SVmotion - thick disk of source-> svmotion-> should become a thin disk in vSphere CLI power

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• How to find if a scsi disk can be used as a ROW or only use not vsphere CLI.

  Hi, I want to know if the SCSI disk can be used as RDM and a remote computer running vSphere CLI.

  I tried to use 'vicfg-scsidevs - l', but it doesn't have the required information list

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  SCSI level: 2 is nickname: status:

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  Other names:

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  =======================================================

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  I hope this helps!

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• Confusion of thin or thick disk

  Hi all

  I have a strange problem.

  We have a several s vm disk who told me are thick, but all I can see suggests that they are thin.

  In the data of one of the disks store, it says the following: size and put into service, which shows me the disc is thin.

  

  Do not know why the size shows still as provisioned, while the Linux operating system is no indication that 52 GB is used out of the 100 GB provisioned

  When your right click on the vmdk, you have the ability to inflate the disc, this also highlights the disc being thin provisioned.

  According to my understanding, the inflation option should be grayed out, be they vmdk is supplied thickness.

  When you right-click the virtual machine, select edit it also shows the drive as being thin

  

  Someone has seen a question similar to this one before or can help clarify if my argument of the disk being thin is correct or not.

  Thank you

  JIT

  According to your screenshots, discs are THIN provisioned. If the disk is THICK you get a column 'Provisioned size' (screenshot Ref first). I assume you are using the VI client.

  Also you don't get not "inflate the option" If the disk is THICK. You are right.

  Post edited by: vVision

• convert the eager Zerod thick disk

  I have shut down my db with disks FT migrated to another host server.

  Error message: cannot open (thin/TBZ disks cannot be opened in multiwriter mode.).

  This migration removed the formatting of the disk based on what I read in this article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1033570) and I'm unable to turn on. Checked this and it looks like it was the case:
  Vim - cmd /vmsvc/device.getdevice 240 | grep-i 'Hard drive 5' - a 14

  label = "hard drive 5.

  Summary = "Ko 41,943,040."

  },

  backup = {(vim.vm.device.VirtualDisk.FlatVer2BackingInfo)

  dynamicType = < unset >

  fileName = "[iscsi_vsa_03] vmdb12/vmdb12_4.vmdk,"

  data store = ' vim. Datastore:4df78c93 - 28dd82b4 - 30 to 3-001b21378e78',.

  diskMode = "persistent."

  Split = false,

  writeThrough = false,

  thinProvisioned = false,

  eagerlyScrub = < unset >

  UUID = "6000C298-9a1e-41e5-674c-06f841d4c925."

  contentId = "162229b0fda7a14745246a8a3e255285."

  changeId = < unset >

  ~ #
  Here, VMware recommends that convert the disc http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1035823
  • If the virtual disk VMDK is a Thin, convert the eager Zerod drive of the thickness using the vmkfstools --inflatedisk command. For example:

vmkfstools --inflatedisk /vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/VMName/VMName.vmdk
    
    Note: the command of inflation indicates the percentage of completion.
    
    
  • If the VMDK virtual disk is thick, convert the drive eager to zero thickness using the vmkfstools --eagerzero command. For example:
    
    vmkfstools --eagerzero /vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/VMName/VMName.vmdk
    
    Note: the avid zero order does not indicate the percentage of completion.

  1. do I need to run the two commands?

  2 will. that affect data on these discs?

  Hello.

  The disc is not thin provisioned (thinProvisioned = false), then the command ' vmkfstools - inflatedisk ' is not necessary.  Running the ' vmkfstools - eagerzero "command should not affect all data on the disk, but it is always a good idea to make sure that you have a backup before you run all disk commands.

  Good luck!

• Conversion of thick disks into thin, but not for any space back

  Hi all

  We have been the conversion of the virtual disks from thick to thin over 30 servers using the method in offline mode, as we don't have storage vmotion:

  vmkfstools-i SERVERNAME.vmdk d thinSERVERNAME.vmdk thin

  The virtual machine is a good mix of NT4 until 2008, vsphere 4.1 all patches installed until 01/05/11. Some we have been recovery of space well when comparing the original vmdk and sizes of vmdk converted file on the console with 'ls s' and 'Browse datastore' in the viclient, but others that we do not get something back into space?

  Using Windows disk defrag to analyze the disks it shows there are no data at the end of the disc also surely the disc should shrink to where the last piece of data on the disk is?

  What you have to do to thin to reclaim any unused space on the virtual FRONT thickness conversion machine drive?

  Once that a disk block was written for her data even if the files have been deleted. You must use something like sdelete before use vmkfstools. Products like sdelete zero free space allowing you to reduce the disk.

• Thin and thick disks on the same virtual machine?

  Is this possible with vsphere ESX 4... to have a disc thin and thick, attached to the same Virtual Machine... ? Is this documented place... ?

  Thanks,-Nicodemus

  Yes...

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• Need advice on thin or thick disk

  I need to install a few servers with openSuse11.1x64 and Oracle11.1 on vSphere4 and esx4i. Each server has a data store of 1 GB on the shared SAS storage.

  The databases will grow up to 1 TB.

  I have a big dilemma, what type of disc it is (thin or thick) and which is usually the best practice in this situation?

  I notice, for example, if I create a thickness of 1 TB disk, after that one or two snapshoot an error disk is full. If I create a thin disk it does not error, but what about thin disk IO performance?

  Thanks to all the good advice.

  Hello

  1 Vmware tools on openSUSE are "obsolete." How do I install them?

  The 'normal' fact. Select "Update VMware Tools" in the menu VM and OpenSUSE should see the latest VMware Tools CDROM. Maybe then you will need to run the installer of your self... However, if you use open VMware tools is another topic and there anotehr forum for this. The way to tell is to look at your list of openSuse packages and checks if there is a package named open-vm-tools, if yes, then you are using the open version. Let me know if I can redirect to the right position.

  2. If I did only a single VM on the server, the number of vCPU and memory is the best option?

  Do you plan on adding several virtual machines?

  3. my datastore has 4 MB block size because I need the 1 TB drive. Is this ok? Can I create with the lower block size 1 TB drive.

  N ° to create a 1 to VMDK file, you need the largest block size.

  For a VMFS with > 2 TB - 512 bytes of space, you would use "Extensions" to bring together multiple LUNS up to 64 TB - 512 byte MAX. There is an option to consider going forward... However, a single VMDK can only be 2 TB you would then look to add new disks and for strong transactional use DB I would forget in fact on the use of vmdk in all.

  In your case, I would use Raw Disk cards out of your storage device... Not VMDK and use several RDM for data/logs/etc.

  Best regards
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• Virtual machines deployed on VSAN without selected with THICK disk storage policy

  Hello

  We had an admin build 50 VMs on our data VSAN store but did not choose the VSAN storage policy while he got the default which allows you to have the THICKNESS of the disks provisioned

  I have chnaged any of the virtual machines to use the VSAN storage policy (which uses a thin) but the virtual machine is still using all the space

  Is there a way to make virtual machines recover white space, now they have a VSAN storage strategy?

  Yes - I have to agree with Duncan. I don't think that there is a way to return/reduce the size.

  An idea is, if you have additional storage, Storage vMotion VM to NFS or VMFS, converting to thin and then back to VSANS with a policy that doesn't have a "thickness".

  Try it with a VM - see if it works.

  A bit of a drag, I know, but I can't think of any other casual way.

  HTH

  Cormac

• VMWare esxi 5.5 - is possible to shrink a thick disk hard put into service?

  Hey guys

  Recently, I have increased the size of the hard drive to one of my VM to 300 GB drives when I only need 200GB.

  The player is supplied thickness. Memory I don't think that you can reduce a thick disc put into service from the client VMWare 5.5.

  So my question is, is there another way I can reduce this hard drive stocked thickness so I can recover unused space?

  Kind regards

  Aaron

  Yes, technically, if you have a 300 GB windows volume supported by a thick hard of 300 GB you can do the following:

  1. Defragment system files comments with Raxco Disk defrag or similar, as the use of the option consolidate free space
  2. Try and make sure that a good number costs blocks by the end of the partition (options defrag boot use pagefile and $mft etc.)
  3. Reduce the 200 GB partition
  4. Storage vmotion virtual machine and set the destination thin format

  This hard never will now have more than 200 GB unless the windows partition is cultivated but the hard remains thin. Otherwise, vmware standalone converter or vmkfstools way to go. If prefer vmkfstools.

• Unable to connect the existing thick disks in VM

  Hello

  I am trying to establish a connection between a series of existing virtual disks and some virtual machine. So far, I was able to connect to all my discs thin-set in service without any problem with the following line:

  $targetVM | New-harddisk - DiskPath ($disk. File name)

  However, it seems that this command does not always work when it comes to thick-set disks in service, resulting in the following error message:

  http://PUU.sh/9xBs9/a73fd64b20.PNG

  I'm trying to get a work around for thick discs, but I'm out of ideas.

  Thanks in advance.

  Take a look on Re: adding copied the hard disk (VMDK) to a virtual machine