No matter what advantage of having a virtual disk instead of partition for SQL server?

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• Converter does not have "an error occurred when opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and source running machines have network access to the ESX/ESXi hosts source and destination. »

  Hi all

  I'm having some trouble converting server physical windows using autonomous vConverter 5.5.

  error message:

  "An error occurred when opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and source running machines have network access to the ESX/ESXi hosts source and destination. "

  I have attached the bundle newspapers. Please notify.

  See you soon...

  Your error is:

  2014-11 - 04T 18: 27:27.587 - 08:00 [01236 info "Default"] GetManagedDiskName: Get disklib file name as vpxa-nfcssl: / / [a0110-vmgt70-001] WIN-MOVRCVCSITG/WIN-MOVRCVCSITG.vmdk@a0110tesxhyp01.datacenter.telenorservices.com: 902! 2 b 52 87 75 03 03 ff 49-67 2f 3 a 61 76 and 00 cd e1

  2014-11 - 04T 18: 27:27.587 - 08:00 [01236 WARNING 'Default'] [, 0] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx [NFC ERROR]: unable to connect to peer. Error: Failed to search for host for a0110tesxhyp01.datacenter.telenorservices.com server address: the requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found

  2014-11 - 04T 18: 27:27.587 - 08:00 [01236 info "Default"] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code: 2338)

  Check the manual on the required ports.

  HTH

• Convert virtual disk from IDE to SCSI now Server 2008 does not start

  Hi all

  I hope that one of you guys can solve my problem.

  I'm new to vmware and have managed to convert my 2008 physical server to a virtual server, but when this virtual disk has been set to IDE, I read that I need to use SCSI for better performance then I attributed a new virtual disk to my server and clone the IDE hard drive on the SCSI disk using EASEUS disk copy software.

  After I cloned the drive I removed the IDE hard disk but my server continues to display the BSOD 0x0000007b error (inaccessible boot volume). I can't start normally or through safe mode. If I try to use the recovery mode no drives appear.

  I use the LSI Logic SAS controller type and have tried the parallel LSI Logic Controller without result.

  Is it possible to fix my guest operating system, without having to reinstall?

  Thank you very much

  Robbie

  Hello

  Visit this link

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1016192&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=965100100&StateID=1%200%20965102427

  Concerning

  Mohammed

• Providing Encrypted virtual disks instead of tenant multiple

  I need to provide that each client encrypted virtual disks in a virtual environment.  I don't want to spend a whole data store on each client requiring encryption.

  Is this possible?

  
  

  Hello

  Yes it is possible, but using encryption as a guest. Tools that help with this would be HyTrust DataControl and CloudLink SecureVM/navigation.

  In addition, if you do not use a store of data encryption, choose one that allows you to have different keys by VM. In this way, you can have key tenant unique regardless of where the data is stored.

  Best regards
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  Author of the books ' VMWare ESX and ESXi in the business: Planning Server Virtualization Deployment, Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. ' Of VMware VSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: securing the virtual environment ', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.

  Virtualization and Cloud Security Analyst: The Practice of virtualization, LLC - vSphere Upgrade Saga - virtualization security Table round Podcast

• What will be lost if I use a new database for vCenter Server?

  Currently, we use VC 2.5 U4 with database SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition.  We intend to migrate the SQL Server used by VC to SQL Server 2005 Express 2000 database.  We have tried the upgrade on-site of the VC database but without success.

  In this way, we will create a new SQL Server 2005 Express for VC database.  We would like to see more performance statistics, the following items will be lost?

  (1) resource pool

  (2) cluster configuration

  (3) connect to the ESX host

  (4) configuration of NIC in ESX host

  (5) the allocation of resources for each virtual computer

  We are very concerned by the Network Configuration of a particular ESX host that takes us a long time to repair.

  Thank you

  The ESX host network configuration will remain as it is a host level setting.  With regard to the other elements:

  (1) Yes, you will lose your Resource Pools

  (2) your cluster configuration, including DRS rules, etc. will be lost

  (3) you will need to add each ESX host on your vCenter Server

  (4) as indicated, you will not lose your network configuration

  (5) If you set resources in a Resource Pool, then you who will lose.  If you set it on the virtual machine itself then I believe that you leave this setting.

  You will also lose some other things, like all the permissions you applied at various levels of vCenter.

• Is there an advantage to having a backup disk image of Macintosh HD (for MacBook Pro) to ease/speed of recovery after a disk failure rather than using Time Machine to recover?

  I'm trying to understand the best way to prepare for the recovery of a failure in the drive for a MacBook Pro.

  I do not understand the nuances of the time Machine - I know from personal experience that it is a recovery tool great when your existing drive is intact and you're just trying to restore a file.  But what happens if the drive has a hardware failure and needs to be replaced?

  Is there an advantage to take periodic images of Macintosh HD for quick recovery (and then using the incremental backups Time Machine to catch up to the current position).  Or Time Machine may facilitate a recovery in case of failure of the disc just as easily/quickly that will give it to have a separate image backup?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  YES!.  If you have a clone boot disk, you can either connect it to a MBP or Exchange it with the internal HDD failed and be back in business quickly.  Time machine, as good as is, can take several hours to restore your system, depending on the amount of data.

  For cloning, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner.  It is not free, but it's worth the price:

  https://Bombich.com/

  I use it in conjunction with Time Machine.  (two backups are better than one)

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• What is application window azure, how can I do useful for Xwindows Server? How can I integrate identity window and the window of azure Foundation

  I am doing a project in which I work with Windows server and visual studio.i have implemented like that any computer that belong to the domain connected with window server., if a connection of time first user of this computer, and then the entire application on the intranet without having to connect .it will automatically connect, if a user starts her computer with her password. is it possible with both the concept above.

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  Your question is more complex than what is generally answered in the Microsoft Answers forums. It is better suited for the IT Pro TechNet public. Please post your question in the Technet Forum. You can follow the link to your question:

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• Implementation of a virtual disk that is shared for clustering in Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

  Hello world

  I'm relatively new to Vmware, and I have no knowledge of Linux commands. Here's my problem I have Vmware Workstation 7 installed on my PC, I installed Vmware ESX 4.1 in and use Vsphere client to connect to the ESX Server. I installed 3 Virtual Machines each running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. The first DC1 server I set up like the DC with AD, DNS and DHCP, the other two servers called CLR-SVR-1 and/CLR-SVR-2 I have joined to the domain, but did not make them a domain controller. I want to create a 2 cluster nodes, but when I try the installation I get an error message not Quorum shared disk was found, and a second NETWORK adapter is required (although I have 2 network cards installed on the virtual machine).

  I tried to use the vmkfstools to create a floppy disk, but when I turn on the virtual computer, I get an error that I have not used the thick option (I entered this command, vmkfstools thickness - a free - 1 c d G vmfs/volumes/datastore2/CLRDISK/CLR.vmdk, but it didn't work).

  Can someone explain please how to do step by step to someone who knows nothing about Linux or vmware CLI commands commands?

  PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS TO YOU ALL.

  Take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617. This KB links to documentation MSCS he for different versions of ESX. I think the last doc on 4.0 U1 should work for 4.1 as well.

  André

• FAILED: An error occurred when opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and source running machines have network access to the ESX/ESXi hosts source and destination

  Hello world

  I get this error when I try to convert a machine, this machine are in the same network with others that I had no problem to convert, the error occurred in 1% complete. I tried several other suggestions from others posts, with no luck.

  I have vmware converter 5.5.2. Someone at - it something idea?

  Thx a lot.

  Your error is:

  2014 08-18 T 06: 49:12.641 + 02:00 [10064 "Default" warning] [, 0] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx [NFC ERROR]: unable to connect to peer. Error: Unable to connect to the server cld01vmwh18.replycloud.prv:902

  Need to allow access to the machine to be converted to cld01vmwh18.replycloud.prv:902

  HTH

• question about creating virtual disks on my MD3220i

  I create a virtual disk where I put a SQL Server and it asks me to

  Choose the type of virtual disk IO characteristics. The file system (typical), database, multimedia and Custom options.

  I think the selection of data because it is a SQL Server. However I'm not sure because I have not much of

  experience with this. My question is that one should choose or perhaps not even matter?

  Thank you

  Being that the VD will be strictly for SQL, then you can go ahead and select the database option. Any other time, you must select the typical option. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

• What is the advantage to affect multiple virtual machines in a data store?

  Hello

  Quite a question stupid and basic, but I can't answer . What is the advantage of having multiple virtual machines in a store of VMFS data instead of having each VM in another VMFS data store? (eg. 3 VMs in 1 data store or 3 data warehouses and each virtual machine in one of them). I can only think about the ease of management for storage administrator because it creates only a single large LUN.
  
  Thank you

  By allowing multiple virtual machines in a data store, you can run more than 256 virtual machines in a DRS cluster.

  As a host has a limit of 256 scsi identification numbers, which means that it accesses no more than 255 LUNS shared. 1 scsi ID is used for local storage.

  In a DRS cluster as each host must be mapped to the same data warehouses to ensure that virtual machines can be moved on the cluster and run on any of the hosts.

  Now in my life as an architect VMware PSO I saw that a lot of virtual machines that require a single data store. The main reason to isolate a virtual machine on a data store must provide sufficient i/o performance. This can be achieved with other solutions than to isolate a virtual machine on a data store. Having a properly architected storage subsystem is crucial, vSphere can get out of a very large number of the IOPS / s. With technologies such as SIOC and DRS for storage, you can check that the virtual machines receive IO performance according to the needs.

• More than 40 Virtual Disk-000... created the vmdk files

  In the host, under all my files, there are more than 40 hard of virtual disk files and it seems that the number becomes larger.

  I don't know if I should organize everything in one folder or remove them? (New to Fusion 8 Pro)

  They are counted as Virtual Disk-000... Vmdk, Virtual Disk 05.Marco - 000.001.vmdk, etc.

  I have attached a picture of what looks like this message.

  
  Thanks and much gratitude for any help!

  Hello

  You should not reorganize and certainly not to delete them.

  These files are your virtual disk. If you move or delete them as your virtual machine will get corrupted and the chances of data loss figure in your virtual machine or top.

  There is the possibility of having your virtual disk consisting of a single file. However, the thing is that while that may seem better on your eyes, it also means that common tasks like shrinking your disks or deletion of snapshots become more difficult.

  Rather than try to list all the reasons on what you are currently experiencing is the best way to have your virtual disk, I don't want to point you to this site:

  http://sanbarrow.com/VMDK/monlithicversussplit.html

  as this was a good list.

  Personally, I've removed "All My Files" from the Finder (uncheck in preferences) that I didn't like it and had nothing to do with the virtual disks. Down here, they don't show same under there.

  --

  Wil

• Virtual disk 1 gradient

  I have a Dell server that has 6 disks in Raid 1 3 bays. A drive has been replaced and came as "Foreign" so I followed the process to clean it, and now it shows "Ready". I need to add back into the Raid 1 mirror for virtual disk 1 as but it won't allow me. I chose the system-> Storage-> virtual disks in OMSA. For the second virtual disk (which is showing degraded) I've selected Assign/Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare, then run but I get a message that reads:

  Storage management shows only disks that can be used as a hot spare. There are at present no discs that are available, large enough, or the correct type to use as a hot spare for this virtual disk

  The disks are the same with the same product ID etc. I would jump just the drive and return as a test, but it's in a data center so I will try to use remote tools to solve the problem.

  RichRaymont,

  When you go to the page of the physical disks, is there a difference in the indicated for both drives? Also check if the controller firmware is current and up to date, I ask that this can be caused by firmware update. Finally, you have the opportunity to rebuild the disk in the bottom of the fall?

  Let me know what you see.

• Dell virtual disk are larger. You want to increase the size of the data store.

  Hello

  I started the implementation of a server ESXi 5.5 Update 1 this week. I didn't know Dell shipped the server with two virtual disks instead of one. I realized this _apres_ that I had already created the data store and setup a few virtual machines to the breast. I called Dell who sent specific instructions to increase the removal of the second (empty) virtual disk and add it to the main. In the end, I increased the single VD from 2 TB to 3 TB and I want to give the remaining space in my store of data.

  I tried to follow the article here that explains how to do this via the CLI.

  Well, he did not altogether. Fortunately, I was able to recover my datastore my setting start and end sectors to their original numbers. But I'm still left with this almost 1 TB of space that I can not attribute to the data store. After that I reread storage adapters in the client, the new Dell disk size resulted under measurement devices. Click on "increase...". ", generates the following error which led me on the way to the CLI method:

  Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs" to object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi '[myservername]' failed.

  I will paste my notes that I took everything by jobs. Things have exploded the rails when I put 4 partition size to the largest size. Any help, please?

  ---

  I use that as a guide:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2002461

  
  

  1 use start hardware device management tools to increase the capacity of additional disk to the device. For more information, commit your hardware provider.

  This has been done. The new size of the virtual disk is 2791,88 GB (TB 2,79188)

  
  

  2. open a console to the ESXi host.

  Pretty simple.

  
  

  3. get the DeviceID for the data store to change.

  ~ # vmkfstools Pei "/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1 / '.

  System file VMFS-5, 60 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): datastore1

  Mode: public

  Capacity 1971926859776 (blocks of files 1880576 * 1048576), 1042688245760 (994385 blocks) prevail, max size of the 69201586814976 file

  UUID: 534e5121 - 4450-19dc-f8bc1238e18a 260d

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4

  
  

  A couple of things to note:

  a. the device for Datastore1 ID is: naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a

  b. the number of Partition on the disk is: 4 ' [...]: 4 "»

  c. the prefix, "naa," means "Network address authority" the number immediately after is a single logical unit number.

  4. Enter the amount of disk space available on the data store.

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 1. 8T 865.4 G 971,1 G 47% / vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  
  

  5 team of the device identifier, to identify the existing partitions on the device by using the partedUtil command.

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  ~ #

  
  

  According to the table in article KB

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0 - primary #4, type 251 = 0xFB = VMFS, 13711360-3865468766 areas

  | |        |          |   |

  | |        |          |   \---attribut

  | |        |          \---type

  | |        \---se finishing sector

  | \---a starting from sector

  partition \---Numero

  
  

  Also note how the number of section start the old end sector number is + 1.

  
  

  6 identify the partitions that need to be resized and the size of the space to use.

  We want to resize partition 4. I don't really understand the last part of this sentence, however. Read more.

  
  

  7 the number of sector end you want for the target data store VMFS partitions. To use all out at the end of the disc space, remove 1 of the size of the disk in the areas as described in step 5 in order to get the last usable area.

  ESXi 5.x has a command to do this:

  ~ # partedUtil getUsableSectors "/ vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a".

  1 5854986239

  This means that we want 4 Partition of "naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a" to be:

  13711360 - 5854986239 (i.e. the end of the disc)

  
  

  8 resize the partition containing the target VMFS Datastore using the command partedUtil, specifying the original existing partition and the desired end sector:

  Using the above information, our command is:

  resize # partedUtil ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 5854986239

  
  

  9 step 8, the partedUtil command can report the warning:

  He did not. Displacement.

  
  

  10. the tables of partitions have been adjusted, but the VMFS data within the partition store is always the same size. Now there is an empty space in the partition where the VMFS data store can be grown.

  
  

  11 launch this v vmkfstools command to perform a refresh for VMFS volumes.

  Fact.

  
  

  12 reach the VMFS Datastore in the new space using the command - growfs vmkfstools, specifying the partition containing the VMFS Datastore target twice.

  vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 '.

  
  

  It did not work. I got an error:

  / vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d «»

  23001ad809071096d28a:4 ".

  Cannot get device head way /dev/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 information

  
  

  Also the partition was very different to what I asked:

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 1560018942 251 0

  
  

  I fixed it by running these commands:

  ~ # partedUtil resize ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 3865468766

  ~ # vmkfstools v

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  Update:

  Since it was such a new machine, not in active production, we have safeguarded the VMs management off the ESXi host. Then flattened the virtual disk, recreated, and then created a store of data with the right size. (TPG this time, naturally.) We put the management of virtual machines on the data store. For Windows virtual machines, we have restored the using AppAssure. Everything is ok now.

  Need to add a new item to the list of punch: check what Dell has done the configuration of the virtual disks. :-)

• Performance of the virtual disks

  Hello!

  Two questions

  1 - it there really a big difference in the performance of the discs thin vs thin discs? one of my friends said slim is slower because he may need more and this growing each time may reduce the speed and performance. is this really?

  2. I get no difference between the discs of updated zero lazy-reset and greedy. that means for the impatient..., are the blocks are written by 0 at the beginning?

  There are a few blocks in the disc ok? then, what is the point to write zero in each of them and then change the exact data we want to be on that block? (maybe there is 1 maybe 0)

  Thank you very much

  So I will use zero - eager to drive thick for my server files (300 users and millions of files) and lazy zero for databases and thin for operating systems and machines at low load of I/O and small changes

  I recommend thick eager-reset to zero especially for databases. It can depend on the workload, however, there are various tutorials for how to configure databases. MS - SQL I usually create virtual discs eager-reset to zero and follow the best spirit of practice of MS formatting NTFS with a 64 KB Cluster size. Where the OS is Windows 2003, don't forget to align the partition! For more information, see Disk Partition alignment Best Practices for SQL Server

  Since, as you have discovered - reset is required will certainly benefit you eager-reset of the virtual disks.

  When you use thin disks, make sure you have the alarms in place to avoid the problems of out-of-space drive!

  André