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• The virtual hard disk size

  For worker Analyzer IO VM, it is recommended to create a larger second virtual hard disk that serves as a target IOmeter.

  
  

  Is the size of the virtual hard drive exactly the same workload working set size, which means that all data in the virtual disk is read from or written to storage during the race?

  Do you have other recommendations to decide what size the second virtual hard disk should be a VM worker?

  Thank you

  Rebecca

  Hi RS_1, it's useful, but I was looking for some additional tips for the user guide.

  I received responses from some of the developers of IO parser and also ran a few tests of my own.

  Iometer generates its I/O based on the number of blocks of target disc (i.e. the manually added virtual hard disk on the worker VM).  The size of the disk hard virtual will be be equivalent to e/s working set size.

  For a virtual hard drive that strikes only cache, a rule would be its size to 100 MB.

  For a virtual hard drive that hits the disk, the virtual hard disk could be sized anywhere from 10 GB to the top. The drive, / o most actually hits disc rather than cache.

  To do this, I created a 200 GB thin provisioned virtual hard disk for my e/s VM Analyzer worker. As I ran the Iometer workload, I could see the thin disc quickly increase from almost nothing to its size fully provisioned. This means that the new virtual hard disk sectors were continually being read and written by Iometer. Interestingly, it only took about 5 minutes to flesh out a whole 200 GB drive. Obviously, this speed would depend on the type of I/O profile used.

  I also tested a 20 GB disk Iometer vs virtual a virtual drive of 200 GB. Average latency, IOPS / s and flow were all better for 20 GB disk - because a greater proportion of e/s in this case was hit the cache, tilt the numbers positively.

  So, even at the drive hard virtual, sizes last 10 GB, size of the VHD will affect yet observed performance to Iometer.

• When you access the virtual machine, getting the error "encountered an error when you try to use one of its virtual hard disks". Help?

  I received the "low disk space error" on a hard drive of the virtual machine dynamic expanding. I have increased my space of virtual hard disk using "My Computer" > manage > storage > "Disk management" and choose "Attach VHD" then resizing to max available (64 GB), and now I can not start the virtual machine. It gives the error: encountered an error when you try to use one of its virtual hard disks. Help?

  Hi NatalieFoster,

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I would recommend posting your query in the TechNet Forums to get help:

  Windows 7 Virtual PC and XP Mode TechNet Forums

• Compact virtual hard disk and change the type of drive in static

  Hi all

  I want to change the type of my dynamic static vm disk and now I want to compact the virtual hard disk memory for this virtual machine but I want to it without affecting the control points of this virtual machine that I created earlier. I use the SCVMM 2012 administration console. Any reg suggestions it will be useful.

  Thank you

  You should post your question in the following forum for help and appropriate responses:

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprovirt

• Machine virtual hard disk (virtual disk) of the upper size limit put into service

  Hi there, so I'm trying to create a hard drive or a virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to configure the virtual machine as a file server. The data store is a Promise VTrak M610P and I installed the vtrak as a type of VMFS5 5,46 TB of space (4 2 hard disks to each RAID 5). In the virtual machine, I added a hard drive and selected the store data vtrak and tried to set the provisioned to 5.46 TB size and type thick lazy disposition to zero, but I get an error of DiskCapControl with the range values. I changed the size set in service and 4 TB and he accepted the new hard drive. I can't find anything on the actual limit on the creation of hard disk in a virtual computer.

  
  

  I'm running a server Supermicro X7DAL-E with VMware ESXi 5.5 U2.

  Any ideas would be useful. Thank you.
  

  I forgot I asked a similar question on a different section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: SMB access using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008 storage

  Here's what I wrote on the link above:

  So it turns out that there seems to be something wrong with vClient when you add a hard disk (virtual disk) to a virtual machine of size greater than 4 TB. Article VMware KB: value of range error message when you add more than 4 TB capacity discs in vSphere Client describes this if you encounter this problem, add the hard drive via vSphere CLI, CLI power or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creation of hard disk, adding to the virtual machine (size of the hard drive is to 5.45) and when I would get the error message on the DiskCapControl out of reach, I would just click OK and then finalize the creation of the hard drive on the virtual machine. Once the process is complete, I selected the virtual machine and noticed that he indeed added a new HDD size 5.45 TB even if he's complained about it. I pulled to the top of the virtual machine with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new disk under windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Looks like vClient must be updated by VMware and correct this bug, if it's a bug that I think. Thank you for the help vervoort!

• Read the last sector of the virtual hard disk

  Hello

  I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium VM inside VMWare Workstation image. I want to access the last sector of this Virtual Hard Drive. However, I do not within Windows 7 itself.

  Instead, I want to start this virtual system using a bootable Livecd. To this end, I can create an ISO using the Windows XP Installation CD and Bart PE Builder.

  Now my question is, how do I boot under VmWare Workstation Livecd Bootable using Bart PE created so that I can access the virtual hard disk.

  And also, once I started the new system, I want to read this last sector of the virtual hard disk. This is for testing purposes. I know, it could be done on a running system as well however, I want to be able to do this in VmWare Workstation.

  I searched the net for a solution. I came across the Disk Explorer utility, which is available here:

  www.Runtime.org/DiskExplorer.htm

  In my view, this will allow me to read the last sector and thus copy. It is however an expensive software. They have even a plugin developed to work with BartPE, which is available online here:

  http://www.Runtime.org/diskexplorer_for_ntfs.cab

  But we need to provide the license key in the .inf for this file to work.

  In any case, I know how to prepare the Windows Bootable Live CD using BartPE.

  Issues related to the:

  How to get started in using a windows live CD VMWare?

  How to access the virtual hard disk of the Windows 7 operating system?

  And finally, are there other alternatives that are easier to explore this disk that would allow me to read the last sector of this virtual hard disk and copy another medium?

  Thank you.

  I am able to use the keyboard in knoppix, but the mouse doesn't seem to work properly. I am able to click right on the desktop but not able to select any option. The behavior of the mice is completely wrong.

  Is it possible to fix it?

  You can try to temporarily adjust the Type of guest OS Linux or edit the .vmx to have these parameters/values or temporarily remove the USB controller.

  usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"
  usb:0.present = "FALSE"
  mouse.vusb.enable = "FALSE"
  

• Is there a way to increase the size of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  HelloW to all.

  I created VM with the size of the hard drive of 80 GB and now I want to increase the size of the 80 GB to 150 GB drive does not add whit extra 70 GB partition but to increase the patitionn of 80 GB.

  Is there a way to increase the size of 150 GB of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  Thanks in advance.

  If the guest operating system is windows, then follow below process-

  Scenario-1 his drive is not the boot partition.

  1. click on the settings of the virtual machine

  2. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  3. go to disk to the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  4. open the cmd/command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  5 then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  6. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  7. exit diskpart.

  Scenario-2 If the drive is the boot partition.

  1. power of the virtual machine. (go on change settings of ==> click on the drive you want to extend ==> copy the path of the disc)

  2. go to any other test VM and add disk--> disk existing use ==> give the drive path that you want to extend ==> Assistant to finish.

  3. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  4. select disk of the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  5. open / cmd command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  6. then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  7. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  8 exit diskpart.

  9. go to change the setting of this test VM and select the hard drive... ==> click on remove virtual machine. (do not drive delete)

• Fusion is stopped because the virtual hard disk capacity is reached

  I run Windows XP Pro in a virtual machine with the German Fusion 3.1.1 on my MacBook 13 "with Mac OS X 10.6.2.

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  But this Windows disk management in the first partition 'Win XP Pro' 15 GB to 30 GB are free. And on the second partition 'Install' 8 GB to 10 GB are free.

  I took the snapshot on the virtual machine and have managed hard disk cleanup. But it does not help. Fusion said I do free 1.2 MB capacity of the virtual hard disk. How can I do this, when the merger does not start?

  The opportunity to make more the virtual hard disk of 40 GB to 50 or 60 GB is blocked, I first have to delete the snapshot. But the snapshot is deleted.

  What can I make Fusion work again?

  czer27 wrote:

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  I doubt that what you quoted is the message itself, so it would be more useful if you attach the .log files.  See information for VMware Fusion to help with that.  Howevere...

  I bet that the message is more like "VMware Fusion has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free at least MB of disk space. "and as such, you must do exactly what means the message and that is free space hard disk Macintosh not space inside the VHD.  After all, it's the Mackintosh HD stored on the Virtual Machine, isn't?

• Virtual hard disk is different from the physical?

  C:\Users\admin > vssadmin list writers
  vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
  (C) copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp..
  Error: Unexpected failure: catastrophic failure

  Hi all, it's a 2003 SP2 x 86 box of 50 gigabytes VHD. Normally on a physical server, if I get such an error I ran check disk, but not sure of the virtual. My question is - should I run check disk on a VHD? Looks like a question of OS, but the goal here is to find out more about VHDs. Is it a common practice to treat a hard virtual as a physical drive? Is in practice to run tools like HDD check disk, defragmentation on a VHD? Where the problem lies if the virtual hard disk has errors & how fix/repair VHDs? Thanks in advance.

  Welcome to the community,

  Basically, you can treat the virtual drives from within the guest as physical OS. Defragmentation may not be useful, but chkdsk is definitely something you need to run in cases like this to check the logical integrity of the NTFS file system.

  André

• Is it possible to transfer everything to a virtual hard disk that is smaller on a virtual hard disk that is larger in VMWare Workstation, using the same virtual machine?

  Hello

  I was wondering if it is possible to transfer everything to a virtual hard disk that is smaller on a virtual hard disk that is larger in VMWare Workstation, using the same virtual machine? In the affirmative, please could someone advise me on how to do it. Also utility management and disk transfer can be used in virtual machines to do this?

  Thank you very much

  Tim Auluck

  I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. Can you please clarify!

  Basically you can resize a virtual drive or add a second virtual disk to a virtual machine and transfer/copy files. You can also resize the virtual disk using VMware Converter for example.

  André

• How to specify the file of virtual hard disk when you create a new virtual machine using virtual hard disk on the data store?

  I'm new to PowerCLI and find quite simple, but in the documentation I read, I don't see how to use a virtual hard drive, existing on a data store when you create a new virtual machine.

  Is this simple registration on the virtual hard disk, or did I miss something?

  My current create VM is the following statement:

  New-VM

  -Name $TargetHostName -host $TargetVMCenterHost -data store $TargetVMCenterDatastore DiskMB - 20000 -MemoryMB $TargetHostMemoryMB -NumCPU $TargetHostCPUs -ID $TargetHostOS -CD -Description $TargetHostName

  Didn't notice this before, but I think that vSphere will use a backslash instead of a slash in the paths.

• Increase the size of virtual hard disk to a virtual computer with snapshots

  Is it possible to increase the size of a virtual hard disk on a virtual machine that has snapshots on this subject?  I can use VMware converter to increase the size of the disk, but who commits snapshots during the conversion-

  Thank you

  As everybody said that it is not a good idea to increase the space for a VM with a snapshot.   The snapshot files are all related originally vmdk and when you change this vmdk he breaks the link.

  A particular reason that you cannot commit the snapshot before adding the space.

• ENVY of HP DV6 7214TX: want to Hp Dv 6 stuck on restart the notebook after adding the 2nd drive hard trolley

  I do not use blue ray. so I bought a new SSD. I put in the main area of the hard drive in the laptop and put the 1 TB hdd disk in the 2nd drive hard carriage and insert it in place of blue ray player.

  Everything work fine except one.

  Whenever I restart the computer it's stuck on the first screen on reboot.

  It doesn't happen when I stop the computer. When I hit the power button, it starts up fine. but on reboot it still stuck on the first screen.

  is my 2nd carriage of failed hard drive or there is another problem.

  Its pretty weired tha on turning off the system starts, but on reboot it stuck on the first screen after startup

  Any ideas what solutions are

  Thank you

  Fassi Fihri

  Hi @FarooqAbdullah,

  Thank you for visiting the Forums HP's Support and welcome. I watched your problem on your laptop dv6-7214tx HP ENVY and issues with a start with your new SSD. You can reset the BIOS with this document by selecting the reload the default BIOS settings. Who has helped others as she seeks the new SSD.

  Note Remove all USB devices. Disconnect all devices of non-essential, as these can cause some problems.

  Here is a link to the HP Support Assistant, if you need it. Simply download and run the application and it will help with the software and drivers on your system.

  I hope this helps.

  Thank you.

• Run a virtual hard disk file in Virtual PC

  Hello

  I recently got a Windows 7 PC to replace a Windows XP machine. However, while I still have access to anything whatsoever on the old PC that I maybe need even once, I did a .vhd on the old hard drive file.

  I can't open this vhd file, because I can't find a way to create a new virtual PC with which use this virtual hard disk.

  Is anyway to do this?

  Thank you
  Richard

  Windows 7 can read files in VHD(Virtual Hard Disk) without VPC (Virtual PC).  You can make the VHD file be seen as a hard drive on the new PC. Here's how to do it.

  Attach the VHD file:
  1. right click on 'My Computer' and click on 'manage '.
  2. go in "Disk management" under "Storage" on the left side.
  3. click on the 'Action' menu on the top and click on "attach VHD.
  4 locate the hard drive file virtual you want to open, you can also make the drive read only just in case you accidentally change something.  Then click on 'OK '.
  5. you should see your virtual hard drive in "My Computer"
  Detach the VHD file:
  1. go in disk management as described in steps 1 and 2 as I explained earlier.
  2. on the bottom half of the window, find the hard drive virtual you want to detach.
  3 click on the "disk #" and click on "remove VHD.
  Good luck. God bless you. :)

• Virtual hard disk

  Hello Sir,

  Charan my name & I'm from the India.

  I have a HP Pavilion P001tx.

  Yesterday, I created a virtual hard disk (.vhd) file by using the disk management window...

  I named the vhd as "chred" file and 200 GB is allocated to the... located in my C drive.

  Before this "chred.vhd" was created, I have 600 GB of free space in my drive C on 900 GB...

  Now, I had only 400 GB left... I don't actually need this file 'chred.vhd '...

  How can I remove and recover my 600 GB of free storage?

  Thanks in advance!

  CR9 wrote:

  Hello Sir,

  Charan my name & I'm from the India.

  I have a HP Pavilion P001tx.

  Yesterday, I created a virtual hard disk (.vhd) file by using the disk management window...

  I named the vhd as "chred" file and 200 GB is allocated to the... located in my C drive.

  Before this "chred.vhd" was created, I have 600 GB of free space in my drive C on 900 GB...

  Now, I had only 400 GB left... I don't actually need this file 'chred.vhd '...

  How can I remove and recover my 600 GB of free storage?

  [Personal information]

  

  Thanks in advance!

  It doesn't look like do you in fact mounted, so whatever you delete the VHD file chred.vhd and space will be available.  For more information on the withdrawal and the removal of virtual hard disks, see this article.