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• Install esxi lost, need to import local storage

  Hello, the RAID 1 call I had my esxi storage on crashed and I basically have to rebuild.  All my current vm have been stored on another VD but attached locally.  Is there a way to import the backs of these virtual machines.  If I remember correctly when I join vmware local storage erases the disk and formats is, since this VD is already formatted via vmfs I am hoping to bring back all my virtual machines.  Any helop is appreciated.  I've been googling and everything I find is stuff for san storage.

  ESXi will not be automatically shaped your storage space, except maybe to install.  If you can take the volume offline installation or remove it completely during installation, then you should be safe.  Just re - attach after installing and starting up the host.  He must find the storage during the analysis of startup and add it to your data warehouses.  If its not there then could be considered a snapshot lun, you know that when you start the wizard of data store.  Don't complete the wizard, if she doesn't already you can reformat your data store.

• ESXi 4.1.0 and local storage

  I have a new installation of ESXi on a new dell Server 4.1.0.  The server is a 4 TB RAID controller.

  Two related questions:

  1. once I have create my first data store (say 100 GB) on this controller and try to create a 2nd... the controller is no longer visible in the addition of storage & gt; disk/lun & gt; Select the disk/lun dialog.  ESX is limited to a data store local by controller or by physical volume or something like that?  (when I delete the first store of data, the controller is displayed again once again.)

  2. I am familiar with the "block size limit problem file size" during the creation of data warehouses.  My goal is to put a virtual record of 3.5 to on a local data store.  The largest block size available is 8 MB that will allow me to make a 2 TB vmdk.  The best way to achieve this just do two vmdk and they extend inside the guest virtual computer (Server 2 K 8 R2), or is there a more elegant way to do at ESX level and provide the guest with a full volume?

  I have a new installation of ESXi on a new dell Server 4.1.0.  The server is a 4 TB RAID controller.

  ESX supports the LUN/Volume sizes up to 2 TB - 512 bytes. You must divide the RAID.

  1. once I have create my first data store (say 100 GB) on this controller and try to create a 2nd... the controller is no longer visible in the addition of storage > disk/lun > select disk/lun dialog.  ESX is limited to a data store local by controller or by physical volume or something like that?  (when I delete the first store of data, the controller is displayed again once again.)

  Due to the partition of the ESXi installation partition, you can create 1 VMFS partition/data store. Furthermore, VMware does support only 1 VMFS datastore by volume.

  2. I am familiar with the "block size limit problem file size" during the creation of data warehouses.  My goal is to put a virtual record of 3.5 to on a local data store.  The largest block size available is 8 MB that will allow me to make a 2 TB vmdk.  The best way to achieve this just do two vmdk and they extend inside the guest virtual computer (Server 2 K 8 R2), or is there a more elegant way to do at ESX level and provide the guest with a full volume?

  I guess ranging in Windows is your only option.

  and then, when I create a data store with a block size of 8MB / 2048... maximum file size it creates the partition as only 558GB even if I chose "maximize capacity" and the volume is empty!

  ESXi only supports 2 TB - 512Bytes by volume. If you have a larger one you won't be able to use the volume size less (to n * 2). For example 4.5 TB - TB 2 * 2 = 0.5 to.

  With a 4 TB RAID, I recommend that divide you the RAID in several logical volumes. I would create a volume to only operating system (ESXi) and a small store of data for example ISO with a volume of 50 GB files. Then create several volumes with max 2 TB - 512 bytes.

  André

• Local storage for ESXi - SD USB or a traditional hard drive

  We will replace our ESX host soon with new hardware and I'm on the fence about the use of a player USB SD 4 GB or traditional hard drives in a RAID. Obviously, the reader SD has its advantages, namely its speed and reliability, but is reliable enough to give up using redundant hard drives?

  As someone mentioned previously, we spend much of our time concerned with our redundant hard disks, expecting to fail. Several times the failure is related to moving parts in the drive also. SD readers have the pleasure of having no moving parts to wear out or fail. But what good are they?

  Sells the dealer that I spoke with them for 3 years and never heard of a failure. His $62 for 4 GB, so it's not a bottom of the line edit. It is designed to be in a HP DL380G7, once again, I doubt that it is a lower end model.

  I'm leaning toward the SD drive rather than traditional drives, but I wanted to get feedback from others who may have used this before configuration. I'm looking for the successes and failures (and the reason for the failure).

  4 GB is enough for installation (ESXi 4.1) and I have not any more local storage as VM is on the shared storage and the assistance as AppSpeed and esXpress VM program I can also install it on the shared storage (where in our current datacenter these are installed on the local storage). Or should I worry about this size with respect to logging or something else?

  Thanks in advance, please discuss.

  Eduard Tieseler

  I had a fight 100 ESX hosts running by USB - only questions I ever had were with the original green USB keys that HP provided in the first days of ESXi on USB.

  I like the approach of USB for several reasons:

  1. no local physical disk required, less moving parts = less material problems

  2. If you have local physical disks, you can use these as the dumping grounds for the ISOs etc.

  3. If rebuilding a server, I can remove the old USB key and press a new - and recover simply by replacing the OLD USB key

  4. I can pre-generate a USB one double key as a method of construction of servers in bulk (not tested on 4.1u1 well)

  5. I've had many many hard drive failures. . USB (except Green HP ones) have never failed on me.

  In addition, your syslog problem isn't treally a 0 - practice problem is to get servers to connect to a centralized in any case syslog box (I would even if I used not USB/SD)

  Good luck - let us know what you decide.

• Local storage and multiple ESXi hosts

  Hi, I was wondering how vWorkspace manages local storage in an environment with a single server Vcenter and two ESXi, with a local data store each.

  If I store a 'master' (I mean the gold statue) vm on the local storage of an ESXi, can replicate vWorkspace this virtual machine to the local storage of the other ESXi as Citrix VIAB?

  If not, how can I use both my ESXi servers with local storage and maybe provide some sort of HA?

  Am I forced to use a storage shared, if I want to be able to deploy clones related both to my ESXI?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Use vSAN, or no matter what virtual SAN Appliance as an iSCSI SAN storage to prosecute two storage facilities... You can replicate between the two servers and same LUNS are used by vWorkspace.

  • StarWind free iSCSI Solution A
  • OpenFiler
  • vSAN
  • Open-e iSCS SAN

  Quick search... www.unixarena.com/.../Top-10-Storage-appliance.html

• ESXi embedded using the merge sees not local storage.

  All the:

  Thanks in advance for the help. I am new to the Fusion software. Yesterday I wanted to try my hat installation nested ESXi and some VM to play with some of the features of vSphere. I installed 6 Fusion on my MacBook Pro and then install ESXi in my instance of Fusion.  Full ESXi installation without any error.  I then connect to the ESXi Server nested through the c# client so that I could then begin the installation of my 'test' in this environment. The first thing I noticed then on the client, it's only storage who sees the nested ESXi is the drive on which it is installed on and none of my other local storage?  I do my best to try to understand what could be the cause?  Is there something that I need to configure again or add?

  Once again, thank you in advance for your help.

  You must add the data store in the GUI, simply choose 'Add the data store' and assistants will show a new.

• Local storage is a viable option with VMware?

  At this point, I have concluded the following: 1) good shared storage is very expensive compared to good local storage. (2) good shared storage is much more subject to complex failures as local storage. Because live storage migration exists, I think I'll empty the shared storage to reduce complexity, increase availability and * performance *.  I've added emphasis to the latter, because my anecdotal experience has not been good to achieve this: my MegaRAID cards that perform very well under linux regularly perform like absolute garbage under ESXi 5.x. Can someone help me out here?  Is there a good RAID card which allow the performance of local data store in ESXi?  LSI cards are cursed?  I have to sacrifice a goat or a kind of singing and dancing for the gods of EMC? Because of the HUGE General fresh price on the shared storage, I intend on executing all SSD (the new Samsung 850 s will be 150TBW, which is great for my purposes) for the local data store. Any guidance would be appreciated.

  For posterity, the solution was to create a San with Windows Server 2012 and export "Storage space" on iSCSI.  It is a very affordable way to serve the high performance shared storage because they make the SSD caching. At this point, we will probably go through Hyper-V, since VMware offers no compelling storage solutions (I understand no - EMC holds a majority - no need to explain).

• HP ProLiant DL160 - cannot create the data with local storage (controller, no RAID) store

  Hi all. I appreciate your time and comments.

  Using VMware ESXi (initially), installation (VMware ESXi 5.5.0, 1331820) will very well (install on USB). Able to enter in the console of the vSphere Client, everything seems normal. Any attempt to use local storage, however, is filled with this error message: http://i.imgur.com/40ySsOS.png

  "It was not correct to specified parameters. Vim.Host.DiskPartitionInfo.spec"-" 'HostStorageSystem.ComputerDiskPartitionInfo' call for object 'storage system' on ESXi "< ip address >" failed. "

  I tried both the base (from VMware) installation disc and the "Custom" (HP) HP installation disk. Both have the same problem: all facilities, but local disks - as seen while - are not able to serve local storage. It worked very well (previous incarnation was as Server 2003 file server, no reported\noticed questions). It's not under warranty, its going to be used as a laboratory server. All this seems to work well.

  Specifics:

  HP DL160 G6

  Storage card: ICH10 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller

  Discs: 3 G MDL 500 GB 7200

  Controller and the disks are perceived by the system: http://i.imgur.com/3PAKQHL.png

  Can someone point me in the right direction on what to go here? Research on the error messages do not lead to a lot of help. I'll get more pending. I would be grateful.

  This could be a problem with the current data on the disk. I suggest clean you the partition info using the DD explained to the KB VMware: Troubleshooting in the add storage Wizard error: cannot read this disk partition information to see if that solves the problem.

  André

• ESXi5.1 and large amount of Local storage

  Hello

  I have an ESXi host 5.1 with a virtual machine, acting as a file server. The host has more than 4 TB of local storage that is not in use. Is it possible to introduce this 4TB as a single volume to the VM file server? I would just like to
  be made available as a drive in Windows.

  I read some solutions autour using RDM or by creating 2 TB VMDK and configuring as interval in Windows training. Are there other options?

  Thank you

  SoC

  If you want to run a configuration support, virtual disks of ~ 2 TB are currently the only way to go, because RDM are supported only with LUNS on the shared storage. Personally, I would not combine the two virtual disks in the guest OS somehow (dynamic disks, RAID0) but consider split user data and is present through different actions or DFS.

  André

• Suggestions of RAID for local storage of ESXi5.

  I'll put up a little POC ESXi 5 Ent environment and you want to use local storage. (5 x 146 GB 15 k disks). I'm not really worried about space, the virtual machine will be small and fair for the POC, but I want to put in place the discs of the best that I can. I read about a large RAID 5 and 1 spare HD, 1 small RAID 1 for ESXi and then RAID 10 for VM.

  What is a good best practice which will INCLUDE a built-in redundancy incase I want to lose a player.

  Thank you!

  Say 5 concerts for esx...

  Make at least 6 GB for the operating system and scratch partition can be configured! Depending on how the controller RAID calculates disk space, 5 GB may be simply too little a few bytes. I usually do 10 GB which allows for a small store of data that I use for ISO images.

  André

• Creation of Raw Device Mapping (RDM) is not supported for local storage (1017530)

  "Often, localstorage devices do not support VPD page 0x83 and can therefore be used for Raw Device Mappings (RDMS)." The content of the page 0x83 is used as a unique identifier for the device. For more information, see creating Raw Device Mapping (RDM) is not supported for local storage (1017530). »

  Does anyone know if this is even the case for modern storage?

  We are a dell shop, wishing to take advantage of the ability to create up to 64 TB RDM.

  However, the storage of the host in question will be local SAS only.

  Prefer not to have to merge muliple 2 TB VMDK into windows to make a record of 4.5 to.

  Then projected on the presentation 1 x 4.5 CT rdm

  If you plan to use a SAS controller, you should be able to do this. Your drive will be identified as a device of the naa, and you will be able to add as an RDM to VM - only with ESXi 5 (which can support more than 2 TB LUN).

• Local storage not detected during installation

  Just got some new guests to, HP DL380 G7s... Using Smart Array P410i controller.

  When I boot on the CD to begin the installation, it is only to see my CF storage, none of my local storage.

  • Physically, there are two 146 GB drives in raid 1 + 0.  Of these 2 physical disks, there is a logical drive in RAID 1 + 0.  After that he did not detect the storage, I deleted the logical drive and recreated, with no change in the result.
    
  • BIOS is configured to use the first SA P410i controller.
    
  • HIS P410i appears in the VMware HCL for each version of 3.5 to 5 U2.
    
  • Am in the process of the firmware released May 5, 2011 download, but these servers came pre-assembled with a burn-in already made, and I guess the firmware is already aware of this latest version - will certainly know when download ends.
    

  I'm obviously doing something ridiculous and stupid, but I don't see what I'm doing wrong.

  It's basically not much you can do wrong and what you write on the configuration of the RAID that everything should be good. Can you confirm that the logical volume is detected by the RAID controller during startup?

  When you install ESXI volume - although local - probably will see the place under the remote storage. You can also confirm that it is not at all clear?

  André

• View Load Balancing Hosts with local storage

  Hello

  After the use of VMWare for server virtualization, it is time to move to the next step.

  We are in the middle of a display driver 5 :-)

  At the moment I have 2 host vmware (esxi 5) with storage connected to a San.

  My "master VM" is in the SAN and connected to two hosts.

  A pool is created and data warehouses them are selected for the pool.

  The replicas are created on two local data stores when I set up the pool.

  At the time, my drivers 10 users working on a related Clone which is located on the local storage.

  The strange thing is that all users are running on a single host.

  East on the host with the most free space.

  When I remove the data store, the virtual machine is created on the other host.

  After adding it, are all the vm on the store with the largest disks again.

  How can I configure display to use the two hosts?

  This is a normal behavior of View Composer to put desktops on the storage the largest space available. You can change this behavior by adjusting storage approval settings. Take a look at this blogpost:

  http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/2011/02/09/VMware-view-4-5-rebalance/

• Options for sharing local storage

  I work with a test environment and familiarize myself with some of the more advanced options of VMWare.

  Currently, in our lab, I have a server that has a ton of direct-attached storage. We have a San were included in the budget by the end of this year, but in the meantime, I would like to use this server as a substitute of SAN.

  I'm looking for the cleaner way to do this under ESXi 5, preferably without spending any extra money. We have licenses for the VSA, but it seems that I can't use VSA without several servers in a cluster - which I did not. Is there a way to take advantage of VSA without creating a cluster VSA?

  Is there a way do this within VMWare infrastructure that does not involve using something like FreeNAS or a similar solution, which will eventually create giant VMDK files that I have to deal with? I mean, I could lift a virtual server with a huge VMDK attached and ask one of the software solutions to give me iSCSI targets, but it seems hardly elegant. I might just install FreeNAS on bare metal server, but then I lose the use of the VMS host server.

  Forgive me if this is basic - I did some research first. I am looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers who lack storage space.

  Edit - not sure I understand the question / Setup... If the server that has a ton of local storage is already running ESXi?

  "I'm looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers that don't have storage space" "

  With the exception of the magic and mirrors behind VSA, ESXi does not have the ability to share a local data store. This data store must live somewhere else and be introduced to several machines in the way of an NFS share, target iSCSI or FC LUNS.

  I was in that same boat a year ago--a company hired me on for a large project of VMware without realizing that the shared storage is the key to an installation of VMware. They ordered servers with cargoes of physical local storage. Oops. Finally convinced a SAN is the only way (this is also before the release of v5, therefore not VSA). We have since removed all disks, and have most of them redeployed elsewhere (a dedup backup on a physical computer).

• It is possible and effective: high availability (failover) on 2 guests with local storage?

  Hello

  I have a discussion on the implementation of ha (failover) with 2 guests with local storage.

  My advice is to go with a shared storage. But there is another view, use the cluster failover MS with local storage service to save on the shared storage hardware.

  2 "mirorred" on each host machines. Is it feasible at all?

  The HughesNet: have 2 virtual machines (SQL server and server applications in a highly available environment). The workload of the machines will be raised to 2 very powerful servers that are supposed to be buying.

  1. Please briefly explain a feature of local storage to provide HA.

  2. I got to cluster in the virtual environment, not so I guess that the shared storage is used only in the virtual environment.

  Thank you.

  Michael.

  There is software that can replicate a running, physical or virtual machine to another accessible location on the network. This could be as simple that between two close hosted ESXi of VMS or high-speed WAN. Take a look at things like neverfail, doubletake others.  The costs would probably be a bit prohibitive in a smaller environment. It might be possible and maybe even practice to use a virtual storage device having a failover replication. Use of storage on each host and allows to provide the data store. Open-e

  The Microsoft Clustering solution needs a shared storage.