Unable to reduce the virtual disk (Linux RHE 5.4) with converter standalone 4.0.1

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• Unable to create the virtual disk: fault. RestrictedVersion.summary

  Hello

  Im trying to create a virtual disk using the CLI on ESX4i.  The script is:

  vmkfstools.pl - Server 10.190.2.51 - c 20 g d eagerzeroedthick - a free /vmfs/volumes/Internal/test.vmdk

  When the script runs I get error: unable to create the virtual disk: fault. RestrictedVersion.summary

  Can someone tell me why please.  Im trying to create a disk of 20 GB with adapter free with eagerzeroedthick on my internal called storage, (no subdirectory).

  The file system is THAT VMFS 3.33 maximum file size is 256 GB.  The block size is 1 MB.  If it is the block size that is the problem how can I easily change?

  It's in a laboratory, not a production environment.  I need the flag eagerzeroedthick like Im trying to create a passive active cluster node MSCS 2 on a single physical node with 2 machines VMS.

  Thank you.

  Mike.

  If you use the free version of ESXi (U4 and later versions), access to tools like the VIMA API are read-only.

  -Matt

  VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

• Unable to expand the virtual disk?

  When you try to extend a hard disk with vmkfstools, I get this meesage:

  Impossible to extend the drive: device or resource busy (1048585

  If I use the customer VI to extend the hard disk (only occurs with this particular drive), there are completed successfully, but no change? I'm going down this same result with vm

  I have esx3.5 VC2.5 U2 and should be able to do it while its still works.

  AY ideas would be most appreciated.

  There is overhead when you extend and you don't have enough. Not for snapshots. I would like to get busy working on a movement since you have not much room for anything whatsoever on that LUN.

• Is it possible to reduce a virtual disk in Fusion 3.1.1

  I brought on a Windows XP-based computer by using the tool of migration (Fusion 3.1.1) for the Mac, and it works fine.  However, the XP machine had a 750 GB with only 135 GB disc, and the process still led to a virtual disk of 698 GB (160 GB on the Mac file system).  My Mac has only a 500 GB drive, and although not currently a problem, I wouldn't let the virtual disk to grow without limit.  Thus, using the partition EASYUS tool, I have reduced the size of the XP partition in the virtual machine to 160 GB.  It resulted in my virtual drive, from about 160GB to 220 GB on the Mac.  I then ran the VMware tools on the XP VM to reduce the virtual disk, which went very well and found with the virtual disk, from 220 GB to 240GB on the Mac.  Not exactly what I expected. Are there tools that I can load it on the Mac for this clean?  Seems kind of silly to have a 240 GB housing file a 160 GB XP partition.  The virtual disk is configured as a single file (not the 2 GB strips) and is NOT previously affected.  Any advice?  FWIW, I've already shared to the top of the original machine, so I can't he re-partition, then re - import.

  Thank you

  Kurt

  Starting with the stop of the vm.  .  .

  (1) settings: Add 2nd hard disk of smaller size

  (2) start the virtual machine

  (3) partition disk "nine."

  (4) copy the XP partition and mark it as bootable. Note that your partitioning program must be able to deal with the copy of the partition which is the current boot drive and EASEUS and others handle this very well.

  (5) judgment, does not suspend the

  (6) settings: Remove all the hard drives, but follow the files.

  (7) settings: Add once again this 2nd hard drive of the smallest size, noting that it is now the "Primary Master"

  (8) settings: Add once again the old boot drive, noting that it is now the primary slave

  (9) starting with the smaller hard disk again

  It's not very different than the steps 'real hardware.

  Message has been re-edited by: ChipMcK congratulate EASEUS for their foresight

• VMware Tools: Shrinkage of the virtual disks - what is - this intended?

  Hello

  Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the "Reduction of the virtual disks' in VMware Tools used for?  It seems to me that 'reduce the virtual disks' is the only thing that it does not.

  I have a virtual disk in a virtual machine with Windows 2003 Std x 64.  A 'volume' (a partition on a dynamic disk) disk occupies 10 GB on a virtual disk.  The rest of the space on the virtual disk is not assigned.  I want to "shrink" the virtual disk to recover the unallocated space.  But the function "reduce virtual disks" VMware Tools seems to allow me only to "shrink" the disk volume or partition.  I want to reduce the virtual disk.

  What Miss me?

  Thank you.

  Your best best for shrink disk is to use VMware vCenter Converter.  The fret is more than one optimization tool, a bit like a Defrag tool, but will not reduce the size of the disk of the virtual computer.

  Here is a good article

  http://www.RTFM-ed.co.UK/?p=40

• Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service, Virtual Disk Manager Interface not registered

  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on this laptop as a new installation about six months ago.  Since then, I don't think I ever ran diskmgmt.  Today, I joined a new external hard drive usb, it reported the drivers installed fine, but then the installation bombed at the beginning.  I went to verity, what had happened and has run diskmgmt.msc (as an administrator), but she came back with the message "Unable to connect to the virtual disk Service" and also a small OK msgbox appeared with the title "Virtual Disk Manager" and the "Interface not registered" message

  I disconnected the USB hard drive and tried again diskmgmt, but no change.

  I restarted in safe mode, tried diskmgmt, but no change.

  I ran sfc/scannow, but it has reported that it found no errors.

  I checked that the virtual disk service has been configured as a textbook in services.msc, and event viewer showed that when I ran diskmgmt he started VDS and then stopped VDS.

  I tried again, but still not like before.

  Is there some dll I can't regsrv32?

  Thank you

  Marc

  Hello

  I suggest you to return the items for the following responses from Microsoft, he says same issues with trying the troubleshooting steps and check if it helps.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/cant-start-disk-management-unable-to-connect-to/31898500-9d84-4CB5-9ba3-c1f42e3b1ace

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-hardware/problems-with-Vista-after-unplugging-by-external/093f1660-160F-478f-b81a-493e963ffd9a

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx

  Note: it also applies to Windows 7.

  Hope the information is useful.

• 98% has FAILED: unable to reconfigure the virtual destination computer. Linux machine

  I'm trying to convert a Linux x 64 machine and get this error at 98 percent.

  «FAILED: unable to reconfigure the virtual machine of destination.»

  I attached the logs, please help.

  Hello

  Your problem is the same as in Linux P2V: no space is available on the device

  I recommend that you use Converter 6.1, it adds automatically more space on the volume / Boot to avoid these problems.

  HTH
  Plamen

• How to reduce the size of the virtual disk

  Is it possible to reduce the size of the virtual disk to a virtual machine.  If so, how?  We tried the shrink option in the VMware tools running on the virtual (Win2003) computer, but it didn't reduce the size of the unit at all.

  VMware Converter is probably the best option for fret.

• Reduce the size of the virtual disk RAID 5

  I have Windows Server 2003 is installed on a virtual disk PERC H700 RAID-5. Total size of the disk is 5.5 TB. The problem is that WinServer 2003 cannot use the disk due to the MBR 2 TB limit (and I can't convert to GPT without destroy all partitions, which is what I try to avoid). Since 3.5 TB of drive space is unallocated (and reconciliations), is there a way to reduce the size of the virtual disk to remove this space which can not be used anyway? Then, I could by using the remaining capacity to create a new virtual disk that can be set up as GPT and access the space through it (or two new virtual drives 2 TB and 1.5 TB in size). I know that you can expand a virtual disk, but you can a shrink?

  No, you can develop most of the virtual drives, but you will not be able to reduce them.

  You will have to start on this subject, creating a VD less than 2 TB for boot/OS disk, then the rest can be used in an another VD.

• VMware Workstation is unable to open one of the virtual disks required by this virtual machine because it is larger than the maximum file size supported by the host file system.

  I'm transitioning from Windows XP (64-bit) on a new computer with Windows 7 installed.  I undertook to VMWare Workstation 6 7.0.1 in the process.  The problem is with a very large RAID 5 volume on the new system.  It's a score of 5.45 TB (TPG and NTFS).

  When I try to start a virtual machine on this volume, I get the message "VMware Workstation cannot open one of the virtual disks required by this virtual machine because it is larger than the maximum size of the files supported by the host file system.".  This is obviously not true.  If I copy the virtual machine to another drive on the system, it starts without a problem.

  Anyone have any ideas on how to work around this problem?

  try to add this line in the vmx file:

  diskLib.sparseMaxFileSizeCheck = "false".

  Maybe it helps.

  VMDK-type do you use?

  monolithicSparse? -C' is the only part type more?

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• How to resize the size of the virtual disk for Linux guest OS

  Hello

  I installed VMWare WS 6.5 on my host OS (Vista) and have created a guest VM with RedHat like OS.  When creating, I've specified to create a virtual disk with a size of 8 GB, but have not selected the option of immediate creation - it being understood that VM is assigned additional as needed.  But now, on the comments and space use is 100%.  How can I allocate extra space for the virtual machine?  Also, is it possible to go beyond 8 GB, if so how.

  Enjoy your time, help.

  Concerning

  VMware-vdiskmanager allows to extend the virtual disk and use a third-party utility to extend the partition of guest operating system after having developed the virtual disk.

  Make a backup of your virtual machine before you do anything and you ensure that you don't have any snapshots

• When running Disk Management, get the error - failed to connect to the virtual disk Service.

  When I run the Snap on the local server disk management, I get an error message in the status bar: unable to connect to the virtual disk Service.

  Thanks, I have tried these things and nothing has solved the problem.  Here's what I did:

  (a) check the VDS service was manual and failures later per second are 'take no action '.
  ANSWER: Yes to manual and following, second has not changed to "restart the service" of "non-action".
   
  (b) sfc/scannow as administrator
  ANSWER: the System File Checker has found no problem (program reported no problem and findstr/c: "[SR]" on CBS.log doesn't have the list of issues)

  (c) restore to a previous system restore point
  ANSWER: I have tried restore points several more early, each of them failed

• Please help: the virtual disk parent has changed...

  After a few days of research about this error, I decided that I had to ask for some evidence of your experts to help me recover from this error.

  Thank you!

  It is a small desktop application:

  -Dell T410 esxi Server 5

  -a virtual machine, Windows Server 2003 with 2 discs, no fixed size

  I was help this office by managing services and updates on this Server 2003.  I ran updates on Friday and restarted.  When he came I open vSphere and found the virtual machine does not.  I tried to start it and got the error.  So, it seems I may have the CID issue that needs to be corrected.

  I don't have a direct access to this server so I'm remoting with RDS on 2003 VM server and vSphere on the esxi.  Did I make the right diagnosis and is it possible for me to make the necessary corrections to distance or I need direct access to the server?  Everything I've read has files of people editing CID numbers and it seems that they directly access the esxi server.

  Shows the data store:

  hard 'server '.

  hard 'server_1.

  'server' - 000001.vmdk

  "server_1" - 000001.vmdk

  'server' - snapshot1.vmsn

  I stuck a few newspapers below...

  DISC: Scsi0:0 [OPEN ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' persistent R]
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001-delta.vmdk ': open with success (10) size = 5620404224, hd = 213826. Type 8
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-DSCPTR: open [0]: "Server-000001 - delta.vmdk ' (0xa)
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.022Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LINK: open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' (0xa): vmfsSparse, 35526656 sectors / 16.9 GB.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-flat.vmdk ': open with success (14) size = 18189647872, hd = 181059. Type 3
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-DSCPTR: open [0]: 'server - flat hard' (0xe)
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LINK: open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk' (0xe): vmfs, 35526656 sectors / 16.9 GB.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB LINK: DiskLinkIsAttachPossible: incompatibility of the content ID (parentCID f72e60c7! = f05537b3) /vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-STRING: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server.vmdk ': cannot open (the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created.) The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children's content).
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001-delta.vmdk ': closed.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-VMFS: ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-flat.vmdk ': closed.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DISKLIB-LIB: can't open ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' with the virtual disk 0xa flags parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children (18) content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | DRIVE: Cannot open disk ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk ': the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent for children (18) content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | Msg_Post: error
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | [msg.disk.noBackEnd] unable to open drive ' / vmfs/volumes/4f4781a4-15d3bbb8-2681-782bcb6a6964/server/server-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX | [msg.disk.configureDiskError] reason: the virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created. The content of the virtual disk ID parent does not match the ID of parent matching the child content.
  2012-08 - 05T 20: 00:06.035Z | VMX |

  Thanks again for any direction you can provide!

  / r

  John

  The parentCID of the snapshot must match the CID from its parent, as shown in the log file

  "... The content ID mismatch (parentCID f72e60c7! = f05537b3)... »

  Server.VMDK

  CID = f05537b3
  parentCID = ffffffff

  Server - 000001.vmdk

  CID = a2b9ba8b
  parentCID = f72e60c7---> f05537b3

  Make sure you change the file on the host using the vi editor or - if you want to change the file in Windows - use an editor who is aware of the line breaks Unix (do not use Notepad!)

  Once this is done, I highly recommend that you take another cliché before you on the virtual computer. This prevents existing virtual disk files to be modified, so that you can return to this State where you need. After that everything works as expected, consider deleting all snapshots.

  André

• Performance of the virtual disks

  Hello!

  Two questions

  1 - it there really a big difference in the performance of the discs thin vs thin discs? one of my friends said slim is slower because he may need more and this growing each time may reduce the speed and performance. is this really?

  2. I get no difference between the discs of updated zero lazy-reset and greedy. that means for the impatient..., are the blocks are written by 0 at the beginning?

  There are a few blocks in the disc ok? then, what is the point to write zero in each of them and then change the exact data we want to be on that block? (maybe there is 1 maybe 0)

  Thank you very much

  So I will use zero - eager to drive thick for my server files (300 users and millions of files) and lazy zero for databases and thin for operating systems and machines at low load of I/O and small changes

  I recommend thick eager-reset to zero especially for databases. It can depend on the workload, however, there are various tutorials for how to configure databases. MS - SQL I usually create virtual discs eager-reset to zero and follow the best spirit of practice of MS formatting NTFS with a 64 KB Cluster size. Where the OS is Windows 2003, don't forget to align the partition! For more information, see Disk Partition alignment Best Practices for SQL Server

  Since, as you have discovered - reset is required will certainly benefit you eager-reset of the virtual disks.

  When you use thin disks, make sure you have the alarms in place to avoid the problems of out-of-space drive!

  André

• HP 15r205tu: State failure in bootnig and unable to reduce the brightness of the display of power

  I bought HP 15r205tu notebook on 19/05/2015 and installed windows OS 8.1, but when the OS starts, I get error DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. I did already reinstall OS twice but no luck. Another problem with the function of luminosity. Impossible to reduce the brightness of the laptop. Please help me to solve the problem as soon as possible.

  Hi @renjithcr90 ,
  
  Thank you for visiting the HP Forums! A place where you can find solutions for your problems, with the help of the community!
  
  I stumbled upon your post on the laptop and wanted to help you! I looked in your question about your laptop 15-r205tu HP and questions with failure then the starting state and unable to reduce the brightness of the screen. Here is a link to the HP Support Assistant, if you need it. Simply download and run the application and it will help with the software and drivers on your system that need updated. If the system is not up-to-date, it could cause your question.

  Make sure that you reboot the system twice, it will check the updates of Windows at this time here.

  Thank you.