Ghost in a data store VMs

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• I have to put the inventory data store VMs

  I have a list of data store 5 (datastore1, datastore2,... datastore5). in this, I need to save all the .vmx to inventory files... If need a powercli script.

  Please take a look at http://www.lucd.info/2011/08/11/vmx-raiders-revisited/ to see if that helps.

  André

• report using data store VMs

  I found the following script that runs through each VM in my vCenter and report in the database by using the virtual machine is. I try to add additional information to the State.  I would like to add the host name were lies the path to VMDK virtual machine and the virtual machine.

  $vcserver = "vcenter01".
  to connect-VIServer $vcserver

  $report = @)
  Get - VM | `
  {ForEach-Object
  $VM = $_
  $VM | Get-hard drive | `
  {ForEach-Object
  $HardDisk = $_
  $row = "" | Select the data store, hard disk, VM, CapacityGB
  $row. Data store = $HardDisk.Filename.Split("]") [0]. TrimStart("[")
  $row. VM = $VM. Name
  $row. Hard drive = $HardDisk.Name
  $row. CapacityGB = ('{0:f1}' f ($HardDisk.CapacityKB / 1 MB))
  $report += $row
  }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\Scripts\VMwareExport\vcenter01-datastore.csv" - noTypeInformation

  
  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  I found this script that indicates the host name and works with my vCenter connection, but I can't recover the data store news.

  $vcserver = "center01".
  to connect-VIServer $vcserver

  $report = @)
  Get - VM | %{
  $vm = $_ | Get-View
  $row = "" | SELECT name, host
  $row. Name = $_. Name
  $row. Host = $_. Host
  $report += $row
  }

  $report | Export-Csv "C:\Scripts\VMwareExport\vcenter01-hosts.csv" - noTypeInformation

  disconnect-viserver-confirm: $false

  I also found this script that reports the path of virtual machines on the data store, but it only seems to work when it connects directly to the host, do not when connecting to the vCenter.

  $vcserver = "vhost01".
  to connect-VIServer $vcserver

  $report = @)
  Get - VM | Get-View | % {
  $current = get-view $_. Parent
  $path = $_. Name
  {}
  $parent = $current
  if($parent.) Name - only "vm") {$path = $parent. {Name + "\" + $path}
  $current is get-view $current. Parent
  } While ($current. Parent - no $null)
  foreach ($ds (Get-view $ _.)) Data store)) {}
  $row = "" | Select the name, the data store, path
  $row. Data store is $ds. Summary.Name
  $row. Name = $_. Name
  $row. Path = $path
  $report += $row
  }
  }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\Scripts\VMwareExport\vhost01-datastore.csv" - noTypeInformation

  disconnect-viserver-confirm: $false

  If someone could combine these scripts that would be awesome!

  I combined the three scripts and add the host name and the path on the data store for the first script:

  $vcserver="vcenter01"
  connect-VIServer $vcserver
  
  $report = @()
  Get-VM | `
    ForEach-Object {
      $VM = $_
      $VM | Get-HardDisk | `
        ForEach-Object {
          $HardDisk = $_
          $row = "" | Select Datastore, VM, VMHost, HardDisk, CapacityGB, Path
                      $row.Datastore = $HardDisk.Filename.Split("]")[0].TrimStart("[")
                      $row.VM = $VM.Name
                      $row.VMHost = $VM.VMHost.Name
                      $row.HardDisk = $HardDisk.Name
                      $row.CapacityGB = ("{0:f1}" -f ($HardDisk.CapacityKB/1MB))
                      $row.Path = $HardDisk.FileName
                      $report += $row
        }
    }
  $report | Export-Csv "C:\Scripts\VMwareExport\vcenter01-datastore.csv" -noTypeInformation
  
  Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Replacement of a data store - migration of virtual machines

  We have a VMware ESXi 4.0 installed on a SD card and our data store is on a dedicated internal RAID array. Our data store is running out of space... what we would do is remove the old hard drives and add new - therefore, delete and re-create the matrix RAID and the data store.

  What is the best way to migrate our existing data store / VMs from the old array to a new one using vSphere or vSphere CLI? How we then re - associate VMs on the SD card with the new data store? Advice would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

  Hello

  Looks like it's a single ESXi host.

  You will need to copy/save all the contents of the data store existing to another location (external HARD drive) while all virtual machines are closed.

  Once it's done and you are sure that the copied data are intact, you can:

  -remove all virtual machines of the inventory

  -remove the data store

  -Stop the host

  -replace the HARD drive with the new

  -Launch the host and to reconfigure the new raid

  -Create the new data store in ESXi

  Copy/restore all data to the new data store

  -Browse the data store and add all the virtual machines to the inventory (create a list to make sure you get all the)

  -Start the virtual machines

  May be a good time to do an upgrade of ESXi5 as well

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• VMs of MAX in a data store: vsphere 5.5 (HA not configured.)

  Hi all

  I have a 5.1 vcenter where HA is not configured. I want to know what is the number max of vms in a data store (Powered on and powered at the same time).

  As this vcenter is no less with HA, does by default no that is 2048 as by maximum vsphere will be the same or not.

  in vmware drivers maximum, I found below.

  Config files on your virtual computer by the data store in a cluster HA: 2048 (without HA which is no?)

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Maximum limit of 2048 VMs running also apply to the VMFS5 file system.

  For turning off VMs, I think you can take numbers vCenter and cluster up to 15000 registered VMs and VMs 4000 clustered...

  See also this thread:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2014/02/05/vSphere-HA-VMs-per-datastore-limit/

  Kind regards

  P.

• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André

• Register VMS in vCenter inventory data store

  All of the scripts of the guru out there, Hi

  I am putting together a DR solution for our virtual machines, we currently use the IBM midsize V7000 with Remote Copy to replicate some data warehouses.

  Now I have done some extensive testing and found that, when you make a switch of PROD to the doctor there is a bit of a process to get the running virtual machine.

  1. I have to do a full sweep of the HBAs again. Under storage cards, you can see the assigned as mounted storage devices, however you should always access the storage and go the the Wizard "Add Storage" to readd the data store with the option volume resignaturing. So this part is not painful except it adds a different naming convention in the name of the data store, example a data store named prd_lun100 is named snap-5a18365a-prd_lun100 , so I have to rename the default data store.

  2. I have to go through data warehouses and add each virtual machine in the inventory which is very tedious, and the part very I need to automate.

  I tried that one line, I found here-> http://www.wooditwork.com/2011/08/11/adding-vmx-files-to-vcenter-inventory-with-powercli-gets-even-easier/

  New-VM-VMFilePath"[prd_lun100] SERVER01/SERVER01.vmx"-VMHost"VMHost01.local"

  If possible, I would like to expand on this point, in the following way:

  1 Add the warehouses of data with the correct naming convention, using the identifier for naa to the LUN or LUN ID # to automate, possibly pull this info to a CSV list.

  2. Add a lining above, but a VM list CSV, however add is a DRS rather ESXi Cluster host, if possible priority add virtual machines by a kind of Pavilion of groups in the CSV file.

  3. turn the VMs based on a priority.

  I would really really appreciate if someone can help with this, I know that probably a big ask, but scripting is not my forte and don't know where to start.

  This shouldn't be too difficult.

  Read file names from a CSV file and then checks each VMX file you will find if it is in the list.

  Something like that

  $targetVMX = Import-Csv C:\vmxnames.csv -UseCulture
  $Cluster = "LON_PROD1" $Datastores = "lonservers*" $VMFolder = "LondonAppServers" $ESXHost = Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VMHost | select -First 1 foreach($Datastore in Get-Datastore $Datastores) {
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore
     $ds = Get-Datastore -Name $Datastore | %{Get-View $_.Id}
     $SearchSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec   $SearchSpec.matchpattern = "*.vmx"   $dsBrowser = Get-View $ds.browser   $DatastorePath = "[" + $ds.Summary.Name + "]"   # Find all .VMX file paths in Datastore, filtering out ones with .snapshot (Useful for NetApp NFS)
     $SearchResult = $dsBrowser.SearchDatastoreSubFolders($DatastorePath, $SearchSpec) | where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot"} | %{$_.FolderPath + ($_.File | select Path).Path}
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore
     foreach($VMXFile in $SearchResult) {
       if($targetVMX -contains $VMXFile){
        New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $Folder -RunAsync    }
     }
  }
  

• SVMotion VMs to different data stores

  I need to automate the migration of VMs in a certain folder their existing data to new warehouses of data warehouses.

  Each VM has 3 VMDK.

  1 cdrive VMDK

  2. temp/VMDK file

  3 data VMDK

  I need a script that moves the Cdrive VMDK and the configuration of a new datastore cdrive files, then move the temp/VMDK file for a new temp/page data store and data VMDK to a new data store.

  Any help would be appreciated!

  I already responded to this post, but then you changed the script here...

  so

  $cdriveds = (get-Datastore your_cdrive_destination_datastore | get-view).moref.value

  $tempds = (get-Datastore your_temp_destination_datastore | get-view).moref.value

  $datads = (get-Datastore your_data_destination_datastore | get-view).moref.value

  $vmxds = (get-Datastore your_vmx_destination_datastore | get-view).moref.value

  foreach ($vm in get-folder "ben" | get - vm) {}

  $disks =$vm| Get-harddisk. % {($_.id.split('/') [1]} #-> drive 3 ID must be here
  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $spec.datastore = new-Object VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  $spec.datastore.type = 'Datastore '.
  $spec.datastore.Value = $vmxds
  $spec.disk = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator [] (3)
  $spec.disk [0] = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $spec.disk [0] .diskId = $disks [0]
  $spec.disk [0] .datastore = new-Object VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  $spec.disk [0].datastore.type = "data store".
  $spec.disk [0] .datastore. Value = $cdriveds
  $spec.disk [1] = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $spec.disk [1] .diskId = $disks [1]
  $spec.disk [1] .datastore = new-Object VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  $spec.disk [1].datastore.type = "data store".
  $spec.disk [1] .datastore. Value = $tempds
  $spec.disk [2] = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $spec.disk [2] .diskId = $disks [2]
  $spec.disk [2] .datastore = new-Object VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference
  $spec.disk [2].datastore.type = "data store".
  $spec.disk [2] .datastore. Value = $datads
  _this $ get-view-Id = $vm.id
  
  _this $. RelocateVM_Task ($spec, "defaultPriority")
  }

• provisiond data store space does not match with the space of the VMs

  Hi guys,.

  I have the particular phenomenon on my cVenter environment. Space brought into service on data warehouses does not correspond with the really used capacity of the virtual machines.

  Details:
  VCenter: VMware vCenter 6.0.0 3634793
  ESXi: ESXi 5.5.0, 3568722
  Storage: The Netapp Cluster Mode
  NFS data warehouses

  Virtual machines allocate more space such as assigned. It could be 100% more space. There are no files that are responsible for this in the data store. We have allowed efficiency of storage which means on the Netapp deduplication.
  In the opinion of vCenter - the data store has a provisiond about 1 TB space and really about 550 GB space (space of each unique virtual machine).

  You know this problem or something like that?

  Best regards

  Thanks for your replies, but it's a feature of Netapp called fractional reserve.

  This reserved feature 0% or 100% of the space.

  Has anyone experiences with the option of fractional reserve and volumes NFS for ESXi? What is the best value for this?

  Romano

• USB HDD as a data store and storage of VMS and new virtual machines

  I have a server Esxi 4.1 with 1 TB RAID 5 storage and 3 virtual machines. The storage is full and no space for another HARD disk, so my question is: would it be possible to use a USB HDD as a data store and could be included as a storage for new virtual machines or the VM? If so, could someone let me know how to do it because I'm not able to detect the HARD disk on the host itself.

  No, it is not possible to use a USB drive as a data store.

  Linjo

• VCD 1.5 is not provisioning vms in all data stores

  Hi Experts,

  could someone help me to find why my VCD 1.5 is not put into service of VM in all data stores.

  I have three NFS data warehouses in a VCD and I see that it is not sharing the load between data warehouses. If a volume reached 99% always it is not available on the other Volume that has free space. I heard VCD works on the Round Robin process and also distributes the VM; s in data warehouses.

  Thanks in advance

  Ashok

  With the quick commissioning, we will use the same data store (NFS in your case) that has the existing tree clone linked until you reach the Red threshold of free space.

  Maybe it's not practical with quick commissioning, because once you have 3 GB left... is not a lot of room for the related to grow clones.

  If you want to force the issue, increase the threshold red to something much more on data warehouses.  for example 25% of capacity.

  This will trigger placing of NEW virtual machines on different data stores.

• Get all the VMS in givencluster on the specific data store

  Hello

  I need help, filtering of all virtual machines in a given Cluster, which are located on specific data warehouses. I go so far:

  List of all the virtual machines in a given cluster:

  Get-Cluster CLUSTER-TEST | Get - VM

  List all the virtual machines on given data warehouses:

  Get - VM - data store 'TEST-DATA store.

  But when I try to combine these I still have all the virtual machines (also other clusters) on this data store:

  Get-Cluster CLUSTER-TEST | Get - VM - data store 'TEST-DATA store.

  I also found this command:

  Get-Cluster CLUSTER-TEST | Get - VM | % {@{$_ .name = $_.datastoreidlist | %{(get-View-propriété Name-Id $_).}} Name}}}

  It lists data warehouses for all the virtual machines in the given cluster. Now, I need that filter down to a specific data store.

  I need assistance with anyway =)

  With a nested Where clause and some not-so-nice trick PS it seems to work

  $ds = Get-Datastore Test* | %{$_.ExtensionData.MoRef}
  
  Get-Cluster Test-Cluster | Get-VM |
  where {$vm = $_; $ds | where {$vm.DatastoreIdList -contains $_}}
  

• PowerCli Help: VMs must rely on a data store

  Hi guys,.

  Need help to write a script where I need a number of virtual machines on a data store. This script has a few columns as well.

  I use below but I get no output if VM count is less than 2

  $TotalVM = (get - VM - DataStore $datastore) .count

  I know that there are a few scripts of a liner but I write this script for HTML output, and I also tried

  $TotalVM = get-Datastore Sharepoint_Datastore2 | Select Name, @{N = "TotalVM"; E={@($_ | Get - VM). County}} | Select totalvm

  This gives me the output voltage @{TotalVM = 1}

  I just need the County of VM on a particluar data store, any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance

  You can get the number of virtual machines in a data store with:

  $TotalVM = (Get-Datastore $Datastore | Get-VM | Measure-Object).Count
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Storage vmotion the VMS residing on a store of data to another data store

  I need Storage vmotion all virtual machines residing on a data store to another store of data within the same cluster. All virtual computers have a vmdk... someone has a script or something similar...

  Also, you should be able to:

  Get-Datastore "OldDatastore" | Get-VM | Foreach { Move-VM -Datastore (Get-Datastore "NewDatastore") }
  

  If you found this information useful, please consider the allocation of points for correct or helpful.

  Alan Renouf

  http://Virtu-al.NET

• Have I copied my VMs correctly data store?

  I downloaded two virtual machines from the data store on my ESXi host using the vClient. I ended up with two separate folders on my local machine, but when I look inside the content do not correspond to the respective the VM files in the data store.

  I get a file hard and a *-flat.vmdk file. I searched and if I'm not mistaken the hard is a kind of pointer to the *-flat.vmdk file.

  In fact, my question is when I upload these files to my ESXi host will merge two files and be recognized by virtual machines?

  Thank you

  These 2 files will remain there after you download in the data store, and you need two of them to present the virtual disk to the virtual machine. In VC, you can not see - flat.vmdk always and Yes, you're right about the description of hard you mentioned earlier.

  Craig

  vExpert 2009

  Malaysia, VMware communities - http://www.malaysiavm.com