Detach the corrupt empty VMFS datastore hosts (data store is an iSCSI LUN)

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• Cannot increase the capacity of VMFS 5.54 data store

  Hello
  I added more discs to my series of raid 10 expanded the logical volume,
  size is available and can be seen by esxi, but cannot select the logical unit number to extend the data store.
  See screenshot
  
  The increase in size is not possible
  When the data store is on the same logical drive as the esx system?
  Thanks for your help.

  See you soon

  Freez3

  Increasing the local data store on the installation disc is not possible through the user interface and cannot be supported. At http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-local-datastore-on-an-esxi4/ you can find a walkthrough on how to grow the local data store on ESXi 4.x with ESXi 5.0, you should not use «partedUtil resize...» "instead of fdisk (remove a recreate the partition) to change the size of the score well.

  For information about how to use partedUtil, see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609

  If you are not sure, please after the release of

  partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/"

  André

• Cancellation of the assignment and reassign the data store by using different LUNS that datastore has not appeared.

  Hi all

  I have a data store after vdisk1 I have not assigned the vdisk to data store and reread the esxserver, the data store has disappeared.

  Again, I assigned the vdisk using the same number of logical unit as before and reread the esxserver, datastore appeared again return.

  But if I use a different assignment vdisk lun and on a new analysis of data store does not appear.

  Can someone tell me if the LUN must be even to see the store of data back again.

  If so why. ?

  Is there a vmware documentation to substantiate this claim.

  concerning

  Neela

  What do you mean by vdisk1?  The data store are stored as metadata on the LUN, when is formatted VMFS.  If you remove the LUN the VMFS is sitting on, then Yes, the data store will disappear.  If you only remove the vmdk who lives on this data store, then no, the data store must remain as it is, and you should be able to move the vmdk on the data store as needed.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• ESX 3.5: copy files using the service console from a network share to the esx host data store

  Hello

  I wonder. Is there a command that I can run the service console that would allow me to copy a file from a network share on the data store on the esx host?

  Eric

  If sharing is a Windows, you can also use smbclient within the service console and ride sharing.

  André

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• Import my own device from the host data store

  This is my first post so Hello all who read this.

  I am currently runing ESX 3.5i directly on the hardware of a test done home server (tests, the fonstionality before rolling it into production) here is my problem

  I could create and install an a virtual machine (windows 2K 3 R2 server) and once all the basic configuration were made I exported the virtual machine as a unit. now, the comand export will only export file on the computer of gest. I was able to download the 2 files (hard and .ovf) on the host's data center. Now, I would like to deploy a new instance of the VM on the server. But when I drop & gt; virtual appliance & gt; I have only the option import from the hard drive of gest. I want to do it directly from the data store, so I did not download the file whenever I ride on a new virtual machine.

  Just a note I will administer the trought host VPN exclusively in production so it'll take fo never download the entire server every time.

  I hope that I was clear enough, if not feel free to ask questions.

  Thank you!

  Edit: spelling mistake little

  Hello

  So if I get this right I would create a virtual (windows XP for example) machine i would be VPN on this machine open a remote destop window there and then open the VMware console in this environment and then use it to make my new server deployment. Did I get it all?

  That is right. The reason is mainly the latency. You will not have much and if the VPN interrupts the action you take also WITHOUT giving up and continue until you reconnect.

  Can you tell me if there is a more easier way to do it?

  It's the simplest way.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

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• Error adding of esxi host data store

  

  I am facing a problem while adding the new data store to the host. Here is the error message I get. I tried to re-scan storage adapters, detach and attach with the storage team storage path has also checked and everything looks good at the end of storage. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "datastoreSystem-2015692"on vCenter Server "vcenter server name" does not have anyone encountered similar problem?"

  Thanks for all your contributions! I worked with the storage team to delete and recreate a LUN. And after that, the issue has been resolved. Thank you!

• How to map the name of the hard drive on behalf of data store

  Hello

  I inherited a bunch of ESX host... some with discs

  are shown for the disk monitor S.M.A.R.T. comply.

  Is

  There are best practices (commands) to familiarize

  yourself with a new host you inherited, please share these command

  goodies online here.

  One thing I was not able to determine

  is how to map the drive device names (like the sda, sdb) VMware

  the names of local storage that have been created by the system administrator who

  Configure the host. (referring to the "datastore" names I see in the)

  vSPhere Client GUI.)

  Thanks for the tips!

  AZ

  esxcfg-scsidevs and esxcfg-vmhbadevs and esxcfg-mpath will help to map the device names to the LUNs and data store names.

  vExpert

  VMware communities moderator

  -KjB

• Error when you try to move the cloudvolumes folder in a different data store

  OK, so I'm moving my App volume 2.10 cloudvolumes folder of datastoreA on vcenterA on datastoreB on vcenterB, because we want to separate us from our VDI of our basic infrastructure.

  We are able to access the two vcenters on the web client.

  I tried to just copy the folder datastoreA to datastoreB cloudvolumes and received the following error.

  Copy of the file object has already been deleted or has not been entirely created

  
  

  I've seen this error in Veeam before when moving virtual machines from a data store. The solution is to remove and readd the virtual machine in the inventory.

  
  

  Everyone tried to move the cloudvolumes folder?

  
  

  Any help would be appreciated.

  
  

  Thank you
  

  
  

  
  

  I would never move the folder because there are files that will always be accessible or are not in read/write mode.

  I suggest you copy the files from the 1 folder to another, or maybe add an additional data store to the manager Appvolumes and let the files (appstacks at least) copy automatically.

• 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.

• Make an accerssible of other ESXi hosts data store

  I have a data store on a 5.1 ESXi host I want to make them accessible via NFS or FTP so that other hosts can see its content, is it possible? What is the best way to do it?

  Morning,

  I managed to get the time to write:

  http://blog.jgriffiths.org/?p=58

  This should show you how to configure NFS and CIFS on centos for ISO stores.

  Thank you

  J

• Strange problem after moving from the virtual computer to a new data store

  I am migrating our VM existing (8 in total) a 'problem' RAID to a new table on a new controller and am having a strange problem. Here are the steps I took (host OS is Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS x 64):

  (1) off the power the virtual computer from the Web interface

  (2) the directories created for each virtual on the new RAID array computer (in this case a RAID 10 array on LSI 9750-8i controller)

  (3) rSync used to copy the data from RAID1 to be RAID2

  4) has created a new data store on the new RAID through the Web Server of VMWare user interface.

  (5) removed VM of the inventory through the Web, their return, added user interface then choose files .vmx on new data store on RAID2

  They have all power save fine... but three of them are not accessible on the network. I can open a console in the Web Server of VMWare user interface and they all run normally... but I can't their ping or access the respective virtual machine Web GUI. It seems quite arbitrary that those who work and those who are not. In this case... the VM that don't work is a license Autodesk, a Squid proxy server and a VM of cactus. All three of these virtual machines are 32-bit Ubuntu Server VM (two 8.0.4 and a 10.0.4)... and are the only Ubuntu VM on this host. It must be signifigant but I'm not see how.

  If I delete these three virtual machines of the inventory again and add to their original location (on the RAID1) they light up AND work normally. A consultant that we were working seemed surprised, as he had also done this experiment with some of the older VMWare products. I don't see how it would be the physical location of the files of the virtual machine. Any ideas?

  We rely on the migration to ESXi soon but in the meantime, we get these a few VM out of this RAID array problem. I'm stuck.

  Depending on the application, it may be enough to reconfigure the IP parameters (they are very probably on DHCP now) for the newly detected virtual NIC.

  André

• Migration of all the catalog items to a different data store in the same storage profiles

  Hello

  is any possibility to migrate everything in the catalog (time and iso files) to a different data store that has the same profile (Silver) storage group?  Because I have 2 groups of data store with the same profile of storage (Silver) and I want to delete one of this cluster.

  I found this kb: http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2058094 but it speaks solely of media files of migration between different storage profiles.

  Have vCD 5.6.4

  You happen to use rapid Provisioning?  This is probably the only problem I can think of.

  Environments that have no linked Clones or shadows created from them, you can just Storage vMotion them between the same storage policy data warehouses.  Just make sure that the data store or a store of data clusters are visible in vCloud Director first of all in the framework of this storage policy.

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• Find Select or search the allocated space of vCAC Database data store

  Hello

  I need to declare the data store space allocated by the store of data and market.

  In the attachment is the vCAC display where values are visible.

  Homepage > Infrastructure > reservations > Reservations

  Does anyone know where to find in the database?

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• List not updated virtual machines after the migration of the virtual machine to a different data store

  My vSphere infrastructure 5 uses several data stores.

  Two data warehouses are associated with NFS on different NAS shares.

  I migrate VM to a data to another store.

  The navigation data store, I see that the files are moved from the old data store to the new and that no file belonging to the migrated VM still does exist on the old data store.

  If I look at the list of VMs on the old data store, I still see the old VM.

  I see it in the list of the virtual machine on the new data store as well.

  I checked that no .iso no pagefile is in the old data store.

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  Above all, how can I safely delete the old data store by ensuring that the virtual machine works very well on the new data store and I don't lose anything?

  Concerning

  Marius

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  André

• Submit any comments ESXi host data store

  Hi all

  I installed ESXi on HP DL 380 G6 with HDD 6 total. I created the first 2HDD using Raid1 (138 GB total) and the rest 4HDD use Raid5 (total 800 GB size). When you have finished install ESXi, I can see the two storage under the ESXi data store. My question is how can I present the entire 800 GB disk for computer to newly created guest (Win2K8 R2)? When I add as the new drive of the guest computer, it only allowed me to create 200 + GB virtual disk of size only.

  That will be great if anyone can suggest me and guide me.

  THX & Rgds,

  CoCo

  Welcome to the community,

  When you create a data store, you can choose the size of block for her. The maximum size of the files to a virtual drive depends on the size of this block. For the limits of the size of the different blocks, see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384. In your case, to create a ramdisk of 800 GB you must select a block size of at least 4 MB. The block size cannot be changed, so that you must delete and re-create the data store. ATTENTION: This will destroy all data on this data store!

  André