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  I am setting up a HUB/CASE/box Server mailbox of all-in-one for fewer than 500 users on a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine and am about to configure the storage I need. The two words that I can't wait to hear more from Microsoft PSS is "not recommended" or "not supported." I have a Dell Equalogic PS6000 and have the ability to 'direct attached' compared to the VMware virtual disks for storage of mailbox databases. We run vSphere with vMotion, etc..

  Using virtual disks bad practice? Advantages or disadvantages I should know about? Adding a layer of complexity that might come back to bite me?

  I have a very similar setup and am currently using directly attached iSCSI volumes EqualLogic berries for my Exchange 2007 mailbox stores.  I also have the role of running UNIFIED messaging that works in fact remarkably well even if everything is running on a virtual machine.

  It was in large part because the EqualLogic recommendations had to use directly attached volumes so that taking snapshots multi-application/replication tools worked correctly.  If the Exchange mailboxes are held on a VMFS volume, then Tools EqualLogic will not be able to get to them.

  Microsoft have been OK on this configuration, and I actually had them made up our VM, one or two times when we iron out some problems of UNIFIED messaging (although I hide icon "VMWare Tools"!).

  The best thing to do would be to create volumes you think you'll need and attach them directly to the virtual machine using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, and then run the Exchange tool (I forgot his name) to test the storage for speed and capacity.

  See you soon.

  Chris

• 4.1.1 fusion erases files on the Mac desktop that are deleted in Fusion

  I have merge 4.1.1 installed on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.8.  If I download a file on the Mac desktop and then drag and drop it on the desktop of Windows XP which runs under Fusion, a box of "copy" just stating that the file is copied to the virtual machine.  If the file is 95MB, for example, copy the area shows the progress of the 95MB copy to the VM.  So far so good.  At the same time, a file is created on the Mac desktop which is a duplicate of the file slipped to the virtual operating system of Windows.  If I trash the file on the Mac desktop, it removes the file on the Windows desktop as well.  I-mode installation of VMware Fusion full screen and have a second monitor on the Mac, where I've been the VMware virtual machine.

  It's as if the file on the desktop Mac was in fact the only real file and one on the virtual machine has been a 'shortcut' or 'alias' in the file.  Not sure if I just something I have to change in the settings of merger to prevent this, or if this is normal behavior.

  Bill

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• Reference Dell HDS - recommended VMware virtual disk - drives provided - basic and dynamic thin and thick.

  Can someone point me to the literature on best practices for guest disc formats?

  I know all the Compellent thin-provisions. However, in VMware 5.5, when you set up a virtual disk in the comments you have several choices:

  • Lazy provisioned to zero thickness
  • Eager provisioned to zero thickness
  • Provision of thin

  And then, at the level of the OS, you have the choice of:

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  I would like a pointer to the technical document explaining the advantages/disadvantages of each choice and recommended best practices.

  Kind regards

  Kath

  I would like to either thin or thick lazy to zero.  The two will take the same amount of data on the HDS.  The main decision is where you want to manage your storage space?  If dilute you on thin you need to make sure that you make no provision in both places.  If you have thick lazy to zero, then you can only on commissioning on one side.

  Say that I always thin on thin.  Recovery of the space at the level of the virtual computer is not officially supported immediately, but maybe someday.

  In a virtualized environment, always keep it simple.  There is no dynamic performance with virtualization

• How do you ZOOM in the MAC DESKTOP version?

  How do you ZOOM in the MAC DESKTOP version?

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• Share a drive between the Mac desktop & VM

  Hello

  When I plug in an external USB disk on my Mac, I can choose to connect the Mac or virtual machine.

  It's windows to format so it is only read when I chose the Mac.

  Unfortunately, when I choose the virtual machine, the drive disappears from my Mac desktop computer.

  Would it not be possible to maintain the drive accessible from 2 systems and also be able to write directly on it via the Mac Finder?

  Thank you

  No, a physical device can be attached to an operating system at the same time - if your host or a guest.

  If you want to be able to read/write of these two at the same time operating systems, you will need to use the network file share.  Create a folder on the disk and inside the VM guest, attach to the network share you created.

• How can I use Windows on the Mac desktop?

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• Virtual Disk Manager "the device is not ready".

  I don't know about the format from outside, possibly MAC OS EXTENDED. He was not ejected a Mac and will not mount on an operating system MAC or PC (Windows 7 Professional) using Firewire (800 to 800 and 800 to 400), eSATA and USB 2.0. When I use disk management, disk will appear as not initialized and next to the "disk 33", there is a red arrow pointing down. Whenever I open the Disk Manager, the window to initialize the disk appears, but once I chose a style of partition and press OK, the virtual disk manager pops up saying "the device is not ready". I also tried to wipe the drive using CMD, (disc of DiskPart/list / select disk 33/clean), CMD said the drive was clean, but when I went to disk management, without change.

  I'm looking for a way to clean the drive so that it can be reformatted and reused.

  Hi Catherine,

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I would recommend posting your query in the link below.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/7e214b16-E415-449a-8f25-4cace51e5106/Virtual-Disk-Manager-error

  Good day!

• Machine virtual hard disk (virtual disk) of the upper size limit put into service

  Hi there, so I'm trying to create a hard drive or a virtual disk in a Virtual Machine in order to configure the virtual machine as a file server. The data store is a Promise VTrak M610P and I installed the vtrak as a type of VMFS5 5,46 TB of space (4 2 hard disks to each RAID 5). In the virtual machine, I added a hard drive and selected the store data vtrak and tried to set the provisioned to 5.46 TB size and type thick lazy disposition to zero, but I get an error of DiskCapControl with the range values. I changed the size set in service and 4 TB and he accepted the new hard drive. I can't find anything on the actual limit on the creation of hard disk in a virtual computer.

  
  

  I'm running a server Supermicro X7DAL-E with VMware ESXi 5.5 U2.

  Any ideas would be useful. Thank you.
  

  I forgot I asked a similar question on a different section of the forum (shame on me), but I found a solution. Please see the following post Re: SMB access using esxi host and manage with MS server 2008 storage

  Here's what I wrote on the link above:

  So it turns out that there seems to be something wrong with vClient when you add a hard disk (virtual disk) to a virtual machine of size greater than 4 TB. Article VMware KB: value of range error message when you add more than 4 TB capacity discs in vSphere Client describes this if you encounter this problem, add the hard drive via vSphere CLI, CLI power or vmkfstools. So this seems to be a known issue on vClient. What I ended up doing was using vClient, creation of hard disk, adding to the virtual machine (size of the hard drive is to 5.45) and when I would get the error message on the DiskCapControl out of reach, I would just click OK and then finalize the creation of the hard drive on the virtual machine. Once the process is complete, I selected the virtual machine and noticed that he indeed added a new HDD size 5.45 TB even if he's complained about it. I pulled to the top of the virtual machine with windows server 2008 R2 installed and was able to create a new disk under windows and set it up as a shared drive on the network. Looks like vClient must be updated by VMware and correct this bug, if it's a bug that I think. Thank you for the help vervoort!

• S130 rebuild with 2 virtual disks on the same disk array

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  I have 6 drives 750 GB sata in raid 10 with a s130 controller.

  There is a 100 GB virtual disk and a virtual disk of 2 TB.

  One of the drives has failed, so I replaced it with a new drive.

  I have assigned the new disc on the first virtual disk, and this re-built very well. But he'll also let me assign the remaining space on the new disk on the second virtual drive in the table, it is said that there is no available free disk?

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  Hi NET1K

  It seems that the hard drive that is not in the disk of your virtual disk group 2 (VD).

  You may need to put the reader that you have assigned to rebuild the first VD and assign it as a global hot spare to rebuild your disk, instead of virtual disk group offline.

  Before doing the procedure reversed, please backup you made recent data.

• VMDK virtual disk to the other folder

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  Before I started my new job we have run into some problems with our file server, Server22, with the CPU usage. IT consulting company that has implemented suggested it was something with the installation of windows, so they created a new virtual machine named Server22 which was just the C drive and tied the former Server22 data to the new drive. By making our virtual disk data still resides in the file of old Server22. I want to move, but want to find the right procedure to do. Is as simple as right clicking and pressing on "move to" browser data store? I've attached a screenshot of what I'm trying to do. I would like to move Server22.vmdk in the Server22_1 folder to the NewServer22 folder.

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  2. detach the vmdk in question.
  3. move the vmdk into the desired folder.
  4. Fix again the vmdk.
  5. Turn on the virtual machine.

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• How to correlate the virtual disk on the disk of OS

  I need to remove one of the virtual virtual machine disks. The problem is that I have two identical drives, more they are on Rible virtual scsi adapters so if I look at the properties of disks in disk management, they are both targets ID 0. Is there another way to correlate the virtual disk belongs to disk inside the BONE?

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  Troy

  Since this is often not easy to understand, I usually create each disc with a slightly different size. That said, resize one of the disks (for example add 1 GB virtual disk) and you will be able to identify the disk that you want to remove.

  André

• delete a virtual disk of the virtual machine of broken storage

  I have a virtual disk to a virtual machine on a broken iSCSI storage,

  now I can not remove the disc from the virtual machine.

  ESX 4.1 does not see the now broken iSCSI storage.

  See attach.

  Remove the virtual machine from the inventory and edit VMX manually deleting the reference to this disk. After that, add the machine virtual back again for the inventory.

• How to get to Lightroom to start the synchronization again of the Mac desktop application?

  Lightroom stopped syncing my iPhone and iPad two days ago. After you add about 15 photos to a folder sync they would still show the synchronization in the desktop application after more than two days (3 points under the arrow on the way into the upper right corner of the thumbnail). When I go to view on the Web that are not in the web view so I'm almost certain that the pictures do not out of office. If create a new synchronization would be the folder on the desktop, the file syncs on IOS devices, but none of the photos in the folder are synchronized.

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  I'm on OSX 10,9.3.

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  Steve

  Hi Guido,

  Last night after I posted my question, I found another thread where you said to delete sync.lrdata. I did and that fixed my problem.

  On Mac, it's to /Users/Library/Caches/Adobe/Lightroom/Sync Data / Sync.lrdata

  I spent a lot of time on this hunt. I would like to know as it's much more accessible from the main page of the help.

  Thank you

  Steve

• virus and malware protection of VMWare virtual machines at the hypervisor level

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  are there other than Trend Micro deep Security products that can protect virtual machines from the host at the hypervisor level?

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  McAfee has their product 'MOVE' for hypervisors, which we have had success with.

  There is also a Kaspersky solution, although I can't see offhand what it's called.