual machine model.

  09/10/2013 18:01:17 [info] VM carrying from the Studio to the host configuration. This may take a few minutes...

  09/10/2013 18:02:20 [warn] cannot download /opt/vmware/www/build/Tenacity.1/Tenacity.1_provstart.iso for the s-core9 data store.

  09/10/2013 18:02:20 [warn]

  %3 %7% 11% 15% 19% 23% 26% 30% 34% 38% 42 failure: (22, ' the requested URL returned error: 401')

  09/10/2013 18:02:20 [error] met a unrecoverable build error!

  I am able to use this model for Centos on my computer actually install and build a paralytic with centos on that - unfortunately I do a

  hacks to make it work properly and I cannot get it to install other real applications (perhaps there is a new version for workstation 10?)

  So I went to vsphere, and I KNOW my generation model is ok, at least to get the installed operating system.

  What information can I give you or what can I try, thanks!

  Is it really "sort of" loading ie 42% or which is a total failure?

  OK, I have a build that WORKED, now I see what you mean about watching build/deploy the VM guest.

  Here is the solution to my problem: our vcenter uses names with spaces, we also use the domain names for our connections. In addition, each admin password was 'special characters', that I've debugged meticulously by ALL of them and much more. Basically, it did not matter that I have "URL" code things, used new tools or edited different scripts to encode things one way or another.

  What finally gave us successes was to go to a 'clean' Vcenter implementation that

  (a) use/did not require a domain name (not / credentials)

  (b) all had the "BACK original' legal names, IE no spaces, no special characters, etc..

  (c) the passwords contained NO "special characters".

  (because I changed this way, 'URL' encoding didn't work, tried it)

  Moral of the story: building a new, simply configured Vcenter or get one and use it.

  (Note: I even downloaded a new ovftool and tried every way that I could but it did not success)

• Remove manually removed from device vCenter data store

  Hi all

  I was doing some cleaning storage today and accidentally deleted a LUN which had not yet been withdrawn from Vcenter data store (or one of the hosts).  Of course delete it, etc. does not now.  I found this article for manual removal of data warehouses, but it seems to be expecting Vcenter to run in a Windows Server/MSSQL database.  I am running the latest version of the Suse standard device.  Can anyone help translate these instructions in a game can I use the appliance?

  Thank you!

  Thank you both...

  In fact, I don't know why I don't think to do it anyway, but here's what I did:

  Switch to view Datastore

  Click on the dead DS, click the hosts tab. Guests who think that the DS is still alive will be listed.

  Click on each host and tell it to rescan the HBAs, etc..  When they have finished sweeping, he drops out of the list.  Finally, the DS will disappear.

  No need to restart the host, but this suggestion gave me this idea.  In addition, good info on the DB for the machine tools.  I maybe those reference again...

• Register VMS in vCenter inventory data store

  All of the scripts of the guru out there, Hi

  I am putting together a DR solution for our virtual machines, we currently use the IBM midsize V7000 with Remote Copy to replicate some data warehouses.

  Now I have done some extensive testing and found that, when you make a switch of PROD to the doctor there is a bit of a process to get the running virtual machine.

  1. I have to do a full sweep of the HBAs again. Under storage cards, you can see the assigned as mounted storage devices, however you should always access the storage and go the the Wizard "Add Storage" to readd the data store with the option volume resignaturing. So this part is not painful except it adds a different naming convention in the name of the data store, example a data store named prd_lun100 is named snap-5a18365a-prd_lun100 , so I have to rename the default data store.

  2. I have to go through data warehouses and add each virtual machine in the inventory which is very tedious, and the part very I need to automate.

  I tried that one line, I found here-> http://www.wooditwork.com/2011/08/11/adding-vmx-files-to-vcenter-inventory-with-powercli-gets-even-easier/

  New-VM-VMFilePath"[prd_lun100] SERVER01/SERVER01.vmx"-VMHost"VMHost01.local"

  If possible, I would like to expand on this point, in the following way:

  1 Add the warehouses of data with the correct naming convention, using the identifier for naa to the LUN or LUN ID # to automate, possibly pull this info to a CSV list.

  2. Add a lining above, but a VM list CSV, however add is a DRS rather ESXi Cluster host, if possible priority add virtual machines by a kind of Pavilion of groups in the CSV file.

  3. turn the VMs based on a priority.

  I would really really appreciate if someone can help with this, I know that probably a big ask, but scripting is not my forte and don't know where to start.

  This shouldn't be too difficult.

  Read file names from a CSV file and then checks each VMX file you will find if it is in the list.

  Something like that

  $targetVMX = Import-Csv C:\vmxnames.csv -UseCulture
  $Cluster = "LON_PROD1" $Datastores = "lonservers*" $VMFolder = "LondonAppServers" $ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1 foreach($Datastore in Get-Datastore $Datastores) {
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore
     $ds = Get-Datastore -Name $Datastore | %{Get-View $_.Id}
     $SearchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec   $SearchSpec.matchpattern = "*.vmx"   $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser   $DatastorePath = "[" + $ds.Summary.Name + "]"   # Find all .VMX file paths in Datastore, filtering out ones with .snapshot (Useful for NetApp NFS)
     $SearchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($DatastorePath, $SearchSpec) | where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot"} | %{$_.FolderPath + ($_.File | select Path).Path}
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore
     foreach($VMXFile in $SearchResult) {
       if($targetVMX -contains $VMXFile){
        New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $Folder -RunAsync    }
     }
  }
  

• Move VM vcenter to the new data store

  Hello

  I have a cluster with 2 data warehouses and I must "empy"one for then reassign the disks on the SAN. " However I seem to be in a situation of catch-22 virtual machines, I need to move/migrate is the VM vCenter. I need to have propelled him down to move the data store, but then I have no way related to migration. I presume that this requires a manual move/copy of the vCenter VM file to a data to another store, but not sure of the consequences etc..

  THX

  Gerry

  Since you are using a business license you can Storage vMotion, VM of for the new store of data without any stop.

  Select VM-> click on migrate-> select change Datastore Option

• Unable to see VM in the data store after a restore of vcenter

  Hello

  One of my colleagues tried to install Service Pack 3 to SQL 2005 on our vcenter SQL instance.  Unfortunately, this was not and no services would begin once he did the upgrade.

  He gave the entire server to a backup that was taken a week ago.  Now, we have some problems where we do not see the virtual machines if browse us the data store, it is just to show as thought that there is no data there (see screenshot) and a virtual machine appears as orphans.

  Normally I would just delete the virtual machine of vcenter and go back and import it again but I can't do what I'm not.

  Any ideas?

  Try removing the host and adding back to vCenter. It will update the agent, vpxa.

• Vcenter list, name of the cluster, the details of the data store, exported to CSV

  I would like to be able to list the details of the data store for 12 vcenters (vcenter, data store space free in the UK, used in GB, GB total) but I'm new to powershell. I found a lot of scripts that lists similar information, but without the Vcenter. Anyone know where I can find a script for this?

  Something like that

  foreach($vc in $defaultVIServers){
      Get-Datastore -Server $vc |     Select @{N="vCenter";E={$vc.Name}},       Name,       CapacityMB,       FreeSpaceMB,       @{N="UsedSpaceMB";E={$_.CapacityMB - $_.FreeSpaceMB}}
  }
  

• 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

• Local disk? The host being backed up, the host accommodation VDR, or any data store managed by VCenter?

  In January I will be installing 3 proliants DL380G7 running ESXi 4.1 essential Plus. We do not have a SAN. We would like to use recovery data backup host #1 on Host #2 (which would be a VDR and VCenter) and restaurant to host 3 to Dr. host 2 purposes would also go our tape backup tasks.

  This scenario seems plausible? Can select backup directly from host #1 in a data store that is located on the host No. 3 using VDR?

  Thank you

  Unless you add 2 without you won't have no more redundancy. As I said you can do whatever you want to do, but you will need to do a shared storage to have a visible data store on the other hosts. You can do it with the virtual appliances or physical shared iSCSI or NFS storage. If you make virtual appliances, you will need to have one on each host with virtual machines that you want to protect. The virtual machine will have storage of the local host and for other guests. You will need a camera vDR on each host with virtual machines that you want to protect. You also need enough available to restore the virtual machines in case you have a problem of storage local storage.