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• RDM use space on the store data or SAN

  Dear all,

  According to my understanding, RDM creates a mapping file in the data store in the folder of the virtual machine, but it consumes all of the space on the data store, but yes, on SAN. I have a virtual machine with 50 GB vmdk and a physical RDM 50 GB, the machine's memory is 8 GB so vsphere client, seems space put into service for machine to 108. So it means that 50 GB of RDM is also included in funded space shown in vsphere client.

  The same look at space of data store, the space of data store configured showing also 50 GB RDM counted in the space provided, where, as the data must be on the SAN, can someone explain why in the data store space calculation as rdm as space accrued on himself.

  Please let me know if my question is not clear.

  Thank you

  As the rdm file uses no space disk (only a few bytes of the header/descriptor file), the disk space is still available for other virtual machines.

  André

• Capacity of data store poster now much smaller than the original configuration

  Hi all

  I have my new configuration of server DELL R710 - 2 x 146 GB drives in the server on a RAID 1, connected to an MD1000 with 10x146GB in a RAID 10 SAS drives, and 5 x 750 GB SAS drives in a RAID 5.  My controllers RAID show each virtual table as you would expect to see the ability, however, VMware now shows my RAID 5 744 GB data store, instead of the 2.5 to he showed last night!  My VM on this data store seems solid, but I have no idea where my ability went.   I'm under ESXi 4 - free Version.

  What can I do to recover this loss of capacity?

  ESX (i) has a limit of 2 TB LUN and with ESXi you end up with the rest of storage after have been subtracted portions of 2 TB (i.e. TB 4.7 LUN donnerait.7 TB of storage (4: 7 - 2.0 - 2.0)).  With most of the controllers, you can create multiple LUNS on the same disks that you can use the complete storage if you create 2-Bay RAID 5 on the 750 GB drives.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  New book in town - Start Guide quick vSphere -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to the unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

• The data store size decreases!

  HII alll,

  I have a virtual machine running windows server 2003, with 135 GB hdd, I noticed in the data of this vm store two files from virtual drive...

  the first vmname.vmdk with size 135 GB and the other is vmname - 00001.vmdk with 15 GB and gettting increase day after day, until it reached today 18 GB

  the free space of data store becomes a decrease coz the vmname - 00001.vmdk file... I don't know what is it? and how can I solve this problem.

  It worsen now coz if there is no space in the data store the virtual machine will be down...

  any idea please?

  It's a snapshot.  Right click on the VM and go in your snapshot Manager you will probably see it there.

• Find top level folders in a data store

  Is there an API/property that returns all records (vm image folders/files) in the data store?

  Thank you

  RAM

  "FileNotFound" fault is thrown when the specified file or folder was not found. Since we move directly to the data store, he has thrown for lack of 'InvalidDatastore', in which case the name of the data store would have been incorrect. I created an example of java to call this method. Try to run this example and see if you still get the same fault. This example takes in the host name and the name of the data store.

  If you get this error, then try to run this method to another data store as well on another host or VC. Also, check the results of this method using the CROWD call. Open managed for the ESX Server Object Explorer and drill to the managed object "HostSystem. Here you can see the property "datastoreBrowser". Select the corresponding link. Now, the methods, click on SearchDatastore_Task. In the new window, enter [datastore_iscsi2] string in the property "datastorePath" (without the quotes) and leave the "searchSpec" property Virgin Click "Invoke method" and see the results.

• Free space in the data store is lower we shouldn't

  Hello

  I'm under VMware ESXi on HP Proliant DL380 G5 server - the data store has a global capacity of 678 GB, with now 34 GB free. I have 5 VMs running:

  reader1/lecteur2

  (1) Win2k3: 50 / 100

  (3) Win2k3: 50 / 50

  (1) Windows XP: 10

  Oh - and the two models, one for the server (50) and a XP (10)

  Yesterday, I created a couple of clones of the XP, 1 with Vmkfstools - i and the other with vConverter - especially for the practice, but they are only 10 GB. Before my creations, free space read about 115 GB - then she got at the moment, I noticed 34GB. I deleted the two new virtual machines thinking I came home back from space, but no dice. Math is not my best subject, but this does not seem to add up. Do something wrong, I missed something?

  Is it possible to reclaim that space? Before I thought to check with you guys, it dawned on me that I could stop all VMs and restart the host, but if there is another way, I want to know it.

  Linda

  Browse the data store - go to the "Home" view - inventory - data warehouses, click a data store, and then select Browse.

  Look in the subdirectory for each virtual computer and determine that seem abnormal large size files and total size of all files that exceed the size of the virtual disks assigned to the virtual machine.  If you specify then what are the names of the files a plan for how to get rid of them.

• Low free space on the data store.

  Hi ladies and gentlemen

  I have 3 connected to my server from Vsphere data warehouses, data warehouses are a Terrabyte each but only have about 65 concerts on the free space on each of them.

  How this small space affect my ability to take pictures? Take a snapshot potentially cause data warehouses to run out of space?

  Thank you very much for all the tips...

  Concerning

  Clint.

  Dear Sir.

  Snapshot response potentially cause data store run area is YES.

  The explanation is dependent on the setting of the snapshot, configured manually, automatically configured (by any agent backup) or?

  Sorry, I'm not explain in detail here.

• Recommended minimum on the data store when free disk space you use connection vRanger 5

  I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the recommendation is on the left of free space on a data store. I use 5 vRanger connection to back up my VM to another physical server. As such, I will not take snapshots 'manual '. I'm not sure if vRanger connection, running on a separate server, creates additional files on the data store.

  I've read a few threads on this site and some are advocating to let free, 20 to 25%, while that of others, offer 10% left free may be sufficient. Is there an official number for this or if anyone can share valuable experince?

  Welcome to the community,

  I generally recommend to have about 20% of free space on each data store. However, this depends on the activity/writes to disk during backup. vRanger connection - as well as any other backup software - create a snapshot, back up the virtual machine and then remove / commit the snapshot again. This is necessary in order to access the virtual disk files. Usually the backups are made during hours, so snapshots should not grow too much. However, you must also take into account the fact that in the case of a mistake - if the snapshot cannot be deleted - it will grow until it is deleted manually.

  André

• ESXI 4.1, 348481 Question about data store, not be able to use all the free space?

  I am working on installing ESXi 4.1 on a Dell R710 with 3.7 to with SATA, RAID 5 disks. My problem is when I'm going to create my store of data it shows I have 3.7 TB of free space. I told him to use all but the data store comes out 1.63 TB. I deleted that and made a 1 TB data store, but when I went to create a new one he would not give me the ability to use the remaining free space. I'm really green when it comes to the implementation of VMWARE for any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you, Don

  Hello.

  The maximum size for a single volume must be 2 TB - 512 bytes, as described in KB 3371739.  Use the RAID Dell utilities to carve up the storage volumes of that size or smaller.

  Good luck!

• Cannot add new vmdk to vm from data store space free

  Hello

  what I am doing wrong?

  When trying to add new vmdk of VM (SQL) of free space to store data, I get an error. See attach...

  I tried 19GB, 18 GB, and even 10GB... the same error. As you can see there is 19.46 GB of free space on the data store.

  Thank you.

  chances are you have snapshots or Exchange memory files using this space.

  Best practices of VMware is to leave 25 + % free on your VMFS volumes.

  I weoud suggest you use another if possible VMFS volume

• Pass a VMDK to a data store to another is not free up space as expected

  Hi, I'm ability on my local data store.  To remedy this, I created an iSCSI data store and used the vSphere client to move unused VMDK to it.  Unfortunately, the free space of the local data store won't upward.  I checked the guest VM that I removed the VMDK from and it shows the use of the appropriate space.  In addition, it has none of the snapshots for her.  Any help would be appreciated.

  you right-click on the DS in question and choose "Refresh".

• check the free space on the data store before making svmotion

  I'm trying to understand how to check free space on the data store until the proceeds of the svmotion.

  Example:

  -must first check that that sizeof (VMs to be moved) < sizeof (destination) - 50 GB before in terms of the

  -should leave a 50 GB buffer so that the script ends when all the VMS are moved from source data store or there are only 50 GB left on the source data store

  -must move VM to store data source to the destination data store 2 at a time, until the completion

  -must create a local log file, and then send this log file using the relay smtp server.

  I just started using powershell and have played with different things for about a week. I'm trying to understand this problem, anyone has advice or suggestions for me?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated...

  Hello

  Yes, the $vmname is empty, change the line as below

  Move-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name $vmm.Name) -Datastore (Get-Datastore -Name $DSname)
  

• Data ESXI free space consumption permanently store

  Dear,

  Please I need help, our ESXI 5.5 database have a total of 2 TB of space and have 2 virtual machine, virtual computers have 'Thick lazy provisioned to zero' hard drives

  but before we have 471 GB of free space, but since last week, our space free datastore continually dwindling I don't know why, after all you said 3minutes datastore is reduced by a few megabytes

  Please any help is greatly appreciated :-),.

  Definitely Yes. Snapshot files increases over time, according to the changed data in the virtual disk. They can grow up to the size of their basic disks provisioned.

  André

• I receive a "Low disk space" message and to free up space (d) car which seems full of backup files dating from when I got the laptop in 2008.

  I receive a "Low disk space" message and to free up space (d) car which seems full of backup files dating from when I got the laptop. Now I also have the message 'the last backup impossible' because I don't have enough space on this drive.  He had originally 110 GB Local disk (d :)) and it fell to 7.44 MB of free space.) Can I remove the back of the 'safeguards' located in the 3 files and start on the 17/04/2008 right up to 2011-01.05 and just keep the last backup or removing the back will cause problems? Can someone help thank you.

  Hi KarenRoss56,

  You can try to remove the old files of backup from 2008 to 2010 and check.

  Note: When you delete these files and later if you perform a restore, you will not be able to get previous data. If you need one of these files, you can transfer the files to an external drive before you delete the system files.

  You can also use Disk Cleanup to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space and help your computer run more quickly.

  Delete files using disk cleanup

  Hope this information is useful.

• Lack of space in the unable to consolidate data store, what can I do now?

  Hi all:

  Today, a single server VM was off because of the latest snapshot of veeam.

  I wen to vm machine to the Snapshot Manager and delete the snapshot.

  After you remove the server has been started and it seems that everything is OK except the message this need of consolidation server.

  I tried to regroup, but when I try to consolidate, it shows me this error

  An error occurred in consolidating the discs: msg.disklib.NOSPACE.

  After trial of vmware knowledge base I'm cloning virtual machine in another data store that is has a bit more space (temporary) so I test if it works this VM cloned as the original.

  I have a few questions. the original VM is up and runing correctly... but I don't know what to do next, please can you help me?

  1. I can move the original VM to another store of data with more than one space the machine consolidate? or it's very risky?

  2 I can always use the actual virtual machine without group until I have buy new data store and the passage to the new data store and consolidate? or maybe to clone the virtual machine to the new data store and remove them the old VM?

  3º if the cloned version works like the original VM machine, I guess I can pass version clone production and delete the virtual machine no consolidated this original data store?

  Kind regards

  There's nothing uncommon to 'Migrate' computer virtual data to another store. With Essentials it will unfortunately take time out well (without live migration of storage available).

  In any case, the cloning should also work. The clone will get however a new address UUID and MAC, (i.e. you may need to reconfigure the network), and the cloned VM will get a new ID of virtual machine, which can be important if you use a virtual machine based backup application. However, cloning does not touch the source, so if something does not work as expected you still have the source available.

  André