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• Recommendations for "Standby" host / creation of an additional data store / system partition

  My ESXI host 5.0, as well as several virtual machines in the data store, resides on a drive of 500 GB of aging.

  I have a disc of 2 TB to spare I would partition to as a standby host and an another data store containing the virtual machine, whose thinking is that when the 500 GB drive goes down, I can boot from the 2 TB drive and the new.

  I'm looking for suggestions for the best option to implement.  Thoughts include:

  1. A new installation of ESXI on 2 TB drive and restore the configuration from a backup "vicfg-cfgbackup" of the host of 500 GB
     1. have two partitions VFMS, one, a "backup" of the current data store containing the VM on the 500 GB drive and the second is a "general" datastore ~1.5TB that I can use for a volume of FreeNAS; or,
     2. have a bigger VMFS partition
  2. Partition my drive from 2 TB to allow later installation of ESXI; and two partitions VFMS (one of the same size as on the 500 GB drive and the second using the remaining space available), or a single VMFS partition

  Proceed to option (1) would result in two disks with ESXI hosts on a machine, but probably, because they are not clones, the UUID must be different so there is no problems with the discs being active.  I just need to set the BIOS to boot from the correct disk.  I understood this correctly, and if so, are there other potential problems with this approach?  The process of installing ESXI allows multiple VMFS created on the a drive, or this work manually through the command line interface, or the vSphere client

  The second approach is possible, and would I partition the same drive the 500 GB (IE several partitions of LinuxNative, a systemPartition, a vmkDiagnostic and a vmfs partition), with an additional partition VFMS (or a large VMFS partition)?  Or is it not possible to install ESXI on a disk with partitions that must be kept.  From what I've seen, it seems that if the Setup program detects that the drive has [a] [s] of data store, then the option is provided for the upgrade, so maybe it's possible to install ESXI on a disc with pone or warehouses of VMFS more data on the disk...

  Or maybe there is a third option that would be best.

  Any advice?

  Hi Ray,

  If you have just a 500 GB drive in your host 5.0 store the ESXi and your VMX/VMDK virtual machines then why not just do the following.

  1. Remove the 500 GB drive
  2. Insert the 2 TB drive
  3. Install ESXi 5.5U2 (or 5.0, if you still need a compatibility it provides) and partition your drive from 2 TB to choose from including data storage you want.
  4. Turn off and add the 500 GB drive (or place it in a networked PC or in a basket usb)
  5. Power and copy the vmx/vmdk files of the 500 GB to your new store of data and add virtual machines to the inventory
  6. Now periodically instant and take backups of your virtual machines to your 500 GB drive (by placing it in a USB port or network caddy/PC)

  What's an option 3?

  Concerning

  Chris

• How to map the name of the hard drive on behalf of data store

  Hello

  I inherited a bunch of ESX host... some with discs

  are shown for the disk monitor S.M.A.R.T. comply.

  Is

  There are best practices (commands) to familiarize

  yourself with a new host you inherited, please share these command

  goodies online here.

  One thing I was not able to determine

  is how to map the drive device names (like the sda, sdb) VMware

  the names of local storage that have been created by the system administrator who

  Configure the host. (referring to the "datastore" names I see in the)

  vSPhere Client GUI.)

  Thanks for the tips!

  AZ

  esxcfg-scsidevs and esxcfg-vmhbadevs and esxcfg-mpath will help to map the device names to the LUNs and data store names.

  vExpert

  VMware communities moderator

  -KjB

• Cannot increase the capacity of VMFS 5.54 data store

  Hello
  I added more discs to my series of raid 10 expanded the logical volume,
  size is available and can be seen by esxi, but cannot select the logical unit number to extend the data store.
  See screenshot
  
  The increase in size is not possible
  When the data store is on the same logical drive as the esx system?
  Thanks for your help.

  See you soon

  Freez3

  Increasing the local data store on the installation disc is not possible through the user interface and cannot be supported. At http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-local-datastore-on-an-esxi4/ you can find a walkthrough on how to grow the local data store on ESXi 4.x with ESXi 5.0, you should not use «partedUtil resize...» "instead of fdisk (remove a recreate the partition) to change the size of the score well.

  For information about how to use partedUtil, see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609

  If you are not sure, please after the release of

  partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/"

  André

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• Strange problem after moving from the virtual computer to a new data store

  I am migrating our VM existing (8 in total) a 'problem' RAID to a new table on a new controller and am having a strange problem. Here are the steps I took (host OS is Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS x 64):

  (1) off the power the virtual computer from the Web interface

  (2) the directories created for each virtual on the new RAID array computer (in this case a RAID 10 array on LSI 9750-8i controller)

  (3) rSync used to copy the data from RAID1 to be RAID2

  4) has created a new data store on the new RAID through the Web Server of VMWare user interface.

  (5) removed VM of the inventory through the Web, their return, added user interface then choose files .vmx on new data store on RAID2

  They have all power save fine... but three of them are not accessible on the network. I can open a console in the Web Server of VMWare user interface and they all run normally... but I can't their ping or access the respective virtual machine Web GUI. It seems quite arbitrary that those who work and those who are not. In this case... the VM that don't work is a license Autodesk, a Squid proxy server and a VM of cactus. All three of these virtual machines are 32-bit Ubuntu Server VM (two 8.0.4 and a 10.0.4)... and are the only Ubuntu VM on this host. It must be signifigant but I'm not see how.

  If I delete these three virtual machines of the inventory again and add to their original location (on the RAID1) they light up AND work normally. A consultant that we were working seemed surprised, as he had also done this experiment with some of the older VMWare products. I don't see how it would be the physical location of the files of the virtual machine. Any ideas?

  We rely on the migration to ESXi soon but in the meantime, we get these a few VM out of this RAID array problem. I'm stuck.

  Depending on the application, it may be enough to reconfigure the IP parameters (they are very probably on DHCP now) for the newly detected virtual NIC.

  André

• Error when you try to move the cloudvolumes folder in a different data store

  OK, so I'm moving my App volume 2.10 cloudvolumes folder of datastoreA on vcenterA on datastoreB on vcenterB, because we want to separate us from our VDI of our basic infrastructure.

  We are able to access the two vcenters on the web client.

  I tried to just copy the folder datastoreA to datastoreB cloudvolumes and received the following error.

  Copy of the file object has already been deleted or has not been entirely created

  
  

  I've seen this error in Veeam before when moving virtual machines from a data store. The solution is to remove and readd the virtual machine in the inventory.

  
  

  Everyone tried to move the cloudvolumes folder?

  
  

  Any help would be appreciated.

  
  

  Thank you
  

  
  

  
  

  I would never move the folder because there are files that will always be accessible or are not in read/write mode.

  I suggest you copy the files from the 1 folder to another, or maybe add an additional data store to the manager Appvolumes and let the files (appstacks at least) copy automatically.

• Migration of all the catalog items to a different data store in the same storage profiles

  Hello

  is any possibility to migrate everything in the catalog (time and iso files) to a different data store that has the same profile (Silver) storage group?  Because I have 2 groups of data store with the same profile of storage (Silver) and I want to delete one of this cluster.

  I found this kb: http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2058094 but it speaks solely of media files of migration between different storage profiles.

  Have vCD 5.6.4

  You happen to use rapid Provisioning?  This is probably the only problem I can think of.

  Environments that have no linked Clones or shadows created from them, you can just Storage vMotion them between the same storage policy data warehouses.  Just make sure that the data store or a store of data clusters are visible in vCloud Director first of all in the framework of this storage policy.

  When you use linked clones, I don't remember the exact process... I think that I have in my office somewhere (I'm at home now).

• Find Select or search the allocated space of vCAC Database data store

  Hello

  I need to declare the data store space allocated by the store of data and market.

  In the attachment is the vCAC display where values are visible.

  Homepage > Infrastructure > reservations > Reservations

  Does anyone know where to find in the database?

  SELECT DISTINCT D.Name, SUM(E.MaxCapacity) AS Reserviert, SUM(B.StorageAllocated) AS Verwendet
  FROM [vCAC].[dbo].[HostReservation] A, [vCAC].[dbo].[HostReservationToStorageStats] B, [vCAC].[dbo].[HostToStorage] C, [vCAC].[dbo].[HostStorageReservationPolicy] D,[vCAC].[dbo].[HostReservationToStorage] E
  WHERE A.HostReservationName = 'RES-Default' AND A.HostReservationID = B.HostReservationID AND A.HostReservationID = E.HostReservationID AND B.HostToStorageID = C.HostToStorageID AND C.HostStorageReservationPolicyID = D.HostStorageReservationPolicyID AND C.HostToStorageID = E.HostToStorageID AND D.Name = 'Gold'
  GROUP BY D.Name;
  

• List not updated virtual machines after the migration of the virtual machine to a different data store

  My vSphere infrastructure 5 uses several data stores.

  Two data warehouses are associated with NFS on different NAS shares.

  I migrate VM to a data to another store.

  The navigation data store, I see that the files are moved from the old data store to the new and that no file belonging to the migrated VM still does exist on the old data store.

  If I look at the list of VMs on the old data store, I still see the old VM.

  I see it in the list of the virtual machine on the new data store as well.

  I checked that no .iso no pagefile is in the old data store.

  How can I update the list of the virtual machine on the old data store?

  Above all, how can I safely delete the old data store by ensuring that the virtual machine works very well on the new data store and I don't lose anything?

  Concerning

  Marius

  This use of data store 'Phantom' is usually observed, if the current configuration of the virtual computer points to the 'old' data store (diskette, CD-ROM) or the virtual machine contains snapshots where - at the time where tone have been created - the VM has had these references. Once the snapshots are deleted from data store 'ghost' will go away from summary of the virtual machine.

  André

• How to add a second ESXi02 host to an existing NFS data store used by ESXi01?

  I am trying to configure vMotion between ESXi01 and ESXi02 in a nested running in VMWare workstation VMWare 55 9.  Everything works great so far.  I want ESXi02 to share the NFS datastore that uses ESXi01.

  Thank you

  If the web client help go to the storage, right-click the data store tab, go to all actions of vcenter and choose Add host.

• No network traffic VM being withdrawn and any data store Info

  I am running a trial of Foglight Enterprise visualization and upward and running things and an agent installed to my VMWare vCenter server infrustructure.  He shoots a lot of info, but none of the basic data store info is pulled (not the stuff that requires the Foglight for integration of storage) and none of the information network is taken for the individual virtual machine.  Guests and parents have netowrk showing traffic, but nothing on the side of the virtual machine.  The environment is configured with dvswitches for data, iscsi, vmotion, etc..  Any idea of what might happen, or I can look at?

  I see some errors in the agent log if I pull it down on data warehouses... Here's a sample:

  ERROR [Quartz [0] - 6] com.quest.agent.esx.task.HardwareTask - DatastoreInfo is missing for Datastore:datastore - 162
  2015-03-17 13:57:16.165 ECHO ERROR [Quartz [0] - 6] com.quest.agent.esx.task.HardwareTask - DatastoreInfo is missing for Datastore:datastore - 131
  2015-03-17 13:57:16.165 ECHO ERROR [Quartz [0] - 6] com.quest.agent.esx.task.HardwareTask - DatastoreInfo is missing for Datastore:datastore - 10985

  But apart from that, I don't see much... I do not see what seems to be warnings of Java, like this:

  2015-03-17 13:57:17.291 ECHO [Quartz [0] - 6] WARN com.quest.agent.esx.task.ESXAgentTask - inventory and relationship - FGLAM submission error: null
  java.lang.NullPointerException
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWHostVirtualSwitch__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWHostVirtualSwitch__IMPL.java:2418)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWHostVirtualSwitch__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWHostVirtualSwitch__IMPL.java:2348)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWESXServerNetwork__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWESXServerNetwork__IMPL.java:1339)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWESXServerNetwork__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWESXServerNetwork__IMPL.java:1078)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWESXServer__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWESXServer__IMPL.java:5015)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWESXServer__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWESXServer__IMPL.java:4213)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWCluster__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWCluster__IMPL.java:10666)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWCluster__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWCluster__IMPL.java:10010)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWClusterCollection__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWClusterCollection__IMPL.java:780)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWClusterCollection__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWClusterCollection__IMPL.java:702)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWVirtualCenter__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWVirtualCenter__IMPL.java:9298)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWVirtualCenter__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWVirtualCenter__IMPL.java:8979)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWModel__IMPL.__addPropertiesToNodeTree(VMWModel__IMPL.java:1304)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWModel__IMPL.__addToNodeTree(VMWModel__IMPL.java:974)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWModel__IMPL.buildSubmission(VMWModel__IMPL.java:919)
  at com.quest.vmware.agent.history.samples.VMWModel__IMPL.submit(VMWModel__IMPL.java:810)
  at com.quest.agent.esx.task.HardwareTask.submitData(HardwareTask.java:813)
  at com.quest.agent.esx.task.ESXAgentTask.submit(ESXAgentTask.java:208)
  at com.quest.agent.esx.task.ESXAgentTask.run(ESXAgentTask.java:201)
  at com.quest.agent.esx.ESXAgent.runTask(ESXAgent.java:518)
  at com.quest.agent.esx.ESXAgent.esxHardwareCollection(ESXAgent.java:718)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at com.quest.glue.core.services.EquivalenceInvocationHandler.invoke(EquivalenceInvocationHandler.java:76)
  at com.quest.glue.core.agent.AgentInteractionHandler.invoke(AgentInteractionHandler.java:177)
  to com.sun.proxy. $Proxy65.esxHardwareCollection (unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at com.quest.glue.core.agent.scheduler.CollectorCallback.invokeCollector(CollectorCallback.java:246)
  at com.quest.glue.core.agent.scheduler.CollectorCallback.execute(CollectorCallback.java:146)
  to com.quest.glue.common.util.scheduler.quartz.QuartzScheduler$ ScheduledTaskSequentialJob.execute (QuartzScheduler.java:738)
  at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
  to java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$ Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

  Thanks in advance!

  -Jake

  Hey Jake,

  I don't know what could cause this problem, it's a bit you added the role of travel data store for the Foglight service account in vCenter. Could you please create a Service request with support?
  https://support.software.Dell.com/

  Could you also attach a support package for FglAM to the case? Please put the number of file here, or send it to me via private message.

  Thank you.

  Gaston.

• Change the order of the columns does not cause any data found error report

  Hello. I have a weird problem (and I'm new to APEX). I have a subregion of report that shows the details of a master record based on the ID of the parent area. When I have everything first to change SQL for the query and apply the changes page works fine. When I go back and change the region > attributes report and use the arrows to change the order of the columns the region then returns:
  
  error report:
  ORA-01403: no data found
  
  I tried to change the query so that the columns found in the desired order and who has also not returned no data error. If I go back to my original query (which had 2 fewer columns) the page works again. Then I change to the new query (2 addtl columns), and then it works again, until I have change the order of the columns again. Don't know if it would be serious or not, but one of the columns is a 2 columns of the table concat.
  
  Any ideas would be appreciated, because I'm out of them.
  
  Thank you!
  
  use: Apex 4.0
  DB: 10g Exp

  "807428," Hi

  using 4.0 or 4.0.1? Can you reproduce the same problem on apex.oracle.com as well?

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• ESX host cannot see the data store

  Hello team, I have vcenter management 5 2 host esxi5. now added an esxi4 in the cluster and added iniitators for file systems. I can see the paths under this host of esx4 showing the LUN of the registrants. but I'm not able to see the data to store. When I tried to edit a newly created virtual machine to find the iso from the data store, it shows only the local hard disk of the host, which is a UCS blade. exsi5 hosts the two ok to see all data stores. can someone tell which part is wrong? Thank you!

  Looks like there is no problem with the presentation of the logic unit number since you can see the path to the LUN from the host.

  Is - these created data VMFS storages are 50 ESXi? If so, the VMFS version 5 (VMFS 5) which is not supported in ESXi 4.1.

  In this case, its expected that the host ESXi 4.1 will not show VMFS5 data warehouses.