Size limits to add a new disk to a virtual machine?

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• Newbie - how to add another hard disk to the virtual machine

  We have just started to try ESXI on a new database server.

  The previous server got an SSD, it is necessary that our needs. Now, we got the new Intel Server, was paid $ 3000. There are 2 hard drives and SSD, all on the integrated chipset. We can't find anywere in the interface of PC ESXI or VMWare Go web site to add the SSD to the list of storage. We imported to test an installation of Windows Server 2008 and it works, but only C:, no other hard drive found!

  Help, please!

  pay? -None
  If you connect to http://ip-of-your-esxi , you should see a hint where to download it if I remember correctly

• Adding a new drive on a Virtual Machine

  Hello

  I need to add a new disk to a virtual machine that runs as an Exchange Server.   Normally, when you add the new drive I would choose the store with the Virtiual Machine.  Unfortunetrly the Datasotre stored on the virtual machine is virtually complete.  What are the implications of the selection 'Specify a location' during the creation of the disc.  I'll always be able to use VMotion?  and how the disk get stored on the selected locvation.  He appears as a vmdk file in a folder named after the Virtual Machine?  Anything else I should look for?

  Thanks for any advice.

  Concerning

  Kevan

  You mentioned already correctly more points:

  • the vmdk will be stored in a folder with the name of the virtual machine
  • vMotion is not affected until all guests have access to the data store
  • According to the snapshots the ESXi version are either created in the home folder of the virtual machine (before 5 ESXi) or in the folder parent of vmdk

  André

• Add a new disk to RAID5 on HP DL580 G3 w / ESXi 3.5

  My DL580 G3 currently has 130GB of usable with a RAID 5 configuration space. 3 x 72 GB disks.  I intend to add a fourth Ultra 320 SCSI 10 K 72 GB for additional local storage.

  The DL580 has a Smart Array 6i controller. When I boot the DL580 I see no option of RAID as an Array Configuration Utility configuration. This box came to me with the already configured RAID5 array.

  Would I be able to add a new disk using a Smart boot CD that ACU to extend the RAID 5 set? If Yes, what version of SmartStart?  I did not see one for ESXi or ESX on the site Web of HPs. is there another method that I need to use to expand the RAID5?

  THANKS :)

  If you do not see the utility of configuration of the adapter for the POST/BIOS screens? Pressing F8 does not work either?

  You should have received a Smart boot boot CD with and in most cases, the Raid configuration is possible with this Smart Start.

  If nothing happens, you could build a UBCD4Win and integrate HP Array. I did it for a Smart Array e200i, but only the cmdline versions works well. The GUI version has some limitations on the display of pop-up windows.

  You must save / move your guests as there is no migration of the vmfs online!

• [CARS] Add the new disk in the database running environment

  Hi all

  I want to ask a question about oracle RAC especially to add a new disk.

  Here's the situation for existing oracle RAC

  1. There is 1 oracle clusterware (CRS), ASM and 2 node RAC

  2. There is a demand to add a new disk to existing diskgroup

  3. all CRS, ASM and RAC is in the online state

  I read document oracle (How to add a new disc to year Diskgroup existing RAC Cluster or stand-alone Configuration of ASM (Best Practices).) (Doc ID 557348.1()

  My question is,

  1. that I should stop the database, ASM and CRS when add a new disk to existing diskgroup?

  2. are there steps that has already been proven to add a new disk in an operational environment?

  Thank you

  Adrian

  My question is,

  1. that I should stop the database, ASM and CRS when add a new disk to existing diskgroup?

  No, you need not bring down the ASM or DB

  2. are there steps that has already been proven to add a new disk in an operational environment?

  Yes, you can add the disk, ASM automatically rebalance and share the workload on the new disk.

  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/B28359_01/server.111/b31107/asmdiskgrps.htm#OSTMG10070

  There are number of blog posts about adding disks in a diskgroup

  MRMESSIN Oracle Database Administration: Add or remove disks from the ASM disk on the database group active

• is there an action to add a disk to a virtual machine by specifying a vmdk file?

  
  I'm trying to reproduce the functionality of the GUI to add a drive (not create new) existing in a virtual machine and specifying the hard file that will be used.  You would change from the GUI, then add and choose the hard drive.  Then choose Select the use an existing hard drive and dig into the specific to the hard file data store.

  After selecting the hard, then choose the SCSI device and channel and complete the wizrard.  After you add the disk, then go back and select the hard disk and choose manage paths to change the walkway on the MRU policy.

  Ideally, the user would be able to use something like VC:Datastore use a tree view to point to the vmdk when adding the drive, however I tried VC:Datstore and it only allows you to go as far as the data store but not more to specify the drive.

  Thank you

  Here is the script updated with the VCVirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo backup type.

  backup of var = new VcVirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo();
  backing.fileName = diskPath;
  backing.diskMode = "independent_persistent";

  backing.thinProvisioned = false;

  backing.eagerlyScrub = true;

  backing.writeThrough = false;

  backing. Split = false;

  connectable var = new VcVirtualDeviceConnectInfo();
  connectable.startConnected = true;
  connectable.allowGuestControl = false;
  connectable. Connected = true;

  Like var = [];

  do we need a Comptroller?
  If (scsiControllerKey< 0)="">
  controller of var = new VcVirtualLsiLogicSASController();
  controller.sharedBus = VcVirtualSCSISharing.fromString ("physicalSharing");
  controller.busNumber = scsiBusNumber;
  Controller.Key = - 100;
  scsiControllerKey = - 100;

  var deviceChange = new VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
  deviceChange.operation = VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.add;
  deviceChange.device = controller;

  dcArr.push (deviceChange);
  }

  device of var = new VcVirtualDisk();
  Device.Key = - 101;
  Device.backing = support;
  Connectables = device.connectable;
  device.controllerKey = scsiControllerKey;
  device.unitNumber = scsiChannelNumber;

  device.capacityInKB = size * 1024 * 1024;

  var deviceChange = new VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
  deviceChange.operation = VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.add;
  deviceChange.device = device;

  dcArr.push (deviceChange);

  spec var = new VcVirtualMachineConfigSpec();
  spec.deviceChange = like;

  This enables the multi-writer on disk

  option of var = new VcOptionValue();
  option. Key = 'scsi' + scsiBusNumber + ': ' + scsiChannelNumber + '.sharing;
  option. Value = "multi-writer";

  var extraConfig = [];
  extraConfig.push (option);
  spec.extraConfig = extraConfig;

  task = vm.reconfigVM_Task (spec);

• Allocation of disk space to virtual machines

  I played around with assigning physical disk space to a virtual machine, in the "Add Hardware Wizard", I selected hard drive & gt; Create a new virtual disk & gt; He gave a size of 100 GB stored with the virtual machine and not independent.

  When I started the VM space, which is all that I wanted to check if I stop the virtual machine. Rather than remove the new hard drive 2 settings of the virtual machine, I have restored a previous snapshot without the new HD. Now when I check the free space on datastore1, it seems that the 100 GB does not have to be added to the free space.

  I did something wrong?

  UPDATE:

  I just tried the process again but this time assigned 8 GB.  Then I checked free space on datastore1, and now I have the 100 GB back, less the 8 GB I just posted.  Any ideas?

  If you take out it just of the virtual machine, it does not actually remove the virtual disk that you created. As you say, there are 2 options when you remove the drive, we need to remove the virtual machine, and we need to remove the disc. If you remove the disk from the virtual machine, it will always keep the file even if it is not associated with a virtual machine. There is no question to delete this file. Just make sure that you delete the correct VMDK. It's easy, if it's the only drive of 100 GB or 8 GB, you have created.

• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• How to make a visible USB hard disk for a virtual machine on ESXI 4.1?

  Hi all

  As I am new to the world of vmware ESXI, I always make mistakes or I don't undertand all therefore be complete :-).

  So I have a HP Proliant ML 350 G6 Server installed with ESXI 4.1 and I want to connect a USB hard disk to a virtual machine (SBS 2K 8). Currently, the virtual machine is not able to see the hard drive.

  I already add a USB controller to the virtual machine, but my USB HARD drive is still not visible to my virtual machine.

  Can you help on that?

  Thank you

  Michael

  Next, add a USB device to the virtual computer (in the change settings tab), there are different things, USB controller and USB devices. Sometimes, you may have to restart the virtual machine.

  Greetings

• Move ROW with dynamic disk to another virtual machine

  Hello

  I'm in a situation where I have to leave my RDM Win2003 VM to win2008, but the complexity and multiple physical RDMs here make only dynamic partition (RDM1 1.5 TB, RDM2 1.5 TB, is drive G RDM3 1 TB 4 TB),

  Now my question is if I can move this partition of G (which includes 3 disks RDM) again an another VM (win2008)

  Thanks, SD

  Hello

  This does not resemble a specific question VMware.  On the contrary, seems like a question of Microsoft Windows.  Just make sure the hosts on which the virtual machine of 2008 runs can see the same ROW and follow this procedure to remove dynamic disks of the virtual machine of 2003 and add them to the virtual machine of 2008.

  Move disks to another computer

  All the best,

  Mike

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  Mike Brown

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• delete a virtual disk of the virtual machine of broken storage

  I have a virtual disk to a virtual machine on a broken iSCSI storage,

  now I can not remove the disc from the virtual machine.

  ESX 4.1 does not see the now broken iSCSI storage.

  See attach.

  Remove the virtual machine from the inventory and edit VMX manually deleting the reference to this disk. After that, add the machine virtual back again for the inventory.

• Not able to add the snapshot file to the virtual machine

  We have Win 2003 virtual machine running on ESXi 4.0.0 261974. The virtual machine has two vmdk files. We had taken the snapshot a few days back and today by mistake, we have removed one of the vmdk (DB - srv - 000001.vmdk - snapshot file). Now, we are not able to add the snapshot file to the virtual machine. When tried to add the existing vmdk, it displays only the source disk (DB - srv.vmdk). Please, help us to solve this problem.

  The GUI allows only adding the base vmdk. To add the Flash disk, you must manually change the vmx file. Registrations for the formerly removed virtual disk could still exist in the vmx file with... .present = "FALSE". After changing the vmx file you must reload the configuration. To do this, remove the VM of the inventory and add it back again (right-click on the vmx file).

  André

• Can I convert a server disk to a virtual machine?

  I have a number of OS X 10.5 servers running on hardware that is incredibly underused.  Since the Fusion 3 supports running OS X Server virtualized, is it possible to convert a live server disk to a virtual machine to the BootCamp to VM? I could run all 5 of my server on a single Xserve systems. I dug around, but everything points to a new facility to achieve this.

  Thank you

  Tim

  Yes, it is possible to convert physical machines to Mac OS X Server VM. I've posted instructions on how to do this in the following thread: Re: Snow Leopard Server VM existing?

  In your case, the only thing that needs to change is the version of the OS - pick instead of 10.6 10.5. I tried this with one of my machines so far, I would be interested to comment on the question of whether instructions to work for you. I'll probably convert this post into a document at some point...

  I also thought the ability to hire only the OS X physical disk partitions without copying the data (like Fusion for Boot Camp). However, Fusion currently only supported the MBR partition tables to access raw partitions, and most Macs are partitioned GPT (or hybrid MBR + TPG). You can try to use Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-rawdiskCreator to see if it recognizes the OS X partitions. If so, you should be able to create a virtual disk that references the partitions and boot from it as you would for a machine virtual Boot Camp.

  It is also possible to use a physical disk full (instead of individual partitions), but you would need to have partitions not mounted before using virtual machines that reference the physical disks. If you are interested in, there is a link in this thread as well.

• How can I get the number of disks for a virtual machine and PAHO are / s of a disc?

  Hi all

  I would like to know if there is a command that returns the number of disks having a virtual machine.

  and also if there is no command to obtain and change the number of the IOPS / disk s.

  Thanks in advance

  Carlos

  It will give you hard drives attached

  Get - VM | Hard drive

  
  

  It will give you count
  

  Get - vm | Select name, @{N = "TotalHDD"; E={($_ | (Get-harddisk).count}}

  
  

  It is possible to retrieve the number of the IOPS / disk s, but what do you mean by editing.
  

• Copy of the data of the disk of the virtual machine on a Local disk is too slow

  We have recently implemented vMware view.   We vSphere 5.5 and 5.2 and made Desktop visualization server.

  We have SAN as HP 3Par and Esxi hosts are HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

  Now all trying to copy the data from the disk of the virtual machine disk of the local computer are too slow. But if we are writing data from Local disk on the disk of the virtual machine is normal. And copying data between the two virtual machine disk is also fast.

  Thanks in advance for your help

  Dear all,

  Thanks for your help.

  We have analyzed the issue in 360 degrees, and we also examined your entries. Finally, we found the problem. It was that a defective fiber link has been creating the problem.

  We have recently implemented vMware and this flaw in fiber can also happened during this period. That's why we thought it may be because of vmware.

  Thanks again for your help