Re: Increasing Disk Size not working completely.
Can you try diskpart utility for extending disk. open command prompt 1. diskpart2. list volume3. select volume <number of the volume you extended>4. extend filesystem
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Thanks...that seemed to work. Never had to do this before. Our physical servers always had tons of space prior to us virtualizing. But, now I have had to do it a few more times. This was the first...
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You are welcome, great to know it worked.
View ArticleRe: esxi 5.1 dell openmanage / lockdown mode
I've been having the same issue for months now across several 5.1 and 5.1u1 systems. They include R510, R710, and R720 servers. They all have internal PERC controllers with direct attached storage....
View ArticleRe: setting up NFS server - 2008R2, sharing out secondary disk - advice on...
NFS will force you to use Thin. The other options will be greyed out. Because vSphere does not "own" the storage with the standard VMFS partitions it is up to the underlying file system to write the...
View ArticleNAS in 'read only' mode after issues, can I pull the VM's off of it?
Alright. On Tuesday I got an email from my NAS that I had a drive failure. NBD, I had a spare ready to be installed. During it's rebuild process (of the RAID 5 array) the NAS locked up and had to be...
View ArticleHDS HUS-VM vs. NetApp 6220
Hi all, We are in the process of upgrading our current NetApp 3140 MetroCluster solution. We are out of I/O and diskspace also controllers are running out of both CPU and RAM. Currently we are looking...
View ArticleCannot alter files in datastore browser
Hi - can someone please help? Even though the accounts I use have the administrator role on the hosts and the enter datacenter specifically, I still receive the message that I don't have the...
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Posting the solution will be helpful for people with similar issues.
View Articledatastore getting low on space
we currently have a vm which is stored on a single Datastore.(2 TB) Is there a way to move individual vmdk files to different datastores without causing an outage? I looked at this link below , will...
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8 of them which make up the F: and G: DriveThis sounds as if the VM is running with active snapshots? Do the .vmdk names contain -00000x.vmdk? André
View ArticleRe: datastore getting low on space
No, it's just a lot of data on this server so it required a lot of space. I don't see any -00000.vmdk.. Person before me created virtual disks in increments of 256gig on same datastore and then kept...
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So you are running a software RAID0 in the guest OS? Even though it should be possible to migrate the virtual disks online, I would be extremely careful in this case and rather either schedule downtime...
View ArticleRe: datastore getting low on space
I'm not sure what you are talking about software raid? we have a datastore from a SAN that is 2 TB. It's filling up. There is a dynamic disk on the guest OS which the 256 gig virtual disks are a part...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 -> 5 / VMFS 3 -> 5 migration and live Storage vMotion
Hi Community! I'm looking at migrating VMs from 4.1 to 5 and then storage vmotioning them from old VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 datastores. If the old VMFS 3 datastores are presented to the new ESXi 5 hosts (4.1...
View ArticleRe: Can I assume that flat.vmdks always start at the beginning of a 1 mb block ?
My assumption was wrong - flat.vmdks do not necessarily start at the beginning of a 1MB block relative to the partition start.I just run a recovery where I need to carve based on sectors
View ArticleRaid configuration on HP P2000 SAS?
Hello, I would like to setup a new VMware infrastructure (ESXi 5.1) to host non-critical applications and non-production VMs, in addition to our main VMware infrastructure. I would like to use 2 HP...
View ArticleRe: Share Datastore Cluster between two Host Clusters
Bump - just looking for official VMWare documentation confirmation that this is indeed supported...
View ArticleRe: Share Datastore Cluster between two Host Clusters
VMware doesn't call this out specifically as "supported", but it is supported just like it is supported to share the same datastore between hosts in two separate clusters. PG. 113 of the Resource...
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