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• "move a file of this data store...". »

  I see a white icon in the properties of the vCenter data and store when I go over it, it reads "move a file of this data store to another location accessible to vCenter.    I wonder if I could use this icon to move a VMDK to a VM in DataStore1 file to another virtual machine to the same data store (IE DataStore1) so that the VMDK is now up to the second VM.  I think about it because I need to migrate a virtual 2003 Windows computer to a Windows 2008 VM and the second vDisk in the Windows 2003 VM is strictly a big data VMDK (about 650 GB) drive.  The data store has a capacity of 1 TB with about 250 remaining GB... so I can not copy the file, BUT if I MOVE it so would not create a vmdk duplicate file and I would not approve the data store.   Anyone know?

  There are two files associated with each virtual disk. The disk.vmdk and the disc - flat hard the disk.vmdk is just a descriptor text for the virtual disk. You can read the disk.vmdk with vi or simply use

  cat disk.vmdk
  

  It will point to the disc - flat hard. The EI vmksftools will rename two files vmdk and change the pointer in the disk.vmdk file.

  MV does not change the pointer inside the disk.vmdk

• Can photos be deleted from the data store directly?

  Hello

  I just doubt. Can shapshots be deleted directly from the data store.

  I checked the Snapshot Manager, but was not able to locate snapshots in it, but at the same time there were three snapshots in particular virtual machine data store. What it means?

  And what is my isNativeSnapshot = 'no'?

  I just doubt. Can shapshots be deleted directly from the data store.

  No, snapshots work as a string. Deletion of one of the links in the chain breaks the chain. Please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 to see how snapshots work.

  I checked the Snapshot Manager, but was not able to locate snapshots in it, but at the same time there were three snapshots in particular virtual machine data store. What it means?

  Information about snapshots are kept in .vmsd the virtual machine folder. If this file is corrupt - for some reason-you won't see the correct string snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

  Please create a list of all files in the folder of the virtual machine (dir *. * /oen > filelist.txt (for Windows) or ls-lisa > filelist.txt (for Linux)) and after (tie) the filelist.txt, file .vmx VM as well as the file .vmsd for your next post.

  André

• Deletion of the data store

  Hello

  I deleted a data on a cluster through a host store. The data store is not longer available on all hosts, but it still appears on home / inventory / data warehouses.

  The hosts are in 4.1.0 (build 260 247), the vCenter is 4.1.0 Build 258 902.

  The data store has been 200 GB and used on 10 hosts, all with the same version.

  The "Delete" option is not available on the data (by clicking right on) store, the data store is no longer visible on the hosts.

  How can I clean the records of data store on the inventory of the data store?

  Thank you very much in advance for your answers.

  KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026661 explains the process of how to remove the vCenter Server DB data store in a case like this.

  André

• Copy of the file of the virtual machine to the data store

  Hello

  I downloaded 10 GB of ISO my VM 2003 SRV. Now I want to move these files to my data store, so I can mount them when necessary. So far, the only way I see is to move the files to my XP pre-installed and choose Download via the browser of data store. I use ESXI and manage via Vcenter. I have the essentials package.

  I don't know that there is a smarter way?

  TIA

  If you need copy (ISO, vmdk) files in your data warehouse, using the client data via vSphere store browser works. You could also SCP your connection to your ESXi Server files and selecting data warehouses with software like FastSCP or WinSCP.

  If this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• Not enough space on the data store. Could not power on VM:No space available on the device

  Hello

  Here's my problem. I have several virtual machines. But one of them can be powered on because of the problem of space. I can not add spaces because there is nothing to add. The data store is only 760 MB left. There is summary information about the virtual machine below. I need power somehow on this machine, but how can I do. can I add another data store space. Y at - it files I can delete from the data store. Snapshot file is considerably large, I can reduce its size without changing anything.

  Thank you.

  

  There are several ways to approach this problem

  1. you can storage vmotion, some VMs who are currently used and this will free space.

  2. check the clichés that you don't use, and delete those.

  3. reduce the memory of some other virtual machines which are turned on so that the swap space can be saved.

• Find files on the data store that have been removed from inventory, but not deleted from the disk

  I have ESXi 4.1 and with vSphere Client to manage virtual machines.

  Some of my users continue to use the 'remove from inventory"rather than the option" remove disc "in vSphere when they want to delete the virtual machine.

  This leaves the computer virtual on the data store but not used. I have since removed this privilege among the offending users but I need to do a bit of cleaning.

  I have a lot of files on the data store where users have done this in recent years. Probably about 150 records but only 80 VM listed in the inventory.

  Is there a way I can output, a report showing the data of each machine store directory in inventory so that I can remove anything not on this list? ID rather not to manually check the parameters of all 80 VM in the inventory.

  Out ideal would be something like:

  MyVmNameHere 1, \MyVmDirectoryHere1\ [DataStore1]

  MyVmNameHere2, \MyVmDirectoryHere2\ [DataStore1]

  A great tool to discover all this and much more is RVTools

  André

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Moving the data store files

  Hello
  
  It's on 11.2.2.4.1
  
  If I move my data store files (ds0, ds1, etc.) to a new location, is there a way to get TimesTen use from the new location?
  
  I tried moving them and update the sys.odbc.ini but get * 10003: unexpected database file exist for new data store * which I suppose is because the TT daemon keeps a record of location of data of the DSN file, as seen in ttStatus.
  
  I have to go through a route of backup/restore (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18283_01/timesten.112/e13063/upgrade.htm) to move data files a data store?
  
  Thank you.

  Yes, if you want to re - locate the control point files or transaction logs you must proceed as follows:

  1 stop all activities demand etc. on the data store.

  2. make a full backup using ttBackup.

  3. remove the data of the memory store.

  4. destroy the datastore usign ttDestroy.

  5. change the Datastore or LogDir attributes in sys.odbc.ini to point to the new locations.

  6. restore the backup data store using ttRestore

  7. you can now start and use the data store.

  It is the change of safely / supported only the location of the files in the data store.

  Chris

• VStorage different Motion - copy of the file on a data store vmdk

  Hi all

  Hoping that someone will be able to help with a problem I have right now.

  Configuration:

  NetApp SAN - vmfs data warehouses.

  Data for the migration store is synchronous to a recovery site.

  I planned a day to the next task to migrate a VMDK virtual machines to a non synchronous Datastore to synchronous data store.  When I arrived yesterday morning - the virtual machine has been turned on - but I couldn't access the console and migration was still sitting 89% full.

  Checked the Netapp Filer and found the copy of the snapshot is greater than the instant space on the volume.

  SnapMirror suspend and break.  Delete the copy of Netapp snapshot on the volume.  Once I had done this on the Netapp file server - virtual machine has begun to respond to ping and I was able to access the console.

  I restarted the VM Windows - to make sure everything was fine - as the date / time on the server was out of sync with the date and time - so again, I am happy that my virtual machine is now in place and running.

  Problem. : I migrated virtual disks - one both of the old data store to the new - no problems - until I'm gone make the last record and felt that there is not enough space on the data store - now it would have taken and further investigation found that the virtual disk I wanted to migrate — was already sitting on the new data store.

  Check the settings on the virtual machine shows that the file in question vmdk is still sitting on the old data store - but - I also have a copy of the vmdk - same size etc. - file sitting on the new data store.

  RVtools displays the disk on the new data as a Zombie VMDK store.

  Question: What vmdk file is the one I need to remove?  I think about the new data store - in addition, shown as a zombie in RVTools vmdk - also, shows only not the settings of the virtual machine.

  All find what vmdk file, the system uses permanently.

  Thank you very much

  Open the .vmx file and check the path to your vmdk here.

  If you can, backupo the VMDK at both ends before going any further.

  as the VC (and I hope that the .vmx), as well as RVtools indicate that the destination is a zombie. . I would lean towards this being the one to delete.

  In theory, if you use the browser to store data to try to remove a new and it's in use, you will get an error message, so if it removes OK, you should be good to continue from where you were before.

  Good luck.

• Error in copy/move in the data store

  When I try to copy/move files from a data store to another store of data in vCenter 4.1, then I get the error message saying "cannot access the file.

  ESXi 4.1

  vCenter 4.1, Windows 2008 R2

  Maybe you should do FastSCP a try? Also, make sure that ISO is not mounted to a guest.

• Block size is too small - reformat the data store or create files VMDk 2?

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and so far I absolutely love everything about her!  Well, I was not too happy when I realized that I can't create more than 256 GB a drive without reformatting the VMFS datastore.   Apparently, I accepted the block size of 1 MB by default during the installation...   I now need to configure a file server with about 500 GB of storage.  The data store with a larger block size (4 MB would be fine for me) reformatting is easy enough?  I am currently working on the first host ESXi 4.1 and will move to set up 2 more hosts in the coming weeks.  I read somewhere on the forum that ESXi 4.0 doesn't let you change the block size by default of 1 MB - is this true or relevant to 4.1?

  Currently, I have only 2 small VMs on that host, and these can be easily saved and put offline for a few hours, if necessary.  When starting the server, I created a single RAID array that holds ESXi and all virtual machines - does that mean that I have to reinstall ESXi in order to increase the size of the block?

  An alternative that I can get to is to simply create 2 255 GB VMDK each and load distribution of storage in the guest operating system (Win 2008).   Performance wise, is a disc more great and better (or worse) than the two smaller disks?

  On a related note, what should I choose for the "Independent" option when you add a new virtual disk?  Default is disabled (not independent).

  Your thoughts, focus and expertise are welcome and will be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks in advance,

  Dothan

  Dothan,

  You should power (after the virtual machine backup) remove the current data store and create a new one with the new block size. I did not have this on ESXi 4.1 again, however, he worked on ESXi 4.0.

  The maximum size of VMDK. If you want ot be able to take pictures, make sure you subtract twice the size of block in GB of the documented maximum size.

  Block size 1 MB--> 254 GB (= 256 GB, 2 GB)

  Block size of 2 MB--> 508 GB (= 512 GB - 4 GB)

  Size of block 4 MB--> GB 1 016 (= 1 024 GB - 8 GB)

  Block size of 8 MB--> GB 2 032 (= 2 048 GB to 16 GB)

  André

  EDIT: Just the KB for the maximum sizes. http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1012384

• Remove-disk hard leaves file hard on the data store

  Hello world!

  I'm writing a powershell script to remove VHDs from a virtual machine.

  I can use Remove - hard drive to detach from the virtual machine, but it seems to leave the VMDK files on the data store.  Is there a way to physically remove the disks too?

  Thank you

  Greg

  Red blood cells removed from the virtual machine, you need to use the browser of data store and delete the file-

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• Rename all the virtual machine files in the data store

  Hello

  We have renamed one of the name of the server of our virtual machine running on esx3.5. In addition, we have renamed this server in VC to reflect the new name of the server. Please tell us how we can rename all files in this virtual machine residing in the data store to reflect the new name of the server.

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Thanks in advance...

  You can use sVMotion and move it to another data store or migrate from cold.  Two tasks will rename the underlying set of files.