ESXi data store on virtual drive

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• ESXi data store set to a maximum of 35 GB?

  Hello, I have ESXi installed as a virtual VM Workstation 9 machine and connected with vSphere.  If my laptop has 196 GB of free space, why my ESXi data store is set to a maximum of 35 GB?  I can increase 100 GB?

  How much space is allocated in vmware workstation to esxi virtual machine?

  probably of 35 GB

• trying to create an ESXi data store on the local drive.  Configuring the host error: unable to update the disk partition information

  I'm a newbie on ESXi and don't know what it takes to get ESXi correctly partition my drive SATA 500 correctly.

  I will implement a laboratory unit to carry out tests for ESXi and ESXi is not quite correctly the disk partitioning or do not see a good partition in order to create a data store.

  This system was able to correctly identify and configure a data store on a small 80 GB seagate SATA disk, however, this isn't quite enough storage so I swapped the hard drive and tried to re - install ESXi on the new hd.

  I use a USB boot ESXi since and it is launched and configures the card intel pro1000 pci ethernet correctly.  also correctly the id of the cpu and memory.  everything seems fine and he is even able to see the hard drive.

  Here are some screenshots of the process that I go through to make my data store...

  on this photo-sous the column titled 'available' is 'none', also said, under the title 'san identifier' he said 'not applicable' - I guess that's not quite right?

  

  

  

  

  and disappointment - failure?

  

  I tried to go into the bios if there are some settings I need to do to get this hard drive set up... I don't understand enough about ESXi to find out why the drive is not found and configured correctly.  is this a bios problem w / my system or a problem of ESXi?

  pls help!

  You have generally not, but it might be interesting to start with something like a Linux live CD and then using gparted or other to wipe all the top partition information.

• After re-installing ESXi data store

  Dear all,

  We were using VMWare ESX 3.5 on an experimental basis.

  There are 6 hard drives connected to the controller RAID servers. We have created 2 logical drives: 2 drives in RAID 1 and 3 disks + 1 as a spare online in RAID 5. We installed VMware ESX 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1) and after installation added second disc (RAID 5) using the function 'add the data store' in the VMware VI Client as a second data store.

  That the trial period is over, we want to remove VMware ESX 3.5 and replace it with VMware ESXi 3.5. We copied all files with files from virtual computer on the second data store.

  My question is this:

  What will happen with the second data store when installing ESXi 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1)?

  If nothing will happen to the second store of data (RAID 5) during installation, the function 'Add the data store' of the VI Client will allow us to add this data without fomratting store it?

  Thanks in advance,

  Orhan

  There is an option in the installation allowing you not to crush the warehouses of VMFS data - so when you start your new server it should already see the existing data store and you should be able to go through it and see the existing data

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• Update 4 (153875) broke my ESXi data store

  I have ESXi 3.5.0 (not sure of construction, probably update 2, but I cannot confirm) works well in a development box, a tower Dell Vostro 220, 250GB drive, the module intel pro 100 card, 4 GB of ram, and had a top VM

  Today, I used vmware converter to bring on a physical windows 2003 - & gt; virtual host, he's fine and worked well.  Install vmware tools on the client.  System has the long zoom.

  Then I ran the updater of vmware tool to bring the ESXi host to build 153875, the complete firmware, I stop the client VM, s and restarted ESXi and when she came back to the top, I get the

  VMWare ESX Server has no persistent storage

  and he wants me to create a data store.  Regions the ESXi booted up on this drive only, so the driver for the SATA controller still works, he sees the path (vmhba0:0:0) very well with the 250 GB drive, but he sees no warehouses of data under 'storage '.

  My questions in order of importance are

  1. Can I go back to older firmware and get this back online ASAP?

  2. If I can't go back to the older firmware, is it possible to mount the existing data store, so I can get my VM

  You can also take a look here - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1213914#1213914.

• Help with script from beginner to the data store and hard drives

  Hello

  I am quite new to scripting, and recently, I created a monstrosity below.

  The problem is with the results. I have no idea why in the results I get the name of the virtual machine and its data store over and over again until all disks are highlighted.

  Any help will be very very much appreciated.

  The script:

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $dysk1 = $vm | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Disk 1'}

  $datastore1 = $dysk1.filename.split("]") [0].split("[") [1]

  $disks = $vm | Get-hard drive

  {foreach ($disk in $disks)

  $hd = «»

  $disksize = ($disk. CapacityGB)

  $hd += $disksize

  {$rekord += $vm.name + ";" + $datastore1 + ";" + $hd}

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

  The results in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; VM1Name:datastoreName; 50; VM1Name; datastoreName; 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45; VM2Name; datastoreName; 40

  The results of dream in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; 50 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45 40

  etc.

  Try like this

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $disk = $vm | Get-hard drive

  $datastore = ($disk | where {$_.}) Name - eq "disk 1" hard}).filename.split ("]") [0].split("[") [1].

  $rekord = "$($vm.)". The name); $($datastore); $(($disk | sélectionnez-ExpandProperty CapacityGB)-join ' |') »

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

• Script in time of latency list vm e/s and the data store the virtual machine is on

  Hello.  We have a vsphere 5.0 environment and we live a latency of IO heavy.  I'm looking for powercli script will get the latency of i/o for each virtual machine and get the data store name, to what it is now.  We will access our storage on optical fiber.  I'm trying to get a good overview of the latency of IO in a nice view in a csv file.  I found what could be a good basis to https://communities.vmware.com/thread/304827?start=0 & tstart = 0 , but I'm not sure how to get the name of the data store in the table and I think that it is written to the nfs in any case storage.  Thanks in advance for any info\advice!

  Try the next version, it includes the average latency time read/write for the virtual machine and PAHO are / s average for the virtual machine.

  Since the CSV has a row for each data store, the values for the virtual machine are repeated.

  I also added the host name

  $vmName = "VM*"
  
  $stat = "datastore.totalReadLatency.average","datastore.totalWriteLatency.average",  "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average","datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"$entity = Get-VM -Name $vmName$start = (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)
  
  $dsTab = @{}Get-Datastore | Where {$_.Type -eq "VMFS"} | %{  $key = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Uuid  if(!$dsTab.ContainsKey($key)){    $dsTab.Add($key,$_.Name)  }  else{    "Datastore $($_.Name) with UUID $key already in hash table"  }}
  
  Get-Stat -Entity $entity -Stat $stat -Start $start |Group-Object -Property {$_.Entity.Name} | %{  $vmName = $_.Values[0]  $VMReadLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteLatency = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMReadIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberReadAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $VMWriteIOPSAverage = $_.Group |    where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average"} |    Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |    Select -ExpandProperty Average  $_.Group | Group-Object -Property Instance | %{    New-Object PSObject -Property @{      VM = $vmName      Host = $_.Group[0].Entity.Host.Name      Datastore = $dsTab[$($_.Values[0])]      Start = $start      DSReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalReadLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      DSWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round(($_.Group |           where {$_.MetricId -eq "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"} |          Measure-Object -Property Value -Average |          Select -ExpandProperty Average),2)      VMReadLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadLatency,2)      VMWriteLatencyAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteLatency,2)      VMReadIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMReadIOPSAverage,2)      VMWriteIOPSAvg = [math]::Round($VMWriteIOPSAverage,2)    }  }} | Export-Csv c:\report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• VMWare Fusion Pro can see the ESXi data store but not VM on it.

  Hi all

  I have a MacPro 5.1 I am under ESXi on via a USB key. The MacPro has 4 SATA drives configured as stores of data with VM on some of them.

  When connecting to the ESX host through the 'connect to server' Fusion Pro I can see data banks but not the virtual machine.

  The virtual machine can be seen on the ESX host, when connecting via SFTP.

  Any ideas?

  & I thought about it... I need to register for the virtual machine

  as in: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006160

• How to get my OS images (iso) on my ESXi data store

  Hello

  Since we are unable to connect by shell on a server ESXi, I would like to know if there is a way to copy all my iso OS locally on my new ESXi server.

  Is it possible to do?

  Johnny

  If the purpouse is to install the operating system you can set it up the computer virtual CD/DVD rom to be client and map the ISO of your client, then install the operating system.

  This isn't what you're looking for you can enable ssh for root by using the following URL and use winSCP to copy the ISO to any store data presented to the ESXi server.

  http://www.VM-help.com/ESX/esx3i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php

  I hope this helps.

  -Surya

• List of virtual machines residing on the data store, ESXi and Cluster

  Hello

  I have the server list in csv as VM1, VM2 40... VM40. Need to findout that those VMS resides on the host to which ESXi, data store and Cluster name using the import function. Any help on this truly appreciated.

  Thank you

  VMK

  If you change the last line of the script in:

  } | Export-CSV-path VMsReport.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  then, you save the output in a .csv file called VMsReport.csv.

• 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

• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André

• Move a virtual machine in another data store

  Hello

  On our ESX 4, we have created pools of resources and multiple data on SAN warehouses.

  To move that a VM resource with Betclic is very easy, but howto move a virtual machine from a to another data store?

  If I understand your question you should migrate your VM to the different data store.

  Right-click on a virtual machine, select migrate..., select Change location of data, select the desired data store, select virtual disk format (end/thick)...

  VCP4 | MCITP | Master ASE | CCNA

• Best practices for the configuration of virtual drive on NGC

  Hello

  I have two C210 M2 Server with 6G of LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i card with 10 each 135 GB HDDs. When I tried the automatic selection of the RAID configuration, the system has created a virtual disk with RAID 6. My concern is that the best practice is to configure the virtual drive? Is - RAID 1 and RAID5 or all in a single drive with RAID6? Any help will be appreciated.

  Thank you.

  Since you've decided to have the CPU on the server apps, voice applications have specified their recommendations here.

  http://docwiki.Cisco.com/wiki/Tested_Reference_Configurations_%28TRC%29

  I think that your server C210 specifications might be corresponding TRC #1, where you need to have

  RAID 1 - first two drives for VMware

  RAID 5 - 8 hard drives within the data store for virtual machines (CUCM and CUC)

  HTH

  Padma

• Addition of data store errors & disconnects

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1008886 Hello all;

  I'm a newbie to the VM community and have you met my 1st problem with vCenter and vSphere.

  I have a host running ESXI 5.0.0 504890 located in a remote area

  I am trying to add a data store and the following error (both through vSphere and vCenter)

  Call 'HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions' of object 'datastoreSystem-xxxx"on vCenter Server 'VC FQDN' failed

  I did some research and I found different communities showing to do:

  • Troubleshooting VMware KB: A logic unit number that extends in size since the 2 TB / 2047GB limit
  • VMware KB: Troubleshooting in the add storage Wizard error: cannot read this disk partition information
  • VMware KB: When an ESXi host wakes from sleep, the & quot; Connection to host and power state & quot; fires

  My problem is that the SSH is not enabled on the console (which would require the 1 hour drive to the remote location).  Now PowerCLI is also installed but am not knowing enough commands to run the fdisk such as cited in the links above.

  The missing data store are a Raid 1 (which I use for C:\ in my windows guests). Name of the data store is: naa.6d4ae520996553001745a2aa1130d644

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  Thank you very much

  Hello

  You try to add the new host ESXi data store? If so, can you connect to the ESXi host using the password and vSphere client with the account 'root '. Then try to add the data store. If you try to add the existing data store, then it will format if you add using 'Add datastore' Wizard and you will lose data.

  To enable SSH for ESXi 5.0,

  To activate the local or remote TSM from the vSphere Client:

  1. Select the host, and then click the Configuration tab.
  2. Click on the security profile > Properties.

     In ESXi 5.x, select SSH or ESXi Shell , and then click Options.
     In ESXi 4.1, select a Support Local technical or Remote Tech Support (SSH) , click Options.

  3. Select the desired startup strategy and click Start, and then click OK.
  4. Check that the demon selected in step 3 indicates that execution in the Service properties window.

  Concerning

  Mohammed