Data store report with NFS export pathname specification

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• View of rights only to the data store to the title of the specific group.

  I have a group of developers that I manage to their ESX host. However, I gave permissions to start/stop, snaps, etc. They showed their interest to be able to display information from the data store, so that they have an idea of how much space they use with all the clichés. So. What adjustment / settings do I need to check for them to get the rights from view.  I don't want that they have rights to the data center, there are other clusters, not to mention the developer cluster.  It would be very political, if I had to expose everything 'read only' under the view of data center.  Thoughts?

  Thank you

  It must give rights to the datacenter/host & clusters.  But this does not mean that we should give access to the cluster level.  You can ensure that you are not spreading the read access down to other objects.  Make sure, you can also add specific no access role on clusters under the root that you don't want them to see.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• Increase the capacity of data store, which with the block size?

  Hello

  I am trying to expand my datastore 2 TB, I added a new lun 2 TB of the FC SAN TB 4 even and there is no problem adding this in the existing data store.

  But the existing data store is formatted in VMFS3 with a block size of 4 MB for a maximum file size of 512 GB. But when I try to extend the data store to select the size of the block is set to 1 MB and disabled.
  The measure automatically takes on the size of the original block or wil he get a block size of 1 MB? There are some > 256GB files on the existing data store and I think I'd get a strange behavior, if half of the data store is 4 MB and the other half is 1 MB blocksize.

  Can anyone confirm that the blocksize wil be the same for the measure?

  I can also make a second warehouse 2 TB one manually fracture the virtual machine on 2 data warehouses. is there any advantages or disadvantages to this approach?

  Don't you worry, add an item to an existing data store certainly will not change the size of the block. In any case, if it is an option that you can use two data warehouses, I would. With two distinct data warehouses that you will not only be able to spread the load on each of these LUNS but also avoid the complexity. With ESXi 5 (VMFS-5), a single LUN can grow up to 64 ~ to without needing extensions.

  BTW, a 4MB block size allows 1 TB less than 512 bytes.

  André

• ESXi5 - problems with NFS and the data copy store

  Hello world

  I recently moved into a solution fully virtualized for my network, 3 x 5 ESXi servers running on our GigE network.

  First of all, I use all free software from VMware, so vCentre etc is out of the question.

  I have major problems when you try to copy files between:

  • NAS (NFS) to ESXi 5 host
  • ESXi host to the NAS (NFS) 5
  • And using VMware converter between ESXi 5 hosts converter Standalone

  The problem is that whenever I'm transfer between hosts I am struck with the horrible network performance. Even if I use GigE adapters and switches between my hosts I will receive no more than 12 Mbps speed of transfer real (100 Mbit/s connect?).

  On the flipside, if I use virtual guests on the same exact host I can happily transfer data between my NAS (NFS) servers with speeds between 60-150MBps ~ (1000 Mbps).

  Examples:

  Speed of 10 Mbps of transfer of ESXi_1 copy OF NFS data store share ~

  Server2008 (comments, located on ESXi_1) copy OF NFS 75MBps transfer rate ~.

  Server2011 SBS (comments, located on ESXi_2) copy OF Windows share 2008 (ESXi_1) transfer speed 120MBps. ~

  ESXi_2 copy OF NFS data store share transfer rate 5MBps ~.

  Attached (wtf.png) example:

  I copy a file that is located on our NFS share first, it's a 3 GB file to the copy within guest OS (2008), it is indicated in blue - top speed of 80MBps

  I copy the same exact NFS share for the host (datastore1), this is indicated in red - top speed of 7.5Mbps

  The third transfer/s (green) is between the customers of windows on different hosts, transfer a 6 GB file as well as a copy of the 360 MB file - transfers two happily send to GigE speeds with a peak around 40MBps

  I can reflect these results across the three servers without modification. Copies between you will be able to run well enough (not exactly 100% use of GigE) but at the moment where I try to do something to the data store it will just choke at all about a 100 Mbps connection speed.

  The final image (wot.png) confuses me beyond belief. I would try to explain what is happening here:

  • This image shows two times the same exact file transfers, except even machine PHYSICS
  • The first (red) transfer between the ESXi_2 host server and the NFS share using the browser data store and direct download - its top speed is around 8MBps
  • The second (green) transfer between a guest server 2008 running on ESXi_2, download the same file exactly at the exact location using vSphere Client. I mean the same EXACT file; It connects to the NFS drive by the data store ESXi_2 (NFS share).

  Why on earth can my comments directly download a file on a data store connected to NFS GigE clocked and yet the same exact host cannot go anywhere near corresponding to these speeds?

  As indicated in the title, the problem seems to happen whenever I use ESXi datastore browser on the host computer using vSphere Client or between browser datastore ESXi to/from an NFS share.

  No one knows what might happen?

  Is there some sort of restriction on the transfer of files between a host and shared NFS ESXi 5? Whence this bottleneck?

  Thanks in advance for all the help/ideas that guys can throw my way.

  P.S. Sorry for the wall of text, I really wanted to give as much information. as possible.

  What type of storage you have locally on the host computer?

  I have seen this problem with write-through controllers: http://wahlnetwork.com/2011/07/20/solving-slow-write-speeds-when-using-local-storage-on-a-vsphere-host/

• 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.

• Source and target data store mapping query

  I have to get the source and mapping target in ODI interface.

  Which table will I hit to get mapping information.

  E.g.

  Interface: INT_SAMPLE

  Data store: Source_DataStore with columns (cola, colb, teachers) Target_DataStore with columns (cola, colb, cold)

  Well mapping cover the QuickEdit tab and expand the field of mapping mapping is so

  Source_DataStore.Cola = Target_DataStore.Cola

  Source_DataStore.colB = Target_DataStore.colB

  
  

  
  

  Now, I want to get mapping information above as well as the name of the interface and the rest of the column that are not mapped using SQL (is it possible to trick ODI for mapping).

  Hi Prashant da Silva,

  Are you looking for an application to run on the repository?

  If so, it can help:

  select I.POP_NAME INTERFACE_NAME, ds.ds_name DATA_SET
        , s.lschema_name SOURCE_SCHEMA, NVL(S.TABLE_NAME, S.SRC_TAB_ALIAS) SOURCE_TABLE
        , mt.lschema_name TARGET_SCHEMA, I.TABLE_NAME TARGET_TABLE, c.col_name  TARGET_COLUMN, t.FULL_TEXT MAPPING_CRITERIA
    from SNP_POP i, SNP_DATA_SET ds, SNP_SOURCE_TAB s, SNP_TXT_HEADER t, SNP_POP_MAPPING m, SNP_POP_COL c, SNP_TABLE trg, snp_model mt
    where I.I_POP = DS.I_POP  (+)
      and DS.I_DATA_SET = S.I_DATA_SET (+)
      and T.I_TXT (+) = M.I_TXT_MAP
      and M.I_POP_COL (+) = C.I_POP_COL
      and M.I_DATA_SET = DS.I_DATA_SET (+)
      and C.I_POP (+) = I.I_POP
      and I.i_table = trg.i_table (+)
      and trg.i_mod = mt.i_mod (+);
  

  Just add a filter on UPPER (I.POP_NAME) = UPPER ('').

  Kind regards

  JeromeFr

• ESXI & HP VSA data store size

  Is - well configured?

  I have 2 hosts HP DL360P VMware 5.5 with 2 500 GB hard drives with hardware raid 1. iSCSI data store configured with 690 GB of disk space in vSphere. 2 HP VSA is appearing 350GB of storage available. The HP CMC shows 690 GB of available disk space. When I install the volume, RAID10, and available disk space as thick, it shows a maximum of 347GB - because of RAID10 storage space.

  My concern is the gap in the amount of available storage space depending on whether display you the data in vSphere (690 GB datastore) store and the CMC showing only 347 GB of usable storage space. So in vSphere it will probably lead someone to believe that there are more storage available there are currently available on the volume.

  Is something wrong with that or should it?

  Mystery solved, someone has decreased the size of the volume in the CMC, which explains the difference in size.

• ESXi: creation of data store

  has obtained ESXi installed 5.1.

  have a couple of questions regarding the creation of a data store. My VM will reside on a synology 1512 +. the NAS has active windows and NFS file system.

  When I create the data store by using NFS, I just enter the IP address of the NAS and shared folder path (mount point)?

  I need to create a store of data by VM?

  can I import my existing virtual machines after that the data store is created?

  TIA

  No, you can have several VM in a single warehouse NFS. Simply storage vMotion virtual machine on your newly commissioned data store.

• After the migration of ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 Update 1, ESXi containing the missing data store

  I intend to upgrade to an ESXi 4.1 production host, but I want to run through an upgrade of test on a separate machine. I created this using a virtual machine and the upgrade went well. However, now when I insert my vSphere client, I don't see the data store that contains data to my VM.

  Before migrating to 5, I had 2 drives, a disk of 4 GB for ESXi, and a 40 GB drive for the data of the VM installation. I could see and access times stores via the 4.1 vSphere client, but once the upgrade only the VM data store is available. Is there a reason that this is the case?

  I've updated but has not changed the partitions of data store. I have selected to migrate and keep the VMFS store, which was VMFS-3. I also tried to add the store drive 4 GB with the customer data, but an error message: "the selected disk already has a vmfs data store or the host cannot perform a conversion of partition table.
  Select another disk.

  I found this article on error message: http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2000454 , but I never actually removed from the data store. With the help of the 5.0 ESXi update I can see the VMFS store on 4 GB drive, which should have about 3.2 GB of available disk space (the rest being used by the hypervisor).

  Recommended someone else try esxconfig-volume - the list, and then use the output to a mount (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1666168#1666168), but the list command had no output at all.

  I searched through the forums and Google but you saw nothing.

  ESXi 5 has a different architecture, and I think that the problem is the size of the disk (too small) and the partition of scratch required.

  Have a look here:

  • http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-50-installation-Setup-Guide.PDF (page 153)
  • http://communities.VMware.com/message/1848769
  • http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1033696
  • http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2011/03/OPS-changes-part-5-scratch-partition.html

  HTH

  Sam

• VMX file larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  Hi all

  I seem to be getting a strange error trying to a virtual machine that is located on a snapshot VMFS5, to the data store format.

  The virtual machine (VMDK and VMX file) is installed on a thin provisioned 2 TB datastore which has the value VMFS5 formatting.  It is a data store new with no other VM on it.  I had problems in the past with the datastore block sizes (1 MB, 2 MB, 4 MB, 8 MB on VMFS3), however, I thought that VMFS5 got rid of the question, since it's all blocks of 1 MB and all files in the virtual computer are on the same data store.

  The error I get indicates that the VMX file is too large for the data store (used Im saying "unspecified file), however, if I do the independent 2 TB disk snapshots through the fine.  The virtual machine has two virtual disks, a 50 VMDK of GB and a thin 2 TB VMDK (200 GB used).  I tried fast vMotioning the VMDK and VMX to other data formatted VMFS5 stores and still get the same error.

  I'd appreciate any help and ideas.

  Thank you

  Travis

  Although the block size limit is party, maximum 2 TB file size less 512octets still exists. Since a Flash disk can grow waist put in service the basic disk more overhead for the metadata, the maximum size of virtual disk - to be able to create snapshots - is 2032 GB.

  See "calculation time system required by the snapshot files" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384

  André

• Renamed after failback data store

  I use a SAN 3PAR and after failing with MRS 4.1 for the protected site of origin the data store used by SRM, which was named "ESX_LUN_4" before the restoration, is now named "snap-171a27e9-ESX_LUN_4" on the ESX servers.  However, the name of logic on the SAN unit number still seems to be the original name "ESX_LUN_4".

  Can someone tell me how to restore the name of data store for one, original ESX_LUN_4?  I can just rename it or who will create more problems?  I tried a new analysis of the storage, but the data store name remained the same.

  Thank you.

  V.

  This is an expected behavior. Given that ESX detects the store of data replicated as a snapshot, in order to mount it, the volume must be resigned. Name of the resigned from the data store begins with the word "snap". You can rename it back without any problem.

  You can also configure SRM to rename the data automatically store. This is done by setting the parameter called SanProvider.fixRecoveredDatastores in the advanced settings of MRS, (located in the SAN provider section). The SRM service restart is required after the change.

  Good luck.

  Michael.

• Rename a virtual computer in the data store

  We have an active VM (let's call it VMabcd) and it has exactly the same thing in the data store associated with her... labeled VMDK and VMX files also named VMabcd.   We would like to change the name.   I know that I can rename a virtual computer in vCenter directory but I can also do it in the data store?  What of its vmdk and vmx files?

  to do this if you have vCenter, the simplest method is to make a Storage vMotion of the guest in question.  This will rename all that behind that same as the vCenter object files.  Or you can turn off the virtual machine and making a cold migration to a new data store.

• Renamed the VM inventory are not not in the data store?

  I created a virtual machine and then renamed from the inventory Panel.

  Later, I noticed that there is a record in the data store more with the name of the original virtual machine. When I went to rename the file to match the name of the virtual machine in the data store, I get an error that the object is not found. There are no files listed in this folder in the data store.

  The virtual machine seems to operate normally, but I can't find its files anywhere in my data store?

  Hello

  To rename a virtual computer, there are 2 steps: remove the inventory of your virtual machine and rename it on the ESX.

  • You must turn off the virtual machine.

  • Remove inventory VM concerned. You must do this because the link between VC and the file will be lost.

  • To rename on the ESX, you should know where all the files stored one. Connect you to the ESX Server with ssh. Rename the files with the correct name, and to be clean, rename the directory too.

  • Editing with vi vmdk and vmx files to change the name and path to the files of the virtual machine.

  • Once completed, the VC, browse your LUN to find your vmx file and add it to the inventory.

  It's the only way I found to properly rename a virtual machine. It's not complicated

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/822788;JSESSIONID=F44C51342768E9B02B25A12A26A4571D

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  "Correct" or "useful."

• Data stores appearing not

  When I try and creae a new pool of desktops and move on the part of storage it only shows a data store on the 11 that I have.  And that shows he does not have enough space to this topic.  I reread the HBA, and yet they don't show up.  They show in vcenter but it does not the Manager.  Any help is appreciated.

  Perry

  Hi Perry

  1. try you to provision VMs SVI or full clones VMs?

  2. in the case of full clone VMs, you have a snapshot taken of the model, and if it, there see you the data store associated with this snapshot?

• Help with report VM (name MemoryMB NumCPU, data store, total size of the disk)

  I currently have a script (listed below) to the CR of query for each virtual computer and their allocated disks. The problem with the script is that when he meets a VM with disks on several data only stores the first data store is listed in the report. However, the total size of the disk is correct.

  Any ideas to fix this?

  $datastoreExp = @{N = "Datastore"; E = {($_ | get-datastore | select-object-1 premier).} Name}}

  $diskSizeExp = @{N = "Total disk"; E = {($_ | get-harddisk | mesure-objet-propriété CapacityKB-somme).} Sum}}

  Get - vm | Select the name MemoryMB NUmCPU, $datastoreExp, $diskSizeExp | Sort - property datastore, "Total disc | Export-Csv C:\Scripts\Reports\chargeback.csv

  I thought that was what you wanted, judging by your examples.

  In any case, no problem, the following should do the trick.

  
  $dsRegEx = [regex]"\[(\w+)\]"
  $report = @()
  get-vm | % {
       $vm = $_
      $vm.HardDisks | %{
            $row = "" | Select Name,MemoryMB,NUmCPU, Datastore, "Total Disk (Gb)"
            $row.Name = $vm.Name
            $row.MemoryMb = $vm.MemoryMb
            $row.NumCpu = $vm.NumCpu
            $row.Datastore = $dsRegEx.Match($_.Filename).Groups[1].Value
            $row.{Total Disk (Gb)} = "{0:N}" -f ($_.CapacityKB / 1Mb)
            $report += $row
       }
  }
  $report | sort -property Name, datastore,"Total Disk" |Export-Csv "C:\chargeback.csv" -noTypeInformation
  

  Since there are sometimes problems with the display of the hooks I have attached the script.