Size of data store for just an OS LUN?

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• Mappings of data store for replication Multi VM in SRM 6.1

  In an earlier version of MRS. datastore mapping was necessary if someone wants to replicate several virtual machines of VR. But how to do this in 6.1 SRM?

  VR is a replication solution that does not require "datastore mapping" just VM source and target data store.  Just several virtual machines with RV replication requires selecting the same target for all that are selected at the same time data store. This does not change 6.1 RVing and SRM has no impact on this.

• Second data store for the shared virtual machine

  IM thinking about to migrate my existing VMWare Server 2.x to VMWare Workstation 8.

  My server is a machine selfbuild W2k8 with Core i7, 24 GB of ram, an SSD for the OS and two 500 GB HDDs. Due to performance issues an VM is placed on a separate HARD disk. I want to keep the configuration like this.

  At the time where I'm using a trial version of WS8 and may not know how to set up a second datastore for shared virtual machines on a second hard drive. Is this possible at all? Or y at - it an alternative to solve this problem? Creation of a RAID0, isn't my favorite option.

  Thanks for the reply.

  It is not implemented by using a second data store for shared virtual computers.

  Workaround solution:
  Suppose you have the original data store C:\vms and a second D:\vms

  then create a junction for each directory in D:\vms like that

  C:\vms\VM1 D:\vms\VM1 junction.exe

  C:\vms\VM2 D:\vms\VM2 junction.exe
  ....

  then the vmx files from doubleclick in C:\vms\VM1 and configure the virtual machine to share.

  On Windows 7, use mklink.exe instead
  On Linux hosts use ln

• Why is 'Use different data stores for disks of BONE and View Composer persistent' grayed out?

  I installed 5 (cluster host 2) vsphere, vcenter 5 discover 5 and openfiler (iSCSI VSA) in vmware workstation 7.

  I am trying to simulate a tiered storage configuration and created three warehouses of shared data in order to separate the replica, the linked clones and persistent disk.

  However, when I create my bound clone pool I am able to select a specific data store for the replica and bound but clone the persistent disk option is grayed out.  See photos attached to the pool creation, storage, and network configuration.

  Has anyone any suggestions?

  Thank you!

  Yes, the use of the disc for operating system profiles require a linked clone pool.     The operating system will be on the clone, persistent disk will be a disc loaded end service that survive refreshes and redials, and then the replica will be reading only one copy of the master image.    The replica in general has in the IO and is almost always placed on the SSD or storage faster than you have and the persistent data disk is usually low IO.

• List of the files in the data store for the virtual machine

  Hello

  How to list the files of data store for the virtual machine? I can't find reference to the command.

  Thank you

  If you have installed vCLI and vSphere SDK for Perl, you have extra utilities on top of what is there with the vCLI, take a look at this list: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl40/doc/vsperl_util_index.html

  A script that can help with the list of files to store data for a given virtual machine is dsbrowse.pl

  Here is an example:

  [vi-admin@scofield ~]$ /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/host/dsbrowse.pl --server himalaya.primp-industries.com --username root --name dlgCore-iSCSI.test
  
  Information about datastore : 'dlgCore-iSCSI.test'
  ---------------------------
  Summary
   Name             : dlgCore-iSCSI.test
   Location         : /vmfs/volumes/4a26f505-02dfd8a4-6867-003048d9586a
   File system      : VMFS
   Maximum Capacity : 15.75 GB
   Available space  : 11.654296875 GB
  
  Hosts associated with this datastore.
   himalaya.primp-industries.com
  
  Virtual machines on this datastore.
   None
  
  Templates on this datastore.
   None
  
  Datastore Folder Structure.
   Folder Path: '[http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test|http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test]'
   Files present
    testagain
    testlab-1
    testlab-2
    testlab-3
    testlab-4
    testlab-5
    testlab-6
    testlab-7
    testlab-8
    testlab-9
    testlab-10
    testlab-11
    testlab-12
    testlab-13
    testlab-14
    testlab-15
  
   Folder Path: '[http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test|http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test] testagain'
   Files present
    testagain.vmdk
    vmware.log
    testagain.nvram
    vmware-70.log
    vmware-65.log
    vmware-66.log
    vmware-68.log
    vmware-67.log
    vmware-69.log
    testagain-flat.vmdk
    testagain.vmx
    testagain.vmxf
    testagain.vmsd
  

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• How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

  Hello guys,.

  Now that we have a new iSCSI SAN market how can I tranfer all the virtual machine to a local data store for a new SAN? Can I stop the VM in the host, and then copy the DataStore files with all the info on the new volume?

  Thank you

  Pesinet

  Alternatively, you can use VMware converter or cold Migration / Storage VMotion if you have the appropriate licenses.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• Configuration of San - data store have more than 1 LUN

  Hello

  We look at our San configuration for improvements. Our San has about 10 TB total.

  We currently have 6 LUN 1.5 TB all which are enclosed in 1 store 10 TB data

  It was suggested that we should NOT combine multiple LUNS in a data store for the reason if 1 LUN goes wrong then the entire data store is non-refundable.

  Although our SAN LUNS are created on top of raid 6 and are therefore a bit 'protected' by councils LUN 1 data store is interesting

  Does anyone have ideas to share?

  Thank you

  Tom D

  I would say that having a single data store, regardless of the underlying storage architecture is probably not a good idea.  Although this configuration is authorized you can paint yourself in a corner fairly quickly.

  1. one wonders about the maximum number of VMDK you should have by the data store.  http://communities.VMware.com/message/944120  Basically the more s VMDK on the SCSI data store more blocking of activity taking place on the disk, causing performance problems.  Each VMware engineer, I've talked about seems to stay around the VMDK 20 a range of data store, but that could change with vSphere.

  2 - How this data store backup and how long does it take?  What happens during a restore scenario?  10 TB is plenty of space and could take some time for the backup.  If you push it on tape and you must always restore the together 10 to it could take weeks or months.  This space by breaking into warehouses of smaller data gives you smaller segments of data that you can restore in case of disaster.

  3 - the number of data warehouses you have is very important if you are always looking to implement the Site Recovery Manager.  SRM relies on your storage device to replicate data between the sites.  There could be serious consequences on the rate of change of the data for a single LUN 10TB.  If you are moving in several data stores that it will make it easier to handle your recovery plan.

  Apart from the considerations above of VMware. I guess 7 performance LUNS in RAID-6 is not so great.  You have a lot of protection, but you pay for it with capacity and performance.  If you went to 10 stores of data and the LUN 10 you can change RAID settings at each data store to optimize performance, protection, and capacity.  For example 4 LUN RAID-10 high performance DB apps and 6 LUNS to RAID-5 for the ability.  With smaller LUN and data warehouses a disk or LUN failure will affect only a smaller set of services rather than your entire data center.

  In short, unless there is a really compelling reason to go with a single store of 10 TB database, I recommend you to change your architecture.

• Block size of data store

  Hello

  First time post and quite new to the product.

  Does anyone know why the option of block size to store data in the client default vSphere to 1 MB in size?  I see in the tutorials and blogs, there are options in the updated section in shape for up to 8 MB?

  Thanks for your help.

  Hello, welcome to the communities.

  Here is some information on the sizes of block VMFS and their constraints;

  VMware KB: Block the size of a VMFS data store limitations

  VMware KB: Frequently asked Questions on VMware vSphere 5.x for VMFS-5

  Don't forget, when you upgrade from an earlier version of VMFS, the block size is preserved. Newly put VMFS-5 data warehouses have a unified 1 MB block size.

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• Add the total size of data store and space remaining

  
  Hi,
  
  What would be the easist way to add the total datastore size and remaining datastore size to the following.
  I do emphasise, esasiest, since I'm as green as can be to powercli, powershell for that matter. I'm trying to learn in babysteps 
  
  

  Get - VM $VM | %{ $_. Name; ($_ | get-datastore | select name). Name}

  At the moment I get day like this, I get to the above.

  DataStoreName (Add info here on DS size?)

  vmname

  DataStoreName (Add info here on DS size?)

  vmname

  ...

  ...

  ...

  Thank you!!

  The $_ represents the object that has been passed through pipeline (the ' |') of the previous cmdlet.

  For example

  Get - VM | %{$_. Name}

  The cmdlet Get - VM will get all the VMs on the servers of vSphere to which you are connected.

  The pipeline ('|) ') said these VM objects one by one to the following code.

  In what is a Foreach-Object (alias is '%') who will send the name of the virtual machine (available in the variable $_) to the default output.

  On a Select-Object cmdlet, you can select properties of the object that was passed through the pipeline, or you can use what is called a "calculated property. Such a calculated property consists of a pair of hash, name (N) and Expression.

  Obviously, name is the name you want to give to this calculated property.

  Expression is the block of code that must be executed.

  For example

  Get-Datastore. Select Name,@{N="CapacityGB; E={$_. CapacityMB/1 KB}}

  All database objects are passed to the Select-Object cmdlet.

  The Select cmdlet displays the name of the data store, and it will display a property called CapcityGB, which displays the ability to store data in GB.

  Notice how the property CapacityMB that is present in the data store object is converted to GB by the code in the Expression block.

  The part of the Expression has not always need to do something with a property of the object that was passed.

  For example

  Get - VM | Select Name, @{N = 'Current time'; E = {Get-Date}}

  In this case the Select-Object cmdlet displays the Name property of the virtual computer object that has been sent.

  And it will display the current time as the propertyname "current time".

  This is an example of a calculated property that has nothing to with the object passed through the pipeline.

  I hope that clarifies the code a bit.

• Size of data store on smaller clusters

  I have a bunch of data stores in the range from 500 to 750 GB on a 3 host cluster. The SAN is a group of equallogic, which designates a raid by box group. With the latest firmware installed it is support VAAI.

  Is there a reason for me at all do not use warehouses of data of size max? I don't see an issue with about 50 VM and VAAI scsi reservations.

  -Anders

  You will have a depth of queue device and multiple LUNS means also several queues indeed. Even if it's the same raidgroup you will avoid always fills a single queue and hurt all your virtual machines.

  Duncan (VCDX)

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• How to specify what data store for use with OVFtool

  It drives me crazy! Way that you specify what data store to use when there are several?

  I ran exactly the same command on a box that had a data store and it worked fine (as expected). He created the folder of the virtual machine to the root of the SD and then pulled on the virtual machine of the FVO. However, with multiple it just says not: no datstore target specified. I tried 1 million combinations of?-ds = with hooks, without. It is said to be sometimes found in the inventory. I guess that's looking for a folder. But this cannot be so difficult?

  C:\Program VMware OVF tool & gt; ovftool P:\Downloads\PanoManagerVM-2.8.0

  -ovf\panomanager.ovf ' vi: / / [email protected].

  Source OVF opening: P:\Downloads\PanoManagerVM-2.8.0-ovf\panomanager.ovf

  ATTENTION: No manifest file

  Please enter the login information for the target vi://192.168.1.5/

  User name: root

  Password: *.

  Target of opening VI: vi: / / [email protected]/

  Error: No data store target specified

  Data warehouses is on target:

  SAN storage

  storage1

  something like

  OVFTool - ds = "SAN Storage" source target

  should work

  If you write ovftool - help you can see the full syntax.

  Eske

• Size of data store

  I have a dell poweredge 2900 with a 12 to raid 5. OK, I installed esxi. However it is to see the CT 12 but when I try to use it it says only 768 AMS are available. I think that the maximum size is 2 TB for esx and esxi. I was hoping to get esxi build a data store on the raid to the limit of 2 TB. Ideally, I wanted more than one partition on the raid 2 TB. is there any hope here. What is my options to use this server. Im a pretty new on this product and would appreciate some guidance on how to run esxi with this 12 to raid array.

  Thank you mark

  Datastore ESX/ESXi VMFS LUNS must not be greater than 2 to 512 b size... You'll want to use the configuration tools RAID (bios level generally) to carve up the storage falls within these parameters.

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• Data store for config files shared with esxi and free license

  Hello

  currently I am setting up a test environment with two esxi nodes that share a database on an EMC Clariion. Virtual disks itself will be shared by RDM, there is no problem.

  But if I change the configuration of a virtual machine to a physical computer (node A) the other (node B) still use the old configuration, node B does not notice the change applied to node A. What I am doing wrong? Is there a set up where node B will automatically refresh the virtual machine configuration after modification on node A?

  If I download the file vmx of navigation on the B node data store, I see the applied changes written to the file. So I guess it isn't a caching issue. The vmx file we re - read when turn on/off the virtual machine? Why isn't she re-read on the opening of the vm configuration dialog box?

  What is the recommended set for two guests free esxi who should be able to run virtual machines in the other machine? I don't think that of VMotion or HA! I just want if node A has a power outage on some VMs on the node B.

  Thank you!

  Good bye

  Daniel

  You must not register VMs on of two ESXi. Installing vCenter or register VMs on host-host these specific VMs will run on. If you need to move the VM to an another ESXi then delete the inventory on the single host and add to the inventory on the other.

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• How can I select a different data store for vm swap files?

  In Esxi 5.5, how can set up a separate data for the swapsfiles store.

  5.5, default will be in the same data store

• How to find clusters of data store for compute cluster?

  I used PowerCLI script calls within a rest service.  The rest service is spent a bunch of new applications of construction of virtual machine data.  For the deployment, the only data (relevant to this question), I'm getting is the vcenter server and the name of the compute cluster.  I need to find a way to determine which cluster of data store to deploy virtual computer by using the name of the compute cluster.  If I do a get-cluster $clustername | FL * I see no correlation between the computer cluster and the cluster data store.

  If I get info on a VM (get-vmhost $vmhost) host in a cluster, I see the datastoreIDlist as a property of the object VMhost and can see the warehouses of data (not datastoreclusters) facing it.  Which is not ideal, but it might be doable.

  I know there is a relationship between compute clusters and storage that is presented in vcenter.  Why can't I find that in powercli?

  Get-Cluster ClusterInQuestion | Get-VMHost | Get-datastore. Get-datastorecluster