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• Ghost in a data store VMs

  Hello;

  I need to remove a database on my ESXi 5.5 HA/DRS cluster due to storage issues.

  VCenter watch 3 VMs running in the data store but it is not a correct information. Vcenter also shows that space 0 B used for each virtual computer. So vcenter won't let me not disassemble the data store. When I look at the parameters of each virtual computer, these virtual machines running in a different data store.

  When I try svmotion, it says completed successfully but VMs are still stuck in the data store.

  Can I turn off all 3 VMs, remove/remove datastore and turn on those virtual machines, but I find that it is so risky. Because these virtual machines are essential and hundreds of GB.

  How can I remove the data safely store?

  Thanks and greetings

  Tirelibirefe

  First of all, check if one of those VMS have any ISO mounted this data store... and even if it there is no ISO standard not mounted, check if there is place of the snapshot on the virtual machines and delete them, cause maybe the ISO was mounted when the snapshot was taken.

• Issue of reports of data store

  Looking for a fairly simple report... I've seen reports that do what I want, but I don't have the knowledge to assemble them.

  You are looking for the following information:

  Name of data store - free space (in GB if possible) - number of virtual machines on the data store

  I found this to get the number of virtual machines on the data store:

  Get-Datastore. Sort-Object Name. Get-View | Format-Table @{Label = "Data store name"; {Expression = {$_.Info.Name}}, @{Label = 'Number of virtual machines'; Expression = {$_.} UM length}}

  That works, but I need to add a column free space.

  FreeSpace is stored in the. Property of Info.FreeSpace.

  Just add another column as

  @{Label = "FreeSpaceGB"; Expression={$_.info.FreeSpace/1gb}}

  To put it all together:

  Get-Datastore

   

   

  | Sort-Object Name | Get-View | Format-Table @{Label = "Data store name"; {Expression = {$_.Info.Name}}, @{Label = 'Number of virtual machines'; Expression = {$_.} UM length}}, @{Label = "FreeSpaceGB"; Expression={$_.info.FreeSpace/1gb}}

  See you soon,.

  Arnim

• Device problem using data store

  I have a 6.3 TB RAID system that ESXi 4.0 can identify as capacity.

  But when creating the data store it uses only 370 GB of it.

  Do I did wrong?

  

  

  

  

  Welcome to the Forums - it is a very common error - ESX and ESXi cannot recognize or use the sotrage 2 TB or less, so you will need to cut the 6 + TB LUN in less than 2 TB LUN

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• I have to put the inventory data store VMs

  I have a list of data store 5 (datastore1, datastore2,... datastore5). in this, I need to save all the .vmx to inventory files... If need a powercli script.

  Please take a look at http://www.lucd.info/2011/08/11/vmx-raiders-revisited/ to see if that helps.

  André

• Reports of data using powercli store

  Hi all

  How can we get reports of data store using commands Powercli?

  Please suggest

  Thank you

  Arvin

  Well, there are basically the cmdlet Get - data store to do so.

  For example

  Get-Datastore. Select Name, CapacityMB

  But what are the properties of the data warehouse you want to see in your report?

• Replacement of a data store - migration of virtual machines

  We have a VMware ESXi 4.0 installed on a SD card and our data store is on a dedicated internal RAID array. Our data store is running out of space... what we would do is remove the old hard drives and add new - therefore, delete and re-create the matrix RAID and the data store.

  What is the best way to migrate our existing data store / VMs from the old array to a new one using vSphere or vSphere CLI? How we then re - associate VMs on the SD card with the new data store? Advice would be appreciated. Thank you very much.

  Hello

  Looks like it's a single ESXi host.

  You will need to copy/save all the contents of the data store existing to another location (external HARD drive) while all virtual machines are closed.

  Once it's done and you are sure that the copied data are intact, you can:

  -remove all virtual machines of the inventory

  -remove the data store

  -Stop the host

  -replace the HARD drive with the new

  -Launch the host and to reconfigure the new raid

  -Create the new data store in ESXi

  Copy/restore all data to the new data store

  -Browse the data store and add all the virtual machines to the inventory (create a list to make sure you get all the)

  -Start the virtual machines

  May be a good time to do an upgrade of ESXi5 as well

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• Report on the use of data store based on cluster (not data center)

  Hello

  I want to create separate HTML reports for each cluster I have in my virtual Center. I've created a script, but it doesn't seem to work. This script creates outputs separated from HTML based on clusters, but all the files have the same data, i.e. all data that are available in the Vcenter stores. How can I separate them with regard to the cluster in which they are assigned to the place?

  ===========================================================

  # Functions for math operations.

  usedspace {} function

  Param ($datastore)

  [math]: round (($datastore.)) CapacityMB - $datastore. (FreeSpaceMB) / 1024,2)

  }

  function dscapacity {}

  Param ($datastore)

  [math]: Round ($datastore. CapacityMB/1024,2)

  }

  freespace {} function

  Param ($datastore)

  [math]: Round ($datastore. FreeSpaceMB/1024,2)

  }

  function {percentage

  Param ($datastore)

  [math]: Round ((($datastore.)) FreeSpaceMB/1024) /($datastore.) CapacityMB/1024) * 100) / 1.2)

  }

  #Connect to Vcenter

  to connect-viserver-Server < myservername >

  # CSS stylesheet

  $a = '< style >.

  $a = $a + "BODY {background-color: Gainsboro ;}}.

  $a = $a + "TABLE {border-width: 1px;}. border-style: solid; border-color: black; border-collapse: collapse ;} »

  $a = $a + "TH {border-width: 1px;}. padding: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: black; "{background-color: Blue}".

  $a = $a + "TD {border-width: 1px;}. padding: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: black; "{background-color: PaleTurquoise}.

  $a = $a + ' * {do-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, without serif;} '. font size: small ;} »

  $a = $a + ' < / style >.

  # get a list of clusters

  $clusters = get-cluster

  # Create HTML report for each cluster

  foreach ($cluster in $clusters)

  {

  $datastores = get-Datastore. where {$_.name - notcontains 'local'} | Sort the name

  $Report = @)

  {ForEach ($datastore to $datastores)

  $row = "" | Select-object Datastore, Datacenter, CapacityGB, UsedGB, FreeSpaceGB, PercentFree

  $row. Data store is $datastore. Name

  $row. Datacenter = $datastore. Data Center

  $row. CapacityGB = dscapacity $datastore

  $row. UsedGB = usedspace $datastore

  $row. FreeSpaceGB = freespace $datastore

  $row. PercentFree = % $datastore

  $Report += $row

  }

  $Report | Tri-objet-property PercentFree | ConvertTo-Html-head $a | Set-Content "D:\VMware\Scripts\Reports\Storage\$cluster.html".

  }

  ===============================================================

  To recover the cluster data warehouses, you must change the line:

  $datastores = get-Datastore. where {$_.name - notcontains 'local'} | Sort the name

  in:

  $datastores = $cluster | Get-Datastore. where {$_.name - notcontains 'local'} | Sort the name

• Use the error report data store capacity

  Hello world

  When I try to get the report for a capacity of data store, I got an error like home but he had no explanation for the error.

  Does anyone know why I get this error? I've updated vCOps from 5.0.3 to 5.6. Maybe it has to do something with that.

  Thank you in advance.

  Thanks for the replies;

  I mean by object parent exactly your situation - this is the under(inside?) folder.

  If you can, try to move a data store on the file and reports should work for it.

  in any case, it is a known problem that will be fixed in the next version of update.

• vCenter showing this vm in two data stores (a used display 0.00 B of 12.66 GB space)

  I have a couple of VMs that according to vCenter are present in multiple data stores. In all cases a data store would be showing 0.00 B of xx.xx GB used space.

  

  Is there a way to fix this? All I can think is that at some point the virtual machine could have migrated from one to another data store. It's never been renamed; Among the stores of data has no file like below...

  vCenter 5.5.0 2183111

  ESXi 5.5.0 2456374

  last vm compatibility of equipment and tools.

  What is visible on the page summary for the virtual machine:

  

  But if you look at the two warehouses of data - the virtual machine is present in the data store 4:

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore4/dc1

  Total 13286440

  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4480 25 Mar 08:34.

  drwxr-xr-t 1 root root Mar 23 1820 10:17...

  -rw - 1 root root 134344704 6 March 18:42 dc1-000001 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 310 6 Mar 18:38 dc1 - 000001.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 1895952384 24 March 15:16 dc1-000002 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 343 24 March 15:03 dc1 - 000002.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 50458624 25 March 09:14 dc1-000003 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - 000003.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 16904192 24 March 15:17 dc1-000004 - delta.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 317 24 March 15:17 dc1 - 000004.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 28969 6 Mar 12:35 dc1 - Snapshot1.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 29000 6 Mar 18:47 dc1 - Snapshot2.vmsn

  -rw - 1 root root 32015 24 March 15:17 dc1 - Snapshot3.vmsn

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 120 24 March 15:17 dc1 - to the .xml

  -rw - 1 root root 2147483648 25 Mar 08:34 dc1 - bbbf052e.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 64424509440 6 March 12:35 dc1 - flat hard

  -rwx - 1 root root 290136 24 March 15:17 dc1 - vss_manifests3.zip

  -rw - 1 root root 8684 Mar 25 08:35 dc1.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 540 6 Mar 11:01 dc1.vmdk

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 24 Mar 1245 15:17 dc1.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3536 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 0 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx.lck

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 3258 24 March 15:17 dc1.vmxf

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3535 25 Mar 08:34 dc1.vmx ~.

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 554141 6 March 12:35 vmware - 3.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 225262 6 March 18:36 4.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 160708 6 Mar 18:42 vmware - 5.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 219307 Mar 16 11:21 6.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 245326 24 March 15:17 7.log - vmware

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 214032 24 March 16:19 vmware - 8.log

  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 192487 Mar 25 08:35 vmware.log

  -rw - 1 root root 114294784 25 March 08:34 vmx-dc1-3149858094 - 1.vswp

  data store 3 has nothing and I am sure that this virtual machine was never renamed etc.

  ~ # ls - the/vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1

  LS: / vmfs/volumes/ESXi1-datastore3/dc1: no such file or directory

  Your virtual machine based on the list of files, runs from snapshot and maybe the State of the virtual machine before taking the snapshot has been using the ISO on the old data store. If you can, try to remove the snapshot and the reference to the old data store will be deleted.

• Data store sizes do not correspond to the sizes used all the vm

  Hey guys, I'm new in Vmware and I have a background of storage and I wonder if its correct what I see when I compare the total size of all the stores of data vs the 'space used' totals of all VMs running on these data stores.

  I see a total of 139 to on data warehouses with 33 to free space and when I add the vm used all space I have a totall TB 138. It's the size of all data stores!

  This seems not very accurate for me, I expect the total space used much lower. All the vm uses eager reset thick space.

  I hope someone can explain or confirm that they see similar things?

  For used space I exported the list of all the vm XL, cut in two the column space to separate the numbers from the gb / tb, changed all amounts of GB space and have XL add up the sum of all spaces.

  Hey MKguy, it was indeed your option 1, the RDM

  a command simple cli: Get - VM | Get-hard drive - Disktype "RawPhysical", "RawVirtual" | Select name, DiskType, ScsicannonicalName, DeviceName, Parent, CapacityGB

  has given numbers for all of the ROW and that's the difference between data warehouses, I have seen and all the used vm space :-)

  Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

• Data store report with NFS export pathname specification

  Hi all I created a report with the SCSI LUN ID and NFS export path specification data store.

  But I have no idea of the NFS export the path of a query data store. Can you help me in the following script?

  $report = @)

  $VMHost = get-VMHost-location

  $cluster foreach ($cluster Get-cluster) {}

  (Get-Datastore - VMHost $VMHost | where {$_.}) Type - eq "VMFS"}) | %{

  $info = "" | Select Center data, Cluster, name, capacity, put in service, available, DSType, State, Monday, NFSPath

  $info. Datacenter = $_. Data Center

  $info. Cluster = $cluster. Name

  $info. Name = $_. Name

  $info. Capacity = [math]: Round($_.capacityMB/1024,2)

  $info. Put into service = [math]: Round (($_.)) ExtensionData.Summary.Capacity - $_. ExtensionData.Summary.FreeSpace + $_. ExtensionData.Summary.Uncommitted)/1GB,2)

  $info. Available = [math]: round ($info. Capacity - $info. Put into service, 2)

  $info. DSType = $_. Type

  $info. State = $_. State

  $info. Monday = Get-ScsiLun - Datastore $_

  $info. NFSPath = "n/a".

  $report += $info

  }

  (Get-Datastore - VMHost $VMHost | where {$_.}) Type - eq 'NFS'}) | %{

  $info = "" | Select Center data, Cluster, name, capacity, put in service, available, DSType, State, Monday, NFSPath

  $info. Datacenter = $_. Data Center

  $info. Cluster = $cluster. Name

  $info. Name = $_. Name

  $info. Capacity = [math]: Round($_.capacityMB/1024,2)

  $info. Put into service = [math]: Round (($_.)) ExtensionData.Summary.Capacity - $_. ExtensionData.Summary.FreeSpace + $_. ExtensionData.Summary.Uncommitted)/1GB,2)

  $info. Available = [math]: round ($info. Capacity - $info. Put into service, 2)

  $info. DSType = $_. Type

  $info. State = $_. State

  $info. Monday = "n/a".

  $info. NFSPath = "I don't know".

  $report += $info

  }

  Thank you.

  You can use the attributes RemoteHost and RemotePath of the data store to get the path in any format you want.

  e.g. $info. NFSPath = "$($_.)". RemoteHost) :/ $($_.) RemotePath).

• Create a custom attribute to model the growth rate of the data store used space

  I would like to see data warehouses are growing fastest of the environment in terms of GB per day or something similar.  Is it possible to use a custom attribute to apply a formula that measures the rate of growth of a store of data over time, which allows me to see what data stores fastest?

  You would look for an average simple mobile for a SM you describe. vC Ops does not simple moving average formulas for SMs at this time.

  Looks like you are looking for a "growth rate", but you really won't get it with the built-in attributes. You might look differently and look at the remaining capacity and the remaining time metric. Also, you could create additional widgets to view graphs of util % over the last 30-90 days to give a better picture of usage in GB, #VMs, etc.

  I also suggest to make a Top - N showing use the lowest of the remaining time metric and the remaining ability... This will give you your data warehouses that are more at risk.

• Can I use a NAS as a remote data store

  I currently have 5 cisco ucs esxi hosts to my main place. I'm looking to get rid of the old servers to each smaller branch location. I was wondering if I could put a NAS at each branch and use the NAS to connect its main location esxi hosts remotely and use it as a data store.

  -Main branch therefore has all esxi hosts

  -Remote sites (10 of them, a few miles) place a NAS that will be the data to the site store.

  -L' idea is to keep the user data at each remote site and didn't browse the EXTENDED network

  If so, of the recommendations on a NAS?

  Welcome to the community - is that you're looking to virtualize servers of your remote sites - if you were to store virtual machines in remote offices you will be magnifying the amount of data flowing through the WAN connections - I store the VMs remote offices in the same location as the ESXi server that will host virtual machines

• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André