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• Cannot create a virtual disk existing; problem with files hard?

  Yes... This is a recurring problem since mid-December, and we finally decided to rebuild our vCenter on another host server.  I went and did the things of the new Virtual Machine and has "custom", so that I can browse and recover files hard and * _1.vmdk of our SAN for discs.

  Now, this large all worked Friday.  I just today... and it doesn't work.  D: drive (* _1.vmdk) disappeared, and I can't either remote on the server.  I can't vSphere, nothing!

  Then... we rebuild, changing the name of the server that we just built _old after stopping.

  When I go to recover files hard again, they are changed...?  I can't explain it!  I've attached a screenshot of what I take everything.

  Now... there at - it a way to solve this problem?  And if not, is it possible to find the information that was in these folders to manage our environment?
  
  Help?

  What you're saying gives me a really bad feeling.

  Sorry about that, I really want to tell you something more encouraging, but...

  Assuming that the snapshot you posted shows the old vCenter server folder, you can see that there are no configuration (.vmx) file more. I can tell you with certainty if the virtual machine has been removed (you can check the tasks and events) or if for example a backup application attempted to do his work but because of the virtual disks had reused problem!

  If you still want to use the existing virtual disks, you must move them to the folder of the new virtual machine in order to avoid any confusion.

  André

• Virtual disk "Hard disk 3' is a direct access mapped lun that is not accessible

  I am currently in the process of upgrading our cluster of ESX 4.0 U1 to 4.1. In the process, I came across a physical MSCS 2 with RDM cluster. I stop the VMs and vmotion can them between the hosts of 4.0. Now as soon as I update hosts 4.1 I cannot vmotion the VMs to these 4.1 hosts. The error I get is: "virtual disk"drive hard 3' is a direct access mapped lun that is not accessible". I found an article KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016210

  who speaks ensuring that LUN number is the same in the presentation of all ESX hosts and I checked, it is the case, moreover, as I said vmotions does not always work for guests, that I have not yet updated. I have not tried anyone all LUNS and re - introduce, don't know if I should try that. Looking for suggestions.

  Thank you
  greendxr

  You have to poweroff the node, remove the RDM drives, migrate the virtual machine, and then add again in RDM disk.

  RDM LUN must be on all hosts.

  André

• Is it possible to reduce a virtual disk in Fusion 3.1.1

  I brought on a Windows XP-based computer by using the tool of migration (Fusion 3.1.1) for the Mac, and it works fine.  However, the XP machine had a 750 GB with only 135 GB disc, and the process still led to a virtual disk of 698 GB (160 GB on the Mac file system).  My Mac has only a 500 GB drive, and although not currently a problem, I wouldn't let the virtual disk to grow without limit.  Thus, using the partition EASYUS tool, I have reduced the size of the XP partition in the virtual machine to 160 GB.  It resulted in my virtual drive, from about 160GB to 220 GB on the Mac.  I then ran the VMware tools on the XP VM to reduce the virtual disk, which went very well and found with the virtual disk, from 220 GB to 240GB on the Mac.  Not exactly what I expected. Are there tools that I can load it on the Mac for this clean?  Seems kind of silly to have a 240 GB housing file a 160 GB XP partition.  The virtual disk is configured as a single file (not the 2 GB strips) and is NOT previously affected.  Any advice?  FWIW, I've already shared to the top of the original machine, so I can't he re-partition, then re - import.

  Thank you

  Kurt

  Starting with the stop of the vm.  .  .

  (1) settings: Add 2nd hard disk of smaller size

  (2) start the virtual machine

  (3) partition disk "nine."

  (4) copy the XP partition and mark it as bootable. Note that your partitioning program must be able to deal with the copy of the partition which is the current boot drive and EASEUS and others handle this very well.

  (5) judgment, does not suspend the

  (6) settings: Remove all the hard drives, but follow the files.

  (7) settings: Add once again this 2nd hard drive of the smallest size, noting that it is now the "Primary Master"

  (8) settings: Add once again the old boot drive, noting that it is now the primary slave

  (9) starting with the smaller hard disk again

  It's not very different than the steps 'real hardware.

  Message has been re-edited by: ChipMcK congratulate EASEUS for their foresight

• How to configure the virtual disk as SSD for the customer?

  Hi all:

  I have a virtual machine in an SSD, the guest operating system is Windows 8, but the guest OS, the virtual disk as 'hard drive '.

  Can I set the virtual disk as SSD for the guset? (Like VirtualBox)

  Thank you!

  Irake99 wrote: can I put the virtual disk as SSD for the guset? (Like VirtualBox)

  No, IDE or SCSI are your only choice.

• takes forever to expand the virtual disk

  I am expanding my virtual disk using the pdf file;  "Resize a virtual disk for Windows clients."

  A few months ago, I used this tutorial to resize with success of 20 to 40 GB but now I need more space.  But something does not work at the moment.  I am stuck at part 1, step 5.  I downloaded the most recent vdiskmanager GUI (I think it's more up-to-date, it is dated from 18/06/2007) and launched the MISTLETOE, my hard file selected, choose 75 GB and results opens the window.  BUT it has now been about 45 minutes and as far as I can say that nothing is happening.

  It takes so long?  Any suggestions?

  Thank you

  Bonnie

  If the actual size of the existing virtual hard disk is close to full capacity of 40 GB then it can take some time to develop.  Also because it creates a new file (s) hard, you must also make adequate free space on the host HDD to finish the process and because you use a 3rd party utility to interface with the VMware real Fusion of the program that is doing the job, the actual process may have a problem and do not make it to the 3rd party utility.

  What version of Fusion are you using?  If 2.x you do not need the 3rd party utility and make a resizing of the setting of Virtual Machines

  You can use the activity monitor to see if the process is still ongoing and or if there is the disk activity as in the file is always written.

  VMware-vdiskmanager is what did increase it then look for vmware-vdiskmana (full name does not show in the activity monitor) and see what's under its weight.

• "The virtual disk parent has changed..." "after removing a few shots

  Hey!

  I'm using VMWare Workstation and deleted a few shots via the Snapshot Manager. I used a .vhd Image from the Microsoft Site (Windows Server 2003, x 86). VMWare has created a link to this image at the beginning. I was working on this virtual machine for 2 weeks.

  Now, I have deleted 2 snapshots, including the first snapshot. When I try to start all the existing snapshots the error which is entered in the subject line of this discussion. Detailed error explains that his "cannot open disk 0 - 0000004.vmdk or one of the snapshot disks it costs on.» Reason: the virtual disk parent... »

  How can I access any of the existing snapshots in the future? I read that it is necessary to open the virtual disk images and change the CID of this disk image virtual to who should be the one parent. But how do I edit these virtual disk in windows vista? I have no command line tool that extracts only the first 20 lines of a file so that it will be impossible for me to open a vhdk with 600 or 700 MB. Another problem is that (I don't know why) my virtual disks are splitet in so many parts (I said at the beginning that the virtual disk must be a file, but I think splitet VMWare Workstation it because she had to be converted to .vhd (Microsoft) .vhdk... might be?)

  Here's a screenshot of my file of VMWare this virtual machine sorted by type and sorted by size (for a better overview, I think):

  na ja... Falls die Datei ist - wurde neulich, als VirtualPC platte used sharp available?

  Wenn nein - und nur dann!

  ersetz

  disk-0 - 000002.vmdk

  disk-0 - 000004.vmdk

  mit den editierten aus dem Anhang versions.

  Falls from the dir unsicher bist - nach frag!

  Ulli

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• Running from a Bootcamp Partition vs virtual disk

  Is there an advantage to run Windows 7 from a vs Bootcamp partition a virtual disk image?

  I started to use a virtual disk image and just created a Bootcamp partition and added to the merger.  Things seem to be quite a bit faster using the Bootcamp partition.

  Is this the case in general?  Just curious to know what others have experienced.

  Thank you!!

  It is normal that you feel.  Realize that a VM is running "virtual hardware", which is generally not as fast that runs the operating system directly on the physical hardware.  Think of it as speaking through a translator.  There is a 'delay' for the message to be delivered. Take a look at the frequently asked Questions on VMware Fusion, about halfway down, the section on virtual hardware.

  For Boot Camp however virtual, take a glance to choose the settings of VM right.  Among the main reasons to use one or the other would be the advantage of the speed of Boot Camp against the convinience of not having to restart the Mac or the ability to run several machines against virtual simultaneously only running an instance of Boot Camp.  (e.g.: simulate an entire network, with the file server, web server, mail server, etc., with just one physical machine.)

• How can I remove a virtual disk partition?

  Well, basically, I was using the program - Ramdisk, and it takes little memory your just RAM and transforms a partition you can store things in, or use it as a hard drive. But, now, I think he's using for many and I would remove it. I used 400 MB of ram, so now it is used. I went to computer management, went to the partition and delete the volume. Now, he says: 5 - base 400 MB drive online, but on the side, where it shows the volume actually score or what ever, it says 400 MB not allocated.

  So now I have 400 MB of ram m unallocated, and I'm trying to find a way to get it back in my ram used! Any help would be greatly please

  You would need to reverse the process used to create the virtual disk - uninstall the software used to create, or reverse the settings that you have invoked in Windows to create, as the case may be.  Just delete the disk partition RAM does not remove it from memory.

• What is the right way to expand the virtual disk and then the OS partition?

  I have a Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine VMware.  I have

  you want to increase the size of the hard drive.  It currently has a 50 GB

  partition on a 50 GB VHD.  I increase the size of the

  50 GB to 100 GB in VMware virtual hard drive.  Then, can I use

  Windows disk management to increase the size of my partition of the

  side OS to use all the 100GB he sees now?  Or will

  corrupt my data or cause a problem as I really need to

  use a third party tool like EAUSUS inside Windows to extend Windows

  on the size of the virtual hard disk?

  In fact the way you describe, resize the virtual disk and then developing the partition are the way to go. But there are some things that you should be

  aware of.

  -If the VHD is on an IDE controller, you may not be able to resize the virtual disk. In this case use the converter. With the converter, you can resize the disk including the partition and - if desired - replace the IDE controller by a SCSI controller.

  -If you have only one partition under XP (that is, drive c :)) you cannot extend the partition with the diskmanager/diskpart. In this case, start your virtual machine from a CD/DVD Vista/Windows 7 in Repair Mode, open a command line and use "diskpart" from there to "extend" your partition.

  André

• Machine virtual hard disk (virtual disk) of the upper size limit put into service

  Hi there, so I'm trying to create a hard drive or a virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to configure the virtual machine as a file server. The data store is a Promise VTrak M610P and I installed the vtrak as a type of VMFS5 5,46 TB of space (4 2 hard disks to each RAID 5). In the virtual machine, I added a hard drive and selected the store data vtrak and tried to set the provisioned to 5.46 TB size and type thick lazy disposition to zero, but I get an error of DiskCapControl with the range values. I changed the size set in service and 4 TB and he accepted the new hard drive. I can't find anything on the actual limit on the creation of hard disk in a virtual computer.

  
  

  I'm running a server Supermicro X7DAL-E with VMware ESXi 5.5 U2.

  Any ideas would be useful. Thank you.
  

  I forgot I asked a similar question on a different section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: SMB access using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008 storage

  Here's what I wrote on the link above:

  So it turns out that there seems to be something wrong with vClient when you add a hard disk (virtual disk) to a virtual machine of size greater than 4 TB. Article VMware KB: value of range error message when you add more than 4 TB capacity discs in vSphere Client describes this if you encounter this problem, add the hard drive via vSphere CLI, CLI power or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creation of hard disk, adding to the virtual machine (size of the hard drive is to 5.45) and when I would get the error message on the DiskCapControl out of reach, I would just click OK and then finalize the creation of the hard drive on the virtual machine. Once the process is complete, I selected the virtual machine and noticed that he indeed added a new HDD size 5.45 TB even if he's complained about it. I pulled to the top of the virtual machine with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new disk under windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Looks like vClient must be updated by VMware and correct this bug, if it's a bug that I think. Thank you for the help vervoort!

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

  have a quick question...

  I intend to deploy a new server in SQL on VMWARE 5.1 with super 3PAR storage (I'm not Administrator VMWARE, just an occasional driver).

  I'm going to d, e, f for DATA, the newspapers partitions, backup. Does make sense to create a disc of rtual for each partition instead of create 3 partitions on a disk of VMWare return Outlook - 3PAR?

  Thank you.

  I would recommend you create three virtual disks, because in this way you can easily put each virtual disk in a different level.

  Using a single virtual drive for all three partitions, you can't give different level for each partition... in any case if your storage supports a hierarchy at the block level, storage moves the hot blocks of vmdk to a better level.

• large partition or make mutiple small virtual disk virtual disk

  I have a server that is running vmware server and using windows server 2008 as a host operating system. I need to set up two machines vitrual which will act as a file server and database server.

  I have a RAID 5 with the host using 3 were leaving. one for the host, one for file server and the other for the database server. I would like to know what is the best for proformace.  Do I have to create a virtual disk of 1 TB and let the guest operating system put in place three partition for the file server or should I create 3 small virtal drive and let the guest operating system to use all the space on the small virtual disk 3. the reason why I need 3 partiton is due to a mapping application that is 500 GB and we can only save. Therefore a partition for it because our backup software backs up only the partitions.

  the database server will be a p2v and I think there just a single partition.

  With a single RAID set on the host computer, you can choose either way, avoid any difference in performance. However, I'd probably go with 3 virtual drives. This way you can - if it takes more performance disc - add for example an addition RAID 1 go up and turn the virtual disk of db the extra RAID to set.

  André

• Cannot create a third partition of BOOTCAMP

  Hi guys, I have tried to install a windows 7 with BOOTCAMP for the last few days, but nothing has worked so far, here is a list of the methods I've tried:

  -BOOTCAMP->

  

  -Disk Utility: tried to create a new partition of the data partition with all sorts of formats of partition and the results were all "illegal name" and «it should be 59356 instead of 59352 "»

  

  -Also wrote a check for first aid on a data partition and had this error

  

  -Also tried with an OSX bootable usb key

  -As well as "hoped" to be able to decrypt a partition bootable Windows 7

  I had 3 partitions before when the older OS X, then I merge/delete (can't really remember) TRAINING camp to the data partition. Now my macbook is running on El Capitan.

  Other info: Macbook pro 13 "mid-2012. 500 GB HARD DRIVE. El Capitan OS and 1 parallel windows

  Would love to hear any suggestions, thanks a lot!

  Versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) have a HD Recovery, which does not allow a shared partition. Your Mac doesn't support SL, so HD recovery has been removed manually or a different order of partitions used.

  Can you boot into Safe Mode - try safe mode if your Mac does not commissioning - Apple support - and then start normally and test BC Assistant? Please after the release of the following OS X Terminal commands.

  diskutil list

  Cs diskutil list

• Virtual disk expansion

  I've added four new hard drives at 8 on my ax100 and configured ' DISK POOL 1, include 11 records. A drive is configured as a hot spare. Then, I have expanded the "Virtual Disk 1' to include all the"POOL1 DISC' again. I was expecting the SAN will appear as a 6 to drive in Win2003. However, it proved that I need to format the 4 additional disks and set up as a new partition. I need a shared 6 to disk, not two separate 4TB and shared 2 TB drives. I plugged a different server in the same San using the switch, but it also shows the SAN as two separate partitions.

  Is there an operation that is not destructive to consolidate all readers, both old and newly added, in a huge partition/drive and see it as such in Win2003? It would be difficult to make two backups one 6 to SAN, destroy the virtual disk, recreate a large drive virtual and end of restoration. Help, please. Thank you.