It is possible to expand a vmfs partition?

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• expand a vmfs partition running

  I have a HP EVA 4400 iSCSI, which has 2 partitions vmfs (vdisks).  It is formatted with a block size of 1 MB, the other is the block size of 8MB.

  My ultimate goal is to have all the vm that are on the score of 1 MB on the partition of 8 MB, blow the partition of 1 MB and while space on a partition of 8MB.

  I never increased an existing VMFS partition, so I don't know what to expect (I've never had need of).  Is it as simple as deleting (using 4.1) 1 MB one, adding that the space in the vdisk the 8 MB one and then saying ESXi to increase?  It will use anything he can find, or what I have to tell him how to increase by?

  Are the virtual machine that will be on the secure partition of 8 MB?  I don't have a quick way of enclosing all down and save them.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  The way I read your message, it's that you want to migrate to the size of block 8MB data store, delete the data size of block 1 store MB and have its place to extend the data store of 8 MB for a larger size.    If that's what you want to do then you should give this blog post read, http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-of-esxvcenter/.

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• My C drive is full, it is possible to expand the C partition?

  My c drive is full it is possible to extend the partition on the c drive?

  Hi DAVIDLVE,
   
  -Do you have installed the operating system on your C drive?
   
  Here are a few articles that will guide you through the process to extend a partition:
   
  How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2008
   
  How to use disk management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

• Is it possible to have the NTFS partition with partition VMFS?

  Hello

  I am new to virtualization. I have read many planning our first server vmware coming in a few days. There are some issues that I haven't yet found an answer.

  The new server will be DELL Poweredge 2950 III with double E5420 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, RAID PERC/6i material and some discs. I haven't decided on drives yet.

  1. There will be 3 Windows 2008 servers and 2 or 3 linux servers running on them. The domain controller servers, file and print server, ISA 2006 Firewall, loading of SQL 2008 with very light, linux with Server mail server web linux.

  We have just enough budget left to buy 2 pieces of 400 10,00 rpm for RAID-1 GB SAS drives or 3 pieces of 1 TB 7,200 rpm SATA to RAID-5 disks.

  I need space as much as speed. We can add more drives in the future, but for now, I have to live with the initial configuration. I like the speed of the SAS, but capacity SATA drives seems very attractive. I have the choice to start with capacity of 300 GB SAS against 2 TB of SATA usable space. Can you comment on this please. Which do you prefer?

  2. I'm not comfortable with the idea of keeping everything (OS, files,...) in one big file. Is it possible to be part of the disk space in DOS or NTFS partition on the same disk with the VMFS partition?

  I can use this partition as common file storage. I also want to make backups to this separate partition so I can reach if vmware fails. We have no budget to buy a file based backup software yet. I'll use backup software image freewere to save images to a PC also.

  Otherwise, I cannot live with SAS drives with limited disk space and can buy SATA drives in the future. Is - it possible to use the second SATA outside vmfs LUNs? Client operating systems can reach non-vmfs partitions on the same server? How can I achieve this?

  This question may seem a bit strange, but any help will be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance,

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.

  1. There will be 3 Windows 2008 servers and 2 or 3 linux servers running on them. The domain controller servers, file and print server, ISA 2006 Firewall, loading of SQL 2008 with very light, linux with Server mail server web linux.

  We have just enough budget left to buy 2 pieces of 400 10,00 rpm for RAID-1 GB SAS drives or 3 pieces of 1 TB 7,200 rpm SATA to RAID-5 disks.

  I need space as much as speed. We can add more drives in the future, but for now, I have to live with the initial configuration. I like the speed of the SAS, but capacity SATA drives seems very attractive. I have a choice from 300 GB SAS > ability against 2 TB of SATA usable space. Can you comment on this please. Which do you prefer?

  I would assum that these are existing systems?  If so, what kind of count of drive you have in the existing servers and what kind of load IO have currently?  I would be worried to go with a 2 or 3 system disk and watch perhaps 4 * 146 GB 15 K SAS drives to start.  Also ensure that the adapter RAID a write cache of battery backup it will significantly improve performance with ESXi.

  2. I'm not comfortable with the idea of keeping everything (OS, files,...) in one big file. Is it possible to be part of the disk space in DOS or NTFS partition on the same disk with the VMFS partition?

  VMFS is a disk rather than a single file format.   It is designed to be reliable, and I would have more problems with the possibility of corrpution on an NTFS partition that I would with a VMFS partition.

  I can use this partition as common file storage. I also want to make backups to this separate partition so I can reach if vmware fails. We have no budget to buy a file based backup software yet. I'll use backup software image freewere to save images to a PC also. Otherwise, I cannot live with SAS drives with limited disk space and can buy SATA drives in the future. Is - it possible to use the second SATA outside vmfs LUNs? Client operating systems can reach non-vmfs partitions on the same server? How can I achieve this?

  You can create a table and then present it to a virtual machine as a SCSI device generic, but to have several virtual machines, access at the same time, you need to use in the cluster aware OSes.  There are good backup script (free) that are available for ESXi and I suggest to store these backups on storage outside the ESXi host for security.

• Extend an existing VMFS partition

  Is it possible to increase the size of a VMFS partition without using extensions in ESX 3 U4?  Everything I see in the manual server configuration is to use extensions.

  Adam

  No, 3.5 cannot extend VMFS partition. The only way - create new old size desired, migrate all virtual machines and delete data store.

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• ESXi 3.5 - clean installation, it will wipe existing vmfs partition?

  So let's say I have a U3 3.5i ESXi server is installed on a single table of RAID 5.  I want to do a clean reinstall using U4.  When I installed U3 it parititoned discs automatically, so when I go to install U4 will be it preserve the current vmfs partition or is it delete and then recreate a new?

  The reason I ask this is just in the preparation of a time where a firmware update could possibly fail (do not assume that it will be, just want to have a plan in case something goes wrong).  Just want to be sure I can do a reinstall with/without losing existing virtual machines.  I'm not worried about having to reconfigure everything - not a big deal.

  Thank you!

  You have the ability to clean any vmfs partition, or leave them alone.  It is up to you to destroy the existing, which you do not want if there's vm is here, or leave them alone.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• All gone VMFS Partition tables! on LUN

  Today, we had a 20 TB of data problems and all partition tables VMFS got blownen now. All ESX servers were not able to see the data stores. Everything is back to normal now, but I have a question, not even a VM has stopped working? How is that possible? VMware said eventually they would have all the blue screen, but the LUN was down to 2-4 hours and not even a VM is down, we have more than 300 + VM can someone explain how it worked?   I guess they were running in the memory cache and depending on the amount of data is being written depends on when they started bluescreen? How does it work?  I am pleased, that was the case...

  Hello

  Discover the recovery VMFS partitions for assistance. SMV will stay running because they know where they write on the disc through a caching mechanism. The disk data were not deleted, only the partition table.

  Best regards
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• Impossible to expand the C partition after the reduction of the DATA Partition

  I dropped my DATA partition to increase the size of my partition Vista (c), but I can't extend C: (as far I understand it) because it is more than a single partition to the right.

  I can reformat the free space and I have another partition, but I would rather extend C:
  Is there a way to do this?

  Also, I wrote my recovery disks, but the DATA partition again should he be there? Also if you do not delete the DATA partition and that do it again you?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  The problem is that your data partition was created after the C partition.

  If you reduce a partition, the free space appears after the shrivelled partition and so you can not add this free space to the other partition of C that is placed behind the partition Data (D).

  The only way to expand the C partition is to delete the partition D and then to add this free space to the C partition, but I wouldn't delete the DATA partition because it has a record of recovery that is necessary to create the Toshiba Recovery DVD

  But if you have already created a Toshiba Recovery DVD then the deletion of the DATA partition is not a serious problem because the Toshiba Recovery disk would format the whole HARD drive and would create 3 new partitions (hidden WinRE partition, partition C system, DATA partition).

• cannot expand the c partition in unallocated space

  I have a HP Pavilion dv5224nr laptop running Windows XP.  I've been low on disk space, so I came on this forum to find out how to remove the recovery partition, since I have the recovery CD from HP.  Now that I deleted the partition through disk management, it only allows me to expand the C partition in unallocated space left by removing the partition D.  "Extend partition" is not an option in the menu when I right click.  I also tried going through the "diskpart" command prompt, select the volume and him asking to "extend".  I received a message that it was unable to extend the volume.  How can I recover the 12 GB of space on my C drive?  Thank you.

  I downloaded a free utility called Easeus Partition Master and it worked very well for resizing my partition C.  I also used explores the function to watch the 1 gig unknown partition and it wasn't empty, so I left it alone.  Thanks for your help!

• Hard drive to expand the C partition

  Hello

  How to expand the C partition on the hard drive. For the C partition option is grayed out in Disk Management extend it.

  Dell Inspiron 1564, Windows 7.

  Photo of attached disk management.

  For some reason I didn't your answers on your other thread.

  You can only expand in the unpartitioned space on the right of the partition that you extend. You deleted the D: drive, but the space is not the unpartitioned space. Because you can have a maximum of 4 partitions on an MBR disk, the last of them is typically created as an extended Partition, that allows you to create additional logical drives inside. It is a goofy configuration if this is how he got from Dell. You must also delete F:, then delete the Extended Partition. Then you can extend C: you have unpartitioned space where was the Extended Partition.

• The VMFS partitions and ESX in MUV upgrades

  Back in the day when you installed ESX it deems any VMFS partition is priese formatting for you even if you had all your machines on them

  I intend to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using AUVS that resembles a simple process.  Anyone know if:

  1. it clears the local VMFS partition?

  2. He wipes SAN VMFS partitions that it finds?

  Thank you

  Stu

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• Convert VMFS partitions/data?

  Hi again!

  IV been playing with Esxi, Hyper-V and Xenserver for some time now. Finally, I decided to go with esxi for my virtualization project but there are 2 questions, I need to get an answer first.

  1. None of my raid cards that I have at the moment are detected by esxi. I read that theres a lack in the nucleus of esxi so that you can't do software raid; is that correct?

  2. I 3xTB drivers where partitions are encrypted with truecrypt, what is the easiest way to convert these VMFS partitions so I can use them in esxi?

  Thanks for your help!

  Hello

  As far as I know, you have two main options:

  (1) create a virtual machine with a normal vdisk (hard) to place the data of truecrypt. Then make a transfer to network on the virtual machine to a system that has access to the unencrypted data. Finally the date of stay to the virtual machine without encryption vdisk

  (2) create a virtual machine and install the truecrypt sotfware. After that add truecrypt disks (perhaps is better to merge all data from a larger drive?) to the esxi machine. The esxi should see the disk (s) connected (s) as LUN SCSI/SATA. Then, create the physical (s) or the discs as raw device mapping (RDM). In my humble VIEW in your scenario is preferable to create RDM in physical mode. Finally using the truecrypt software you should be able to access the encrypted data.

  Here, you can check a few RDM tutorials:

  http://www.avatir.com/HOWTO-RDM-on-local-SATA-disks-in-ESXi/

  http://VM-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php

  http://ServerFault.com/questions/105652/assign-and-remove-multiple-LUNs-from-VMs-on-ESXi-4

  It may be useful

  A saludo/best regards,.

  Pablo

  Please consider providing any useful answer. Thank you!! - Por favor considered premiar las useful responses. MUCHAS gracias!

• Extend VMFS partition alignment vs. partition

  I have a (openfiler) iSCSI storage and a host ESXi (running on its local disk) for testing.

  I tried to create VM customers and together start iSCSI. The problem I have is the alignment of partition and extend VMFS partition.

  What happens:

  If I want to align parititon, I need to go up and format the LUN with the VMFS. Therefore, the VMFS partition size is fixed. I'm able to increase the size of the LUN, but I can't do anything with regard to the size of the partition resizing VMFS.

  Another way is to report the storage for the VM client on raw storage. But this way, I can't align the partition because I can't use fdisk on raw storage on CLI.

  My question is: if I want to run SQL server, for example, and want to align the disk for the storage of data and able to rescale the size, how can I do?

  Thank you.

  I don't know exactly what you're asking, but "growing" a VMFS volume does not resize the partition, it is done by adding one "scope" (another partition) and then ESX (i) of the volume manager puts the two partitions together to make a large volume.

• Possible to expand the spaces by changing the size of the page?

  Greetings.  I use Acrobat 10 pro now, but in 9, it was possible to expand the white space around the text by changing the size of the page under the command crop.  It was very convenient to create a large enough area for the comments text box.  I can't find this capability in 10.  I'm, hopefully, wrong?

  Select: Tools > Pages > culture

  and then double-click the page. You will then get the Crop dialog box and you can select a superior page size field of the change Page size.

• Expand the C partition in Windows Server (not not using diskpart)

  Hi Experts,

  I have an of Windows 2003 virtual machine that has a 12 GB C drive only. I need to decompress. I know that we can use diskpart to extend the drive, but the problem is here that the hard disk is divided into two partitions (C and D), because of which even if I increase the size under the ESX, I don't then expand in Windows using diskpart as it is said there are two partitions on the same disk. Someone help me!

  DISKPART & gt; the list volume

  Volume # Ltr Label Fs Type size status Info

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  0 E DVD-ROM 0 B sound volume

  Volume 1 C healthy system of 12 GB NTFS Partition

  Sound volume 2 D NTFS Partition GB Pagefile 124

  DISKPART & gt; Select volume 1

  Volume 1 is the selected volume.

  DISKPART & gt; extend

  The volume you have selected may not be extended.

  Please select another volume and try again.

  Hello!

  Normally, you will only be able to extend the partition that has free space immediately after it on the drive (and this is where the free space is added when you expand the virtual disk). So, if your disk layout is like this:

  DISC

  (block0 |) Partition1... | Partition2... | Free space.........................................| last block)

  you will only be able to extend Partition2

  This is why it is recommended to create a partition per virtual disk.

  In your case, I'd watch if it is possible to:

  (1) add another virtual disk to the virtual computer and create a partition (say f :)

  (2) move the data from the disk D: (Partition2) the newly created disk (if the existing D: holds a swap file, you need to create a swap file on the new drive, and then delete D: pagefile in computer properties > Advanced tab > performance settings > Advanced tab)

  (3) change the drive letters in the Disk Manager (change the drive letter to D: in a free r: one, for example, then change to your new drive d :) drive letter)

  (4) possibly restart the virtual machine to see if all the services are running as expected

  (5) use of the Disk Manager to delete the Partition2 (after this your vdisk that holds Partition1 should have lots of free space immediately after Partition1 and it is expandable)

  (6) use diskpart, extpart or any other utility to develop the Partition1

  (7) avoid creating multiple partitions on virtual disks in the future

  I hope this helps.

  WBR

  Imants