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Perc 5 virtual disk settings lost

Repip62 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:22:42 +0000

My Dell PowerEdge with Perc5 controller and 5 x SAS drives wint boot, apon further digging i cant find Virtual Disks configured. the trouble is that I dont know the original setup ie Raid 0,1 or 5.
Is there any tricks to find out what the original VD was and how to reinstate as I have no backup

Vmware vmdk file converting problem

Eliyevelxan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:13:03 +0000

Hi. I have test.vmdk workstation file. I wand convert for esxserver 4.0 . I tryed it by vmkfstools. i writed like that

vmkfstools -i test.vmdk edomain.vmdk

But i get the error

[root@ESX Edomain]# vmkfstools -i test.vmdk edomain.vmdk Destination disk format: VMFS zeroedthick Failed to open ‘test.vmdk’: Broken pipe (2097161).

The directory is right

Then i tried to do this instruction

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/227143;jsessionid=2DA3CAB1E4F583CEC8887DDB6144C151?tstart=0

But the problem not resolved. The system cannot recognized the file after operation vmware-vdiskmanager. Please help

Snapshots

Enhancetech — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:47:11 +0000

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Need help to create a virtual shared disk from a virtual storage box

ITKE — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:43:44 +0000

I don’t have a storage box, need help to create a virtual shared disk from a virtual storage box.

This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

How to create a virtual shared disk on for a cluster setup?

ITKE — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:21:45 +0000

How to create a virtual shared disk on for a cluster setup?

This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Problem with Server (Win 2003 Std Edition) demotion.

Coolruler — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:15:29 +0000

Hi,
I use a Dell Poweredge SC440 as the server in my office. It runs Win 2003 Server Standard Edition as the OS. Recently, we bought a new server dell poweredge 2800 which we are now using. my problem is this:
I wanted to demote the SC440 so it can be used as a workstation, but the active directory will not remove. instead, i get the error message “there are no more end-point mappers from the point you specified” ( I didn’t specify any end-point mappers).

Alternatively, i tried re-installing the OS, but i also get the error message “Windows did not detect any hard disk on this system” (the SC440 runs a virtual disk system).

So, what do I do? How do I get Windows to “see” my hard disks? and how do I remove the Active Directory?

Pulling data off of an inaccessible VM

ITKE — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:03:43 +0000

A user recently submitted this question via e-mail:

I have seen private companies offer the capability to pull data and files from virtual disks after the VMs become inaccessible. Can I do this myself?

Resizing VMware virtual disk

Hedgehog — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:11:52 +0000

Hi There,

I have a laptop with VMware that I use for product demos, testing stuff & evaluating software.

I have several virtual OS all working fine. But in one of them, a WinXP SP2, I am running out of virtual disk space on the boot partition. I am trying to resize this partition but I have read somewhere that it may not be possible to run fdisk or diskpart directly on the guest OS…

I could just create a brand new Guest OS with a larger partition and move/ghost the stuff over, but I would prefer to keep this one, as it is all nicely setup for the demos & tests, rather than starting from scratch. I am sure you experts will be able to help.

Some details:

- VMware Workstation v4.5.2
- Host OS: Windows XP Pro 5.1.2600, SP2, all patched.
- Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 and mostly up-to-date
- Guest Partitions (virtual disks, i.e. NOT “physical disks”): C: NTFS 3.0 Gb and E: NTFS 1.5 Gb

Thanks in advance,

Hedgehog