Questions tagged [vmfs]
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What are the chances of recovering any data from *-flat.vmdk file which didn't finish coping?
Does anybody know if there is a chance of recovering data from a *-flat.vmdk file from (ESXi 6 /VMFS-5) which didn't finish coping? Unfortunately backup is not available.
The image file was thick provisioned and the size of incomplete file is bigger…
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How to attach existing VMFS disks to VMWare ESXi
After reinstalling VMWare ESXi server, how can I attach existing VMFS partitions?
I looks like the only way to do this is to have them formatted, and I'd really like to keep the existing data already on them.
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VMWare Error: Read-only file system during write on
I tried hundreds of forums and posts, but nothing seem to help!
I have vSphere ESXi 5.5. and when starting ESXi the first time it created and formatted a storage automatically.
For some reason I removed it and now I cannot get my disks/storage back!…
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VMware ESX 3.x: How to connect two ESX server to a single VMFS datastore on SAN
I'm generally a networking guy but I'm trying to learn VMware. I'm running two ESX 3.x servers with virtual center. I know that it is possible to create redundancy or high availability by configuring a clustered environment. For HA to work, both ESX…
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Boot disk with VMFS read/write driver
I want to rule out the ESXi kernel being the cause for my terrible 15MB/s write speed on the local VMFS datastore. I am using a Dell PERC H710 RAID controller, and would like to boot from a boot disk and perform some writes to bench mark the raid…
user160910
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Mounting vmfs5 under linux?
Can anyone tell me if there is a safe (i.e. data won't be corrupted) a VMFS 5 filesystem under linux, where the VMFS 5 filesystem is already mounted by several ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster?
Jason Tan
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Is there a tool to browse a VMWare VMFS datastore hard drive on a PC?
I would like my VMWare ESXi 5 server to have a USB-attached HDD datastore which I'd be able to detach, attach to my laptop and browse files on it. As far as I understand, the hard drive is to be formatted in VMFS. How can I browse such on a Linux or…
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Can I have different ESX hosts accessing the same LUN over different protocols?
I currently have a cluster of two ESX 3.5U2 servers connected directly via FiberChannel to a NetApp 3020 cluster. These hosts mount four VMFS LUNs for virtual machine storage. Currently these LUNs are only made available via our FiberChannel…
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How do you calculate your array throughput with VMFS?
How do you calculate your maximum throughput available for a RAID volume? Do you use your VMFS block size per IOP? Your OS Blocksize? Your array stripe size? Any idea?
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ESXi 4 Expanding VMFS partition, does order matter?
I'm trying to get ESXi4.0.0 to increase the VMFS partition to match my newly increased RAID 5. I went from ~850GB to 1250GB on the RAID virtual disk, and VMWare is showing the correct amount of space. Yet if I go to hit the "increase" button on the…
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Lun storage vmfs6 to vmfs5 issue
We have a new environment containing 6 Esxi hosts, and we need to change the LUN format from VMFS6 to VMFS5.
there's no data on the servers, so what is the correct process?
Dismount the LUN (VMFS6) and creating a new one using VMFS5 format, or…
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VMFS undelete in ESX4i
So, I have this friend that deleted a VMDK that had all his family photos on it. ESX4i did not prompt him that the disk was in use, and he thought he was deleting a disk that belonged to another VM. He is ready to spend the block recovery fees from…
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