Recovery of a virtual computer from the data after removing inventory store

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  We have an active VM (let's call it VMabcd) and it has exactly the same thing in the data store associated with her... labeled VMDK and VMX files also named VMabcd.   We would like to change the name.   I know that I can rename a virtual computer in vCenter directory but I can also do it in the data store?  What of its vmdk and vmx files?

  to do this if you have vCenter, the simplest method is to make a Storage vMotion of the guest in question.  This will rename all that behind that same as the vCenter object files.  Or you can turn off the virtual machine and making a cold migration to a new data store.

• Cannot download the files of the virtual machine for the data store

  Hello

  I get an error message "connection to the server timed out" while I'm trying to download the files from the virtual computer from the data store.

  Although the ESX and my laptop are on the same network, I get this error message.

  Please let me know if I need to take care of something.

  Thank you.

  I think that hard & .vsmp be used & locked is why you are unable to download it. Try to download the file, whereas the VMs system is turned off

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• How to copy a virtual machine from a data store

  I was trying to speed up my make my VM to an EXSi Server (no used vmotion) test to a new ESX Server by downloading the records of the data bank on the ESXi server to store data on the new ESX Server.  Can someone give me instructions or point me in the direction on how to create a virtual computer from new data warehouses, I can see the new data store but I'm unable to create VMS of him.

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  Browse the data store and find the .vmx file, right-click on it and choose "add to the inventory.

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Method to move the virtual machines in the data store temporary so I can rebuild pool recommended NFS

  Our current data store is a mounting NFS on Nexenta (zfs), which has a pool, I need to rebuild (migration of raidz2 to mirror striped for performance). Initially, I was relying on the judgment of all virtual machines, create a new pool, copy (cp - r) of the Nexenta console all virtual machines to the new pool, recreating the pool mirror and then copy (cp - r) all the data back.

  I have seen several discussions on this topic and seems like the simplest method would be to use the feature to "Migrate" so that the virtual machines are not fragmented. However in some of my pre-test when I copy a virtual machine between the basins of the Nexenta console it appears (from the data store Explorer) to initially create the vmdk provisioned and then once completed it copy looks too thin.

  I hope that I can simply copy the Nexenta console, using the option "Migrate" in vCenter on each of my 40 MV looks like it would be * quite * tedious compared to the simple issuance of an order of 'cp - r' and leave all the copies of VMs (1.5 to) during the night and then adding them to each host.

  Does anyone have experience with this? Or maybe a way to generate scripts easily (?) the option "migrate" in vCenter?

  Thank you all!

  You can select multiple VMs in vCenter regularly using CTRL + click or shift + click and both migrate them as long as they have the same storage destination.  You can also schedule it as a task.    Add manually each computer virtual back in hand is not less painful than migrating individually, anyway.

• When you try to use the repair your computer from the advanced boot option option, it only shows a different user account and my username and password does not work

  Original title: when you try to use the repair your computer from the advanced boot option option

  When you try to use the repair your computer from the menu option options advanced startup, when it comes to the screen to select the user account it shows only a "another" user account and my username and password does not work, and the 'OTHER' this account is not on my list of user accounts... what should I do?

  Hi kennympeek,

  1. why you try to do the Startup Repair?

  You can try to perform the commissioning of repair using the audit and the disk Installation of Windows Vista.

  For estelle information links:

  What are the system recovery options in Windows Vista?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-Vista

  Startup Repair: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/startup-repair-frequently-asked-questions

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• Orchestrator 5.1 REPORT-all the virtual machines in the data center and create a CSV file

  Hello

  What I basically want to do is create a report CSV of all virtual machines in the data center with various information (VMname, domain name FULL, IPaddress, status, data warehouses, tools etc...).  The export list in the client feature is insufficient (especially for any KPI report).

  Problem: (workflow is still under construction so real email send does not not and need to clean the code)

  I am stuck at the part of the creation of a table that can be parsed correctly in the CSV file.  2 ways I've tried will produce a report of single object or combine all of the table into a single string (where I am now).  I think the main problem I have is that I have to create a 2D within my service to push toward the final table that is written to the CSV format.  Basically, I do not understand how to push my variables in a loop of a table.

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  Thank you

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• Local data store has disappeared from the data store window (necessary emergency aid)

  Dear team,

  I m facing a very strange problem, all of a sudden one of the local ESX datastore disappeared thereafter are full details we have encountered/noticed.

  A local data store disappeared from the data store window.able to see this data store to add storage Wizard, which allows us to format the same.

  * If we take a session putty from here we can see and browse this store of data without problem.

  * Virtual computers that are running on this data store work as well (all files are accessible / VM is accessible on the network)

  * Unable to take backup image do error "the object has already been deleted or was not completely created.

  * Not able to take a «cannot complete the copy file... network» clone »

  Getting from newspapers in vmkernel:

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed, the data of sense H:0 x D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 0 valid: 0 x 4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceToken: 293: Sync IO 0 x 28-the device 'mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0' failed: error/o H:0 x D:0 x P:0 x 0 2 0 valid sense data: 0x4 0 44 x 0 x 0.

  (14 dec 17:11:39 localhost vmkernel: 0:01:55:28.677 cpu6:4110) capability3: 5354: Sync READ error ('. fbb.sf') (ioFlags: 8): i/o error

  Need your help urgently to solve the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  

  Dear all,

  We have enclosed a case at VMware, please find their findings on the same.

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  After the webex session, we just had, I discovered the root cause of the problem reported to an underlying problem on the block device (the logical drive, or a problem on the Board) presented to accommodate the data in question store successfully.

  In short, whenever we try to do raw reading from the disk (from sector 0), the same always fail when we reach the 30932992 bytes (31 MB) brand with an IO error (which is consistent, he is always on this region of the disc that read operations fail, no more, no less). This result can be seen, even if no partition is in the disk (using if = / dev/sdb instead of/dev/sdb1 with dd) and even after zeroing on all sectors (if dd \u003d/dev/zero of = / dev/sdb). Strangely, read operations work fine (as he writes zeros of random data) throughout the entire disk. Keep in mind that the tests I did with no VMware tools (I used almost only dd for these operations), which prohibits certainly a VMware problem (in fact, if you were to try to start the server with a Linux live CD and run the same tests that I did, you would see the same behavior).

  I know that there is no report of material of any bad behavior on the table, but data collected with our tests today completely invalid who. The next step is for you to take this to the server provider to check for problems on the table or discs, because they are there and they are the reason for the problem you reported initially.

  Please let me know if you have other questions about it.

  Thank you

  -

  David Meireles

  Technical Support Engineer

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  Now we have blocked a case from the hardware vendor, to see what the next move will be.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

• Determine the maximum use of the processor for a virtual computer in the custom user interface

  I want to determine the maximum use of the processor for a virtual computer in the custom user interface.  How can I do this?

  If I use a supermetric, there is no kind of attribute under CPU called "maximum use.

  Certainly, you get points for a long question! Although to be fair, it's probably my fault to feed you so much information to digest at once.

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  2. There are a lot of ways to display data, but if you want to display a single metric over a period of time, we could use the following widgets [on top of my head]:

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  3. you can have it apply to several virtual machines - it's just a widget capable of being an independent provider or receiving widget (metrics, DO NOT choose to select resources). Each resource/metric will add to the widget and you can remove them if you like after it is added. You can certainly all the time you visit... It is date and time standard options you have in all the other widgets chart. With the widget data distribution, you want as much time as possible to get an accurate histogram of the cycles of workload.

  4. This is similar to the question above. You can certainly add parameters of individual resource or a DM that summarizes or AVG groups of resources. And as above, the delay is configurable, along with the other graph widgets.

  5. it's part of Q4 - you can sumN or avgN up to any number of resources with a SM, then discovers that SM in the widget of data distribution. When I said container, I mean an application, group resource pool... all that acts as a container parent within the vCOps.

  6. that's correct, SMs calc using data collected last points... aka single period of time. When you are referring to the longest period, I gave you a few examples of the attributes that are composed of several periods of time which are calculated and created by the adapter for VMware vCenter behvaior. In this case, you have the GVA 15 min CPU 1.5; These specific simple mobile GVA can be specific OR a copy using SMs. Next, you will have the chance is to find a way to distribute what you need through a widget [at that time].

  7. the distribution of data is not for export, it is for Visual functions. If you want the data in CSV, just use a typical chart of metrics and export to a csv and calc your own pics, avg, 95th, whatever.

  8. This is a bit of a mix of all your questions, put in place.

  You are right, if you added those 3 VMs, then calc was the 95th of the AVG. Like Q7, you would not export the data of the distribution of data because the raw data points are not - you do not pass the metric to a metric graphics standard and export via csv.

  Take advantage of...

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  Hello

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  I checked the Snapshot Manager, but was not able to locate snapshots in it, but at the same time there were three snapshots in particular virtual machine data store. What it means?

  And what is my isNativeSnapshot = 'no'?

  I just doubt. Can shapshots be deleted directly from the data store.

  No, snapshots work as a string. Deletion of one of the links in the chain breaks the chain. Please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 to see how snapshots work.

  I checked the Snapshot Manager, but was not able to locate snapshots in it, but at the same time there were three snapshots in particular virtual machine data store. What it means?

  Information about snapshots are kept in .vmsd the virtual machine folder. If this file is corrupt - for some reason-you won't see the correct string snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.

  Please create a list of all files in the folder of the virtual machine (dir *. * /oen > filelist.txt (for Windows) or ls-lisa > filelist.txt (for Linux)) and after (tie) the filelist.txt, file .vmx VM as well as the file .vmsd for your next post.

  André

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  I know how to get the virtual machine to connect to start for the host's cd drive.  But it seems I have to first of all power on the virtual machine, and then connect the client drive - and at this time, it will be too late.

  Report from the boot of 5 s after powering did not connect the CD from client to the virtual computer for 5 seconds pause - connection was grey until the virtual machine launched at startup.

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• My computer from the Start button does not respond

  Original title: my computer from the Start button is (no response), it shows nothing... no ductwork is.

  I am running Vista and when I go into my computer from the Start button it says (not responding) and does not show its readers just a big blank page. I do not have a shortcut on the desktop. He's NEVER done this before. I had internet Explorer (not answer) before but never my 'computer '! What would cause this?

  Hello

  1. Since when you are facing this problem?
  2. don't you make changes before the show?
  3 is the other shortcuts in button start doesn't work very well?
  4. have you run a virus scan?

  5. what happens when you type explorer.exe in the start search box and press enter?
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  Method 1:
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  Use the (SFC.exe) System File Checker tool to determine which file is causing the problem and then replace the file.  You can check the link:

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  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer

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  Pretty sure this will do what you need:

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  If you only want to shared data warehouses you can then use

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  Hope this helps