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• How can I increase the space put into service for a data store in vSphere

  Using vSphere client 4.0.0 (208111) and vCenter Server 4.0.0 (162856)

  I have a 850 GB data store set up that shows only 525 GB configured.  My users are bumping into the ceiling and I need to give them more space.  I can't find a setting that allows me to do this.  What are my options here?

  Thank you

  How many Virtual Machines on your ESXi host? What is the size of the virtual disk to a virtual machine that has the problem? You can change the size of the disk in editing parameters for the virtual machine with problems?

• I have a problem in my hard drive, it shows me in the properties I have more space than in the computer

  Hi Microsoft community
  I have a problem in my hard drive, it shows me in the properties I have more space than in the computer
  How is it possible that? Where is the rest area?
  same question under the D; disc
  http://www12.0ZZ0.com/2013/09/22/16/490351854.PNG

  

  Kind regards.

  Hi Microsoft community

  I have a problem in my hard drive, it shows me in the properties I have more space than in the computer

  How is it possible that? Where is the rest area?

  same question under the D; disc

  http://www12.0ZZ0.com/2013/09/22/16/490351854.PNG

  

  Kind regards.

  Both say the same thing - 120 GB of free space. 128 886, 263, 552 bytes is 120 GB and 128 GB not

  All hard drive manufacturers qualify 1 GB 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the rest of the computer, including the windows world, defines it as the 2 to the 30th power bytes (1 073 741 824). So, for example, a disk of 320 billion bytes is actually around 300 GB.

  Of some note as the official international standard
  sets the 'G' of GB as 1 billion, not 1 073 741 824. OK, even though they were, using the binary value of GB is so well-established in the world of computing that I consider be misleading on the part of the manufacturer of marketing using the decimal value of 1 billion.

• Move a vmdk file finely put in service a new data store - now it's thick?

  Hi all

  To elaborate a little bit on the title, I installed a second hard drive in my ESXi 4 server.  All my VMs use discs finely put into service, however, after that I moved the files of the virtual machine to the new data store (using mv) and readded the virtual machine to inventory, the disks are provided are thinner but are thick.  This behavior is expected?

  This is behavior expected - don't use mv to VMDK!

  Use rather
  vmkfstools-i thin d

  who should be faster, more reliable and give you a choice for the type of provision

• The data store size is smaller than the virtual disk

  Just deploy a new installation of ESXI 4.1 rev3 on a new Dell PE R520 server with 4 disks 1 GB configured in a single Bay RAID5.  When I connect with vSphere and go to Configuration > it shows storage data store being just 740 GB.  However when I go to storage adapters and select the vmhba it shows the complete 2.73 CT of the RAID array that I need to use.  Nowhere I chose Go 740 for the size of the data store, so I don't know how it has been brought to this size.  If I try to delete and re-create 740 GB is the maximum I can create.

  What I am doing wrong and how do I create a data store that uses all 2.73 CT?  Screenshots are attached.

  Thanks in advance,

  Ben

  4 ESXi does not support LUNS > 2 TB.  Any increase on a multiple of 2 TB, it's what you'll see (e.g. 2.73 TB - 2 TB =.73 to ~ = 740 GB you see).

  But the real question is why you install version 3 year of the hypervisor?

• Active Directory groups can be put into service in the FDMEE places?

  Hi experts FeeDMEE:

  We are upgrading to HFM/FDMEE 11.1.2.4.    We would like to use only the Active Directory groups for our security in Shared Services.

  I did a lot of audit looking at whether we can use security location FDMEE ad groups.  So far, the only way I found to make the security location uses the native approach (settings / security settings / security location...) Security by location, click on keep usergroup to set up groups).    But it doesn't seem to be an option if you create groups such as native or ad groups (FDMEE them creates only natively).

  Does anyone know if it is possible in FDMEE to use security of the location ad groups?

  Thank you
  Mark Smith

  I discovered that it is more possible for FDMEE create Aboriginal groups for the security of the location.

  However, Active Directory groups can be added as members of indigenous groups.   In this way, users should only be added to Active Directory groups.    The only maintenance is to add or remove groups active directory to or from the indigenous groups of FDMEE.

• Free space capacity, put into service,

  Hello

  I know that this has also been discussed in other threads, but still things are not clear to me.

  I store data with space set aside almost two times more capacity and about 30 GB of free.

  I understand that space put into service can be more if I have a provisioning, but this isn't the case. Thick, all my machines are put into service.
  The next thing are snapshots. I have pictures so probably that's why I put into service space more than my abilities.

  What don't get me, is how I still get free space... I mean that snapshots take up real space. If I have a 50 GB HD a snapshot 1 50 GB is created. So, normally, in my opinion, I would actually have 100 GB of storage used and a - Let's say - 60 GB datastore which means I have no available space...

  I miss something here?

  A snapshot in VMware products contains only deltas, i.e. becomes the parent disk. A snapshot starts with a small file and develops over time. Since it can grow to the size of the virtual disk that is put into service, the maximum size is added to the space put into service that appears in the summary virtual machines.

  Just a quick comment for "all snapshots are by default thin stocked... ». It's not exactly how it is. Provisioning is a feature of system files and used only for disks virtual base. Snapshots use a fragmented, file format which consists of blocks of metadata database and checked.

  André

• VMWare esxi 5.5 - is possible to shrink a thick disk hard put into service?

  Hey guys

  Recently, I have increased the size of the hard drive to one of my VM to 300 GB drives when I only need 200GB.

  The player is supplied thickness. Memory I don't think that you can reduce a thick disc put into service from the client VMWare 5.5.

  So my question is, is there another way I can reduce this hard drive stocked thickness so I can recover unused space?

  Kind regards

  Aaron

  Yes, technically, if you have a 300 GB windows volume supported by a thick hard of 300 GB you can do the following:

  1. Defragment system files comments with Raxco Disk defrag or similar, as the use of the option consolidate free space
  2. Try and make sure that a good number costs blocks by the end of the partition (options defrag boot use pagefile and $mft etc.)
  3. Reduce the 200 GB partition
  4. Storage vmotion virtual machine and set the destination thin format

  This hard never will now have more than 200 GB unless the windows partition is cultivated but the hard remains thin. Otherwise, vmware standalone converter or vmkfstools way to go. If prefer vmkfstools.

• How to upgrade the form for organizations put into service?

  Hello

  I have a similar problem, as indicated here IOM - provided users with versions of form different resources

  But I need to update the form for organizations. I added 3 custom to your UD_ADOU attributes and this form is visible to the new accounts set up. Old accounts ORG provisioned see attributes form the only version 0.

  So I tried to use FVC utility to update these accounts of Organization put into service, but it does not work.

  Here are my properties file:

  $ cat fvc.properties

  ResourceObject; OU AD

  FormName; UD_ADOU

  FromVersion; 0

  /ToVersion; AdOUForm02

  Parent; UD_ADOU_DEPARTMENTCODE; N/A

  Parent; UD_ADOU_ORGUNITTYPE; Department

  Parent; UD_ADOU_MANAGER; '' cn = manager01, ou = users, dc = adroot, dc = local"

  I think it works for the only user accounts (see doc: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/admin.1112/e27149/formver.htm#CCHCBDBJ )

  My question is, who can update a form for organizations put into service? Is it possible to update the configured accounts of organizations by FVC utility? If so, how?

  Thank you

  Milan

  OK I found the solution and I found a bug in the IOM probably.

  The main tables are SDK and UD_ADOU;

  The SDK table contains information about the last active version of the form... org

  The UD_ADOU table contains all the forms (supplied) and their version of the form that uses the account provisioned.

  So I used the following SQL command to update the version of IOM 11.1.2.1 forms:

  Update UD_ADOU set UD_ADOU_VERSION =

  (select SDK_ACTIVE_VERSION in the SDK where SDK_NAME = 'UD_ADOU');

  commit;

  In IOM 11.1.2.2.x I started the work of the "upgrade" form, but as I said, after this i see new attributes in the form of commissioning Org, but when I change the data, these data are not configured for the announcement.

  Then I checked the SDK and UD_ADOU tables and I found in the SDK table active the last version of the East ADOU 1.  BUT! in the UD_ADOU table, all records have UD_ADOU_VERSION = 7! (Value 7 is the number of the line of the record with the SDK_NAME = "UD_ADOU").  Is this a bug?

  I changed all these archives to the value 1.

  Update UD_ADOU set UD_ADOU_VERSION = 1;

  commit;

  And now, also commissioning works well in IOM 11.1.2.2.x

  Milan

• Machine virtual hard disk (virtual disk) of the upper size limit put into service

  Hi there, so I'm trying to create a hard drive or a virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to configure the virtual machine as a file server. The data store is a Promise VTrak M610P and I installed the vtrak as a type of VMFS5 5,46 TB of space (4 2 hard disks to each RAID 5). In the virtual machine, I added a hard drive and selected the store data vtrak and tried to set the provisioned to 5.46 TB size and type thick lazy disposition to zero, but I get an error of DiskCapControl with the range values. I changed the size set in service and 4 TB and he accepted the new hard drive. I can't find anything on the actual limit on the creation of hard disk in a virtual computer.

  
  

  I'm running a server Supermicro X7DAL-E with VMware ESXi 5.5 U2.

  Any ideas would be useful. Thank you.
  

  I forgot I asked a similar question on a different section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: SMB access using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008 storage

  Here's what I wrote on the link above:

  So it turns out that there seems to be something wrong with vClient when you add a hard disk (virtual disk) to a virtual machine of size greater than 4 TB. Article VMware KB: value of range error message when you add more than 4 TB capacity discs in vSphere Client describes this if you encounter this problem, add the hard drive via vSphere CLI, CLI power or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creation of hard disk, adding to the virtual machine (size of the hard drive is to 5.45) and when I would get the error message on the DiskCapControl out of reach, I would just click OK and then finalize the creation of the hard drive on the virtual machine. Once the process is complete, I selected the virtual machine and noticed that he indeed added a new HDD size 5.45 TB even if he's complained about it. I pulled to the top of the virtual machine with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new disk under windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Looks like vClient must be updated by VMware and correct this bug, if it's a bug that I think. Thank you for the help vervoort!

• Add the new hard drive into the data store in ESXi 4.1

  Hi all

  I got ESX 4.1 installed on the Dell server, and I have 3 virtual machines on a data store.

  I added a new 500 GB scsi hard drive to the server,

  and I need to add it to the datasore or create a new...

  How can I see this new hard drive? and add it to the data store?

  Waiting for your help.

  concerning

  Abrams

  Oracle system engineer

  Abrams,

  That's all I can help you.  These instructions are based on the Perc 5 / i controller, which I think you have on our system.  You have not specified the server so I just assumed that this is so.

  1. unscrew the hot spare that you just made.  Follow this link from Dell.
  http://support.Dell.com/support/eDOCS/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapterh.htm#wp1061343

  2 follow the link for the installation of virtual disks - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC5/en/UG/HTML/chapterh.htm#wp1069357

  This link has three steps to void, skip the step on "spare parts of designate hot."
  a. create the virtual disks and select virtual disk options.   -Online steps to create another disk group and add the new disk to the disk group.
  (b) designate the drives hot spares (optional). =>, YOU CAN SKIP THIS STEP
  c. initialize virtual disks. -online must do.  just do not initialize the incorrect disk.

  After the step #2 c, you should be able to access the drive in ESXi or command-line (list of nmp esxcli devices).

  And no, you cannot add this manaully until do you step #2 above which is to define the disk group, creating virtual disks and initialize the virtual disk.

  Good luck.

• Cloning into a subfolder of the data store

  I have a powershell script that creates daily snapshots and clones on Sunday.  I would like to have clones stored in a subfolder on a NFS share.  I can't figure out how to set the data store in a subfolder like "NFS_NAS_SHARED\CLONES".  The following code fails indicating "'NFS_NAS_SHARED\CLONES' is not found, using the specified filters."  Is it possible to have the destination clone as a subfolder of a data store?

  Start-Transcript-Path "C:\VMWare_Scripts\LOGS\SnapshotsTranscript.log".

  #Get the VMware PowerCLI
  Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

  # Import the backup information
  #File layout: MasterVM (vmname), BackupDS (DS to store clone), BackupFolder

  #$backupinfo = import-Csv C:\VMWare_Scripts\Snapshot_backups.csv
  $backupinfo = import-Csv C:\VMWare_Scripts\Snapshot_backups_TESTING.csv

  Date format #Set to name
  $datetime = get-Date-Format "YYYYMMDD-hh: mm".
  $date = get-Date-Format "YYYYMMDD".

  #Connect to vCenter
  SE connect-VIServer "localhost".
  
  #Get the day of the week
  switch ((get-date).dayofweek.toString ())
  {
  Sunday {$dow = "SUN"; break}
  Monday {$dow = 'MY'; break}
  Tuesday {$dow = "KILL"; break}
  Wednesday {$dow = "WED"; break}
  Thursday {$dow = "THU"; break}
  Friday {$dow = "FRI"; break}
  }
  
  {foreach ($customer to $backupinfo)

  $vm is get - VM $customer. MasterVM
  $days = $customer. DaysToKeep
  
  Write-Host $vm. Name
  #Write - Host $days
  
  #Delete snaps more $days
  Get - VM $vm | Get-Snapshot | Where {$_.} Created - lt ((Get-Date).) AddDays(-$days))} | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $false
  
  If ($dow - eq 'MY') {}
  #Create a clone
  
  #Create a new snapshot for cloning
  $cloneSnap = $vm | New-Snapshot - name "clone_snap" - suspend: $true
  
  # Get the managed object display
  $vmView = $vm | Get-View

  # Get the managed folder object reference
  $cloneFolder = $vmView.parent
  
  # Construction specification clone
  $cloneSpec = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  $cloneSpec.Snapshot = $vmView.Snapshot.CurrentSnapshot
  $cloneSpec.Location = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  
  #set the destination clone
  $backupDestination = $customer. BackupDS + $customer. BackupFolder
  $cloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $backupDestination |) Get - View). MoRef
  $cloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $cloneName = "$vm - $datetime".

  # Create clone
  $vmView.CloneVM ($cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec)

  # Write newly created VM to stdout as confirmation
  Get - VM $cloneName

  # Remove snapshot created for clone
  Get-Snapshot - VM (Get - VM $customer. MasterVM) - name $cloneSnap | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $False

  
  }
  else {}
  #Take a snapshot
  New-Snapshot - name $datetime - description "scripted Snap: Snapshots.ps1" - vm $vm - suspend: $true
  }

  }

  VCenter #Disconnect
  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Stop-Transcript

  I'm afraid that the CloneVM_Task method you cannot specify subfolders on a data store.

  He wants a data store and use the displayname property of the virtual machine to create a folder on this data store.

  If you clone a computer virtual called XYZ to the store of data DS1, the clone will be located in the "[DS1] XYZ" folder.

  If you want to move the clone to a different folder, you can use the cmdlet Copy-DatastoreItem thereafter.

• How to make instant consolidation if the data store is out of disk space...

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that has left many of the snapshot files and now can consolidate using the tool (he always said of disk space to make the consolidation)

  The data store have now 60 GB of free space when the space data store maximum disk is 850 GB and the busy VVMM over almost 700 GB of disk space...

  Can I attach a 3 TB USB drive to the ESXi server and move all the files through or another way to do...

  HELP ~ ~

  With the disk space required on drive E, it may be useful to consider an alternative:

  • create a (much smaller) another virtual disk
  • Stop all of the services entering drive E
  • Copy the data from drive E more to the new virtual disk (for example using robocopy)
  • switch drive letters
  • Once everything is working as expected, get rid of the old virtual disk

  This will not only reduce the disk space used on the data store, but also to ensure that the virtual disk cannot grow more.

  André

• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• During remediation instant failure disappear from the Manager, is the data store

  Hi guys

  I was contracted to sort a vSphere 4.1 environment and there are a few VM some with up to 4 snapshots on them and more than a year. I've been rehabilitating some of them already with the "remove all" according to vSphere documentation, and all went very well.

  I just tried to reclaim a more, it only has a single VM disk and a snapshot of what is only a few months old. The remediation process has gone wrong, and I got the following error: ' < unspecified file name > file is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store ' < unspecified datastore > root 25/05/2012 16:20:07 25/05/2012 16:20:07 25/05/2012 16:20:09.

  The data store has a block size of 1 MB and should be able to support up to 256 MB file size and disk of the virtual machine is only 84 GB, real size of snapshots is 77 GB with space set 84 GB service identical to the original size of the virtual machine.

  The server is a box of SQL2008R2, so it is quite important that he does not fail. In addition, the company used to have vCenter installed, but at some point in time ceased it to use it and are now only connect directly to the ESXi hosts themselfes.

  Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? The server seems to be working well, but if you look at the snapshot the Snapshot Manager disappeared, but the files still exist in the data store. I'll make sure that we at this time do not turn off the server.

  I also just found when comparing the .vmx files this virtual machine and another virtual machine that still has old clichés in this regard, the following differences.

  hostCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  hostCPUID.1 = "000206c220200800029ee3ffbfebfbff".
  hostCPUID.80000001 = "0000000000000000000000012c 100800.
  guestCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  guestCPUID.1 = "000206c200010800829822030febfbff".
  guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000128100800".
  userCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  userCPUID.1 = "000206c220200800029822030febfbff".
  userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000128100800".

  That information above, does not exist in the file .vmx for virtual machine that does not have the reclamation of the snapshot.

  Kind regards

  Niels

  OK, let's put it all together:

  ... There's a few VM some with up to 4 snapshots on them and more than a year

  ... The data store has a block size of 1 MB and should be able to support up to 256 GB file size

  ... "The file is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  --> virtual disks _1 and _2 _3 on different data warehouses (MON)

  Think again of what could be the cause of this error message, the only reason why I can think of is that the other virtual disks have been added after taken the snapshot, and at least one of the virtual disks has a size greater than 254 GB. (see "calculates the time required by the snapshot files system" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384)

  When you delete a snapshot with the virtual machine, ESXi creates a ' consolidate snapshot of assistance. " If this snapshot of assistance cannot be created, you will receive this error message. If this is the case you should at least be able to remove the snapshot with the virtual machine off.

  The next question is how to resolve this situation, in order to create snapshots in the future. Well, the best way - where your hardware is supported - would be upgrade to ESXi 5 and VMFS-5, that supports the file sizes of ~ 2 TB size of blocks of 1 MB unified. In the case where an upgrade is not an option you will need to either create smaller virtual disks and migrate/copy data or create new warehouses of data with a block size and migrate virtual disks.

  An alternative to the above mentioned, which adds however complexity to the configuration - potentially redirect snapshots of a store of data with the appropriate block size. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002929

  André