is it possible to check if the parent disk is locked before consolidation ?
I don't master the VDDK but I have a general knowledge from the experience I got from a Third Party VM backup/replication software. STEP1 :Snapshot created - all writes goes to delta STEP2:Copy base...
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Bonjour, j'ai lancer mon windows 7 sous VMware puis j'ai éteins mon ordinateur subitement de puis VMware ne veux plus se lancer et j'ai ce message http://cjoint.com/?DKovhs4QnEOcomment faire Merci
View ArticleHow to use Clone (VixDiskLib_Clone) with SAN?
We are trying to use the VDDK API with the SAN protocol (iSCSI). We set up an iSCSI target on an Ubuntu box, and performed read operations on a disks which is stored on a datastore backed by this...
View ArticleVixDiskLib_InitEx hangs
When I set libdir to a valid path where it can find the plugin, it will hang and never return. If I point it to an invalid path it works fine, but does not support SAN at that point. I am currently...
View ArticleCleanup function did not remove the HotAdd disks also in VDDK 5.5.3
Hi All, I'm doing Hot-add opens with VDDK 5.5.0.,The Hot-add and Hot-remove is working fine in normal scenarios., But while my process gets killed while a disk is Hot-added.,Then if i call the...
View Articlehow to read on windows7 pc 5 disk VMware ESXi4 in raid
Hi, I have broken my SAN system that contains 5 disk raid type that i doesn't know. The machine have ESXi4 , i took my disk from the rack and connected them with SATA on my pcs running Windows 7.But i...
View ArticleHow to repair corrupt vmware disk with linux partition on it?
Okay I have a damaged windows disk running vmplayer and linux ubuntu12 on the VM, and amazingly my backup portable hardrive also has corruption so the only thing I can do is try repair. I have looked...
View ArticleUsing vdiskmanager : VMware Fusion-based VM to ESXi 5.5 host; file conversion...
Hi All, I have a Linux-VM I am running in Fusion on OS X, but I'd like to move it over to my ESXi 5.5 host on the same network. I understand that I need to convert the .vmwarevm file I currently have...
View ArticleHow to extract files from a virtual machine ?
Hello everyone, I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to launch a DOS window that manages a windturbine and gives live data about it. The thing is that all the data is stored in the path C:\Log of the virtual...
View ArticleIncompatible device backing specified for device '0' + one other question
Hello All, at the moment I am trying to add vmdk disks to my virtual machine and receive sometimes that error. Here is the sample code and I do not think that error should occur: Header...
View ArticleCreating a child disk for a remote disk and then attaching the child disk...
Hi, I have a vmdk file on a remote server and I'm trying to create a child disk for it. VixDiskLib_CreateChild() gets a childPath parameter and treats it as a local path (i.e. even if the parent disk...
View ArticleNot able to write on mounted VMDK
Using vmware-mount, I am able t o mount vmdk but when I try ti add/remove a file it gives me error.eg When I try to add a file:[root@localhost mountpt]# touch test.txttouch: cannot touch ‘test.txt’:...
View Article"Can't create connection." error from vmware-vdiskmanager.exe in VDDK 6.0
Working with ESXi 6.0 and VDDK 6.0. Getting "Can't create connection." error when trying to download disk. If I use VDDK 5.5.4 or 5.1.4 it works just fine. Any help would be appreciated.
View ArticleVDDK6: "Advanced transport module not loaded."
Hi,The VDDK6 running windows 2008 R2 (proxy backup server) not able to load the disklibplugin:[VddkUtil::diskLibLog] VixDiskLib: Could not load default plugins from C:\Program...
View Articlevddk6: Linux libvmacore crash
Hi experts,During the processing of the SSL thumbprint, the libvmacore.so crashes.strace shows that mmap fails to allocate the memory. An incorrect size of 14TB is passed to mmap.Is anyone seeing the...
View ArticleComo monitorar disco SSD Esx
Boa tarde,Tenho discos SSD para cache de dados instalados em meus hosts, preciso monitorá-los para informar o tempo de vida útil,Existe alguma ferramenta própria para isso no ambiente VM? Obrigado.
View ArticleCan't See FreeNass Volume After Insallend On Vmware Esxi 5.1.0
Hello,i can't see the Volume On My virtual machine (FreeNassׁׁׁ V 8.3.2).Can anyone Help me ?
View ArticleVDDK 6: Open disk using SAN gets "Unknown error"
Hi,The open disk fails with the "unknown error" and falls back to NBDSSL.DISKLIB-LINK : "san://snapshot-13256[RBDS] Win/Win.vmdk@hostname:443?administrator/XXX" : failed to open (Unknown error)....
View ArticleAbout VMware VM snapshot independent virtual disk
VMware provide independent virtual disk.I perform VM snapshot,and VM include 2 virtual disks，number 1 with default mode virtual disk，number 2 with independent persistent Mode,then we used IOmeter test...
View Articlevddk 6..0 cores on PrepereForAccess
Hi,I 've been trying to use vddk 6.0 with vSphere Client v5.1.0 nad without any luck. I constantly get a core dump on PrepareForAccess function: VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_PrepareForAccess: Disable...
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