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• Consolidation of virtual machine disk is necessary

  Hi all, I met one of my VM that have the warning message "disc of virtual machine consolidation is necessary" and I check and there is no existing snapshots in snapshot Manager.

  When I browse the data store I have a lot of vmdk files such as below. How can I correctly to clear up? It is a production server so it would be safe for me to power off?

  Running the ESX ESX Server 5.1 U1

  Server1_00.VMDK 157GB

  Server1.VMDK 41GB

  Server1_1 - 000002.vmdk 18 MB

  Server1 - 000001.vmdk 18 MB

  Server1-0000001 - ctk.vmdk 2. 5 MB

  Server1_1 - 000001.vmdk 18 MB

  Server1_1-0000001 - ctk.vmdk 4 MB

  Server1_1-0000002 - ctk.vmdk 4 MB

  Server1 - 000002.vmdk 18 MB

  Server1-0000002 - ctk.vmdk 4 MB

  Server1 Snapshot.vmsn 19KO

  Server1 - 000003.vmdk 210 MB

  Server1-000003 - ctk.vmdk 2 MB

  Server1_1 - 000003.vmdk 250 MB

  Server1_1-000003 - ctk.vmdk 4 MB

  Just right click on the virtual machine and select "snapshot" and then select "consolidate."

• When you access the virtual machine, getting the error "encountered an error when you try to use one of its virtual hard disks". Help?

  I received the "low disk space error" on a hard drive of the virtual machine dynamic expanding. I have increased my space of virtual hard disk using "My Computer" > manage > storage > "Disk management" and choose "Attach VHD" then resizing to max available (64 GB), and now I can not start the virtual machine. It gives the error: encountered an error when you try to use one of its virtual hard disks. Help?

  Hi NatalieFoster,

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I would recommend posting your query in the TechNet Forums to get help:

  Windows 7 Virtual PC and XP Mode TechNet Forums

• Workflow list and range from virtual machine disk

  Hello

  I need to create a workflow that virtual disks of list of a virtual machine, defined in the input parameter.

  So I have 2 questions:

  How can I list a specific virtual machine disks?

  -I can't find how to access this information

  -Is it possible to fill a field of presentation after you have selected the virtual machine?

  ,

  Best regards

  Hello

  find the code of an action that loops through all the devices of a given virtual computer and returns an array containing the keys of the device below. You can then use it in a decorator for the workflow to let the user select a drive.

  See you soon,.

  Joerg

  var devices = vm.config.hardware.device;
  var diskCount = 0;
  var diskArray = new Array();
  

• Is it possible to transfer everything to a virtual hard disk that is smaller on a virtual hard disk that is larger in VMWare Workstation, using the same virtual machine?

  Hello

  I was wondering if it is possible to transfer everything to a virtual hard disk that is smaller on a virtual hard disk that is larger in VMWare Workstation, using the same virtual machine? In the affirmative, please could someone advise me on how to do it. Also utility management and disk transfer can be used in virtual machines to do this?

  Thank you very much

  Tim Auluck

  I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. Can you please clarify!

  Basically you can resize a virtual drive or add a second virtual disk to a virtual machine and transfer/copy files. You can also resize the virtual disk using VMware Converter for example.

  André

• How to specify the file of virtual hard disk when you create a new virtual machine using virtual hard disk on the data store?

  I'm new to PowerCLI and find quite simple, but in the documentation I read, I don't see how to use a virtual hard drive, existing on a data store when you create a new virtual machine.

  Is this simple registration on the virtual hard disk, or did I miss something?

  My current create VM is the following statement:

  New-VM

  -Name $TargetHostName -host $TargetVMCenterHost -data store $TargetVMCenterDatastore DiskMB - 20000 -MemoryMB $TargetHostMemoryMB -NumCPU $TargetHostCPUs -ID $TargetHostOS -CD -Description $TargetHostName

  Didn't notice this before, but I think that vSphere will use a backslash instead of a slash in the paths.

• Virtual machine disk expansion

  I asked a while ago enlarge my capacity of virtual disk by removing the beginning .net [1-3] and found out it is a no-no. I promised to update my progress with the extension - in case anyone was interested.

  Freebie VMware Player, unlike the Workstation, is limited to the size of 40 GB drive. I cleared all the extras on my Win XP and put extra spacing available only - another virtual disk, where I can keep all my work files and backups. XP has now more than 3 GB to work in, and I run Smart Defrag to keep tidy C: drive.  I know that this isn't in the commercial interest of MSN, but I can't afford to upgrade my Win 7 or buy new COREL programs run on my present 7 HPE.

  I mean on the Virtual XP disk management, I created a 20 GB partition, I called V. There is no way to extend the initial allocation of 40 GB VMware in the VM reader.

• Is there a way to increase the size of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  HelloW to all.

  I created VM with the size of the hard drive of 80 GB and now I want to increase the size of the 80 GB to 150 GB drive does not add whit extra 70 GB partition but to increase the patitionn of 80 GB.

  Is there a way to increase the size of 150 GB of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  Thanks in advance.

  If the guest operating system is windows, then follow below process-

  Scenario-1 his drive is not the boot partition.

  1. click on the settings of the virtual machine

  2. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  3. go to disk to the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  4. open the cmd/command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  5 then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  6. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  7. exit diskpart.

  Scenario-2 If the drive is the boot partition.

  1. power of the virtual machine. (go on change settings of ==> click on the drive you want to extend ==> copy the path of the disc)

  2. go to any other test VM and add disk--> disk existing use ==> give the drive path that you want to extend ==> Assistant to finish.

  3. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  4. select disk of the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  5. open / cmd command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  6. then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  7. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  8 exit diskpart.

  9. go to change the setting of this test VM and select the hard drive... ==> click on remove virtual machine. (do not drive delete)

• Run a virtual hard disk file in Virtual PC

  Hello

  I recently got a Windows 7 PC to replace a Windows XP machine. However, while I still have access to anything whatsoever on the old PC that I maybe need even once, I did a .vhd on the old hard drive file.

  I can't open this vhd file, because I can't find a way to create a new virtual PC with which use this virtual hard disk.

  Is anyway to do this?

  Thank you
  Richard

  Windows 7 can read files in VHD(Virtual Hard Disk) without VPC (Virtual PC).  You can make the VHD file be seen as a hard drive on the new PC. Here's how to do it.

  Attach the VHD file:
  1. right click on 'My Computer' and click on 'manage '.
  2. go in "Disk management" under "Storage" on the left side.
  3. click on the 'Action' menu on the top and click on "attach VHD.
  4 locate the hard drive file virtual you want to open, you can also make the drive read only just in case you accidentally change something.  Then click on 'OK '.
  5. you should see your virtual hard drive in "My Computer"
  Detach the VHD file:
  1. go in disk management as described in steps 1 and 2 as I explained earlier.
  2. on the bottom half of the window, find the hard drive virtual you want to detach.
  3 click on the "disk #" and click on "remove VHD.
  Good luck. God bless you. :)

• Compact virtual hard disk and change the type of drive in static

  Hi all

  I want to change the type of my dynamic static vm disk and now I want to compact the virtual hard disk memory for this virtual machine but I want to it without affecting the control points of this virtual machine that I created earlier. I use the SCVMM 2012 administration console. Any reg suggestions it will be useful.

  Thank you

  You should post your question in the following forum for help and appropriate responses:

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprovirt

• The virtual hard disk size

  For worker Analyzer IO VM, it is recommended to create a larger second virtual hard disk that serves as a target IOmeter.

  
  

  Is the size of the virtual hard drive exactly the same workload working set size, which means that all data in the virtual disk is read from or written to storage during the race?

  Do you have other recommendations to decide what size the second virtual hard disk should be a VM worker?

  Thank you

  Rebecca

  Hi RS_1, it's useful, but I was looking for some additional tips for the user guide.

  I received responses from some of the developers of IO parser and also ran a few tests of my own.

  Iometer generates its I/O based on the number of blocks of target disc (i.e. the manually added virtual hard disk on the worker VM).  The size of the disk hard virtual will be be equivalent to e/s working set size.

  For a virtual hard drive that strikes only cache, a rule would be its size to 100 MB.

  For a virtual hard drive that hits the disk, the virtual hard disk could be sized anywhere from 10 GB to the top. The drive, / o most actually hits disc rather than cache.

  To do this, I created a 200 GB thin provisioned virtual hard disk for my e/s VM Analyzer worker. As I ran the Iometer workload, I could see the thin disc quickly increase from almost nothing to its size fully provisioned. This means that the new virtual hard disk sectors were continually being read and written by Iometer. Interestingly, it only took about 5 minutes to flesh out a whole 200 GB drive. Obviously, this speed would depend on the type of I/O profile used.

  I also tested a 20 GB disk Iometer vs virtual a virtual drive of 200 GB. Average latency, IOPS / s and flow were all better for 20 GB disk - because a greater proportion of e/s in this case was hit the cache, tilt the numbers positively.

  So, even at the drive hard virtual, sizes last 10 GB, size of the VHD will affect yet observed performance to Iometer.

• Increase the size of virtual hard disk to a virtual computer with snapshots

  Is it possible to increase the size of a virtual hard disk on a virtual machine that has snapshots on this subject?  I can use VMware converter to increase the size of the disk, but who commits snapshots during the conversion-

  Thank you

  As everybody said that it is not a good idea to increase the space for a VM with a snapshot.   The snapshot files are all related originally vmdk and when you change this vmdk he breaks the link.

  A particular reason that you cannot commit the snapshot before adding the space.

• Fusion is stopped because the virtual hard disk capacity is reached

  I run Windows XP Pro in a virtual machine with the German Fusion 3.1.1 on my MacBook 13 "with Mac OS X 10.6.2.

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  But this Windows disk management in the first partition 'Win XP Pro' 15 GB to 30 GB are free. And on the second partition 'Install' 8 GB to 10 GB are free.

  I took the snapshot on the virtual machine and have managed hard disk cleanup. But it does not help. Fusion said I do free 1.2 MB capacity of the virtual hard disk. How can I do this, when the merger does not start?

  The opportunity to make more the virtual hard disk of 40 GB to 50 or 60 GB is blocked, I first have to delete the snapshot. But the snapshot is deleted.

  What can I make Fusion work again?

  czer27 wrote:

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  I doubt that what you quoted is the message itself, so it would be more useful if you attach the .log files.  See information for VMware Fusion to help with that.  Howevere...

  I bet that the message is more like "VMware Fusion has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free at least MB of disk space. "and as such, you must do exactly what means the message and that is free space hard disk Macintosh not space inside the VHD.  After all, it's the Mackintosh HD stored on the Virtual Machine, isn't?

• What are the three steps necessary to correct disk cleanup does not not on Windows Vista?

  What are the three steps necessary to correct disk cleanup does not not on Vista OS

  This tutorial to see how id disk cleanup. See if it helps.

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76073-disk-cleanup.html

• Is it necessary to have Disk 0 Partition 1 system reserved?

  Hi all

  Is it necessary to have Disk 0 Partition 1 system reserved?

  I'm not bothered all the 100 MB you need - there is nothing to me. But it removes a single partition, leaving me to settle for only 3 more to leave. I have a plan to install another OS in my system with Windows 7, it really frustrates my plan.

  In fact, I want 2 partitions for Windows and for Linux 2. But Windows consumes 3 partitions (including for reserved system), leaving me finally with 1 single partition for Linux.

  There are also a few ways mentioned elsewhere how to get rid of this partition 1 by extending it to a primary partition, but then there is no mention if that would be detrimental to my computer or at least start.

  To answer these questions...

  No you can remove it if necessary

  First step 1, there is no way to simply delete this partition of 100MB in Windows 7; Simply reformat. So the first step is to back up your data and start the Windows 7 installation CD. (To boot from a CD, restart your computer, and normally it will be DEL, F12 or ESC key to select the CD-ROM drive and starts to him)
  Step 2 once you're up to the screen of Windows 7, you need to select the option "repair your computer".
  Step 3 next, you will need to select "Command Prompt".
  Step 4 in command prompt we will reformat your hard drive in a certain way so the 2nd partition is not automatically created when you install Windows 7. Here are the commands:

  DiskPart
  List Disk (you may have more than one hard drive)
  Select disk 0 (by default your boot drive primary disk 0 will be, check it out)
  Clean
  Create Primary Partition
  Select Partition 1
  Assets
  Format FS = NTFS quick
  Output
  Step 5, then simply cross install Windows 7 as you normally would. This time, the installation program does not create the 100 MB hidden partition reserved.