I manually exported them using the Datastore tool - Export/Import. I have decided to do the entire folder in hindsight maybe that would have been a better route.
How did you copy the files? And why didn't you just copy the complete folder? Regarding the virtual disk. Each virtual disk consists of two files, the header file "vmname.vmdk" and the data file...
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How did you copy the files? And why didn't you just copy the complete folder? Regarding the virtual disk. Each virtual disk consists of two files, the header file "vmname.vmdk" and the data file "vmname-flat.vmdk" (disregarding snapshot disks in this case) If both files exist, the datastore browser will show them as only a single file with the name of the header file and the size of the data file. The steps you mentioned (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002511) are needed to recreate the header file (which is only a few hundreds bytes in size). Renaming the flat file does not help at all. If you have trouble recreating the header file, provide the details about the flat file and I will assist you. André
By design I have a seperate Datastore for DMZ. I have copied what I thought was the (.vmx, vdmk) files to this new Datastore. When the files for the VM copied it named them both flat-vdmk. I had ...
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By design I have a seperate Datastore for DMZ. I have copied what I thought was the (.vmx, vdmk) files to this new Datastore. When the files for the VM copied it named them both flat-vdmk. I had read into many posts stating what the flat file is. Question: why did it take the original VMDK and change the name to FLAT.VMDK? I was unable to power up the VM after the copy. If I have this wrong please let me know 1. get the size of the flat file 2. make a new file exact same size using thin provisioning 3. delete the temp file, rename the flat temp (removing the flat portion) 4. then edit the descriptor file, change the .flat file and edit the ddb file. Seems like a bunch of steps - I tried to rename the flat file to the .vdmk file. (this way I dont have to create another file of the same size on the same disk) however when I try to point the Hard drives to the .vdmk file the Vsphere doesnt see them in the Datastore directory but they are there and I can see them if I manually Browse the datastore. Issues: 1. does VM make the VMDK file into a flat file while copying? 2. Why doesnt Vphere recognize the .vmdk file?
Hello In my environment running with vcenter 5 and 4 DC ,7 clusters. now i want to provide vsphere access to one user with access of only one cluster which is running with two host...
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Hello In my environment running with vcenter 5 and 4 DC ,7 clusters. now i want to provide vsphere access to one user with access of only one cluster which is running with two hosts. how to provide and which group he should be belong to get Access vsphere to loggin
Hello, Is it possible to forward incoming trafic of esxi to special image using port forwarding? I changed routing table to do this work in older version of vmwares, but this version doesn't ...
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Hello, Is it possible to forward incoming trafic of esxi to special image using port forwarding? I changed routing table to do this work in older version of vmwares, but this version doesn't support routing table. is it possible to write a shell script to do this?
Hello, I just noticed that I can't use usual network commands such as ifconfig, in ESXI shell. But I need to configure network properties and edit routing table of esxi server, I just found a ...
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Hello, I just noticed that I can't use usual network commands such as ifconfig, in ESXI shell. But I need to configure network properties and edit routing table of esxi server, I just found a list of commands like thi : esxcli network ip interface list esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get -n vmk<X> esxcli network ip interface ipv6 get -n vmk<X> esxcli network ip interface ipv6 address list But is it possible to activate normal network commands in ESXI shell enviroment? and if it is not possible can you tell me where can I find the whole list of commands and their equivalent commands in esxi ?
Hi itsaditya, There are IP address, available in your DHCP server?? here is the same problem, but there is no IP address available on our DHCP server Você quis dizer: here are the same pro...
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Hi itsaditya, There are IP address, available in your DHCP server?? here is the same problem, but there is no IP address available on our DHCP server Você quis dizer: here are the same problem, but not exist ip address found in us DHCP server Digite um texto ou endereço de um site ou traduza um documento. Cancelar Alpha
Hi all, I have to make a penetration testing environment. Due to lack of number of PCs that I have, I will make use of Vmware. The enviroment should have at least 8 PCs as victims and all of t...
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Hi all, I have to make a penetration testing environment. Due to lack of number of PCs that I have, I will make use of Vmware. The enviroment should have at least 8 PCs as victims and all of them are Windows. My Windows 7 machine will serve as an attacker and as a host for Vmware which is contain 4 guest machines (3 Windows XP as victims and 1 Ubuntu machine as Snort instance for monitoring). The ability of making the network connection for the guest machines in Vmware as physical connection can help a lot. The problem on this situation will be with snort which cannot be on promiscuous mode on the physical connection. I am using Vmware workstation version 7.1.0 build-261024 on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit . Any help... -Aymen
Hi guys, We are using esx architecture. one of the virtual machine is not detecting DHCP while other machines in the same VLAN are getting IP addresses. Please suggest on how to get it fixed.
ESXi does not support the sparse disk format, used by VMware Server by default. What you may to do is either follow weinstein5's recommendation and use VMware Converter or convert the .vmdk files...
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ESXi does not support the sparse disk format, used by VMware Server by default. What you may to do is either follow weinstein5's recommendation and use VMware Converter or convert the .vmdk files to a supported format (zeroedthick, eagerzeroedthick or thin) using the vmkfstools command line tool in ESXi. Assuming the virtual disk has no snapshots, you could follow these steps to maintain the virtual disk file name. create a sub-directory "old" in the VM's folder on the ESXi host and move the .vmdk files to this folder from the VM's base folder run e.g. vmksftools -i old/<vmname>.vmdk -d thin vmname.vmdk if the VM powers up without issues you may delete the "old" sub-directory André
Hello, I just have a lot of virtual machines that has been configured and used by vmware server 1. Now, I am going to use ESXI server, when I uploaded the images to the esxi server and tried t...
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Hello, I just have a lot of virtual machines that has been configured and used by vmware server 1. Now, I am going to use ESXI server, when I uploaded the images to the esxi server and tried to run them I got an error in VMDK. Is it possible for me to change VMDK and use those old images or I need to rebuild all images from scracth. also, is it any tool availbale for updating my old images to use ESXI ? Thank You
both are on the same subnet. I do not see any network traffic on the nic on the other VM so my guess would be that it is pulling the data from the host directly. the host is also on the same su...
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both are on the same subnet. I do not see any network traffic on the nic on the other VM so my guess would be that it is pulling the data from the host directly. the host is also on the same subnet.
vsphere 5 VM win 2008 R2 I am running backup software on one VM. This backup software is backing up a diffrent VM on the same host. Both these VM are in the same vSwitch. The backup spends ...
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vsphere 5 VM win 2008 R2 I am running backup software on one VM. This backup software is backing up a diffrent VM on the same host. Both these VM are in the same vSwitch. The backup spends a lot of the time during the backup backing up nothing. By that I mean one of the VM hard drive is 2 tb in size however there is only 800 gb of data on that VM right now. (expecting a lot of growth here) While it is backing up the nothing I see lots of network trafic but no read or write for this backup. the resource monitor windows show network traffic of 630 Mbps the network adapter is vmxnet 3 there is four 1 gb nic attached to this vSwitch my understanding is that this should be a internal vSwitch communication. my question is there a way of increasing this internal comunication speed.
