Move existing partitions of SAN to a virtual machine

Similar Questions

• Move ROW with dynamic disk to another virtual machine

  Hello

  I'm in a situation where I have to leave my RDM Win2003 VM to win2008, but the complexity and multiple physical RDMs here make only dynamic partition (RDM1 1.5 TB, RDM2 1.5 TB, is drive G RDM3 1 TB 4 TB),

  Now my question is if I can move this partition of G (which includes 3 disks RDM) again an another VM (win2008)

  Thanks, SD

  Hello

  This does not resemble a specific question VMware.  On the contrary, seems like a question of Microsoft Windows.  Just make sure the hosts on which the virtual machine of 2008 runs can see the same ROW and follow this procedure to remove dynamic disks of the virtual machine of 2003 and add them to the virtual machine of 2008.

  Move disks to another computer

  All the best,

  Mike

  -----------------------------------------

  Remember to mark this reply 'proper' or 'useful', if you found it useful.

  Mike Brown

  NetApp, VMware and Cisco data center guy

  Consultant engineer

  [email protected]

  Twitter: @VirtuallyMikeB

  Blog: http://VirtuallyMikeBrown.com

  LinkedIn: http://LinkedIn.com/in/michaelbbrown

• Partition of Windows in a Virtual Machine - input/advice needed

  Hello

  We have a Windows operating system in a virtual machine of VMware Vsphere.  There is plenty of room on the SAN.  However, the operating system is running out of space and needs more space.  We have extended the VMFS volume on which the virtual machine is running.  Now, within the OS, is there a simple way to extend the amount of disk hard windows space see without using a tool third 3rd to resize the size of the partition from the point of view of operating system?  Is there a tool VMware to do this, be integrated, or who uses the VMware API to to make it easier than in a world of pure physical server?  When we have extended partitions on a physical server, it takes a lot of time and requires that the server be down during the whole process, so I hope that there is a faster way with less interruptions in service when the operating system is a virtual machine.  Thanks a lot for your comments/advice.

  What produces these hosts guests?

  If you are running on ESX (i)

  a couple of things, if 2008, you can use diskpart to C: and the other data disks.  For 2003, you can use diskpart for non system partitions and something like extpart for system scores.

  .. .or if all else fails, use a helper VM or VMware Converter.

• Ubuntu wants to format partition - is this JUST the virtual machine?

  I am trying to create a virtual machine of Ubuntu.  The installer has gone through a few steps and now gives me the warning below.  Can anyone confirm that it's ONLY formatting the virtual machine and NOT my drive hard mac?

  TIA,

  ML (VMware Fusion, MacBook Pro, Mac OS 10.5.6)

  -

  ---

  If you continue, the changes below will be written on the disks. Otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually.

  ATTENTION: This will destroy all data on the partitions that you have deleted, as well as the partitions that will be formatted.  The partition of the following tables are changes: SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda)

  The following partitions will be formatted:

  #1 SCSI3 (0,0,0) partition (sda) in ext3

  #5 of partition (0,0,0) (sda) as swap SCSI3

  I am trying to create a virtual machine of Ubuntu.  The installer has gone through a few steps and now gives me the warning below.  Can anyone confirm that it's ONLY formatting the virtual machine and NOT my drive hard mac?

  Unless you do something like a raw disk card (is not supported and you'd know if you created one), it is only referencing the virtual disk and your Mac files are safe.

• Launching applications from partition Bootcamp without starting the virtual machine

  Hi all, installed Fusion because my colleague was furious about how you can launch applications without even opening the windows. But I was not able to do. I use a Bootcamp partition and is not, and I'm assuming that this is the reason why this feature is not available for me, but if someone could shed some light on this would be great!

  Thank you

  I think that your colleague is a bit confused. By definition, any product of virtualization to run a prompt to perform a request for comments. If you start in Unity mode, you might see Windows not running, but it's there. I suspect that what your colleague is talking about is the suspension in Unity mode. If you then start a Notes application, the virtual machine will resume, and since it is in Unity mode, it will appear to run the comments without Windows display application.

  Run a Boot Camp virtual machine means that you can not suspend (or snapshot, but that is irrelevant to this issue) because this can lead to corruption of the disk.

• Move the HARD drive to the new virtual machine

  I think it's a real simple question, so a simple answer is very well...

  I currently have a computer virtual running windows server 2003 x 86.  This whole system is on C: and the D: is strictly files/shared user.  I need to upgrade this server 2 k 8 R2 x 64.  My plan is to detach the D: to the x 86 box, create a new x 64 VM and reattach the D: from the old server and re-create the shares.

  My question is, when I do that, I would wait to see the security reset on the player?  As in the new operating system will reorganize the security on all of its default value...

  Other issues anyone do with it?  Simple enough?  It is about 300 GB of user data, so I'm just a little nervous about it.  (it is supported of course however).

  Thanks for any info!

  I think that when you remove the drive and re - join a new virtual machine, it will inherit the rights of the current operating system. It is the same concept as if you had a USB HDD shared, connected to a PC, removed and attached to another PC. You would lose your actions and all other settings.

  You should not have problems - make sure to note all the shared available on disk as well as any special permissions (as denies explicit for Active Directory).

• Increase the size of the partition on an existing virtual machine

  I created a partition for a virtual XP machine, and it turns out be smaller that I needed her to be (2 GB). I want to extend the partition. I can do this to the existing, or partition should I install a brand new virtual machine and import an older?

  Assuming you mean "virtual disk" instead of "partition", see resizing of the ramdisks with step by step Instructions. If you are talking about a real Boot Camp partition, is not associated with Fusion (except that if you change the Boot Camp partition, you must delete the virtual machine pointing to the old partition configuration).

• How can I move XP on Boot Camp partition in a virtual machine on a new iMac?

  Yesterday, I bought a new iMac to replace an iMac Core Duo older. I was running XP on Boot Camp partition and using Fusion to access. As the new iMac custom supports XP on Boot Camp partition, I want to use VMWae Fusion to run XP in a virtual machine on the new computer. Is there a way to get the current state of XP (with all the security and the SP3 updates) now on my Boot Camp partition, more than one virtual machine on the new computer?

  No offense intended... Have you even read the linked web page and or documentation of Paragon go virtual?

  In short, could start the Boot Camp partition natively, install and run Paragon go virtual to create a Virtual Machine in VMware Boot Camp partition and run the resulting Virtual Machine with VMware Fusion on the new Mac.

  Then you can do what you want with the old computer after deleting the partition Boot Camp with Boot Camp Assistant as you can't keep physical installation on the old system if your running a virtual copy of it on another system without purchasing another license from Microsoft.  Also, you will need to reactivate Windows XP and other software that follows what material it was initially installed on the virtual machine.

  Note: You can even create a Virtual Machine from the Boot Camp partition with VMware Fusion in two different ways, or even to use VMware vCenter Converter such as the use of virtual Paragon to go however I strongly recommend using Paragon go virtual methods due to what I consider a major flaw in the way they create the virtual hard disk when you use the command import on the Boot Camp partition and a rate higher failure by using the other methods/software VMware VMware compared to Paragon go virtual.  For the non-technical user Paragon go virtual is the best way to go IMO and the entire process usually takes less time, then the methods of VMware.

• Can you have different partitions on a virtual machine on different host machine partititons?

  I have a 2008 srver machine which has two partitions. I wish that my virtual machine which is Server 2008 (Workstation 8) to have one of its virtual disk on one of my partitions hosts and the other on the other partition. IS this possible? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

  With a new virtual machine you would just select the location for the new virtual disk when you create it. With an existing virtual machine, you could - with the virtual machine powered on and closed VMware Workstation (or at least tab of the virtual machine closed) - move the virtual disk files second to another partition and edit the .vmx virtual machine file and add the absolute path name of the virtual disk file.

  If you want, after (join) current .vmx file of the virtual machine as well as his latest vmware log file and let me know the path target if I can guide you.

  André

• How Virtual Machines to access the data over a Fibre Channel SAN network

  Hello

  I have storage EMC SAN and HBA Qlogic card installed on a server from VSphere 5

  How do I access the LUN that I created on the SAN on a virtual machine.

  Please help step by step because I am a new on VSphere

  so the trick with rdm, is that there may be any vmfs existing on it. so even if you do not want to perform a new scan, it can be mounted in the storage. delete the vmfs partition, remove it from storage, then go to add HDD on the vm again and rdm will be is greyer. Obviously im assuming that there is no data on this lun. This operation will destroy all information contained in this logical unit number since we reformmatting it.

• Cloning a virtual machine that contains a system of operating under existing Windows license

  I have a Dell VRTX with three blades and five VM.  All five VM have Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.

  In the near future, I will create at least two new virtual machines that are also having Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.  To make things easy for me, I would like to just clone among the five existing VM to make the new virtual machine.  This should be easier to make a virtual machine from scratch.

  However, I'm concerned by the existing Windows license manager.  Ideally, I would like to clone an existing virtual machine, remove (format?) the Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit installation of VM newly created and then perform a new installation of Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit, install VMware Tools, etc. in the new virtual machine.

  1. what happens in the short time that in double Windows licenses are active?  I fear that the window one or two facilities will become disabled, as well.

  2. is there a better/more way to reach my goal of creating the new virtual machine?

  3. are there additional tips, comments or questions?

  Thanks in advance.

  
  

  Members of your VM of a domain? If you blow the OS disk, then just make sure that the first time it starts (if you need to start), you disable the network adapters for. Personally, I would create from scratch, especially if they are members of the domain.

• Clone vmdk, move and get on the virtual machine

  Hello

  Im trying to clone a file from a source VM, VMDK turn off the VM goal, move it to the folder of this virtual machine and finally getting on this virtual machine.

  Im not sure if this is common sense... maybe there is an easy way to transfer a VMDK to a goal to a VM source.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Welcome them

  X_Burner

  Windows Server 2003 has automount disabled volume.

  To check the exec diskpart.exe on the server.

  It takes a few seconds to load until you get a command prompt.

  Then type "automount" to get the current state.

  If it has disabled you can enable it by typing "automount enable.

  Once the new volumes will automatically receive a drive letter.

  Tim

• Can I convert a server disk to a virtual machine?

  I have a number of OS X 10.5 servers running on hardware that is incredibly underused.  Since the Fusion 3 supports running OS X Server virtualized, is it possible to convert a live server disk to a virtual machine to the BootCamp to VM? I could run all 5 of my server on a single Xserve systems. I dug around, but everything points to a new facility to achieve this.

  Thank you

  Tim

  Yes, it is possible to convert physical machines to Mac OS X Server VM. I've posted instructions on how to do this in the following thread: Re: Snow Leopard Server VM existing?

  In your case, the only thing that needs to change is the version of the OS - pick instead of 10.6 10.5. I tried this with one of my machines so far, I would be interested to comment on the question of whether instructions to work for you. I'll probably convert this post into a document at some point...

  I also thought the ability to hire only the OS X physical disk partitions without copying the data (like Fusion for Boot Camp). However, Fusion currently only supported the MBR partition tables to access raw partitions, and most Macs are partitioned GPT (or hybrid MBR + TPG). You can try to use Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator to see if it recognizes the OS X partitions. If so, you should be able to create a virtual disk that references the partitions and boot from it as you would for a machine virtual Boot Camp.

  It is also possible to use a physical disk full (instead of individual partitions), but you would need to have partitions not mounted before using virtual machines that reference the physical disks. If you are interested in, there is a link in this thread as well.

• Multiple virtual machines are with merging different accounts...

  I have a partition, Bootcamp with Win XP SP3. Fusion (2.0.4) is configured to run a machine virtual of Bootcamp. When we go to Fusion from an account other than the account used to set up the merger, it is always built a new virtual machine and applications to reinstall VMWare Tools.

  I don't know if this is related to the fact that each user has now several virtual machines listed in the merge Panel, some black, some grey. Some of these virtual machines start and the one who would start applications the VMWare Tools install.

  Could be a permissions problem? If so, what folders/files should be given permission for different users? Thank you.

  OS 10.5.7 (Nvidia graphics)

  MacPro 2008

  Normal file according to the Virtual Machines have a glance at the 'Sharing of Virtual Machines between users' section of the VMware Fusion A Beginner's Guide.

  For the execution of the partition Boot Camp in a Virtual Machine, it is a bit different because where the virtual Boot Camp Machine score is and cannot be moved as normal file based on Virtual Machines.  The location of each are covered in the first part of the document of A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion .

  So it's normal and EXPECTED that the library Virtual Machine to each user account will be filled with a virtual Boot Camp Machine partition and will be treated as if it has not been run before the first time it is run under a particular user account.

  There are a few options however none are configured via the GUI only merger and one, must be given full access to the files of one user home needed to give permissions for a given partition Boot Camp Virtual Machine instance that everyone would then use and would disable the ability to merge to automatically assign the Boot Camp partition entry on each virtual Machine library Virtual Machine user account from the user account and then just manually complete virtual of the user account of the user account library of machine with Boot Camp target partition shared Virtual Machine.

  By changing the name of the rawdiskCreator-vmware in a Terminal (/ Applications/Utilities/Terminal) copy of the file and paste the following command, as is, and then press enter and type your password, and then press Enter and the Boot Camp partition appears is no longer automatically on the Virtual Machine library automatically under a newly created user account. and the opportunity to delete the automatically populated user account entry existing Virtual Machine library.

  sudo mv "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator" "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator.bak"
  

  Post edited by: WoodyZ - updated the last paragraph in order to clarify what is expected after renamed it vmware-rawdiskCreator.

• Try to export volume Boot camp in a virtual machine

  I'm under VMWare Fusion 5.0.4 as a virtual machine running in my bootcamp partition.

  I want to export this partition to run as one virtual machine on another machine.

  I use VMware vCenter Converter standalone 5.5.2 to try to do.

  Unfortunately, the conversion fails with: "'can't mix part MBR and GPT, partition 0 is TPG!" in the newspapers. "

  What can I do?

  Thank you

  Tom

  After selecting the destination on the page 'Data copy' choose 'Select volumes to copy.

  HTH