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• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• How to make a visible USB hard disk for a virtual machine on ESXI 4.1?

  Hi all

  As I am new to the world of vmware ESXI, I always make mistakes or I don't undertand all therefore be complete :-).

  So I have a HP Proliant ML 350 G6 Server installed with ESXI 4.1 and I want to connect a USB hard disk to a virtual machine (SBS 2K 8). Currently, the virtual machine is not able to see the hard drive.

  I already add a USB controller to the virtual machine, but my USB HARD drive is still not visible to my virtual machine.

  Can you help on that?

  Thank you

  Michael

  Next, add a USB device to the virtual computer (in the change settings tab), there are different things, USB controller and USB devices. Sometimes, you may have to restart the virtual machine.

  Greetings

• How to add a data center on the virtual center via VI client server?

  How to add a data center on the virtual center via VI client server?

  I formatted ESX server & ESX Server Update installed keeping the data center on the storage (of many desktop computers)

  Now I have fresh installed a new server of virtual & added the ESX Server, but I'm unable to reattach existing data centers on storage.

  What will be the way to import of existing data on server Center virtual center?

  Help, please...

  Is ' VMware-VMimporter - 2.0.0 - 30557 "is the software through which I can solve my problem?

  You need to browse each data store, go to the folder of the virtual machine, right-click on the *.vmx file and add it to your inventory.

  Andrea

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• Copy of the data of the disk of the virtual machine on a Local disk is too slow

  We have recently implemented vMware view.   We vSphere 5.5 and 5.2 and made Desktop visualization server.

  We have SAN as HP 3Par and Esxi hosts are HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

  Now all trying to copy the data from the disk of the virtual machine disk of the local computer are too slow. But if we are writing data from Local disk on the disk of the virtual machine is normal. And copying data between the two virtual machine disk is also fast.

  Thanks in advance for your help

  Dear all,

  Thanks for your help.

  We have analyzed the issue in 360 degrees, and we also examined your entries. Finally, we found the problem. It was that a defective fiber link has been creating the problem.

  We have recently implemented vMware and this flaw in fiber can also happened during this period. That's why we thought it may be because of vmware.

  Thanks again for your help

• How to find out really currently used physical memory and swap space of hard disk to the virtual computer running?

  Suppose that I'm leaving WinXP hostOS a guestOS. Then a part of this guestOS remain in physical memory and another part is deployed on hard drive in the swap file resp swap partition.

  First question: the complete *.vmdk loaded into memory/swap space or only the part that is currently required?

  Perhaps only a *.vmdk 800 MB / 3GB is really responsible. But these 800 MB could be extended to 2 GB, because the content of these 800 MB is not compressed during load or guestOS drivers allocate additional memory.

  *. VMDK size seems so NO indicator for the actual amount of used memory / swap.

  How will I know how much physical (a) memory and (b) the hard disk swap space EXACTLY is currently occupied by a certain virtual machine running?

  Matt

  mattad wrote:

  First question: the complete *.vmdk loaded into memory/swap space or only the part that is currently required?

  The vmdk is not loaded into memory, because it is the drive of the virtual machine.

  *. VMDK size seems so NO indicator for the actual amount of used memory / swap.

  Yes, of course not. The memory used by the client is not related to the size of hard but the RAM assigned in the options of hardware reviews.

  How will I know how much physical (a) memory and (b) the hard disk swap space EXACTLY is currently occupied by a certain virtual machine running?

  Open the Task Manager and find a task vmware - vmx.exe or vmware-vmx - debug.exe.

  The swap file should be used if you have chosen to allow that VMware Workstation is authorized to Exchange. The file where swaps to door expansion .vmem Workstation. Search folder of comments.

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• delete a virtual disk of the virtual machine of broken storage

  I have a virtual disk to a virtual machine on a broken iSCSI storage,

  now I can not remove the disc from the virtual machine.

  ESX 4.1 does not see the now broken iSCSI storage.

  See attach.

  Remove the virtual machine from the inventory and edit VMX manually deleting the reference to this disk. After that, add the machine virtual back again for the inventory.

• Disks of the virtual machine consolidation is necessary - vCenter 5.1 U1 + ESXi 5.1 + VDP 5.8.0

  Hello

  I am facing problem as many other people do, when snapshot is deleted, the delta files are still there and warning message "consolidation of disks of virtual machines is necessary" is shown on the virtual machine.

  It happened only few but try to find the root cause. He arrived only on virtual machine located on ESXi 5.1 build 799733 which is located in the task of the WTP 5.8.0 backup.

  Is this snapshot problem, a bug in the version of ESXi?

  Unable to find the release notes, where this is documented as bug.

  Thank you

  Finally, I found a reason, therefore, for other users... ESXi 5.1 build 799733 has a bug that is resolved in the update 1 and higher and is connected to the suspended snapshots created by POS, that is why are there so many discs of delta.

  ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Release Notes

  • When the slowdown of snapshot fails the redo logs are not consolidated
    • When you try to take a snapshot of the suspension of a virtual machine, if the snapshot operation fails near the end of its realization, recovery logs created as part of the snapshot are not consolidated. Recovery logs can consume a lot of space to store data.
    • This issue is fixed in this version. If the snapshot suspended operation fails, the redo log files are consolidated.

• vRO presentation: return the total size of the disk of the virtual machine

  Hi guys,.

  I have a catalog item to extend a drive, which is presented to the vRA advanced services and picks up the vRO workflow. For this reason, the default IaaS vRA no between not affecting resource management. So I would limit the end-users to a maximum size of the virtual machine - that is to say, if the size + total size they intended to expand is > to a specific size, then the workflow will report this.

  I wrote the following code to return the total of all the disks that are attached to a machine. Then, it comes to the tab Presentation vRO to fill the discs max value. It works fine when I use the code as a workflow and connect the output. However, vRO presentation does not return a value any. Anyone had similar problems or I made a stupid mistake and missed something?

  var total = 0;

  size var = new Array();

  var features = vm.config.hardware.device;

  var h = 0;

  for (var i in devices) {}

  If (devices [i] instanceof VcVirtualDisk) {}

  size [h +] = [i] devices, .capacityInKB / 1024 / 1024;

  Total += devices [i] .capacityInKB / 1024 / 1024;

  }

  }

  return to the total;

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Thank you

  bradger33

  resolved - used the wrong presentation vRO variable. Had to use rather than answer pre-defined data binding

• How to resize hard disks of a virtual machine?

  Here's the scenario, we virtualized just a physical machine.

  The (c) is 20 GB, and (d) is 190 GB.  We had to maintain these sizes during the P2V, then re-run the P2V and resizing is not an option (the physical machine is in production and should maintain the current States of its disk).

  From what I can tell, these two (c) and (d) are on a virtual disk (vmdk), which is to ~ 210 GB in size.

  Now that we have virtualized, I could clean the disks and delete unnecessary data.  Now I need to change the (c) for 30 GB and I need to change the (d) to be 50 GB

  Can someone please advice of office?  How to cultivate the (c) and shrink (d) while they are both on a virtual disk (vmdk)?

  In which case it is important, we use a SAN with the left hand.  Our esx-data store is 1 TB, with plenty of room.

  Thanks in advance,

  Chris

  Highlight the host you want to convert to (could be the cluster), then right click and select "import machine".  It will then launch converter.  You can do it on by selecting 'Powered on machine' or if feed you first, you can import it as a virtual one by specifying the host / virtual center.

• Expand the size of the hard disk to the virtual computer

  My current VM HD size is 8 GB.

  I tried to to 12 GB, but got the message: these settings cannot be changed wile has a virtual machine snapshot.  To make these changes, first delete all snapshots.

  With Windows turned off, I went Virtual Machine in the menu bar, chose Snapshots in the menu drop down and deleted the Snapshot, I had.

  When I went again to increase to 12 GB, I got the same message again: these settings cannot be changed wile has a virtual machine snapshot.  To make these changes, first delete all snapshots.

  Return to snapshots; No Snapshots in the list, only the button to take a snapshot, but I can't always change the size of the disk.

  I'm missing something here.  How can I increase the size of the HD 12 GB VM?

  Thank you very much

  
  
  Biker Bob

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  Meanwhile, I reason to assume that the text listing the string you gave me can be used in the terminal?

  Yes.

  LS - lAF Users/jiruifu/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP Home Edition.vmwarevm

  Spaces are used to separate arguments (then ls thought you to put it on a number of different files, which none exist). Or the other of the following should work:

  ls -lAF "/Users/jiruifu/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP Home Edition.vmwarevm"
  ls -lAF /Users/jiruifu/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ XP\ Home\ Edition.vmwarevm
  

  The two methods to escape spaces for ls include the path. A practical thing to remember is that if you drag and drop a file into a Terminal window, it will automatically enter the path with escape sequence for you.

• Disks of the virtual machine consolidation is necessary is Unable to Access file &lt; file_name indeterminate &gt; because it is locked

  Hola a tod@s,

  After using the application of only backup '5.5 virtual Data Protection' y no las snapshot los correctamente foot VM´s, me appears a message en the pestana "Summary" indicating:

  Consolidation of disks of virtual machines is necessary

  Bueno... mirando the documentation oficial, are several soluciones, the first are pulsar en option "SnapShot-> Consolidate" pero muestra el error:

  Unable to access file < unspecified file name > because it is locked

  What is seria el siguiente paso?

  -ESXi version 5.1

  -En VM´s production...

  Gracias por todo.

  Saludos.

  Please if you ha sido util the respuesta correcta como marca respond.

  Gracias!

• Having to constantly consolidate the disk of the virtual machine?

  I'm having a problem whereby several virtual machines on several 5.1 ESXi hosts are requiring a consolidation of virtual machine disk. I perform "snapshot consolidation" and it ends after a few seconds, then next day the configuration problem returns?

  There are no snapshots on the affected virtual machines

  OS: 2008R2 and 2012

  ESXi 5.1 stand alone hosts

  Thank you

  Brendan

  Thanks guys, it was in fact the backup software (CommVault) do not clean a vsa backup attempt failed. Everything is good now...

• Windows 7 - How to remove a hard disk of the winsxs directory space.

  I have a Windows 7-64 bit (Service pack 1 installed) system with a 2 TB HDD + 150 GB HDD. The 2 TB disk has a 20 GB partition (C :) for Windows & a few other programs such as Live essentials, AVG & Adobe. Most of the other software has been installed on a second drive 150 GB (old) (f).

  20 GB partition is down to the last 300 MB of space & can no longer update windows or AVG. I also receive a "Low disk space" message

  Currently: -.

  C:\windows\ => 16.4 GB

  C:\windows\winsxs\ => 7,51 GB

  I tried the following.

  -"Diskcleanup" for standard files & cleaning of the system.

  -Deletion of all programs that are not needed on the partition & either left or installed on the 150 GB drive.

  -Removed the 'Originals' directory that Essentials uses to store the versions of the files of edited images. Now, it is automatically deleted after 24 hours.

  I have not been able to reallocate memory because the drive is less than the minimum 512 MB recommended.

  It seems to me that all the programs that have been installed at one time, but have been removed are still in C:\windows\winsxs\

  How I shot this size without re - install Windows 7 and others?

  I ended up going about it a different way to the 3rd party software, like those that make me always nervous.

  Yes, I needed to extend the c: in this case, I'm out to 150 GB.

  I ended up copying all files D: on various devices and then deleted the D:. The only snag I hit was not be able to delete the D: partition. It turns out that I had to disable the file 'Page' for D:. After that, I was able to delete D:, expand c 150 GB and then re - allocate D:.

  To disable the Page file, you must go to 'advanced system settings '.

  The next thread can be useful as well.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/partition-problem-cant-delete-or-combine/5cd22070-FC88-43F7-ab36-08b0252169b4

• Question about CS5.5 to another hard disk on the same PC

  I would spend my CS5.5 to another drive on the same system, purely a matter of real estate on the C drive, now piled up. I have a 1 terabyte of disk I want to spend this sequel to. I don't know that I have to disable and uninstall before that and hope CS5.5 can live on non - C drive as well.

  Apart from disabling, what other factors could I be dominant? Thank you in advance.
  bossman344

  Hello Jeff!

  Thanks for responding.  The question was however.  Thanks again!

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