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• ERROR: Not supported format the disk (VMDK sparse invalid header)

  Hi all

  I just met ovftool and gave it a try. I am fairly new to the world of VMware.

  I have a. OVF I exported customer using vSphere 4.0. It. OVF consists of 3 Suse Linux based virtual machines. that is, I created a vApp on host ESX (4.1) in this TIME, I put my 3 VMs of SLES and then exported in file OVF.

  It has a total area of about 4.5 GB.

  Now, I ran this command to compress it. OVF and gave the opportunity to create a deltadisks.

  C:\ > ovftool - compress = 9 - makeDeltaDisks - skipManifestCheck MyVMCluster\MyVMCluster.ovf E:\

  output:

  {{{

  The manifesto does not validate
  Generate records of delta for 2 discs (40960 MB capacity)
  Playing discs
  Transfer complete disc

  Determine the optimal configuration for the Group of capabilities
  Configuration of disk write
  Transfer complete disc

  Completed successfully

  }}}

  Now, when I checked my E:\ He had created a folder with the same name and place the associated files. I saw a significant reduction in the new vmdk format. (about 2.3 GB now)

  So, when I deploy this new ovf vSphere client manually, it will up to certain age % and then reports an error:

  {{{

  Error loading file to the server (E:\MyVMCluster\disk3.vmdk.gz) not a supported (header invalid sparse vmdk) disc format

  }}}

  and then it stops and all rolledback.

  Pointers?

  Thank you

  Madalena

  use the data - store = datastore2 (no space)

  Eske

• Move-VM convert VMDK to sparse to thin

  I have a situation where I'm trying to move a sparse vmdk in another data store and convert them to a slim format in the process with Move-VM.  I am able to do it with the GUI successfully, but when I try to do it with $vm. Move-VM - Datastore $NewDS DiskStorageFormat - thin, the virtual machine is migrated, but the disk is converted to a thickness.  $vm is the VM object and $NewDS is the subject of the data store to a local VMFS data store that I'm moving the virtual machine.  The location of the sparse vmdk resides on an NFS share.  , My Version PowerCLI is 5.5R2.

  I could get this to work in a scripted manner using a LucD code snippet in this article (Move-VM to the cluster with DiskStorageFlag data store throws the error message.) but I just cut the section of cluster datastore.

  Did anyone else seen similar problems of Move-VM?  Seems to me that it may be a bug.

  Then it seems more that you could have found a bug.

  I advise you to open a SR with VMware Support, and Yes, PowerCLI is supported

• Resize an additional vmdk

  Hi I have a machine vm with a 80 GB vmdk local. I also have an additional vmdk (30 GB). I create on VMWorkstation and they have been converted when I moved Mac. They work very well.

  I need to increase the size of the additional VMDK. If I go into the settings and select the 2nd disk, it displays a 0 GB capacity and the virtual disk file is missing. That's 1 (drive)

  I tried running the following command

  sudo/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager vNextDevelopment.vmdk 40GB - x

  
  

  from the mydisk.vmdk directory located and reports

  Impossible to extend the drive "vNextDevelopment.vmdk": one of the provided parameters is not valid (0x3e80).

  
  

  Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

  
  

  No snapshots btw. It is a sparse VMDK
  

  
  

  THX

  
  

  S

  
  

  Here is a picture of the cmdline and content directory, in the case where I typed and do not (although I have copy and paste the name of vmdk)

  
  

  Please compress/zip . descriptor VMDK files for the two virtual disks as well as of VMwarelast.log virtual machine and attach archive .zip to a response message. What confuses me, is that the virtual disk consists of 21 files, which looks like the virtual disk is already here to 40 GB!

  André

• Problem of e/s disk Workstation 7.1.2

  At the office, I have a Dell Precision 690 running Win7x64; It has 8 GB of RAM (FB-DDR2, PC2-4300), dual Xeon 5150 (4 cores at 2.66 GHz) and a pair of. 12-series Seagate 7200 tr / MIN/3GBs SATA/1 TB drives in a RAID1 in the controller on-board PERC 5i/R.

  As soon as I "throw" a virtual machine in my computer, the disk for system performance goes to hell. I troubleshoot-made the thing as much as possible using Iometer and performance monitor, but it doesn't seem to be something obvious. When the workstation is idle, the system is fast and responsive; Resource monitor shows disk i/o breaking well above 80 MB/s and sustained more than 20 MB/s while rarely greater than 70% activity time. As soon as I turn on a virtual computer (that I continue to play with is a 1 vCPU 1024Mo Win2003 Server), disk i/o exceeds rarely 2 MB/s for all processes in the system and ankles - expire 100% active.

  The same type of behavior is present with Server 2.02 (I tried to see if my problem was specific to the new generation of workstation).

  On the other hand, the machine I have at home has similar specsWin7x64, 8 GB of RAM, 4 cores at 2.83 GHz, 7200 tr / MIN/3GBs SATA/1 TB in RAID1yet none of the performance problems. in fact, the home machine fortunately running several simultaneous VMs using Server 2.02, and I only noticed them when I'm doing a multimedia encoding on the host. Obvious crucial differences: the controller is the controller of Pseudo-RAID nVidia integrated; the CPU is a single image Q9550 (so Woodcrest vs Yorkfield is also present), and the memory is 400 MHz DDR2 instead of 266 MHz.

  The sad part is that I have a PE2950 which is virtually identical to the 690 who will cheerfully ESX4, supporting a dozen or more of virtual machines without problem.

  Can anyone offer advice or suggestions to get this working better troubleshooting? I know I could improve things with SAS disks and faster RAM, but the cost to do would be to replace with a new i7 PC 690...

  ——

  Jim Millard

  Kansas City, MO, USA

  you want to run a database of 70 GB to 128 GB sparse vmdk split?

  Want to know how I would call that? ... which is almost sabotage if you ask me.

  I strongly recommend to convert the flat format with vdiskmanager VMDK.

  Or reduce it at least once a week.

  The vmware.log shows that the virtual machine must be unusable slow - I wouldn't bet one dime that it survives another few weeks if you continue to use it like that.

  Occasionally inspect your vmware.logs - if you find a lot of lines like this:

  Sep 29 07:25:01.273: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 1,167 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:25:10.760: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 1,607 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:25:24.782: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 3,638 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:25:42.706: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 3,896 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:26:06.418: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 1,648 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:26:14.845: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 3,032 seconds (ok)

  Sep 29 07:26:19.474: vmx | scsi0:2: WRITE command (10) took 2.315 seconds (ok)

  You must be proactive.

  You have very very many of these lines...

  Ulli

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  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• The import of the disc failed

  Hello, I have some trouble getting both vSphere Client and ovftool to

  import my OVF.  When you use the vSphere Client, I walk with success in

  the Assistant "Deploy OVF template", I click on finish on the final wizard screen

  and the progress dialog box is displayed.  There are up to 100% full while showing

  "Deployment of disc 1 of 1..." and then always fails with the following error

  displayed on a pop-up window:

  "Could not deploy OVF package: the remote server returned an error: (500).

  Internal Server Error»

  I then tried using ovftool, to convert my VMX OVF format.  Similarly, the

  'Disc Progress' percentage count to 100% then errors with:

  Source OVF opening: stout-1 - x86_64.ovf

  ATTENTION: No manifest file

  Target VMX opening: stout-out.

  Target: stout-out/stout-1-x86_64/stout-1-x86_64.vmx

  Drive transfer failed

  Error: Could not open the source disk: stout-1 - x86_64.vmdk

  In both cases, it seems that the problem comes from my disk file, which is a

  optimized stream VMDK.  Just to check, I checked that I was able to import

  This same exact disk file into an OVF 0.9 by using Virtual Infrastructure

  Client version 2.5.0.  So, I'm at a loss as to what may be the problem.  Do you have

  to build the optimized flow vmdk any differently?  Any other suggestions on

  How I can be able to debug this yet?

  Thanks for any help,

  James Slagle

  In fact, after taking look more closely at the VMDK header, there is something wrong. In the header sparse VMDK (512 bytes), it has the version == 1. This should be 3 for record flow optimized (and all other records created by VMware tools in the past two years). So there is a problem with your drive. VC2.5 didn't validate the version number, this is why he is not complaining.

  Unfortunately, it seems there is an error in the specification sparse public VMDK on the version number of header (spec says there should be 1, when really it should be 3)-I'll see if I can get that fixed. How did you create the disc?

  Thank you

  Jakob.

• Clean, defrag and shrink

  Is there a whitepaper that explains these concepts?

  In the VMWare documentation, each of these three topics (cleaning, defragmentation and Shrink) are discussed in overlapping a bit average.

  In one place, he said "it's good to use the guest operating system facilities to defragment". In another place (settings & gt; Records) there is a 'clean' function, which mentions the Defrag in an ambiguous way, so that I do not know if the defragmentation operation is part of the own upward. Then, of course, there is the retractable function.

  As a result, I have only a fuzzy understanding of the differences between and the relationship between these functions.

  Are there really three separate functions? What is the relationship between them?

  jasimon9,

  Here is a link that explains the difference between the three in one small detail:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/teamfusion/2008/10/tip-defragmenta.html

  From what I can understand of the doc (jump in and correct me if I get this wrong, people), the distinctions are:

  1 Defrag: fixed the distribution of comments from the files through the file system of comments

  2 shrink: eliminates unused space in the vmdk files

  3 cleaning: fixed Division of the comments file system files in the sparse vmdk files

  Thus, the defragmentation is entirely contained in the comments. It affects the distribution of the files of comments on the virtual file system. However, the virtual file system may itself be fragmented across the vmdk files. Cleaning fixed this, so it affects how VMWare allocates files that make up the system of files of comments in the vmdk files. Shrinkage includes the vmdk files, get rid of unused space that accumulates over time.

• IVX export to VMWARE or VirtualBox

  Is there a way to export a record IVX VMWare or VirtualBOX?

  Hello darkmac,.

  It seems that the image must be converted to .raw format in one as vmdk:
  http://StackOverflow.com/questions/454899/how-to-convert-flat-raw-disk-image-to-VMDK-for-VirtualBox-...

  QEMU is a Linux utility that allows to manage the conversion:
  http://docs.OpenStack.org/image-Guide/content/ch_converting.html

• Need a power-Cli report which shows pools of resources, including CPU, memory, reviews, DS, VM, VMDK files into a CSV file.

  Hi LucD

  I'm looking for a script more which is basically watch resources pools which s VM CPU, memory, comments, DS or files VMDK into a CSV file instead of the HTML resource pool file. Could you please help me on this.

  Your help would be very appreciated!

  Thank you.

  Nauman

  Try like this, it will produce 1 CSV file with all the information.

  $report = @)

  {foreach ($cluster Get-cluster)

  foreach ($rp in Get-ResourcePool-location $cluster) {}

  foreach ($vm in (Get-VM-location the $rp)) {}

  $report += get-disk hard - VM $vm |

  Select @{N = "Cluster"; E = {$cluster. Name}},

  @{N = "ResourcePool"; E = {$rp. Name}},

  @{N = "VM"; E = {$vm. Name}},

  @{N = 'HD'; E={$_. Name}},

  @{N = "Datastore"; E={($_. Filename.Split(']') [0]). TrimStart('[')}},

  @{N = 'Filename'; E={($_. Filename.Split('_') [1]). "Split('/') [0]}},"

  @{N = 'Path VMDK'; E={$_. File name}}.

  @{N = "Format"; E={$_. StorageFormat}},

  @{N = ' Type'; E={$_. DiskType}},

  @{N = "CapacityGB"; E={$_. CapacityGB}}

  }

  }

  }

  $report | Export Csv report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

• ESXI 5.1 "the disc is not thin-provisioned" after copying to the new data store vmdk

  I wanted to create an external backup as a 2nd VM ready-to-run on the 2nd data store.

  I've removed all snapshots, stop the machine virtual and exported the OVF file to a computer, adjusted to the size of the original virtual machine starts in Gparted to update the partition and restart. All very well.

  I then tried to deploy the OVF in the data store alternative (235GB slim, thickness according to the deployment of 250 Wizard). I tried both thick and thin but the error message "cannot deploy the OVF. The operation was cancelled by the user.

  I then manually downloaded the VMDK & OVF file to the 2nd data store and tried to inflate but then received the message "a specified parameter was not correct. The disc isn't thin provisioned. ».

  It seems I have dealing with the same thing, as this is the document here (http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u3-release-notes.html).  However, I have no idea what to do now... and I'm worried because it seems that my backup plan may not work if I can't restore an OVF/VMDK from a disk of visas.

  The solution to the first problem here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2172950#2172950 that solved my problem 2nd too.

• Construction of an exportable image

  Absolute noob at VMware, have a few questions, I was hoping to get an answer here.

  I need to build an image of CentOS with Ansible and a few other things pre installed locally and then export it to a USB key to a different geographical location where it will be installed on as a virtual machine on a system without access to internet, accessible only via multifactorial auth. VPN.

  How do I do that?

  Not like feeding spoon me and walk through me, step by step while holding my hand free, but how do I do that as in build a vmdk? A device? What should I go and learn to build for this?

  Thank you! Richard

  Hello

  Yes to build a FVO would make more sense in this scenario.

  There is a VMware product called VMware Studio that was made especially for the construction of the FVO.
  But it doesn't seem that it is under active development no more and I am not aware of a replacement.

  Perhaps just using ovftool (or workstation) is the best way.

  --
  Wil

• Cannot create a virtual machine with a vmdk file copied from another location, please find the attached error

  Hi all

  I copied a file from one place vmdk and try to make a new virtual machine with this vmdk file. But when I turn on after the creation of vm error is coming. Error in the text and the image below

  Power on the virtual machine: cannot open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  See the error of the stack for more details on the cause of this problem.

  Time: 31/03/2015-14:40:05

  Target: DBServer

  vCenter Server: vcsa

  Error stack

  An error was received from the ESX host turning on DBServer VM.

  Unable to start the virtual machine.

  Power DevicePowerOn module has failed.

  Unable to create the virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, ' / vmfs/volumes/543d140b-feb33d52-7640-90b11c9796c3/vmdk/kapuatdb.vmdk'

  Could not open scsi0:0 disc: disc not supported or not valid type 7. Ensure that the disk has been imported.

  This error message generally if the hard files have been copied hosted as VMware Workstation product, which uses a format of sparse file that is not supported on an ESXi host. Instead of the hard copy, you can use VMware Converter, or - if you prefer - you can convert the hard using vmware-vdiskmanager (before transfer) or vmkfstools (after downloading). I deal to use vmkfstools you will need to load the mutliextent module (see for example "Clone or migration operations involving virtual discs non-VMFS on ESXi fail with an error" vSphere 5.1 Release Notes)

  André

• VMDK files

  I created a virtual machine from a backup using AppAssure export.  It seems that the vmdk files are separated.  hard and config files were on different data warehouses (see the attachment please)

  I'm a cold migration and changing the store of the host and the data to a new server that cannot be managed by vCenter once the migration is complete (it will remove vcenter inventory)

  Once completed this cold migration will be all the vmdk files located on local storage of the new server?

  Appreciate your help guys

  Once completed this cold migration will be all the vmdk files located on local storage of the new server?

  It depends, if when choosing the destination data store you selected the same data store for all the hard and virtual machine configuration files, everything will be on the same datastore and virtual machine folder.

• How to import a converter vCenter VMware vmdk file 5

  Hello

  Here's the scenario,

  -We have one physical server with win 2003 OS installed. Installed VMware converter on this box.

  -Conversion all of the physical disk to VMDK in VMware Converter.

  -All copied the VMDK file with vmx and transferred to vcenter Datastore.

  Now when you try to import the machine through vmx import disks that are there with vmx showing as sparse disk. Now, how we'RE the VM of power with this. Can I convert this from front end/thick.

  -Why this shows also sparse.

  Just a note - I had to do what the latency between the physical server and vcenter is very high and the disk size is 1 TB. If you feel still another another good practice that above pl then let us know in this scenario.

  Kind regards

  Selim.

  -

  Post edited by: Suhag Desai

  Post edited by: Suhag Desai

  Yes, if you converted a system with a "VMware Workstation" destination, hard files become fragmented by default. For use on ESXi, you need to convert them again.

  André

• How to find where VMDK and ISO mounted

  VMware dear master,

  I have trouble with my virtual environment,

  1. when I need remove ISO file, it says that currently used. How to find where the ISO is mounted?

  (manual search with see providing the edict for small environment is OK, but with vm 468 comments it is very complicated )

  2. I need to clean my data store, I found a file with file 3 vmdk, how to find this vmdk mounted?

  Thank you for your attention and support,

  Kind regards

  I would like to give a RVTools: RVTools - home

  1. you should be able to use the vCD tab to find the ISO image in the device column (you can export to Excel and make a 'discovery' on the name of the file to facilitate this)

  2. you can use the tab vDisk and search again on the path column.