data stores configuration and target iSCSI in VMware 5.5U1

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• Can I export data store files and import them into VMware Player?

  Hey guys,.

  I was wondering if this outcome is possible?

  I want to create a virtual machine (install the OS and software) and then export the virtual computer to use VMware Player or any viewer VM?

  Currently, I have ESXi 3.5 and can create virtual machines. I'm not able to find a way to simply export the virtual machine. Is this possible? If this isn't the case, I was wondering if it was possible to export the files in the data store, and then copy them to the VMware Player?

  The files in the data store (vmx, vmdk, nvram, vmxf, vmsd, vswp)

  Thank you!!!

  You can use the free VMWare Converter Standalone (available here: http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/). Use your ESX as target and convert the virtual machine to a VMWare Workstation. I've never tried, but I think it will work.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310

  Technical Support Engineer

  Chief Executive Officer of the Linux server

• Data store space used not maching between VMWare and 3PAR

  Hello world

  I have a strange behavior between our environment VMWare and 3PAR storage system.

  I checked each data store of our cluster and for each of them, the space used in vSphere Client does not match the size of the user 'used' their volume associated with 3PAR.  The value displayed in VMware is higher.

  For example, our data store named DS03 has space around 1 TB in VMWare.  And when I checked in the Console of 3PAR, I see that the volume created for this data store has a size of the user 'used' 722 GB.

  While doing some research, I came across this post: ability to store data about the free space is not the same thing in VMware and 3PAR

  But the problem I encounter is quiet different. It's the opposite. I do not understand why the displayed value is higher in VMWare...  We are also running vSphere Server version 5.1.0

  Any advice? Ideas?

  Thank you very much.

  It's the ASIC 3PAR inline zero detection function stripping zeros of incoming data until they land on the disc. Www.3parug.com try this happens a lot.

• How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

  Hello guys,.

  Now that we have a new iSCSI SAN market how can I tranfer all the virtual machine to a local data store for a new SAN? Can I stop the VM in the host, and then copy the DataStore files with all the info on the new volume?

  Thank you

  Pesinet

  Alternatively, you can use VMware converter or cold Migration / Storage VMotion if you have the appropriate licenses.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• How to associate the data store of the target for the newly created using the API Interface

  How to create a new Interface under project, need to associate the data store target for mappings for the interface by using APIs "."
  
  Able to get the associated interface created temporary data store. You need to associate a new database model. How to do this using the API
  
  My code is,
  
  String pCode = "DEVELOPMENT";
  Context OdiContext = (mgr.getFinder (OdiContext.class)) .findByCode (pCode) (IOdiContextFinder);
  System.out.println (Context.getLastDate ());
  
  OdiInterface pInterface = new OdiInterface ("toDeleted_Interface", pFolder, context);
  pFolder.addInterface (pInterface);
  
  The list of ds < DataSet > = pInterface.getDataSets ();
  < DataSet > iterator itr = ds.iterator ();
  DataSet ds_nxt = itr.next ();
  
  PAlias string = "HRA_TMPL_DEFNS_TL";
  pOrder int = 0;
  OdiModel pModel = (mgr.getFinder (OdiModel.class)) .findByCode ("FILE_PM_MODEL") (IOdiModelFinder);
  String pName = "HRA_TMPL_DEFNS_TL";
  OdiDataStore pUnderlyingOdiDataStore = new OdiDataStore (pModel, pName);
  SourceDataStore pSourceDataStore = new SourceDataStore (ds_nxt, false, pAlias, pOrder, pUnderlyingOdiDataStore);
  ds_nxt.addSourceDataStore (pSourceDataStore);
  
  TargetDataStore tdata = pInterface.getTargetDataStore ();
  
  If (tdata.isTemporaryDataStore ())
  {
  }

  http://odiexperts.com/creating-interface-for-single-source-and-target/
  http://odiexperts.com/creating-temporary-interface-using-ODI-SDK/

• ESXi 4: error in live migration (VMotion) to the different data store (Local SATA to iSCSI SAN)

  Hi all

  I have a problem during VM migration live in the different data store, the specifications of the virtual machine is just Windows 2003 x 64 installed with the latest VMWare tools.

  Here is the error message:

  Move the virtual machine

  Win2003x64_RST01

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  The active state of VM migration

  any idea what could cause this please?

  Kind regards

  AWT

  Check that the machine ESX4 has prevention performance virtualization and data, indicators enabled in the BIOS. I could move 32 bit machines vmotion Unflagged VT turned on in the BIOS, but 64-bit machines could not begin until I activated the flag of VT in the BIOS.

  Also try to clear the mask of the source of the VM CPU before migrating, providing the hosts have the same hardware.

• List of virtual machines residing on the data store, ESXi and Cluster

  Hello

  I have the server list in csv as VM1, VM2 40... VM40. Need to findout that those VMS resides on the host to which ESXi, data store and Cluster name using the import function. Any help on this truly appreciated.

  Thank you

  VMK

  If you change the last line of the script in:

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• Data store inventory and storage VMotion

  Hello

  We have a host of ESXi 4.0 U1 with vCenter 4.0 U1 environment 5.

  Having acquired a whole new NetApp FC SAN FAS2040, we are trying to gradually Storage VMotion all VMs in front of our old EMC SAN.

  However, after VM have been VMotioned of storage, they always appear in the inventory of the store of data EMC (as contained in the NetApp data store!).

  If we edit the VM, the spectacle of .vmdks as being located on the NetApp.

  Will be the client update its inventory at any time data store?  We tried the view refreshed, restart the client, vCenter services restart, restart the server vCenter - all to nothing does not.

  Thank you very much

  IR88

  PS - When you browse NetApp data warehouses, it seems to take a long v. for folders / files to appear! (get "Searching datastore... ("for a while)

  Is there anything that is attached to the virtual machines (CDROM/ISO file,...) which is still on the EMC storage?

  André

• Store configurator and Apps landscape only

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• ESXi 4.0 RAID5 data store configuration.

  I was wondering what the recommended way to configure an array RAID5 with about 5 TB available DAS, for a host ESXi 4 which will take a couple Windows 2003 VMs, a couple Windows XP machines virtual and some Linux virtual machines. enter several smaller virtual disks for each virtual machine or a couple more large virtual disks for virtual machines to share the table would be the best approach?

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  Please give points for any helpful answer.

• How to span multiple LUNS on one (or less) data store (s) in Vmware ESXi 4.1 vSphere environment?

  Hey guys -.

  I currently have 2 hosts ESXi (version 4.1u3), 1 vCenter Server and 1 EMC VNXe3300 SAN (20 to via iSCSI) that make my virtual environment.

  On the EMC is, you create VMware Datastores (which have a limit of 2 TB) then connect these data storage to VMware ESXi hosts.  Once logged in, would continue it the process through the Add Storage Wizard via VMware to connect the disk/LUN storage via iSCSI.  Ultimately, the Lun (s) would then be accessed through the virtual environment (in the Configuration > storage > data warehouses) as generally expected.

  Due to the limit of 2 TB (both on the CEM, Version of VMware and VMFS3) on data warehouses, I find myself with having several data warehouses being created on the side of the EMC and VMware (see photo) appearance.  I know that's not rectifiable via CEM level, but I was wondering if there was any way for me to bring together all these data stores on the side of things VMware.  This way rather than navigate to Configuration > storage > data warehouses and separate iSCSI indicator 6 data warehouses, it would just be a (or more, but less than the existing) data store; It would then extend in all actual data stores that I would.

  I don't know what the appropriate terminology is used to describe it, but I hope someone can help me to what I want to achieve.  Or at the very least, can you please steer me in the right direction.  If this isn't something that can be achieved or it is discouraged, what are the other options which would be recommended?

  Thanks for the help.

  Have a look here: VMFS extended - are they bad, or simply misunderstood? VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

• Store data status: unknown and grey

  All my data stores work well, but when I changed the iSCSI targets, (data warehouses are working well and reliable) the status of the data warehouse has changed color from green to gray and there are unknown state.

  I tried rescan all warehouses of data, without warning or werror (as I said, data warehouses work well), but the situation is still unknown.

  What should do?

  THX

  One of the alarms is NOT enabled.  You must turn on the State of the State of host data store service, and then it will display the status.

• Configuration of San - data store have more than 1 LUN

  Hello

  We look at our San configuration for improvements. Our San has about 10 TB total.

  We currently have 6 LUN 1.5 TB all which are enclosed in 1 store 10 TB data

  It was suggested that we should NOT combine multiple LUNS in a data store for the reason if 1 LUN goes wrong then the entire data store is non-refundable.

  Although our SAN LUNS are created on top of raid 6 and are therefore a bit 'protected' by councils LUN 1 data store is interesting

  Does anyone have ideas to share?

  Thank you

  Tom D

  I would say that having a single data store, regardless of the underlying storage architecture is probably not a good idea.  Although this configuration is authorized you can paint yourself in a corner fairly quickly.

  1. one wonders about the maximum number of VMDK you should have by the data store.  http://communities.VMware.com/message/944120  Basically the more s VMDK on the SCSI data store more blocking of activity taking place on the disk, causing performance problems.  Each VMware engineer, I've talked about seems to stay around the VMDK 20 a range of data store, but that could change with vSphere.

  2 - How this data store backup and how long does it take?  What happens during a restore scenario?  10 TB is plenty of space and could take some time for the backup.  If you push it on tape and you must always restore the together 10 to it could take weeks or months.  This space by breaking into warehouses of smaller data gives you smaller segments of data that you can restore in case of disaster.

  3 - the number of data warehouses you have is very important if you are always looking to implement the Site Recovery Manager.  SRM relies on your storage device to replicate data between the sites.  There could be serious consequences on the rate of change of the data for a single LUN 10TB.  If you are moving in several data stores that it will make it easier to handle your recovery plan.

  Apart from the considerations above of VMware. I guess 7 performance LUNS in RAID-6 is not so great.  You have a lot of protection, but you pay for it with capacity and performance.  If you went to 10 stores of data and the LUN 10 you can change RAID settings at each data store to optimize performance, protection, and capacity.  For example 4 LUN RAID-10 high performance DB apps and 6 LUNS to RAID-5 for the ability.  With smaller LUN and data warehouses a disk or LUN failure will affect only a smaller set of services rather than your entire data center.

  In short, unless there is a really compelling reason to go with a single store of 10 TB database, I recommend you to change your architecture.

• Removal of all media in cd players that target a data store

  I'm trying to write a script where I pick up all the virtual machines that have an image in the cd player, the points in a given data store to and then removes the media.

  That's what I came with, and I think it will work.

  $datastore = "iso" # Datastore that will be removed
  Get-VM | where{$_ | Get-CDDrive | where{$_.IsoPath -match $datastore }} | Export-Csv drive.csv #Gets a list of all VMs with CDs attached to that datastore
  $egress = Import-Csv ".\drive.csv"
  foreach ($_.Name in $egress) {
  Get-VM -Name $_.Name | Get-CDDrive | Set-Cddrive -NoMedia} #Removes all media in cd-drives 

  I feel like I cheated by exporting to a csv file, but when I tried to do a ' | '. "Select the name of ' the value I got was something like ' @{Name = XYZ}".

  Any advice on how I could clean it or make it more effective?

  Hello

  Welcome to the VMware communities.

  The following script is a purified your script version:

  $datastore = "iso" # Datastore that will be removed
  Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | where {$_.IsoPath -match $datastore } | Set-Cddrive -NoMedia
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Help with script from beginner to the data store and hard drives

  Hello

  I am quite new to scripting, and recently, I created a monstrosity below.

  The problem is with the results. I have no idea why in the results I get the name of the virtual machine and its data store over and over again until all disks are highlighted.

  Any help will be very very much appreciated.

  The script:

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $dysk1 = $vm | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Disk 1'}

  $datastore1 = $dysk1.filename.split("]") [0].split("[") [1]

  $disks = $vm | Get-hard drive

  {foreach ($disk in $disks)

  $hd = «»

  $disksize = ($disk. CapacityGB)

  $hd += $disksize

  {$rekord += $vm.name + ";" + $datastore1 + ";" + $hd}

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

  The results in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; VM1Name:datastoreName; 50; VM1Name; datastoreName; 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45; VM2Name; datastoreName; 40

  The results of dream in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; 50 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45 40

  etc.

  Try like this

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $disk = $vm | Get-hard drive

  $datastore = ($disk | where {$_.}) Name - eq "disk 1" hard}).filename.split ("]") [0].split("[") [1].

  $rekord = "$($vm.)". The name); $($datastore); $(($disk | sélectionnez-ExpandProperty CapacityGB)-join ' |') »

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.