Hypervisor to USB instead of data store

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• Possible to use a USB stick as data store

  I got an esxi 5 installed on a 8 GB USB key, but I want to use all the space on the left.

  I just need to create a really tiny VM, optimized to work on flash.

  Is not production

  Anyone got a way?

  Maybe...

  Download a binary nfsd?

  Download a binary of iscsi target?

  Do some virtual data store?

  Using the magical commands over ssh?

  Help.

  I really want to buy another sata controller + drive hard (there no so small that 8 GB hd now)

  No.... I mean with normal USB virtualization introduced in vSphere 4.1

  In vSphere 5 is fast enough to run a full USB 2.0 emulation.

• USB drive as data store?

  Is it possible to add an external USB TB drive as a data store?  If so, how?

  It is not possible to use a USB key as a data store. You'd better add a NAS device to the network which supports to iSCSI or NFS. You can also look at eSATA although you won't get hot with ESXi plug opportunities.

• Copy files of UN USB has a data store

  Nuevo gran duda:

  Tengo una en UN USB VM.

  Traspasar VM one esa wants a virtual mi infrastructure data store.

  Quiero el Connect USB a host UN y hacer copia her al DataStore as pertoque.

  How should hacerlo? El etectara El ESX USB? Home will be necessary reiniciar el?

  Saludos.

  Xavier

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  Simplemente al pinchar UN disco usb, esx el lo's a ver como/dev/sdX, con lo you is montarlo y cease knew contenido al/vmfs/volumes/datastore

  Said you lo del porque luego converter you tocara con trastear el vmkfstools para convert el do disco al formato thick thin o use you esx porque no admite el formato del disco server.

  If esta u otra respuesta're util, por favor su marca used notificador.

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• 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

• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• Mounting external USB HDD to host copy all the s vm to the local data store

  I have a scripted ESXi installation that works very well, but once the installation is completed I want to copy all the VM from a disk external DRIVE to store data on the host computer.

  There is no attached servers/clients, so it must be done from the host itself.

  in thele/var/log/usb.log file on the hard drive is recognized, but how to access and copy all the external HARD disc VM in the data store?

  install vmware tools

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  Good luck!

• Should what type of data store I use in VSphere Hypervisor

  Hello

  I'm very new to VMWare VSphere Hypervisor, I downloaded the free version of VSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1 and began assessing the same thing on my HP DL360 G6 server.

  I installed VSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1 on my HP DL 360 G6 server. I configured everything that is possible, but I'm really confused to choose the type of data store. My HP Server has 500 GB SAS hard drive.

  Kind regards

  Naushad Khan.

  Take a look at the HP Quickspecs for your HP Server

  from: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13235_na/13235_na.html

  Battery HP series P with 512 MB Backed Write Cache upgrade	462967 B21
  HP 1 GB Flash backup Cache NOTE: Support on the Smart Array P410i controller only.	534562 B21

  Doble check if one of these two options is included in your server (assuming you have the P410i controller).

  André

• Data store mobile (vm machine) 1 host to another with the help of free hypervisor on the two hosts

  I have 2 hosts running ESXi 4.1 (free version of the hypervisor). Both have their own data store locally.

  I need to move a VM machine (data store) of a host for the other local data store. There best way to do this with the free hypervisor?

  Hello

  Using VMWare Converter standalone 4.0, it's a free VMWare tool exactly for situations like yours. I use the conversion tool to transfer my virtual machines much between different hosts of ESXi and also founded to convert ESXi VMs to VMWare Server/Workstation and vice versa.

  All you need to do is turn off the virtual machine and make sure that it is in the inventory of the ESXi host source; Use the VMWare Infrastucture option while selecting the source and the destination of VMWare Converter Standalone, you will be asked to provide identification name and connection of your ESXi source servers and destination information.

  VMWare Converter Standalone is a brialliant tool, its very flexible in that you can resize your hard drive, use a provisioning, edit all devices.

  Hope this information useful for you.

  Nikhil

• 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.

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  Wil

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• Problems with the data store when installting ESXi USB

  I had problems getting free ESXi reliable running.  I am able to install a flash drive fine and initially everything works and I am able to create virtual machines.  Upon the first connection to vSphere, told me that there is no data store, so I create one on my controller LSI 400 GB RAID1 8308elp without problem.  However, once I reboot the server ESXi I lose the data store.  When I check my warehouses under Configuration it is listed.  At this point, if I try to create the data store, yet once I get "Error during the configuration of the host".  I read about using fdisk from the console when people have had this problem but there is no access console in the free version.  Is that what I can do to work around this problem?

  Right in the HCL... SAS/SATA-RAID of the lists for older versions, SCSI for the current version... Search within i/o devices for "LSI 8308elp '...

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• IP address on the virtual machine windows endangered endangered after the importation of the data store.

  I'm gaving a problem with the IP on windows vm disappear after having mounted the snapshot to restore. Here's what I do.

  Mount making LUNS to the esx host area

  I have eyebrows outside the data store to find the vm I want to right click and click Import the vmx file.

  Imports of the virtual machine and when I start it up I wonder if I've moved or copied the VM. I have tried both moved and copy but when I connect to the virtual machine is missing all its IP info.

  Any way to avoid the losting vm sound IP info when I import to the host from a LUN outlet?

  Hello

  Installs on the forum of the Virtual Machine and the guest operating system.

  The MAC of a virtual computer is based on the UUID/name of the virtual machine so if you are not using a static MAC (one that recognizes VMware) and it will change the IP address might also change if you are using DHCP. So I suggest to use a static MAC in the VM configuration.

  Another way is to set up the guest operating system in the virtual machine with a static IP address instead of a DHCP function.

  But if you are unable to remove the virtual machine or the copy in the virtual machine, there may be something locking these files would be an another running virtual machine. If you need to find this VM and kill him. In this case, "vmware-cmd - L" and 'vmware-cmd - l' host in question can be useful to find where the 'hidden' VM is running.  Ultimately you can use ' vm-support - x "to find a list of the virtual machines running by how the hypervisor lists. Then use 'vm-support - Z' to suspend the offending virtual machine that should unlock everything.

  Yes, the use of these commands is command line.

  However, before using these commands determine if you can find the place where life VM incriminated.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  Host communities, VMware vExpert,

  Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the 2nd business edition

  Podcast: the Podcast for security virtualization of resources: the virtual virtualization library

• Can't see the logical volume when creating data store - vSphere 4.1

  Hi guys, got another problem with ESXi 4.1 on a HP Proliant ML350 G6.

  ESXi 4.1 update 1 has been installed successfully on the server on an internal USB. Our next step is to create a store of data through the vSphere client.

  The server has five 500 GB SAS configured in a RAID 5 array drives. The server has a HP Smart Array P410i RAID controller. I see five physical disks and logical volume of about 2.3 TB in RAID Utility. However, when access us the hypervisor via the vSphere client and try to create a data via a storage LUN/local store, the display shows then no logical volumes or the drive bays on which to create a data store.

  We are usnure why this is, as the ESXi 4.1 installation program could see this logical volume when I was installing the hypervisor, but he does not appear in vSphere for use in a data store.

  If anyone can help?

  Thank you very much.

  Each disk must be less than 2 TB - 512b

• NETGEAR Stora as data store ESXi 4.0?

  Hello

  I was wondering if anyone has had any success using the Stora as a data store for ESXi.  I tried openfiler unsuccessfully for 2 weeks and went got a Stora without doing research.  Thought that it would be good to go because it was attached to the network.  I had and saw that it is 'not very' what I expected.  Can someone give a newbie ESXi a hand up?

  If this is the wrong place to ask please point in the right direction and I'll post go.

  Thanks in advance

  Russ

  Just for a test, if you are ready to try linux, you can go without affecting one installed the other os, like this:

  • Download Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop

  • Burn it to a CD

  • Boot the CD in the desktop (use the option "Try Ubuntu 10.04 LTS" instead of "install...) »)

  • Attach the external drive, it will be displayed as an icon on the desktop

  • Use package manager to download and install (it works as a facility, even if it does not write permanently) nfs-server (by using the shell, that would be like "sudo apt - get install nfs-server)

  • The nfs-server package will be downloaded, installed and started

  • Using the shell, you issue "mount" to see where the USB drive has been mounted (something like/media/LabelOfTheDisk)

  • question "ifconfig eth0" to see the IP address of your Ubuntu (must be using DHCP).

  • Reuse the shell, you must edit the file/etc/exports (like "sudo nano/etc/exports)

  • Add the following "/ media/LabelOfTheDisk IPAddressOfESXi (rw, no_root_squash, sync, no_subtree_check).

  • CTRL + X ends nano, use 'Y' to save

  • issue of 'sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server reload"to load the modified/etc/exports

  • Now you should be able to use the nfs in your ESXi Server (add datastore, NFS, Server = "IP of Ubuntu", folder = ' / media/LabelOfTheDisk ")

  Going like that, you should be able to test your configuration. This is a test, the performance will be at least the mounted disk is most often empty. The disc may be NTFS or vFAT which are not best for linux.

• copy the iso in the data store? ESXi?

  Hey guys,.

  I was wondering if there is any way I can copy an iso image / a bone in the data store instead of use a disc to load it up.

  I use an esxi 3.5 hypervisor, I don't think it's possible, but I'm guessing that it might be a way.

  Please help.

  Thank you

  RJ

  We will all live a virtual life...

  in the click of VIC on your ESXi host, then double click on the data store in which you want to download the iso, there is an option to download files...