Get-datastore shows each store data twice

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  Hello

  I am newbie to ESXi 4.1. Recently I setup an ESXi 4.1 with the data store total 267 GB (146GBx3, RAID5), created 1 Win2008 Std 64 bit thick provisioned VM size 180 GB of disk & partition as C:\80GB, D:\100GB under Win2008, currently only 20,57 GB free data store space.

  (1) I try to create an another VM Win2008 standard 64-bit using typical/custom but max only allow 40 GB, how to get about 100 GB? (C:\60GB, D:\40GB)

  2) can I change existing VM thick to thin to follow steps of http://www.righteoushack.net/?p=419? what a C:\80GB, D:\100GB under Win2008? would it automatically resize so? or can I reduce existing 180 provided thick GB?

  (3) why there are 3 hard files created for a single virtual machine? how hard to remove? (see photo datastore.jpg)

  (4) as the system comes with Quard core 6 GB RAM & CPU, existing VM use 2 CPU4 GB of RAM, can I put a new virtual machine to use 2CPU4 GB RAM?

  Sorry, so many questions.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Kelvin

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• 2 ESXi hosts... Nor can see each stores data to other hosts

  All, morning

  I have a little problem with a cluster of 2 servers ESXi 4.1.  They are connected to a VC and Enterprise Plus license.

  We have about 15 stores of data, called san01, san02,... san15.  ESXi hosts, we'll call it ESXi-01 an ESXi-02.  As I said - they are in an active HA with DRS cluster.  They are part of a disaster recovery test, we are performing.  For some reason, only the host on which each data store has been added (add storage, select LUNS, use the existing signature) can use this store.  It does not appear when a new analysis VMFS on another host (or automatically as it should).  If you try to import the same LUN to host opposed when it is already mapped to the one, the only available option is to reformat the partition, which is not good as there are a several machines on each Lun.

  So now I have a host with san2, 3, 5, 7 & 9 and all the others are on the other host.  Of course, they are unable to balance the load using vMotion & DRS.  It makes me crazy - any suggestions please?

  Just FYI, the hosts are the IBM HS22 blade, cards QLogic FC and the SAN is a unit of IBM XIV.  In our main site (live), we have a XIV with all LUNS alive and running on a cluster of 12 ESX4 host.  The data is replicated on the XIV in our disaster recovery site using the iSCSI Protocol and the links were broken between the 2 sites at the beginning of the excersise, allowing data replicated to our Dr site must be set to read/write and connected to hosts via FC.  Both hosts use the same configuration as the other and have the same drive mappings to the SAN.

  Look forward to hearing your ideas!

  Dave.

  As I understand it, the issue could be caused by the LUNS being recognized as LUN snapshot (see the ESXi host logs)

  In this case, you could try to force mount the LUNS. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011387

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• Store data and LUN id

  Hello

  I have a strange problem with my storage.

  I don't see the data store which is mounted on my ESXi. esxcfg-scsidevs - m also doest show LUN/store data.

  but when I see with esxcfg-mpath - l. I can see that lun. In addition, San, I see that it is mounted.

  If I see on VC under devices I can find the logical unit number id, but I do not see this LUN in the data store.

  can someone guide me here, how I can find this data store.

  The following KBs will help you

  VMware KB: Recovery of a lost on a VMFS volume partition table

  VMware KB: Re-create a missing partition of VMFS datastore in VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1/5.5

  Delete/recreate the partition tables does not affect the data but at any time if you feel that you need help to recover the lost partition table, connect a business with VMware Support and request their assistance.

  All the best!

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• How do you get the path of the data store or the URL of a virtual disk in vRealize Orchestrator?

  I need to eager zero a virtual disk while building a virtual machine. I found the eagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task() under VcVirtualDiskManager function, which takes in 2 parameters:

  name - (String) the name of the disk, is a path to the data store or a URL pointing to the virtual disk that needs to be inflated.

  Data Center - (VcDatacenter) if the name is a path of data store, the data center for the path of the data store. Not necessary when called directly on ESX. If not specified on a call to VirtualCenter, the name must be a URL.

  How can I get the correct path of data store given the virtual disk? I intend to iterate through the features of the virtual machine to get the disks.

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  a disc!

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  Data var Center =

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  wait

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  }

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• Get the disc on a data store

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  I have the following script

  Get-Datastore "*sata)" | Get-VM | Get-VMGuest |  Where { $_.Disks } | select -ExpandProperty Disks VMName
  

  
  the output is

  VmName	Path	Capacity	FreeSpace
  VM1	C:\	12880752640	4642414592
  VM1	D:\	32218386432	4818952192
  VM2	C:\	12880752640	4642414592

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  VM2	C:\	Bank 1 (sata)

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  Kind regards.

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• output of Get-store data in the table (datagrid)

  Hello

  I'm trying to get the output of get-store data in a table (datagrid).

  Code:

  Function Get-data warehouses
  {
  $array = new System.Collections.ArrayList object
  $Script: GetDatastore = Get-Datastore
  $array. AddRange ($GetDatastore)
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  $form1.refresh)
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  error:

  Das Argument '0' mit dem Wert "local_datastore01" as "AddRange' nicht den Typ"System.Collections.ICollection"konvertiert werden kann:" Der Wert "local_datastore01" vom Typ VMware.VimAutomation.Cl «»»
  ient20. DatastoreImpl' nicht den Typ "System.Collections.ICollection" konvertiert werden kann. »
  -snip-
  + $array. AddRange < < < < ($GetDatastore)
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [], MethodException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

  Comment:

  If I replace the query data get store-get - VM the script works great!

  What's wrong? any suggestions?

  Many thanks and greetings

  Hello

  This particular Get-Datastore call returns a single object, which cannot be converted to the ICollection. But you can do something like this:

  If ($GetDatastore-[table]) {}

  $array. AddRange ($GetDatastore)

  } else {}

  $array. Add ($GetDatastore)

  }

  It will manage both situations - when you get the data object store or table of data warehouses.

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• How to set vm-description/notes and get the name of the data store, where the virtual machine

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• How to get LASTDAY for each month between data dates...

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