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• Going from raw devices to ASMLib

  Hello, I decided to migrate from raw devices of ASMlib (Oracle 10.2.0.5, RHEL5). Seems to be that this is not a trivial task. Having 2 ocr, 3 voting and 1 data, all mapped as/dev/raw/rawX partititons.

  Thus, base of data of shutdown, and then click stop the ASM instance, after this attempt to run:

  /etc/init.d/oracleasm force-renamedisk/dev/sdb1 OCR1 (so this is a first disc OCR, which is now linked to/dev/raw/raw1), but still get an error:

  Rename the disk ' / dev/sdb1 ' to "OCR1": [FAILURE]

  Any ideas, what is the problem?

  
  

  Is NOT supported to install files Oracle Clusterware (Oracle Cluster registry) and the files on disc with right to vote in groups of disks ASM Oracle 11.1 and prerequisites.

  Is supported for install files Oracle Clusterware (Oracle Cluster registry) and voting disk files in Oracle 11.2 ASM disk groups and above.

  Just it.

  Check installation Docs from its release:

  Storage of General Considerations for Oracle Clusterware

• How to find the logic of a RAW device unit ID-number

  Hello

  I am trying to create a workflow that will give me information about a virtual machine:

  • RAM
    
  • CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
    
  • Disk configuration
    
    • Size, SCSI Bus
      
    • ..
      

  My problem is to understand the LUN ID to a RAW device in a virtual computer.

  I think, a RAW device is listed as the VcVirtualDisk type too?

  Anyone know how to determine the LUN ID of a RAW device?

  Thank you

  Marc

  Hello!

  This should help you:

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/2012069

  See you soon,.

  Joerg

• How to migrate VM from\TO Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (data store)

  Hi all

  I have aske on the migration of VM from\TO Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (data store)?

  Thank you all for your support

  If you are using vSphere 5, then you can SvMotion the VM attached to a RDM (physical or virtual) with no problems. This means that only RDM mapping file will be moved to another data store without any conversion of changes on the real disc of RDM.

  Note: Do not attempt to change the format of disc thin or thick, which would cause the RDM disk converter for virtual disk.

  More info here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/migrating-rdms-and-a-question-for-rdm-users.html

  If vSphere 4.x is used, hot and then migrate the virtual machine to another store of data will not change the format of the ROW, only mapping file will be moved. This is true for virtual and physical RDM.

  However, the cold migrate the virtual machine to another Datatore will change the ROW to virtual disk format.

  HTH... Let me know if you have any questions...

• RAW Device mapping (RDM)

  OLA,

  Tenho o seguinte caso, 2 LUNS of 1.5 t apresentado para 3 guests. vMotion, HA, DRS, São os recursos than serao band data recovery.

  Disponibilizar uma LUN only preciso para uma VM, para ser minha application data base.

  Awesoe than este caso e conhecido como Raw Device Mappings (RDMS).

  Docks os problemas posso ter tendo em vista meus recursos citados para terms.

  Shivers?

  Very docks series os pros and contras?

  Obrigado

  Te svetila a sober tudo ler na documentacao oficial:

  MAS básicamente, os benefits e voce tem uma superior performance using RDM ao VMDK investment, isso e bom para fileserver large por exemplo. Contact a benefits, vai dpender to voce vai use em or virtual physical compatibility mode.

  Boa sort

  Sober Raw Device

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-4-ESXi-installable-vCenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.vSphere.esxi_server_config.doc_41/esx_server_config/raw_device_mapping/c_limitations_of_raw_device_mapping.html

  Benefits

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-4-ESXi-installable-vCenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.vSphere.esxi_server_config.doc_41/esx_server_config/raw_device_mapping/c_limitations_of_raw_device_mapping.html

  Limitacoes

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-4-ESXi-installable-vCenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.vSphere.esxi_server_config.doc_41/esx_server_config/raw_device_mapping/c_limitations_of_raw_device_mapping.html

• VM cloning with raw device mapped drive

  Hey people... need help.

  I have a virtual machine that lives on a 500 GB Lun. The virtual machine has a C: drive of 60 GB (OS) and a 1.5 TB Raw Device Mapped LUN.

  My problem is I'm trying to clone this machine to have a backup of it. However when I try to clone a 500 GB or even 1 TB data store it says that I don't have enough space to do. I went and removed the RDM 1.5 TB LUN in cloning options so that it would only clone the C: drive. Still the same message.

  Also I noticed that the data of 500 GB store the VM currently living has a hard 1.5 to file which I assume is the Raw Device mapped LUN. Why this creates a file if it is mapped SAN. How she even to create a file of 1.5 TB on a 500 GB data store?

  Certainly, this seems to be the reason.  Instead of a clone, use vmware converter standalone and treat the VM as a physical server.  That should allow you to continue.  If nothing else, you can 'remove' the raw device of the VM, clone and then add the raw device to the original.  Converter should work well.

  vExpert

  VMware communities moderator

  vmwise.com / @vmwise

  -KjB

• Cannot add Raw Device Mapping as hard drive

  Hello

  We have 2 Server 2008 Virtual Machines (which are clustered) that make up a Cluster 2 node x.  The ESX servers that organize these VMs (ESX Server different on each) are connected to a San.  When I place these two VMs, I could add a hard drive "Raw Device Mapping" without problem - he could see data warehouses, I had Setup on the SAN.  However when I try to add a hard drive "Raw Device Mapping" on the 2 new virtual machines, the only options I have are:

  -Create a new virtual disk

  -Use an existing virtual disk

  Any ideas why Raw Device Mappings is greyed out?

  You add the second node RDM disk by selecting "use an existing virtual disk".  The ability to add RAW devices is only available for RAW LUN which has already been mapped to a virtual machine.

  When you add the ROW to the first node, a mapping for the RDM vmdk file was created. It's that developed from the second node.

  See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617 for more details.

  André

• Boot partition of windows 7 64 bit as RAW device in VMware workstation 7.1

  My setup is a laptop to dualboot Lenovo W510 with Windows 7 64 bit on a 200Gig partition and Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze on partition of 100Gig. I've got workstation 7.1 installed on Linux and it works very well for virtual machines. The hard drive is a SATA.

  I'm trying to start the 64-bit Windows 7 as RAW device partition. After different assignment on this forum as well as on the web, I had gathered that I needed to change the entries from scsi to ide in the .vmx and too hard. Even with these changes, I get a BSOD 7 b error when starting windows VM. Previously, I had been able to do it on a Lenovo T400, with exactly the same Setup to dual-boot.

  I also read a KB that SATA is not supported as a CRUDE device. Linux guests see the SATA as SCSI device.

  Anyone has the fresh ideas on this or have met and solved this problem?

  I stick it on my site: http://sanbarrow.com/p2v2008r2.html#patching

  It shows how to configure the vmx file and how to fix the 7B...

  Patching - easy Variant

  This procedure is used when otherwise the VM would start in a kind of bluescreen 7B.

  This means that VMware is the target and that you configure the computer virtual with VirtualHardware type 7.

  It applies only if the virtual disk is configured like this

  scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068".

  scsi0:0. FileName = "imported.vmdk".

  On the platform target start the virtual machine, newly created in the Windows 7 recovery CD.

  After the initialization is complete, click CMD and run regedit.

  Select HKLM, then Menu > file > load hive.

  Navigate to the Windows directory on the virtualdisk > system32\config and select the file SYSTEM.

  When asked for a name enter p2v.

  Then find the key

  HKLM\p2v\ControlSet001\services\LSI_SAS

  and the startup type of the REG_DWORD value 0

  Select HKLM\p2v, and then click Menu > file > unload hive.

  You can now close regedit and restart.

  The next time you start, you can start in the 2008 R2 or Win7 system. He should find the drivers and probably need to reboot when finished.

  _________________________

  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• HP EVA4400 + ESX 3.5.0 + discs Windows 2003 Raw Device Mapping

  Hi all

  I'm testing a configuration to help:

  • HP EVA 4400

  • ESX 3.5

  • Blade HP c-class

  Verification of compatibility EVA4400 on-site HP Spock, I found this note in the section Notes General Guest OS (1): "(7) Raw Device Mapping is not supported on Windows 2003 Guest Operating System load."

  I would use snapshot EVA (BC) to a Windows 2003 Server (not R2) for backup.

  In the VMware HCL, I have not found confirmation of this note.

  1. does anyone know if the note concerned only W2K3 or same W2K3 R2?

  2. "is there anybody out there" who uses this configuration? EVA4400 is: + W2K3 in ESX 3.5 + RDM + instant. Any problem?

  Thank you very much

  Max

  The restriction was lifted (don't know why he never existed - perhaps no trial):

  Release notes for HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (XCS 09006000)

  Reference number: 5697-7997, second edition: January 2009

  * Configuration of VMware for the raw device mapping details

  RAW Device Mapping only is not supported with Windows 2003 Machine virtual guest operating system and versions prior to version ESX 3.5.0.

• RAW device to the virtual disk migration

  When trying to cold migrate a raw disk device VM of EVA Storage to a virtual disk in a DS8100 it fails with the following message: "incompatible device backup specified for device ´0´" the size of the LUN is Go 510 and appaers message when 100% is full 3 hours laters. I set the block size 2 Mb in the data store, but when I try to migrate a RAw of 100 GB on the same VM migration works very well and I use the new virtual disk without problems.

  This could be a problem with the maximum of storage migration?

  Could you tell me if you know another way to migrate this raw device on the virtual disk?

  TKS!

  Have you tried VMware Converter inside the guest who has the backend RDM?

  Jase McCarty

  http://www.jasemccarty.com

  Co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the virtual data center

  (ISBN:1420070274) Auerbach

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• VM 2 not clustered for a raw device mapping

  Hi, I'm new in the world of VMWare. I watch discussions related to this issue, but the only one I met was on "more than a vm in the group for access to the raw device mapping drive". In this thread, we had to change the vmfs to a shared access mode.

  My question is:

  I want to have 2 vm with the same raw disk bound, but only one of them is going to power. This virtual machine (it is power on) will work with the raw disk (data base), while the other virtual machine is turned off. In the case of the first vm failed, I disabled this virtual machine and turn on the virtual machine second. This second vm start working with the database in the raw disk. How can I do this? Is necessary how to access shared for this problem?

  I hope you understand me with my poor English.

  Thank you very much.

  What you want to do is simple, you do not need to use shared mode. Probably the best way to achieve your goal is to build your first virtual machine and get it all set up and then remove (do not remove) the RDM and the clone to the virtual machine. This will result in two virtual machines with the same host name and the same SID (assuming Windows here) - two IDENTICAL systems. Power on each virtual machine in turn (only lit at the time) and add the ROW as an existing drive. As long as one virtual machine is running at the same time, there will be no problem.

  HTH,

  KLC

  Ken Cline

  Technical Director, virtualization

  Wells Landers

  TVAR Solutions, a company of the Wells Landers group

  VMware communities user moderator

• Oracle 11g Release 2 assumption of raw devices to the CCR

  Hi I need one of my db migrate to 10.2.0.3 for 11g release 2
  now, I got to know that there are some problems with raw devices in oracle 11g R2 rac
  so I want the suggestions of experts
  Thanks in advance

  If you are upgrading a database in place (i.e. without reconstruction, without import-export), Oracle has no other choice than to support the application of raw device.
  However, when you install the Clusterware 11.2 it cannot be installed on raw devices - one is not supported!

  Oracle Support Document ID 578455.1 ' announcement of of-Support devices version 12 G GROSS ' announces support to 12 g.

  Hemant K Collette

• Impossible to safely remove external USB HDD - ejection of mass storage device problem

  Hello

  I have a 250 toshiba external hard drive. "When I go safely remove device and click on stop, guests me that ' ejection of mass storage device problem and try later.

  Is there a reason for this? As I have heard it is dangerous to pull the cord without stopping it first.

  This happens usually when something is always access to the USB - HDD.
  Yes, it s dangerous to pull on the cable, because you can lose some data and the file system may be damaged. But if you have a situation where you need the drive to take with you and want to just get out the cable to the USB port there is a little trick to disconnect the security apparatus:

  Do right click on 'My Computer'-> click on Hardware-> click "devicemanager"-> go into "diskdrives"-> then you need to click on the drive that is your USB - HDD-> with the right button and then click on 'Properties'-> in the menu properties of this drive, you must go on "policies" and click on "optimize for quick removal"-> and then click OK and exit this menu and all-> perform a reboot-> closing information fact. :)

  After that, it s safe for remove you your drive even if it s not ejected. :)

  Welcome them

• Peripheral Audio USB-Mulit-channel has a driver problem and PnP device problem.

  I try to use the blue ice pre - amp for recording. Under channel-Mulit-USB Audio Device, device status, it displays "this device cannot start. (Code 10) "once I start the troubleshooting process it shows that even after reinstalling the driver it still does not work and that there is a problem with the device PnP I already tried to uninstall the driver and restart my laptop to let windows try again but nothing works.  Please help D:! Thank you all very much! :]
  -Kyle

  Hello

  1. is this problem limited with a specific USB device?

  2. it worked before?

  3. using this unit for the first time on this computer?

  4. the other USB devices work properly?

  Method 1: Run the troubleshooter and see if it helps.

  Open the hardware and devices Troubleshooter

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter

  Method 2:

  The Code 10 error applies mainly to the problems of hardware driver and devices or compatibility problems between the drivers of equipment and additional software that is installed in Windows. Therefore, we recommend that solve you these problems with emphasis on device drivers, configuration of device problems and hardware compatibility issues. You may need to update the chipset drivers and the USB controller

  Follow the given article below for more information.

  Description of errors related to the 10 Code that generates the Device Manager in Windows on computers

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/943104

  In addition, update the driver from the manufacturer's Web site and see if it helps.

  Method 3: Uninstall and reinstall the USB drivers and check if the problem persists

  1 disconnect all USB devices except the USB keyboard and mouse.

  2. click on start and type device manager in the start search box and press ENTER.
  3. Select the Device Manager and a pop-up window will Device Manager.
  4. click the + on controllers USB Bus to develop it.
  5. right click on all controllers USB and USB Root Hub that is listed, and select uninstall.
  6. restart the computer.
  7. plug in the appliance and check if it works.
   
   
   
   
  I hope this helps.

• External device problem - "YOU NEED of PERMISSION to PERFORM THIS ADMINISTRATIVE TASK" & after I click 'YES' it says "DESTINATION FOLDER ACCESS IS DENIED."

  Original title: external device problem

  Whenever I connect any external devices like pen drive & sdcard, I can't write anything in them, that they are not protected in writing! But I can copy things from them, but I can not cut & paste anything on their part in my system. I can only copy & paste. Whenever I try to write anything he says 'YOU NEED of PERMISSION to PERFORM THIS ADMINISTRATIVE TASK' & after I click 'YES' it says "DESTINATION FOLDER ACCESS IS DENIED." When I tried to format these devices, he says "YOU do not HAVE ENOUGH PERMISSION to PERFORM THIS OPERATION".

  Please help me!

  Sriram salvation,

  Have you tried the suggestions in the previous answer?

  I suggest you to disable the antivirus application and check the status of the issue. Refer to the following steps:

  a: you should see an icon for your Antivirus program in the taskbar notification area. It is usually at the bottom right of your desktop.

  b. click the third-party security software, you will see a pop up.

  (c) in this pop and select the option to disable, click on it.

  d. now third-party security software will be disabled.

  Note: Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you should not disable your antivirus software. If you need to disable temporarily to install other software, you must reactivate as soon as you are finished. If you are connected to the Internet or a network, while your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attacks.

  Please let us know if you need assistance.