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• ESXi and data on a single mailbox store

  I'm eager to get ESXi running on my server at home for use in a test lab environment. Here are the specifications of the box:

  Card mother BIOSTAR TFORCE TF520-A2

  AMD Athlon 64 X 2 6400 +.

  Crucial Ballistix 4 GB

  Rosewill RC-218 SATA controller

  4x2TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 Hard Drives (connected on the RC-218) software RAID5

  250 GB Seagate Barracuda boot disk

  Currently, the box is running Windows Server 2003. The RAID5 array has about 3 TB of data on it. If I understand correctly, ESXi cannot mount or use an NTFS volume (and mine is) as a data store for virtual machines unless it is via NFS. If it's wrong, please correct me. What are my options here? I like to keep all my stuff on a single box to reduce energy consumption. Is there a way I can somehow continue to use the RAID5 array in its current state and also be able to use it as a data store for the guest virtual machines in ESXi?

  I have a few other boxes that I could use, but I'm trying to consolidate (isn't that the point of virtualization?) all in one physical box. An idea I had was the RAID5 array out of my server box and put in my game and then machine to mount as an NFS volume for use as the data store.

  In addition, 250GB would probably suffice as a data store for my purposes. Is it possible that I could install a virtual machine running Windows Server 2003 and pass the RC-218 and RAID5 array directly? Or just make mountable in the virtual machine?

  If you need more information please ask.

  Thank you

  Tony

  What you could do is to install VMware Workstation on the box (although I haven't checked that it is running on Win2003 as well as desktop operating systems - read the card to http://pubs.vmware.com/ws8/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=welcome/welcome.html).  You can then use your local data store.

  Your biggest problem is memory - with only 4 GB, you will probably be sharing MUCH in your family environment when you take into account your device vCenter or comments and 1 or 2 other guests.

• Make an accerssible of other ESXi hosts data store

  I have a data store on a 5.1 ESXi host I want to make them accessible via NFS or FTP so that other hosts can see its content, is it possible? What is the best way to do it?

  Morning,

  I managed to get the time to write:

  http://blog.jgriffiths.org/?p=58

  This should show you how to configure NFS and CIFS on centos for ISO stores.

  Thank you

  J

• After installing ESXi 5.1 computer does not boot any device

  Hello VMware Experts,

  This certainly isn't my are of expertise as I work most of the time on the bet network but in any case here is my problem area, and I hope that some of you can help me with this.

  So I bought a PC on Ebay hoping that I could define as an ESXi Server (here's the link:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gateway-Intel-i5-3330-3GHz-8GB-1TB-Windows-8-Desktop-PC-DX4870-UB318-/321165075173?pt=Desktop_PCs & hash = item4ac6ee22e5 )

  )

  So I downloaded ESXi 5.1 and begun to installed

  First surprise, I had (it did not recognize my network card, I went to amazon and bought an Intel PCI Express NIC to get there)

  After 2 weeks, I received it today.

  Finally, I put the PCI network card in the motherboard and begin the installation.

  Everything seems to be perfect, great when I had until I completed the installation... I smile and then saw the message Installation successful, remove the CD from the CD room and restart the server.

  Right Awesooome! But then the problem occurred.

  After that the unit is back from the restart process he did not recognize any boot image installed on the drive hard (hard disk already set from the BIOS as a startup option)

  An error message like:

  does not recognize the bootable media

  I tried re installation, overwriting without success. (Same behavior)

  I know it's a very simple process, but what might happen here,

  Any ideas?

  Kind regards

  Jcarvaja

  I have no idea why you install esxi on a metal bere machine but I assume you want for a lab at home.

  Well from my experience, when I started to learn Vsphere 5.1 - I was installing windows 7 on a desktop computer - then bought Vmware Workstation - I installed 5 ESXI host on it and tested all the features (HA, DRS, FT, VMotion etc.).

  I have a HDD i5 Desktop 2 t and 32 GB of Ram - but you could look for at least 8 GB of Ram it works perfectly.

  Let me know if you need help setting up Esxi in workstation...

  Concerning

• 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

• Satellite A100-033 - black screen with no data after the advanced boot option

  I tried each F8 option in the advanced boot options to get my work laptop. There is just a black slowed after repairing Windows files and Loaded. Also F2 & F12 even when I try to use the recovery disk it remans black?
  Safe mode: nothing is displayed on the screen at all

  I noticed my mouse cursor can be seen moving around the screen, but the rest of the area is black.

  OS Windows Basic 32 bit IE9 Satellite A100-033

  Hey,.

  So if you start from the Toshiba Recovery disk you also get a black screen?

  What happens if you start from a normal Microsoft Windows disk? Just to make sure that it of hardware related problem or not

• Error adding of esxi host data store

  

  I am facing a problem while adding the new data store to the host. Here is the error message I get. I tried to re-scan storage adapters, detach and attach with the storage team storage path has also checked and everything looks good at the end of storage. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "datastoreSystem-2015692"on vCenter Server "vcenter server name" does not have anyone encountered similar problem?"

  Thanks for all your contributions! I worked with the storage team to delete and recreate a LUN. And after that, the issue has been resolved. Thank you!

• Better use of disk space on the server esxi (for data store)

  I have a HP Proliant DL380G6 which currently has 2 146 GB hard drives in a Raid0 configuration.  We quickly realize that this is not enough space for all of the virtual machine, we have running.

  Is there a way of 'clean' to add disks to this server - by this I want to say one where we don't have to add readers, and then reconfigure the raid5 raid card, and reinstall...

  And on a related issue (even if it may seem irrelevant):

  Some of our virtual machines are currently on a mounted NFS datastore that I want to spend in the local data store.  One of them has quite a few clichés that take up a lot of space.  What is the CORRECT way to migrate the virtual machine to the other local datastore, get rid of all snapshots (maintenance of the VM in its current state)?

  Believe it or not. . Just select Remove all.

  You are here is not a cliché. . It's your current state and not be deleted unless you select "go to" (note the different icon)

  (even if I understand your concern)

  If you are really nervous and wants to prove it to yourself, just test it on a virtual machine with no snapshots (create a snapshot, add a file, delete the snapshots and see if the files still exists)

• ESXi 4.1 SAN System Partition boot

  Hello

  I use ESXi 4.1 with a tip of SAN. I want to know what the drive size recommended to install ESXi 4.1 on SAN.

  If you have the custom to production environment, partition scheme, please share. I tried to get documents VMware, it isn't here

  your suggestion is appreciated.

  Concerning

  Maniac

  of http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_i_vc_setup_guide.pdf

  On the Partition of scratch

  During the phase of autoconfiguration, a scratch 4 GB VFAT partition is created if the partition is not present on another disk.

  At the start of ESXi, the system tries to find a suited on a local disk partition to create a partition from scratch.

  The zero score is not necessary. It is used to store the output of vm-support you need when you create a support group. If zero score is not present, vm-support output is stored in a virtual disk. This could cause problems in situations of insufficient memory, but is not critical.

  For ESXi Installable, the partition is created during installation and is thus selected. VMware recommends leave unchanged.

  André

• Blue screen, files lost, so did the system restore to an earlier date & now will not boot to the top. I tried nearly every program start after the start menu, it will just a black screen. Can anyone help?

  Starting from Dos programs, I found the info/Bios info. Version: not found/Dummy Bios detected / no. DC - 3 X 5 pci scsi contrller series can be found / Windows info: not found / ECC:disabled / ACD: Frozen / HDD:O. K / Processor: o.k.

  I was online, so I think it was the threat detected. Thanks for repying but since I used Microsoft XP repair CD, I tried to fix it but 1 still would not start I used remove them and reinstall the installation on CD repair and then typed in the sticker of PC product key and it worked so I ' ve go my PC now, but I am still a few problems to read the 2 last Qs I put in. " I would be grateful if you can help with thoughs, although they are not serious here yet annoying especially the keyboard Q. thank you, best regards, Darren.

• How to determine the esxi host installation date

  I need to write the installation date of the host all, is it possible to determine the date of installation.

  We use following command to get the host esxi installation date,

  echo - n "ESXi install date:"; " day d @$ (printf "%d" x 0 $(esxcli system uuid get | cut-d \--f1))

  Reference: VMware KB: determination of the date of installation of an ESXi host

• What is the advantage of separating the ESXI OS of the data?

  Hello

  I want to buy a server for my production.

  do I have to configure the server with 2 disks mirrored for the BONES of ESXI and 3 disks in RAID 5 for data or can I just have all the drives in Raid 5 (the ESXI and data)?

  Thank you!

  Dothan.

  No doubt put all disks in a single set to improve the performance of RAID. Once loaded, ESXi runs in memory and writes that the logs and configuration data. The disk space required for ESXi - including a 4 GB partition scratch - is ~ 5 GB. In ESXi 5.x versions, it was a good idea to place ESXi on a separate drive in order to reinstall the system, but with v5.x ESXi reformat the complete installation disk more.

  Even if you want to keep separate data from the OS, you can always create a RAID unit with all disks and - using the RAID controller - create the logical volumes on this RAID (for example 10GB for ESXi) set.

  André

• How to align data disks VMs ESXi

  Is there a way to align the ESXi VMs data (not C) disks that already have data on them without before you wipe them? A kind of ' align live. "

  If you have a NetAPP file server, you can use their tool: mbralign.

  Check if your provider of storage offers a better document practice about done (at least EMC and NetAPP) alignment.

  Read this document, it contains instructions on how to get an alignment for Windows and Linux to its customers: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf

  Microsoft offers several document and a few tools. Go to their site and search for "align the partition.

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• Cannot delete the local data store empty on ESXi 4

  Hi all

  Does anyone know how to kill the process that uses / block the process of removing the ESXi 4 data store?

  I have this provblem in VI Client when I was in the middle of the removal of the Local data store

  Remove datastore

  The resources ESXi02_VMFS vim.host.DatastoreSystem is in use.

  It's production live environment so is possible to kill the process without having to restart the ESXi 4 crowd?

  Thank you.

  Kind regards

  AWT

  OK so first try to connect with viclient to ESXi directly and see if you can remove the data store.

  The command you need to nod your head do buisness hours.

  Good luck!

  MCP, VCP

• ESXi SCSI 5 to "cannot get disk partition information.

  Off I must first say that I have tried to follow the guides as much as I could find to solve this problem, but nothing has worked.

  We have a server with a single 130 GB drive that ESXi 4.0 resides on and another disk SCSI 5 to that we wanted to use as a VMFS partitioned drive, with a big VMDK, who accesses our Server VM file.

  ESXi installation went well, however, when we arrived to add the second drive as another data store, we got an error message: "error during the configuration of the host: could not get disk partition information. From there on, we tried several solution, manually formatting the drive with the tools of command line vmkfs, Re-partitioning for ext2 with GParted Live, erasing information from partition with dd, deleting all partitions, all without success.

  We are posting our problem here as a last resort, I can confirm that vSphere displays the total capacity of the car, but not the partition information. It seems also a gap between the capacity of disk fdisk reports and esxcfg-scsidevs - l capacity.

  Here are a few out of order, it was after the partitions have been deleted on 5 TB disk (the one that ends with "67"):

  ~ # esxcfg - scsidevs - l

  MPX.vmhba0:C0:t0:l0

  Device type: CD-ROM

  Size: 113 MB

  Full name: Local TSSTcorp CD (mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0)

  Plugin: NMP

  Device console: /vmfs/devices/genscsi/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/genscsi/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0

  Seller: TSSTcorp model: DVD - ROM TS-L333A Revis: D350

  SCSI level: 5 nickname is: wrong status: on

  : RDM Capable false is removable: true

  Is Local: true

  Other names:

  VML.0005000000766d686261303a303a30

  NAA.60024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067

  Device type: Direct access

  Size: 5720064 MB

  Full name: disk space from DELL (naa.60024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067)

  Plugin: NMP

  Device console: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067

  Seller: DELL model: PERC 6/E adapter Revis: 1.21

  SCSI level: 5 nickname is: wrong status: on

  : RDM Capable false is removable: false

  Is Local: true

  Other names:

  VML.020000000060024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067504552432036

  NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11

  Device type: Direct access

  Size: 139392 MB

  Full name: disk space from DELL (naa.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11)

  Plugin: NMP

  Device console: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11

  Seller: DELL model: PERC 6 / I saw: 1.22

  SCSI level: 5 nickname is: wrong status: on

  : RDM Capable false is removable: false

  Is Local: true

  Other names:

  VML.020000000060024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11504552432036

  ~ #

  ~ # fdisk-l

  Disk /dev/disks/naa.60024e806b43820012bd2a81ee047067: 1599,8 GB, 1599875317760 bytes

  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 194507 cylinders

  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device boot start end blocks Id system

  Disk /dev/disks/naa.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11: 146.1 GB, 146163105792 bytes

  Heads of 64, 32 sectors/track, 139392 cylinders

  Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

  Device boot start end blocks Id system

  /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p1 5 900 917504 5 extended

  /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p2 901 4995 4193280 6 FAT16

  4996 139392 137622528 fb VMFS /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p3

  /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 & lt; 32 M

  5 254 255984 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p5

  255 504 255984 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p6

  /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p7 505 614 fc 112624 VMKcore

  615 900 292848 6 FAT16 /dev/disks/NAA.60024e807468210011e9060a073e0d11p8

  Partition table entries are not in the order of disc

  ~ #

  ~ # esxcfg-scsidevs - has

  vmhba0 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0:31.2) Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)

  vmhba1 megaraid_sas link-n/a unknown.vmhba1 (3:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PERC 6 / i integrated RAID controller

  megaraid_sas vmhba2 link-n/a unknown.vmhba2 (5:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PERC 6/E adapter RAID Controller

  vmhba32 ata_piix link-n/a sata.vmhba32 (0:31.2) Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)

  ~ #

  I had heard he had some problems with the help of 2 TB disks in ESXi, however I was not sure if it was directly relevant to this problem. I am open to using Raw Device Mappings, I think I've seen a few guides on the methods not supported for adding THAT RDM on a local drive - all advice on this would be welcome.

  Currently, we hold a store of data from 5 to and VMDK join one of our virtual machines. I guess my question is: How can I get the 5 TB drive work in ESXi?

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  ESX (i) can be used to the maximum 2 TB - 512 bytes to the size of the LUN.  It is documented in KB 3371739.  You can just cut up this 5 TB drive into partitions smaller than 2 TB - 512 bytes each.

  Good luck!