ESXI & HP VSA data store size

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• VSA data store to use?

  I finished installing the VSA trial on a 2 host cluster. It works well, but I didn't know that there are 2 different available data warehouses. Does it matter that it used during the passage of my test virtual machines to the ASB? I usually tried keeping the VM with what I suppose is the host local esxi (1 host 2 host uses uses VSADs-1, VSADs-0).

  In addition, these data stores can be filled up completely and still be functional as a HA system?

  Thank you

  Hello

  It does not matter what VSA data store you use to move your virtual machines to the cluster of VSA, and HA should work even when the two VSADs are "almost completely filled" (if there is literally no space left then VMs can not not restart/market, which is true for any data store not only VSA-data warehouses).

• Gets the data store size

  Hello, I do not know if here is righ place to my question if not please tell me where I can post it.

  I am attemping the information on the data store size by CLI with order tracking.

  c:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin > vmkfstools.pl "C:\Prograare\VMware vSphere CLI\Perl\bin\perl.exe" - serve
  queryfs-/ vmfs/volumes/v7ksas17 - vihost jvelnx - vm01.tigre.in

  work of starts but he asks me user and password for the moment that I run.

  I want to move this authentication directly by the CLI only after "ENTER".

  Is it possible? How?

  Thank you

  If you use the vCLI under Windows, you can use the passthroughauth - assuming you connect in Windows system with the same credentials that you would login to your vSphere environment.

  If this isn't the case, you can also specify the user name and password by specifying it only on the same command:

  for example

  vmkfstools.pl - Server [VC] - queryfs/vmfs/volumes/v7ksas17 - vihost jvelnx - vm01.tigre.in - username [USER] - password [COL]

  Also, you can create a session file and then specify that, in this way, you don't need to have your credentials in clear text.

  You can take a look at the additional documentation by auth options here - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.getstart.doc_50%2Fcli_run_remote.5.3.html

• VMware ESXi 5.1.0 VMFS5 maximum data store size

  Hi all

  I read white papers on VMFS and I get conflicting answers on the maximum size of a VMFS5 data store.

  We are using a Dell EqualLogic PS6100 and linking the LUNS via iSCSI for host servers.

  I need to create a data store TB 4 for my file server reside on.

  (A) is it possible?

  (B) are there performance problems with the largest data warehouses such as I want to do.

  Block sizes C) must be modified to mount a data store of this size and how you do it.

  Any idea or article links would be greatly appreciated.

  Keith

  (A) Oui it is possible but you will need to use a RDM - ESXi 5 allows access to 64 TB but the size of the virtual disk is always capped at 2 TB - 512b

  (B) you must not

  (C) with ESXi 5 block size is no longer a variable that you define for a VMFS data store

• The data store size is smaller than the virtual disk

  Just deploy a new installation of ESXI 4.1 rev3 on a new Dell PE R520 server with 4 disks 1 GB configured in a single Bay RAID5.  When I connect with vSphere and go to Configuration > it shows storage data store being just 740 GB.  However when I go to storage adapters and select the vmhba it shows the complete 2.73 CT of the RAID array that I need to use.  Nowhere I chose Go 740 for the size of the data store, so I don't know how it has been brought to this size.  If I try to delete and re-create 740 GB is the maximum I can create.

  What I am doing wrong and how do I create a data store that uses all 2.73 CT?  Screenshots are attached.

  Thanks in advance,

  Ben

  4 ESXi does not support LUNS > 2 TB.  Any increase on a multiple of 2 TB, it's what you'll see (e.g. 2.73 TB - 2 TB =.73 to ~ = 740 GB you see).

  But the real question is why you install version 3 year of the hypervisor?

• Data store sizes do not correspond to the sizes used all the vm

  Hey guys, I'm new in Vmware and I have a background of storage and I wonder if its correct what I see when I compare the total size of all the stores of data vs the 'space used' totals of all VMs running on these data stores.

  I see a total of 139 to on data warehouses with 33 to free space and when I add the vm used all space I have a totall TB 138. It's the size of all data stores!

  This seems not very accurate for me, I expect the total space used much lower. All the vm uses eager reset thick space.

  I hope someone can explain or confirm that they see similar things?

  For used space I exported the list of all the vm XL, cut in two the column space to separate the numbers from the gb / tb, changed all amounts of GB space and have XL add up the sum of all spaces.

  Hey MKguy, it was indeed your option 1, the RDM

  a command simple cli: Get - VM | Get-hard drive - Disktype "RawPhysical", "RawVirtual" | Select name, DiskType, ScsicannonicalName, DeviceName, Parent, CapacityGB

  has given numbers for all of the ROW and that's the difference between data warehouses, I have seen and all the used vm space :-)

  Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

• Graphing calculator virtual machine by the data store size?

  Hello

  I am interested in creating a dashboard to illustrate the growth of space on a data store but by VM as apposed to the entire data store.

  I try to help track down when the space used on a datastore jump illustrating changes in the size of the virtual machine, e.g. VM is responsible.

  Ideally what I was looking for a graph with all the VM from the store of data that are selected, but I went through a variety of different dashboards and nothing seems to provide the data I'm after.

  Is there an easy way to display this type of data?

  Thank you

  Paul

  The example I gave was dynamic. You would be populating the graph of a widget of virtual machines. This widget of VMs would be filled by selecting a data store.

  You would have 2 resource widgets and widget 1 graph. The free provider, data warehouses, will be simple a list of filters RK DSs. The following resource will receive the DS resource widget interaction and display the 'parent' and also filter by VM RK. When you select the virtual machines, select multiple interaction and it will fill on the chart widget. Then just manipulate it from there.

  If you want to get fancy, you don't have to bother with a resource interaction file and throw a metric selector between the VM resource widget and the graphic metric, then you will spend multi select multiple selection interaction and so to the graphic metric... this way you are not stuck to display only a few types of attribute in the GIR.

• Delete a snapshot in ESXi 5 when data store is almost full

  I'm very skiddish on use or deletion of snapshots after a disaster, I had with them last year. So, I thought I would get your recommendation before you continue.

  I have a virtual machine running on the host with about 700 GB of total space on the data store. The virtual machine uses about 500GB and there is only a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine uses a disc thin provisioned. I received a warning that there is insufficient data on the space store and there are only about 120 GB left. Is it safe to remove the snapshot? Should we double the size of the virtual machine to "consolidate? The last time I did it with multiple snapshots and a lot less space, it's disaster.

  Edit: Here's what's on the data store (for this virtual machine). There is an another VM on the same data store which shows it takes 40 GB of space.

  

  Here's what it says on the storage to Apollo (the virtual computer name) under summary in vSphere:

  

  The basic disk can only 'baloon' upward only by the amount of data in the snapshot, which is 214 GB function provided screenshot and to be on the safe side, you have to assume that he will do. If you need to at least 214 (I'd Go 220) free on the data store for a safe removal-snapshot operation.

  Worse: these 214 GBs are given new, added after the creation of the snap. You the kickoff of the removal process. Basic disk to grow per GB 214. Currently, it consumes 355 GB so it will grow up to 569GB. Only one time all the data of the snap is committed to basic disk, the snapshot will be deleted. This is why you need some 220 GB free and available on the data store to start the removal process.

  Instant deletion on an engine out of VM might help a little, but looks like not as much as you want.

  If you shut down the virtual, pagefile will be deleted which will free up to 4 GB.

  Also if you delete a wink on the virtual machine performance, actually another cliché will be created to store the changes that VM is done during the delete operation. According to the rate of change of data within your VM and the time required for the delete operation, it will take little extra space on the data store as well. This need for extra space can be avoided by removing the snap while the VM is turned off.

  However, in your case the virtual computer power on off won't help

  Bottomline - if you can, find a way to get 220 + GB of free space on your data store before you delete the snapshot. Otherwise, the next option is VM migration to a different data store with storage vMotion (without interruption) and deletion of snapshots there (once again, potentially without interruption). A last - cloning in another data store that involves downtime.

  And you cannot clone to USB.

• 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

• ESXi: creation of data store

  has obtained ESXi installed 5.1.

  have a couple of questions regarding the creation of a data store. My VM will reside on a synology 1512 +. the NAS has active windows and NFS file system.

  When I create the data store by using NFS, I just enter the IP address of the NAS and shared folder path (mount point)?

  I need to create a store of data by VM?

  can I import my existing virtual machines after that the data store is created?

  TIA

  No, you can have several VM in a single warehouse NFS. Simply storage vMotion virtual machine on your newly commissioned data store.

• VMDK even alert data store size

  Hello

  I'm setting up a VM SQL in a RAID 10 configuration. So I presented the disks to hosts and created a 1 TB data store (the full disk size)

  When I create the thick VM with the same size of the vCenter database start alerting on the data store space.

  What can I do to stop the alert in the data store, because it will be used only by SQL

  Thank you

  It allows to disable all actions call for this specific data store, so not the time vCenter.

  Make sure that you are in the correct view "Home-> inventory-> data warehouses and the cluster data store.

  If you are in the host and clusters, you can disable alarms on this specifc SQL VM.

• access to an esxi from another data store

  I want to access a data store located inside an esxi 4.1 from another server. Is this possible?

  Unfortunately P2V failed CLI or schedulling

  What of Veeam FastSCP?

  You can use scp with keys and cron service...

  But you can't copy file while the virtual machine is running.

  Seems to want to make a backup of your virtual machine... If Yes, consider a real backup solution:

  Backup solutions for VMware ESXi

  André

• The data store size decreases!

  HII alll,

  I have a virtual machine running windows server 2003, with 135 GB hdd, I noticed in the data of this vm store two files from virtual drive...

  the first vmname.vmdk with size 135 GB and the other is vmname - 00001.vmdk with 15 GB and gettting increase day after day, until it reached today 18 GB

  the free space of data store becomes a decrease coz the vmname - 00001.vmdk file... I don't know what is it? and how can I solve this problem.

  It worsen now coz if there is no space in the data store the virtual machine will be down...

  any idea please?

  It's a snapshot.  Right click on the VM and go in your snapshot Manager you will probably see it there.

• Cannot display tables of performance of ESXi 4.1 data store

  Using Vcenter, I select the tab performance on each host ESXI4.1. I can view a chart for reading of data store and the latency of writing in real time. However, if I select any period other than in real time, the array is empty.

  Others for example CPU performance measures work well in real time and measures 24 hours a day.

  I have to be able to measure the reading of the data and store latency of writing on at least a 24-hour period. Someone had this problem?

  Examples shown in attachemnt.

  Hello

  Try to change the statistical level in 3:

  go to Administration - vCenter Server Settings - statistics and change the statistical level to 3

  wait for a while and check the historical performance, don't forget, change it back when you did with analysis

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• Size of data store

  I have a dell poweredge 2900 with a 12 to raid 5. OK, I installed esxi. However it is to see the CT 12 but when I try to use it it says only 768 AMS are available. I think that the maximum size is 2 TB for esx and esxi. I was hoping to get esxi build a data store on the raid to the limit of 2 TB. Ideally, I wanted more than one partition on the raid 2 TB. is there any hope here. What is my options to use this server. Im a pretty new on this product and would appreciate some guidance on how to run esxi with this 12 to raid array.

  Thank you mark

  Datastore ESX/ESXi VMFS LUNS must not be greater than 2 to 512 b size... You'll want to use the configuration tools RAID (bios level generally) to carve up the storage falls within these parameters.

  VMware VCP4

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