VMs of MAX in a data store: vsphere 5.5 (HA not configured.)

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• How to judge whether a data store is read only or not?

  Hello

  VI client, when I select the 'Mounting NFS read-only' checkbox during the addition of a storage, the storage will not be listed during VM creation.  I checked the MOB and the SDK web page, but have not found how to judge whether a data store is read only or not.

  Do me a favor please.

  -Akityou

  You should be able to get this information out of the HostMountInfo under mode http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.MountInfo.html

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• Can't see the logical volume when creating data store - vSphere 4.1

  Hi guys, got another problem with ESXi 4.1 on a HP Proliant ML350 G6.

  ESXi 4.1 update 1 has been installed successfully on the server on an internal USB. Our next step is to create a store of data through the vSphere client.

  The server has five 500 GB SAS configured in a RAID 5 array drives. The server has a HP Smart Array P410i RAID controller. I see five physical disks and logical volume of about 2.3 TB in RAID Utility. However, when access us the hypervisor via the vSphere client and try to create a data via a storage LUN/local store, the display shows then no logical volumes or the drive bays on which to create a data store.

  We are usnure why this is, as the ESXi 4.1 installation program could see this logical volume when I was installing the hypervisor, but he does not appear in vSphere for use in a data store.

  If anyone can help?

  Thank you very much.

  Each disk must be less than 2 TB - 512b

• PowerCli Help: VMs must rely on a data store

  Hi guys,.

  Need help to write a script where I need a number of virtual machines on a data store. This script has a few columns as well.

  I use below but I get no output if VM count is less than 2

  $TotalVM = (get - VM - DataStore $datastore) .count

  I know that there are a few scripts of a liner but I write this script for HTML output, and I also tried

  $TotalVM = get-Datastore Sharepoint_Datastore2 | Select Name, @{N = "TotalVM"; E={@($_ | Get - VM). County}} | Select totalvm

  This gives me the output voltage @{TotalVM = 1}

  I just need the County of VM on a particluar data store, any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance

  You can get the number of virtual machines in a data store with:

  $TotalVM = (Get-Datastore $Datastore | Get-VM | Measure-Object).Count
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Disk groups are not visible cluster. vSAN datastore exists. 2 guests (on 8) cluster do not see the vSAN data store. Their storage is not recognized.

  http://i.imgur.com/pqAXtFl.PNG

  http://i.imgur.com/BnztaDD.PNG

  Do not know how even tear it down and rebuild it if the disk groups are not visible. The discs are in good health on each host storage adapters.

  Currently the latest version of vCenter 5.5. Hosts running 5.5 build 2068190

  Just built. Happy to demolish and rebuild. Just do not know why it is not visible on the two hosts and the disk groups are only recognized 3 guests when more are contributing. Also strange that I can't get the disk groups to fill in vCenter. I tried two different browsers (chrome and IE).

  I have now works.

  All the identical 5.5 relies on ESXi hosts. All hosts are homogeneous CPU/sum of the prospects for disk controller / installed RAM/storage.

  I have work. I had to manually destroy all traces of the vSAN on each single to help host node:

  (1) put the hosts in maintenance mode and remove the cluster. I was unable to disable vSAN in the cluster, I made on each node host (manually via the CLI below) then disconnected web client vCenter and return to finally refresh the ability to disable on the cluster.

  esxcli vsan cluster get - to check the status of each host.

  esxcli vsan cluster drop - the vSAN cluster host.

  storage of vsan esxcli list - view records in the individual host group

  esxcli vsan storage remove-d naa.id_of_magnetic_disks_here - to remove each of the disks in the disk group (you can ignore this using the following command to remove the SSD only falling each disc in this host group).

  esxcli vsan storage remove s naa.id_of_solid_state_disks_here - this is the SSD and all the magnetic disks in a given disk group.

  After that, I was able to manually add hosts to the cluster, leave maintenance mode and configure the disk groups. Aggregated data of the vSAN data store is correct now, and everything is functional.

  Another question for those of you who still read... How to configure such as the VM storage strategy that migrates towards (or inspired) the vSAN data store will immediately resume the default storage policy, I built for VSANs?

  Thanks for anyone who has followed.

• Write-Host returns the correct value of the data store while Export-CSV does not work

  Hi team

  I use the attached script to get vcenter inventory. Everything works fine but the output to one gives CSV value like datasore ' VMware.Vim.VirtaulMachineConfigInfoDatastroreUrlPair [of] "instead of the actual data store name.

  But when I do a write-host in the end (instead of export to CSV) I can't find the name of data reflecting properly store.

  Can someone help me understand what Miss me?

  Thanks in advance.

  Olivier ONE

  The problem is that the virtual machine can have several data warehouses and the DatastoreUrl is an object, not a string.

  Try changing:

  $Report.DatastoreName = $VMview.Config.DatastoreUrl

  in:

  $Report.DatastoreName = [string]: join ('',($VMview.Config.DatastoreUrl |) Select-Object name - Expandproperty))

• 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.

• Migration of virtual machines from a data store, and then delete the data store?

  Hello

  I have a future deployment this month and my Director wants to build a new RAID 6 array, create a store of data with the new table and then move all the VMS to the newly created data store.

  Then he asked me to take the old data store and remove it and the available space between the deleted data store and other stores of data in our shared environment. The question is when the new raid is created and vm has migrated to the new data store, which is the best way to remove the data store empty and make sure that the space available for other data stores? Any help would be appreciated...

  Greg ~.

  If all controls are met, you can go ahead and take it apart without any problem.

  I have re-iterate below checks:

  -No virtual machine is in the data store

  -The data store is not part of the cluster data store

  -The data store is not managed by the DRS storage

  -IGCS is disabled for this data store

  -The data store is not used for vSphere HA heartbeat.

  Especially highlighted 2 controls. Please note that SIOC can be enabled on the data without SDR photo store

• Resizing data store - ESXI 5.5.0

  Hi all

  Bit of a problem here - I am trying to add a disk to a single host, HP DL380p Gen 8 Server ESXI 5.5.0 (update of HP Image 2) with a controller P420i (6 600 GB discs in RAID6)

  I added the disk in the array existing ok so there is now 7 600 Go discs - ESXI sees capacity update under the storage view (previous capacity was 2 TB)

  

  However under the view of storage of the data store

  

  In the properties of the data store, I can see the ability increases however I can not increase the actual data store

  

  

  Am I missing something?

  Concerning

  James Bell

  Hi there James and welcome to the forums.

  Unfortunately you will not like my answer but can still

  If you look at your second screenshot, you will notice that there is another partition on this 'device' - a 4 GB FAT32 partition. This will be served when you created the data store VMFS5 on this unit you would have been asked a question to see if "free use of space" or "use all available partitions. It would be I think the choice was 'space free use '. What this meant was that the existing partition format would have been kept was that due to the FAT32 partition MBR.

  When the VMFS5 data store was created he could not convert the format of partition a GPT device that allows for the storage of data greater than 2 TB in size and is the reason why you can't currently develop it use the extra space.

  Solution: Move all the virtual machines in this data store, and then delete the data store and recreate ensuring "Use all available partitions" option is selected. Once completed, migrate virtual back machines.

  NOTE: This step is destructive, so make sure you have all the virtual machines on the data store, and anything else is stored before proceeding. This includes VMs that have been deleted inventory or ISOs stored.

  Hope this helps,

  ThompsG

• SWAP file data store remove issue

  Hello

  I'm currently moving VMs to the data store newly created as well the datastore file swap. I have already change on all ESXi hosts, the data store were swap file will reside, however, I have still a few virtual machines on the old data store. I know not if I vMotion virtual machines from one host to another it will change the location for the swap file. My question is, can I just remove the old data store without affecting production not VMs remained the swapfile on the old location? Just try to find a solution faster than vMotion every single one of the virtual machines.

  Thanks for any suggestions or comments!

  Chris

  Hello

  As long as all hosts are no longer using the data store and the cluster is not defined using volume swapfile host (rather than storing with VM) then you should be able to disassemble the old swap partition.

  Bare in mind, vMotion/svMotion a virtual computer, you must be sure to move all the files and the virtual machine is set to store his exchange with the virtual machine files. Check that the old swap partition is no longer in use, and then take it apart. In theory the fastest way is to ensure that all VMs are defined to store swap with virtual machine files to the off and on again, forcing a new .vswp file in the same device. But it would of course affect your VM availability.

  I've seen in the past that even if the volume was no longer used by the guests, that guests required a restart until I managed to remove the old Exchange store data, just in case you meet that!

• Data store sizes do not correspond to the sizes used all the vm

  Hey guys, I'm new in Vmware and I have a background of storage and I wonder if its correct what I see when I compare the total size of all the stores of data vs the 'space used' totals of all VMs running on these data stores.

  I see a total of 139 to on data warehouses with 33 to free space and when I add the vm used all space I have a totall TB 138. It's the size of all data stores!

  This seems not very accurate for me, I expect the total space used much lower. All the vm uses eager reset thick space.

  I hope someone can explain or confirm that they see similar things?

  For used space I exported the list of all the vm XL, cut in two the column space to separate the numbers from the gb / tb, changed all amounts of GB space and have XL add up the sum of all spaces.

  Hey MKguy, it was indeed your option 1, the RDM

  a command simple cli: Get - VM | Get-hard drive - Disktype "RawPhysical", "RawVirtual" | Select name, DiskType, ScsicannonicalName, DeviceName, Parent, CapacityGB

  has given numbers for all of the ROW and that's the difference between data warehouses, I have seen and all the used vm space :-)

  Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

• Error during activation of data store single heartbeat

  Hello

  I have a cluster HA (5.5) newly created using vSAN as a data store unique. HA cluster is configured with das.ignoreInsufficientHbDatastore, but when I select vSAN datastore in the favorite heartbeat datastore, I get the following error:

  The userHeartbeatDs setting is not valid for the cluster NOMCLUSTER

  Google could not find a single post/page mentioning this error.

  Any help would be much appreciated!

  Perhaps this explains - it.

  VSAN part 9 - host failure scenarios & amp; vSphere HA Interop | CormacHogan.com

  Another notable difference with vSphere HA on VSAN, it's that the VSAN data store cannot be used for the heartbeat of data store. ...

  I guess that this is due to the local VMFS-L version used with VSAN that does not use the same locking mechanism as a VMFS default data store.

  André

• Data store 'datastore1' is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (.), but is back different physical storage

  Hello

  I am new to vCenter Server, so you can assume that I'm missing something obvious.

  I installed vCenter Server 5.5 and one of the two hosts of re-usable ESXi 5.0.0 connected correctly. When I try to connect to the second 5.0.0 ESXi host, I get the error message:

  Data store 'datastore1' is in conflict with a store of data that exists in the data center which has the same URL (.), but is supported by different physical storage

  I Googled it and found what I think are the best answers that are successful, but they all seem pretty unique in their situation (they have a cluster, I do not have) etc. Some solutions involve disconnecting the store of data and reconstruction of things. I would not make things worse and can live without doubt with the help of vSphere client (and not the web client) until maybe I can start again with a 5.5 installation to a new host once I have back up everything from the host unconnectable. I closed all the VM on the host of the second. I have put in maintenance mode. I've renamed the data store, all to nothing does not.

  Thanks in advance

  The problem is that a whole army could not be connected to vCenter due to the problem, the solution involving disconnection of the host apply.

  Here is how I solved the problem:

  1 use the client vSphere client heavy, connect you to the host that cannot not be connected to vCenter Server.

  2. click on the host computer, and then click the Configuration tab.

  3. click on "storage".

  4. find the offending on the right data store.

  5. right click on the data store incriminated and click 'remove '.

  6. click on 'Add storage' in the top right.

  7. follow the steps to find this data not mounted store. I gave him a new name just to be sure, even if it's probably not necessary.

• Copy the ISO to the data store

  Hello!

  I want to copy an ISO to the local data store. My server does not have the DVD, so I think that to install VM ISO e.

  I guess I need to some ftpd or tftp on ESXi host. Is this possible?

  Another way to copy the ISO til the local server data store?

  RS

  Hello

  Client session launch the vsphere host, select configuration, then storage, browse the data store, and then download the ISO on the data store.

  See you soon!

• Issue of SDRS to vCloud Director after you add the new data store to the Cluster of DTS

  Hi people,

  We use vCloud Director 5.5 in a vSphere full 5.5 environment.

  We have several DTS Cluster in vSphere and connected to vCloud Director.

  Following problem.

  When I add a data store to a Cluster of DTS and connect this to the corresponding storage profile data store, the storage profile is not available to vCloud Director more.

  After removing the new store data in the cluster of DTS, the profile becomes available again.

  Any ideas?

  Concerning

  Jean

  How did you the storage profile associated with the data store?  via c# client or vSphere web client?

  If you did the wrong way (c#) there no storage class label appropriate against it.

  A data cluster store has the storage class who would have all preparations of data contained inside.

  I think that you should check the service class is associated properly in vSphere web client (before adding to the DS Cluster).  Once it displays correctly, and then add the data store to the cluster.