USB drive as data store?

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• Possible to use a USB stick as data store

  I got an esxi 5 installed on a 8 GB USB key, but I want to use all the space on the left.

  I just need to create a really tiny VM, optimized to work on flash.

  Is not production

  Anyone got a way?

  Maybe...

  Download a binary nfsd?

  Download a binary of iscsi target?

  Do some virtual data store?

  Using the magical commands over ssh?

  Help.

  I really want to buy another sata controller + drive hard (there no so small that 8 GB hd now)

  No.... I mean with normal USB virtualization introduced in vSphere 4.1

  In vSphere 5 is fast enough to run a full USB 2.0 emulation.

• Hypervisor to USB instead of data store

  Running vSphere 5.5 become 6.0 over the weekend. He is currently starting a data store that is local to the host, but is it possible move this to boot from USB or even a new installation on the USB port it will take?

  You will need a new facility.

  But you can do a profile host before reinstall, then install 5.5 to the usb port, apply the profile of the host and then finally switch to esxi 6.

  At the time of lately, I started using dhcp for all my guests esxi making reconstruction or the easy deployment of new technologies.  You just need a dhcp reservation and entered dns front and rear.  ISCSI, motion v interfaces need not static entries.

• Copy files of UN USB has a data store

  Nuevo gran duda:

  Tengo una en UN USB VM.

  Traspasar VM one esa wants a virtual mi infrastructure data store.

  Quiero el Connect USB a host UN y hacer copia her al DataStore as pertoque.

  How should hacerlo? El etectara El ESX USB? Home will be necessary reiniciar el?

  Saludos.

  Xavier

  VCP4 and professional VCP3 certified VMware.

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  If upon that esta o any other campaign respuesta ha sido utility, votalas. Gracias.

  If you find this or any other information useful or appropriate, please consider giving points. Thank you.

  Buenas

  Simplemente al pinchar UN disco usb, esx el lo's a ver como/dev/sdX, con lo you is montarlo y cease knew contenido al/vmfs/volumes/datastore

  Said you lo del porque luego converter you tocara con trastear el vmkfstools para convert el do disco al formato thick thin o use you esx porque no admite el formato del disco server.

  If esta u otra respuesta're util, por favor su marca used notificador.

  Gracias / looks

• vSphere - external USB drive to the data store local copy

  Hello world

  Yesterday, I created this post: http://communities.VMware.com/message/2135813
  With your help, we managed to find the only way to install ESXi to ISO image to USB external hard drive is to be attached to the machine near her and run the Setup from there, cannot be done directly.

  Today, we need your help in the next step, as it seems.

  We have a Dell r.620 physical machine with VMware ESXi 5.0 installed U1. We have an external hard drive with the operating system installation ISO images, software backup and a little more.

  The question is - how to copy the data from the external USB connected directly to the ESXi host to the data store local disk on the host.

  Yes, we know that we can do in the way that connect us to the machine on the same location and copy it into the data from there store. But we would do it directly. And we don't very well see by ourselves or using Google Uncle again.

  Poor ability to research, or is not possible?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  The court to do is to use the Datastorebrowser or WinSCP

  ESXi itself can only read the Fat16 drives - so what looks like the short path is the long way ;-)

• USB HDD as a data store and storage of VMS and new virtual machines

  I have a server Esxi 4.1 with 1 TB RAID 5 storage and 3 virtual machines. The storage is full and no space for another HARD disk, so my question is: would it be possible to use a USB HDD as a data store and could be included as a storage for new virtual machines or the VM? If so, could someone let me know how to do it because I'm not able to detect the HARD disk on the host itself.

  No, it is not possible to use a USB drive as a data store.

  Linjo

• Mounting external USB HDD to host copy all the s vm to the local data store

  I have a scripted ESXi installation that works very well, but once the installation is completed I want to copy all the VM from a disk external DRIVE to store data on the host computer.

  There is no attached servers/clients, so it must be done from the host itself.

  in thele/var/log/usb.log file on the hard drive is recognized, but how to access and copy all the external HARD disc VM in the data store?

  install vmware tools

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  Good luck!

• I must be stupid - how can I add 2 additional 2 TB SATA as data store drive?

  I feel that I must be missing something super clear here.

  I assembled just a new PC, and after that discover ESXi 5.0 did not like the built-in NETWORK interface, I tracked down a compatible Realtek that seems to work. The PC has (2) 2 TB SATA drives. I was hoping their band via RAID initially, but still less discovered the RAID config 2 separate disks were ultimately presented to ESXi 5.0 installer (both drives were listed for me to choose where I wanted to install ESXi). Since I couldn't take advantage of RAID, I removed the RAID configuration and disabled in the BIOS, so the two disks were completely independent one from the other. Then I launched the installer ESXi got 2 discs to choose once again and installed on the first disc.

  Now I have ESXi 5.0 to the top and running and can properly control it from another PC with vSphere and get a virtual machine. The thing I can't for the life of understand me is, it lists only a 2 TB disk in data warehouses (I guess it's the drive I installed ESXi, but maybe I'm wrong and this is the other), and I can't understand how to add in the second disk as an additional data store. Should she just automatically appear under the section of the data store, or is there something special I need to do on the drive for what he stand? Out of curiosity, I put a 8 GB USB stick, just to see if it showed as a data store and the same thing... nothing listed. This makes me think there is a formatting or its initialization or whatever method to do a disk to use as a data store.

  I was hunting around trying to find an ESXi 5.0 user guide that may have a 'data warehouses 101' section, but I am unable to find a guide 5.0.

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Do not hesitate to make fun of me, if it comes to ESXi 101 stuff - I don't have a ton of experience with the product... ;-)

  Just in case you missed it. Go to the configuration tab in the vSphere Client. Choose the storage and to add and then disk/LUN you should now be able to choose the second disc.

• Download of external hard drive in the data store

  I need to move a virtual machine from one host to another host to a desktop, both running ESXi 4.1. I copied the file from the virtual machine to an external hard drive from the source host using the browser of data store. Is it possible to connect the drive external hard directly on the host target via USB and download the file to the virtual machine in the local data store on the host?

  I know that I can just use the broswer data store and download them to the local network via a laptop running the vSphere client connected directly to the host (rather than the server of vC. If I was logged on the vC server must run traffic over the Wan to the Vc and then back to the host of Management Office?). I'd rather do it directly from the outside in the host.

  Welcome to the communities.

  Unfortunately not. You can use a tool such as Veeam fastSCP to transfer. It is faster than the browser data store, and it's free. http://Veeam.com

• ESXi 4 and USB data store

  Is it possible to use a USB external hard drive as the data store used by ESXi 4?  If so, how do you implement it?  Thank you very much!

  Hello

  No, I'm sorry to say that this is not supported and will not longer work.

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  Wil

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• 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...

• Help with script from beginner to the data store and hard drives

  Hello

  I am quite new to scripting, and recently, I created a monstrosity below.

  The problem is with the results. I have no idea why in the results I get the name of the virtual machine and its data store over and over again until all disks are highlighted.

  Any help will be very very much appreciated.

  The script:

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $dysk1 = $vm | Get-hard drive | where {$_.} Name - eq 'Disk 1'}

  $datastore1 = $dysk1.filename.split("]") [0].split("[") [1]

  $disks = $vm | Get-hard drive

  {foreach ($disk in $disks)

  $hd = «»

  $disksize = ($disk. CapacityGB)

  $hd += $disksize

  {$rekord += $vm.name + ";" + $datastore1 + ";" + $hd}

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

  The results in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; VM1Name:datastoreName; 50; VM1Name; datastoreName; 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45; VM2Name; datastoreName; 40

  The results of dream in csv:

  VM1Name; datastoreName; 60; 50 40

  VM2Name; datastoreName; 45 40

  etc.

  Try like this

  $raport = @)

  Foreach ($i in (Get-Content "Y:\vms.txt"))

  {

  $rekord = «»

  $vm = get-vm-name '$i '.

  $disk = $vm | Get-hard drive

  $datastore = ($disk | where {$_.}) Name - eq "disk 1" hard}).filename.split ("]") [0].split("[") [1].

  $rekord = "$($vm.)". The name); $($datastore); $(($disk | sélectionnez-ExpandProperty CapacityGB)-join ' |') »

  $raport += $rekord

  }

  $raport | out-file 'Y:\dyski.csv '.

• Get-hard drives - storage drives data store migrate between data warehouses

  Hi all

  
  

  Our current storage configuration with specially designed split-role of the bases of data storages (OS, LOG SQL, SQL DATA, APP, Exchange roles, etc.)  I do a storage store on my VMware Infrastructure and hoped to target only the disks of virtual machines that are on any data store and migrate them to another.  Rather new to PowerCli if you're wondering why the bellows of the command does not work and the reports that the file is locked.
  

  
  

  Get-hard drive - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Moving-hard drive - data store Datastore02

  If the machine virtual itself is made aware of the command?  Would I have to enumarte the virtual machines on the first data store and then target discs that everyone has and redirect it to the hard disk Move command?

  Thanks in advance

  Yes, you are banging in the sequence of commands trying to move a file on the data store without referencing the virtual machine. According to the State of the virtual machine (lit or not) of different things happen

  • VM power off - the disc is moved and the virtual machine is broken (the vmx file will always point to the original location for the HD that is no longer there)
  • Virtual MACHINE power - the disk is locked, so it cannot be moved (the error you have seen)

  Another thing to keep in mind is that the configuration of the VM is also on a data store, so if you want to move the entire virtual machine you can just move the hard drives

  If all the virtual machines on a data store have all their HDs on this data store then you can do something like

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Move-VM - data store "Datastore02".

  To access the VM configuration, but also his records. If you have virtual machines where the disks into a single virtual machine, then you will have a little more work to do to sort the records that must be moved

  Get - VM - data store 'Datastore01 ' | Get-hard drive | Where-Object {$_.} FileName.Contains ("[Datastore01]")} | Moving-hard drive - data store "Datastore02".

  This is all virtual machines with a component (hard drive or configuration) on Datastore1, and then for each VM is all hard disks that are on Datastore01 and the Datastore02

• Add hard drive VCSA 5.5 to the data store

  I do the jump for especially vsphere client of web & VCSA 5.5 to change settings on a virtual machine on a host in a data center. The host has 2 data warehouses. The virtual machine has 1 hard disk assigned to datastore1. I go to add HDD to VM but can't find where datastore2 go through them.

  Non-Web client Vsphere 5.1 has allowed the addition of material. The wizard showed a location-> specify a cluster datastore or datstore. And then go to datastore2.

  If you have any information leading to the resolution of this problem, I got thank you.

  PatrickAZ

  Patrick,

  First, to add a new disk to a computer virtual, the data store where you create the disc must be visible to the ESXi host where VM works... If this is the case, follow the procedure in documentation ESXi: Add a new hard drive in a VM in the Web Client vSphere