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• Physical disk how can I add in the Virtual Machine?

  I am trying to set up a network of storage, but I discovered it is there is a limitation for the addition of physical hard disks in the virtual machine.

  I have 1 virtual hard disk for the operating system (SCSI), an invited so I try to add more than 4 disks, but it should not add more than 3. They showed that (IIRC).

  I try to add 4 x 1 TB as physical hard disk in virtual machine hard disks, but it says that I must remove one to add.

  1. in the settings of the Virtual Machine, is there a difference between (SCSI) (IDE) and why are the physical disks (IDE)?

  2. What is the limitation of total hard drives under the VM settings, four?

  Johwwy

  physical disks can be detected such as IDE or SCSI - depends on the drivers used by the host

  SATA in ide-compat mode is used as IDE

  SATA AHCI mode is detected as SCSI

  It is possible to rewrite the descriptions after their creation.

  It is a little advanced - see my notes

  http://sanbarrow.com/VMDK-basics.html#changeadapter

  for a start, it may be necessary to also change the geometry... ask first so uncertain.

  I think the limit of physical disks that can be attached to a virtual machine is 64 = 4 x 15 - scsi and IDE 4-disc drives

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• How many per physical disk VHDs?

  I'm new on the ESXi server.  My company is going through the transition from physical servers to virtual servers on one of our contracts.  The client has provided the material for us, but there are a limited number of hard disks of the 'new' server  The server will run three virtual computers, 2 Web servers and a database server.  Each VM has its own dedicated hard disk.  Our old server DB had 11 young readers and our initial plan was to migrate all of them in a virtual drive.  My feeling is that this will cause performance problems because the operating system will treat the separate virtual drives and physical disks and try more I/O that the drive can handle.  I think it might be better to move to a few large virtual drives and their partition into 11 partitions.  Any ideas on that?

  For the DB (assuming that MSSQL server), you should have an OS vmdk, one for data files, one for the transaction logs files and possibly one for tempdb files.

  That should be enough. It would be better to place the data, logs, and the Tempdb on high performance specifien 9VMFS built RAID 10) but of course, we can always what we want.

• How do you use a "physical disk" like a HDD in vmware fusion

  In the Linux Version of VMWare Workstation, you can select "use a physical disk" by example/dev/sda

  allows you to run VMware from one installation of windows on a real disk, or use this drive

  as a secondary in your vmware session drive.

  In Fusion, however, I can only choose images of floppy disks and not physical drives hard.

  Is there no workaround solution to this merger? Will be the feature that is in the Linux version of

  Workstation never attend Fusion?

  Thank you

  Peter

  If you want to use a raw disk in Fusion have a peek at my answer to Re: hard drive not found as a guideline.

• How to monitor the TX and RX on PERFORMANCE for virtual network adapter BASP monitor?

  How to monitor the TX and RX on PERFORMANCE for virtual network adapter BASP monitor?

  I have a virtual network adapter that is created with Broadcom.

  This virtual interface named "BASP eCard" visible on the performance monitor in the category 'Rhythm Pipe' but not in the category "Network Interface".

  This is problematic because the Tx and Rx (bytes received/send in second) is available in "Network Interface" that show physical network cards only.

  Someone has an idea?

  Thank you

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)

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• Reference Dell MD3000i and degraded physical disk channel

  Nice day

  We have a Dell MD 3000i with an extra box storage. And today, there are two mistakes in the journal:

  1 physical disk channel set to gradient

  Date/time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
  Sequence number: 9783
  Type of event: 1209
  Description: Physical disk set to gradient channel
  Specific event codes: 0/0/0
  Event category: error
  Component type: channel
  Location of components: side physical disk: channel 1
  Recorded by: Module to slot 1 RAID controller

  2. each physical disk - gradient path

  Date/time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
  Sequence number: 9784
  Type of event: 1513
  Description: Individual physical disk - gradient path
  Specific event codes: 0/0/0
  Event category: error
  Component type: channel
  Location of components: side physical disk: channel 1
  Recorded by: Module to slot 1 RAID controller

  In this case recovery guru say "you must contact your technical support representative to correct this defect. Do NOT try to fix this problem yourself. So, how we can receive technical support recommendations and try to repair this failure?

  If you need more details, we can put any storage array profile output.

  Hello UtkinE,

  Yes, you will need to stop all iSCSI traffic so that you can update the NVSRAM.  With the timeout error you get all came from controller 1 & he had only discs 1 & 5.  The current version of NVSRAM you version 4 and the last one which is for the MD3000i is version 13.  With who have older firmware it was improvements to correct your problem in the latest versions of firmware.  I also had one of our analysts will confirm as well just to make sure that it is the best fix for your problem.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• MD3000i - channel degraded / physical disk paths

  I have the Support of the collected files and need someone to take a look and tell me how to solve this problem. I'll send an email to Dell support once I'm contacted.

  Entry 1 failure: DEGRADED_DRIVE_PATH

  Gradient of physical disk paths:
    Channel: 0
       Associates
  physical disks: (0, 4)

  Individual physical disk - gradient path

  Entry failure 2: DEGRADED_DRIVE_CHANNEL

  Storage array: Name of the table removed by me
    Physical degradation
  disk channels: 0

  Physical disk degraded channel

  Hello it'sknock,

  I'll send you an email and I can review the logs for you.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Expand a virtual disk with new physical disks?

  Hello people,

  Pleas in law not to shoot me to ask what I fear it may have already answered somewhere and my research is poor and as still not turned up the answer.

  I'm relatively new to VMware, previous job was especially MS Hyper-V and is always to some extent.

  Hower to the point in question, I have a single host (VMware ESXi 5.0.0) with a single server VMware 2008R2 on her guest and the C: drive is quickly running out of space. The existing, aligned hard disk virtual hard disk has 10 GB free to extend the ramdisk with.

  Therefore, my thoughts are I might add an another one or two new physical disks and add them to the data store that is aligned with the virtual C:\drive to the comment server, I would then be able to extend the exisitng C:\ virtual hard disk with the new ability to drive two new physical drives added?

  Hope this sense makses, hoing it's okay and I get out of jail!

  Thank you very much

  Graeme

  Hello

  Please see this link because it deals with the procedure to enlarge a vmdk and extend partition in comments

  First enlarge the data store after the addition of physical drives. Select the data store, properties, increase and the LUN detected.

  Then use the vmkfstools as explained in the video to develop

  http://blogs.VMware.com/kb/2010/02/how-to-expand-a-VMDK-and-extend-a-partition-in-for-VMware-ESX.html

• Add physical disk to disk attached in ESXi virtual machine

  Hi friends,

  I would have attached physical disk to the virtual machine, I explain:

  I have a freenas VM create in ESXi 5.5 but I want to add a new hard drive, this hard drive is a physical, fixed equipment in my 5.5 ESXi, possible? If Yes, how?

  After I want to mount iSCSI in freenas and I'll make backups

  Thank you very much

  Rapici

  Hi brunofernandez1

  very thanks for the doc, I'll try Raw Device Mapping and explain

  Thank you very much

  Rapici

• VMware Vista support physical disk device does not not for some VM.

  I handle Win2k8 64 bit vm on esx5.5 Update 2 which are evidence of "Disk of Vista VMware help" have the error "this device is not present, is not working properly or is not all its drivers installed." (Code 24) ». Versions of VMware Tools vary, either 9.4.0 9.4.5 build-1585188, build-1598834 or 9.4.10 build-2068191.

  Google missed most of the time. I can't find any information on what concrete this virtual device is or what it does in particular, except that it may be involved in the creation of snapshots suspended.

  In addition, the device seems to be attached to the vmrawdsk service, which does not exist on the server. These virtual machines were not P2V, they have been created since iso win.

  One guess what it is and how I might be able to fix it?

  I got it on a working server my copy on the file vmrawdsk.sys missing a server well-known, uninstall VMware Tools, restart, reinstall it and restart again. Then the VMware Vista support physical disk device / service vmrawdisk are working normally.

• VDR 2.0.1 / dev/sdb /-physical disk not rise, destinations

  Hi all

  I have a problem with my VDR 2.0.1 last backup has been the failure due to power and after that problems on VDR destinations where I had destination normally one network, stay another one, physical disk no rise/dev/sdb /. I can not remove from vClient cause it says "destination is in use", but there is not any visible running task. This physical disk is exactly the same size as one of my VM who began with backup when possible failure has occurred. Also, under the VDR icon in vClient I see the same VM hard file.

  That's happened? How can I mage it?

  Concerning

  Kris

  Remove the disc from VDR-VM-mixer under 'Edit Settings' with Remove.

  That make a snapshot of the virtual machine affected and after that delete all the snapshots of this virtual machine.

  Normally this will solve these problems, if VDR was interrupted during backups.

  Paul

• Physical disks in taking snapshots

  I looked at some posts earlier, but I didn't understand about how to take a snapshot of a virtual machine that includes a physical disk.  In my case, the physical disk is a dd image file mounted, well I'm not sure it's important.  I see that I have no option to create a snapshot in the snapshot GUI Manager.  So, I tried vmrun, which seemed to work.  I noted, however, that vmrun created about 40 snapshot files, named in a convention of VMname-000001 - s001.vmdk, VMname-000001 - s002.vmdk, etc.  They each about 320 KB.  I created the capture instant vmrun when the virtual machine has been turned off.  I use 7.0.1 on a host of Win 7 64 and my guest is Win 7 64.  Thank you.

  Hi Jimmy

  as far as I know you always get snapshots in 2 GB slices when you work with physical disks.

  Also 2 gb slices if you create snapshots with snapshotmanager.

  I just did a test using two ways, and both times the VMDK was the same - 2 GB slices.

  If you really really you can manually create the monolithic snapshots of rawdisks - like that

  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  encoding="windows-1252"
  CID=75ffb14c
  parentCID=495c0932
  isNativeSnapshot="no"
  createType="monolithicSparse"
  parentFileNameHint="rawdisk.vmdk"
  # Extent description
  RW 976773168 SPARSE "rawdisk-000001.vmdk"
  
  # The Disk Data Base
  #DDB
  
  ddb.toolsVersion = "0"
  

  attached to this parent

  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  encoding="windows-1252"
  CID=495c0932
  parentCID=ffffffff
  createType="fullDevice"
  
  # Extent description
  RW 976773168 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" 0
  
  # The Disk Data Base
  #DDB
  
  ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
  ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9e 98 f0 c1 24-49 4a 2a d1 a9 b4 74 78"
  ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383"
  ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
  ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
  ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "1024"
  ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "240"
  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"
  ddb.adapterType = "ide"
  

  I just found out how to do it-hardcore - very experimental stuff

  -You have a strange disk geometry

  DDB. Geometry.Cylinders = "9767850".

  DDB. Geometry.Heads = "32".

  DDB. Geometry.sectors = '2 '.

  ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "9767850".

  ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "32".

  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = '2 '.

  I've never seen such values before... If the drive behaves strange I would rewrite her to normal values

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• Physical disk of the VM Win7 host access?

  Is it possible to access a physical host SATA disk in the virtual machine operating system?  I don't need to install Windows on the disk physical I only need OS in the virtual machine to see the physical drive directly. The host is Win7 x 64 guest is Win7 x 86.  I saw some documents on this site, but it seems to be contradictory.   I noticed there is an option to add a physical disk, but I never got to actually do something.  So I was wondering if anyone here knows how to run?

  Putting aside the question this thread mentions new possible for rawdisk workaround access under Windows 7 if your talking about access to OS system disk the host as a raw simultaneously from the VM disk, even if it were possible, corrupt you the file system, as a BONE can directly control the physical hard drive at a time.  It must therefore be a second physical disk that was not the system drive, where the virtual machine may take control of the host.

• Add the physical disk to SBS 2008 VM

  Hello everyone

  I installed VMWare ESXi server on my PC and then I created a Vitrual Machine (VM) by installing MS Small Business Server 2008.

  I want to use it as a main server and I want to attach additional physical contain hard drives that contain currently downloads and applications so that I can share them on the network of the virtual SBS2008 machine.

  I read around a bit on how to add hard drives to a VM machine. From my understanding, it seems that I can give direct access to the VM (SBS, 2008) on the discs, but they need to be formatted in the virtual machine format (vmdk).

  Is it possible for me to add or my NTFS hard disks on the computer virtual card without losing any existing data they hold somehow?

  Thank you

  Frank.

  You can only do this if you have disks that are a SAN (iscsi or FC connectivity) solution.  You can not simply to attach a physical disk to a virtual machine...

  the only way you can make available these readers is to have a physical box with them connected and spread then readers...

• Use a physical disk?

  I'll install some VMS soon to a SSD drive, the server on which the VMs will be there will be two of the most recent Intel 34nm SSDs, the size of 80 GB. I thought that I could choose the option to let the virtual machines have a direct access to the physical disk, but then I started to wonder if it would cause problems with multiple computers on a single disc. So my first question, does anyone know if there will be conflicts of two virtual computers that have "direct access to the local hard drive?

  Also, when you select the option "use physical drive", is still a single virtual disk created on this disk file? Or he writes all the individual hard disk as if it were a BONE regularly installed on the drive?

  My last question is probably a little more complicated for you all, as he considers how solid state drives works. SSD drives have a limited number of write cycles, normally, for companies, servers SLC based drives are used and life is not a problem. MLC readers become better and with lower usage, that this server will get, life expected to be good for 5-10 years on each disc. Now VMWare creates a single virtual disk file that is written to disk, when changes are made to the virtual machine to the operating system, these changes are then written to the virtual disk on the physical hard disk file. So what I was wondering is when changes are made and this virtual disk file has a change to it, how these changes get will write for the reader in solid state? Because if it rewrites the file of virtual disk to the same cells on the disk then these cells will wear very quickly while other space the disc is still brand new. If the file will be written to a new set of cells? Or will be written only the changes to the drive, and even if it's a single file changes will be written to a completely different sector on the drive?

  Joakim - I don't trust gross in anyway records when you use 'partitionedDevice' and the logical partitions / extended.

  In most cases, I have seen that this creates problems.

  But having more than one primary partition is ok

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