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• Powershell scripts need to collect info ESX storage

  Hello

  I need three scripts to collect information from ESX storage as shown below

  1. information on the hardware-storage & gt; to collect information on the SCSI controller and HBA cards.

  ESX name | | SCSI controller HBA1 | HBA2

  Expected results

  ESX name | SCSI (model, Bios version, serial number, Raid config) | HBA1 (model, Firmware version, serial number, WWPN) | HBA2 (model, Firmware version, serial number, WWPN)

  Note: Need info on all controllers SCSI and HBA in the ESX box, so additional columns may be added as required.

  2. report on the use of storage - & gt; Usage report storage including local file system storage and SAN devices.

  ESX name | | File system Size | Opportunity | DISP | Use% | Mount point | Scopes

  Note: Need of all sizes in the UK. Extensions are applicable to data SAN storage and just the DiskID measure as vmhba1:1:1

  3 San disk information - & gt; To collect information on San Disk

  Disc ID | Lun ID | Size of the disk | Brand/model | Paths | Policy |     Active HBA WWPN

  Expected results

  vmhba1:1:1 | 0110 | 130 G | EMCxxxx | 4 | Fixed | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  There was an error, you cannot delete items from a hash table by looping through the values.

  Try this one (it works for me).

  $nrMax = 10
  $taskHash = @{}
  
  Get-Cluster  | Get-VM | %{
    $spec = new-object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec;
    $spec.cpuAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo;
    $spec.cpuAllocation.Shares = New-Object VMware.Vim.SharesInfo;
    $spec.cpuAllocation.Shares.Level = "Normal";
    $spec.cpuAllocation.Limit = -1;
    $spec.cpuAllocation.Reservation = 0;
    $task = Get-View ($_.Extensiondata.ReconfigVM_Task($spec))
    $taskHash[$task.Info.Key] = $task
    while($taskHash.Count -eq $nrMax){
          $toBeRemoved = @()
          foreach($task in $taskHash.Values){
              $task.UpdateViewData()
              if("success","error" -contains $task.Info.State){
                  $toBeRemoved += $task.Info.Key
              }
          }
          $toBeRemoved | %{
               $taskHash.Remove($_)
          }
    }
  }
  

• iSCSI as shared media storage?

  I was wondering if anyone had here a few thoughts about the use of iSCSI as shared media storage.

  I would use it via ethernet to my ready nas pro with two Gbit connections is associated with a single IP address.

  I know the obvious limitations in bandwidth by ethernet and the risk of data corruption when sharing, but I only use the same media on one PC at a time, so I guess that's not much more of a problem.

  Further recommendations on the idea of shared storage would be muc appreciated also.

  Thank you. :)

  Ulf

  iSCSI is ideal for this workflow. There are faster options now that are affordable compared to the Gbit and iSCSI units which have expansion slots supporting 10 Gbit Ethernet. Cards Intel 10 Gbps Ethernet are $380 for a single port cards and the Thecus 8 and the 16bay units take over some of the Intel 10 GB cards. NETGEAR has 10 Gbit Ethernet switches for $900. If this isn't an option now then 2port NAS/SAN unit will be fine. Don't expect much more then 75 to 100 Mbps even with load balancing. 10 Gbps also reduce access latency. Gbit will be a delay if try to change directly from shared storage.

  Eric

  ADK

• Sharing physical storage with windows-server

  Hello

  I got this configuration:

  5 ESX 3.5 servers connected to a HP EVA 5000 zFCP SAN.

  1 physical SQL Server with 4 LUNs

  1 virtual Failover SQL-server with the same 4 LUNs as Raw Device Mapping

  It works fine, with one major flaw:

  February 12 08:24:47 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:52.909 cpu1:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 255: State for vml.0200350000600508b4001031530000800000b60000485356313130 SCSI reservation conflict. residual R 919, CR 0, 3 ER

  February 12 08:24:48 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:53.828 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 64

  February 12 08:24:49 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:54.811 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR at 48

  February 12 08:24:50 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:55.759 cpu0:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 32

  February 12 08:24:51 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:56.752 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 16

  February 12 08:24:52 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:57.691 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR to 0

  February 12 08:24:52 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:57.691 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 119: default i/o because of too many conflicts of booking

  February 12 08:24:52 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:57.691 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 255: State for vml.0200350000600508b4001031530000800000b60000485356313130 SCSI reservation conflict. residual R 919, CR 0, ER 3

  February 12 08:24:52 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:57.691 cpu3:1039) WARNING: Partition: 197: Partition table read of vml.0200350000600508b4001031530000800000b60000485356313130 of device failed: SCSI reservation conflict

  February 12 08:24:53 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:58.599 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 64

  February 12 08:24:54 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:01:59.574 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR at 48

  February 12 08:24:55 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:00.531 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 32

  February 12 08:24:56 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:01.510 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 16

  February 12 08:24:57 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:02.564 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR to 0

  February 12 08:24:57 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:02.564 cpu1:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 119: default i/o because of too many conflicts of booking

  February 12 08:24:57 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:02.564 cpu1:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 255: State for vml.0200320000600508b4001031530000800000e80000485356313130 SCSI reservation conflict. residual R 919, CR 0, ER 3

  February 12 08:24:58 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:03.479 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 64

  February 12 08:24:59 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:04.465 cpu1:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR at 48

  vmkernel for esx-01 08:25 February 12: 36:10:02:05.385 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 32

  February 12 08:25:01 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:06.370 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 16

  February 12 08:25:02 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:07.315 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR to 0

  February 12 08:25:02 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:07.315 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 119: default i/o because of too many conflicts of booking

  February 12 08:25:02 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:07.315 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 255: State for vml.0200320000600508b4001031530000800000e80000485356313130 SCSI reservation conflict. residual R 919, CR 0, ER 3

  February 12 08:25:02 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:08.265 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 64

  February 12 08:25:03 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:09.213 cpu2:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR at 48

  February 12 08:25:04 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:10.203 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 32

  February 12 08:25:05 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:11.150 cpu2:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR 16

  February 12 08:25:06 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:12.176 cpu3:1039) SCSI: vm 1039:109: Sync CR to 0

  February 12 08:25:06 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:12.176 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 119: default i/o because of too many conflicts of booking

  February 12 08:25:06 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:12.176 cpu3:1039) WARNING: SCSI: 255: State for vml.0200320000600508b4001031530000800000e80000485356313130 SCSI reservation conflict. residual R 919, CR 0, ER 3

  February 12 08:25:06 01 esx vmkernel: 36:10:02:12.176 cpu3:1039) WARNING: Partition: 197: Partition table read of vml.0200320000600508b4001031530000800000e80000485356313130 of device failed: SCSI reservation conflict

  When I look in/vmfs/devices/disks, I see that these vml files are the LUNS for the SQL cluster. I guessthe physical windows-server reserved LUNS.

  The problem is that a new analysis of the host bus adapters takes to always (5 minutes), but works.

  The major problem is that I can not add new storage VMFS to the esx cluster. I get this message when you click "Add storage...". » :

  The query failed because the remote server has taken too long to respond

  Are there best practices available for LUNS between ESX and other sharing systems, or best practices to not do? (It works of course..)

  Marius

  Hi guy,

  see the following article in the Knowledge Base of VMware.

  Machines ESX accommodation passive MSCS nodes report the conflicts of booking during storage operations

  I hope this helps a little.

  Greetings from the Germany. (CET)

• Options for sharing local storage

  I work with a test environment and familiarize myself with some of the more advanced options of VMWare.

  Currently, in our lab, I have a server that has a ton of direct-attached storage. We have a San were included in the budget by the end of this year, but in the meantime, I would like to use this server as a substitute of SAN.

  I'm looking for the cleaner way to do this under ESXi 5, preferably without spending any extra money. We have licenses for the VSA, but it seems that I can't use VSA without several servers in a cluster - which I did not. Is there a way to take advantage of VSA without creating a cluster VSA?

  Is there a way do this within VMWare infrastructure that does not involve using something like FreeNAS or a similar solution, which will eventually create giant VMDK files that I have to deal with? I mean, I could lift a virtual server with a huge VMDK attached and ask one of the software solutions to give me iSCSI targets, but it seems hardly elegant. I might just install FreeNAS on bare metal server, but then I lose the use of the VMS host server.

  Forgive me if this is basic - I did some research first. I am looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers who lack storage space.

  Edit - not sure I understand the question / Setup... If the server that has a ton of local storage is already running ESXi?

  "I'm looking for a way to use the data store (s) on this machine for other servers that don't have storage space" "

  With the exception of the magic and mirrors behind VSA, ESXi does not have the ability to share a local data store. This data store must live somewhere else and be introduced to several machines in the way of an NFS share, target iSCSI or FC LUNS.

  I was in that same boat a year ago--a company hired me on for a large project of VMware without realizing that the shared storage is the key to an installation of VMware. They ordered servers with cargoes of physical local storage. Oops. Finally convinced a SAN is the only way (this is also before the release of v5, therefore not VSA). We have since removed all disks, and have most of them redeployed elsewhere (a dedup backup on a physical computer).

• How to map esx storage clariion lun number data store

  Hi all

  I'm at a client, and they say there is a plug-in to vSphere to show the amount of data to clariion lun mapping esx.

  Can any that confirm it, let me know where to find and how to install it?

  Thank you!

  Ken Eliezer

  [email protected]

  Hello.

  Looks like the EMC Storage Viewer may be what you're looking for?

  Good luck!

• Registrar Maquinas Office in another ESX storage replicado con

  Hola Amigos:

  The duda siguiente Tengo:

  Tenemos an ESX Cluster 5 Máquinas con, 4 of kbes maquinas estan in el main site is the 5 is in the site language.

  Ahora mismo las 5 maquinas acceden al mismo storage del esta replicado in site language el main site.

  The prueba queremos hacer're depower storage del site el y hacer that the machine that is in the site language vea el storage replicado, previously we have auto todas las maquinas office, take el VC support.

  ¿VOY a tener problemas has the hora of Registrar maquinas manera EN el esx manual office is located in el site language?

  MI idea are access mediante el VIC al propio del ESX site language, access al 'storage' y clerk manualmente las maquinas office "add to the inventory.

  Gracias por adelantado por vuestros comentarios y sugerencias.

  Ah! are yo said. None are posible tener currently a cluster between data centers.

  Por otra parte, in you case, cuando las MON replicadas, las have of Registrar VMs (add to the data store of each of las del fichero en el VMs vmx inventory an arrancar) of the language the site el vea y al try las arrancar VMs, keep el descriptor you preguntara if you want the virtual machine UUID. Have that seleccionar "Keep."

• Local SAS 3.5 ESX storage problem

  Hello

  I have a Power Edge 2900 with two hard drives SAS to 128 GB in RAID 1 for operating system and seven 450 GB SAS hard drives in a Raid5 for VM configuration.

  Size of disk of my RAID controller is listed at about 2.45 to thanks to the installation of the RAID controller firmware.   When installing ESX, available on the 2nd table disk size is listed as only 2 terabytes.

  Any ideas as to why I am only able to see 2 TB worth of disk space whereas it should be about 2.5 TB?

  Thank you very much

  ESX 3.5 has 2 TB LUN limit. You can divide the table into smaller LUN and format as VMFS and then add others as stretches. This will allow you to have a store of data VMFS of the size of your total storage space. There are disadvantages to using extends i.e. a LUN fails and the entire data store fails.

  Post edited by: bulb spelling

• The CARS performance bottleneck will be the shared disk storage?

  Hi all
  I'm studying CARS and I am concerned about the bottleneck of CARS I/O performance.
  If I have 10 knots and they use the same disk storage to contain the data, then
  they're going to do i/o on the disk at the same time.
  Maybe we got more latency...
  
  Will it be a performance problem?
  
  How RAC does not solve this kind of problem?
  
  Thank you.

  All 10 nodes connected with storage shared by FIBRE cable which give faster latency also all nodes interconnection must be a GIGABIT switch. This option two is going to solve the problem of slow disk i/o.

  Concerning
  Asif Kabir

• Sharing USB storage device problems: EA4500

  Share questions, I just run my USB connected hard drive via UPNP, SMB and FTP.  Neither option seems to work, except for FTP when I allow anonymous access.

  I can't access my files via FTP using OS X Lion mountain.  I have FTP access and use the administrator account to access the location.  When I turn on the media server, none of my DLNA/UPNP devices are able to connect to or even discover the EA4500.  Don't know what is happening here.  This is a brand new EA4500.  Devices on my home network can see the multimedia servers set up with serviio running on a PC with no problems.

  In addition, access SMB does not work either.  I am unable to connect to my Mac via SMB sharing.  Haven't tried with a PC.

  I'll try to update to the latest firmware.

  Personally, I didn't have much luck finding classic firmware sharing stuff immediately.  I have advanced and set up all the stuff of sharing on the firmware of cloud.  2.0.37 classic firmware works, it takes just a while to understand.  The cloud is much easier.

  Here's a good page where you can update to the classic firmware newer or firmware of clouds.  It is under the downloads tab.

  http://homesupport.Cisco.com/en-us/support/routers/EA4500

  Edit: I think that you can update the firmware automatically from the router.  You don't need to do it manually.

• Risk of a Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm vmware fusion on a shared disk storage

  I am running VMware fusion on a MacBook Pro.  I have an image of Windows XP SP3.

  What are the risks of store this image on a shared drive or a shared backup device (for example, Apple Time Capsule)?

  Can someone ' find one/view the files stored in the Image of XP?

  Are there other risks of privacy / security?

  Thank you

  All the XP files in multiple files .vdmk in the bundle can be easily consulted are

  Eric has already answered the second part of your question so I'll answer the first part.  While they are not as easily seen as just see hard files exist, as to see in the Finder for example, nevertheless he who has access can also, with the right tools, see the contents of files hard otherwise encrypted.  In other words, hard files can be mounted with a ctrl-click > open with... > VMDKMounter.  There are other programs that can open and view the content without a ride just like opening a .zip file in BetterZip.

  Most is, with the exception being encrypted and one without knowing the password, then anyone who has knowledge and access can see what they want.

  Which bring back me to my original statement: "the risks are the same as with all other files/folders, you choose to store here where.

• Shared Object storage class custom?

  Hello all, forgive me if this is a really stupid question, but a SharedObject can be stored on an instance of a custom class, or it can store data types (for example, int, String, tables, etc.)? I thought it would be able to accept classes custom, but I now get some strange errors when you try to access the data stored in the custom on the SharedObject class... so it made me think twice.

  Essentially, what I'm trying to do is create a game, which can have up to 8 save files. To do this, I created a custom "GameSave" class that contains all relevant data and a class 'SaveManager' that keeps track of all 8 stops and stores them in a table on a SharedObject. When I run the game I can record the data, load again, etc., but when I close the game, then open I can't access the same data I have a few moments before... Very strange!

  Thanks in advance for any help with this one

  For complex data types, you must use the registerClassAlias() method. There are many examples on the Internet how to do this.

• Storage on ESXi shared host

  Hello

  I'll have a bit of a problem of storage configuration shared for vMotion and I'd appreciate any help you can provide.

  I try to have the following configuration:

  • ESXi 4.1 2 hosts (for example, A and B) who will run VMs.

  • ESXi 4.1 1 host (for example, C) as data store shared to keep VM configs.

  • 1 Server Windows Server 2008 running vCenter.

  In the end, I'd like to be able to create a store of data shared on C which A and B can read/write to so I can perform vMotion between A and B.

  It is possible to implement this config with a regular host of ESXi running on C? Currently all ESXi hosts are bare bones PC with IDE drives. In other words, I wonder if I can convert a regular ESXi running on an ordinary PC server to a host of shared storage or do I need a NAS dedicated instead of C for which?

  Finally, I would like to vMotion between two (i.e. ESXi hosts A and B) and keep the files of configuration on a separate host, preferably another plain of ESXi host with an ordinary IDE drive.

  I am very new to all this so I'd appreciate pointers.

  Kind regards

  J

  Hello and welcome to the forums

  I do not know the material for ESXi host A and B.

  But in a scenario you want iSCSI, vMotion, storage

  There are at least 2 additional NIC for each ESXi host (VMotion requires Gigabit)

  If you want to host C for shared data storage,

  -You can go for a virtual machine that does the job (worst)

  -Make a box iSCSI dedicated with (http://www.openfiler.com/) OpenFiler or FreeNAS (http://freenas.org/downloads) (best)

  And do some additional reading on this forum about the use of these products.

  -Buy a (better) separate storage box

  If BOX C has an IDE drive, the performance is not good

  I don't know if you're gooing to run a production environment or just a laboratory.

  In the case of production, I recommend you check the compatibility, in case of support issues

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?q=VMware%20compatibility%20List&AQ=0&AQI=G10&aql=&OQ=VMware%20compat&gs_rfai=

  Paul Grevink

  Twitter: @PaulGrevink http://twitter.com/PaulGrevink

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Storage model - ESX - workstation use

  Hello

  After a few tips of knowledge in the following area.

  We have a half of our people by using the ESX v4 based VMs and about half using Workstation v7.1.

  The idea for us strategy, it's if they could share common templates.

  One idea would be to have an ESX storage area which is also a normal network file share.

  Now, I know that VMware Workstation can import machines virtual/templates and stand-alone converter can do similar.

  Both involve the network copy.

  Now the ESX for workstation path seems clear, what a virtual machine or a template created on a workstation?

  I did not see an ESX import, although there is import export of the data store.

  The ESX will manage a model/VM Workstation v7.1 if it were on its data store?

  Anyone else had this experience trying to maximum benefits between and Dept. of pain?

  Part of the difficulties in this configuration "datastore" mixture is thin issues / think commissioning, IDE / SCSI disks and expand the shrinkage.

  (that is, FDI is treated different from SCSI, but images SCSI are not very good for cloning of images of physical computers)

  Ideally, you would like your store of "templates" and must be size min then expanded when used as real VMs.

  I have not found any article a Ko or help with success and simply covering options and roadblocks in these areas.

  Thank you

  I do not recommend thick...

  Thin and drop thick are supported.

  But on both workstation thin and drop thick can also be a single file, or split in two on several files... THIS latest version does not work on ESX/ESXi

  André

• With ESX and ESXi NAS storage configuration

  Hello

  Someone at - it a link to all the useful documents for the implementation of NAS with ESX storage.

  Thanks in advance.

  Find the link below

  http://www.Cognizant.com/HTML/content/bluepapers/vmware_esx_wp.PDF

  Concerning

  Anand

  While it is true the points