Provisioned Disk Space porperty

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• provisioned disk space question

  Hi all

  Watch provisioned disk space more space than assigned (IE his double size Watch)

  Maybe some rest then.

  Try to group disks/snapshots:

  VMware KB: Consolidation of snapshots in vSphere 5.x/6.0

• OnThick space provisioned disks?

  I have configured my VM thick, but most of them show space put into service between 20% and 60% more than the space used. The data store is 200 GB pledged.  My understanding is that space put into service comes into play with thin provisioned disks, not thick. Can someone explain to me why it took so much space in service?  We are on the latest version of VMware.

  Thank you!

  Take it back storage provisioned the VMDK for the disk, the file etc vswap isn't just the disc.

  For example, if we have a virtual machine with a hard disk of 4 GB space of the thick put in service and windows 2008 R2 with 4 GB of RAM then the disc put into service will be around 8,11 GB

  Used storage will show 4.00 GB as this is the file to disk. The rest of the space put into service is mainly the vswap 4 GB file.

  Start the virtual machine and changes in storage provisioned to 8.05 as does the storage used such that it created vswap files.

  It off again and changes in storage provisioned to 8.12 GB and used (s) back up to 4 GB

  Set size in service has increased to 100% not sure de.01 why but could be the journal file, or something.

  But your space is higher than the discs it's file of vswap RAM the virtual machine it is either in the total of 20 to 60%.

  FYI, changing limits or action does not affect the space put into service, because it is for physical memory, not the size of the file vswap.

  The only way to reduce the space put into service is either to reduce hard drive size VMDK or reduce RAM assigned to the virtual machine.

  fall virtual machine up to 2 GB and put into service space is now 6.05 when the virtual machine is running.

• Script to determine disk space, recorded by a provisioning

  Hello..

  I was wondering if anyone had a script that would allow me to pull up a list of virtual machines, their space set aside (as a #, with no Go after him) and their space used (as a #, no Go after him). ID then take advantage of these data in excel, add it to this and see how much disk space we saved on our SAN by using a provisioning.

  Does anyone have an idea?  I think a script to do something like that could be very useful for many people who are able to return to management and show how much $ they recorded in SAN disk using this "new"

  Thank you!

  The only way I could get the 'Division by zero' error was when I did one or more of the stores of data not available.

  The following script excludes the unavailable datatsores

  $report = @()
  $vms = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine
  foreach($vm in $vms){
       foreach($perDS in $vm.Storage.PerDatastoreUsage){
            if($perDS -ne $null){
                 $row = "" | Select VMname, DSname, ThinProvisioned, ThinUsed, SavedPerc
                 $row.VMname = $vm.Name
                 $row.DSname = (Get-View -Id $perDS.Datastore).Name
                 $row.ThinProvisioned = "{0:f2}" -f (($perDS.Committed + $perDS.Uncommitted) / 1GB)
                 $row.ThinUsed = "{0:f2}" -f ($perDS.Committed / 1GB)
                 $row.SavedPerc = "{0:f0}" -f ($perDS.Uncommitted / ($perDS.Committed + $perDS.Uncommitted) * 100)
                 $report += $row
            }
       }
  }
  $report | ft
  

• Is there a way to see the disk space actually used against provisioned size 3.5?

  Hi people,

  I don't know that this has probably developed.

  I need to find the amount of real disk space is used by the virtual machine rather than its set size in service.  I make this point to the direction for the upgrade to Vsphere 4 by using a provisioning.

  Y at - it a script/app that could do it quite easily.

  Kind regards

  Rick

  RVTools is an excellent tool for ESX Admin to have and he has a lot of features, you can enjoy and Details of the data store is also part of it.  Check out great tools free http://www.robware.net/

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  VMware vExpert 2009

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• How to recover disk space?

  Delete the files in the Windows\winsxs folder? Seems to be filling with a large number of records and take too much disk space?

  The short answer is no.

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/08/06/should-you-delete-files-in-the-WinSxS-directory-and-what-s-the-deal-with-VSS.aspx

  The ways to recover from space are mentioned here

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/06/12/General-guidance-on-disk-provisioning-for-WinSxS-growth.aspx

  For the Vista SP2, compcln program is located in Windows\System32. Right click and run as administrator. The equivalent program if you're still on SP1 is vsp1cln.

• VMWare EsXi 5.1.0 disk space

  Hello

  I have the following situation. A VM server EsXi 5.1.0 with two virtual machines.

  A virtual machine has two virtual disks of type thick lazy disposition to zero.

  The bootdrive is 1 hard disk drive HDD 2 data. From 1 to 80 GB hard drive put in service then the hard drive 2 has 120 GB put in service. I managed to increase the 80 GB with 10 GB drive because there was still space available in the data store so 2 months ago, I increased to 90 GB drive has worked perfectly.

  In the operating system on drive C (disc 1) I had only 3 GB of free again so I need more space, so that the data drive (disc 2) had 30 GB of free space.

  I thought when I decrease disk 2 with 10 GB and disk increase 1 with 10 GB of all be good. In the VSphere client, I edited the disksspace, but I noticed that I could not reduce the disk 2?

  Also, I could not return my settings? So now on the virtual computer will not boot and I get error ' not enough space on the data store.

  Can I return my settings and get the disc about the size of the 'old '?

  Thank you

  Jeffken

  Reduce a virtual disk is unfortunately not supported in the GUI (and the CLI). In order to decrease the size, you can use VMware Converter for example.

  Anyway, what you can do to be able to turn on the virtual computer as soon as possible - assuming that the host is not part of a cluster and you have not enough memory - is to put a reserve of memory for the virtual machine. The disk space required for the virtual machine swap file, which is created once the virtual machine is running - is equal to the amount of provisioned VM memory minus the reserved memory. So if you change this setting in order to reserve any memory, the paging file will not require any disk space.

  Note that with very low available space on the data store, you can run into issues when you create snapshots!

  André

• Made already 99%, then stopped because of disk space

  Due to lack of disk space (although it was only sufficient provision PP) a huge file export stopped at 99%.

  He had to make it at that time (almost 2 hours movie HD) 60 hours I think it was done with the rendering and realized that there is EAP not enough of the other disk space to write the final file in it (because there is already a file with 0 bytes).

  I would ask that first Pro CS5 uses files that are already made in the next trial--or, if not, how I can bring the first to use? It would be a shame to start over when it is done so already.

  Thanks for the suggestions!

  Hi Esoup,

  Due to lack of disk space (although it was only sufficient provision PP) a huge file export stopped at 99%.

  He had to make it at that time (almost 2 hours movie HD) 60 hours I think it was done with the rendering and realized that there is EAP not enough of the other disk space to write the final file in it (because there is already a file with 0 bytes).

  I would ask that first Pro CS5 uses files that are already made in the next trial--or, if not, how I can bring the first to use? It would be a shame to start over when it is done so already.

  Sorry for the inconvenience but you must repeat this process.

  Thank you

  Ilyes Singh

• Snapshot Consolidation with a low disk space options

  After you delete all snapshots for a specific virtual machine, I am alerted that drives require codification, probably because it has insufficient disk space to successfully delete the snapshots. Of course, consolidation fails because of lack of space. I wonder if there are tricks to be able to consolidate records when the data store does not have enough space. So far I came up with the following options, but some are not ideal, I am looking for other suggestions:

  -Increase the size of the data store: not ideal because the data store will have more than enough space once the snapshots are deleted and it is difficult to decrease after the fact.

  -Storage vmotion the disks in another larger data temporarily store: a little better but not ideal due to the large amount of data

  -Stop the virtual machine and try to consolidate: I read that additional disk space is needed to consolidate the disk while the VM is running. If this is the case, how can I be sure that it works, for example to calculate the required space before I incur the failure (see below for more information).

  For each of these options, I am also looking for assistance calculating the space needed to consolidate properly, given the following information (let me know if further info is needed):

  

  

  According to the information provided, it seems that you use thin configured virtual disks. In this case the additional disk space required to consolidate snapshots could be anything up to the size/amount of snapshots, limited by the provisions of the virtual disk size less the current size of the hard file. If you consolidate snapshots, while the virtual machine is up and running, with the disk space required on the data store based on the changes made in the guest OS, while the Helper-Snapshot is active. Unfortunately, there is no available for this formula.

  André

• VAPP disk space sizing

  vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.4

  Hello

  Something escapes me the size of vApp:

  -Referring to guidelines recommended such sizing in the vCOps documentation: KB VMware: VMware vRealize Operations Manager Sizing Guidelines

  Choose the small configuration, disk storage must be 900 GB total (800 GB for VM Analytics, ~ 120 GB for VM UI)

  -When you deploy the VAPP, the FVO information are displayed:

  

  Could you please explain to me the difference? How much disk space my TIME will be if I deploy vCOps with little configuration using thick Provisioning?

  Thank you very much for your answers.

  M.G.

  By default, the deployment is not designed in accordance with the recommendation in the KB. The hope is that you will be adding disk and change the configuration of your particular environment.

  Vs thin thickness is not specific to this OVA, it is a matter of General vSphere. Best practices recommend using eager thick for performance benefits, as slim adds a performance penalty due to the amount of writes to disk by this unit.

• Recover disk space

  Hello everyone,

  I am all new to this community and very happy to be here.

  I just started a new job looking after a new IT infrastructure, my experience has been Hyper-V, but now I'm looking after a 5.1 ESXi VMWare environment. So far I'm in love, then its great together!

  I've been after help, we have a virtual machine that has 4 VHD thin provisioned, HD1 (disk0 in the server disk management) currently only has 1 TB of unallocated space that is there is no active partition assigned to this area of space. My question is: what is the best practice to deduct all or maybe some of this space back so I can supply more VM.

  I have done some calculations and I have more than enough space on the server with the TB unallocated so that the space is really just wasted already.

  I can't wait to receive some answers and responses.

  Thank you very much

  Lee

  As you can see, the first virtual disk ' CDI-coFW - SQL.vmdk ' occupies ~ 115 GB of physical disk space, which is very probably the space required by the 3 active partitions. It is certainly possible to use e.g. the converter to get rid of the empty partition, but it's probably more than release of disk space for internal purposes. I probably wouldn't change anyting, except that I had a lot of free time.

  André

• Dynamic hard disk space allocation

  Hello

  Is it possible to ESXi to dynamically allocate disk space as virtual machine he needs. I'm under ESXi 5.1.

  Thank you very much

  Welcome to the community,

  You can configure the virtual disks to the virtual machine as thin provisioned, which allocates additional space if necessary. However, remember that thin configured disks descended not automatically if the data in the guest operating system are deleted. Make sure monitor also that you the use of the data store if you are going to fund it, i.e. to provide more disk space for virtual machines that physically available.

  André

• Backup errors with backup of thin provisioned disks on ESXi 5.1

  Hello

  I try to set up a backup solution for two servers in ESXi 5.1. (free version).

  I have installed and configured the ghettoVCB successfully and everything seems to be ok.

  However, when I start to create a backup, the process would end with an error :-(

  It didn't matter if the server is enabled or disabled, I get the same result.

  All data warehouses are local, 2 x free WD500GB with plenty of space.

  There is no snapshot, anything that could (in my eyes) prevent a good backup.

  The server works perfectly, when turned on.

  I'd appreciate any useful comment. Thanks in advance! The log is attached.

  / vmfs/volumes/519fceb8-3d39150e-2D0F-001999eeb339/ghettoVCB-Master #./ghettoVCB.sh f vms_to_backup
  Recording output to ' / tmp/ghettoVCB-2013-05-25_20-56-28-324192.log '...
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: = ghettoVCB NEWSPAPER BEGIN =.

  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VERSION = 2013_01_11_0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - GHETTOVCB_PID = 324192
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_VOLUME/vmfs/volumes/backup/ghettoBackups =
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 3
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_DIR_NAMING_CONVENTION = 2013-05-25_20-56-28
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - LOG_LEVEL = info
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - BACKUP_LOG_OUTPUT = /tmp/ghettoVCB-2013-05-25_20-56-28-324192.log
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - ALLOW_VMS_WITH_SNAPSHOTS_TO_BE_BACKEDUP = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = all
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_SHUTDOWN_ORDER =
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - VM_STARTUP_ORDER =
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_LOG = 0
  2013-05-25 20:56:29 - info:
  2013-05-25 20:56:35 - info: start the backup for server W2003
  Destination disk format: thin provisioned VMFS
  Cloning disk ' / vmfs/volumes/519fceb8-3d39150e-2d0f-001999eeb339/w2003-server (2) 2/w2003 Server _1.vmdk'...
  Clone: 36% of fact.
  2013-05-25 20:59:34 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/519fceb8-3d39150e-2d0f-001999eeb339/w2003-server (2) 2/w2003 Server _1.vmdk ' to W2003 Server
  Destination disk format: thin provisioned VMFS
  Cloning disk ' / vmfs/volumes/WD500GB-1/W2003-Doma¤ne/w2003-server (2) hard '...
  Clone: 66% of fact.
  2013-05-25 21:08:59 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/WD500GB-1/W2003-Doma¤ne/w2003-server (2) hard" to W2003 Server
  2013-05-25 21:08:59 - Info: backup time: 12,40 Minutes
  2013-05-25 21:08:59 - info: ERROR: impossible to W2003 server from backup because of the error in VMDK backup!

  2013-05-25 21:09 - info: # final status: ERROR: No. VMs saved! ######

  2013-05-25 21:09 - info: = ghettoVCB JOURNAL END =.

  / vmfs/volumes/519fceb8-3d39150e-2D0F-001999eeb339/ghettoVCB-Master #.

  > However, when I start to create a backup, the process would end with an error :-(

  This is not correct.  Depending on your position, you've got to 66%, until he ended with an error.

  I have the same problem. In my case, I make a virtual disk full and mount it with Server 2003 for project a NFS volume.  I use GhettoVCB, as you do.  It uses the standard vkmfstools in the script to make the clone/backup.  I have proven that the problem also occurs when you use the command line vkmfstools.  GhettoVCB has the bad habit of you cache the error code.  The error code is he ran out of disk space, which we both did not happen.  Once the problem occurs, the only way I could fix is to delete the virtual disk and start over, however, the problem will come back.  The problem didn't surface until what I moved to ESXi 4.0 5.1 on the servers.  Through this process, the hardware off the VMS version did not change, nor dare, because I may need to take 5.1 and back to 4.x.

• Wasted VM analyzes disk space?

  Can someone explain the query to the following analysis:

  "For each data store, virtual machines have wasted disk space?

  It shows the value '0' in the ' waste | Disk space | "Total" column  I know we have a ton of VM out there that is attributed to the way too space-wise. We are trying to identify that VM would be good candidates for a provisioning and reclamation.

  Thank you!

  Dennis

  VCOPS determines the waste of disk space by looking at the virtual machines that have slowed down or turned off for long periods of time. Is this the case in your configuration? Otherwise, you will not see a value of waste of disk space.

• Question about thin provisioned disks

  I did some searching but can't find specific answers, I need and I apologize in advance if these questions are public knowledge. I know also my setup is very small compared to most houses VMWare normally using these forums, but we are moving slowly in the 2nd Decade of the 21st century (or try).

  I have a new install ESXi 5 and move during one ESX3 host that has about a dozen of VMs on it.  I recently built vCenter host servers and my future view connection server.  I'm kind to vCenter again as my previous installation of ESX 3 was a single server and us were not investing in the vCenter at the time option (missed a lot of features and ease of upgrade during this transition, but 20/20 declining).  I'm a little green in using vCenter so take pitty on my ignorance.

  It's more time than I wanted to and I just want to know the best way to change these 2 servers (recently built and configured systems Win 2008 R2) to thin provisioned disks.  I need to keep all the storage space I can and beyond the obvious problem of being able to provide more space than you physically, I have no problem to do so (in addition to get them changed).  If there are negatives I'm missing, please report them to me.  The possiblities that I see are:

  The clone and thin provision then delete the originals.

  Use the stand-alone converter on them (from above).

  Completely rebuild thin provisioned with disks.

  If someone can give me a quick list of possible problems and pitfalls for these opportunities or to get to a better suggestion, please do so and thanks in advance.

  Manual of Clark

  PRIMOS Inc.

  Since you have storage vMotion the clone or standalone VMware converter are both viable options.   Not sure about the disadvantages of these options.

  You didn't say what kind of server it is, but I'm always careful about the cloning of the domain controllers.   Without the option for storage vmotion I rebuild a DC from scratch.

  Post edited by: mittim12