I have a Lenovo PX12-450R NAS device with eight 3TB 7.2rpm drives. The device has a Quad-Core 2.5GHz Xeon CPU + 8GB DDR3 RAM. I have 4 gigabit NICS bonded. I am looking to use it to be a target for my backups from Veeam, to give my users shares to store their archive files, … Read more
Using FreeBSD and a mounted NetApp NFS Share. I’m trying to copy a file FROM: localdisk/something.vmdk (size 527776 kilobytes) TO: nfsmount/copy-something.vmdk (size 533168 kilobytes) But it seems like from the above size I’ve demonstrated that the file somehow grew after the action of copying. Even though I’m just trying to duplicate the file. Any idea’s … Read more
I have an ESXi 5.1 server (free version) with two 500G drives mounted and assigned to one datastore. I am not able to delete or move certain files in the datastore. I don’t have vMotion. This is not related to: VMWare ESX 3.5 Input/Output Error Neither is it related to this VMWare KB The output … Read more
I am trying to open a Windows 2000 server using VMware Workstation. it seems I am not having all the relevant files of the environment. I guess the server was partitioned with 3 parts. I am not having the vmdk for the 3rd part. there are some REDO files. Is there anyway i can create … Read more
I provide much details below to hopefully make my issue as clear as possible. Using dd if=/dev/ps3da2 of=/mnt/edexhdd/EDPS3LINUX.iso bs=16384 I copied a fairly huge partition from a physical Linux non-Xwindow installation on a PPC64 architecture (actually the PS3) to an external HDD. The partition which on Linux was one of the two present (i.e. /boot … Read more
I have a brand new VMWare ESXi 6.5 standalone host. I created a VM and installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 server onto it. I noticed that the VMDK file is only 549 bytes after installation. The VM runs just fine. Can somebody explain why the VMDK file is so small and where the installed OS went? Here … Read more
I have setup and environment for building the virtual machines in vmdk format and then use ec2 api tools to convert, bundle and upload it to the AWS Cloud. However, I am facing certain challenges in that. Created a virtual machine in vmdk format. used ec2-bundle-image to crete the image bundle. used ec2-upload-bundle to upload … Read more
I have exported an instance from ganeti using this command : gnt-backup export -n I get these files: /srv/ganeti/export/win2k8.itlao.local# ls 6dac4bb5-19e9-4917-8233-39cecfbe0e39.disk0_data.snap config.ini When I try to convert for VMWARE using this : ./ovfconverter export –external –format=vmdk –output-dir ~/ganeti-instance/ /srv/ganeti/export/win2k8.itlao.local/config.ini 2014-03-19 13:17:33,870: (‘No memory information found’, ‘environment_error’) Traceback (most recent call last): File “./ovfconverter”, line 181, … Read more
Windows VMWare guests can easily be resized live. For linux guests I’ve used LVM (add disk, partprobe, add disk to vg, lvextend, resize2fs). This works. I’ve just stumbled across the sketch of better approaches. The first seems eminently doable, use LVM physical volume without partitions. This allows extending with one extra volume (and significanly simpler … Read more
I am currently running Vcenter 6.7 and ESXi 6.0 with VMFS5 in our infrastructure. And I often have to move VM disks from a DataStore to another in order to free up space. When using the VCenter MOVE operation on a select VM Subfolder in the Datastore File explorer and moving it to another datastore, … Read more
