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• Delete all snapshots completely hosed my server

  I have a server ESXi 5, a 750 GB (698GB or so, is usable) local data store, quad Xeon, and 16 GB of RAM. There are two vm (s) - we're a firewall which takes about 10 GB (20 has been allocated) and the other is an Exchange Server that has 500 GB allocated was almost complete with the exception of about 10 GB. Both have been implemented using thin provisioned disks. There are also approximately 4 or 5 pictures taken of the Exchange virtual machine. Thinking that I had to delete the snapshots before you try to resize the virtual drive of 500 GB, I hit the button Delete button instant everything. All the snapshots have been removed from the list and then I could not start the virtual machine due to the lack of storage. He said that nearly 698 GB has been awarded! Then I deleted the tiny snapshots for virtual firewall machine and was able to boot the virtual machine Exchange. After doing a little housekeeping on the vm changes that I stopped him. Try to solve the delete all snapshots problem, I tried the "consolidate all snapshots' option. After several hours of waiting it failed due to lack of space. So, I thought I would reboot the physical machine to see if that helped. When he returned he showed that TB 1.4 or so, space has been allocated! And I could not start anything. Then I ran down to the server room, installed a 750 GB extra hd and started trying to move the virtual machine to empty disk. Well, who seems to have been an even worse mistake to delete all snapshots. Not only this process fails, but now the new hd (datastore2) is completely filled and the original datastore1 has about 132 GB free. The problem with this is that the virtual machine is now spread over these two data stores. Now, I've added another store of data via nfs (nfsdatastore) that has free 2.6 TB and I'm currently copy the entire contents of datastore2 via the cp command in a terminal (ssh remotely controlled).

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  OK, so let's try to clone the virtual disk in the NAS data store. Please follow the steps below and ask if there is something you don't understand or something does not work as expected.

  • Create a new folder on your NAS "UDT-MX09-EPSI" data store
  • from archive attached extracts "UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI) .vmx" to this new folder
  • move 'UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI)-000004.vmdk' to "datastore2/UDT-MX09-EPSI" on "datastore1/UDT-MX09-EPSI-2".
  • move 'UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI)-000005.vmdk' to "datastore2/UDT-MX09-EPSI" on "datastore1/UDT-MX09-EPSI-2".
  • from archive attached extracts "UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI)-000003.vmdk" "datastore1/UDT-MX09-EPSI-2"replaces the existing file.
  • from the command line run:
    "vmkfstools-i" / vmfs/volumes/datastore1/UDT-MX09-EPSI-2/UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI)-000004.vmdk "" / vmfs/volumes/nfsdatastore/UDT-MX09-EPSI/UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI) hard. "

  If cloning is successful, do a right-click the virtual machine in the inventory and select 'Remove inventory', then - using the browser from data store - click with the right button on the .vmx file in the folder of the virtual machine on the NAS data store and select "add to the inventory. When you start the virtual computer you may be asked if you have moved or copied the VM. Make sure you select that "I moved it.

  André

  Post edited by: a.p. - deleted '-delta "(error in copy & paste) vmkfstools command

• Please explain how to delete a computer IMAC?

  Please explain how to delete documents and files from my office? Why simple Apple does not offer an option to delete above under edit. This totally baffles me? How much easier would it be? I'm not tech savvy so I end up saving multiple copies of the same thing. Please help me, my inability to delete anything on this computer either this Apple drives me crazy and I can't face is no longer with this computer.

  Select them and press the command and DELETE keys, then choose Empty trash from the Finder menu. The menu option to remove is on the file menu.

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• How can I make and delete a snapshot of the command line in ESXi 4?

  How can I make and delete a snapshot of the command line in ESXi 4?  ghettoVCB4i does, but I need unusual behaviour for two virtual machines.  I need to be able to save only one of the two virtual drives, not both.  So I can't use this script here.  I need to write a script that will:

  1 copy off the .vmx

  2 make a snapshot of a virtual computer running

  3 use the vmkfstools command to clone the vmdk in the backup location

  4 remove the snapshot.

  The snapshot is the part that I do not know how.  I do not see a flash drive in vmkfstools and I do not understand the snapshot code in ghettoVCB4i.

  Thank you!

  vmkfstools is a tool for working with VMDK, has nothing to do with stereotypes. In the Busybox unsupported console, the only tool that you can use for some of the management of the virtual computer is vim-cmd , which is about a wrapper for VMware vimsh, take a look at our site for more information: http://engr.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vimsh

  Basically, you're going to do something like the following:

  vim-cmd "vmsvc/snapshot.create XXXX FIRST_SNAPSHOT MY_FIRST_SNAPSHOT_1"
  

  where XXXX is VmId to the virtual machine that is retrieved from vmsvc/getallvms, then you are going to deliver the snapshot.remove

  Here are some other useful commands dealing with snapshots:

  Vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall \[VmId]

  [[[vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.remove \[VmId\] \[removeChildren\] \[snapshotLevel\] \[snapshotIndex\]

  Vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get \[VmId\]

  ghettoVCB4i uses vimsh to do these things as well.

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• I completely deleted Firefox and deleted all the files. After installing fresh Firefox, Firefox sees that it has been installed previously?

  I completely deleted Firefox and deleted all the files. After installing fresh Firefox, Firefox sees that it has been installed previously? "Looks like you have reinstalled Firefox. Want us to clean for a fresh experience and as new? »

  I uninstalled Firefox (so-called) "completely" using the guide here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-your-computer

  Why the new installation of Firefox recognizes that it has already been installed? Uninstall tool to uninstall Firefox COMPLETELY. As it is, can someone tell me what is the appropriate procedure for removal COMPLETE?

  All right, thank you in any case obtained.

  I removed all of these places:

  -

  -

  C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla Firefox

  C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

  C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox

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  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Mozilla Firefox.lnk

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  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox

  50.0 Firefox HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozilla (x 86 en - us)

  -

  ApplicationIcon

  HideIconsCommand

  ShowIconsCommand

  ReinstallCommand

  Installation directory

  PathToExe

  PathToExe

  Components

  Plugins

  ApplicationIcon

  HideIconsCommand

  ShowIconsCommand

  ReinstallCommand

  Mozilla, please take note and to integrate them in your current "uninstaller" tool. Thank you.

• How to recover photos from an iPhoto rebuild that occurred and delete all my photos?

  I have a Macbook Air running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 and has been using iPhoto, when he told me to make a reconstruction of my iPhoto application to continue to use it.  My only option was to move forward, but when I did, the app rebooted and deleted all my photos and other video content recorded on the app. He has been on my iCloud and disappeared, since the restart of the application.  How can I get it back?

  Your backup is the obvious answer. If this is not possible:

  Download I rPhoto library to manageand use its function of reconstruction. (In early versions of the Library Manager, this is the file-> command Rebuild.) In versions later it is under the menu library.)

  This will create a completely new library. It will then copy (or try) your photos and all associated metadata and versions to this library and as close as possible to what you had in the damaged library fix it. It does this based on the information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but it means that things not shared won't be there, so no slide shows, books or calendars, for example - but it should recover all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places.

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• my computer updated and delete all my files, how to bring them back?

  original title: help! my computer updated and delete all my files, how to bring them back?

  Help!  My computer did an automatic update and deleted all my files and I can't find one of my old files, how to bring them back?

  You get an error message on a Temp profile?

  Try this:

  Restore point:

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

  Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

  Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

  Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

  Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

  http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

  Read the above for a very good graph shows how backward more than 5 days in the System Restore Points by checking the correct box.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How to find and delete all the exact words

  How search and delete all the exact words, I tried adobe 11 Pro and I still need to know how to do this

  No, this feature in Acrobat Pro XI can remove all occurrences of the text you're looking for in a single operation.

• Query a directory and delete all files older than 1 hours

  How do I query a directory and delete all files in this directory that are older than 1 hour?

  I used CFDIRECTORY before displaying the pages in the directory and the directory information, but I can't understand how to query a directory and delete all files older than 1 hour of this directory.

  1 hour of old means that time is NOW over an hour of the date and time of the file on the server.

  You need to the user a combonation of the tag to read files and the to delete the files in conjunction of a tag to decide when and when not to do the removal.  The dateDiff function would be useful in this decision.

  In the pseduo code:

  NOTE: Look closely at the way the dateDiff works with fractional amounts.  That is, 59 minutes and 59 seconds is 0 hours while 1 hour and 1 second is 1 hour with the value of 'h' percision.

  Also note that I didn't look at the syntax for one of these tags, and I probably poorly named and. or misorderd settings.

• Delete all snapshots failed: vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall

  Hello

  I hope you can help me please

  I used veeam backup & replication backup a virtual machine to exchange server 2010

  I didn't know why and how, but since last week, I got error when try to delete snapshot: another task is already underway

  I try a lot of advice/KB but the success of whithout (managemennt services restart, remove the snapshot in vsphere client)

  When a start an ssh connection to the esxi and I launch 'vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.remveall' I got this error: "delete all asnapshots has failed.

  can you help me please?

  snapshots continue to grow since last week!

  Thank you

  (I'm french, sorry for my English)

  which means the snapshot of the ware file used by your worker VPXA and it's get connected through your VADP.

• Delete all snapshots causing server to consume all of the available disk space.

  Hello

  I deleted all the snapshots on one of our servers and as usual, the server is passed to 95% and then sits there until it ends.   This time he ate a 150 GB Bill and is about to release one of my SAN LUNS?  Is this normal!

  In any case what can I do to save the servers, if anything?

  HELP ME PLEASE!

  Thank you

  David

  With multiple snapshots, ESX will first create a new disc in which it will merge snapshots. So depending on the size of the LUN size VMDK, sizes of snapshot, there a sense... Not funny, I know

  Tip: install a script or some tasks or alerts that monitor the use of snapshots. We have a script in place that brings all the older snapshots then 7 days. We do not allow older snapshots then 7 days, if they're going for 7 days, the 'owner' must have a very good reason why he wants to run.

  Gabrié

  http://www.GabesVirtualWorld.com

• stops current runs and deletes all system restore points

  System Restore stops during the run and removes all previous points. tried to open and close and tried to manually set points. "He fixed but delete again on the next race event viewer alert gives says ' 0xC0000243 ' treatment ' mpengine.dll. hrddisk volume 2'. error unexpected '%2' of file '%3' volume ' %4%. I checked a lot of hard disk space. John

  I am answering my own question in case someone can help and can also help others with the same problem. It did not work (see above), so I removed the superspyware and restoring worked for a week then reloaded superspyware. Then work 4 days / nine/years/day when restoring the system began he arrested and removed all the previous restore points. File problem same reason given under the terms of the mistake of sr service, then stopped. It's a different file every time!  I have now removed superspyware again and will run for a month. Maybe I should give up on superspyware but it deletes items of adware that is not microsoft. I would like to just patch up restoration, but all I can do is to reload xp new total which is a terrible bore place dating any comment please help! John s.

• Delete all SNAPSHOTS with script

  I'm trying to set up a workflow for my colleagues to easily adjust color, brightness and so on by simply clicking on a SNAPSHOT that easily shows them the result. The snapshot is generated by a macro master calling alarge number of macros. But my clever :-) solution fails because I want to give them the opportunity to run the macro master twice (for example the brightness) and they are then asked with a dialog box that asks them if they would like to replace the snapshot that already exist wit the same name. Simply, I don't know an easy way to delete snapshots. Historic range is easy to remove. If it was just a bunch of macros I could find a way to fix it manually, but I have like 80-100 macros in different groups.

  I thought of this solution:

  MASTER MACRO 1

  -SELECT ALL. COPY.

  -DELETE ALL THE SNAPSHOTS (with the script)

  -PASTE THE IMAGE

  -MACRO RUNS APPLE (Apple instant recording)

  -MACRO RUNS TOMATO (tomato instant recording)

  -CONTINUES DURING SEVERAL OTHER...

  The user chooses instant TOMATO , also wants to run snapshot APPLE. Click again on the MACRO 1.

  Someone out there who can think of a solution or another idea?

  (Photoshop CS6 on a Mac)

  Here is the solution:

  var doc = app.activeDocument;

  HS var = doc.historyStates;

  for (var a = hs.length - 1; a > = 0;--a) {})

  {if(HS[a].) Snapshot)}

  doc.activeHistoryState = [a] hs;

  delHist();

  }

  }

  function delHist() {}

  var desc20 = new ActionDescriptor();

  var ref23 = new ActionReference();

  ref23.putProperty (charIDToTypeID ('HstS'), charIDToTypeID ('Indonésia'));

  desc20.putReference (charIDToTypeID ('null'), ref23);

  executeAction (charIDToTypeID ('Dlt'), desc20, DialogModes.NO);

  };

• ESXi 3.5 full disk - delete all snapshots

  Hi all

  I have a virtual machine running FreeNAS with discs 5 x 200G, defined as a JBOD.  I was filling up with data backup to rebuild some system, when he hooked up with the "no more space for the snapshot files (that's the jist - I don't remember the exact error message now.

  I did not understand where all my space was gone, but have been on a steep learning curve and understand now on the delta files.  I have in the filesystem via SSH, you can see that there are delta files containing hundreds of concerts.  Snapshot Manager showed no snapshots (nothing to delete).  I saw a recommendation to take a new snapshot and then do a 'delete all '.  I did, and the light of the physical server's hard drive was now two hours, strong.

  Is this normal.  I don't want to be hasty and interrupt something that works as it should, but is it possible that I can confirm that it works and not only in an infinite loop?

  A supplementary question.  To prevent this happining again once, can I change the configuration of the virtual machine and make these independent disks?  I can do that, for an existing virtual machine without losing any data on the disk?

  There is one shot in place? Certainly don't lose your patience and try and stop the validation process.

  You can watch the instant process of deletion/committ by the following command (you need to log in with access console not supported - http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-articles/general/how-to-access-the-vmware-esxi-hidden-console.html )

  Watch "ls - Ghtu-* full-time hard" d

  In your question that prevent from happening in regard to again - yes you can make the persistent independent record. This must be done while the virtual machine is turned off. You won't lose data, which makes change.

  Post edited by: java_cat33 - no access to the consoles does not support has been added for ESXi

• questions after 'delete all snapshots '.

  I had a VM with about 50 shots, so I decided that I have this nettoieriez

  in snapshot Manager and clicking "remove all" rather than

  remove them individually. This process completed successfully, then

  shot the server. Now, when I try to start it I get the

  following error message;

  Failed to open the disc

  ' / vmfs/volumes/492af03f-ea1af3be - 42b - 001 2A 64256 -.

  C2C /Servername/servername- 000001.vmdk' or one of the

  It depends on the instantaneous discs. Reason: The parent

  virtual disk has changed since the child was

  created.

  I have

  can get the server starts up by removing the drive and adding

  the servername.vmdk of basic disk. Although this disc contains only the

  original installation of the OS, not the changes of last year!

  Is there a way I can recover my data?

  running esxi 3.5.0 110271

  Help, please!

  Remove all button should apply to all snapshots in the original disc. If this happened... Well, maybe another problem happened. Anyway, if you ever turned your VM attached to the snapshot and received this message things are already lost.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310

  Technical Support Engineer

  Chief Executive Officer of the Linux server