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• 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    }
     }
  }
  

• Shrink a VM HD - is the destination data store need to have enough space for the source or destination VM?

  Hi all

  I have an existing file with HD Server configures:

  HD1: 60 GB

  HD2: 20 GB

  HD3: 650 GB

  Total: 730 GB

  I intend to shrink HD3 250 GB that will give me a new total of 330 GB.

  My question is, when I rode the VMware Converter Standalone process and I get to the step where I select the 'destination '.  Obviously, I need to select a data store that can adapt to the virtual destination machine.

  My concern is that it shows the size of the source disk (Go 730) (see image below), and for some reason any part of the conversion process the destination data store requires the storage of the size of 330 GB vm 730GB as opposed to the 'new '.

  

  Can anyone confirm?

  Thank you

  There are no for the data store 730 GB free in order to submit the conversion. 330 GB free (size after reduction) would be sufficient.

  If you also select a provisioning, you could even start the conversion with less free space on the data store, but it may fail at some point, if the actual data meet.

• remove the Cluster data store data store

  I have an infrastructure with vCenter and ESXi 4 5.5 I have a data cluster store in SAN with 8 Mon, I need to remove 3 Lun (to be used for other purposes) what is the appropriate procedure

  to remove the Lun (end then to destroy)? Thank you

  Do you want the LUN to use for purpose of non-vSphere? If so, you can just storage vMotion virtual machines since associated LUN data warehouses that you want to decommission (or simply putting the data store in maintenance mode, in this way, that the virtual machines will automatically be migrated). Cleaning after the data store, move the data store from the cluster data store, and then delete the VMware environment data store as described here: best practices: how to properly remove a unit number logic of a host ESX - VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

• Disk groups are not visible cluster. vSAN datastore exists. 2 guests (on 8) cluster do not see the vSAN data store. Their storage is not recognized.

  http://i.imgur.com/pqAXtFl.PNG

  http://i.imgur.com/BnztaDD.PNG

  Do not know how even tear it down and rebuild it if the disk groups are not visible. The discs are in good health on each host storage adapters.

  Currently the latest version of vCenter 5.5. Hosts running 5.5 build 2068190

  Just built. Happy to demolish and rebuild. Just do not know why it is not visible on the two hosts and the disk groups are only recognized 3 guests when more are contributing. Also strange that I can't get the disk groups to fill in vCenter. I tried two different browsers (chrome and IE).

  I have now works.

  All the identical 5.5 relies on ESXi hosts. All hosts are homogeneous CPU/sum of the prospects for disk controller / installed RAM/storage.

  I have work. I had to manually destroy all traces of the vSAN on each single to help host node:

  (1) put the hosts in maintenance mode and remove the cluster. I was unable to disable vSAN in the cluster, I made on each node host (manually via the CLI below) then disconnected web client vCenter and return to finally refresh the ability to disable on the cluster.

  esxcli vsan cluster get - to check the status of each host.

  esxcli vsan cluster drop - the vSAN cluster host.

  storage of vsan esxcli list - view records in the individual host group

  esxcli vsan storage remove-d naa.id_of_magnetic_disks_here - to remove each of the disks in the disk group (you can ignore this using the following command to remove the SSD only falling each disc in this host group).

  esxcli vsan storage remove s naa.id_of_solid_state_disks_here - this is the SSD and all the magnetic disks in a given disk group.

  After that, I was able to manually add hosts to the cluster, leave maintenance mode and configure the disk groups. Aggregated data of the vSAN data store is correct now, and everything is functional.

  Another question for those of you who still read... How to configure such as the VM storage strategy that migrates towards (or inspired) the vSAN data store will immediately resume the default storage policy, I built for VSANs?

  Thanks for anyone who has followed.

• ESXi 5.0 servers don't recognize that same NFS share to the same data store

  I have a setup of vSphere 5.0 running VMware Workstation 8.  I have two ESXi servers that are accumulating the same NFS share (with the same IP address and the same directory path), but for some reason, they don't recognize it as the same data store.  I deleted and added to the data store again and checked that I am getting the same way on both nodes.  However, vSphere don't let me use the same name when I ride sharing NFS as a data store on the second node. vSphere changes the name of "NFSdatastore" to "NFSdatastore (1)" and will not let me change, say that the name already exists.

  The NFS file server is a VM of 2.99 OpenFiler, which IP 192.168.0.100 (and is in DNS as "openfiler1").  The path is "/ mnt/vsphere/vcs/datastore.

  The NFS mount works great as a data store on the two servers ESXi, except for the fact that vSphere sees two data stores.  I have a Red Hat VM running on each of them, and when I browse the data of each ESXi Server store, I can definitely see two configs VM, as well as a few ISO images that I put on the NFS share.  However, I can't vMotion as he complains about not being able to access the configuration file and the file virtual disk (vmdk) of the other node.

  On the OpenFiler, the directory/mnt/vsphere/vcs/datastore is the property of "ofguest" in the "ofguest" group, and the permissions are "drwxrwsrwx +".  All files under the directory are also held by "ofguest" in the group "ofguest".  Vmx files have permissions "rwxr-xr-x + ', and the vmdk files have permissions ' rw +-

  I did a lot of Google search, read best practices, etc.  Any help is appreciated.

  UPDATE: he Figured out - leakage / on one of the paths of NFS mounting.  DOH!

  Maybe this can help you:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1005930

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1005057

  Concerning

• Question about the replica data store

  I am set up a plan view and I can't find anything on the lines how much I should put on a data store. We have a pretty small environment with approximately 120 related clones.

  Can I create pools of 5 to 10 for all use the same data replica store? I don't want to have all these little datastore who chew on the SAN iSCSI connections. It would be easier to have a data store that is easy to move all replicas.

  Thank you.

  Yes, you can store several replicas to a data store.  It is often considered to be best practices in order to unload the aftershocks of a SSD data store.    I just would make sure that the data store can handle IO reading for all replicas.

• Can I delete the local data store on esx 3.5?

  I have a client with vmware ESX 3.5 no esxi

  They have a local data store but it is formatted with a block size of 1 MB, so I can put only a 256 GB VM out there and I need to put a test VM with a larger size.

  I know that in ESXi 4 you can simply delete the local data store and create a new, but I'm not familiar with ESX 3.5, are there hidden files on the data store that the server uses?  If I search for the store there's nothing in there.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Hi Mike,.

  You can simply reformat your data store. Take a look at the following article:

  • http://userssuck.com/2007/07/12/how-to-change-the-blocksize-of-a-VMFS-filesystem/

  Of course, you must back up and delete any data you have on this data store before the format operation.

  Good luck!

  Concerning

  Franck

• Migrated virtual machine appears in the two data stores

  Hi all

  A bit of background on our installation first. servers ESX 3.5 vcenter 4.0 (just improved 2.5) + 2 + 2 data warehouses configured in 1 box of MSA.

  Here is what happened. I've migrated a VM from A to B data store using "Migrate" in vSphere client on vCenter.

  On the vSphere client, virtual machine displays now two data warehouses. In the browser data store, the vme even appears in the two data stores. Datastore shows 20 GB to 20 GB provisioned and 0 GB to 20 GB used. B displays 20 of 20 put into service and used 20 20 GB.

  Migration seems to have succeeded. I migrated about 10 other vm and they reside only on a data store. All virtual machines are working properly. I tried to migrate the computer back to A virtual. He showed only a data store. But the problem appeared again when I migrated the vm to B. I tried to move the virtual machine back and forth between servers ESX, no difference.

  Any ideas? The virtual machine is working well, and it is not necessarily a critical problem. But it's annoying, because I intend to reorganize the data store has and the fear it could cause a problem.

  Thank you so much in advance!

  anything mounted on the CD/DVD drive, as an ISO which can be on A Datastore?

• Good way to use the concurrent data store

  Hello

  I'm developing a multithreaded C++ application that uses the C++ of Berkeley DB Library.

  In my case, I have several databases that I composed in a wooded area. It is important for me to use an environment because I need control over the cachesize parameter.

  I don't need no guarantee of transaction and have for most of the readings, so I decided to use the "simultaneous database.

  I first pre-fill all databases with a number of entries (configuration single-threaded phase) and then work on it at the same time (for most readings, but also insertions and deletions).

  I tried all kinds of different configurations, but I can't work without specifying DB_THREAD as a flag of the environment.

  I don't want to because then access all handles is synchronized sequentially according to the documentation:

  "... Note that the activation of this indicator will serialize calls to DB using the handle between the threads. If

  simultaneous scaling is important for your application, we recommend handles separate for each thread opening

  (and do not specify this indicator), rather than share handles between threads. "

  (Berkeley DB QAnywhere C++)

  So I tried to open the environment with the following indicators:

  DB_CREATE | DB_PRIVATE | DB_INIT_MPOOL | DB_INIT_CDB

  All data in this environment handles are open only with the DB_CREATE flag.

  So, since my understanding this same basic access handles need to be synchronized, I opened separate handles foreach database for each thread (opening the handles is still single-threaded).

  In my first approach, I have only made use of the object of global environment. Which does not work and gives the following during operations error message:

  DB_LOCK-> lock_put: Lock is no longer valid

  So I thought, since the same handle global env is passed to all handles separate DB, it is perhaps a race condition critical on the handful of approx.

  So in my next test, I opened also handles separate EPS in each thread (and db handles owned each).

  That does not produce an error in db, but now it seems that each thread sees its own version of the databases (I call it stat early in the life of each thread and he sees all of the empty dbs).

  What is the right way to use the concurrent data store? Each thread should really open his own set of db handles? What about the number of open handles env?

  PS: Without specifying that the DB_PRIVATE flag seems to do the job, but for performance reasons, I want all operations to perform in the cache and do not specify product DB_PRIVATE average of several writes to the disk for my scenario.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  CD (simultaneous database) allows a single editor with multiple drives, access to the db at a given point in time.    The handle for the writer doesn't have to be shared with readers.   If you share the DB handle then calls are synchronized, but if each thread has its own handle DB then this is not the case.     Since you have an environment, DB_THREAD must be at the level of the environment.   This will allow the sharing of the environment handle.     This type of error "DB_LOCK-> lock_put: Lock is no longer valid" you can provide us your code so we can take a look.   Also what BDB version are you using?

• Move-VM error: VM must be managed by the same VI servers as the destination data store

  I work with 2 ESXi servers and a single vCenter server with vSphere 6.0 Update 1 b; and PowerCLI 6.0 Release 2

  I have an a datacenter, cluster, vCenter and a vDS.  I need to pass the vCenter data store to another and get the error message:

  "Move-VM VM you are moving should be handled by the same server of VI as the destination container and the data store.

  Code looks like the following:

  $vctObj = to connect-viserver $vctIPaddress

  $esx1Obj = to connect-viserver $esx1IPaddress

  $esx2Obj = to connect-viserver $esx2IPaddress

  $vmObj = get-vm-name $vmname - Server $vctObj

  $destDSobj = get-datastore-name $destDSname

  Move-vm - vm $vmObj Datastore - $destDSobj - 'End' DiskStorageFormat

  I can migrate successfully from the virtual machine to vCenter data store through the VI Client, but PowerCLI left me speechless.

  Maureen

  Try to use the Server parameter on the Get-Datastore line

• Extremely high latency during the migration of the local data store to data store shared.

  Hi guys I hope you help me. Sorry for my English btw, I'm not native.

  Let's start!

  I have:

  1 vCenter
  1 host
  1 Distributed Switch (with a pg for managing network/IPstorage the esxi)
  1 standard switch (empty)
  1 FreeNAS to provide iSCSI LUNS
  1 Microsoft to provide iSCSI LUNS

  When I try to migrate virtual machines between the warehouses of shared data or data shared at local store, all right. The problem has become when I try to migrate virtual machines from the local to the shared data store. All data stores down (all paths down) and back up and I get this error:

  "Error caused by the /vmfs/volumes/volumenID/VMDirectory/Disk.vmdk file.

  
  When I try to migrate virtual machines from the local to the FreeNAS iSCSI data store it fails immediately.
  When I do the same local Microsoft iSCSI datastore that it takes a time loooooong to migrate the virtual computer, give it to me even all the paths downwards and uplinks down error but not lacking in migration.

  I'll give you some screenshots to see the errors.

  Thank you very much!

  EDIT: I have extremely high latency notice when I try to migrate from the premises of warehouses of shared data. average 2000ms with peaks of 50,000 (see my response below for more information)

  Finally, I found the solution! The problem is that I have been using E1000E vmnic instead of vmxnet3. I have configured an adapter vmxnet3 and boom! 20 ms in all migration!

  Thank you to all for help, especially Nick_Andreev !

• Expand the Local data store

  Hello

  I have an ESX 4.1 with only a data store local (RAID5) on virtual machines on a DELL Server

  I want to enlarge the data store, I don't have enough free space to create multiple virtual machines.

  To do:

  -Install a new hard drive (with vmware powered)

  -Add the new hardisk to Raid5 with DELL Open manage

  -wait finally extend raid 5

  -Power Off Vmware machines?  or continue started?

  -Develop with local Vshpere the data store vmware (what time must expand?)

  I want to know if I can do an extension with the new space unpartitioned on local existing datastore without losing my virtual machines? I have only the local data store with esxi when I develop the esxi continue to work?

  Can someone help me?

  Concerning

  Yes, it's quite OK.

  If this solved your problem, please mark it as answered.

  See you soon,.

  Adil Arif

• ESXI 5.1 "the disc is not thin-provisioned" after copying to the new data store vmdk

  I wanted to create an external backup as a 2nd VM ready-to-run on the 2nd data store.

  I've removed all snapshots, stop the machine virtual and exported the OVF file to a computer, adjusted to the size of the original virtual machine starts in Gparted to update the partition and restart. All very well.

  I then tried to deploy the OVF in the data store alternative (235GB slim, thickness according to the deployment of 250 Wizard). I tried both thick and thin but the error message "cannot deploy the OVF. The operation was cancelled by the user.

  I then manually downloaded the VMDK & OVF file to the 2nd data store and tried to inflate but then received the message "a specified parameter was not correct. The disc isn't thin provisioned. ».

  It seems I have dealing with the same thing, as this is the document here (http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u3-release-notes.html).  However, I have no idea what to do now... and I'm worried because it seems that my backup plan may not work if I can't restore an OVF/VMDK from a disk of visas.

  The solution to the first problem here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2172950#2172950 that solved my problem 2nd too.

• Deployment uses the local data store

  The deployment of VIO works without problem, but one of the virtual machines (VIO-DB-0) is now in a local data store. I never chose this data store in the installation process.

  Is it possible to manually move the virtual machine? Is it possible to define the data store used for the management of virtual machines somewhere?

  Concerning

  Daniel

  Hi Daniel,.

  Take a look at VMware integrated OpenStack 1.0 Release Notes:

  • Installer gives priority to local storage by default
    When you set up the data for the database stores three virtual machines, VMware OpenStack Setup integrated automatically gives priority to a local storage to improve IO performance. For resilience, users might prefer a shared storage, but the installer does not clear how to change this setting.
  • Workaround: Before completing the installation process, the installer of VMware OpenStack integrated allows you to examine and change the configuration. You can use this opportunity to change the configuration of the data to the database store three virtual machines.

  If you have already installed VIO, AFAIR you should be able to manually move between data warehouses as long as you do not change VM itself.

  Note that there is rule anti-affinite, so you may not be able to move that VM in the same data store when no other VIO - DB resides.

  Another note is that if you turn off VIO-DB-0, mysql service will not appear automatically. you have to turn on manually by running "service mysql start" on the node itself, or run 'vioconfig start' of the SGD server.

  Best regards

  Karol