What is "flat vmdk" & how to clone

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• What is flat.vmdk

  What is flat.vmdk in vmware, how do you describe?

  According to the virtual disk format, each virtual disk consists of 2 (or more) files. The file descriptor/header vmdk (only a few hundred bytes) and the data file named... flat... (if it is a basic disk) or... delta... (if it's a Flash disk).

  André

• Flat VMDK

  What is flat VMDK?

  Thank you

  Prashant

  The flat VMDK file is the "real" data file The 'normal' VMDK file is simply the discribtion file (where the flat file etc.)

  Kind regards

  Mario

• deleted all vm outside the flat vmdk files - recovery?

  In a moment of madness I accidentally tried to remove a virtual machine from a data store. All updated files other than the flat vmdk file then deleted... It is not a critical system, but I still prefer to retrieve by using the existing if possible vmdk file. Since it is a flat file without descriptor I can not simply use it as basis for a new virtual machine, then how would you go to get it? In my view, a provisioning was not used, so should I just copy on a linux machine, it mount it and copy the relevant files or I can pick it up in esx - i?

  Edit: I should probably add that I know the exact size of the disc, but when I try to create new disks I can't manage to get split into flat vmdk / basic (with an idea of just using the new disks for the old descriptor)

  Take a look at sanbarrow.com for some details on this kind of issue, but basically, you can follow this process

  (1) create a new virtual machine with the same disc than the old size.

  (2) copy the file descriptor on file with just the file flat.vmdk left.

  (3) change the descriptor file (hard) and update to point to the old file flat.vmdk.

  (4) allowing the VM.

  (5) change the new virtual machine and delete the virtual HD.

  (6) copy the old file to the new folder VM with vmkfstools.

  (7) to change the new virtual machine and add a file of existing (using the new copy) drive.

  (8) to turn on the virtual machine.

  But before that, you can you

  1) check for us if the virtual machine still works

  (2) post a list of the folder where the virtual computer files were (with the-l option to show the size of the file).

  (3) can you tell me what VMware product and version are you using?  I guess ESXi 3.5 but it would be preferable to confirm.

  Dave

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• How do clone you a hard drive on a P6770T

  Background: I have a P6770T Office, number of product XX204AV #ABA, OS: Windows 7 Home 64 bit service pack 1.

  Partitions: C: 685 GB D: 12.7 GB (recovery), Q: 0GO (MS Office 2010 protected).

  Question: I would like to add a second hard drive to the PC as a clone.   First of all, a second internal hard drive can be added (is there a location for the drive and a SATA cable port)?    Second, how do clone you a hard drive with the three partitions, as described above?    I need instructions for cooking book style because I'm a newbee.      Thank you.

  It is usually best to make a clone with an external drive. It makes no sense given the power (spinning). Seagate and WD offer similar programs, called 'DiskWizard '.

  What you'll need:

  (1) software cloning (I'll link Seagate) download the utility and download from this page user's Guide.

  (2) buy a 1 t Seagate drive (like your hard drive is a nominal 750Go).

  more than you will need:

  (3) Sata Drive enclosure includes ESata rail.

• How to clone my original HD a new HD with OS Win7 simular to?

  Operating system: Win7 Home Premium (64-bit)

  Cell phone: HPG61

  Due to the strange behavior of your internal 500 GB hard drive, I tried to clone the drive to a new one (the same make and model). When I want to restore the image to the new HD, I have problems during the start-up of the PC (I should have a look which are several issues but I think it was something with license). What is the correct procedure to clone an OS original official sort of Win7 on a new hard drive? If this does not work, how can I do to install a clean Windows 7 on the new HDD without having to buy a new OS?

  Have you tried builtin Imaging window in Control Panel to create the Image of the system? You also need the system repair disc made in the application of boot from the restore.

  If all images require a license key, use the one of the sticker at the bottom of your laptop.

  BTW, if your tile is always legible & intact, it might be appropriate to cover with transparent tape. Many owners report damage to the sticker of license after awhile.

• Help recovering files flat.vmdk supplied thickness necessary!

  Hi all

  First of all, some background on my current configuration (and I'll try to keep it short and sweet)...

  I have 3 1 than to hard disks in a 5.x ESXi host I use in a RAID5 array.  The RAID is actually implemented and managed by a guest Windows Server 2008R2 VM on the host.  When I created data warehouses to build the table, I've formatted each of hard drives and added inside the vSphere Client as VMFS data stores.  When I added the readers to the configuration of the VM of comments, I put them to be supplied thick lazy-reset and all 3 have the same size (930.2899996 GB).  Each disc has an and a single VMDK and this VMDK takes up most of the usable usable VMFS partition sectors.  Inside of the guest, the virtual disks were formatted using Windows Disk Manager like dynamic GPT disks without starting and then adjust upward in a RAID5 array.

  What has happened...

  A week or if there is during a backup/cleaning of the virtual machine, I accidentally deleted a 2nd guest VM which has also consulted with data warehouses (I was testing Windows Server 2012R2, impressed) without separate configuration of the 2nd VM first, data warehouses and eventually remove the VMDK files from the disk.  I am recovering files flat.vmdk at least 2 of these discs.  As this happened, I spent many hours of research online about VMDK recovery and disk running scans trying to find the missing VMDK (again unsuccessfully). Nothing has been written to one of these discs, and the VMFS partition is still in-tact.

  I know...

  Geometry of the disk, the file names, logical sector size and number of sectors files missing VMDK (recovered in the log file of the last successful start-up of the VM)

  Using the above information, I have a model created for a descriptor ready replacement VMDK file as soon as I can retrieve images flat.vmdk

  What I've tried so far...

  ESXi Shell & vmfs-fuse-> Navigation data storages show volumes are empty.  VMFS-fuse mounts the volume, but no VMDK file cannot be found.

  UFS Explorer-> same basic idea.  VMFS partitions are found easily and show good healthcare, but I can't find the files there, either.

  Hexagonal view using of UFS Explorer, I autorévisés several areas that I know are within the area of data and verified the parity RAID5 withdraws (to be confirmed), it seems that the data is always there and in-tact.

  DiskInternals VMFS Recovery-> attempt to analyze the disk, after 36 hours of scanning on a single disc had not yet reached 10%.

  What I would like to...

  Find the starting location for the file flat.vmdk for each disc and do an image binary dump of this position to the end of the VMDK file (sector of end computed by the starting location + number of sectors for the VMDK's newspaper).  Since all 3 discs are identical in the sense of VMWare, this place of departure should be the same for all 3 disks.  I have an external HD to 3 TB in waiting for the dump once I know not where to start.

  Worth I feel is actually locate the start position in hexadecimal view (I do not know what hexadecimal values, I need to look for).  Sanbarrow (continuum) of the site (VMDK-basics), he said he's looking for the mbr as header of the file, but I've not found in my records.

  Last note 1: this isn't a company or business system.  This is my personal home server and I have legitimate licenses for all the OS running on the host computer.

  Grade 2: Yes, I * have a backup, but it is around the age of 2 months and lack about 300 GB of files that have been added since the last backup.  Can I recover a good part of the missing data (about 60 GB) back to the source and copying/download files, but there are still about 240 GB that I can't copy (source no longer exists).  My fault for not having more recent backups, but worse is still not a TOTAL loss (about 85 percent recovered from backup & original sources).  All disks in the guest system VMDK is stored on a separate DSS and have experienced good backups of the primary system on a separate disk drives).

  Any assistance with this would be much appreciated!

  Thank you

  Brian

  Ok...

  So, after several weeks and countless hours my best, I finally decided to give up and call it closes unexpectedly.  Finally, I reformatted the hard drive and rebuilt the RAID from scratch - it is just the initial synchronization now and I will fully bring my last backup to the table at this stage ends.  The most important things I have known and confirmed backups of already, but I'll never recover the archival footage that I had done previous laptops, but at least it's not a TOTAL loss.  I've not spent by them in a long time, so I doubt that something very important, but there are still some bugs the stew out of me.

  What bothers me more, however, is the lack of response at all here.  I read on previous posts on the subject, describes the situation in detail as well as what I need help with, and after 3 weeks and 60 views... nothing.  I thought that VMware would have an active, reactive and useful community much more than that and I must say that I am very disappointed.  I hope that all those who might find themselves in this situation is able to get the help they need.

  I hope everyone has a great 2014!

• How to clone if a data file is deleted

  Hello
  
  3 datafile fell bcz of space.now we must clone.the backup was after a decline in the db.
  How to clone?
  
  database is not in log mode archive.
  
  We get the error:
  create controlfile reuse tablespace failed.
  ORA-01110
  ORA-01159
  ORA-01153
  
  etc.
  
  When we apply post clone.
  
  What should do?
  
  
  EBS R12
  OS: RHEL 5
  
  rgrds

  Hello

  You data files be incompatible, then you will need to run preclone even once, stop the source instance (clean shutdown), copy the files from the database again and run post clone.

  Thank you
  Hussein

• I clicked "Remove from toolbar" when wanting to shoot to the top of what I had downloaded - how to restore DOWNLOAD arrow on the toolbar?

  I clicked "Remove from toolbar" when wanting to shoot to the top of what I had downloaded - how to restore DOWNLOAD arrow on the toolbar? If I download an update of some kind - or a program, I should be able to click on the arrow that appears on the upper right side of the browser - right than the blue? I can't figure out how to restore! I even tried to close and reopen the browser to see if it will rest - but no.
  I am not programmer - so I need simple instructions!
  Help, please!

  Type of topic: customization< enter > in the address bar.
  In the new window, look for the icon. When you find it, press and hold
  the left button on it and move it to where you want it to be.
  You can move the icons you want here, but
  some icons are locked in place.

• When I create a new e-mail, a strange e-mail address 'minbox' appears in my line 'from '. I don't know even know what minbox is. How can I get this to go away?

  When I create a new e-mail, a mysterious "minbox" email address appears in my line 'from '. I don't know even know what minbox is. How can I get rid of this?

  Check if you have Minbox in your applications. If so, you can uninstall it by drag - move to the trash it in your Applications folder.

• How to clone a tab?

  How to clone a tab in Firefox 25.0.1 for Ubuntu? Can't seem to do it and there is little or no info to do so. Is a simple right-click in the opera.

  There are two possible ways to clone a tab of firefox under ubuntu:

  With the help of history:

  (1) right click on the back/forward buttons of the browser that opens to the history of the page. (You can also do the next step directly on the arrows, but if you have opened the history you can choose which page to open from history, rather than directly open the previous or the next).

  (2) press on (and continue to hold on) the CTRL and click on one of the pages of history.
  Click on one of the pages with the middle mouse button.

  (3) now, after doing one of the steps in the second point, it will open a new tab with the history of the old tab and the starting page will be the page you chose in the history.

  Wihout using history

  If you attempt to drag and drop the tab as if you were re - arrange it, keep the Ctrl key before releasing the mouse button while dragging the tab.
  This will do the same as above, except that you get to choose a place clone tab in the tab bar, and the first page of the cloned tab is the same as the original.

  Hope this has been helpful.
  Thank you.

• a new icon appers on tools on the toolbar after the Firefox update. It says not 'connected '. What is it? How to remove it?

  After that I updated Firefox to ver.16.0.1, on the right side of the toolbar a small icon appeared! When I click this, it says no 'connected '. I tried to remove it using customize, but nothing happened, it's still there. I don't know what is it and how to remove it! Help me please! Thank you very much!

  Try dragging this button in the toolbar palette.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization

  Alternatively, you can check for problems with the file localstore.rdf.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.RDF

  Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/tools > Modules > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is the cause of the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/tools > Modules > appearance).

  • Do not click on the reset button on the start safe mode window or make changes.
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/safe+mode
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

• For some reason any in my list of Firefox Add-on - it so-called Z 4.6.8.5 arose. There is no Remove button to remove, just a button to 'enable '. Anyone know what it is and how I can remove it?

  For some reason any in my list of Firefox Add-on - it so-called Z 4.6.8.5 arose. It has not added to my list. There is no Remove button to remove, just a button to 'enable '. Anyone know what it is and how I can remove it?

  See if this helps you:
  
  http://www.computerpartsgreenvillesc.com/dealing-with-the-z-4-6-7-7-Firefox-extension/
  
  I think your module might be a newer version of the one reviewed in this article.

• What is SSD and how can I use it or not?

  Could someone tell me, what is SSD and how can I use it or not? because my friend told me that my laptop has SSD drive.

  Hi Jabbar73,

  Thanks for your post, I'm happy to help you.

  SSD stands for Solid State Drive. Here's the Wikipedia definition. SSD drive.

  Now, for what is in your system go to the Start button and click on run

  Type msinfo32 , and go to the section components storage disc.

  Lists the disks that you have in your system.

• I downloaded Firefox 4. The top of my page looks nothing like what they show. How to repair or return to the Firefox I had before. I can not even find anywhere on my computer to uninstall Firefox 4

  I downloaded Firefox 4 and it does not give me most of the tabs and that he said that I would get. The top of my page looks nothing like what they show. How to repair or return to the Firefox I had before. I can not even find anywhere on my computer to uninstall Firefox 4

  Windows XP does not display the default Firefox Button. If you want to see the Firefox button, go to view-> toolbars and uncheck the menu bar. (To return to the menu bar, press the ALT key to temporarily show - see what happened to the file, edit and view menus?).

  If you want to uninstall Firefox 4 you can do from the control panel "Add or remove programs". See Uninstall Firefox on your computer.

  To get Firefox 3.6 go here: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html and read install an older version of Firefox.