How to understand that ESXi has mounted a data store?

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• How do I cancel the mapping of a data store of esxi host without data loss

  Dear team,

  I want to cancel a data store that is mapped on two cluster mapping (cluster1 10 esxi host and cluster2 esxi 4 guests)

  
  

  
  

  Query1

  What step will be OK

  Disassemble = > detach = > start the activity of storage (storage poweroff) movement = > move the storage = > poweron = > join = > mounting

  or

  Disassemble = > detach = > team san will cancel the mapping = > start the activity of storage (storage poweroff) movement = > move the storage = > poweron = > san team will map the data store = > join = > mount

  Query2:

  Once I sail, I am able to see vpshere ha and dvs folder data, I just want to confirm if I want to take it apart and to separate the data store it will allow me to do it or it will throw an error, please confirm.

  Query3:

  If we remove and detach a data store, before that I have to cancel the registration of all the virtual machines?

  
  

  
  

  concerning

  Mr. Vmware

  Please find the right measures

  Query1

  
  

  before the take-off of export activity VM that are stored on the data store

  
  

  Home-online store of data and the data cluster store => select the data-VMs online store => add all columns => take export VM

  
  

  take the last export RVTool.

  
  

  
  stop all VMs-online you unsubscribe from all models and virtual computers-online RK on Cluster (change the setting-online data store-online here hearbeating we have to choose another data store and click OK)

  
  

  to confirm the new data store is visible as heartbeat data store select Cluster-online Sumamry-online state Custer-online Heartbeat Datastore)

  If we are able to see the new data store, then now remove old data from the heart rate data store store

  
  

  RK on Cluster (change the setting-online data store-online here hearbeating he have to uncheck the data store and click OK)
  

  
  

  disassemble => detach (you will need to perform this step on all esxi hosts)-online san team will be unmap-online beginning of movement storage (storage poweroff) => move the storage-online poweron-online san team will map the data-attach online store ((need to perform this step on all esxi hosts) => set up the data store)

  
  

  Register for all virtual machines

  
  

  PowerOn all VMs if get message (moved or copied) select moved.

  
  

  Query2:

  He doesn't throw any errors, will work flawless.

  
  

  Query3:

  Yes we must cancel the registration of all models and virtual computers before disassembling a data store.

  
  

  concerning

  Mr. VMware
  

  
  

  
  

• After the migration of ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 Update 1, ESXi containing the missing data store

  I intend to upgrade to an ESXi 4.1 production host, but I want to run through an upgrade of test on a separate machine. I created this using a virtual machine and the upgrade went well. However, now when I insert my vSphere client, I don't see the data store that contains data to my VM.

  Before migrating to 5, I had 2 drives, a disk of 4 GB for ESXi, and a 40 GB drive for the data of the VM installation. I could see and access times stores via the 4.1 vSphere client, but once the upgrade only the VM data store is available. Is there a reason that this is the case?

  I've updated but has not changed the partitions of data store. I have selected to migrate and keep the VMFS store, which was VMFS-3. I also tried to add the store drive 4 GB with the customer data, but an error message: "the selected disk already has a vmfs data store or the host cannot perform a conversion of partition table.
  Select another disk.

  I found this article on error message: http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2000454 , but I never actually removed from the data store. With the help of the 5.0 ESXi update I can see the VMFS store on 4 GB drive, which should have about 3.2 GB of available disk space (the rest being used by the hypervisor).

  Recommended someone else try esxconfig-volume - the list, and then use the output to a mount (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1666168#1666168), but the list command had no output at all.

  I searched through the forums and Google but you saw nothing.

  ESXi 5 has a different architecture, and I think that the problem is the size of the disk (too small) and the partition of scratch required.

  Have a look here:

  • http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-50-installation-Setup-Guide.PDF (page 153)
  • http://communities.VMware.com/message/1848769
  • http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1033696
  • http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2011/03/OPS-changes-part-5-scratch-partition.html

  HTH

  Sam

• 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.

  Thank you!

  Actually figured out how to get the path of the data store, and how a drive zeros. In case it is useful to share the code here:

  var vimHost = vm.vimHost; VM instanceof VCVirtualMachine

  var vDiskMgr = vimHost.virtualDiskManager;

  for each disk

  var features = vm.config.hardware.device;

  for each {(dev var in devices)

  dev.backing contains a lot of useful things...

  If (dev instanceof VcVirtualDisk) {}

  a disc!

  var dsPath = dev.backing.fileName;

  System.log ("path of disk:" + dsPath);

  Data var Center =

  System.getModule('com.vmware.library.vc.datastore').getDatacenterForDatastore (dev.backing.datastore);

  var vcTask = vDiskMgr.eagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task (dsPath, datacenter);

  wait

  var waitResult =

  System.getModule('com.vmware.library.vc.basic').vim3WaitTaskEnd (vcTask, true, 5);

  }

  }

• How can I add an ISO to the data store?

  How can I add an ISO to the data store?  It doesn't let me access the ISO.

  of the error, it seems that your iso is bad.

  hitting a md5 checksum or re-download the iso

• Try to re-signing and mount a data store

  Hi all

  I'm stuck trying to develop a "workflow" and hoping you can help. We need to make a daily DR copy of a production database and edit this copy on another virtual machine. The database feeds a hard with his own logic unit number and is heavily used, so we can suspend only wrote a few minutes.

  
  

  Here are the high-level workflow:

  1. Suspend the entries in the database
  2. Create a virtual copy (snapshot) of the LUN on our 3PAR
  3. Resume database entries
  4. Export (present) the virtual copy of the 3PAR to the ESXi cluster
  5. A rescan storage on all hosts in the cluster
  6. Add the LUN and re-signature of the data store
  7. Mount the VMDK from the new LUN to the VM test

  I fight a bit to make the portion of ESXi work. I can re-scan storage successfully on my host, but I'm not able to go up and re-signing of the data store newly discovered. Onyx told me to use resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task , but the action failed with "TypeError: cannot find the resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task function in the object (Instance) DynamicWrapper: [VcHostSystem]-[class com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.model.VimHostSystem]" I run 5.5.2 vRO/vCO and don't have the library installed vi4 nor do I have all the actions that will be re-signing a volume.

  So I wonder, ResignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task has been deprecated and replaced by something else? Or did someone knows a library/plugin that I can add to vRO who will give me the opportunity to re-signing a data store?

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  See you soon!

  Hello

  The error message, it seems you are trying to call the method resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task() on the object of type VcHostSystem. something like that

  var task = hostSystem.resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task(spec);
  

  The problem is that resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task() is not a method of type VcHostSystem, but in VcHostDatastoreSystemcharacters, therefore, you get this error.

  To fix it, you must obtain an object of type VcHostDatastoreSystem. Research in the API Explorer, you should be able to get VcHostDatastoreSystem object VcHostSystem object through the configManager property (which returns an object of type VcHostConfigManager), then property of datastoreSystem . Something like the following code:

  var task = hostSystem.configManager.datastoreSystem.resignatureUnresolvedVmfsVolume_Task(spec);
  

  I don't have a good environment to test, but it should work.

  I hope this helps.

• How to increase the size of the iSCSI data store?

  I try to add an iomega StorCenter as an iSCSI target.  I added the storage card which indicates the total capacity of 8,13 TB in vSphere Client (it looks like the right size).  Now when I add the data store, however, is that there only 128,75 GB of capacity (this is where the problem).  How can I recover the full space available?  It's almost as if I need to increase size of partition or something, but I don't know how to do this.

  Also, if I click on the data store > properties, the increase... button opens a dialog box, but there is nothing for me to choose.

  System / / desc:

  ESXi 4.0

  3.33 VMFS datastore file format

  Max file size: 256 GB

  Block size: 1 MB

  (This does not have room for the VDR backups)

  Welcome to the community - ESX 4 only supports storage of 2 TB - 512 B data - you will need to carve up the storage being presented in LUNS which are smaller than 2 TB - 512b

• ESXi host sees no data store after the reboot

  Hi all

  I'm new to the community and ESXi itself.  Everything has been working great until today when I rebooted my host.

  I installed it on a Dell T110 server, we had in the back for testing.  It has a 250 GB HARD drive installed in the case.  ESXi installed fine and I had 220 GB or more storage at my disposal.  Multiple VM installed, and once again, everything seems to work properly.

  Today, I wanted to activate usb passthrough for a Server 2008 VM I installed it, I went through the process and had to reboot the host at the end.

  After the restart, he seems to have forgotten the HARD disk that is installed and is no longer, I see my store data or virtual machine access I had running.

  There are a couple screenshots attachedthat screen what I see.

  Thanks for any help or advice!

  Is this the same controller that is attached to the 250 GB HARD drive? Passing the controller to the virtual computer may have unpresented it host, then you won't be able to access and to store configuration settings. Since this is a test system you can consider / try to run "Reset System Configuration" from the DCUI. If this does not work, you may need to reinstall ESXi of CD (the VMFS retaining of course data store).

  André

• ESXi 4 and USB data store

  Is it possible to use a USB external hard drive as the data store used by ESXi 4?  If so, how do you implement it?  Thank you very much!

  Hello

  No, I'm sorry to say that this is not supported and will not longer work.

  --

  Wil

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• How to limit the I/O in a data store?

  Hello

  Not sure if storage i/o control can accomplish what I want. so, here's the scope. We have an EMC e 3300 connected via iSCSI on our ESXis 5.0 U2. We have a virtual machine that generates a lot of IO.

  Is there anyway to limit the OPS are / s to a specific virtual machine to the data store, so it not to saturate the pipe set iscsi?

  Thank you

  There is a limit of IOPS / s on the virtual disk as an option... You can assign to that.

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1038241

• How to remove the virtual computer on a data store

  I'm moving VM (by the data store) to my new cluster data store and as I release a DS I have delete and create new with VMFS5.  I just emptied a data store but when I run the following command it shows again two VM on the same DS so when I navigate on the DS it is empty.

  Get-datastore-name "DS_NAME | Get - vm | FT name

  How to see where/how/why these two VMs are on the DS when it seems to be empty, and I'm assuming that PowerCLI is my best result. Of course, I don't want to just delete the DS as possible casue a problem with these virtual machines.  When I look at the settings them of each virtual machine they show that they are on a store of separate data and not that I'm trying to delete.

  Any help is appreciated

  Thank you

  Sean

  You can do:

  Notice-EEG-Id | Get-VIObjectByVIView

  or:

  Get - VM | Get-Datastore

• How to UN Manual/Auto-Clenup, use the data store

  There are so many records in the data store that do not connect to any model, but still there is anyway that I have ran manul clenup?

  I check the datasotre and no doubt that the "length of the string' are '0' (I consolidate them) and no matter what clone a link on that particulat data store. When I log on to the server and check the data store, I see more than 50 files in 6VMs here and only in LM.

  Upon consolidation, I found that the LM has lost contact to esxhost very often, I have to manually restart the agent to get the connection works, is - what the cause of reason left old metadata in the esxhost and do not delete not come out correctly?

  The United Nations use forder delete directly in the vCenter?

  Yes.  Cut out the documentation:

  Garbage collection is automatic detection and release images that are no longer in use. Lab Manager does not immediately remove the files associated with a virtual machine.

  Lab Manager stores the virtual machine files in a tree of related related clones. Each pass of the garbage collector involves an attempt to delete the nodes that have no dependencies. Several passes over time may be required to free space associated with a virtual machine.

• How to copy a virtual machine from a data store

  I was trying to speed up my make my VM to an EXSi Server (no used vmotion) test to a new ESX Server by downloading the records of the data bank on the ESXi server to store data on the new ESX Server.  Can someone give me instructions or point me in the direction on how to create a virtual computer from new data warehouses, I can see the new data store but I'm unable to create VMS of him.

  Thank you

  Browse the data store and find the .vmx file, right-click on it and choose "add to the inventory.

• How to remove a VCD 5.5.2 data store

  people,

  can you please tell me the steps to remove VCD 5.5.2 datastore?

  I see the ability to disable the data store, but there is no delete or remove the option in VCD 5.5.2.

  Make sure that vCD does no space set aside in manage and monitor, then remove the tag corresponding to the storage policy or profile of the vSphere client data store.

  So don't forget not/note, vCD cares about individual data warehouses.

  He asked vCenter... that data warehouses are storage/profile of strategy called 'Gold '? (or whatever it's called)

  vCenter responds with a list of stores of data that match the policy/profile.

  vCenter knows this association based on the storage/strategy profile looking for specific tags on data warehouses.

• ESXi and VMFS imaging data store

  I need to mass produce ESXi USB key as well as a large store of data VMFS.  We know good products or procedures to go on a USB stick of imagery, as well as imaging ESXi a VMFS datastore.

  For the stick, I'd use dd on Linux machine.

  For the data store, you can use a disk imaging tool like Capitol or Ghost or you export your VMS and import destination.

  Once the image is created (or virtual machines are exported) you can easily copy them.

  André