Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
I am running ESXi in my lab (for Cisco voice servers and some Windows VMs). The VMs are on an iSCSI datastore hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major issues with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS...
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Thank you for the response… It says: “select checkbox to remove snap-xxx prefix from recovered datastores” What is meant by recovered datastores? When they are NOT a snapshot datastore, but instead a...
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only 3 hosts and 43 VMs. It was on a express. VMware support had me move it to a "real" SQL. Same prob. I tried installing the VCSA and moved one host to see if the problem still was there and it was...
View ArticleRe: after doing a failover and failback -- replicated datastore
Hi, Its terminology being used while mounting datastore for any kind of failover. RegardsMohammed
View ArticleRe: Best Raid Practice
Jarry, thanks for the input. and sorry for long delay on getting back. so im going to go with Raid 10. so do you think from a performance view that it is best to do lets say 20 drives @ raid 10 ? or is...
View ArticleVMware Tools crashing
When I open my Win8 Enterprise VM in the Fusion Tech Preview, VMware Tools seems to load, but then crashes (or exits) silently. This breaks copy/paste from the host which is very irritating....
View ArticleEvent Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event...
View ArticleRe: Event Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
Hi, Modify the following line from the vmx and set the value to false. For more information on modifying the vmx file see Tips for editing a .vmx file (1714) isolation.tools.setinfo.disable =...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
A couple of options I can think of are:export to OVF and re-importuse Trilead's VM Explorer and backup/restore the VMsuse the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks André
View ArticleRe: orphaned vmdk files script
That would be the reason, we started talking about your raiders script some how... so this script " spring cleaning script" you run it like this?Remove-OrphanedData-Datastore<datastore-name>...
View ArticleRe: Workstation 9 - Slow network performance between host and guest
Aw thanks, Just found out Hyper-V is part of Windows 8 Pro (Free). Just installed it an tested. Working great. even handles things better than VMware would have. Thanks so much. Network speeds are what...
View ArticleUpgrading a 32 bit VM to 64 bit
I am trying to upgrade Windows Server 2008 (32bit) to Windows Server 2008R2 (64bit)The CD drive is connected to the Server 2008R2 ISO.When prompted I selected the Upgrade Option. I receive the message...
View ArticleHELP! vmware won't mount vmfs volume
We recently had a hard disk failure in an esx 4i free host. Long story, but for some reason the failure of a single disk managed to take out the entire raid 5 volume (so much for resilience!)(There is...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
Thank you for your reply with the options. I like the vmkfstools option, and I've just tried it like this: /vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools -i "ReadyNAS-iSCSI/CUCM-Pub 9.x/CUCM-Pub 9.x.vmdk"...
View ArticleRe: Event Viewer being flooded with VMWare Tools [Warnings]
Thanks I was in the process of doing that actually after first addressing the inability to backup the .vmx file due to security within the network which leads me to belive that my real issue and why...
View ArticleRe: Upgrading a 32 bit VM to 64 bit
I haven't tried this myself yet, but are you really sure this works on physical hardware? According to Windows Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Paths, "Cross-architecture in-place upgrades (for example, x86 to...
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Re: orphaned vmdk files script
That is correct, that is how you run it. Just realised that the parameters can be a bit confusing. In summary:Remove-OrphanedData -Datastore ds1will show orphaned VMDK on datastore named ds1.When you...
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Just to rule this out. Can you confirm the destination folder already exists? André
View ArticleRe: VMware Tools crashing
Hello, Usually the first thing to try in this case is to uninstall the existing vmware tools, reboot the VM and install vmware tools from scratch. You can take a snapshot before uninstalling if that...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs from one datastore to another on ESXi 5.1 (free license)
This was a good catch. The destination path was misspelled. The virtual drive is now being cloned. What do I do with the rest of the files? Just copy the with the datastore browser in vSphere Client?...
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