VMware VMDK Recovery Tool (ESX 3.5 Update 3)
I was searching for information about the new experimental tool for ESX 3.5 VMDK Recovery Tool and I found a great knowledgebase article at VMware. VMDK Recovery Tool is a tool to recover VMDK files if they become deleted, or if the VMFS datastore gets deleted or corrupted. There are some limitations to the tool:
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The tool is experimental. Experimental means that the tool is not supported and might not work as expected in all customer environments.
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The tool is not available for ESXi.
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You cannot restore from multiple block list files.
Unfortunately, currently at home I only have ESXi running and I have no customer running U3 already. Anyone who tried VMDK Recovery Tool yet?
VMware ESX 3.5 and thinprovisioning
Thinprovisioning will be a new feature of the next release of ESX. However, it is already possible to use thinprovisioning from the service console with the vmkfstools command. Here are some tips (thanks to Richard Garsthagen):
Create a 15GB thinprovisioned disk:
vmkfstools -c 15G -d thin /vmfs/volumes/vmfs_volume/VM_name/thin_disk.vmdk
If you want to convert a thick disk, you can create a copy from it as thin disk. After that, you will need to remove the old disk from the VM and add the new converted copy. … Continue Reading
VMware introduces View Composer: EMC not happy?
Today VMware introduced a name change and a new product suite. VMware View and VMware vCenter <old product name>. A lot of bloggers already reported this news, so I won’t go into this a lot. Just pick on of the following to read all about it:
What’s more interesting is that VMware View Manager 3 together with VMware View Composer is released. … Continue Reading
