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• Dealing with the Local Storage block size (vSphere 4)

  I have a pretty basic question / easy I think I know the answer want to but to double check.  I spaced that vSphere 4.0 uses a default size of 1 MB, which began to cause problems with our backup software try to attach block vmdk is greater than 256 GB in size.  I want to continue to use local storage for our assistants of esXpress but to do this I need to have a larger block size to the local vmfs volume...  Question is can I safely delete the local storage (if nothing is done off of it) and add it and increase the block size or is there a way of installing to set greater than 1 MB block size?

  Easy points.  Thank you guys.

  • Kyle

  Remember, by default your COS is installed on local storage, so do not remove.

  I think this article gives you the best solution

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1012683

• HELP: Cannot find the local storage vmdk file - use an existing virtual disk

  Hello

  Version: ESXi 5.5

  HP Server

  Local hardware-stockage - 2 raid cards - 1) for ESXi os 2) for the virtual machine

  (1) I added 2 FVO and VMDK (12 giga) files from the Vsphere Client interface to the storage 2-> Browse the data store and a download of my files - no problem

  (2) I'm trying to create a virtual Win2K8R2 machine and when I want to use a virtual disk available - I m from the disk to the file path with innovation - I go to my storage2 - empty - nothing - I m not able to use the VMDK file!

  If you can give me advice or a solution, that would be great

  PS: I use chmod on my 2 files, RW is no one

  Best regards

  RV

  Welcome to the community,

  Assuming you are trying to do this with an OVF default value, it's actually what to expect. Instead of upload files on a datatore, import the OVF menu "File" of the vSphere Client.

  André

  PS: Discussion left CloudCred for VMware ESXi 5

• Local storage - lack of space for the backup snapshot?

  Hi all

  My apologies if this is an obvious question, but I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on a question I have about our ESXi server.

  We run ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 III with 16 GB Ram and 200 GB RAID 5 15 K RPM SAS for local storage - we do not have a requirement for a SAN, etc. and I understand how 'best practice' implementation of ESXi and that local storage is not recommended.

  Our question is:

  We are running very low on the amount of local storage on the server and we use a Perl script every night to create a snapshot of a VM only we want to save that copies the original VM on a separate NAS device files. Apart from slow performance, this configuration works well for us. However, during the backup of the file snapshot obviously grew up with changes that are made and once the backup is complete he writes these returns to the original vmdk file (or so I think). Can anyone tell what would happen if we managed to create a snapshot at the beginning of the backup, but the server ran out of space before the backup finishes and commit the change snapshot... it would seriously damage our original server vmdk?

  If you would like more information on our installation program please let me know but I would like some advice before embark us on this... Thanks in advance.

  Stuart Little

  If the volume is running out of space, even if you have an active member of snapshot on a virtual computer it stops running (the VM will crash) and you will not be able to commit the snapshot (free space is needed for this). Always avoid the chance of a filling volume, especially if you are using snapshots, while you probably won't lose data if you handle it properly (move the virtual machine to a volume with storage or free space before attempting to commit the snap) you will have at least virtual machine downtime.

  Alex

  www.phdvirtual.com

• How to increase the size of the block of local storage

  Hi all

  We have installed Esx 4.0 with 500 GB storage, it does increase the block size default of 1 MB to 2 MB. We need to assign a virtual disk 450 GB for a virtual computer.

  We tried to remove the storage, we get the error "the disk is currently in use".  PL share us the command to run from the console.

  Thanks in advance

  Centhil

  Hello.

  I used an installation based on the script to trackle this problem of disk split into two partitions

  1. Create disk configuration

  Cat < < EOFdisk > >/tmp/diskconfig

  clearpart - alldrives - overwritevmfs

  part/boot - fstype = ext3 - size = 1100 - onfirstdisk

  No part - fstype = vmkcore - size = 110 - onfirstdisk

  part $: esxconsole - fstype = vmfs3 - size = 40000 - maxsize = 40000 onfirstdisk - part $: local - fstype = vmfs3 - size = 40000 - grow - onfirstdisk

  VirtualDisk esxconsole - size = 16607 - onvmfs = $: esxconsole

  party swap - fstype = swap - size = 1600 - maxsize = 1600 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/var - fstype = ext3 - size = 4000 - maxsize = 4000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/home - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part / opt - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part/tmp - fstype = ext3 - size = 2000 - maxsize = 2000 - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  part / - fstype = ext3 - size = 5000 - push - onvirtualdisk = "esxconsole".

  EOFdisk

  In the post installation, you can format the secondary drive

  vimsh - not hostsvc/storage/refreshment

  sleep 5

  / usr/sbin/vmkfstools - c b 2 M s $ESXHOSTNAME vmfs3: local /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0:6 > > /var/log/PostInstall.log

  See you soon,.

  Mary

• Is it possible to run vcbmounter (or a free alternative) so that it doesn't copy vmdk local storage?

  Hi all

  Another question about vcbmounter. Just get the part my implementation of VSphere backup and will go with backup exec and vcb. Have divided into EMC cx500 san fc vcb proxy. I am able to run vcbmounter on my vcb proxy and he rides out of my vmdk files no problem. It seems, however, that when I try to mount vmdk directly (forget the name now), there is a copy and conversion process that takes a lot of time. So I guess that the vmdk everything is copied to a local storage of the vcb proxy?

  Is there a way like the "files" mode, where it rises only the vmfs file system and the vmdk can be copied directly to tape?

  Thanks in advance!

  Liam-

  vcbMounter will ABSOLUTELY instant of your VM and copy it to the SAN disk via the proxy. Unfortunately, it will not directly copy on tape. Check out my Guide to proven practices VCB on VI:OPS. He will explain VCB for you and how to make it work with your software backup-> http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1392

  Dave Convery

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://www.dailyhypervisor.com

  http://Twitter.com/dconvery

  Prudent. We do not want to make of this.

  Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes".

• ESX host with local storage recommended for the host partition table?

  Hi all

  I know that the best practical partition table should look like this:

  Mount Point	Partition	Size	Description
  		/ dev/sda (primary)
  / Boot	ext3	250 MB	Change of extra space for upgrades
  N/A	SWAP	1 600 MB	Change the maximum size of Exchange service console
  /	ext3	5120 MB	Change of extra space in the root
  		/ dev/sda (Extended)
  / var	ext3	4096 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with log files
  / tmp	ext3	1024 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with temporary files
  / opt	ext3	2048 MB	Create partition to avoid overfilling root with the log files of VMware HA
  / Home	ext3	1024 MB	Create partition to avoid an overflow of root with agent / user files
  	vmkcore	100 MB	Pre-configured

  However with a system with local storage would you set it up the same way, and whatever it is must be amended to change to get ESX to write log files to the different partitions?  I would like to configure it for future expansion for when the enterprise package is configured.

  Yes, I would set up the same way with an ESX with local storage server and nothing needs to be changed for the vmekernel right at the partition/var - unless of course you want to write to a log server that you need to change a configuration file to point to the server logs.  If you talk to the ESX Enterprise license you willnot have to change partiition table-

  Also on something else if you don't have a SAN/NAS storage you will also need to create a VMFS partition on the local data store to host your virtual machines

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Mobile related clones of Local storage

  Hello

  My Ministry is currently upgrading to 5 and 5 view vSphere.  We have several clone linked to local storage pools.  I want to spend the pools to another host to upgrade hypervisor of the host, as well as to modernize (possibly) agent of the pool, the hardware and vmware tools.  From what I remember, in order to go to the pool, I would have to recompose the pool on the other hosts/data store, but for some reason, when I did a series of tests, the pool will not move.

  Here's what I'm trying to do:

  • I have a pool of clone related with discs persistent (dedicated assignment) to host A.  Host A has warehouses of local data A1 and A2.  The replica is on A1, and the deltas are on A2. The persistent drive is on storing shared, I'll call S1.
  • I want the pool to host B, which has a similar structure.  It has warehouses of local data B1 and B2.  Drives P'd stay S1, the replica & deltas being on B1 and B2, respectively.
  • Host A and B belong to the same cluster. S1 is visilble for both hosts.

  For my tests, I did the following:

  • I created a test tank with 1 vm matching the description of the pool above.
  • I connected to the virtual computer and made some changes, so I could confirm that drive-p has been restored after the reconstruction.
  • I created a new snapshot of the VM parent (with minor changes to the system so I could it ID).
  • I connected on the administrator of the view, the pool of test, went to Edit-> settings of Vcenter and B1 and B2 selected data warehouses.  I deselected A1 and A2.
  • I saved the settings and then reconstructed the pool with the new snapshot of the VM parent.

  When I did, the operation recompose exploded in vsphere.  A new replica was made, and the former has been removed.  I was able to connect to the virtual computer again.

  However, when I checked the settings, the virtual machine always works on host A, with A1 and A2 data warehouses.  I checked the settings in the view admin console and confirmed that B1 and B2 have been selected for the pool.  ! And A2 were not.

  I tried again with a different VM, not just a different look.  I got the same results.  The operation recompose arrives, but the pool remains on the host original/data warehouses.

  No idea what I am doing wrong?  I looked in the community pages, and that's generally what I have seen as much as the recommended method to move the clones.  A post said to select new data stores in the recompose Wizard, but I do not see this option when I dial my pool.  I guess it is because this post was for an older version of the view.

  My environment is:

  Guest - ESX4.1

  View 5 connection to the server

  VCenter 5.0

  SMV w / agent of 4.6 and material v7

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Recompose to the data store Local of ESX is not recommended and not supported.

  But there is an easier way because your persistent drives on the shared storage

  Here is the way how to do it.

  Call us your original pool as pool 1. Pool-1 Replical will be in the Local 1, delta on the data store 2 local data store and persistentd disks shared datastore 1

  Create a new Pool in home 2 from the same structure in host 1 (even the pool size too) call this hen his 2. Create this pool on demand provisioning

  Remove the pool 1 archiving his persistent records

  go to page persistent drives, go to page edit separated each drive persistent, change the last 'pool' pool-2

  now select all persistent disks and click on rebuild

  all virtual machines will be recreated in the pool - 2

  You can also try, first remove the pool-1 and create a pool in 2 host in the same name "pool-1' and recreate the disks persistent withour edit.,-that, you really have to try." but the above solution works perfectly

  Thank you

  SKG

• Popup of local storage that cannot be granted or denied

  Computer of my mother who is an iMac running the most recent version, has begun to show this popup last night when she goes on shockwave.com to play games.  It says something about the local storage and gives you the ability to allow or deny.  (Sorry I don't have a screenshot, but I'm on my computer after working with him for hours).  The problem is that you can not click or either allow or refuse - he won't do anything.  I tried the tab options and it would move but nothing if you hit enter or SPACEBAR.  The only way out is to leave the site.

  I don't really know a lot about Adobe Flash so bear with me please.  She uses Firefox, but the same thing happened in Safari when I went to shockwave.com.  He arrived in Chrome at the moment.  The computer is almost new and I checked and the last version of Flash has been installed.  Just to try it, I uninstalled Flash and reinstalled and exactly the same thing happened when I went to this site.  She says she's only seen on this Web site.

  I have Firefox configured to always ask before running it.  I changed it so that it always runs for this particular site, but the popup was always there.  I researched and researched and exhausted all the options I can think.  It is not just a matter of the popup is annoying, is the fact that it will not go away, or allow you to click on what it is about that.  My elderly mother has very limited abilities and understanding when it comes to technology and online security is a huge concern.

  Does anyone have ideas about what could possibly help?  I appreciate all the help and assistance.  Thank you.

  Yes, it's a symptom of our anti-clickjacking too careful logic.  This happens usually when something animated moves behind the dialog box, or sometimes, it's just specific resolution/zoom-level.

  Unfortunately, as a browser plug-in, it's really hard to say whether or not we are above the thing on the screen, and we do not accept clicks on the dialog boxes for security unless we know that you actually see them and not other thing (for example "click here to win! 1. '') superimposed on top of it.

  Honestly, in 2016, restrict the ability of content to store data locally is not really buy you something meaningful in terms of privacy and security.  If you want to avoid persistent tracking chips, your browser's private browsing mode is much, much more efficient, and we pay tribute to her.  We also clear the Flash Player local shared objects when you clear cookies from your browser (to the extent that your browser tells us that you have done this).  Aversion for Flash Player local shared objects is largely based in the superstition at this stage.  The ability for marketers to create followed resilient, persistent is much more powerful in native HTML and JavaScript.  Feel free to look through my feeding activity to find similar posts, where I pointed the academic research on the subject, etc.

  So, here's my pragmatic recommendation:

  Go to settings > Flash Player > storage and choose allow sites to record information on this computer

  Where you do not want websites to save persistent information, use the private browsing mode.

  This accomplishes two things:

  -Content stores data locally, while everything seems to work normally to the content.

  -Flash Player nor the content will throw errors or permission dialog boxes

  -All data is stored in a temporary location, which is destroyed when you exit your private browsing session

  This gives you the best possible user experience and the best defense against tracking in Flash and HTML/JavaScript.  If you are in the business to uniquely identify people, it is a general practice at this stage to use all the technologies available for the redundancy and resilience, including techniques of both local fingerprinting that on the server side, so just to "solve" the Flash Player vector by disabling LSO does not significantly help.

  Unfortunately, the threat of clickjacking requires us to implement solutions less than optimal and the decade or so of experience with very smart people working on it shows that it is a game of whack-a-mole.  It is best to avoid scenarios where the dialog box gets jumped by adding fields to the trust list, or simply by allowing access to the total of just.  The ideal solution would be to move these to the browser native user interface dialog boxes, but which requires buy-in from all browser vendors involved, etc..

• vSphere 6, impossible to use FT with local storage

  Hi guys,.

  Now that I understand that when you turn on FT without storage shared in any data warehouse results are displayed in dialog FT in the web client, I met a different problem (so the discussion topic).

  When I turn on FT for a virtual machine that is on the local storage, I'm now able to select data warehouses, but when I select the local storage for the secondary virtual machine, I get a lot of mistakes which tell me the secondary host cannot reach the .vmx file (of course - this is why I need shared storage - for these small files). Shouldn t FT copy the .vmx and all that has to be shared in the right place, because I said where it is? I need to move my VM to a shared storage, then move my VMDK and stuff for local storage manually?

  Here is a screenshot of the dialog box:

  

  Here are the current hardware configuration:

  ESX1:

  -IP: 192.168.220.51

  -Data warehouses: ESX1-LocalStorage and NFS

  ESX2:

  -IP: 192.168.220.52

  -Data warehouses: ESX2-LocalStorage and NFS

  My primary VM for FT is on ESX2 and try to get my high school on ESX1.

  Thank you!

  When I read about the new features of FT and it also replicates the storage, I also expect the ability to place FT VMs on non-shared storage. However, it seems that this is not an option (maybe in a later version, who knows).

  The vsphere availability Guide:

  Virtual Machine for the fault tolerance requirements

  ...

  • Virtual machines files should be stored on shared storage. Shared storage solutions include Fibre Channel, iSCSI (hardware and software), NFS and NAS.

  André

• Database update issue with JavaScript and local storage

  Hi all

  I come from a PHP background and a newbie with HTML5 and JavaScript, and local storage

  
  

  Currently I'm building a mobile web application that uses a remote database.

  I have a question about the update database.

  Currently, I set it up so that when the user logs on successfully - Local Storage fields are loaded from the remote database query using a jQuery.Get. This seems to work well.

  When it's time to update the data, I fill the form in local storage, allow the user edit fields, then:

  -a form post to send data to the remote php page that updates the database...

  Here is where I have a question: How can I make sure the edit went through good - what is better to do it now?

  -Can I set up a json response to say whether or not the update was successful

  or

  -Query the database once more and recover the fields to compare the edit results

  or

  -Another technique to do of course change it went through OK

  - then if successful, I can update the local storage

  Q: what is the best way to ensure that the database has been correctly updated (and also not lose time with Access database useless)?

  Is there a recommended for this?

  In addition, if possible this beginner can use a clear example...

  Why not to use jquery get () callback status where if the success is returned then to update local storage?

  best,

  Shocker

• ESXi5.1 and large amount of Local storage

  Hello

  I have an ESXi host 5.1 with a virtual machine, acting as a file server. The host has more than 4 TB of local storage that is not in use. Is it possible to introduce this 4TB as a single volume to the VM file server? I would just like to
  be made available as a drive in Windows.

  I read some solutions autour using RDM or by creating 2 TB VMDK and configuring as interval in Windows training. Are there other options?

  Thank you

  SoC

  If you want to run a configuration support, virtual disks of ~ 2 TB are currently the only way to go, because RDM are supported only with LUNS on the shared storage. Personally, I would not combine the two virtual disks in the guest OS somehow (dynamic disks, RAID0) but consider split user data and is present through different actions or DFS.

  André

• Creation of Raw Device Mapping (RDM) is not supported for local storage (1017530)

  "Often, localstorage devices do not support VPD page 0x83 and can therefore be used for Raw Device Mappings (RDMS)." The content of the page 0x83 is used as a unique identifier for the device. For more information, see creating Raw Device Mapping (RDM) is not supported for local storage (1017530). »

  Does anyone know if this is even the case for modern storage?

  We are a dell shop, wishing to take advantage of the ability to create up to 64 TB RDM.

  However, the storage of the host in question will be local SAS only.

  Prefer not to have to merge muliple 2 TB VMDK into windows to make a record of 4.5 to.

  Then projected on the presentation 1 x 4.5 CT rdm

  If you plan to use a SAS controller, you should be able to do this. Your drive will be identified as a device of the naa, and you will be able to add as an RDM to VM - only with ESXi 5 (which can support more than 2 TB LUN).

• Options for sharing local storage

  I work with a test environment and familiarize myself with some of the more advanced options of VMWare.

  Currently, in our lab, I have a server that has a ton of direct-attached storage. We have a San were included in the budget by the end of this year, but in the meantime, I would like to use this server as a substitute of SAN.

  I'm looking for the cleaner way to do this under ESXi 5, preferably without spending any extra money. We have licenses for the VSA, but it seems that I can't use VSA without several servers in a cluster - which I did not. Is there a way to take advantage of VSA without creating a cluster VSA?

  Is there a way do this within VMWare infrastructure that does not involve using something like FreeNAS or a similar solution, which will eventually create giant VMDK files that I have to deal with? I mean, I could lift a virtual server with a huge VMDK attached and ask one of the software solutions to give me iSCSI targets, but it seems hardly elegant. I might just install FreeNAS on bare metal server, but then I lose the use of the VMS host server.

  Forgive me if this is basic - I did some research first. I am looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers who lack storage space.

  Edit - not sure I understand the question / Setup... If the server that has a ton of local storage is already running ESXi?

  "I'm looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers that don't have storage space" "

  With the exception of the magic and mirrors behind VSA, ESXi does not have the ability to share a local data store. This data store must live somewhere else and be introduced to several machines in the way of an NFS share, target iSCSI or FC LUNS.

  I was in that same boat a year ago--a company hired me on for a large project of VMware without realizing that the shared storage is the key to an installation of VMware. They ordered servers with cargoes of physical local storage. Oops. Finally convinced a SAN is the only way (this is also before the release of v5, therefore not VSA). We have since removed all disks, and have most of them redeployed elsewhere (a dedup backup on a physical computer).

• P2V storage would be local storage &amp; moving/import machine more of an ESX?

  Hello

  Reason to ask the question: do a P2V to the server which if done on the network is too slow coz of the limitations of bandwidth. We are trying to move a physical machine in the LAB environment of virtual Production environment that are in two completely different subnets.

  I was just wondering if we have a way to P2V a machine, store all the files in the local storage of the same physical machine (can be a USB device attached to this physical machine or maybe some NAS device accessible from the physical machine) and then copy these files to the VC server or the server with VSphere client and import these files on any of the ESX.

  I know Ghost can take the image of the physical server, but again will require server ghost & new will be via the network.

  So I'm looking free tool that can take the image of my physical machine & I can manually copy these files on the server that is on the same network where my ESX, VC are & then import this machine on the ESX

  You do not know if we can get out of the physical machine in OVF format on local storage, copy the OVF file and import it on the ESX machine.

  I saw there is a VMware OVF tool that I don't think that what I'm looking for. In fact, could not get exactly what and how it works.

  Any help will be really appreciated

  Thank you

  Sam

  If you take the approach of André to create a workstation image, you can simply import the newly created for ESX(I) VMDK using vmkfstools - quick guide here:

  http://www.get-virtual.info/2011/01/28/importing-a-VM-from-VM-workstation-to-ESX-ESXi/