Expand a virtual RAID 5 Partition on a Perc 6i

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• Expand a virtual drive (System partition)

  What is the best way to increase the system partition?  I usually increase the hard drive in the VI client, use Knoppix to then extend the partition.  Is there a better way? or are there other methods preferred?

  My "perferred" method is to use the gparted livecd iso, mount iso through the v-cdrom.

  Quick and simple, never had a problem.  Of course I would never do it without knowing I had a good backup

  http://gparted.sourceforge.NET/

• How to expand your virtual hard disk while host hard disk space is not enough?

  People,

  Hello. I use VM Player 3. My host computer is Windows 7 and VM is Oracle Linux 5. I need to expand the virtual hard drive Oracle Linux 5 from 100 GB to 150 GB. When I click on VM > Settings > hard drive > utilities > expands...

  The error message:

  There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation.

  To after my understanding, we have enough room to store the VHD original more expanded VHD.

  This means that the free space on the host needs to be 100 GB + 150 = 250 GB

  The total size of the hard disk of the Windows 7 host is 284 GB. The VM already occupies 100 GB of 284 GB. The maximum free space is 184 GB less space and boot OS. This means that I can't develop the 100 GB to 150 GB VHD.

  But I have to expand the virtual hard disk! I don't know if there are other ways to expand the virtual hard disk.

  My question is:

  Folk understand some ways to expand the virtual hard drive ranging from 100 GB to 150 GB drive hard host is only 284 GB?

  Thanks in advance.

  You explained, it is the behavior with monolithic virtual disks, which is a unique hard file. Because the file requires more space for its metadata at the beginning of the file, all the blocks of data must be copied to a new file. With the format of sparse file 2 GB virtual disks can be extended without the need to copy the data into a new file hard, because each the hard contains its own metadata. In case you don't have at least ~ 100GB of disk space you can use vmware-vdiskmanager convert/clone the virtual drive command line utility in a format of 2 GB sparse file, delete the original virtual disk (after saving), then use vmware-vdiskmanager again to rename the new virtual disk to the old name. Once done, you will be able to expand the virtual disk as required.

  André

• takes forever to expand the virtual disk

  I am expanding my virtual disk using the pdf file;  "Resize a virtual disk for Windows clients."

  A few months ago, I used this tutorial to resize with success of 20 to 40 GB but now I need more space.  But something does not work at the moment.  I am stuck at part 1, step 5.  I downloaded the most recent vdiskmanager GUI (I think it's more up-to-date, it is dated from 18/06/2007) and launched the MISTLETOE, my hard file selected, choose 75 GB and results opens the window.  BUT it has now been about 45 minutes and as far as I can say that nothing is happening.

  It takes so long?  Any suggestions?

  Thank you

  Bonnie

  If the actual size of the existing virtual hard disk is close to full capacity of 40 GB then it can take some time to develop.  Also because it creates a new file (s) hard, you must also make adequate free space on the host HDD to finish the process and because you use a 3rd party utility to interface with the VMware real Fusion of the program that is doing the job, the actual process may have a problem and do not make it to the 3rd party utility.

  What version of Fusion are you using?  If 2.x you do not need the 3rd party utility and make a resizing of the setting of Virtual Machines

  You can use the activity monitor to see if the process is still ongoing and or if there is the disk activity as in the file is always written.

  VMware-vdiskmanager is what did increase it then look for vmware-vdiskmana (full name does not show in the activity monitor) and see what's under its weight.

• What is the right way to expand the virtual disk and then the OS partition?

  I have a Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine VMware.  I have

  you want to increase the size of the hard drive.  It currently has a 50 GB

  partition on a 50 GB VHD.  I increase the size of the

  50 GB to 100 GB in VMware virtual hard drive.  Then, can I use

  Windows disk management to increase the size of my partition of the

  side OS to use all the 100GB he sees now?  Or will

  corrupt my data or cause a problem as I really need to

  use a third party tool like EAUSUS inside Windows to extend Windows

  on the size of the virtual hard disk?

  In fact the way you describe, resize the virtual disk and then developing the partition are the way to go. But there are some things that you should be

  aware of.

  -If the VHD is on an IDE controller, you may not be able to resize the virtual disk. In this case use the converter. With the converter, you can resize the disk including the partition and - if desired - replace the IDE controller by a SCSI controller.

  -If you have only one partition under XP (that is, drive c :)) you cannot extend the partition with the diskmanager/diskpart. In this case, start your virtual machine from a CD/DVD Vista/Windows 7 in Repair Mode, open a command line and use "diskpart" from there to "extend" your partition.

  André

• Expand a virtual disk with new physical disks?

  Hello people,

  Pleas in law not to shoot me to ask what I fear it may have already answered somewhere and my research is poor and as still not turned up the answer.

  I'm relatively new to VMware, previous job was especially MS Hyper-V and is always to some extent.

  Hower to the point in question, I have a single host (VMware ESXi 5.0.0) with a single server VMware 2008R2 on her guest and the C: drive is quickly running out of space. The existing, aligned hard disk virtual hard disk has 10 GB free to extend the ramdisk with.

  Therefore, my thoughts are I might add an another one or two new physical disks and add them to the data store that is aligned with the virtual C:\drive to the comment server, I would then be able to extend the exisitng C:\ virtual hard disk with the new ability to drive two new physical drives added?

  Hope this sense makses, hoing it's okay and I get out of jail!

  Thank you very much

  Graeme

  Hello

  Please see this link because it deals with the procedure to enlarge a vmdk and extend partition in comments

  First enlarge the data store after the addition of physical drives. Select the data store, properties, increase and the LUN detected.

  Then use the vmkfstools as explained in the video to develop

  http://blogs.VMware.com/kb/2010/02/how-to-expand-a-VMDK-and-extend-a-partition-in-for-VMware-ESX.html

• Expand a virtual disk in VMware?

  I was wondering if it is possible to extend the system on one of my virtual machines partition? I know that I can add another hot player, but I desperately need to extend system partition... Thanks in advance

  If your virtual machine is Windows 2008 and you use ESX 3.5 U2 so you can develop the disk online. Change the settings on the virtual machine, and then in the prompt use diskpart to extend the system partition to use the extra space.

  If you use an earlier version of Windows or ESX, you can always extend the partition but the virtual machine must be turned off. Power off the virtual machine, rotate the VMDK is through changing the settings (ESX3.5) or vmkfstools-x console, then attach the drive system of the virtual machine to a different VM Windows or start the virtual from a WinPE computer. ISO and use diskpart to extend partition as described above.

  For more information about the use of MS diskpart just google, plenty of info out there.

• How expand you a healthy (C:\) partition in the unallocated disk space - used to be partitioned as D:\?

  At some point in the past, someone partitioned my hard drive in C:\ = 15 GB and D:\ = 95 GB.  It is the source of the problems. I can't afford to pay someone to fix it as I became unemployed.  SO after some research, I gutted and then deleted the partition D:\. Then I went to "diskpart" in command prompt and typed "extend", thinking that would extend the C drive in the now unallocated space that used to be the partition D:\. Got mssg "part of disk cannot extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for the extension. "How do I do that?  Thank you.

  As you discovered, you can't extend the system (C) partition using tools provided with Windows.  You need a third-party disk partitioning application.

  This one is free: http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm and this one is $9.95: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/

• Help, please! Snapshot after expand VM, virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created

  OK, here's the situation, (maybe you can find a lot of discussion on this one)

  I have a vmware server running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. I use as its host vmware ESX 3.0.1.

  I realize that I need to extend the drive because he must have more space disk for the production server. Then I resize the disk using vmkfstools x 90 G TARANTELA - TEST.vmdk. The bad news is, I didn't know that the server has a snapshot on VI client. As you know, the error occurred:

  Failed to open the disc

  "/ vmfs/volumes/4652e777-3eb2a038-8fce-0019bb343796/TARANTELLA-TEST-000007.vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

  Reason: The virtual disk parent has been changed since the child was created

  Then I remove the snapshot of the VI client and re-save the virtual machine to inventory, but it may yet open the disc unless I edited the .vmx line file:

  scsi0:0. FileName = 'TARANTELA-TEST - 000007.vmdk '.

  TO

  scsi0:0. FileName = ' TARANTELA - TEST.vmdk.

  It runs as the first time I installed the system, but all the important configuration is in 'TARANTELA-TEST - 000007.vmdk' snapshot.

  Someone there the sollution, how can I do my work of snapshot again?

  Kind regards

  Arfal

  In SL32-AP-TARANTELA - TEST2.vmdk

  change

  CID=dc621992
  

  TO

  CID=ce700012
  

  and

  RW 188743680 VMFS "SL32-AP-TARANTELA-TEST2-flat.vmdk"
  

  TO

  RW 31457280 VMFS "SL32-AP-TARANTELA-TEST2-flat.vmdk"
  

  and

  ddb.geometry.cylinders = "11748"
  

  TO

  ddb.geometry.cylinders = "1958"
  

  in SL32-AP-TARANTELA-TEST2 - 000007.vmdk

  change

  RW 188743680 VMFSSPARSE "SL32-AP-TARANTELA-TEST2-000007-delta.vmdk"
  

  TO

  RW 31457280 VMFSSPARSE "SL32-AP-TARANTELA-TEST2-000007-delta.vmdk"
  

  And then you change the changes you have made to the VMX file.

  Try power o the VM - you will get probably mistakes (inside the virtual machine).

  If this works report back (we are not yet made).

• Unable to expand the virtual disk?

  When you try to extend a hard disk with vmkfstools, I get this meesage:

  Impossible to extend the drive: device or resource busy (1048585

  If I use the customer VI to extend the hard disk (only occurs with this particular drive), there are completed successfully, but no change? I'm going down this same result with vm

  I have esx3.5 VC2.5 U2 and should be able to do it while its still works.

  AY ideas would be most appreciated.

  There is overhead when you extend and you don't have enough. Not for snapshots. I would like to get busy working on a movement since you have not much room for anything whatsoever on that LUN.

• RAID 5 problem with R410 Perc 6 / i controller

  I have a Setup RAID 5 on a Dell PowerEdge R410 (4-300 GB Hard Drives).  I'm moving hard disk of 300 GB to 600 GB hard drives, so I can increase the available storage.  I replaced the drive in the Groove #2 with a 600 GB drive first, because he was already in a failed State.  After the reconstruction, I waited til the next day for the replacement of the other drives 600 GB drives.  When I replaced the drive at location 0 #, the drive into the #2 Groove entered the predicted state failure during rebuild.  So, after the reconstruction, I replaced the drive in the #2 Groove a 2nd time with another 600 GB hard drive.  During this rebuild, the reader Slot #0 also entered a predicted failure State.  So I let the server run for a few days.  And now the two Slot #0 and #2 (the ones with the new 600GO drives) are in a State of predicted failure.  I can't believe that I would have 3 bad drives in a row.  I use all Dell certified readers.  Can advise you, what do I do then?  Update the firmware? Going back to the old drive?  It is a critical production server, so I need to minimize all the time as much as possible.

  Thanks in advance,

  Byron

  Hello

  A predictive failure is reported on a drive when there is excessive bad blocks on the disk. Since you have rebuilt the drive in the existing table, most likely other readers had bad blocks that were copied to the new drive. What operating system do you use? There is not a way to get readers off predictive failure, once they are reported. There is potentially a much larger problem with the table. I recommend you make a backup of all data files.

  http://www.Dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/438291/en

• Can I extend the matrix raid in PowerVault MD1000 with Perc 6/E adapter?

  I created raid0 with 2 HDD. How can I add another hard disk to a previously created table?

  I'm running a few commands

  sudo. / omconfig storage vdisk = action reconfigure controller 0 vdisk = raid 0 = r0 = pdisk1:0:0, 1:0:1, 1:0:2

  sudo. / omconfig storage vdisk = action reconfigure = 0 = raid 0 = r0 pdisk1:0:0 vdisk controller, 1:0:1: 1:0:2 vdcapacityexpansion = yes sizeinpercent = 100

  result: operation disabed. How can I solve this problem? active web interface there is no command like reconfigures

  

• Reduce the size of the virtual disk RAID 5

  I have Windows Server 2003 is installed on a virtual disk PERC H700 RAID-5. Total size of the disk is 5.5 TB. The problem is that WinServer 2003 cannot use the disk due to the MBR 2 TB limit (and I can't convert to GPT without destroy all partitions, which is what I try to avoid). Since 3.5 TB of drive space is unallocated (and reconciliations), is there a way to reduce the size of the virtual disk to remove this space which can not be used anyway? Then, I could by using the remaining capacity to create a new virtual disk that can be set up as GPT and access the space through it (or two new virtual drives 2 TB and 1.5 TB in size). I know that you can expand a virtual disk, but you can a shrink?

  No, you can develop most of the virtual drives, but you will not be able to reduce them.

  You will have to start on this subject, creating a VD less than 2 TB for boot/OS disk, then the rest can be used in an another VD.

• Develop a virtual drive on a Dell Perc 6 / i Raid 6?

  Hello

  I have a PowerEdge T310 with 4 disks hotswap (raid 6), and his running dangerously low on space...

  Can I just buy 4 new larger discs and (one by one) replace the 'old'?

  If I can expand the virtual drive or I have to create a second virtual disk with the new free space?

  Thanks for your help

  -Michael

  Hello RobertQuinn,

  Here's the way taken in charge to get extra space for your system.

  (1) get a backup of your data

  (2) remove the table

  (3) to re-create the table with the big readers

  (4) reinstall OS if have a BONE on the front table

  (5) to restore the backup data

  Now, it is also a way not taken in CHARGE that you can do it as well & to do this as it is as follows:

  (1) get a backup of your data.

  (2) rebuild each disc large table.

  (3) after all rebuilt Delete array.

  (4) after the table has been deleted and then make a change

  (5) does NOT init the virtual disk

  (6) create new array with Available space

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• PowerEdge R530 - expand Raid 5 by adding disks

  I have a R530 PowerEdge with Perc H330 mini with currently 3, 300GB sas hard drives configured as a virtual disk.  VMWare ESXi 6 is installed with a couple of running virtual machines and I'm out of room.  I installed a Supplement 3 of the exact same hard drives and wants to expand the virtual disk with 2 of the discs and the other as a spare drive.  Using OMSA I put the hot spare, however before you reconfigure the virtual disk, let me know if I'm doing it correctly.

  Within the OMSA.

  (1) select my virtual drive, select "reconfigure" and run

  (2) (check two additional disks to add to the virtual disk, press to continue (step 1 of 3))

  (3) raid level default switch to Raid-0 for RAID-5 current and desired and press continue (step 2 of 3)

  (4) check the settings and click Finish (step 3 of 3)

  I can do this without closing to the right of my VM?  This will not destroy my data this?  I have backup, but would prefer not to have to restore.

  Thanks to confirm or point out my mistakes.

  Yes, it is intended to make online and is non-destructive.