V2V conversion with no space on the data store.

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• Not enough space on the data store

  I created a VM w2k8 server. I have attached a second virtual drive to it in the vsphere client determined I gave him too much space. I went back in the vshere client and click on delete. Now, when I go to add a second drive with the right amount of space I want t use I get error not enough space on the data store. I noticed that the old file vdmk still exist but do not know how to proceed. It is a 5 ESX environment and the data store is on the SAN. Space on the windows server is listed as unallocated.

  Hello and welcome to the community of VMware. Well I would like to browse the data store and make sure that there are no vmdk files sitting here that, if the other wise not to be there. Have a go at this and feedback your conclusions.

  Best wishes.

• 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)
  

• How can I get an alarm for VM in bad condition when you run lack of space on the data store

  Hello

  After ignoring the alarm messages on disk space used almost, a VM doesn't work with this error message:

  "Message from VMHost1.test.net: there is no more space for virtual disk.

  vmfs/volumes/4fb7ee7c-9c2aceee-a0df-00215acb6f4a/VMHost1/VMHost1_1_1.VMDK. You may be able to

  continue this session by freeing up disk space on the relevant volume, and then click Retry. Click Cancel to end this

  session. "

  At this point, I would like to have another alarm to ignore ;-)

  I'm trying to find a VMware alarm that can warn me in this case. (As the alarm 'use of data to drive store"set up to warn me when 90% is used)

  Basically, when the data store is full, and a virtual machine on it ask the e/s, due to the fact that it is thin provisioned, it is currently interrupted by ESXi. All virtual machines that do not require what I/O may still work. When this happens, you get an error like this:

  

  What the virtual machine that will come to you, is basically a VM Message. Using vCenter, you can create an alarm that goes off when the virtual machine (an individual) information message. The message that I used was something like this:

  

  When I then make a virtual machine on a data store set up thin, my alarm clock personalized using thin disks implemented short of space, was triggered.

  

  NB. I saw icon of the virtual machine in a State of alarm after that I clicked retry on the popup. If you don't do this, the virtual machine icon will be the State in question, but will always be triggered the custom alarm.

  Hope this helps,

  Tom

• 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.

• Not enough space on the data store. Could not power on VM:No space available on the device

  Hello

  Here's my problem. I have several virtual machines. But one of them can be powered on because of the problem of space. I can not add spaces because there is nothing to add. The data store is only 760 MB left. There is summary information about the virtual machine below. I need power somehow on this machine, but how can I do. can I add another data store space. Y at - it files I can delete from the data store. Snapshot file is considerably large, I can reduce its size without changing anything.

  Thank you.

  

  There are several ways to approach this problem

  1. you can storage vmotion, some VMs who are currently used and this will free space.

  2. check the clichés that you don't use, and delete those.

  3. reduce the memory of some other virtual machines which are turned on so that the swap space can be saved.

• Different VM 1 with 3 vmdk in the data store: Migration of data to rename store

  Hello

  I'm here today to ask for your help please.

  In our Organization, we have 1 large VM

  1 vmdk = > The BONES in lun, SAS performance

  1 vmdka = > 1 Tera SATA MON only of DATA

  Another 1 vmdka = > 1 Tera SATA MON only of DATA

  This virtual machine is being tested and we need to rename it to the name of the production.

  When you rename in vcenter you do a data store migration to correct all files with the new name.

  In this case, how can we specify each VMDK to go to the data store specified during migration?

  Because we could all think in the same data store due to the limitation of 2Tera by a data store

  Thanks for your help

  When you "migrate" a virtual machine and choose 'Change Datastore' use the advanced option. This will allow you to specify multiple destinations of data store. Use the drop-down arrow in the current [location].

• May not use all the available space in the data store

  Hello

  We have a HP DL580 G7 Server P410i raid controller with 8 x 1 TB HDD.

  I create a raid 1 with 2 hard drives (1 TB) and raid 5 with 6 hard drives (5 TB) and install ESXi 5.1 in the first data store (1 to).

  After installation when I tried to create the 5 TB data store, (ESXi detects and displays the space available 5 TB) it does use that almost 2.5 TB! and may not use all the space

  I also installed the ESXi 5.5 but still no luck.

  This Ko seems to apply to you: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006942

• 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.

• Script of VM inventory for VM name with the location, the name of the Cluster and data storing total size and free space in the data store.

  Hello
  I'm looking for small changes in the script. I want the output to the database in GB and not MB. Any help on this will be appreciated.

  $vc = to connect-viserver "e.g. name VC.
  $report = @)
  {foreach ($vm in Get - VM)
  $ds = get - Datastore - VM $vm
  $report += $ds. Select @{N = "Name"; E = {$vm}},
  @{N = 'Cluster'; E = {Get-Cluster - VM $vm}},
  @{N = "ESX host"; E = {(Get-VMHost-VM $vm).} Name}},
  @{N = "Datastore"; E={$_. Name}},
  @{N = 'Capacity DS'; E={$_. CapacityMB}},
  @{N = "DS free"; E={$_. FreeSpaceMB}}
  }
  $report | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation C:\VM_CLuster_Host_Datastore.csv

  Thank you

  vmguys

  Use the constant of builtin PowerShell 1 KB

  $vc = connect-viserver "eg VC name" $report = @()
  foreach($vm in Get-VM){
      $ds = Get-Datastore -VM $vm    $report += $ds | Select @{N="Name";E={$vm}},
          @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VM $vm}},
          @{N="ESX Host";E={(Get-VMHost -VM $vm).Name}},
          @{N="Datastore";E={$_.Name}},
          @{N="DS Capacity GB";E={$_.CapacityMB/1KB}},
          @{N="DS Free GB";E={$_.FreeSpaceMB/1KB}}
  }
  $report | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation C:\VM_CLuster_Host_Datastore.csv
  

  And if you want some control the format of numbers, use the Round method

  $vc = connect-viserver "eg VC name" $report = @()
  foreach($vm in Get-VM){
      $ds = Get-Datastore -VM $vm    $report += $ds | Select @{N="Name";E={$vm}},
          @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VM $vm}},
          @{N="ESX Host";E={(Get-VMHost -VM $vm).Name}},
          @{N="Datastore";E={$_.Name}},
          @{N="DS Capacity GB";E={[Math]::Round($_.CapacityMB/1KB,2)}},
          @{N="DS Free GB";E={[Math]::Round($_.FreeSpaceMB/1KB,2)}}
  }
  $report | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation C:\VM_CLuster_Host_Datastore.csv
  

• Not enough space on the data store.  Newb help please.

  I have a running ESXi 4.1.0 2 Windows VMs server.  Everything worked very well, but I had to turn off all of the server and physically move.  When I powered it back, only on virtual machines with the power on at the same time.  The other dies with the error above.  I have very little experience with VMware and I'd appreciate any help.  Thank you.

  Welcome to the community - the reason why you can't turn on your VM is because a vmkernel swap file is created when you turn on the virtual machine, and if there is not enough space, then, you will receive this error - you'll need clean the directories where are installed the virtual machines - you'll need to remove all of the log files If there are snapshots commit those and then you should be able to powere on virtual machines

• is space implemented a risk of running out of space on the data store

  Hello

  We have a Win SBS VM in PROD ESXi 4.1.

  First, we set the size of the disk to 520 GB.

  In summary, I see the following:

  

  Please help me understand the above figures and advise.

  Thank you.

  Yes exactly. "Configured" means space that is the maximum size that this virtual machine is set to achieve. But in your case, it has not used all the space put into service. But yes, it can reach up to 127 GB.

• The amount available on the disc to keep to the data store

  Guys,

  I have a vm (called MachineA) machine that has a total of 125 GB when we built it (50 GB on disc 1, then 75 on hard drive 2). Our data store that time had about 132 GB of free space.

  Suddenly, MachineA to stop with the error of the newspaper "redo" described in the link:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1002103

  in any case, we have deleted a snapshot and ISO a bit in our data store. The machine could start again after the release of space.

  We had over 20 shots on this machine (just built too) but immediate production.

  So the question is why have I about 131 GB of free space and got the problem described above?  Thanks for your time.

  TNT

  VMware snapshots do not work like instant SAN.  When you snapshot of a virtual machine, he freezes the base disk and creates a delta file that lists all the changes (much like a sql transaction log).  Changes more, the file gets.  (Database servers really make a delta file grow quickly, too.)  You should only use a snapshot for a few days, space allowing, then validation/remove it or go back, as the files will be larger than basic disks and consume space in the data store until the system crashes.

• 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.

• How to make instant consolidation if the data store is out of disk space...

  Hello

  I have a virtual machine that has left many of the snapshot files and now can consolidate using the tool (he always said of disk space to make the consolidation)

  The data store have now 60 GB of free space when the space data store maximum disk is 850 GB and the busy VVMM over almost 700 GB of disk space...

  Can I attach a 3 TB USB drive to the ESXi server and move all the files through or another way to do...

  HELP ~ ~

  With the disk space required on drive E, it may be useful to consider an alternative:

  • create a (much smaller) another virtual disk
  • Stop all of the services entering drive E
  • Copy the data from drive E more to the new virtual disk (for example using robocopy)
  • switch drive letters
  • Once everything is working as expected, get rid of the old virtual disk

  This will not only reduce the disk space used on the data store, but also to ensure that the virtual disk cannot grow more.

  André