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Move VMware ESXi VM to new datastore - preserve thin-provisioning

I'm looking for a good solution to a VMware ESXi environment issue where there's no vCenter available. What's the best way to move a VM from one datastore to another on a single ESXi host, while maintaining the VMDK thin-provisioning? This is a…
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VM Inaccessible

So I had to remotely shut down my servers last night as the air conditioner crapped out on us. I shut down the VMs and then the hosts. Fired up the 2 hosts today which auto start the VMs. Datastores for the VMs are isci LUNs located on a Synology…
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vSphere machine wont start: Insufficient disk space on datastore

I am trying to add a virtual disk using a VMFS datastore with 1.98 TB of capacity and 85 GB used. I then power on the virtual machine, and it gives me the Insufficient disk space on datastore error. And so I removed the newly created disk and try to…
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ESXi: Can linked clones be on a different datastore than the parent?

If I have a Local datastore that is full, and a second NFS based datastore, can I create a linked clone of a VM on the local datastore, but have the data for the clone live on the NFS datastore? ESXi free license version 5
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Tools to Benchmark VMware Datastore

Is there a tool that can be used to determine the maximum IOPS on my Datastores? Due to the way the SAN is configured (poorly by the installer) it's difficult to calculate this and we want to know where the ceiling is. It looks like we have lots…
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Accessing files from a multiple datastores on a VSAN in VMware

I have a VMware 6.7 environment running as a single datacenter, however with two clusters (say A-cluster and a B-cluster), each with 3 esxi hosts. A VSAN is configured on these clusters and has two VSAN datastrores (A-datastore and B-datastore) for…
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I can't create a Datastore in Esxi 6.7 U1

I have create a fresh install of Esxi 6.7 U1 after this i can't create in any mode the Datastore on System Disk, only on second disk, but why??
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Sharing NFS datastore between data centers

I have no long experience with vmware-vsphere 5.5 .. so i have simple question Is it possible to share NFS datastore across tow data centers? if yes ; is it good thing to do?
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VMWARE Guest Storage VMDK vs RDM-V vs RMD-P

When is it best to use VMDK, RDM-V or RDM-P? I have always defaulted to using the standard VMFS5 Datastores with VMDK files for each server. However I typically use RDM-V when I need an excessive amount of storage on a VM for something like archive…
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VMware - trigger alert when a VM moves to a particular datastore?

We have a VMware cluster that doesn't have SDRS enabled. We would like to know when a VM moves to a particular datastore on that cluster because that datastore is non-performance storage. I can't find a datastore alarm or other type of alert that…
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Can you list a Datastore Cluster's sDRS Schedule via PowerCLI?

We have a lot of datastore clusters, most if not all are supposed to have sDRS schedules applied to stop them moving VMs at busy periods. Obviously we could trawl through them manually to check if they're how they should be but I like to do things…
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vSphere ESX 5.5 hosts cannot connect to NFS Server

Summary: My problem is I cannot use the QNAP NFS Server as an NFS datastore from my ESX hosts despite the hosts being able to ping it. I'm utilising a vDS with LACP uplinks for all my network traffic (including NFS) and a subnet for each vmkernel…
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Is there a reason(s) I should not create a datastore to house a single VM?

I was at a Dell EqualLogic training event and the speaker threw out the idea that it may not be a bad idea to create a single datastore to house a single VM rather than making a large datastore and putting several VMs on it. His reasoning was that a…
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mount vmfs partition in esxi

I lost connection to an iSCSI disk, and after reconnecting the datastore has not mounted. I can see the VMFS partition, but I'm not sure how to mount it manually. The UI options don't seem to offer an option. I can create a new datastore, but only…
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How to do a snapshot of a Datastore on esxi vmware - datastore snapshot as fast recovery backup

I have a server with hundreads of vms and the snapshot is very useful to me, on incidents i can restore a vm to a point on time in no time, but i have many datastores where operational data is stored and all bkp is done on LTO tapes, but the restore…
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