Update 4 (153875) broke my ESXi data store

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• ESXi data store set to a maximum of 35 GB?

  Hello, I have ESXi installed as a virtual VM Workstation 9 machine and connected with vSphere.  If my laptop has 196 GB of free space, why my ESXi data store is set to a maximum of 35 GB?  I can increase 100 GB?

  How much space is allocated in vmware workstation to esxi virtual machine?

  probably of 35 GB

• trying to create an ESXi data store on the local drive.  Configuring the host error: unable to update the disk partition information

  I'm a newbie on ESXi and don't know what it takes to get ESXi correctly partition my drive SATA 500 correctly.

  I will implement a laboratory unit to carry out tests for ESXi and ESXi is not quite correctly the disk partitioning or do not see a good partition in order to create a data store.

  This system was able to correctly identify and configure a data store on a small 80 GB seagate SATA disk, however, this isn't quite enough storage so I swapped the hard drive and tried to re - install ESXi on the new hd.

  I use a USB boot ESXi since and it is launched and configures the card intel pro1000 pci ethernet correctly.  also correctly the id of the cpu and memory.  everything seems fine and he is even able to see the hard drive.

  Here are some screenshots of the process that I go through to make my data store...

  on this photo-sous the column titled 'available' is 'none', also said, under the title 'san identifier' he said 'not applicable' - I guess that's not quite right?

  

  

  

  

  and disappointment - failure?

  

  I tried to go into the bios if there are some settings I need to do to get this hard drive set up... I don't understand enough about ESXi to find out why the drive is not found and configured correctly.  is this a bios problem w / my system or a problem of ESXi?

  pls help!

  You have generally not, but it might be interesting to start with something like a Linux live CD and then using gparted or other to wipe all the top partition information.

• ESXi data store on virtual drive

  Client a BE7K servers (M4 UCS C-240), it came pre-installed with ESXi 5.5 and 4 virtual drives, each virtual drive is configured with RAID 5. Now, we need to install a UC application that requires RAID 10. We use not one of the data store for any guest operating system so our plan is to remove this DS and respective Virtual Drive, break this RAID and rebuild than RAID 10 is here the challenge how can we identify which Datastore, mapped with which virtual drive? My understanding is that ESXi does not map 1-1 (IE VD0 = DS1). If anyone can shed some light on to identify what would be really appreciated.

  Thank you.. !

  I hope it's a little more concise:

  Take the exit of

  ~ # esxcfg-scsidevs - m

  NAA.678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63:1/vmfs/devices/disks/naa. 678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63: 1 5777f3b3-7bd4c97a-4ba0-a0369f9400b4 0 datastore4

  Then this match with the release of the list of esxcli storage base path:

  Unknown.vmhba1 - unknown.2:2 -naa.678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63

  UID: unknown.vmhba1 - unknown.2:2 - naa.678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63

  The Runtime name: vmhba1:C2:T2: L0

  Feature: naa.678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63

  Full device name: Cisco's Local disk (naa.678da6e715d760101f0aa4a61d982f63)

  Adapter: vmhba1

  Channels: 2

  Target: 2

  LUN: 0

  ... snip

  This must match your 3rd VD, since the target and VD #s start with 0.

  It confirmed in the laboratory: see below

  vd_order_1.jpg

  

  VD0 (1 virtual drive created) corresponds to T0... and VD3 corresponds to T3.

  These figures are of course unique to each hba/controller if you want to ensure the vhba # and controller # (vmhba1 and C2 in my example) come from the device even when they match.

  Kirk...

• After re-installing ESXi data store

  Dear all,

  We were using VMWare ESX 3.5 on an experimental basis.

  There are 6 hard drives connected to the controller RAID servers. We have created 2 logical drives: 2 drives in RAID 1 and 3 disks + 1 as a spare online in RAID 5. We installed VMware ESX 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1) and after installation added second disc (RAID 5) using the function 'add the data store' in the VMware VI Client as a second data store.

  That the trial period is over, we want to remove VMware ESX 3.5 and replace it with VMware ESXi 3.5. We copied all files with files from virtual computer on the second data store.

  My question is this:

  What will happen with the second data store when installing ESXi 3.5 on the first logical disk (RAID 1)?

  If nothing will happen to the second store of data (RAID 5) during installation, the function 'Add the data store' of the VI Client will allow us to add this data without fomratting store it?

  Thanks in advance,

  Orhan

  There is an option in the installation allowing you not to crush the warehouses of VMFS data - so when you start your new server it should already see the existing data store and you should be able to go through it and see the existing data

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• VMWare Fusion Pro can see the ESXi data store but not VM on it.

  Hi all

  I have a MacPro 5.1 I am under ESXi on via a USB key. The MacPro has 4 SATA drives configured as stores of data with VM on some of them.

  When connecting to the ESX host through the 'connect to server' Fusion Pro I can see data banks but not the virtual machine.

  The virtual machine can be seen on the ESX host, when connecting via SFTP.

  Any ideas?

  & I thought about it... I need to register for the virtual machine

  as in: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006160

• How to get my OS images (iso) on my ESXi data store

  Hello

  Since we are unable to connect by shell on a server ESXi, I would like to know if there is a way to copy all my iso OS locally on my new ESXi server.

  Is it possible to do?

  Johnny

  If the purpouse is to install the operating system you can set it up the computer virtual CD/DVD rom to be client and map the ISO of your client, then install the operating system.

  This isn't what you're looking for you can enable ssh for root by using the following URL and use winSCP to copy the ISO to any store data presented to the ESXi server.

  http://www.VM-help.com/ESX/esx3i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php

  I hope this helps.

  -Surya

• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André

• List of virtual machines residing on the data store, ESXi and Cluster

  Hello

  I have the server list in csv as VM1, VM2 40... VM40. Need to findout that those VMS resides on the host to which ESXi, data store and Cluster name using the import function. Any help on this truly appreciated.

  Thank you

  VMK

  If you change the last line of the script in:

  } | Export-CSV-path VMsReport.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  then, you save the output in a .csv file called VMsReport.csv.

• Submit any comments ESXi host data store

  Hi all

  I installed ESXi on HP DL 380 G6 with HDD 6 total. I created the first 2HDD using Raid1 (138 GB total) and the rest 4HDD use Raid5 (total 800 GB size). When you have finished install ESXi, I can see the two storage under the ESXi data store. My question is how can I present the entire 800 GB disk for computer to newly created guest (Win2K8 R2)? When I add as the new drive of the guest computer, it only allowed me to create 200 + GB virtual disk of size only.

  That will be great if anyone can suggest me and guide me.

  THX & Rgds,

  CoCo

  Welcome to the community,

  When you create a data store, you can choose the size of block for her. The maximum size of the files to a virtual drive depends on the size of this block. For the limits of the size of the different blocks, see for example http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384. In your case, to create a ramdisk of 800 GB you must select a block size of at least 4 MB. The block size cannot be changed, so that you must delete and re-create the data store. ATTENTION: This will destroy all data on this data store!

  André

• Data store inventory and storage VMotion

  Hello

  We have a host of ESXi 4.0 U1 with vCenter 4.0 U1 environment 5.

  Having acquired a whole new NetApp FC SAN FAS2040, we are trying to gradually Storage VMotion all VMs in front of our old EMC SAN.

  However, after VM have been VMotioned of storage, they always appear in the inventory of the store of data EMC (as contained in the NetApp data store!).

  If we edit the VM, the spectacle of .vmdks as being located on the NetApp.

  Will be the client update its inventory at any time data store?  We tried the view refreshed, restart the client, vCenter services restart, restart the server vCenter - all to nothing does not.

  Thank you very much

  IR88

  PS - When you browse NetApp data warehouses, it seems to take a long v. for folders / files to appear! (get "Searching datastore... ("for a while)

  Is there anything that is attached to the virtual machines (CDROM/ISO file,...) which is still on the EMC storage?

  André

• Addition of data store errors & disconnects

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1008886 Hello all;

  I'm a newbie to the VM community and have you met my 1st problem with vCenter and vSphere.

  I have a host running ESXI 5.0.0 504890 located in a remote area

  I am trying to add a data store and the following error (both through vSphere and vCenter)

  Call 'HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions' of object 'datastoreSystem-xxxx"on vCenter Server 'VC FQDN' failed

  I did some research and I found different communities showing to do:

  • Troubleshooting VMware KB: A logic unit number that extends in size since the 2 TB / 2047GB limit
  • VMware KB: Troubleshooting in the add storage Wizard error: cannot read this disk partition information
  • VMware KB: When an ESXi host wakes from sleep, the & quot; Connection to host and power state & quot; fires

  My problem is that the SSH is not enabled on the console (which would require the 1 hour drive to the remote location).  Now PowerCLI is also installed but am not knowing enough commands to run the fdisk such as cited in the links above.

  The missing data store are a Raid 1 (which I use for C:\ in my windows guests). Name of the data store is: naa.6d4ae520996553001745a2aa1130d644

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  Thank you very much

  Hello

  You try to add the new host ESXi data store? If so, can you connect to the ESXi host using the password and vSphere client with the account 'root '. Then try to add the data store. If you try to add the existing data store, then it will format if you add using 'Add datastore' Wizard and you will lose data.

  To enable SSH for ESXi 5.0,

  To activate the local or remote TSM from the vSphere Client:

  1. Select the host, and then click the Configuration tab.
  2. Click on the security profile > Properties.

     In ESXi 5.x, select SSH or ESXi Shell , and then click Options.
     In ESXi 4.1, select a Support Local technical or Remote Tech Support (SSH) , click Options.

  3. Select the desired startup strategy and click Start, and then click OK.
  4. Check that the demon selected in step 3 indicates that execution in the Service properties window.

  Concerning

  Mohammed

• esxi data warehouses sees the other?

  Can I mount a remote esxi data store as a NFS mount in another instance of esxi?

  Looks like it should be possible, but not succeed all the time tho not having does not much luck connect to MS Win with NFS/Unix Service no more.

  Would it not simple?

  No, this is not possible - ESXi is not natively support NFS it can connect to another server that shares a NFS by NAS - what you is to create a virtual machine and have this share out NFS by NAS storage.

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• After the migration of ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 Update 1, ESXi containing the missing data store

  I intend to upgrade to an ESXi 4.1 production host, but I want to run through an upgrade of test on a separate machine. I created this using a virtual machine and the upgrade went well. However, now when I insert my vSphere client, I don't see the data store that contains data to my VM.

  Before migrating to 5, I had 2 drives, a disk of 4 GB for ESXi, and a 40 GB drive for the data of the VM installation. I could see and access times stores via the 4.1 vSphere client, but once the upgrade only the VM data store is available. Is there a reason that this is the case?

  I've updated but has not changed the partitions of data store. I have selected to migrate and keep the VMFS store, which was VMFS-3. I also tried to add the store drive 4 GB with the customer data, but an error message: "the selected disk already has a vmfs data store or the host cannot perform a conversion of partition table.
  Select another disk.

  I found this article on error message: http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2000454 , but I never actually removed from the data store. With the help of the 5.0 ESXi update I can see the VMFS store on 4 GB drive, which should have about 3.2 GB of available disk space (the rest being used by the hypervisor).

  Recommended someone else try esxconfig-volume - the list, and then use the output to a mount (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1666168#1666168), but the list command had no output at all.

  I searched through the forums and Google but you saw nothing.

  ESXi 5 has a different architecture, and I think that the problem is the size of the disk (too small) and the partition of scratch required.

  Have a look here:

  • http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-50-installation-Setup-Guide.PDF (page 153)
  • http://communities.VMware.com/message/1848769
  • http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1033696
  • http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2011/03/OPS-changes-part-5-scratch-partition.html

  HTH

  Sam

• Can NOT see the data store after ESXi update host?

  Hi all

  We use the host ESXi 3.5 on DELL PE 2850 with RAID 5 local storage.  Today, I ran utility update for the host VMware and firmware updated BIOS and RAID on the host computer before a restart of the system.  After the reboot, the system correctly loads the operating system and when I check for storage, the data (with critical VM) store is missing.  Can not see that again.

  Please help me to recover my data with the virtual machines in her store.

  Thank you

  Nadine

  ESXi is installed on the same Partition RAID 5, which is located in the VMFS data store? for example. do you know that the partition is still intact?

  According to what the RAID firmware upgrade has done, it is possible that you may need to set the LVM. EnableResignature option 1 if the score ended with a new UUID.

  -ben