What size will the vmdk file?

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• Cannot reduce the size of the VMDK file

  OK, here's my story:

  I started with the growable virtual 40 GB HD default mapped as C:\ on my virtual machine. The HD received complete and had poor performance and I converted it to a prealloue 100 GB HD. It worked OK for a while, but then I created a new virtual HD mapped as D:\ to store data.

  So my problem was C:\ was too big which made backup of the virtual machine of your time, and I thought I have to resize C:\ 30 GB. My first test was to convert it to a HD growable. This remains a 100 GB on the host vmdk file.

  Then, I used the two compacts from the GUI and stop at the command prompt on the convert HD Nope, still 100 GB vmdk file on the host.

  Then I used a disk management program to reduce the size of the c:\ partition with 30 GB and run both shrink and compact again. Guess what, the vmdk file is always 100 GB.

  I'm running out of ideas on what to do to reduce the size of the vmdk file. Any ideas?

  Yes, I did, but I used compact from the GUI and stop at the command line (vmware - vmdiskmanager.exe). At that time I didn't there's a shrink option in VMWare tools.

  In this case try to diminish with the extra partition (temporary).

  Which converter you were referring to in your previous post?

  VMware Converter Standalone 4.3

  André

• The actual size of the VMDK file

  I have a 4.0.0,208167 ESXi host and on it, to install WIN 2008, I created a new virtual machine.

  When configure the virtual disk, I put size drive 60 g and selected the option space Allocate and commit to demand (thin Provisioing) .

  The following steps are fine and smooth.  The installation is good and VM can work as I want.

  Ultimately, I have disabled this machine virtual and connected to the ESXi via vSphere Client on my laptop, with the tool of the browser data store , I found that the size of the VMDK file is about 5 G.

  So I decided to download this file to my laptop with the data store Navigator tool.  But I found that it is a problem.  Tool of the data store browser said that it would take 300 minutes to download.  And I let it run for about 20 minutes, the *- flat. VMDK file in my laptop has become more than 8 G.  I had to stop this download process.

  Why this file has become bigger than the original one?

  Can I save this 5G VMDK file in my laptop (Windows XP)?

  Thank you very much

  If you want a small export vmdk layer thin provisioned vmdk as a type "twoGbMaxExtentSparse.

  To achieve this use vmkfstools and export the current vmdk like this

  vmkfstools-i /vmfs/volumes/localdatastore/test.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/nfsdatastore/export.vmdk d 2gbsparse

  the example copies the thin test.vmdk disc put into service on the data store normal VMFS to a disk on a NFS datastore split more.

  You can also create the split inside the same directory disk - but then you still have to copy it to your target host.

  The new type vmdk you get can then be directly used with VMserver, player and Workstation

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  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• Maximum size of the VMDK file we can assign during the P2V?

  Hello.

  We conduct P2V for a server physical and would like to address one of the disk for P2V.

  Rather than extend the VMDK disk in the future, we would like to extend during P2V.  Given that VMDK file maximum size is 2 TB for ESXi host, we can assign 2 TB for this VMDK file OR there is a recommended maximum size to use?

  Thank you

  I have myself yet, but I guess you should be able to assign the maximum size of virtual disk, depending on the block size of the data store (for ESXi versions before the 5.x/VMFS-5). That said, I suggest that you don't assign it more than 2 032 GB in order to create snapshots for this virtual disk (see "calculates the time system required by the snapshot files" at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012384)

  André

• The Vmdk file size

  Hello.

  I have an ESX 4.0.0 host and I created a new virtual machine on this subject, to install WIN 2003.

  When configure the virtual disk, I put the 18 GB disk and selected size space Allocate and commit on request option (thin Provisioing).

  The following steps are fine and smooth. The installation is good and VM can be saved on the local HARD disk. It could work like I want.

  In the end, I logged in the ESX sever to check how the size of the VMDK file has been generated.

  Result as below.

  $ ls - lh

  total of 9.7 G

  -rw - 1 root root 1.0 G the 31 mai 10:43 vm - 17412363.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 17G 31 May 17:51 vm1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 31 mai 11:06 vm.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 469 31 mai 10:45 vm.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 May 31 10:40 vm.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root, 2.9 K 31 mai 10:43 vc01.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 259 the 31 mai 10:40 vm.vmxf

  -rw - rr 1 root root 110 K 31 mai 17:18 vmware.log

  I felt that it is fake!

  Why is the total size of 9.7 GB but vm1 - flat hard file is 17 GB?

  It's over the total size. It seems strange to... isn't it?

  Then I was loggin to WIN2003 (vm) and make sure how the C drive size.

  C drive has been total 16.9 and GB 8,44 available...

  The C drive size is perhaps skirtss size. It is a good idea.

  but WHY the total size is 9.7 GB? AND tell me the breakdown of this total size of the file.

  Can someone explain to me?

  Help me ~ ~ ~

  Thank you!

  Hello!

  VM1 - flat hard is sparesefile and signals the total maximum size of the disk.

  And 9.7 total disk space used, log + swap files.

• the VMDK files are more and more and more...

  I have vmware 8.01 with two virtual machines. OS Win7 64 bit ultimate host, guests are win7 ultimate 32-bit. The first VM was created by workstation, with 80 GB of HARD drive and this virtual machine works very well, the vmdk file size is constant.

  The second was created by the virtualization of a physical machine. It has 298 GB of HARD drive. I created it three months ago, and now the size of this virtual machine is 505 Gb in the host file system. This virtual machine, called 'Prospero' has ten vmdk files:

  Prospero.VMDK 240 GB

  Prospero - 000001.vmdk 19 GB

  Prospero - 000002.vmdk Gb 116

  Prospero - 000003.vmdk 40 GB

  Prospero - 000004.vmdk 56 GB

  Prospero - 000005.vmdk 12 GB

  Prospero - 000006.vmdk 3.3 GB

  Prospero - 000007.vmdk 4.3 GB

  Prospero - 000008.vmdk 13 GB

  Prospero - 000009.vmdk 14 GB

  Yesterday, the size of the last file vmdk file was only 500 MB. It is now 14 GB.

  Initially, I set the snapshot generation and later I switch, but the growth of the size of the vmdk files continues day after day.

  Said VMWare tools: 'the fret is disabled for this virtual machine.

  What can I do to stop this more and return to the normal size of 298 GB?

  I've attached the vmx file.

  Welcome to the community,

  Initially I set the snapshot generation, and later I turned off...

  It seems that you have the "characteristic" Autoprotect is always enabled. The .vmx file still contains many entries of "RollingTier". You will need to disable Autoprotect for the virtual machine and then remove snapshots using the Snapshot Manager.

  André

• Incorrect (inflated). The VMDK file size

  Hi all

  I am running VMware Workstation 10.0.2 build-1744117 and scratching my head as to why the size of my. The Guest Windows 7 x 64 newly deployed VMDK file is so great despite having supplied a vDisk 60 GB and opting for do not pre-allocate space.  My VMDK file size is close to 60 GB, while on the comments, it shows only ~ 21 GB consumed.  I tried without success the compaction.  It is not compatible with other virtual machines, I in which the VMDK file size corresponds to the capacity in use on the vDisk. Please find below the screenshots of corroboration.  It would be much appreciated if someone could shed some light on why this is the case.

  COMMENTS:

  

  

  HOST:

  

  

  Thanks in advance, see you soon!

  Sorry I lost all time clicking on this post.  After a nominal amount of research, I discovered the error of my ways and proceeded to reduce the volume.

  See you soon!

• What is the size of the max file on an NFS datastore

  the blocksize parameter sets the size of the max file on a LUN data store, but I can't seem to remember or find information about the maximum file size permitted with a NFS data store.

  any information or references would be appreciated.

  personally, I wonder if that format of underlying disk as ntfs or ext3 for zfs as determined by the o/s

  Thank you

  Wayne

  As much as I know there is no size limit of the NFS file - it depends on your OS - all that it supports (if you plan to use this file inside the virtual machine) and the size of your NFS share.

  As a general rule people tend to apply limits of san to NFS, just to put a figure on it.

  PS I did some tests with 2 TB filesize on NFS.

  -Igor

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• Update the Bios of satellite P10-304:-the size of the Rom file is incorrect

  P10 - 304 - downloaded Update Bios, but when I went to run it I get the message "the size of the.
  ROM file is incorrect. What can I do now?

  One question; Why you want to upgrade the BIOS?

  I studied on the knowledge base of the Toshiba site and found this:
  I always get an error message: the size of the ROM file is incorrect.
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB59014X0000R01.htm

  It will be useful.

• How to reduce the size of the PDF file on scanned on my PMX922 docs

  I deal with a lot of documents, and I find that when I scan the docs on my MX922 the size of the PDF file is MUCH larger that the size of the original PDF file. That's what I see (on a document page 2):

  (Received) original size: 11 k

  Default scan (Quick Menu): 1061 k

  With compression high (Quick Menu): 116 k

  The Panel of the printer (res 150): 209 k

  Windows scanning app (150 res): 1495 k

  Scanning from the Quick Menu with high Compression seems to be the best, but it still somewhat adds to the file size. It's a big problem so I dal with many GREAT docs. Several times the size of the file increase prevents me from being able to send files. Is there anything else I can do? Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Hi 1wwjdbro,

  We can set the PDF to HIGH compression option in the utility of digitization of IJ and also select the image digitized transfer compression to reduce the file size of the PDF file. To do this, please follow these steps:

  1. open the utility of scanning IJ.

  2. in the Scan from Canon IJ utility window that opens, click SETTINGS... at the bottom right of the window. The settings dialog box is displayed.

  3. click on the SCAN of DOCUMENT option in the left pane of the window.

  4 in the right pane window, look for the box to COMPRESS SCANNED IMAGES to be TRANSFERRED in the Scan Options section and check it.

  5. then, in the SAVE the SETTINGS section, find the FORMAT of DATA field and ensure that PDF or PDF (multi-page) is selected, and then click the SETTINGS button to the right of the field.

  6. in the window that opens, find the COMPRESSION PDF section, then select TOP from the drop-down list. Click OK to close the window. You will be taken back to the SETTINGS window.

  7. once all settings have been selected in the SETUP window, click the OK button at the bottom of the window to save the changes. The IJ Scan Utility main screen is displayed.

  8. click the DOCUMENT button. Housing starts scanning. Click CANCEL to cancel the scan if necessary. The scanned images are saved to the location of the selected folder previously specified in the SETTINGS... window.

  I hope this helps!

  If you need more assistance, please call 1-866-261-9362, Monday - Friday 10:00 - 10 pm et (excluding holidays) and a technical support representative Cannon will be happy to help you.  There is no charge for this call.

• Logitech C920 sequences is more than double the size of the original file

  Hi all

  I'm very new to adobe Premier Pro and I am just a little overwhelmed by the software. Here is my configuration of curect.

  Webcam: Logitech C920

  MIC: Blue Yeti

  I record video using OBS and it generates a file in the MP4 format. About a 10-minute film is at most 200 MB. Now, when I go to edit the clip in Premier Pro I understand that I must first begin a new sequence. This is my first problem: there is no predefined sequence that matches the C920 Locitech. So for now I'm just drag and drop the file into the time line. Is this correct?

  I can do the basic changes for now and that's fine, the problem comes when I go to export the images. I used H.264/Custom upstairs (MP4 format), I leave everything as it was. only 2 things I edit are the maximum and minimum flow for 10/16. I also check the box use overview at the bottom (I think that's what it was called) now when I hit Caryl export my PC Suite for about 10/15 minutes and give me a file that is about 700 MB in size. This is more than double the size of the original file. Why is this?

  If there is more information you need, I'll do my best to advise.

  Thank you

  If the C920 clip is the first clip you fall into an empty timeline, first expected to ask if you want to change sequence settings to match the clip (unless it is already). To be sure, simply right click on the clip in the project bin and select new sequence of the Clip and they will match for sure.

  The size of the exported video file is dictated by one thingand it is not frame size or frame rate - sampling rate is what determines the size of the file. If you want to halve the size of output file, you will need to reduce the flow rate by half.

  Rather than using Custom, maybe find a predefined existing H.264 which you gives the combination of quality and size of the file that you like? Make sure that the size of the image and the frame rate matches the source. How do you want to display or distribute material - on computer, on a device, online?

  I do not use the option use the previews - that means you take a temp make file and redisplay (transcoding) there again, adding a new generation of compression loss. By not checking this box, first visit the direct export from the source element format, by cutting out the middle man. I do not have a clip that is so effects loaded it will not play in the timeline panel to check the results, I don't bother making anything green. Everything is done at time of export anyway.

  Red, yellow and green make bars and what they mean. First work Pro area

  Thank you

  Jeff Pulera

  Safe Harbor computers

• Try to calculate the size of the PAGE file

  This is an academic exercise. I am trying to determine why my PAGE file size is what it is. Currently, he is registered to 28,000,331 bytes. (He's alone). Here are the facts:

  3 dense dimensions, stored members are 17 * 20 * 5, for a total of 1,700 * 8 = 13 600 bytes.

  The actual maximum blocks are 19 800. The maximum reported are 24 750.

  I have disabled compression for ease of calculation.

  There is only 1 block no missing.

  I use SER60 as my guide in the section estimate disk and the memory required. However, when I use the planned calculation:

  Number of blocks * (size of data block expanded + 72 bytes)

  I don't get anywhere near the number of bytes listed for the PAG file. I realize that I am not to mention the rest of the database files and do not know if this calculation is only for the PAG files or all files. I am not very interested in the size of the entire database, just the file PAG. So my questions are:

  1. is the calculation provided for all files or just the file PAG?

  2. If the answer to 1 is Yes, is there a separate calculation, that I can use to determine the size of the PAGE file only?

  Take a look at NUMBLOCKSTOEXTEND in the technical reference on Essbase.  We had a long conversation that addressed this issue on Network54 recently: http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/1374608752/11-1-2-2+Fragmentation

  Short answer is that Essbase allocates file space .pag in 2048-block pieces, which is the default value of NUMBLOCKSTOEXTEND 11.1.2.2.  Calculate how many blocks (including header block 72 bytes) integrate 28,000,331 bytes and you will see that this is almost exactly 2048.

  With compression on it more difficult (for me, at least) to understand how Essbase arrives with the size of the average disk blocks to use as the size on the disk with compression on is not constant.

• How to associate VM Windows drive letters with the vmdk file?

  Guys,

  I couldn't find a forum ESX 3.5, so post the question here.

  # vmware - v
  VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-317866

  with Windows 2003 SP2 invited and many readers of mouted on clients.

  I need to know how to map the Windows drive letters to the vmdk files on the host. for example

  C:\ > hand NET
  

  Share name resource remark

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  $           R:\                             Default share
  $           B:\                             Default share
  $           C:\                             Default share
  $           S:\                             Default share
  $           X:\                             Default share
  $           P:\                             Default share
  $           Y:\                             Default share
  $           Q:\                             Default share
  $           I:\                             Default share
  $           F:\                             Default share
  $           W:\                             Default share
  $           G:\                             Default share
  $           D:\                             Default share
  $           T:\                             Default share
  

  
  

  [root@esx01 DB1] # ls-l *.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_1 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 285615325184 6 June 2008 DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 1073741824 6 June 2008 DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 363 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 128849018880 6 June 2008 DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 37580963840 Sep 26 17:58 DB1 - flat hard
  -rw - 1 root root 337 14 Jul 22:02 DB1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 287762808832 8 November 2008 FOO-DB1_1 - rdm.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 364 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 21474836480 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 42949672960 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 350 10 October 2009 FOO - DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_6 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_6.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_7 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_7.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 161061273600 Sep 27 2008 FOO - DB1 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1.vmdk

  I need to know what vmdk is used for the drive in the Windows of the client prompt. I'm afraid that I could not understand it in the vmware.log or hostd.log files.

  Thank you!

  Steve

  Hi Steve

  You cannot map the drive letter for the vmdk directly, but you can map the drive Win on a specific vm using the SCSI number

  An easy way to map the vmdk with disks of Windows is:

  On the virtual machine 'change settings', note in down all the vDisks SCSI address example (disc 1 = SCSI (0:1), 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4)))

  If you go to Windows disk management and right click the individual disks and select Properties, you will see that target and LUN ID discs

  where for 1 HDD = SCSI (0:1), 0 is target ID and LUN 1 ID and 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4), 2 is target ID and LUN 4 ID

  You map just for numbers of hard disk drive letters

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• The size of the Snapshot file?

  OK, I know this is a question that has probably been asked a thousand times, but I'm still confused...

  Lets say I have a 10 GB vmdk file I took multiple snapshots. Instantane1 is/3 GB, snap2 is 6 GB and snap3 is 8 GB. I have delete all snapshots to merge them into the original vmdk.

  Snap3 merges with snap2 snap2 more, snap2 them merged with 1 instantane1 which finally merges with the vmdk origin more. I get that part, but I now see a 17 GB vmdk on the original file

  Or when 3 merges with 2 it merges only the differences between files 2 delta, then 2 does the same thing with 1 which would increase the amount of used space on the vmdk, but can not grow the overall size of the vmdk origin?

  don't forget instant not record changes on the basic disk, so when you consolidate snapshots they will make the changes on the basic disk and it won't ever larger that its size said, in your example, it would be 10 GB

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• Update BIOS Qosmio X 300 has failed - the size of the ROM file is incorrect

  Hello

  I use TEMPRO, and he suggested to update my BIOS.
  I downloaded the file and run the Setup file. Unfortunately, it says "the size of the ROM file is incorrect.

  This means I m doing wrong? or I have the latest BIOS in my system.

  Please advice.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  First of all I don't do everything what said Tempro!

  Secondly, this message was posted here in the forum several times and if you are looking for the size of the ROM file is incorrect, you would find that:

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=120455
  and this, for example:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=73284

  The problem is that you have unzipped the Cabinet correctly!

  In any case, I think that it s not useless to put anything, if the laptop runs without problem!