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• Need a script to find records and data warehouses that are near capacity.

  Guys,

  I'm new to Powershell faitly, is it possible to write a script tht will find virtual disks and data warehouses that are over 90% full?  I also want to export the results to an excel file.

  Thank you.

  For a 90% threshold, you let the value to 0.1.

  Calculate the free space as a percentage, so if the free space is less than or equal to 0.1 there is 10% or less available free space.

  Hope that makes sense.

• ESXi 4.1 upgrade to ESXi 5.5 while all virtual machines and data warehouses

  We have two servers ESXi 4.1.0 348481 (Essentials) and we need to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 for support of Windows Server R2 2012. We intend to use the interactive upgrade. We want to ensure that the virtual machine is preserved. More precisely VMFarm001 where ESXi is installed in the same data store as VMServer1. VMServer1 is our largest server and cannot be migrated to another data store easily because we are not allowed for vMotion.

  The following layout

  VMFarm001

  Dell PowerEdge R710

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 1.36 TB

  VMServer1 - MS Server 2003

  Install ESXi

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer2 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer3 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMFarm002

  HP ProLiant ML350 G5

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 95GB

  Install ESXi

  ISOs

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer4 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer5 - MS Server 2008 R2

  I have a feeling I'm worried for nothing given that option during the ESXi upgrade and keep the VMFS datastore.

  Thank you

  Yes, that's correct.

  I recently finished the upgrade of lots of stand-alone hosts ESXi 4.1 (with local storage only) to 5.1 and all were successful. The same process applies to 5.5, so you shouldn't have a problem with preservation of VMFS data warehouses (and all virtual machines).

• get guests basic stats and data warehouses

  Hi all

  I am totally new to vcenter and power shell, so please, be gentle on my stupid questions. I'm desperate to compile a script to get the weekly statistics for host, County of vcpu and data store memory space and export it to a csv file. Numbers so very basic for each host computer and the data store. Here's what I have so far based on blogs of the LucD generous. It would be great if someone of you can help me realize what is wrong...

  It took a lot of time for me to understand what are the parameters I need and I'm sure that they are correct, but the syntax is killing me now. Basically, I realize there is something wrong with my variables since nothing is exported to the file you want, but I do not know how to define variables and their attributes. And the error was "impossible to replace the host variable because it is read-only or constant", while other properties such as "name", "mem", etc.

  SE connect-VIServer-server xxx.com - user password xxx-xxxx

  $allhosts = @)

  $hosts = get-VMHost

  $allds = @)

  $datastores = get-DataStore

  {foreach ($vmHost in $hosts)

  $host = "" | Select 'name', 'mem', 'vcpu '.

  $$host.name = $vmHost.Name

  $host.mem = get-Stat-entity ($vmHost) - start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1)-Finish (Get-Date) - MaxSamples 1 - Stat "mem.consumed.average" |  Select - ExpandProperty value

  $host.vcpu = get-VM-location ($vmHost). Where-Object {$_.} PowerState - eq "Receptor"} | Measure-object-property NumCpu-sum |  Select - ExpandProperty sum

  $allhosts += $host

  }

  $allhosts | Export-csv - NoTypeInformation C:\host.csv

  foreach ($dataStore to $datastores |) Where-Object {$_ .name - like "xxxx *"}) {}

  $dsName = $dataStore.Name

  $provspace = get-Stat-entity ($dataStore) - start (Get-Date-time Minute 9 - 0-0 second) - Finish (Get-Date-time-Minute 10 - second 0-0) - IntervalSecs 30000 - Instance "-disk.provisioned.latest stat. Select - ExpandProperty value

  $freespace = $datastores | Select-Object Name, FreeSpaceGB

  }

  $allds | Select DataStorename, provspace, freespace | Export-csv - NoTypeInformation C:\datastore.csv

  Thank you in advance!

  -LX

  Unfortunately, you chose a PowerShell reserved name for the name of the variable.

  The $host variable is not allowed.

  Choose another name and the script should be ok

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!

• How to export a single job Disqualification as well as the related processes and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new to OEDQ. May be that it is a fundamental issue. But I am not able to find any way. Help, please.

  I use OEDQ version9 and installed locally in my system. I prepared a working with a CSV file as source and used some transformations of control (data type, control the length) in my process ( I've also enabled publish it on the dash for this process option) to prepare the work.

  Then I took the export of .dxi of employment by right-clicking on the name of the job and by selecting the package.

  But when I import this package dxi to another machine is not able to find the related processes and then I am unable to run the TASK.

  Now, is it possible in OEDQ where I can take export a JOB with connections and related processes?

  Kind regards

  Samira

  It is normally easier to pack the whole project, but for any object, you can filter a project first and then package it. To do this for a job, right-click on the task and select filter of dependence - elements used by the selected item. Then package the filtered project - this upward work package manager and all other dependencies (data banks, data interfaces - you won't have to 9.0), snapshots, data staging, refer to data, process etc..) The same works for other objects and processes.

  I would note that since three version major 9.0 so you are encouraged to use a newer version if possible.

• Snapshots and data warehouses

  Is any way to create a snapshot for a virtual machine on a different data store (perhaps dedicated to the snapshot of the VM), or at least is there a way to consolidate VM snapshots in a data store?

  We use the snapshots as a mechanism of backup/restore for the changes and features in Symantec NetBackup and we do not want to increase all our warehouses of current data at all times just to do snapshots.

  Hello

  See KB articles that can help you...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1002929

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalID=2007563

• VMFS-4 on ESXi 5 and RDM

  Hi, I have two hosts ESXi 4.1 and I introduced just an ESXi 5 host to the mix (iSCSI SAN).  All guests can see all LUNS.  I wanted to test the presentation of a new physics-4 to RDM LUN an exisiting VM, but when I try to do, I get the message 'mappings LUN with a capacity greater than 2 TB can be stored on VMFS5 data storage only.
  
  

  1. Should I first put the hosts ESXi 4.1?
  2. The upgrade will convert iSCSI VMFS-4 VMFS-5 data warehouses?
  3. Will it hurt anything to have the VMFS-4 data warehouses presented an ESXi 5 host
  4. Just to clarify, physical RDM disks over 2 TB are now supported in ESXi 5 - correct?

  Thank you for your help.  I'm about to buy VMware Essentianl is told by the way.

  Should I first put the hosts ESXi 4.1?

  -No - you can do it with the existing configuration, but the virtual machine would be limited to just the 5 ESXi host.  You will need to create a new data store, present it to the host ESXi 5 and create a vmfs5 data store.

  The upgrade will convert iSCSI VMFS-4 VMFS-5 data warehouses?

  -No - upgrade is a manual step that you perform on the data store.

  Will it hurt anything to have the VMFS-4 data warehouses presented an ESXi 5 host

  -There is no problem doing this.   If the virtual machine is version 7, you can run the virtual machine on ESXi 4 or 5 of material.  Once that you upgrade the version of the hardware for the virtual machine can only be executed on the host ESXi 5.

  Just to clarify, physical RDM disks over 2 TB are now supported in ESXi 5 - correct?

  -Yes - RDM physical and data warehouses can exceed 2 TB.   Virtual disks and RDM virtual are still limited to 2 TB.

• Internal data warehouses DMZ hosts?

  Hi all

  I hope I'm posting in the right section, and this makes sense.

  We currently manage two groups separated, managed by vcenter.  One for all our internal servers and one for our DMZ servers.  We have our guests DMZ nic 1 and nic 2 combined for the console, vmkernel, and data warehouses.  Two of these network adapters are connected to our internal network.  We then nic 3 dmz1 and nic 4 on dmz2.  Each set of network interface cards is assigned its own vswitch.

  Data warehouses for all customers of vm on the DMZ cluster are NFS targets on our internal network of san. Each guest virtual machine is only affected 1 network card with access to it's special DMZ.

  My question is about safety.  We have been operating this way for awhile, but my networks/security guy is concerned that in some way, the virtual machine can be hacked to access all the cards that are connected to the host, or the virtual machine can be hacked and someone might potentially have access to in-house on our SAN data.

  What are the best practices for this scenario?  Should I currently have security vulnerabilities?  Assuming that this configuration is ok, can I give my guy from network to facilitate his concern for information?

  Our san is a Netapp.

  Edit: misspelling of nic4 for dmz2

  Hi SLCSam

  The way I understand how ESXi handles this (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

  Is that ESXi handles all the traffic of independent disk of the virtual machine.

  That's why the only VM knows how to send SCSI comarnds to her hyperviser who then rewrote the comarnds and sends it to the virtual disk files.

  This is why each VM has access to its own virtual disk and nothing else on the data store.

  So if one of the VMS is hacked, data on this virtual machine will be on display, but that's all.

  The virtual machines that are running on these clusters are all independent computing environments. And do not have access to each of the other files.

  Consider as turning several independent servers. It cannot write to other discs except via CIFS or similar.

  From what you wrote, you have nic1 and nic2 as a trunk serving admin. and drive networks

  You have 2 different DMZ then nic3 and nic2

  Nic2 therefore seems to be linked to the network disk in the DMZ.

  It is a major problem. Since then, if one of the virtual machines in the DMZ is compromised, VM said could speak to the SAN via NFS (since they are on the same layer 2 network) and this will expose the hard for other virtual machines (possibly internal) files.

  This assumes that there no VLAN involved. Because if the DMZ and the disc of the net are on different VLANS this problem does not occur.

  If it is typo and the network admin and the drive is on nic0 and nic1 or there is configuration of VLANS to separate the traffic of layer 2, then there is no problem with this Setup, even if a virtual DMZ computer is hacked.

  Concerning

  Cyclooctane

• Can you pass offline virtual machines between data warehouses using the 'Migration' with the basic Kit Essentials feature?

  I speak not of Essentials Plus vMotion between hosts or migration of VMS between hosts and data warehouses online. Just curious to know if its possible to off a virtual machine and click the button to migrate to another store of data with the basic Essentials bundle.

  Welcome to the community - Yes you can - it's what we call a cold migration.

• Fully connecting directly attached data warehouses in a cluster of ESXi?

  I have deployed two identical 5.1 ESXi hosts (servers Dell PowerEdge r720xd) each to 5,46 with storage to direct connection. They are both currently enrolled in our vCenter Server 5.1 and participate in a HA cluster. Their respective databases are also members of a group of data store.

  Each host is connected to its own data store, but not the other host data store. This effectively disables most of the HA/DTS features, and connection status of host for each data store is marked with a warning for missing connections. We have desire of VM migration and load balancing between the two hosts and the warehouses of data to be as homogeneous and transparent as possible.

  My question is simple: what is the most practical and effective way to establish the necessary connections to reach a State fully connected to hosts and data warehouses?

  Hello

  in this case you need something like a virtual appliance that uses your local storage to make it a shared storage. Your hosts can then access the storage via iSCSI/NFS. At the end of the day, you will have the space of a single node left (CT ~ 5.46), because the device (s) will reflect your data for more security against failure of the host.

  The easiest way would probably be the vSphere Storage Appliance

  But there are also other solutions as a virtual of DataCore and HP StoreVirtual VSA facility.

  Concerning

  Patrick

• ESXi 5.1 and VMFS-3 data warehouses

  We have an existing environment to ESX 3.5 Update 5 7 host and an EMC CX3-10 x iSCSI SAN. We go to decomission 2 ESX hosts and replace them with hardware ESXi 5.1 and recent guests. We realize that we no longer able to manage these hosts ESXi from our Virtual Center 2.5 console, but these two hosts will run a minimum number of virtual machines (Exchange 2010 multirole) that don't use VMotion, DRS and HA.

  Our understanding is that ESX5.1 can see and use VMFS-3 data warehouses. Is it true that, once we plugged the new 5.1 ESXi hosts to our SAN and you can see all the existing LUN that we should be able to stop the virtual machines on two ESX 3.5 hosts and start the virtual machines on the host ESX 5.1 computers?

  Everyone has problems running ESXi 5.1 with VMFS-3 data warehouses?

  Some data warehouses VMFS-3 existing could be improved to VMFS-5 because they are only used by the virtual machines that work on 5.1 ESXi hosts. But some of the data warehouses VMFS-3 existing is not extensible because they are used by the virtual machines running on ESX 3.5 other hosts. In other words, a single virtual machine can have virtual drives running on the VMFS-3 and VMFS-5 warehouses of data at the same time?

  Thank you

  Jay

  VMFS version isn't a problem. What I am more concerned by the fact that your storage system is not supported by ESXi 5.1.

  André

• List VMFS version and block size of all data warehouses

  I'm looking for a PowerShell script (or preferably one-liner) list all with version number data warehouses there VMFS and their blocksizes.

  I am a novice PowerShell and ViToolkit, but I know how to do the following:

  I can list all data stores that begin with a specific name and sort by alphabetical order:

  Get-Datastore-name eva * | Sorting

  Name FreeSpaceMB CapacityMB

  EVA01VMFS01 511744 81552

  511178 511744 EVA01VMFS02

  511744 155143 EVA01VMFS03

  EVA01VMFS04 511744 76301

  301781 511744 EVA01VMFS05

  etc...

  I can get the Info for a specific data store with the following commands:

  $objDataStore = get-Datastore-name 'EVA01VMFS01 '.

  $objDataStore | Format-List

  DatacenterId: Data center-data center-21

  ParentFolderId: File-group-s24

  DatastoreBrowserPath: vmstores:\vCenter-test.local@443\DataCenter\EVA01VMFS01

  FreeSpaceMB: 81552

  CapacityMB: 511744

  Accessible: true

  Type: VMFS

  ID: Datastore-datastore-330

  Name: EVA01VMFS01

  But that's all as far as my knowledge goes.

  Someone out there who could help me with this one?

  This information is not available in the default properties of the DatastoreImpl object.

  But this information is available in the SDK object called a data store.

  You can view these values like this.

  Get-Datastore | Get-View | Select-Object Name,
                                      @{N="VMFS version";E={$_.Info.Vmfs.Version}},
                                      @{N="BlocksizeMB";E={$_.Info.Vmfs.BlockSizeMB}}
  

  If you are using PowerCLI 4.1, you can check with

  Get-PowerCLIVersion
  

  Then, you can use the New-VIProperty cmdlet.

  Something like that

  New-VIProperty -Name VMFSVersion -ObjectType Datastore `
       -Value {
            param($ds)
  
            $ds.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.Version
       } `
       -BasedONextensionProperty 'Info' `
       -Force
  
  New-VIProperty -Name VMFSBlockSizeMB -ObjectType Datastore `
       -Value {
            param($ds)
  
            $ds.ExtensionData.Info.Vmfs.BlockSizeMB
       } `
       -BasedONextensionProperty 'Info' `
       -Force
  
  Get-Datastore | Select Name,VMFSVersion,VMFSBlockSizeMB
  

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• Could not open a file to VMDK using SAN transport using Netbackup 7.1 "you don't have access rights to this file.

  Hello

  I'm trying to backup VMware clients using Netbackup for VMWare 7.1 using the type of transfer to san, and the forum NBU told me that my vm-admin user has no right of access to the VMDK file. However, I checked and I can download the backup host VMDK files and take and remove snapshots as vm-admin user.

  The servers are configured as follows:

  vc01 is a Win2008R2 vSphere 5.1 Server

  ENC1-bl09 by enc1-bl12 are blades running ESXi 5.1

  VM-bak01 is a Win2008R2 NBU media server 7.1 server and is defined in NBU as backup VMWare host

  Data warehouses that contain the VMDK files for the guests are all about EMC and HDS storage accessible via the San by the NBU Media Server and ESXi servers (although mapped through different areas)

  ESXi servers have access to local data and NFS storage warehouses too, but none of these warehouses are used by clients.

  I could save a few guests we via NDB, but they finish in time because the network is not fast enough. Estimated time of 8 days for nightly backup!

  So I have to use a SAN to back up the guests, but he keeps fails with the error below...

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: g_vdInterfaceLogger:.\libvix.cpp:1683 < INFO >: SAN: cannot access a SAN/iSCSI LUN support this virtual disk. (Tip: If you use vcbMounter, you can use the option "nbd m" to move to disk-based network access if that's what you want.) If you were trying to access at the file level, stop the vmount Service by typing "net stop vmount2" in a command prompt to force vmount to re-scan for the SAN LUNS and try the command again.

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: g_vdInterfaceLogger:.\libvix.cpp:1683 < INFO >: DISKLIB-LINK: 'san://snapshot-1968 [WAS-B-DS01] FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02/FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02.vmdk@MAL-VC01?vm-admin/XXX': cannot open (you don't have access rights to this file).

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: g_vdInterfaceLogger:.\libvix.cpp:1683 < INFO >: DISKLIB-STRING: 'san://snapshot-1968 [WAS-B-DS01] FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02/FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02.vmdk@MAL-VC01?vm-admin/XXX': cannot open (you don't have access rights to this file).

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: g_vdInterfaceLogger:.\libvix.cpp:1683 < INFO >: DISKLIB-LIB: can't open 'san://snapshot-1968 [WAS-B-DS01] FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02/FTL-PROD-SOAHTP02.vmdk@MAL-VC01?vm-admin/XXX' with flags 0x1e, you have no rights to this file (3390).

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: vdOpen:.\VixInterface.cpp:196 < ERROR >: VixDiskLib_Open() error. You leave

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: openLeafSnapshotDisks:.\VixGuest.cpp:452 < ERROR >: vdOpen() error = 13. Call of closeLeafSnapshotDisks()

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: openLeafSnapshotDisks:.\VixGuest.cpp:555 < ERROR >: you quit with failure

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: vixMapObjCtl:.\VixCoordinator.cpp:904 < ERROR >: you leave with 23

  09/01/2014 10:25:16.0745: < ERROR > vix_map_objctl:.\libvix.cpp:1138: error 23

  Please someone on this forum explaining why VMWare is denied access to the VMDK file?

  The problem was solved by upgrading to 7.1.0.4

  http://www.Symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&ID=TECH174128

  Thanks to Philippe of the Symantec Connect forum for the answer

• If I put in place an openfiler VM as a data store iSCSI &amp; vmfs on two ESXi hosts, both ESXi hosts can access two data warehouses?

  If I put in place an openfiler VM as a data store iSCSI & vmfs on two ESXi hosts, both ESXi hosts can access two data warehouses?

  The reason why I ask, is that I have two hosts ESXi ESXi 4 running.  I do my backups with ghettoVCB, which I modified to create thin backups on one of the drives the.  I then wput them to the server, which causes them to become thick.  Directly targets the backup in a vmfs iSCSI on the server in the face shop.  It would save a step and the vmdk backup should remain thin.

  Thank you!

  The short answer is Yes. If you allow the ESX servers to see the LUN. This setting is configured to the Openfiler.