Error in creating data store Local VMFS 2.3 TB RAID - 5

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• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• If I put in place an openfiler VM as a data store iSCSI & vmfs on two ESXi hosts, both ESXi hosts can access two data warehouses?

  If I put in place an openfiler VM as a data store iSCSI & vmfs on two ESXi hosts, both ESXi hosts can access two data warehouses?

  The reason why I ask, is that I have two hosts ESXi ESXi 4 running.  I do my backups with ghettoVCB, which I modified to create thin backups on one of the drives the.  I then wput them to the server, which causes them to become thick.  Directly targets the backup in a vmfs iSCSI on the server in the face shop.  It would save a step and the vmdk backup should remain thin.

  Thank you!

  The short answer is Yes. If you allow the ESX servers to see the LUN. This setting is configured to the Openfiler.

• What is the best way to backup of virtual machines on a standalone ESX with the data store local

  Hello

  I want to save the virtual machines on a host ESX autonomous. and all of these virtual machines is the local data store.  What is the best way to save these virtual machines in this situation?

  And probably we don't provision VTL on the local data center, so it is possible to use VCB to backup? And VCB is a good choice compared to the traditional method that installs the backup client in each virtual machine?   Because I think that in this situation with the data store local, it cannot not reduced the load on ESX hosts and network overhead can be avoided.

  Thank you!

  LAN

  > 1. VCB usable remote tape library? I mean it's not local library and uses the tape library to another network data center.

  VCB is completely unrelated to the tape library, it is a framework, not a backup solution. If your standard backup software can work with the remote tape library you can try it to ungrateful with VCB.

  > 2. what the difference bwteen hot - added NBD and modes if there is that an ESX host with store data local and want to use a virtual machine like VCB proxy? I think that they are the same: the VCB proxy read data through the I/O of the ESX host stack in this situation.

  NBD works on network and the backup traffic goes through the service console connection. Hot add uses special machine for assistance to connect vmdk to and uses of e/s disk stack instead of e/s network.

  > 3. Veeam Backup is free software?

  No, it isn't.

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• 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

  A general error occurred: detected Source this destination could not resume.

  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.

• Failed to create data store on LUN ISCSI

  Get the following error when attempting to create a new data store after a new installation of ESXi 5.5U2.

  Location:

  • UCS B200 servers using the VIC-1280 map and
  • Interfaces ISCSI connected directly from the fabric of interconnection to the NetApp FAS2552 with TwinAx cables
  • MTU is set for extended frames (9000) on the interface of NetApp, vNIC for ISCSI vKernel vSwitch and group interface ports
  • During the initial setup of the vSwitches, I forgot the MTU setting Port and interfaces group wouldn't even ping, so all the MTU setting are good
  • ISCSI connection is green and LUN created and present storage warehouses are considered as available on the ESX Server to create a data store (sizes 1 TB and 2 TB tested times)
  • The NetApp storage have been created as a thin provisioned and thick provisioned - neither works and gets the same error

  

  Any ideas would be very useful. Technical support has not yet responded.

  Thanks in advance.

  DM

  OK, after working with NetApp and VMware on a conference call (after both made each other) bottom line "fix" was to remove the iSCSI port bindings, remove broken paths, remove the vSwitches and rebuild again.

  1. create vKernel vSwitch with appropriate port group

  2. set the MTU to 9000 on the port group and vSwitch

  3. create the bindings for each interface iSCSI Port

  4 re-scan

  5 successfully create the data store

  Oddly enough, I had to repeat this process 3 times for one of the blades, but it worked the first time for 3 other involved blades.

  VMware technical support did provide the following as a look at the LUN of the CLI:

  1. / vmfs/devices/disks cd

  ls-l

  We see and out of all the available discs

  Identify the Lun Naa.xxxxxxxx

  2. run the Naa.xxxxx reported in step 2

  partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx

  If there is a partition, you might see something similar to

  1 63 2249099 131 128 > 1 is the partition number

  or

  You can see and error, if error please contact technical support

  3. If there is partition, you can delete

  partedUtil remove /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx 1

  NOTE: This process did not work, but is still useful nonetheless. It could work if the LUN has been used by another operating system and need cleaning. But my situation was all greenfield.

• Unspecified error on snapshot (data store)

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine, there are two partitions, one is 250 GB and another is 256GB.

  I tried to make the clone but it gives error operation failed too, I tried to take sanpshot then it gives below error.

  "< File_name ed specifi c > file is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store ' < datastore specifi ed >.

  After I tried to reduce the size of the second disc hard 250 GB, but when I went on the virtual machine, it still showing 256Go and unable to take pictures with the same error.

  The second drive is drive D there is nothing but I'm afraid to remove what could be the effect on the operating system or the application since it is Exchange Server.

  Kindly guide me what I have to do so safely.

  NOTE: There is no everything raw disk attached.

  Kind regards

  Badr.

  
  

  Check the block size of your VMFS datastore. A block of 1 MB limit you to 256 GB or smaller files.

  Here are a few KBs for more details.

  Block size of a VMFS data store limitations

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1003565

  Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails with the error: file is larger than the maximum file size supported

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1012384

• ESXI 6.0, problem of data store local ssd

  Hi all,

  I have a desktop pc (HP Elite 8200), i7 cpu, 1 x 250 GB HARD drive, 1 x 240 GB SSD... (240 GB do datastore with name SSD), there, installed free VMware ESXI 6.0 on 250 GB HARD drive.

  Yesterday to buy second SSD 240 GB, I want to increase datastore 'SSD' with the second disc, but the process is hang. No warning, no error... but can extend the data store. Trying to

  create the new datastore with second SSD, but still hang processes. Maybe someone has a similar issue?
  

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• Data store growing VMFS with the running virtual machine

  Hey, gentlemen.

  Have a quick question. We have configured incorrectly datastore VMFS on VM production, basically, is size of the SAN LUNS to 1.99 and virtual disk was created as thin provisioned and 2 TB.

  vSphere shows no free space. I intend to grow data store, we found 100 GB also on SAN and I have an add on vsphere.

  I'm not sure we need to stop the VM to make this change?

  I guess not, because Guest OS should see no change - drive keep 2 TB, changes will happen only at the level of vSphere.

  If I have good documentation of VMware on VMFS, one of the main benefits of VMFS is:

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/VMFS-best-practices-WP.PDF

  Facilitates the dynamic growth

  Through the use of a volume management layer VMFS allows an interface to storage resources so that several

  types of storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE) can be presented as warehouses of data on which virtual machines can

  resident. What allows a dynamic growth of these storages of data through the aggregation of storage resources provides the

  ability to increase a shared without incurring downtime storage resource pool.

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Thank you in advance!

  This means that I didn't stop Guest OS to make such changes?

  Yes, you need not shutodown comments and/or host.

  Just check out this recommendation from VMware:

  Note: If the LUN knows a high i/o rate by cultivating the VMFS, the ESX host isn't able to complete the operation. In this case, repeat the operation after hours and when backup operations are not executed. If the problem persists, turn off some of the virtual machines that reside on the LUN, and then try again.

  Source: VMware KB: growing or expand a VMFS volume or data store

• Can't see the logical volume when creating data store - vSphere 4.1

  Hi guys, got another problem with ESXi 4.1 on a HP Proliant ML350 G6.

  ESXi 4.1 update 1 has been installed successfully on the server on an internal USB. Our next step is to create a store of data through the vSphere client.

  The server has five 500 GB SAS configured in a RAID 5 array drives. The server has a HP Smart Array P410i RAID controller. I see five physical disks and logical volume of about 2.3 TB in RAID Utility. However, when access us the hypervisor via the vSphere client and try to create a data via a storage LUN/local store, the display shows then no logical volumes or the drive bays on which to create a data store.

  We are usnure why this is, as the ESXi 4.1 installation program could see this logical volume when I was installing the hypervisor, but he does not appear in vSphere for use in a data store.

  If anyone can help?

  Thank you very much.

  Each disk must be less than 2 TB - 512b

• Unable to scp - r of the local data store a host to another data store local host

  Using PuTTY to connect to the host server

  Running command to copy VM to a data store to another data store (the two DS hosted locally on 2 different servers)

  Error: are different major versions of Protocol: 2 vs 1

  -J' tried confirmed that the only protocol on two host servers are defined in Protocol No. 1 and as I use Putty I have the Protocol in 1 also, but the same error occurs.

  II

  1 - Check the SSH configuration on both sides and compare... (/ etc/ssh/sshd_config)

  The remote server will only accept v2 connections and you try to do

  a connection v1. So either enable support of the v1 on the remote side. Or use

  keys v2 and id_rsa/id_dsa.

  2. check the versions ESX & patch level you used on both sides (ESX 3 xx build xxx)

  3 - also, you can check ssh version of protocol running rpm - qa | grep openssh.

  Good luck!

  GM

• 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.

• Newly created data store only appear not

  I am building a new LUN NetApp that must be replicated on our site of Dr. I have create volume, LUN and configured the SnapMirror relationship. The SnapMirror runs successfully as expected. When I went to create the Group of Protection of RS, I had no options to select groups of any data store.

  I don't know there is something that I'm on. What should I do to get the data store to show as an option?

  We have a pretty standard setup.

  vSphere/Center 5.5

  5.8 SRM

  NetApp 8.2.3

  After further research, I noticed one of my hosts pointed out my LUN as "snap_xxxxxx" so I started to question the storage configuration. I built a new LUN, install the SnapMirror and SRM was happy.

• Performance data store local vs fiber SAN disk IO

  I'm looking for a table of comparison of performance or other documents that will give me the change in the performance of the disk i/o for virtual machines that are hosted on local data warehouses vs fiber attached LUN.

  Does anyone know where I might be able to find this information?

  (HA, DRS and VMotion are not at stake here).

  Thank you.

  You won't find that.  There is NO way to give a comparison that you are comparing apples and screwdrivers, they are not the same family.

  SAN's storage shared, managed by a central unit full time on a fiber infrastructure.  But it depends on your switches fiber, HBA, your configuration, the disks in the SAN, the manufacturer of SAN, speed of the disks, the number of disks... It goes on and on.

  Each SAN / fiber / Configuration is very different.

  Local storage depends on the RAID configuration, manufacturer, your RAID card, disks... once again more info that can be included.  The line at the bottom is Local disk can be more responsive at times, but since you are limited to the number of disk (6 or 8) are limited to the performance, but the flow is the key.

  You will get a FLOW much more fiber than the local disk.  More load, less stress (since he is not relying on the local system to provide the resources AND the host operating system).

  SAS is better than SATA for the case of all VM on both systems.  so keep that in mind.  It is also very important to comparative analysis.  IOmeter will help you determine what is best for you.

• VM shows this in the NFS data store after passed to the vmfs data store

  Hello

  (1) create a virtual machine using NFS datastore

  (2) had created a few snapshots

  (3) to migrate this virtual machine from the data to the local VMfs store

  (4) all the files are moved to the defined vmfs datastore

  (5) storage > > nfs_datastore > > objects > > VM > > vm is present

  (6) but when did change the setting of this VM, vm is present on the data store local vmfs

  The .vmsn file contains binary data text, so you better not change it manually. The purpose of these files is to be able to return to his instant partner. Depending on the configuration of virtual machines in time you created the snapshot, the virtual machine may require access to the old data store to access the files and folders in there when you return to this snapshot.

  André