Deletion of the data store

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Possible to remove the data store shared without deleting content?

  Is it possible to delete a data store shared a host, without actually deleting content?

  

  If there are several hosts who share a store of data and for some reason any I delete the data of one of them, store connection can I do this without a deletion of all the virtual machines on the data store, as shown in the warning above?

  You can delete single LUN on the side storage (for example by hiding the it).

  Before that... do not forget that without virtual machines are running on it.

  After that... do a rescan storage adapters.

  André

• Try to delete the data store: error DestroyVmfsDatastore

  Hi all

  I am trying to remove a data store (storage is iSCSI). There is no VM on the data store.

  In v2.5, I must click on remove datastore, she thinks for a few minutes and then remove the data of all servers store.

  In version 4.0, I clicked on delete, and it has only removed from a host. Instead of be connected to 8 hosts than before it was presented as connected to 7 guests.  (it should not be connected to all guests!).

  If I try to remove it from another host, I get an error message:

  "Error while configuring the host: DestroyVmfsDatastore: can't delete partition 1 on lun vmhba32:12:0 '.

  I tried this on two stores different data I needed to delete with identical results. Any ideas?

  Instead of be connected to 8 hosts than before it was presented as connected to 7 guests.

  Have you tried to force a rescan storage adapters?

  André

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• I need to delete files from data store. Get the message "could not open because it was in use" How can I work around?

  9 my Windows update does not work. It is said to open "Datastore" and del; files allow you updates. When I try to open the data store in a first time, I wonder what program to use, and then said "can not open because it is used by another program."  This Windows Vista bit. I can't install Explorer 9 until I have a workaround. Help.

  Hello

  What is the exact error code or error message?

  I suggest to reset the Windows update components and then try to check updates, and then install the updates and check if it helps.

  How to reset the Windows Update components?: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058

  Solve problems when you can not install Internet Explorer 9: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2409098

  I hope that helps!

• delete/move the file to the data store

  Hello guys, it is possible to obtain a report of these events by using script?

  Thank you very much.

  Are you by any chance runnign against Virtual Center 2.5 and/or ESX 3.5?

  Events in the data store are introduced with API 4.i which means vCenter 4 and ESX (i) 4.

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• alleged connection to the data store local preventing vmotion

  I have a VM that signals a connection to the local data store on its host, and therefore can't do vMotion elsewhere.  The virtual machine has two virtual drives, which are both on a SAN storage.  The virtual machine has been previously connected to an ISO on the local data store, but it has since been replaced by client device.  He always insists that he's using something on this data store, however.  I've looked through the vmx file and don't see any reference to it.  I also tried to remove the data store, but he claims that the file system is in use.  The hosts have been recently updated to esxi 6.0 U2, and it's the only VM that now seems this behavior.  Any suggestions on what could be the cause?  It is a server important enough in this environment, and be locked into a single host makes me a little anxious.

  Turns out it was because of an old cliché.  If you get an ISO from a data store and take a snapshot, the virtual machine will keep a link to that store of data even after changing the client machine.  As soon as you delete the snapshot, this relationship goes, and access to this database is therefore more a review when searching valid hosts.

• Flat VMDK files after trying to delete files from data store

  I tried to delete a VMDK file in a data store, because I thought that it was not in use, and I need space. I couldn't get the VM you are looking for the name of the VMDK file, so I thought that the VM has disappeared. Turns out that someone had renamed the virtual machine, when it was actually being used, so I could not remove the VMDK file.

  I searched for the files with Powershell in a data store, and that's how I found this mysterious file in the first place.

  After giving me the error that it couldn't be deleted, the file does not appear in the search more and the name of the file has been replaced by *-dish. VMDK, I think, and the column by specifying the Type just said file, instead of virtual disk. In addition, files not included in the research more.

  Today, a day after, everything is back to normal. Everyone knows this behavior before and could tell me what happened?

  Each virtual disk is actually 2 files: VMname.vmdk and VMname - flat hard

  Unfortunately, the data store browser displays only the VMname... VMDK, but it gives the properties of VMname - flat hard. Use PuTTY, connect to the ESXi host via ssh, navigate to the folder of the virtual machine and use: the - lahtr to list the contents of an authoritarian way. You can also run: - ch to check actual use.

• Please help: measure is missing from the data store

  Hello

  I have an a 20 TB drive data store and a magnitude of about 40 TB (local disks, areca raid controller).

  Long story short, I had to delete and re-create the volume 40 to on the RAID controller (without initialization, of course).

  Now all the data is there but eui has changed for the 40 to volume and vmware is unable to mount.

  log/hostd.log:2016-05-10T07:17:16.107Z of information pass [3D380B70] [Originator@6876 sub = Vimsvc.ha - eventmgr] event 118: a connected device eui.001b4d2051676528:1 may be offline. [Backvol1, 55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36] file system now is in a degraded state. While the data store is always available, parts of data residing on the extent which went offline may be inaccessible.

  [root@esxi2:/vmfs/volumes/55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36]

  esxcli instant vmfs storage list

  Volume name:

  VMFS UUID:

  Can mount: false

  UN-mountability reason: a few missing extensions

  Can will: false

  Reason for non-resignaturability: some missing extensions

  County of measure pending: 1

  Can someone help me please?

  Thank you!

  Hello
  You asked for instructions on how to readd a missing measure.
  Basically, it's pretty easy:
  in the VMFS to VMFS-based volume header section, you can assign extends it.
  Lets say that the basic volume is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T3:L0:1
  first of all extend is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T4:L0:1
  second extension is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T5:L0:1
  Then you will see this string in the VMFS header:
  vmhba1:3:0
  and a little later

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T3:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T4:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T5:l0:1
  Just change the list of stretches.
  But: normally you can't change this section at all, and to add to the confusion, these values are stored in RAM is not trivial to change this value correctly.
  I highly recommend that instead of try it yourself and repeat all the mistakes I made while learning it - call me.
  I rather help you personally to give dangerous advice that will probably make things worse.

• ESXi 5.5 only 4 TB usable for the data store

  Hi all

  Although in vSphere Client 5,46 TB of capacity is visible, I can only use 3.64 TB to a data store.

  Configuration:

  -HP Proliant Microserver N40L

  -HP Smart Array P410/512 MB BBWC, FW 3.66 Controller

  -4 x 2 TB as a Raid5

  HP-ESXi - 5.5.0 - iso - 5.72 A

  I read a lot of articles on > limits of 2 TB of older versions of ESXi or controllers, limitation of 4 TB of c# vSphere Client, old firmware and esxi driver problems, etc.

  But I could not understand the problem.

  The P410 controller shows 5.5 TB:

  ~ # esxcli hpssacli cmd - q "controller connector = 1 see the config.

  Smart Array P410 in slot 1 (sn: PACCRID110510NR)

  Array A (SATA, used space: 0 MB)

  logicaldrive 1 (5.5 TB, RAID 5, OK)

  then 2I:0:5 (port 2I:box 0:bay 5, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:6 (port 2I:box 0:bay 6, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:7 (port 2I:box 0:bay 7, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  then 2I:0:8 (port 2I:box 0:bay 8, SATA, 2 TB, OK)

  MS (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, model SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 5001438013D9F37F)

  ESXi obviously knows the same size:

  ~ # Esxcli storage core devices list

  NAA.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e

  Full name: Serial Attached SCSI disk HP (naa.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e)

  Definable display name: true

     Size: 5723091

  Device type: Direct access

  Multichannel plugin: NMP

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001ca5e68adc0bc4bc508d6e

  Vendor: HP

  Model: VOLUME LOGIC

  Review: 3.66

  SCSI level: 5

  (etc.)

  But does that 4 TB:

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 T 3.6 2.1 T 1. 5 t 58% / vmfs/volumes/mainstorage

  vfat 249.7 M 177.2 M 72.6 M 71% / vmfs/volumes/aeda2aeb-c934ad60-46ce-cb77abdfabaa

  vfat 249.7 M 175.9 M 73.9 M 70% / vmfs/volumes/c8ace7e9-a96a5914-16 d 4-a697ad4634d9

  vfat 285.8 M 191.4 M 94.4 M 67% / vmfs/volumes/55d7af6e-a25f7c97-c3ec-6805ca0de93c

  I tried to increase the size of the data store, last used area was 11720890367 and last sector was 11720890510 which doesn't really seem to translate into an increase of 1.8 to.

  Thanks for your help.

  DC

  Your output, it shows that there are two partitions vmfs

  3 10229760 3907029134 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

  4 3907031040 11720890367 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

  A partition with 1.8 to and another with 3.8 to.   That's the reason why you see only 3.8 to

  I don't know why the 1.8 to vmfs volume is not list anywhere (which does not appear in the list of file system of storage of esxcli also). Do you have any before partition created manually. If you think that if there is no data in this 1.8 to vmfs partition you can remove it by using the partedutil command and then use this free space to extend the existing 3.8 to. But do not forget before you delete the partitiaon

• Local data store has disappeared from the data store window (necessary emergency aid)

  Dear team,

  I m facing a very strange problem, all of a sudden one of the local ESX datastore disappeared thereafter are full details we have encountered/noticed.

  A local data store disappeared from the data store window.able to see this data store to add storage Wizard, which allows us to format the same.

  * If we take a session putty from here we can see and browse this store of data without problem.

  * Virtual computers that are running on this data store work as well (all files are accessible / VM is accessible on the network)

  * Unable to take backup image do error "the object has already been deleted or was not completely created.

  * Not able to take a «cannot complete the copy file... network» clone »

  Getting from newspapers in vmkernel:

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed, the data of sense H:0 x D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 0 valid: 0 x 4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceToken: 293: Sync IO 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed: error/o H:0 x D:0 x P:0 x 0 2 0 valid sense data: 0x4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu6:4110) capability3: 5354: Sync READ error ('. fbb.sf') (ioFlags: 8): i/o error

  Need your help urgently to solve the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  

  Dear all,

  We have enclosed a case at VMware, please find their findings on the same.

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  After the webex session, we just had, I discovered the root cause of the problem reported to an underlying problem on the block device (the logical drive, or a problem on the Board) presented to accommodate the data in question store successfully.

  In short, whenever we try to do raw reading from the disk (from sector 0), the same always fail when we reach the 30932992 bytes (31 MB) brand with an IO error (which is consistent, he is always on this region of the disc that read operations fail, no more, no less). This result can be seen, even if no partition is in the disk (using if = / dev/sdb instead of/dev/sdb1 with dd) and even after zeroing on all sectors (if dd \u003d/dev/zero of = / dev/sdb). Strangely, read operations work fine (as he writes zeros of random data) throughout the entire disk. Keep in mind that the tests I did with no VMware tools (I used almost only dd for these operations), which prohibits certainly a VMware problem (in fact, if you were to try to start the server with a Linux live CD and run the same tests that I did, you would see the same behavior).

  I know that there is no report of material of any bad behavior on the table, but data collected with our tests today completely invalid who. The next step is for you to take this to the server provider to check for problems on the table or discs, because they are there and they are the reason for the problem you reported initially.

  Please let me know if you have other questions about it.

  Thank you

  -

  David Meireles

  Technical Support Engineer

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Now we have blocked a case from the hardware vendor, to see what the next move will be.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

• Impossible to disassemble the data store

  Hello

  I am getting below error when I was trying to United Nations set up the data store.

  Call "HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore" of object "datastoreSystem-15" on VCenter Server failed. ' "

  It seems there are two file inside the data store and I was not able to delete it also. This swap for old file
  models which does not exist now.

  Please let me know how I can remove this file from the shell of ESXi forcefully command so that I could not get the data store.

  Kind regards

  Hakim. B

  Check if it has deployed VM from this template and set the swapfile strategy to stay with the Virtual Machine. See also, if you are able to delete other files vswp with this command:

  
  rm - rf new model - 8d25d1fe.vswp