How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

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• Size of the virtual machines on the local data store

  What is the best way to determne the (total) disk space using a virtual machine? We have several virtual machines on local data warehouses and would like to estimate roughly how much disk space to the total number of virtual machines use to caculate how much storage SAN, they will consume. Is there an 'easy' way to socket this information?

  The most accurate way would be to calculate the total space used by the virtual machine files in the data store.

  Connect to the service console

  Navigate to the vmfs volume

  Navigate to the vm folder

  -h.

  This will give you files for this particular virtual machine related to the amount of disk space used by all the vm

  Méhul

• Clone the virtual machine to the local data store

  Hi all

  I'm looking to automate a task daily (or almost) of my friends with a small script with powercli.

  I'm trying to "backup" or to clone a virtual machine, I work in a storage of one of our servers.

  The servers are managed by a 5.1 vCenter and the machine is on a shared storage.

  From time to time, I clean, stop the machine, remove all snapshots and clone the virtual machine to one of the local server as a backup storage. So I put together a small script which almost works. It works as long as the target data store is a shared storage, but not with a local storage.

  I get always an error that claims it can not access the local data store and is not a permissions problem...

  Given that I can accomplish this via the customer without problem I thought it is possible via powercli too, or I'm wrong?

  My Script up to now:

  # Variables
  $VC = "vc.domain.com" #vCenter Server
  $User = "domain\user" #User
  $Pass = 'test123' #User PW
  $VMName = 'scripttest' #VM
  $BackupSuffix = "backup" #Suffix to add the name of VM to mark this as a backup
  $VmHost = "esx2.domain.com".
  $Datastore = 'ESX2-LocalData' #Datastore
  $BackupFolder = 'Backup' #Folder the VM gets classified

  
  

  # Register cmdlets to VMware
  

  If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  
  

  # Connect to the server

  SE connect-ViServer $VC - user $User-password $Pass

  
  

  # Remove the old clone

  $OldBackups = get - VM | WHERE {$_.} {Name: corresponds to '$VMName - $BackupSuffix'}

  If ($OldBackups - don't "")

  {

  If ($OldBackups.Count - gt 1)

  {

  Write-Host "better check! "Found several results:

  Foreach ($VM to $OldBackups)

  {

  Write-Host $VM. Name

  }

  }

  on the other

  {

  Remove-VM - VM $OldBackups - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false

  }

  }

  
  

  # Clone VM

  $VMInfo = get - VM $VMName | Get-View

  $CloneSpec = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec

  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VMInfo.Snapshot.CurrentSnaphshot

  $CloneSpec.Location = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Datastore |) Get - View). MoRef

  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $CloneFolder = $VMInfo.Parent

  $CloneName = "$VMName - $BackupSuffix".

  $TaskCloneID = $VMInfo.CloneVM_Task ($CloneFolder, $CloneName, $CloneSpec)

  
  

  # Check if the task is completed

  
  

  $Check = $false

  While ($Check - eq $false)

  {

  $Tasks = get-job | Select State, id | Where {$_.} State - eq "Running" - and $_. State - eq "pending"}

  ForEach ($Task in $Tasks)

  {

  If ($Task.id - eq $TaskCloneID)

  {$Check = $false}

  on the other

  {$Check = $true}

  }

  Start-Sleep 10

  }

  # Move clone to the backup folder

  Move-VM - VM '$VMName - $BackupSuffix' - Destination $BackupFolder

  
  

  # Disconnect

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Can you show us the complete error message you get?

  BTW, the clone step can be replaced by the New-VM cmdlet with the setting of the virtual machine.

• How can I move virtual memory on hard drive external?

  I use windows xp. I have problems with virtual memory. I have an external hard drive. How can I move virtual memory external hard disk? I get a message that my virtual memory is low. My computer is running very slowly. Is there another answer to my problem?

  You can increase virtual memory instead of what you think now... You can find good info on how to do http://www.delete-computer-history.com/increase-virtual-memory.html and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417. However, for convenience, I'll include some steps below...

  "How to increase virtual memory? ."

  In Windows XP

  1. on start and then click Control Panel.
  2. click on performance and Maintenanceand then click System.
  3. on the Advanced tab, under performance, click settings.
  4. under the Advanced tab, under virtual memory, click on change.
  5. under drive [Volume label], click the drive that contains the swap file that you want to change.
  6. under paging file size for selected drive, click custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you wish to book for virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
  7. click on set
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• How to move a virtual machine to a different data store, preserving its ID

  I would like to move a virtual machine to a different data store.

  Because I use 3rd party software that identifies a virtual machine by its ID of VirtualCenter, I'd like to preserve the ID, and I also want to preserve the name of the virtual computer.

  If I clone the virtual machine, I lose the ID and name.

  I can clone a second time to restore the name, but the ID is always false.

  I know that I can use vmkfstools-i to copy the entire disk.

  Is it possible to copy the entire VM?

  I am currently on ESX 3.0.2/VC 2.0.2

  The operation that I describe is available in 3.5.x/VC ESX 2.5.x

  TIA,

  -Magister

  Don't use EVER of CP to copy a VM, VMDK move/copy should be used in conjunction with vmkfstools as best practice.

  OP,

  You can manually make a copy using the CLI interface or use the VI Client and browse the data store and to copy and paste in the appropriate data and as suggested Andre store, when you switch on for the first time, you should say 'keep' when asked if you want to update the virtual machine UUID.

  Another thing, you could do, is if you've enabled for vMotion, you can actually use Storage vMotion which will migrate directly from your virtual machine to a different data store, it's less effort on your side and you can count on Andrew Kutz sVMotion plugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/

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• Transfer of virtual machines from a server ESXi 3.5 to new ESXi 4.1 server. What is the procedure.

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  Maybe it's the best guid for upfrading to vSphere - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf

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• List not updated virtual machines after the migration of the virtual machine to a different data store

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