Out of curiosity, why would the vmkfstools be needed? The VMDK file was exported from VMWare ESXI so I'd imagine it would be able to be imported? Guess I'm just unclear on the response as I'm not sure what the proper syntax of a OVF file would be or why it would not be in the correct format to begin with.
Thanks
I declare defeat - this troubleshooting pattern is boring / non productive.
You: provide one detail
Me: that looks like ....
You: I dont do that / have that ... here is another detail
Me: that looks like ....
You: I dont do that / have that ... here is another detail
Why dont you simply use another Linux VM to read that vmdk ?
Native ESXi vmdk format is not at all space efficient as soon as you leave the VMFS filesystem - so the export function converts the vmdk to a format that is space efficient on filesystems like NTFS, EXT4 ... whatever.
To be precise:
OVF-export reads vmdk-type "vmfs", "vmfssparse" or "sesparse" and outputs a "streamoptimized" vmdk-type.
Thats the vmdk-part.
The ovf-file itself is a xml-format that basically is nothing but a vmx-textfile wrapped in some extralines.
> The VMDK file was exported from VMWare ESXI so I'd imagine it would be able to be imported?
Yes - you do that either via vmkfstools - if you want predictable results.
Or you use import or export functions - which will act like a wrapper for vmkfstools - but are less reliable and less useful for troubleshooting.
ok, just one way, read this vmdk by using vmware-mount, this way still failed.
i need read this vmdk by code.
vmware-mount asks for a vmdk.
You tell it which one to use.
This works.
vmware-mount next asks for a partition
You tell it which one to use.
FAILURE
Now I am clueless:
First looks like you try to mount a NTFS partition
- next reply it looks like you use a swap partition
- next reply you give 3 partition types ....
- explain with complete details or I am done.
Thanks continuum for your remind! I did not realize that :-)
Any other ideas?
vmkfstools -i disk-0.vmdk new.vmdk
DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
If I open the vmdk with a text editor, I see:
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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=18d5e735
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="streamOptimized"
# Extent description
RDONLY 314572800 SPARSE "generated-stream.vmdk"
Thanks
Hi,
My setup is a shared cluster between Edge and Compute hosts, running NSX-T 2.4. The Geneve tunnel between the Edge and Compute nodes is reporting down. I can ping the T0"s uplink but cannot ping the prefixes in the T1. In T0, I can see all the prefixes advertised by T1. For the Edge Transport logical switch, I've tried using both vlan tagging the same and different from the Compute TEP. What could be the issue here?
Ok
we may need to load a special module first
esxcli system module load -m multiextent
But I am not sure about this - thought this was no longer a problem.
If that does not help I would suggest to modify the embedded descriptor.
Do not read the vmdk-descriptor with a texteditor - extract it and work with the extracted descriptor.
To extract use
dd if=disk-0.vmdk of=descriptor.txt bs=1 skip=512 count=1024
Attach descriptor.txt to your next reply.
Hi Team,
In vSphere Client Architecture, User Interface Layer and Java Service Layer are present. Could you please advise any vSphere/vCenter native authentication methods to validate HTTP API calls between UI layer and Service layer.
It would be great if you could help me with any reference.
Regards,
Karthik
I'll try this out and see if it works for me. Thanks for the suggestion!
I do not find something like VcPlugin.getAllDistributedVirtualSwitches like we have for many other objects like VcPlugin.getAllSDKConnections(). Could you one help to list and play around an array of Distributed Virtual Switches?
Most trivial reason ....
The file may have been renamed, Rename
disk-0.vmdk
to
generated-stream.vmdk
and then try vmkfstools -i again
Hi All,
Is anyone able to give any incites into which versions of Horizon will support Windows 10 1903 Enterprise? I have been monitoring this page VMware Knowledge Base but its still not a listed OS.
TIA
tell me another forum where they can help?
Hey,
In case this helps someone. I had the freezing issue and resolved by not installing the special keyboard driver from VMWare during the player installation.
Thanks
G
LucD,
This Script adds just one next available SCSI Controller and loops again asking for VM name, but it is not checking from the input.csv file which are SCSI controllers that needs to be added.
For Example, from the below csv file, I have 3 different controllers needs to be validated and to be added to same VM, like, SCSI Controller 1, 3 and 5
CSV File Contents
"LUN_ID","SCSI_Controller","SCSI_ID","Capacity_GB"
"2","SCSI controller 1","0","1"
"0","SCSI controller 3","0","100"
"152","SCSI controller 5","0","500"
This did not work for me, customizing the VM only give the option for where to put the VM no other options.
It does bring up the settings but I donʻt see any way to change the hardware profile.
Ok the area under the black lines is a button that will allow the hardware profile to be changed.
Now to try it.