ESXi on flash, persistent scratch location?

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• Flash Builder cannot locate the required Adobe Flash player debug version

  Hello

  The problem seems to be well known for the last few years and older versions of Flash builder, but I feel that it is still not resolved for Win 7 64 bit, Flash Builder 4.5.

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  -Flash Builder 4.5

  -windows 7, 64 bit

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  SebaR

  This is a known bug in Flash Builder 4.5 and 4.6.

  It will be fixed in the next version of Flash Builder.

  The workaround for Flash Builder 4.5 and 4.6 is to download the two 32-bit & 64-bit debug player.

• How to set up a scratch location persistent using PowerCLI 5.1

  Please help in this

  Please make sure that there are some scratches/tmp /.

  Open a command prompt where the PowerCLI is installed and connect to the ESXi host

  to connect-viserver esx_hostname_or_IP

  1 a list of the data stores accessible to the ESXi host using the command:

  Get-Datastore

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  New-PSDrive-name "mounteddatastore" - root-- PSProvider VimDatastore - Datastore (Get-data store "DatastoreName")

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  Directory of ItemType - New-Item ".locker-ESXHostname".

  5. check the current value of the ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation configuration option by using the command:

  Get-VMhost | Get-AdvancedSetting - name of the "ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation".

  6. change the configuration option to ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation, indicating the full path to the directory created in step 6, using the command:

  Get-VMhost | Get-AdvancedSetting - name 'ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation ' | Game-AdvancedSetting - value "/ vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/DirectoryName.

  When you are prompted, click Yes to change the Advanced setting.

  The ESXi host in maintenance mode and restart so that the configuration change to take effect

  Here is the single window for the Documentation centre for references-PowerCLI (vSphere PowerCLI Documentation)

  You may need to upgrade to the latest version of PowerCLI, 5.1 is quite old version!

  Thank you

• Try to scratch location makes 3i

  Hey all,.

  Trying to get my head around one of our HP 3i servers.

  In VC location scratch (ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation) is oriented towards an unknown UUID for example/vmfs/volumes/48f11c4e-91190252-bded - a 0017, 4770000.

  When I enter the Configuration & gt; Storage that the volume is not listed and you can not add it.

  If I switch "mode not supported" and list the directories under/vmfs/volumes/I see it listed there with a few other UUID that is not listed in VC.

  How can I work when he is actually located?

  See you soon,.

  Coopz

  With ESXi installable if you run fdisk-l you will see a 4 GB partition on the installation disc.  This is the scratch partition.

• How to recover from the failure of a with ESXi USB flash drive?

  I have ESXi 5.5 running on a 16 GB USB flash drive.  The system itself has a RAID card and drives mirrored where all virtual machines are stored, so it seems to me that a critical point of weakness is the drive itself.  If die ESXi itself running flash player, is there a procedure to recover the virtual machines on the disks?  Or should I keep a backup of my drive as well?

  1. How to restore the operating system assuming that the flash drive fails? If I reinstalled ESXi on a new drive of the same thumb, would see the VMware VMs existing on the hard drives of the server? Or is the process of discovery of the relatively painless existing virtual machines?

  If your flash drive goes down, will not be a problem that you have your virtual machines without danger on the separate data store in the locally attached storage drives. all you got to do is to reinstall ESXi host, he will be happy to see the existing VMFS data store and browse this data store where are stored the re-save you and virtual machines in the inventory.

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  VMware KB: Backup and restore configuration using the vSphere command-line Interface and vSphere PowerCLI ESXi

  1. How can I maintain redundancy for my USB failure? Can I have two drives connected and automatically backup flash / mirror the first hard drive to the second?

  This is not possible (I never tried myself) If you use an external flash drive, but let's say that you have any material to the specific provider giving this feature as

  DELL IDSDM http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-idsdm-whitepaper-en.pdf

  or another supplier giving a similar feature, then it is quite possible to mirror. Otherwise, the best option is take config. backup using KB, I mentioned in the first answer.

• Another corrupt ESXi USB flash drive

  I have a USB flash drive as boot ESXi disk get corrupted, I thought it was a fluke, so I threw away the USB key and reinstalled ESXi on a new USB flash drive. Well, after a little more than a year, this flash drive has been corrupted as well as ESXi follow the start-up procedure.

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• Deleting a persistent file located in the trash

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• Since the last update, the flash elements are located and flickery

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• New server ESXi 5.5 - How do I know what my score /scratch physical device is on?

  I went to this page - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1014953

  But unfortunately, it is not described how to match the UUID to a physical device.

  For example, our server has two cards SD with ESXi embedded installed and a RAID 1 of the 2 SATA drives.

  My boss asked me to make sure that the /scratch location is set to the spinning disks, rather than SD cards.

  I can see what VMFS/volume/my /scratch up to, but I have no idea if this volume is on the SD card or the RAID 1 spinning disk.

  I can't find a command that lists each UUID on each physical disk.

  It does not help that I'm not much more than a linux guru. =/

  Hi PeterBollwerk,

  Steps below should show you the location of the scratch on your esxi host. in this example, my esxi is executed in a double SD card in mirror.

  ~ # ls - ltr

  -r - r - r - 1 root root 300060 23 March 2013 bootpart.gz

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 March 23, 2013->/locker/vmupgrade vmupgrade

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 vmimages

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 vmfs

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 var

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 usr

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 tardisks.noauto

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 tardisks

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 opt

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 mbr

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 lib64

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 lib

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:58 bin

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 12 February 09:59 store->/vmfs/volumes/52fb429d-994d220a-479f-18a99b4c7caf

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 12 Feb 09:59 bootbank->/vmfs/volumes/92a34de2-91752a9b - 98b 3 - d172a66e7716

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 12 Feb 09:59 altbootbank->/vmfs/volumes/4eb69ee7-d8084e62-87e9-ff614e70bdf4

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 12 09:59 scratch-> / tmp/scratch

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Feb 12 09:59 productLocker-> /locker/packages/5.1.0

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb 12 09:59 locker-> / store

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 12 Feb 09:59 sbin

  drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 21 Feb 12:06 tmp

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 21 Feb 12:06 etc.

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 131072 21 Feb 12:07 proc

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 21 Feb 12:07 dev

  ~ # vmkfstools Pei/tmp/scratch

  file system of visorfs-1, 00 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable):

  Mode: private

  Capacity 1556017152 (blocks of files 379887 * 4096), 1127976960 (275385 blocks) prevail

  UUID: 00000000-00000000-0000-000000000000

  Partitions split (on "notDCS"):

  memory

  Instant native is Capable: No.

  In case if you have not configured your esxi to put beads on a persistent scratch location, it remains in memory.

  Hope this helps you.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Shrikant Germain

• vCloud Director agent 1.5 and 5.0 ESX install

  So I was stuck on this problem all day. I have install a LABORATORY VC, vCloud Director on ANY 1.5 and imported the vShield device. 2 guests can see both the same two LUN 1 TB. In VC is all looks good, but the question is now, I cannot prepare my 2 hosts. I have rebuilt the 4 times each. Both hosts are in an active cluster with DRS. I get the following error in vCloud Director:

  "Cannot prepare host."
  

  
  

  Failure occurred during the preparation of the host 'esxi2 '.
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  I tried to force a manual installation:

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  Result of the installation
  Message: The Operation completed successfully.
  Restart required: false
  VIBs installed: VMware_bootbank_vcloud - agent_1.5.0 - 453916
  VIBs deleted:
  VIBs ignored:

  But then goes to vCD, it is not ready... I tried everything I can think of.

  Logfiles which I need to sift through on the host to submit more information about why the TI of fails?

  Thank you!

  even if you manually install the VIB, you always run the step 'prepare' vcloud Director.  VIB itself is just a module, and it will be not configured correctly until you run the action to prepare vcloud.

  Please make sure you have a persistent scratch location, if it was a compact installation.  If you are on an SD card or a USB storage, make sure that it happens soon enough to process the download and install it in a minute or two... or it's a timeout.

  either elsewhere newspapers that you would need to look at are the vcloud-container - debug.log (from the time of the State of the error), and perhaps the esx host logs in case there is a Setup error.

  / opt/vmware/vcloud-Director/logs /.

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• ESXi installed on a USB flash drive - what happens to the remaining space?

  ESXi requires only 1 GB of the flash player, so I wonder if the remaining space could be used for other purposes - for example, files storage logs or something? Or ESXi reserves the rest of the space?

  The remaining space remains unused. Volumes VMFS as well as scratch location requires storage 'rapid '.

  André

• ESXi 4.1 U1 - partition scratch on SD/USB card?

  Hello

  I'm testing ESXi 4.1 U1 on installation of the SD card. The question is about scratches partition i.e. newspapers, vm-taking in charge of the dumps etc. I read a lot of discussion and blogs, look at VMworld ESXi session, but I'm not sure that I fully understand the creation of a partition scratch on USB/SD cards.

  I started on this http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/Installing-ESXi-41-on-flash-drives-despite-new-restrictions of Eric Siebert post where he mentioned to ESXi 4.1, I need min 5 GB of space which is 8 GB SD. Arguments that it it's due to the partition scratch which takes 4 GB. I think that's not true because I can't create partition scratch on USB/SD. This status confirms KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1033696 where they wrote cannot create partition scratch on USB/SD because of the limited number of entries for VMware.

  I have test ESXi 4.1 installation on SD 4GB and 8GB SD. The zero score has not been configured on 4 GB or 8 GB and only one of the possibilities was to create partition scratch on VMFS datastore.

  Where is the law? Is there that one partition possible scratch creation for the installation of SD/USB on VMFS datastore or I can create it directly on SD/USB card?

  The second question is why VMware requires 5 GB to spare for installation during the installation on SD 4 GB is completed successfully and 4 GB is the largest supported SD/USB card for HP servers?

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  Installable or embedded only describe the destination media not a difference in the product installed. There is only a single installation. If it is installed to HD it is installable. If it is installed to USB or SD, it is integrated. You can not use the card SD or USB for scratch. It is not a big deal anyway. Yet once the zero score is not necessary for normal operation. You can use a single data store to create the destination scratch locations. Because they are not partitions which absorb a few records space for something that you can never use they don't essentionally must be empty.

• ESXi 4.1 installed on a life issue, USB flash drive

  Hello

  I just installed a new server ESXi 4.1 on a (internal port) USB flash drive. I heard these flash drives USB gets used a lot of Scriptures; I do pay attention on the ESXi host to maximize the life of the USB? Maybe switch logs in a data store, if possible?

  Someone at - it information on how long will last my with ESXi USB flash drive?

  Thanks in advance!

  ... what I do pay attention on the ESXi host to maximize the life of the USB? Maybe switch logs in a data store, if possible?

  VMware optimizes access R/W if you install ESXi on a flash or SD drive. If I'm not mistaken, some changes are written only once in an hour. Depending on the size of the flash player, you can configure the location of the scratch partition (which is used for discharges of support etc.) to be on one of your data warehouses (HARD drive)

  Someone at - it information on how long will last my with ESXi USB flash drive?

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  André

• Location of 'Events' seen in vSphere connected to ESXi 4.1 host?

  Hello

  When we open vSphere client to connect to a server ESXi host, there is the 'Events' tab shown at the host level.  I would like to know how to remove this log, please.

  I found this article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1021801), but it doesn't answer my question.  I had deleted these files "message * ' and ' spend-*" files (files whose number names), but that's not all.

  I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to remove the old logs there.

  gallycool wrote:

  Hello

  Please check the under rental.

  / var/run/log

  It is the location where the old logs are stored.

  If the partition scratch has temp location then newspapers will be eliminated with a reboot of the host.

  If newspapers are in the temporary location, then the former location of newspapers is/temp/scratch

  If the scratch location is configured on a data store location, then the location of old newspapers is as below

  / var/run/log

  Please do not delete the present remove only logs logs rotated.

  Please do a ls - ltrh you can get the date and time of creation of the newspaper and also the size of the journal of.

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  Thank you

  Sam

  There is no directory called "journal" under/var/run/in my ESXi server.

  The partition scratch is in the default location.

  I restarted the ESXi server and saw the former event logs have disappeared.  So apparently old newspapers of the events in this log "Events" can only be removed by rebooting.

• Setting up a location of scrape persistent by using the vSphere Client

  Hello

  I have an application on behalf of data store when you configure the location scratch using vsphere client.

  This is the step that I have to perform to set up the scratch location and my query is

  I have to specify the name of the data store for step 10, as what I see through the vsphere client IE Datastore1 (vmfs/volumes/Datastore1/.locker - ESXHostname)

  OR

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  What would be the effect? Configuration with the name of the data store for the vSphere client.

  You can configure the workspace for ESXi using the vSphere Client:

  1. Connect to vCenter Server or ESXi host using the vSphere Client.
     
  2. Select the ESXi host in the inventory.
     
  3. Click the Configuration tab.
     
  4. Click storage.
     
  5. Click a data store, and then select Browse.
     
  6. Create a directory named only for this ESX host (for example, .locker-ESXHostname )
     
  7. Close the browser to store data.
     
  8. Click Advanced under software settings.
     
  9. Select the ScratchConfig section.
     
  10. Change the configuration option to ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation , indicating the full path to the directory.

      For example:

      / vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName /. Locker-ESXHostname

      
      
  11. Click OK.
      
  12. The ESXi host in maintenance mode and restart so that the configuration change to take effect.
      

  I ran a quick test on my test environment. You can safely enter data store, it will be automatically replaced by UUID data store when required restarting.

  André