Problem deleting snapshot via PowerCLI

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• Problem deleting snapshots

  I tried to make my smaller Windows XP VM for about a week now. I was scanning through many forums, have almost tried everything.

  The problem started when the main player of the Mac started to get tight on space. I used the disk inventory X to see what has been filling the disk and saw that my Windows XP VM, which has only one virtual disk of 40 GB, was about 87 GB. I opened the pacckage and there are 37 games of vmdk files.

  I did most of my tinkering on a copy of the virtual machine (had to buy an external hard drive, I so had the space to do!) but I had a few initial changes if the GUI on the original virtual machine.

  I tried to remove some of the snapshots (a combination of manual and auto-protect instant) but I kept getting the error "there was an error while trying to delete the snapshot. "Impossible to clean deleted files: the specified virtual disk needs to be repaired. The snapshot disappear if GUI.

  Instant MISTLETOE does currently show no snapshots, but the settings / Hard Disk sectionsays I can't do anything on the drive because there are snapshots. Can I take a new snapshot with success but when I remove it I get the error message above.

  I looked at the file .vmsd using a text editor, and it seems that it might be damaged. He registered 12 snapshots, and many of them have the same UID and refer to the same file. I saw an ad or KB article forum who suggested deleting the file .vmsd and let VMWare re-create it, but again, I can't take a snapshot, then delete it with success.

  My last attempt was to follow the steps listed here:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1020000

  When I do this, I am able to do successfully a new virtual disk, but when I start the new machine this drive, I have a computer that is more than a year.

  I move up the chain of the CIDs in the vmdk files, and while they are not in order, they don't seem to have a single linear chain.

  I could really use some help.

  The environment is Mac OS x Leopard, Fusion 2.0

  You always have a copy of the Virtual Machine that is operating normally and has not been modified by your DIY?

  If Yes, I would like to use Paragon go virtual to create a new Virtual Machine from it.  This would be the fastest and easier to solve this problem.

• Return to the current snapshot VIA PowerCLI

  I beat myself for quite a long time trying to find the answer. What is syntax in PowerCli to return to the current (last) snapshot. I have a pool of 50 machines, that I need to do it regularly. I may not know the name of the snapshot or the name must not be the same for all machines.

  Thanks in advance!

  Jason

  It seems that your copy/paste of the code was wrong.

  Are you by chance using an older IE browser?

  In any case, I have attached the code in a file.

• Host of hard drive is full - need to delete snapshots

  Hello

  I try to help someone who has a Mac running Windows 7 64 bit Pro using VMware Fusion 5.0.3.  They have a hard disk of 1 TB but now only 725 MB of free space!

  I checked the settings of VMware and they had AutoProtect Snapshots on 1 dollar a day, and set "maximum number of snapshots to keep: ' 3.

  When you view the instant history, it shows that there are 51 snapshots with the first (oldest) being 55.4 GB, GB 8.7 second and third 958,3 MB.  There is also a second tree that has only one sheet about 20 shots later.

  What is the best way to remove these pictures I saw barley have any storage space.

  I also don't mind not completely destroy all snapshots and new.

  Thanks in advance!

  haachee wrote: I'm not afraid also completely destroy all snapshots and new.

  What do you mean exactly by that?

  What is the best way to remove these pictures I saw barley have any storage space.

  With this little space it is really not that you can do with this package of Virtual Machine on this disk is almost full for correctly * clean. * Properly, i.e. delete snapshots via the Snapshot Manager.  You must either release the right amount of space needed to accomplish the task or temporarily move the package of Virtual Machine to another disk that has the amount of space needed for the appropriate task.

  There are other options, but I guess that when you answer the question I asked can I give more details.

  BTW DO NOT try a whole instant deletion via the snapshot to manage with so littk of free space on the disk of the host that you will break it doing!

• Deletion of snapshots via SSH

  I have a RN102 with 2x3TB red WD leads to XRAID2. I deleted all my photos except one (instant action is 191 GB). However, snapshots take up a lot of space:

  

  He has not recovered "over time", so I thought to delete manually via SSH. My gaze of 5 actions 4 like this where each record contains a lot of data (taken copies of my actions):

  

  Would I ruin anything by deleting them?

  Also, is it the result of a bug? Why space is not recovered when I delete images via the GUI?

  Thank you!

  Here are the shots that have not been successfully upgraded when you updated of the pre - 6.2.x 6.2.x firmware (or later).

  You could do

  # touch .force_snapshots_upgrade
  
  # systemctl restart readynasd

  These shots should then be upgraded and you can then delete the admin web UI.

  The space is recovered only when you delete pictures if the snapshots that you delete contains the only copy of certain data. If the current data or snapshots that you do not delete also contain spatial data not to be released to the top. Also, when you delete snapshots that the system will have to recursively update other snapshots. It can take some time if you have many snapshots.

  Once you have removed all the clichés that you want and the use of volume of less than 80% return, I would say that you then run a balance.

• How to create an effective script that mass deletes snapshots

  our company is currently using a product that drives the operating system and software updates for our virtual machines and takes a snapshot before pushing updates in case something breaks. the problem is that the same software does not remove the pictures until next update button and you're just too long we wait with snapshots lying around. what I did to remedy this situation is I built the below script and configured it as a task.

  # Add the snap-snap powercli in
  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  # Connect to an instance of vCenter
  $strviserver = "vCenterServer".
  SE connect-VIServer $strviserver

  # Get all of the snapshots for each virtual machine in the vcenter, then delete them
  Get - VM | Get-Snapshot - name "updates" | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $false

  # Remove the snap-snap powercli in
  Remove-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  It works, but it is not nearly as effective as I wish it were. Essentially, the script currently removes a snapshot at a time right now. I want so he can find any snapshot on this server vcenter by the same specified name and submit the task deletion-Snapshot for each snapshot at the same time. This should cause a lot of tasks to try and tail. The effective result would be that vCenter will treat all instant destruction because it has resources to do in a given time and will address the queue there resources.  If someone can tell me how to do this or something better, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

  You can consider using the RunAsync switch on the cmdlet Remove-Snapshot .

  In this way, that the script will continue while delete the snapshot is still running.

  Note that there is obviously that a limit on how many parallel snapshot removes that may occur due to the resources available.

• Manually delete snapshots?

  I have a Windows XP 32 bit invited in a 64-bit Debian Linux host.  I removed the snapshot via the web control page.  It is what remains in the directory...

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16219963392 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP - 000001.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15095365632 on 21-01 - 2009 07:05 WinXP - 000002.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64424509440 2009-01-21 06:58 WinXP - flat hard

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8684 on 21-01 - 2009 07:05 WinXP.nvram

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 423 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 492 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP.vmsd

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2353 on 21-01 - 2009 07:02 WinXP.vmx

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 260 2009-01-18 22:11 WinXP.vmxf

  There seems to be 2 flying over the snapshot files 31 GB of space occupation.  Infrastructure page indicates there is no snapshot (option only "Take Snapshot" is indicated).  Is it safe to just manually delete the 2 files?

  No problem.

  -KjB

  Don't forget to let points and mark the articles as a useful/correct.

• Error when you try to delete snapshots

  Hello

  I have problems when you try to manually delete snapshots of our ReadyNAS. The error is displayed when it fails is 28004020002. After a search through your forums it seems most of the time you ask newspapers, and then it seems that the problem is solved. So if need be I have newspapers available on request.

  One of the suggestions also says try a defrag on the device and that pops up and displays a different error message: 14007010000. I don't know if that is related, but I have not dug deep in this one I would like to help with the first issue first please

  All comments are greatly appreciated.

  This is the topic I was looking at early to try to help with my problem.

  https://community.NETGEAR.com/T5/backing-up-to-your-ReadyNAS/error-when-trying-to-delete-snapshot/TD...

  Fixed.

  Please do not restart the system until the balance is over. The balance will take time to complete.

  You can see the progress made in the web administration interface.

  In addition, you can plan a balance to say run every 2-3 weeks.

• How to calculate the CPU Ready on Cluster DRS via Powercli?

  Hi all!

  I have a DRS Vsphere cluster. I want to know what is the value of the loan of CPU I have in my group.

  For example, I get 20% of powercli value, it is normal for the cluster, but if I have 100% or more, I have a problem.

  How to achieve via Powercli? And how to calculate the percentage values correctly?

  I know, I can get all values of CPU Ready of VMs cluster, but IT is not the same thing, I need overall value of CPU Ready.

  Thanks in advance!

  As far as I know you can get the cpu.ready.summation for ESXi nodes or VMs.

  For a cluster, you will need to get the value of each node in the cluster ESXi and then take the average.

  The metric cpu.radey.summation is expressed in milliseconds.

  To get a percentage, you need to calculate the percentage of loan period during the interval during which it was measured.

  Something like this (this will give the loan current %)

  $clusterName = "mycluster.

  $stat = "cpu.ready.summation".

  $esx = get-Cluster-name $clusterName | Get-VMHost

  $stats = get-Stat-entity $esx - Stat $stat - Realtime - MaxSamples 1 - forum «»

  $readyAvg = $stats | Measure-object-property - average value. Select - ExpandProperty average

  $readyPerc = $readyAvg / ($stats [0].) IntervalSecs * 1000)

  Write-Output "Cluster $($clusterName) - CPU % loan $(' {0:p}'-f $readyPerc).

• Reasons for SLOW create / delete snapshots

  Hello

  We run 5.1 ESXi hosts in a cluster.

  We have added a number of virtual machines to the cluster, and so the use of the memory of each ESXi host is about 60%.  Network administrator also performs a network change lately (he said it shouldn't affect VMWare).

  However, it takes much more time for us to create / delete snapshot.  Wonder if it may be due to network problem OR just we are running out of memory in ESXi hosts / SAN Performance?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Hello

  Before we dive more deep, the main issue here - what is was exactly the scope of this network change? It seems that something has changed on the network affecting the connection between ESXi host & network storage interfaces shared. Also, you must ensure that change did not affect VAAI availability on your space of storage as well as snapshots are handled directly on the drive bays. A delta disc is created, the basic disk is read-only and all writes are then carried out on delta drive. The snapshot delete commits these changes. But of course, you should check your SAN performance if it does not hit the bottleneck by chance (CPU, memory, input/output).

  If you get the information on what has changed, we can help you further.

• Help, I changed the password of root ESXi via powerCli, now I can not connect with the web client or the console.

  Help, I've changed the root ESXi via powerCli password, now I can not connect with the web client or the console, but I can still connect to powerCli. The command I used was;

  SE connect-VIServer esxihostname-user root - password newpasswd

  This production network btw, I have connected to each host and run the above command, these ESXi hosts are not on a domain

  y at - it something I have left out. I really appreciate any assistance that you people can provide.

  Thank you, Joe

  It is probably a longshot, but a lot of things in the land of windows is not sensitive to capital letters as Unix is.  I wonder if your new password you put through powerCLI mixed uppercase in it and if the capitalization was abandoned by command windows powerCLI Analyzer, or he interpreted as all capitals or something.   If you can still get through the powerCLI you could try to reset the password again to something simple without capitalization mixed case and if your password on ESXi strategy requires a special character, try something different than a "$", like a "_" (I find that a '_' is less likely than some other special characters (, as a '-' or a ' / ' to cause problems with analyzers.).

  Edit:

  Another thing, you can try before playing with the password once again, is to create a different username ESXi using powerCLI and see if the password ends up what you think, it should be, and if you can get with the client vsphere using it.  In this way, you can find out if there are some problems with certain characters or Cap through command powerCLI Analyzer without losing your remaining root by powerCLI access.  After some tests, you can understand what went wrong with your initial password change and may be able to fix it with less risk of losing access.  I also assume that you can not create a new username on ESXi who is able to change the root password no matter what authority give you it, otherwise, you could create a new username with PowerCLI, then connect to the client vsphere with it and change the password to root from there.

• Define the IP addresses on guest via PowerCLI RHEL 6 OS?

  I try the IP address subnet value and the gateway on RHEL6 Guest OS via PowerCLI. Howerver his failure with "bash: / tmp/powerclivmware0: permission Denied"

  $NetInt = get-VMGuestNetworkInterface - VM $VM. VMName - GuestUser $USR - GuestPassword $PWD

  Game-VMGuestNetworkInterface - VMGuestNetworkInterface $NetInt - $USR - GuestPassword $PWD - Ip $VM GuestUser. $VM.Netmask - IP-Gateway $VM subnet mask. Gateway - Dns $DNS1, DNS2 $

  It works fine on RHEL5 but not RHEL6.

  Does anyone have experience with this works for RHEL6 get? Any help would be appreciated!

  Model Security Configurations has problem.

  This occurs if the permissions to run executable files are denied to /tmp/

  Problem solved.

• When to delete snapshots in parent pool view image

  Hi all

  Some of our master images for our pools have a lot of photos and I want to clean them. The problem is, last time I deleted a snapshot on a master image that someone in the pool had disconnected from non-persistent desktop before I had time to recompose the pool and when that office is to refresh it failed (because the snapshot, I removed was in the path of snapshots to the snapshot pool was built out of). Not only he made the effect each Office update in this pool, the error stopped the View Composer vCenter Server server then NO more desktops in any pool could not be refreshed.

  So, my question is... What is the mechanism for deleting snapshots in a pool?

  Thank you

  You should not disable the pool.  Just disable commissioning of the pool.  In this way the opportunity to recompose do kick in while you do your work on the parent.  When you are finished, you can enable and then commissioning on the pool again.

  

• Managind DRS groups via powercli

  Goodmorning.

  I need to get all the members of a group of virtual machine via PowerCli DRS.

  I found a few articles of aroud the cmdlets such as ' New -DrsVmGroup" or so on. "

  I don't see this cmdlets in my powercli.

  I connect to a Virtual Center 5.0 managing 6 hosts ESXi 4.1.

  Using PowerCli 5.1 release 1 of my laptop Windows8 or PowerCli 5.0.1 Center Virtual Server itself I can see the following:

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > get-help * drs * | name of ft

  Name
  ----
  Apply DrsRecommendation
  Get-DrsRecommendation
  Get-DrsRule
  New-DrsRule
  Delete-DrsRule
  Game-DrsRule

  Could you please help me to get on the right way to manage groups of powercli DRS?

  Thanks a lot for the help of youe.

  Hello

  I quickly wrote 1 liner for you:

  (get-cluster cluster_name). ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group |? {$_.vm}|% {'$($_.name) GROUP found in this group'; foreach ($currentvm to $_.vm) {(get-vue-id $currentvm) .name}}}
  GROUP VmGroup1 is in this group

  vmX

  VMY

  vmZ

  GROUP VmGroup2 is in this group
  UMB

  vmB

  vmC

  vmD

  Let me know if you still have any questions about this

• VMware tools take it apart or modify the parameters of CD-Rom via PowerCLI

  Hello

  My problem:

  After the upgrade invited on Redhat Linux vmware tools vmware tools remain in the properties of the vm.

  I mean that the device vm: CD-Rom drive is configured to store data-ISO file [/vmimages/tools-isoimages/linux.iso]

  The CD-ROM drive is not connected!

  I can't Vmotion of such systems.

  Is there a way to define the type of device clientcdrom to 'clientdevice' via PowerCLI?

  I checked some commands powercli: set-cddrive, dismount-tools

  
  

  With the powerclie cmd:

  Get - vm GuestName | Get-cddrive

  I am able to locate systems that have the problem.

  Output:

  IsoPath RemoteDevice HostDevice
  -------              ----------                             ------------
  [] / vmimages/tool...

  Via Vsphere Client, I am able to change the iso data store config in clientdevice.

  and change the mode to emulate ide to ide pathtrough (recommended)

  -> A chip solution would be to automate tasks via powercli this 2.

  2 screenshots:

  

  

  Has anyone automated this 2 tasks via powercli

  Hi, George,

  I think NoMedia - Set-CDDrive switch, it's what you need - it Peel host device or iso file.

  Get - VM | Get-CDDrive. Game-CDDrive - NoMedia-confirm: $false

  Kind regards

  Vitali

  Team PowerCLI