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  1. What is typical I/O profile for a virtual machine VMWare?

  2. do you have a guide of best practices configuration for SAN storage LUN available?

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  Some recommended reading:

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/TechResources/10329

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-51-monitoring-performance-guide.PDF

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-51/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-51-storage-Guide.PDF

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• What is the best way to restore virtual machines after a refresh of the server

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  Welcome to the community!

  Research, it seems that there is absolutely no way to work around this problem, except to redo the data store. Is this correct?

  Yes, unfortunately there no way to change the block size of the datastore to vmfs without reformatting.

  If this is the case, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and to reload them after it is updated. A way that I thought was to go browse the data store and copy all the files on my local machine to the virtual machine (.nvram, hard, .vmx etx... all the files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct setting of data store, build the machines VMS in vSphere, and then replace the files with those copied. This works perfectly? I have

  Yes, it will work. You have just to copy all files in this VMFS datastore to a place safe and download once the block size has increased. Once the download is complete, navigate to the virtual machine, the virtual machine folder right click and save the VMX.

  You can find the steps to change the size of the block VMFS in this KB. VMware KB: block the size of a VMFS data store limitations

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• VCO allows to disconnect the removable devices on multiple virtual machines

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  I am new to vCO and trying to get wet feet.  I noticed there is already a "workflow" for disconnection of any removable devices, but you can only apply it to a virtual computer at a time.  I tried and it worked, but I would like that it run on a schedule and do all my virtual machines.  I did some reading and think I need to use the workflow batch to get there.  I read that I had to complete her run a Workflow on a selection of objects and then fill the filling batch configuration elements.  Is it true or I read that wrong?

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  I am completely off track here?  Is there a better way to do it?  Or am I just missing a step?  It's all in 4.1.1.

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  Lauren

  OK I found how you did it. You have renamed the local parameters of entry and vmNb.

  For example, your script should look like this:

  

  Instead:

  

  If you did not replace full box yet, you can go on the in / out tab and double click on the local parameter rename them to the counter.

  Like this (it is not very visible here, but the local counter setting is being edited)

  

• Move the virtual machine in another data store

  I don't know what's going on, I have two data warehouses and I moved my vm from one to the other, I had to create a new virtual machine to import the files migrated, when I opened the store of data for import only saw two files vmdk files, the first 00001 others a single vmdk file that contains 00 001 not opened when you import the second succeeded, but when the server starts, it goes up a very old version, as if it was newly installed windows 2003, I saw in the dishes, delta files files but don't know what to do, I tried to check the Snapshot Manager, but did not find anything there.

  Have you ever tried to fix things? The attached .vmx file points to the correct instant hard file (scsi0:0.fileName = "Cezzanne - 000001.vmdk"), but the parentCID in this hard file is not correct!

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  Next time you copy a VM, do not create a new virtual machine. Only delete the virtual machine to inventory before moving and after moving it, click right the VM .vmx file and choose "add to the inventory.

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• Match each data store its Lun ID and the list of virtual machines in each data store

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  If you use only LUNS is an easy way to get the canonical name:

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  I don't understand your requirement regarding the name vCenter, but for everything else

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• Add virtual machines to a data store while changing the name?

  I am trying to create a virtual machine in standby (or more, I do not have a final number) in a second datacenter.  The goal is to have a copy of a group of virtual machines updated once a week as a relief.

  I'll use our SAN replication to keep them up-to-date, so once a week, I stop all virtual machines in the data store, remove them from the inventory and remove the data store.  Then on the side of SAN, I'll create a new copy of the data store, then add this data store to vSphere.  We will do a few rounds of network to ensure we have not any change in the network that should be taken in the virtual machine.

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  You can search the data for the VMX store you want to register a script like the one you'll find in VMX Raiders revisited.

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• HELP - how to get the number of virtual machines on a data store?

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  Get-Datastore | where {$_.Name -like "vmfs*"} | Sort-Object -Property Name | %{$_ | select @{N="DSname"; E={$_.Name}},
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• Move a virtual machine in another data store

  Hello

  On our ESX 4, we have created pools of resources and multiple data on SAN warehouses.

  To move that a VM resource with Betclic is very easy, but howto move a virtual machine from a to another data store?

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• Virtual machines use a data store file?

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  You can use something like RVTools to check your inventory