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• Maximum of storage for the data store?

  Hello

  I have a server configuration with a hard drive 2 TB Raid 1 mirror set. I installed hypervisor on it without any problem. When I go to configure a virtual machine, I can't put the main virtual C drive beyond 256 GB or 0.25 TB. A few reasons why this is happening?

  The drives are SATA.

  Thanks in advance for your comments.

  Hello

  because you have formatted your VMFS Datastore with a block of 1 MB, which will result in a maximum size of 256 GB.

  Reformat your VMFS with a bigger unit.

  See:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1003565

  Concerning

• Copy the ISO to the data store

  Hello!

  I want to copy an ISO to the local data store. My server does not have the DVD, so I think that to install VM ISO e.

  I guess I need to some ftpd or tftp on ESXi host. Is this possible?

  Another way to copy the ISO til the local server data store?

  RS

  Hello

  Client session launch the vsphere host, select configuration, then storage, browse the data store, and then download the ISO on the data store.

  See you soon!

• Target iscsi ESXI 5.0, active path connected, mounted, are not not in the data store data store

  HI -.

  I am looking for help to point me in the right direction.  This problem occurred after a reboot of the system.

  I'm in vmware esxi essentials 5.0.0 821926

  I use the starwind software as my iSCSI target

  I use ISCSI to connect to my server from storage to the esxi hosts.

  I have 2 warehouses of data showing inactive under clusters of data storage and the data store.  I have a third-party data store on the same server that is loading properly.

  I currently have the same behavior on three esxi hosts:

  under configuration - storage adapters is the ISCSI path is active. Data warehouses appear under devices and mounted.  In data warehouses, they are inactive. On the same storage server

  on the starwind Server - I have

  built a new target

  removed and added the databases to the new target

  Changed the IP address of the target.

  On Esxi hosts, I removed the ISCSI server, discover places BOF dynamic and static and added under the same or IPs news discovery

  I can restart esxi hosts & storage servers and get to that same point.

  Whenever I find myself in the same place - course assets, devices mounted, inactive in data warehouses

  I don't know what else to share, let me know what you need to know to help out me.

  Thank you

  Dylan

  OK, incase someone crosses my ramblings, it may help.  My original question was warehouses of data that would not rise.  They were visible as devices in the area of storage under devices and as devices in the scsi adapter.

  When I would try to force mount them, add storage, keep the signature, mount they wouldn't mount.  I did some research and my question was after a failed mount attempt strength as got data attached as snapshots warehouses.  I then mounted force them and he tells will data warehouses and I got them back.

  I followed this KB to identify and resolve the problem

  manipulation of vSphere detected as snapshot LUN LUN (1011387)

  When it was over, I tried to add vms back and found a new show.  Power of vms would expire.  the vmkernel.log showed;

  2014 05-27 T 07: 20:40.010Z [verbose 'Vmsvc' 564D7B90] Vmsvc: filtering Vms: ignored not ready to request power state vm vim. VirtualMachine:75

  AND

  (2014 05-27 T 03: 45:47.821Z cpu4:2052) NMP: nmp_PathDetermineFailure:2084: SCSI cmd RESERVE failed on the vmhba35:C0:T1:L0 path, booking on eui.cff548d1952b1e4c of device status is unknown.

  I had latency huge read write showing upwards, 3K and more

  After several searches, I had in the ESXShell and found that there is no conflict of booking.

  On a whim, I took inventory all virtual machines that are now inaccessible.  I then added a DOS virtual machine. Alto! the latency down to version 1.2 a.7 ms for all data warehouses.

  ultimately the instructions said you may need to add virtual machines in the inventory, but does not remove all virtual machines first.  I was grabbing vms that were not in stock, so I didn't remove the old virtual machines in the inventory.

  A recruit Mennonites, Yes.

• Block size is too small - reformat the data store or create files VMDk 2?

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and so far I absolutely love everything about her!  Well, I was not too happy when I realized that I can't create more than 256 GB a drive without reformatting the VMFS datastore.   Apparently, I accepted the block size of 1 MB by default during the installation...   I now need to configure a file server with about 500 GB of storage.  The data store with a larger block size (4 MB would be fine for me) reformatting is easy enough?  I am currently working on the first host ESXi 4.1 and will move to set up 2 more hosts in the coming weeks.  I read somewhere on the forum that ESXi 4.0 doesn't let you change the block size by default of 1 MB - is this true or relevant to 4.1?

  Currently, I have only 2 small VMs on that host, and these can be easily saved and put offline for a few hours, if necessary.  When starting the server, I created a single RAID array that holds ESXi and all virtual machines - does that mean that I have to reinstall ESXi in order to increase the size of the block?

  An alternative that I can get to is to simply create 2 255 GB VMDK each and load distribution of storage in the guest operating system (Win 2008).   Performance wise, is a disc more great and better (or worse) than the two smaller disks?

  On a related note, what should I choose for the "Independent" option when you add a new virtual disk?  Default is disabled (not independent).

  Your thoughts, focus and expertise are welcome and will be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks in advance,

  Dothan

  Dothan,

  You should power (after the virtual machine backup) remove the current data store and create a new one with the new block size. I did not have this on ESXi 4.1 again, however, he worked on ESXi 4.0.

  The maximum size of VMDK. If you want ot be able to take pictures, make sure you subtract twice the size of block in GB of the documented maximum size.

  Block size 1 MB--> 254 GB (= 256 GB, 2 GB)

  Block size of 2 MB--> 508 GB (= 512 GB - 4 GB)

  Size of block 4 MB--> GB 1 016 (= 1 024 GB - 8 GB)

  Block size of 8 MB--> GB 2 032 (= 2 048 GB to 16 GB)

  André

  EDIT: Just the KB for the maximum sizes. http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1012384

• alleged connection to the data store local preventing vmotion

  I have a VM that signals a connection to the local data store on its host, and therefore can't do vMotion elsewhere.  The virtual machine has two virtual drives, which are both on a SAN storage.  The virtual machine has been previously connected to an ISO on the local data store, but it has since been replaced by client device.  He always insists that he's using something on this data store, however.  I've looked through the vmx file and don't see any reference to it.  I also tried to remove the data store, but he claims that the file system is in use.  The hosts have been recently updated to esxi 6.0 U2, and it's the only VM that now seems this behavior.  Any suggestions on what could be the cause?  It is a server important enough in this environment, and be locked into a single host makes me a little anxious.

  Turns out it was because of an old cliché.  If you get an ISO from a data store and take a snapshot, the virtual machine will keep a link to that store of data even after changing the client machine.  As soon as you delete the snapshot, this relationship goes, and access to this database is therefore more a review when searching valid hosts.

• Local data store has disappeared from the data store window (necessary emergency aid)

  Dear team,

  I m facing a very strange problem, all of a sudden one of the local ESX datastore disappeared thereafter are full details we have encountered/noticed.

  A local data store disappeared from the data store window.able to see this data store to add storage Wizard, which allows us to format the same.

  * If we take a session putty from here we can see and browse this store of data without problem.

  * Virtual computers that are running on this data store work as well (all files are accessible / VM is accessible on the network)

  * Unable to take backup image do error "the object has already been deleted or was not completely created.

  * Not able to take a «cannot complete the copy file... network» clone »

  Getting from newspapers in vmkernel:

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed, the data of sense H:0 x D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 0 valid: 0 x 4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceToken: 293: Sync IO 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed: error/o H:0 x D:0 x P:0 x 0 2 0 valid sense data: 0x4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu6:4110) capability3: 5354: Sync READ error ('. fbb.sf') (ioFlags: 8): i/o error

  Need your help urgently to solve the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  

  Dear all,

  We have enclosed a case at VMware, please find their findings on the same.

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  After the webex session, we just had, I discovered the root cause of the problem reported to an underlying problem on the block device (the logical drive, or a problem on the Board) presented to accommodate the data in question store successfully.

  In short, whenever we try to do raw reading from the disk (from sector 0), the same always fail when we reach the 30932992 bytes (31 MB) brand with an IO error (which is consistent, he is always on this region of the disc that read operations fail, no more, no less). This result can be seen, even if no partition is in the disk (using if = / dev/sdb instead of/dev/sdb1 with dd) and even after zeroing on all sectors (if dd \u003d/dev/zero of = / dev/sdb). Strangely, read operations work fine (as he writes zeros of random data) throughout the entire disk. Keep in mind that the tests I did with no VMware tools (I used almost only dd for these operations), which prohibits certainly a VMware problem (in fact, if you were to try to start the server with a Linux live CD and run the same tests that I did, you would see the same behavior).

  I know that there is no report of material of any bad behavior on the table, but data collected with our tests today completely invalid who. The next step is for you to take this to the server provider to check for problems on the table or discs, because they are there and they are the reason for the problem you reported initially.

  Please let me know if you have other questions about it.

  Thank you

  -

  David Meireles

  Technical Support Engineer

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  Now we have blocked a case from the hardware vendor, to see what the next move will be.

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  Mr. VMware

• 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 ;-)

• What is the best way to backup of virtual machines on a standalone ESX with the data store local

  Hello

  I want to save the virtual machines on a host ESX autonomous. and all of these virtual machines is the local data store.  What is the best way to save these virtual machines in this situation?

  And probably we don't provision VTL on the local data center, so it is possible to use VCB to backup? And VCB is a good choice compared to the traditional method that installs the backup client in each virtual machine?   Because I think that in this situation with the data store local, it cannot not reduced the load on ESX hosts and network overhead can be avoided.

  Thank you!

  LAN

  > 1. VCB usable remote tape library? I mean it's not local library and uses the tape library to another network data center.

  VCB is completely unrelated to the tape library, it is a framework, not a backup solution. If your standard backup software can work with the remote tape library you can try it to ungrateful with VCB.

  > 2. what the difference bwteen hot - added NBD and modes if there is that an ESX host with store data local and want to use a virtual machine like VCB proxy? I think that they are the same: the VCB proxy read data through the I/O of the ESX host stack in this situation.

  NBD works on network and the backup traffic goes through the service console connection. Hot add uses special machine for assistance to connect vmdk to and uses of e/s disk stack instead of e/s network.

  > 3. Veeam Backup is free software?

  No, it isn't.

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  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Please help: measure is missing from the data store

  Hello

  I have an a 20 TB drive data store and a magnitude of about 40 TB (local disks, areca raid controller).

  Long story short, I had to delete and re-create the volume 40 to on the RAID controller (without initialization, of course).

  Now all the data is there but eui has changed for the 40 to volume and vmware is unable to mount.

  log/hostd.log:2016-05-10T07:17:16.107Z of information pass [3D380B70] [Originator@6876 sub = Vimsvc.ha - eventmgr] event 118: a connected device eui.001b4d2051676528:1 may be offline. [Backvol1, 55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36] file system now is in a degraded state. While the data store is always available, parts of data residing on the extent which went offline may be inaccessible.

  [root@esxi2:/vmfs/volumes/55e980d4-386dfa7f-7cb2-0cc47a09ba36]

  esxcli instant vmfs storage list

  Volume name:

  VMFS UUID:

  Can mount: false

  UN-mountability reason: a few missing extensions

  Can will: false

  Reason for non-resignaturability: some missing extensions

  County of measure pending: 1

  Can someone help me please?

  Thank you!

  Hello
  You asked for instructions on how to readd a missing measure.
  Basically, it's pretty easy:
  in the VMFS to VMFS-based volume header section, you can assign extends it.
  Lets say that the basic volume is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T3:L0:1
  first of all extend is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T4:L0:1
  second extension is mpx.vmhba1:C0:T5:L0:1
  Then you will see this string in the VMFS header:
  vmhba1:3:0
  and a little later

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T3:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T4:l0:1

  MPX.vmhba1:C0:T5:l0:1
  Just change the list of stretches.
  But: normally you can't change this section at all, and to add to the confusion, these values are stored in RAM is not trivial to change this value correctly.
  I highly recommend that instead of try it yourself and repeat all the mistakes I made while learning it - call me.
  I rather help you personally to give dangerous advice that will probably make things worse.

• No unit number available logic trying to increase the size of the data store

  I am trying to increase the size of my data store.

  When you look at the properties of the data store I can see that the current capacity is 738,29 GB and the local device has a capacity of 2.73 TB.

  (see image 1)

  However, when I click the button increase, there is no LUNS to select.  (this is the case even when you try to add a new data store).

  (see image 2)

  What I am doing wrong?

  

  

  I'm afraid that there is nothing that you can do without having to reconfigure the storage as long as you use vSphere 4.x. because of the overflow I mentioned earlier (see the KB article) ESXi is only able to use 2.73 TB modulo 2 TB-online ~0.73TB.

  Anything that you can do to use currently unused disk space is to reformat, either by dividing the current RAID volume (I guess it's a RAID!) in several logical volumes with less than 2 TB or reinstall the host - if taking in charge - with ESXi 5.x.

  André

• 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.

• 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

• The data store could not be found.

  Hello!

  I have Esxi installed 4.0 on HP DL 380 G6. I have 2 x SAS (2x146GB) drives and I have also attached storage iSCSI (from HP MSA P2000 G3). on which I recorded a few servers. When I run the script ghettoVCB I get the result:

  /SKRIPTA #./ghettoVCB.sh f lista g /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf
  . / ghettoVCB.sh: /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf: line 14: not found
  Recording output to ' / tmp/ghettoVCB-2011-08-23_12-00-27.log '...
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: = ghettoVCB NEWSPAPER BEGIN =.

  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - CONFIGURATION GLOBAL GHETTOVCB = /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf FILE using
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VERSION = 2011_06_28_1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - GHETTOVCB_PID = 33245431
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = VMFS/Synology.
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 2
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_DIR_NAMING_CONVENTION = 2011-08-23_12-00-27
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ADAPTER_FORMAT = buslogic
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - LOG_LEVEL = info
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - BACKUP_LOG_OUTPUT = /tmp/ghettoVCB-2011-08-23_12-00-27.log
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = all
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_LOG = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info:
  The data store could not be found.

  The data store could not be found.

  The data store could not be found.

  2011-08-23 12:00:36 - info: start backup for Windows 2008 R2 coaching
  2011-08-23 12:00:36 - info: creation of snapshot "ghettoVCB-snapshot-2011-08-23" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching

  2011-08-23 12:03:40 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/4d5ed225-cdb17961-51bb-d8d385ac2800/Windows 2008 R2 coaching / Windows 2008 R2 Podpora_1.vmdk" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching

  2011-08-23 12:03:40 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/iSCSI/Windows 2008 R2 coaching / Windows 2008 R2 Podpora.vmdk" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching
  2011-08-23 12:03:42 - info: Instant withdrawal of Windows 2008 R2 coaching...
  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - Info: backup duration: 3.18 Minutes
  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: ERROR: unable to backup Windows 2008 R2 coaching because of the error in VMDK backup!

  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: # final status: ERROR: No. VMs saved! ######

  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: = ghettoVCB JOURNAL END =.

  I also do backups on iSCSI NAS storage.

  First ghetto script does not detect the data stores that are local disks where I run few servers and secondly I get error of backup server located on iSCSI for HP MSA.

  Thank you.

  Your destination data store is set incorrectly

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = VMFS/Synology.

  It should be

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/Synology.

• Extend the data store

  Hello

  We got the HP Blades using SAN storage, recently, we want to expand our storage of current data (644,69 GB) to 1 tera store, then we increase the volume for datastore1 (esx host) via the hp management system.

  We do not see the device it detects the size of the total capacity GB 928,96, but when we check the size of the store of data, is only 644.49, so we click on Add button and we cannot see any other device or what we can add to existing storage.

  Grateful if someone can tell us what to do...

  

  Given that the data store is located on the installation disc, you may need to push manually, as explained in the http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-local-datastore-on-an-esxi4/

  André