Extend an existing VMFS partition

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• ESXi 3.5 - clean installation, it will wipe existing vmfs partition?

  So let's say I have a U3 3.5i ESXi server is installed on a single table of RAID 5.  I want to do a clean reinstall using U4.  When I installed U3 it parititoned discs automatically, so when I go to install U4 will be it preserve the current vmfs partition or is it delete and then recreate a new?

  The reason I ask this is just in the preparation of a time where a firmware update could possibly fail (do not assume that it will be, just want to have a plan in case something goes wrong).  Just want to be sure I can do a reinstall with/without losing existing virtual machines.  I'm not worried about having to reconfigure everything - not a big deal.

  Thank you!

  You have the ability to clean any vmfs partition, or leave them alone.  It is up to you to destroy the existing, which you do not want if there's vm is here, or leave them alone.

  -KjB

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• Add the existing vmfs partition

  We have a Dell PowerVault MD3000 that is connected to our ESXi host.  On the MD3000 are 3 virtual drives, which are assigned to the virtual machines children on the ESXi host.  This morning, I tried to start one of the virtual machines, and it will not start, EHF checked settings and see that the file of the disk on the MD3000 is not available.  If I go into the tab Configuration & gt; Storage, I see that 2 of the 3 virtual drives are not there, if I go to add storage... & gt; Disk / LUN, he finds the 2 virtual drives, but to add in ESX, he wants to get in shape again.

  The two vds have data on them, so this isn't an option.  How can I add them back again without formatting?

  Thank you much for the help.

  See this KB:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=9453805&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=52205523&StateID=0%200%2052203521

  Shan

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• expand a vmfs partition running

  I have a HP EVA 4400 iSCSI, which has 2 partitions vmfs (vdisks).  It is formatted with a block size of 1 MB, the other is the block size of 8MB.

  My ultimate goal is to have all the vm that are on the score of 1 MB on the partition of 8 MB, blow the partition of 1 MB and while space on a partition of 8MB.

  I never increased an existing VMFS partition, so I don't know what to expect (I've never had need of).  Is it as simple as deleting (using 4.1) 1 MB one, adding that the space in the vdisk the 8 MB one and then saying ESXi to increase?  It will use anything he can find, or what I have to tell him how to increase by?

  Are the virtual machine that will be on the secure partition of 8 MB?  I don't have a quick way of enclosing all down and save them.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  The way I read your message, it's that you want to migrate to the size of block 8MB data store, delete the data size of block 1 store MB and have its place to extend the data store of 8 MB for a larger size.    If that's what you want to do then you should give this blog post read, http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-of-esxvcenter/.

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• ESXi 3.5 4 problem to upgrade by adding the VMFS partition existing on iSCSI SAN

  Hi all

  I've got 2 x Dell PowerEdge 2950 III linked directly with Dell MD3000i iSCSI-SAN and today I had once hard to improve my production ESXi 3.5 u 4 ESXi 4.0,.

  First is that the upgrade is failed miserably after following this thread: url = http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211413;jsessionid=47217F9BCCA2DF1325DBE7A266D48A8D?tstart=0VMware communities: error on upgrade the host: this host is not compatible with this upgrade. [url]

  with the following error message: ERROR: unsupported boot disk

  The layout of boot device on the host computer does not support the upgrade.

  That's why I did a clean reinstall of ESXi 4 on top of ESXi 3.5 u 4 and lost all unique settings on my ESXi host. I am now stuck in SAN iSCSI partition mapping after following the guide from: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/eslvmwre/AdditionalDocs/cnfigrtnguide/storage_guide.pdf [/ URL]

  See the following attachment.

  I wonder how people make their upgrade in ESXi 4.0 in the production system running ESXi 3.5 u 4 filled with hundreds of VM? The reason why I use 2 x ESXi server connected to unique SAN server, is that I can just start the virtual machine on the SAN from the other ESXi - & gt; that's fine and tested, but then when I rebuild the failed server, I need to delete all the data inside the shared partition that contains my VMs.

  So in conclusion after one of the ESXi server failed, mapping of iSCSI would eventually destroy all data in the partition?

  CMIIW, any idea and suggestion would be gladly appreciated

  Kind regards

  AWT

  The configuration-> tab cards storage, you should be able to recrawl and find existing VMFS volumes.  You shouldn't need to add storage.

  Andy

• Extend VMFS partition alignment vs. partition

  I have a (openfiler) iSCSI storage and a host ESXi (running on its local disk) for testing.

  I tried to create VM customers and together start iSCSI. The problem I have is the alignment of partition and extend VMFS partition.

  What happens:

  If I want to align parititon, I need to go up and format the LUN with the VMFS. Therefore, the VMFS partition size is fixed. I'm able to increase the size of the LUN, but I can't do anything with regard to the size of the partition resizing VMFS.

  Another way is to report the storage for the VM client on raw storage. But this way, I can't align the partition because I can't use fdisk on raw storage on CLI.

  My question is: if I want to run SQL server, for example, and want to align the disk for the storage of data and able to rescale the size, how can I do?

  Thank you.

  I don't know exactly what you're asking, but "growing" a VMFS volume does not resize the partition, it is done by adding one "scope" (another partition) and then ESX (i) of the volume manager puts the two partitions together to make a large volume.

• Miserable attempt to extend the Boot Camp partition

  Long story as short as possible - 2011 MacBook Air with SSD 256 GB internal. Originally divided 50-50 between OS X and Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant. Yesterday I needed more space on the bootcamp partition. I managed to make OS X smaller using the partition disk utility but Windows Disk Manager would not extend the Windows partition because the newly created free space has been before it, not after. Rather than use one of the appropriate options to move the Windows partition, I made the mistake of trying AOMEI Partition Manager to get it within Windows. Of course, 96%, it failed saying that the partition table has been locked and forced me to restart. After that, no partitions are bootable disk.

  I installed 10.11 on an external USB HDD to get the system started. In disk on the internal SSD flash disk utility, I see the Bootcamp partition always there (and can be fitted very well so it was moved successfully), but he does not see the OS X partition.

  

  Don't lose the content of the OS X partition is no big deal that I have a time machine backup, I can restore. But at this stage because the partition table is messed up, I can't reinstall OS X disk without blowing the bootcamp partition and I want to preserve as much as possible.

  In general, I am fairly computer-savvy, but completely green when it comes to partitions. I realize now that I should have followed one of the tried and true Mac-specific methods to do this. Mea Culpa!  Anyway, here is the output of the commands that I saw others provide:

  diskutil list

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 251,0 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 208,9 GB disk0s2

  / dev/disk1 (external, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 256.1 disk1

  1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

  2: Apple_HFS 217,3 Untitled GB disk1s2

  3: Apple_HFS disk1s3 37.8 GB model

  4: disk1s4 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  sudo fdisk/dev/disk0

  Disk: geometry / dev/disk0: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]

  Signature: 0xAA55

  From end

  #: cyl hd s - cyl hd s id [Start - size]

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  1: EA 0 0 2 - 1023 255 63 [1-4294967295] < unknown ID >

  02:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  03:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  04:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  sudo TPG - v - r see the/dev/disk0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: mediasize = 251000193024; SectorSize = 512; blocks = 490234752

  start index size summary

  0 1 PMBR

  1 1 Pri GPT header

  2 32 table GPT Pri

  34 6

  40 409600 1 part TPG - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

  409640 81794965

  82204605 408026050 2 part TPG - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  490230655 4064

  490234719 32 table dry GPT

  490234751 1 dry GPT header

  So it is possible to get the disk to the point where I could reinstall OS X on it without harming the existing bootcamp partition (as well as create a bootcamp partition begins once more)?

  Thanks in advance for an expert, you can provide.

  Yes. Please download GPT Fdisk to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ and we can fix it. Your 2 GPT entry should be from 409640 and GPT 3 should start 82204605.

• Retrieve VMFS partition table... help.

  Hi all

  This morning, when I boot ESXi 4.0.0 I found lost a VMFS volume. By default, my drive has two partitions. I tried to recover the second partition with the instructions on the forum, but it was still not working.

  fdisk- lu/dev/disks/t10. ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1

  Disk/dev/disks/t10. ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1: 500,1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total of 976773168 areas
  Units is 1 * 512 sectors is 512 bytes

  Device boot start end blocks Id system
  / dev/Disks/T10. 63 8386622 4193280 6 FAT16 ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1p1
  Partition 1 does not stop the limit of cylinder
  / dev/Disks/T10. ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1p2 8386623 976773167 484193272 + fb VMFS

  
  fdisk u /disks/dev/t10. ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1

  The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 60801.
  There is nothing wrong with that, but it is higher than 1024,
  and could in certain setups cause problems with:
  (1) software that runs at startup (for example, the old versions of LILO)
  (2) start and partitioning software to other operating systems
  (e.g. BACK FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

  Command (m for help): d
  Partition number (1-4): 2

  Command (m for help): w
  The partition table has been changed!

  The call ioctl() to re-read the partition table

  u Fdisk/dev/disks/t10. ATA___ST3500418AS___9VM6Z8Y1

  The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1409485.
  There is nothing wrong with that, but it is higher than 1024,
  and could in certain setups cause problems with:
  (1) software that runs at startup (for example, the old versions of LILO)
  (2) start and partitioning software to other operating systems
  (e.g. BACK FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

  Command (m for hELP): n
  Control action
  extended e
  p primary partition (1-4)
  p
  Partition number (1-4): 2
  First of the sector (by default 8386623-976773167, 8386623): using default 8386623
  Last sector or size + or + sizeM or + sizeK (8386623-976773167, by default 976773167): using default value 976773167

  Command (m for help): t
  Partition number (1-4): 2
  HEX code (type L to list codes): fb
  Changed the type of partition 2 to fb (VMFS)

  Command (m for help): x

  Expert command (m for help): b
  Partition number (1-4): 2
  New beginning of data (by default, 8386623-976773167, 8386623): 8386688

  Expert command (m for help): w
  The partition table has been changed!

  Calling ioctl() to re-read the partition table.

  I have VL connection and go to the Configuration > storage > refresh the volume does not return.

  Please help me!.

  This seems really odd. Do you have all the partitions on these 4 discs when you first installed ESXi?

  What version of ESXi you originally installed (3.5 or 4.0) in the case where that this system has been upgraded?

  Please after the release of fdisk-lu for all 4 disks in the system.

  André

• It is possible to expand a vmfs partition?

  Well, here's my problem, I have 2 esx servers, connected to DS3400, people who originally this set up only bought 4 disks and created a raid 5 1.6 to VMFS partition. The guy he filled and I was running out of space.

  So I bought 2 more disks. I added the readers to the controller and added to the raid, creating a bigger raid.

  I returned in vsphere and saw that there was free space and I tried to extend VMFS partition but I couldn't? I thought that I was not supposed to create a new measure.

  In my frustration, I said F and I just created a second logical drive, formatted as VMFS and added and moved some of the VMm on the new 800 GB partition.

  Now, I bought 4 records more than daughter upward the ds3400. I'm trying to add them to the table.

  I need to make the a VM on the origial 1.6 TB of greater. So I don't want to add a third partition, instead of this I would really be able to extend the partition of 1.6 to 3.2 to with new readers, I add.

  Does anyone know how or if I can do this? Its going to take some time to add the new disks and I need the extra space pronto.

  When I'm in the IBM Storage Manager I see

  Unconfigured space 1.2 to (always adding these readers)

  RAID 5 2.8 TB

  -Original DS (1.6 TB)

  -1 (837 GB) second one I did

  -Release the 418GB capacity (one of the 3 new discs add)

  Once I get the other 3 dirves, I'll have another 1.6 to release capacity on the raid. This is where I'm stuck, how to use that to extend the original 1.6 to vmfs.

  Thank you people a bunch.

  It is possible to expand a VMFs partition - but the problem is that you can not access a logical unit number is greater than 2 TB - 512 B and the largest virtual disk is the same 2 TB - 512 according to http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf - using extensions you can create a volume of 64 KB-16 TB per individual LUN stacking

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• Cannot set the Airport Extreme to extend the existing network

  Network WiFi of my holiday home is provided by the router from my ISP (Time Warner). I have an Airport Extreme, which used to be configured to provide the WiFi network to another well, and I would use it to extend the existing on the TWC router network.

  I had a lot of trouble to do a factory reset on the Airport Extreme, but I'm sure I managed (by turning on with the pressed reset button) after several attempts. At least the extreme doesn't show signs of the old network, he has provided.

  When I try to set it up in the Airport utility, he wants only to create a new network. If I click on 'Other Options' and select 'Add to an existing network', the next screen is titled "This Airport Extreme will create a network" and prompts to enter a new network name and password. (Specifying the name of the network current generates an error because the network already exists, as I expect for the creation of a new network.)

  Any ideas on how to tweak this Airport Extreme by extending a network?

  TIA,

  Doug

  P.S. I have reviewed plugging extreme in one of the TWC router EtherNet ports and create its own WiFi network (with the advantage of adding support for 5 GHz), but the last time I tried I lost all connectivity; I'm afraid that the ISP network might protect against too broad network, although the glitch may have been a coincidence. If anyone has experience/ideas on this alternative configuration, I might be willing to try again.

  AirPort Extreme would not be able to connect using a wireless connection and to extend the wireless network of the ISP, but if you can connect the AirPort Extreme to the ISP using a permanent router, wired Ethernet cable, then AirPort Extreme could be used to provide broader coverage of wireless in this way signal.

• Windows 7 Installer error "Setup could not use the existing system partition because it does not contain the required free space.

  Repeatedly tried to install the upgrade to windows 7 and pure install and get the error message on all partitions available "Setup could not use the existing system partition because it does not contain the required free space.  All 3 partitions on a single disk have over 90 GB and separated from the disc more than 65 GB of free space according to the properties of the disk and initial screen during installation.  Tried to reformat a partition empty all reinstall Xp sp3 without result.  What can I do?

  Remove the data cable of all drives except the drive that you want to install Windows 7 on.

  Remove all external devices.

  Delete all partitions on the disk leave all of the disc as "unallocated".

  Boot from the Windows 7 DVD and then install, when you reach the point where it asks you to select a drive, click the "Advanced" option and create a new partition (at least 50 GB) to install Windows and continue with the installation process.

  Also: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nb-NO/w7itproinstall/thread/1b1adc74-3d94-4897-a3c1-7aabde44fe4b

  JS
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• During the installation of Windows 7 Ultimate, get error, "the installation program could not use the existing system partition because it does not contain the need free space."

  When installing win7 ultimate, {install} error message indicates "Setup could not use the existing system partition because it does not contain the free space required... I have 500 GB free, ram 4 GB 2.4 ghz quad... any help?"

  If you have any external storage devices such as external hard drive or thumb drive, unplug them, they might interfere with installation.

• modifies an existing large partitioned table to automatically add the partitions

  Hello world
  
  According to me, it is not possible to modify an existing large partitioned table, to add partitions automatically as you insert it into this one. What would be the best way to do this? Dbms_redefinition? DEC + copy dependant rename?
  
  Any ideas?
  
  Thank you.
  
  current version:
  Oracle Database 11 g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64 bit Production
  With partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP,.
  Options of Data Mining and Real Application Testing

  >
  According to me, it is not possible to modify an existing large partitioned table, to add partitions automatically as you insert it into this one. What would be the best way to do this? Dbms_redefinition? DEC + copy dependant rename?

  Any ideas?
  . . .
  I guess what I'm looking for is
  ALTER TABLE XXX INTERVAL DEFINED (NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1,'MONTH'));

  The following problem, I see is my required interval varies 01 hours of daylight at the time month 01 day 01 01 of the following month.
  >
  The best way to do it is to change your way of thinking.

  Do not be afraid to break the Oracle actually trying things. Just ALTER the table.

  drop table part_test cascade constraints;
  
  create table part_test(id number, entry_date date)
  partition by range (entry_date)
  (
  partition old_years values less than (to_date('01/01/2013 01:00:00', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')),
  partition jan_2013 values less than (to_date('02/01/2013 01:00:00', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'))
  )
  
  insert into part_test values(1, to_date('01/01/2013 00:00:00', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
  
  insert into part_test values(2, to_date('01/01/2013 02:00:00', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
  
  alter table part_test set interval(numtoyminterval(1,'MONTH')); 
  
  insert into part_test values(2, to_date('02/01/2013 02:00:00', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
  
  SQL> set serveroutput on
  SQL> select partition_name, high_value
    2  from dba_tab_partitions
    3  where table_name = 'PART_TEST';
  
  PARTITION_NAME
  ------------------------------
  HIGH_VALUE
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  OLD_YEARS
  TO_DATE(' 2013-01-01 01:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIA
  
  JAN_2013
  TO_DATE(' 2013-02-01 01:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIA
  
  SYS_P225
  TO_DATE(' 2013-03-01 01:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIA
  
  SQL>
  

  Note the limit of the score for SYS_P225 that was created? It includes the same ' time 1' of the highest range partition that existed before the ALTAR.

• The VMFS partitions and ESX in MUV upgrades

  Back in the day when you installed ESX it deems any VMFS partition is priese formatting for you even if you had all your machines on them

  I intend to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using AUVS that resembles a simple process.  Anyone know if:

  1. it clears the local VMFS partition?

  2. He wipes SAN VMFS partitions that it finds?

  Thank you

  Stu

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• Convert VMFS partitions/data?

  Hi again!

  IV been playing with Esxi, Hyper-V and Xenserver for some time now. Finally, I decided to go with esxi for my virtualization project but there are 2 questions, I need to get an answer first.

  1. None of my raid cards that I have at the moment are detected by esxi. I read that theres a lack in the nucleus of esxi so that you can't do software raid; is that correct?

  2. I 3xTB drivers where partitions are encrypted with truecrypt, what is the easiest way to convert these VMFS partitions so I can use them in esxi?

  Thanks for your help!

  Hello

  As far as I know, you have two main options:

  (1) create a virtual machine with a normal vdisk (hard) to place the data of truecrypt. Then make a transfer to network on the virtual machine to a system that has access to the unencrypted data. Finally the date of stay to the virtual machine without encryption vdisk

  (2) create a virtual machine and install the truecrypt sotfware. After that add truecrypt disks (perhaps is better to merge all data from a larger drive?) to the esxi machine. The esxi should see the disk (s) connected (s) as LUN SCSI/SATA. Then, create the physical (s) or the discs as raw device mapping (RDM). In my humble VIEW in your scenario is preferable to create RDM in physical mode. Finally using the truecrypt software you should be able to access the encrypted data.

  Here, you can check a few RDM tutorials:

  http://www.avatir.com/HOWTO-RDM-on-local-SATA-disks-in-ESXi/

  http://VM-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php

  http://ServerFault.com/questions/105652/assign-and-remove-multiple-LUNs-from-VMs-on-ESXi-4

  It may be useful

  A saludo/best regards,.

  Pablo

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