Lack of data store after extend RAID 5

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• How to maintain the availability of the data store after the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 with the new IP address and the naming convention?

  How can we maintain access to the presented LUNS and VMFS data store after we improve the ESX in ESXi with the new naming convention and the new model of IP addressing?

  My back-end SAN EMC Clariion is VNX

  Thanks in advance.

  How are the hosts connected to storage systems. With FC HBA for example, there is basically nothing you need to do since the WWN will remain the same and so LUN presentation of the zoning on the switch and storage system does not need to be reconfigured.

  André

• ESX3.5U4/VC2.5 - move vmdk to adequate data store and extend the drive on the virtual machine

  ESX3.5U4/VC2.5 - move vmdk to adequate data store and extend the drive on the virtual machine

  Objective: move vmdk to store data with adequate storage and then increase storage D: 20G to 100G

  Converter is not available on this architecture. Can I migrate cold vm to the different data store, no prob.

  Question: Without use of the converter, method 3 can be used without a secondary vm? In other words, just by using target vm offline, online, offline? Or is it a problem of signing/OS disk on the Windows Virtual PC?

  I need to move vmdk in different LUN and extend drive vm windows on D: (non-OS drive). Is this possible via the single procedure? Options?

  To use method 3 to http://communities.vmware.com/thread/81121 requires available vm 'secondary', I did not.

  Method 3? Using of vmkfstools and another VM of Windows to extend a drive

  o stop the VM to resize

  o log in the console ESX Server via Putty

  o Type? vmkfstools? X & lt; new size of drive & gt; vmfs/volumes / & lt; storage volume name & gt;. / & lt; virtual server name & gt;. / & lt; the virtual disk name & gt;? That is to say. /vmfs/volumes/Storage1/my_vm.VMDK new disk size can be specified in kilo, mega, or gigabytes and will be the total size of the new disk. So if you want to increase a virtual disk of 20 GB of 24GO you would put 24000 m or 24g

  o the second virtual machine to help stop

  o change the second virtual machine settings and add the first virtual machine hard drive

  o power on the second VM and load the disk management snap-in and verify that the first virtual machine disk has unallocated on it space

  o select Start, run and enter diskpart.exe

  o the command? the list of volume? This will show you all the volumes.

  o select your volume based on the results of the list volume command, IE. ? Select volume 1?

  o type the command? extend? to extend the volume

  o check again the disk management snap-in and the volume is expected to be expanded with a greater ability

  o stop the second VM and remove (do not remove) the record of it

  o turn your first VM and the new space should be there and ready to use.

  Also, I'm already aware of Dell extpar:

  http://www.RTFM-ed.co.UK/?p=1310

  http://support.Dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us & CS = 19 & l = in & s = DHS & ReleaseID = R64398 & formatcnt = 2 & starts = 83929

  for VI3, vmoiton of storage is made by RCLI plugin or a 3rd party

  I prefer the plugin

  http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/VMware-ESX-articles/VMotion-DRS-high-availability/storage-VMotion-SVMotion-VI-plugin.html

  In addition, if the option to increase the size of the disk in the VIC is grayed out, it sounds like a permissions issue.  Finally, you can not extend the disc using the VIC, if the customer in question has a snapshot.

• Can NOT see the data store after ESXi update host?

  Hi all

  We use the host ESXi 3.5 on DELL PE 2850 with RAID 5 local storage.  Today, I ran utility update for the host VMware and firmware updated BIOS and RAID on the host computer before a restart of the system.  After the reboot, the system correctly loads the operating system and when I check for storage, the data (with critical VM) store is missing.  Can not see that again.

  Please help me to recover my data with the virtual machines in her store.

  Thank you

  Nadine

  ESXi is installed on the same Partition RAID 5, which is located in the VMFS data store? for example. do you know that the partition is still intact?

  According to what the RAID firmware upgrade has done, it is possible that you may need to set the LVM. EnableResignature option 1 if the score ended with a new UUID.

  -ben

• VM shows always refers to the old data store after storage vMotion?

  All the:

  We have recently set up a SAN Equalogic and plugged into our environment vSphere. We are moving our VM to SAN storage, off the coast of local disk. After treatment of a virtual machine, we always show the reference to the old data store on the summary page when you look at this VM. However, when we look at the settings, HARD drive shows that the vmdk file is infact on the SAN?

  Is there a reason why it would still showing upward for both?

  Thank you

  (1) check if the virtual machine has snapshots and maybe its pointing to the old datatore

  (2) check if any ISO is mounted on the virtual machine to the old data store

  After the screenshot of the VM folder by browsing the old data store

• 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

• VM shows this in the NFS data store after passed to the vmfs data store

  Hello

  (1) create a virtual machine using NFS datastore

  (2) had created a few snapshots

  (3) to migrate this virtual machine from the data to the local VMfs store

  (4) all the files are moved to the defined vmfs datastore

  (5) storage > > nfs_datastore > > objects > > VM > > vm is present

  (6) but when did change the setting of this VM, vm is present on the data store local vmfs

  The .vmsn file contains binary data text, so you better not change it manually. The purpose of these files is to be able to return to his instant partner. Depending on the configuration of virtual machines in time you created the snapshot, the virtual machine may require access to the old data store to access the files and folders in there when you return to this snapshot.

  André

• Unable to see VM in the data store after a restore of vcenter

  Hello

  One of my colleagues tried to install Service Pack 3 to SQL 2005 on our vcenter SQL instance.  Unfortunately, this was not and no services would begin once he did the upgrade.

  He gave the entire server to a backup that was taken a week ago.  Now, we have some problems where we do not see the virtual machines if browse us the data store, it is just to show as thought that there is no data there (see screenshot) and a virtual machine appears as orphans.

  Normally I would just delete the virtual machine of vcenter and go back and import it again but I can't do what I'm not.

  Any ideas?

  Try removing the host and adding back to vCenter. It will update the agent, vpxa.

• Reconnect the data store after removal of hard disk

  I have two identical Dell R610 servers.  I removed the readers of one of the servers and put them in the other.  ESX came very well and I can connect to the host with the vSphere client.  However, the data store has disappeared and 4 virtual machines that were on the server are "(inaccessible) unknown".  The device comes in storage.  It's a simple, 4 drive RAID5 set connected to the local controller inside the server.

  What can I do to reattach the data store?

  I tried both 'Keep the existing signature' and 'assign a new signature.  Both options produce the same result ' selected disk already Dad a VMFS datastore. ".  Select another disk.

  The data store is obviously there and intact.

  Sounds like the issue in the store of data missing and not mountable. You can also take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015986 to see if that helps.

  André

• How to download the VM of remote data store after the backup of veaam task?

  Hi all.

  I created the backup job with veaam in the remote data store and now I want to download the VM fmrom backup store, but I can't find the jobs saved only 4 files veaam VMX file: VMDK, NVRAM, VMXF, VMSD but not VMX... How can I download the virtual machine with these files?

  Yes, in the wizard, select use the existing drive...

• Re: Lack of data partition after installing partition magic

  Hi there I m after a little help.

  Yesterday, I installed a program called partition magic. The installation went without errors or problems, but then when I run the program for the 1st time I got a blue screen and my closed laptop. I restarted the laptop and uninstalled the partition magic, but now, I noticed that the data partition is missing. I tried to do a restore back to before I installed the partition magic, but it does not help.

  Any help would be great. Thank you

  Lee

  Hi Lee,.

  May I ask why you installed the partition magic? Installation of these programs is always a bit risky and should only be done if you really want to change some sheet music or something else.

  Have you already checked Windows Disk Manager? Go to control panel > system and security > administrative tools > computer management.

  You can see the second partition and might be hidden or something else?

• Cannot access local data store after the upgrade to build 158869

  I've been running ESXi 3.5 on a Dell Optiplex GX620 (A07 BIOS, a single SATA hard drive) for a few months now.  This morning, I applied the update version 158869 in the system with the Infrastructure Update and rebooted, it.  In the Infrastructure of the customer, I now get a banner stating "VMware ESX Server has no persistent storage" and I'm unable to access the local storage on the system.  I have tried rebooting, changing the SATA operation mode and a rescan for new devices storare and VMFS volumes, all nothing will do.

  Does anyone have any ideas on how I could get the server to see the data again, store or otherwise, what would be the best way to mount the drive in another system and copy virtual machines off of it?

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.  See if that helps - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/no_persistent_storage_after_upgrade.php.

• Cannot expand the data store after you have developed the LUN size

  Greetings:

  I have an interesting problem that happens with my server ESXi.  I've expaneded a 1 logical unit number. 5 t 3 t, re-read the SAN of the host itself (not) yet ESXi always reports the LUN size as 1. 5 t and not extensible.

  SAN is an EMC VNX and Unisphere, in fact, reports the size of the LUN 3 t.  The VMFS on this logical unit number is at version 5.54.

  I did updates and renumerisations a single host and nothing does change regarding the size of the LUN as reported in VMware.  I can't imagine what is a tissue issue given that the underlying data is always available and functional.

  Does anyone have any suggestions to try this?

  Ron

  You have a RecoverPoint of installation for this logic unit number? I fell right on the same problem as you described and found this article. It worked for me.

  http://www.mikes.EU/index.php/how-to/254-how-to-resize-a-LUN-that-is-already-replicated-by-EMC-RecoverPoint

  ~ Tim

• Data store missing after the reconstruction of the raid array

  One of the players in my raid array has failed a few days ago.

  I had a spare drive in the table so the controller immediately began the process of rebuilding and all servers were running throughout.

  When the reconstruction has been completed (I checked this via the user interface of raid array and the newspaper), I had to stop the server to remove disc defective (not replaceable chassis hot) and when I restarted the server, the data on the raid array store isn't there anymore.  I also checked through the raid controller interface that I removed the (defective) drive and that the table was always in a ready state when he came.

  In vsphere client, when I click on the storage... Add link, the server sees the material but if I click then it tells me that it will be re - format the volume.  See attachment.  I have most certainly does not take the next step and reformat.  Simply, I took the screenshot and regularized.

  I found these instructions, but they are for an older version of ESXi and am unsure if they are correct for ESXi 6.0.0 338124

  VMware KB: Lack of data store after the reconstruction of the RAID disk/LUN

  Here are the steps I should follow?

  If these aren't the right instructions can you tell me the version which is for ESXi 6.0.0 338124 that I couldn't find anything either.

  Thank you

  Hi ThompsG,

  Yes, there are two data stores for the virtual machine located on the RAID array.  The virtual machine itself was stored in a different data store that was not in the raid array.

  I spent about 48 hours last week, including this morning, trying to coax ESXi recognizing volumes, with no luck.  Finally, I gave up and I removed the virtual computer hard drives that were on the corrupt data store.  Then the virtual machine came without problem.

  Finally, since I have everything on these 2 volumes backed up to a cloud provider, I have recreated the two data stores in the raid array and began the restoration process. It is currently running and has about 16 days left to go.

• Failed to create data store on LUN ISCSI

  Get the following error when attempting to create a new data store after a new installation of ESXi 5.5U2.

  Location:

  • UCS B200 servers using the VIC-1280 map and
  • Interfaces ISCSI connected directly from the fabric of interconnection to the NetApp FAS2552 with TwinAx cables
  • MTU is set for extended frames (9000) on the interface of NetApp, vNIC for ISCSI vKernel vSwitch and group interface ports
  • During the initial setup of the vSwitches, I forgot the MTU setting Port and interfaces group wouldn't even ping, so all the MTU setting are good
  • ISCSI connection is green and LUN created and present storage warehouses are considered as available on the ESX Server to create a data store (sizes 1 TB and 2 TB tested times)
  • The NetApp storage have been created as a thin provisioned and thick provisioned - neither works and gets the same error

  

  Any ideas would be very useful. Technical support has not yet responded.

  Thanks in advance.

  DM

  OK, after working with NetApp and VMware on a conference call (after both made each other) bottom line "fix" was to remove the iSCSI port bindings, remove broken paths, remove the vSwitches and rebuild again.

  1. create vKernel vSwitch with appropriate port group

  2. set the MTU to 9000 on the port group and vSwitch

  3. create the bindings for each interface iSCSI Port

  4 re-scan

  5 successfully create the data store

  Oddly enough, I had to repeat this process 3 times for one of the blades, but it worked the first time for 3 other involved blades.

  VMware technical support did provide the following as a look at the LUN of the CLI:

  1. / vmfs/devices/disks cd

  ls-l

  We see and out of all the available discs

  Identify the Lun Naa.xxxxxxxx

  2. run the Naa.xxxxx reported in step 2

  partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx

  If there is a partition, you might see something similar to

  1 63 2249099 131 128 > 1 is the partition number

  or

  You can see and error, if error please contact technical support

  3. If there is partition, you can delete

  partedUtil remove /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx 1

  NOTE: This process did not work, but is still useful nonetheless. It could work if the LUN has been used by another operating system and need cleaning. But my situation was all greenfield.