Snapshots on the data store

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• How can I remove snapshots when the data store is full?

  Hello

  With the help of ESXi 4.0.0 build 171294

  I have a virtual machine with a number of snapshots that became very large (rookie mistake I know). Finally, missed data store.

  Delete all the snapshots of the apparently successful Snapshot Manager but has not not any space free, and watching the VM directory via ssh show the delta files always there.

  I tried following the instructions in http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1007849

  but the I am always left with a complete and all data store the remaining delta files.

  I also tried renaming the file .vmsd and create another snapshot as suggest in this slideshow:

  http://communities.VMware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/978799-10548/200704231611490.TSX2007-Top_Support_Issues_-_part2.ppt

  After remove it all the snapshots returned instantly, of course, not doing any consolidation.

  1. Is there an any hope of consolidating these shots?
  2. If this is not possible, there is a way to roll back all the way to the original disk file?
  3. Update the firmware of ESXi at this stage would help?

  Thank you very much

  Alex

  According to the vmdk files, the virtual disk of 250 GB is thin provisioned. Please take a look in the browser of data store to see the current size of the virtual disk. Commit a snapshot to a thin provisioned disk can consume additional disk space (which you do not have).

  André

• Error: snapshot file < uspecified filename > is greater than th emaximum size supported by the data store

  I get the following error.

  File & lt; uspecified filename & gt; is superior to th emaximum supported by the data store

  My vm is 1024 GB, my block size is 4 MB and I 5.05 TB of free space.  The navigation data store, I see that there is a snapshot file incomplete 2gigs in size. I made snapshots to create in a different location from http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1002929 but still the same problem. Thanks for any help

  The virtual disk is too large to create a snapshot on a 4MB block size data store. The maximum size of VMDK is 1,016 Go.

  See "calculation time system required by the snapshot files" in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384

  André

• The snapshot files exist on the data store, but not in the Snapshot Manager

  I searched for a question of space on one of our virtual machines throughout the morning.  I finally found that the virtual machine has two snapshot files (total of 120 GB) on the data store.

  The problem is that these pictures are not in the snapshot

  Manager. How can I get rid of these files from snapshots, recover the 120 GB drive

  space and keep everything in tact?

  Thank you all.

  -Dave Claussen

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• Create the snapshot in another data store

  Hi all

  On ESXi 4, is it possible to create snapshot in another data store? The reason is that the current data store is almost full. Thank you.

  Hello

  As far as I know, the snapshots are always in the same place as the files of the virtual machine. Then, it is not possible to snapshots in the other data that the VM store.

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

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• alleged connection to the data store local preventing vmotion

  I have a VM that signals a connection to the local data store on its host, and therefore can't do vMotion elsewhere.  The virtual machine has two virtual drives, which are both on a SAN storage.  The virtual machine has been previously connected to an ISO on the local data store, but it has since been replaced by client device.  He always insists that he's using something on this data store, however.  I've looked through the vmx file and don't see any reference to it.  I also tried to remove the data store, but he claims that the file system is in use.  The hosts have been recently updated to esxi 6.0 U2, and it's the only VM that now seems this behavior.  Any suggestions on what could be the cause?  It is a server important enough in this environment, and be locked into a single host makes me a little anxious.

  Turns out it was because of an old cliché.  If you get an ISO from a data store and take a snapshot, the virtual machine will keep a link to that store of data even after changing the client machine.  As soon as you delete the snapshot, this relationship goes, and access to this database is therefore more a review when searching valid hosts.

• VM attached to the data store, but not in the config

  I have a few virtual machines that show that they are attached to a store data, but when you look at the parameters of the client both in the vmx file there is nothing that refers to this data store.  And, to top it off, the data store is just a deposit of file I only download iso files to mount for CD-ROMs.  I have made sure that the iso is not mounted on the machine (of course) and have paid through any other part of the config, but still it shows attached to that store of data, by the customer and by a powercli script.

  When you browse the data store, there is no folders or files on there that refer to this virtual machine.  I have about 10 machines all in this difficult situation.  Any ideas?

  Thank you!

  Hello..

  VM snapshots come with a .iso mounted for them? If so, that would explain it...

  / Rubeck

• How to make instant consolidation if the data store is out of disk space...

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that has left many of the snapshot files and now can consolidate using the tool (he always said of disk space to make the consolidation)

  The data store have now 60 GB of free space when the space data store maximum disk is 850 GB and the busy VVMM over almost 700 GB of disk space...

  Can I attach a 3 TB USB drive to the ESXi server and move all the files through or another way to do...

  HELP ~ ~

  With the disk space required on drive E, it may be useful to consider an alternative:

  • create a (much smaller) another virtual disk
  • Stop all of the services entering drive E
  • Copy the data from drive E more to the new virtual disk (for example using robocopy)
  • switch drive letters
  • Once everything is working as expected, get rid of the old virtual disk

  This will not only reduce the disk space used on the data store, but also to ensure that the virtual disk cannot grow more.

  André

• Not enough space on the data store. Could not power on VM:No space available on the device

  Hello

  Here's my problem. I have several virtual machines. But one of them can be powered on because of the problem of space. I can not add spaces because there is nothing to add. The data store is only 760 MB left. There is summary information about the virtual machine below. I need power somehow on this machine, but how can I do. can I add another data store space. Y at - it files I can delete from the data store. Snapshot file is considerably large, I can reduce its size without changing anything.

  Thank you.

  

  There are several ways to approach this problem

  1. you can storage vmotion, some VMs who are currently used and this will free space.

  2. check the clichés that you don't use, and delete those.

  3. reduce the memory of some other virtual machines which are turned on so that the swap space can be saved.

• Target iscsi ESXI 5.0, active path connected, mounted, are not not in the data store data store

  HI -.

  I am looking for help to point me in the right direction.  This problem occurred after a reboot of the system.

  I'm in vmware esxi essentials 5.0.0 821926

  I use the starwind software as my iSCSI target

  I use ISCSI to connect to my server from storage to the esxi hosts.

  I have 2 warehouses of data showing inactive under clusters of data storage and the data store.  I have a third-party data store on the same server that is loading properly.

  I currently have the same behavior on three esxi hosts:

  under configuration - storage adapters is the ISCSI path is active. Data warehouses appear under devices and mounted.  In data warehouses, they are inactive. On the same storage server

  on the starwind Server - I have

  built a new target

  removed and added the databases to the new target

  Changed the IP address of the target.

  On Esxi hosts, I removed the ISCSI server, discover places BOF dynamic and static and added under the same or IPs news discovery

  I can restart esxi hosts & storage servers and get to that same point.

  Whenever I find myself in the same place - course assets, devices mounted, inactive in data warehouses

  I don't know what else to share, let me know what you need to know to help out me.

  Thank you

  Dylan

  OK, incase someone crosses my ramblings, it may help.  My original question was warehouses of data that would not rise.  They were visible as devices in the area of storage under devices and as devices in the scsi adapter.

  When I would try to force mount them, add storage, keep the signature, mount they wouldn't mount.  I did some research and my question was after a failed mount attempt strength as got data attached as snapshots warehouses.  I then mounted force them and he tells will data warehouses and I got them back.

  I followed this KB to identify and resolve the problem

  manipulation of vSphere detected as snapshot LUN LUN (1011387)

  When it was over, I tried to add vms back and found a new show.  Power of vms would expire.  the vmkernel.log showed;

  2014 05-27 T 07: 20:40.010Z [verbose 'Vmsvc' 564D7B90] Vmsvc: filtering Vms: ignored not ready to request power state vm vim. VirtualMachine:75

  AND

  (2014 05-27 T 03: 45:47.821Z cpu4:2052) NMP: nmp_PathDetermineFailure:2084: SCSI cmd RESERVE failed on the vmhba35:C0:T1:L0 path, booking on eui.cff548d1952b1e4c of device status is unknown.

  I had latency huge read write showing upwards, 3K and more

  After several searches, I had in the ESXShell and found that there is no conflict of booking.

  On a whim, I took inventory all virtual machines that are now inaccessible.  I then added a DOS virtual machine. Alto! the latency down to version 1.2 a.7 ms for all data warehouses.

  ultimately the instructions said you may need to add virtual machines in the inventory, but does not remove all virtual machines first.  I was grabbing vms that were not in stock, so I didn't remove the old virtual machines in the inventory.

  A recruit Mennonites, Yes.

• Can photos be deleted from the data store directly?

  Hello

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

  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

• During remediation instant failure disappear from the Manager, is the data store

  Hi guys

  I was contracted to sort a vSphere 4.1 environment and there are a few VM some with up to 4 snapshots on them and more than a year. I've been rehabilitating some of them already with the "remove all" according to vSphere documentation, and all went very well.

  I just tried to reclaim a more, it only has a single VM disk and a snapshot of what is only a few months old. The remediation process has gone wrong, and I got the following error: ' < unspecified file name > file is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store ' < unspecified datastore > root 25/05/2012 16:20:07 25/05/2012 16:20:07 25/05/2012 16:20:09.

  The data store has a block size of 1 MB and should be able to support up to 256 MB file size and disk of the virtual machine is only 84 GB, real size of snapshots is 77 GB with space set 84 GB service identical to the original size of the virtual machine.

  The server is a box of SQL2008R2, so it is quite important that he does not fail. In addition, the company used to have vCenter installed, but at some point in time ceased it to use it and are now only connect directly to the ESXi hosts themselfes.

  Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? The server seems to be working well, but if you look at the snapshot the Snapshot Manager disappeared, but the files still exist in the data store. I'll make sure that we at this time do not turn off the server.

  I also just found when comparing the .vmx files this virtual machine and another virtual machine that still has old clichés in this regard, the following differences.

  hostCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  hostCPUID.1 = "000206c220200800029ee3ffbfebfbff".
  hostCPUID.80000001 = "0000000000000000000000012c 100800.
  guestCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  guestCPUID.1 = "000206c200010800829822030febfbff".
  guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000128100800".
  userCPUID.0 = "0000000b756e65476c65746e49656e69".
  userCPUID.1 = "000206c220200800029822030febfbff".
  userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000128100800".

  That information above, does not exist in the file .vmx for virtual machine that does not have the reclamation of the snapshot.

  Kind regards

  Niels

  OK, let's put it all together:

  ... There's a few VM some with up to 4 snapshots on them and more than a year

  ... The data store has a block size of 1 MB and should be able to support up to 256 GB file size

  ... "The file is larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  --> virtual disks _1 and _2 _3 on different data warehouses (MON)

  Think again of what could be the cause of this error message, the only reason why I can think of is that the other virtual disks have been added after taken the snapshot, and at least one of the virtual disks has a size greater than 254 GB. (see "calculates the time required by the snapshot files system" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384)

  When you delete a snapshot with the virtual machine, ESXi creates a ' consolidate snapshot of assistance. " If this snapshot of assistance cannot be created, you will receive this error message. If this is the case you should at least be able to remove the snapshot with the virtual machine off.

  The next question is how to resolve this situation, in order to create snapshots in the future. Well, the best way - where your hardware is supported - would be upgrade to ESXi 5 and VMFS-5, that supports the file sizes of ~ 2 TB size of blocks of 1 MB unified. In the case where an upgrade is not an option you will need to either create smaller virtual disks and migrate/copy data or create new warehouses of data with a block size and migrate virtual disks.

  An alternative to the above mentioned, which adds however complexity to the configuration - potentially redirect snapshots of a store of data with the appropriate block size. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002929

  André

• VMX file larger than the maximum size supported by the data store

  Hi all

  I seem to be getting a strange error trying to a virtual machine that is located on a snapshot VMFS5, to the data store format.

  The virtual machine (VMDK and VMX file) is installed on a thin provisioned 2 TB datastore which has the value VMFS5 formatting.  It is a data store new with no other VM on it.  I had problems in the past with the datastore block sizes (1 MB, 2 MB, 4 MB, 8 MB on VMFS3), however, I thought that VMFS5 got rid of the question, since it's all blocks of 1 MB and all files in the virtual computer are on the same data store.

  The error I get indicates that the VMX file is too large for the data store (used Im saying "unspecified file), however, if I do the independent 2 TB disk snapshots through the fine.  The virtual machine has two virtual disks, a 50 VMDK of GB and a thin 2 TB VMDK (200 GB used).  I tried fast vMotioning the VMDK and VMX to other data formatted VMFS5 stores and still get the same error.

  I'd appreciate any help and ideas.

  Thank you

  Travis

  Although the block size limit is party, maximum 2 TB file size less 512octets still exists. Since a Flash disk can grow waist put in service the basic disk more overhead for the metadata, the maximum size of virtual disk - to be able to create snapshots - is 2032 GB.

  See "calculation time system required by the snapshot files" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384

  André

• Problem adding disks to the data store

  I currently have a data store RAID 5 consisting of four discs of 250gig. I bought two identical drives more and am trying to extend the data store.

  I have a HP Proliant ML350 G6. I plugged the two new drives, add them in the raid array and now get this error in esxi:

  Volme 1 on HPSA1 logic: RAID 5: 698 GB disk 1,2,3,4,5,6: currently in expansion

  I thought it was a normal phenomenon since I am expanding the raid, but I don't think it would take more than a few minutes. He had this attention for at least four hours now. I did something wrong? I'm trying to expand this data store for the two new drives in the raid to enlarge.

  I've attached a screenshot of the warning.

  The virtual machine has a snapshot. In order to increase the size of the virtual drive, remove the snapshot by using the Snapshot Manager. As long as there is a snapshot virtual disk, that they can not be changed.

  André

• The data store could not be found.

  Hello!

  I have Esxi installed 4.0 on HP DL 380 G6. I have 2 x SAS (2x146GB) drives and I have also attached storage iSCSI (from HP MSA P2000 G3). on which I recorded a few servers. When I run the script ghettoVCB I get the result:

  /SKRIPTA #./ghettoVCB.sh f lista g /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf
  . / ghettoVCB.sh: /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf: line 14: not found
  Recording output to ' / tmp/ghettoVCB-2011-08-23_12-00-27.log '...
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: = ghettoVCB NEWSPAPER BEGIN =.

  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - CONFIGURATION GLOBAL GHETTOVCB = /skripta/ghettoVCB.conf FILE using
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VERSION = 2011_06_28_1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - GHETTOVCB_PID = 33245431
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = VMFS/Synology.
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 2
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_DIR_NAMING_CONVENTION = 2011-08-23_12-00-27
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ADAPTER_FORMAT = buslogic
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - LOG_LEVEL = info
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - BACKUP_LOG_OUTPUT = /tmp/ghettoVCB-2011-08-23_12-00-27.log
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 1
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = all
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_LOG = 0
  2011-08-23 12:00:27 - info:
  The data store could not be found.

  The data store could not be found.

  The data store could not be found.

  2011-08-23 12:00:36 - info: start backup for Windows 2008 R2 coaching
  2011-08-23 12:00:36 - info: creation of snapshot "ghettoVCB-snapshot-2011-08-23" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching

  2011-08-23 12:03:40 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/4d5ed225-cdb17961-51bb-d8d385ac2800/Windows 2008 R2 coaching / Windows 2008 R2 Podpora_1.vmdk" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching

  2011-08-23 12:03:40 - info: ERROR: error in the backup of "/ vmfs/volumes/iSCSI/Windows 2008 R2 coaching / Windows 2008 R2 Podpora.vmdk" for Windows 2008 R2 coaching
  2011-08-23 12:03:42 - info: Instant withdrawal of Windows 2008 R2 coaching...
  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - Info: backup duration: 3.18 Minutes
  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: ERROR: unable to backup Windows 2008 R2 coaching because of the error in VMDK backup!

  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: # final status: ERROR: No. VMs saved! ######

  2011-08-23 12:03:47 - info: = ghettoVCB JOURNAL END =.

  I also do backups on iSCSI NAS storage.

  First ghetto script does not detect the data stores that are local disks where I run few servers and secondly I get error of backup server located on iSCSI for HP MSA.

  Thank you.

  Your destination data store is set incorrectly

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = VMFS/Synology.

  It should be

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/Synology.