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• 2 new physical disks with no status critical yellow exclamation Point

  RAID 1 virtual disk built 100% with failure predicted no.. Everything seems to work fine, but to Manage open there is a yellow exclamation by both drives.

  Is there a problem I need to support?

  Thanks Troy

  These disks were bought from Dell? If this isn't the case, then it's maybe just a warning that you use not certified Dell readers. This can be safely ignored, but not off.

• Directly using a physical disk without virtual file system?

  I wonder if it is possible to directly use the physical disk with VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and will be that this increase in the performance of MS SQL database if located on this topic over on the virtual file system?

  / * the BONES still lie on the file system, virtual, or if possible - physics directly on disc again * /.

  Yes, you can use RDM with vSphere Essentials. RDM may or may not be faster, and many consider it's a wash. It would be interesting to test it for you, but don't assume that you will get performance much better with a vs the other. RDM can also complicate things like backup strategies.

  Also don't forget to visit: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/01/vsphere-5-1-vmdk-versus-rdm.html#more-6563

• 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

• 3 physical disks in 1 TB in RAID 5 with only its 1 TB usable space incorrectly? Using a Dell PERC 6 / i controller.

  We have a server Dell PowerEdge with a PERC 6 / i controller. There are three physical disks for 1 TB. I created a RAID 5 array, but it seems that there is only 1 TB of usable space after you initialize the virtual disk RAID 5.

  What is wrong? I Googled what should be the size, and I think we should not 1 TB, 2 TB of usable space?

  Too bad. It looks like the physical disks are 500 GB in size, which makes sense.

• 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.

• Path of degraded physical disk MD3000i

  Obtained MD3000i with guru recovery saying individual physical disk but the disk is not listed...

  Gradient of physical disk paths:
    Channel: 1
       Of the physical disks:  (Unknown)

  The storage profile shows as optimal, even if I think it's been reset with smcli.

  I have attached the support beam.

  Hello Pondule,

  Thanks to the new support package. So by examining all of the support, everything is good, but the error is suspended in the cache.  You will need to do is to restart the MD & who should clear the error of the guru.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• AGAIN starts after only one physical disk has several partitions makes no sense to the production oracle database?

  Dear Experts,

  Don't + REDO1 diskgroup have only one physical disk has several partitions makes no sense to the production oracle database?

  For example

  • + Diskgroup Redo1 have 2 50 GB disks (fact these 2 discs are the same physical disk partitions OR these should be separate disk as recommended approach)?
  • + Diskgroup Redo1 have 2 drives of capacity 50 GB (for RAID 1 + 0)
  • + Diskgroup Redo2 have 2 50 GB disks
  • + Diskgroup Redo2 have 2 drives of capacity 50 GB (for RAID 1 + 0 )

  Thank you and best regards,

  IVW

  Hello

  Partitioning your disks for ASM configuration as 'A' might make sense. If you lose one disk, you have the discs to another.

  'B' totally make sense if you have lost the disc that you have lost all group ASM and you need to change this with something like 'C '.

  But obviously you need redundancy ASM configured appropriately.

  

  Kind regards

  Juan M

• T310 degraded virtual disk, all physical disks 'online '.

  It is a PowerEdge T310 server. Physical disk 0:0:3 showed physical way errors in the past, but after reinstalling the drive, everything was going well for a while. Now Dell OM reports that the virtual disk is degraded, but all four disks are online reports and have this green check mark by them.

  Nothing shows expected failure and I don't see any disk medium error, the firmware is up to date - is their something I don't see as to why my virtual drive would fail? I think there is always a problem with PD 0:0:3 even though she does not appear in the newspapers. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  PowerEdge T310, degraded virtual disk as of 04 21, 2015:

  

  All the physical disks on the other hand are very well reports:

  

  Errors of the past and present newspapers:

  

  

  -Very well, thank you for the suggestion!

• Is it possible to get physical disks for the version the creative cloud Lab?

  Is it possible to get physical disks for the Lab (lab license) of the creative cloud version? Download times to download most of the following CC are crazy. Physical disks would be useful.

  It is possible to obtain copies of DVD of installers of regions with poor communications infrastructure. Please contact your Account Manager, dealer or contact Customer Care - Adobe Support

• Fusion Pro 8 still requires the administrator password to log raw physical disks at startup

  I'm 10.11.3 El Capitan server running in an instance of VM Fusion 8 running on a 10.11.3 host El Capitan.

  For performance reasons, I connect Raw / partitions of physical disk using the links generated with the vmware-rawdiskCreator command line tool and added to the .vmx file.

  My question is, since it is a server, I want it to load VMWare Fusion and start the virtual machine automatically at startup, but each time the virtual machine is started, a message appears stating "VMware Fusion requires administrator privileges to access Boot Camp disks.  Type your password for this purpose".

  Some research that it used to be far to say merge to "never ask" passwords, but this feature doesn't seem to be an option of Fusion Pro 8.

  Is there a work around to bypass the manual password entry requirement?

  OK, I found an answer to my own question...

  Although it doesn't seem to be an option to disable the prompt of the graphical interface of Fusion Pro 8, there IS one on the command line.

  First, find the UID of the user account that you launch VMware Fusion with the help of.

  ID

  (Often this will be 501 as the UID of the first user created on any mac).

  Then run...

  / Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskAuthTool neverAsk

  For more info general run and switches...

  / Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskAuthTool--help

  Voila!

• VMware Workstation failed to mount the physical disk 10TB

  VMware workstation or any other product vmware does support more than 2 TB of physical disks?

  I am trying to connect a 5 of 10 TB raid enclosure and mount it on my ubuntu vmware workstation machine. The common error that I receive is when mounting the reader on ubuntu and I think it might have something to do with the size of the file.
  I am running vmware workstation 12 in windows 10.
  The disk is taken offline in windows and I'm under WS as an administrator.

  Error	VMDK CONTENT	DiskPart Info
  Operation failed on the file "\\.\PhysicalDrive1". If the file is located on a remote file system, make sure that the network connection and the server on which resides this disk to work correctly. If the file is saved on a removable medium, link media. Select Retry to retry the operation. Click Cancel to end this session. Select continue to pass the error to the guest operating system. I/o error, dev sdb, sector 11721553632 I/o error, dev sdb, sector 11721552128 I/o error detected. File system stop Please unmount the file system and to rectify the problem (s) metadata I/O error: block 0x2baa8b100 ("xlog_bwrite") error 5 numblks 8200 can not read the superblock	# Disk DescriptorFile version = 1 Encoding = "windows-1252". CID = 6f4a8bb1 parentCID = ffffffff isNativeSnapshot = 'no '. createType = "fullDevice." # Description of the measure RW 23441768448 DISH '\\.\PhysicalDrive1' 0 partitionUUID \\?\scsi#disk & ven_h #w & prod_raid5 #5 & 19bb575e & 0 & 010000 #{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} # The database disk #DDB ddb.adapterType = "free". ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "1024". ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255".

  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63".

  DDB. Geometry.Cylinders = "16383.

  DDB. Geometry.Heads = "16".

  DDB. Geometry.sectors = "63".

  ddb.longContentID = "55c8f3052c372c02465d66656f4a8bb1".

  DDB. UUID = "60 00 C2 97 8 a 7 c c2 cb - 9 a 27 51 78 58 a7 e6 3f"

  ddb.virtualHWVersion = "12".

  H/W RAID5

  Disc ID: 00000000

  Type: SATA

  Status: Offline (policy)

  Path: 1

  Target: 0

  LUN ID: 0

  Path: PCIROOT (0) #PCI (1C07) #PCI (0000) #ATA (C01T00L00)

  Current read-only State: No.

  Read-only: No.

  Boot disk: No.

  Disk swap file: No.

  Disk hibernation file: No.

  Crash dump disk: No.

  Cluster disk: No.

  The official version said that WS allows only virtual up to 8 TB of disk.

  According to my own tests, it only limits the size of the VMDK for 'New - VM' Assistant.
  Once you have a greater vmdk - just tried a vmdk 10TB - WS won't complain about the size.
  I don't expect that WS will prevent the physical disks to use inside a virtual machine that is already configured.
  So in your case I think you started WS with a normal user account.
  Try to start as administrator WS - maybe even using the administrator account.
  I think that then it will work.
  Unfortunately, the error messages produced by vmware.exe are not really accurate-, so there is no way to know if you really have a bad super block.
  To test if this is really the problem and not just an error message - poor try to mount the drive directly.
  Please post the vmdk - want to know if there is something unusual about 5.5 TB in the disk.

• 6 - physical disk space - where she went from ESXi

  I use products VMWare 10 years and more, most of this being VMWare Workstation.  On my laptop (500G HD), I currently have about a dozen virtual machines of the 2012 to Windows XP for testing server.  I also have dozens of snapshots.  If I look at my physical disk used space, the foregoing takes 330G of space.

  I decided to buy a dedicated device and create an ESXi environment that more closely reproduce my customer environments.  I have a HD 500G with 16G memory on an i7 platform.  I downloaded the iso of ESXi, created a bootable USB key and installed.  Connected with vSpere Client and started installing VMWare customers.  After my 6th VMWare guest, I had 65G of free space left.  I installed the following

  4 Server HD 2012-60G each

  1 Windows 8-40G

  1 Windwos 7 = - 40G

  Even if all the virtual HD prealloue were (I don't believe that they are), the foregoing would be only = 320 G.

  If I look at vSpere, it says that I have a capacity of 458G with only 65G left.

  Thus, the question, it seems that its allocation of space for HD and with fees generals, I can see where the above figures comes, but is one of the benefits of virtualization to share the resources.  It is a framework in ESXi that does NOT allocate all the space when you create a virtual guest.

  When you work with work stations, it will create the files on disc as a provisioning. The default value in vSphere is to create disk thick available zero lazy. It will allocate all the space of the disk if you don't have a disk VAAI system api. When you create environments on your computer and ESXi is installed make sure you thin when, available when setting up servers or it will fill up fast.

  You will be able to choose the layout thin when you select the size of the disk when you create virtual machines in ESXi. There are 3 options thick available zero lazy, thick available zero willing and thin provision.

• 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

• 12.04.01 Ubuntu x 86-putting in place a virtual Windows XP machine to access the physical disk

  Dear community,

  I'm new to VMware Workstation, but progressed in computer science.

  At first, I want to give you a brief introduction of my system and my goal.

  HP ProBook 6550 b (System with Intel Core i5 processor Intel-based)

  The HARD drive access mode: S - ATA AHCI

  Operating systems: Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 x 86, Ubuntu 12.04 x 64

  Boot Manager: GRUB2

  VMware Workstation (trial period) to 9.01 Linux x 86

  Goal: install MS Windows XP Professional with physical disk access several partitions on the hard drive local

  The installation of VMware Workstation 9.01 on my system Ubuntu 12.04 x 86 worked perfectly, without any error. Large.

  I was able to set up and run a Windows XP VM standard by creating a new virtual disk , following the Nice Wizard.

  It was just to test, but just after I tried to configure the same OS as a virtual machine using a physical disk (for advanced users) to directly access a local hard drive.

  Also, I selected "BusLogic (recommended)" on the choice of type of I/O controller.

  As a device, I chose the HARD internal laptop drive and used two individual partitions (the real partitions on my HARD drive I wanted access within the virtual machine).

  These partitions have been preformatted with NTFS (and not have been mounted in my Ubuntu).

  However, I was not sure if Windows XP has been will be installed on one of these partitions.

  The turn on/off the virtual machine to install the OS, I got the message following (msg1):

  "You are using a SCSI drive. Performance of dual-boot SCSI physical drives are poor. The installed operating system could not start correctly in the virtual machine. However, the physical SCSI disks work normally so exclusively in the virtual machine. »

  Just after the message following (msg2):

  "If you dual-boot a native Windows installation, problems can occur when attempting to start your system in VMware Workstation." For more information, see "http://vmware.com/info?id=128". "
  Click OK to continue, Cancel to power off.

  And finally this (msg3):

  «An error has occurred causing a virtual CPU go into the stop State.» If this anomaly had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine restart. The stop State are accessible by properly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system or a problem in VMware Workstation.
  Click OK to restart the virtual machine or Cancel to turn off the virtual machine. »

  I cannot explain the last error message and don't know what to do.

  After specifying msg2, I found information about possible problems in dual-boot environments, caused by different drivers for the IDE controller.

  So I tried to change the access mode to S - ATA AHCI HARD drive to S - ATA IDE in the BIOS to solve the problem.

  Unfortunately, I have had no success on this operation, because the error message appeared again, once I restarted the VM.

  Sorry, but I have no idea what goes wrong.

  In fact, I don't know what VMware workstation wants to do, when you install the system on a disc/physical partition to have direct access to the local hard disk.

  Because I don't see even the first screen of Windows Setup, there must be something wrong.

  Underlying product system issues and if it's a primary or logical partition?

  Need a complete unformated HDD?

  Only selected partitions are accessible within the virtual machine?

  Is the system installed itself on the selected partitions?

  Maybe some experienced users can help.

  Your help is welcome!

  Thank you.

  stanni

  First I use a raw disk to install Windows XP from a virtual machine, but if I had an existing installation, I would add the partition as a raw to be executed with a VM disk.

  Here's what I'd do...  Install Windows XP to a normal file based virtual machine, and then add a second disk as a raw disk with the partitions you want to join.  That's assuming that you really need not where what to start Windows XP natively and the physical partitions that access are used for data.  Also if need be add the raw disk as IDE.