Comments on: What Is Ailing Your VI – Call For Topics http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/ How Many Turtles Can You Fit On A Rock? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: professionalvmwarehttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-956 professionalvmware Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-956 Cool. Let me know the result. Further I've found this VMware Communities<br>post: <a href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757" rel="nofollow">http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757</a> that seems to suggest<br>using diskpart to do similar.<br><br>-Cody! Cool. Let me know the result. Further I've found this VMware Communities
post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757 that seems to suggest
using diskpart to do similar.

-Cody!

]]> By: jodellhttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-955 jodell Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:33:29 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-955 I have tried rescanning at the ESX level and within the VM. This makes no difference. I haven't tried restarting Logical Disk Management service. I will give this a try.<br><br>I am using Invoke-VMscript for my interim solution - I am running the main script from a 3rd server so I can reboot the backup server. Invoke-VMscript handles mounting and unmounting of the presented LUNs. I have tried rescanning at the ESX level and within the VM. This makes no difference. I haven't tried restarting Logical Disk Management service. I will give this a try.

I am using Invoke-VMscript for my interim solution – I am running the main script from a 3rd server so I can reboot the backup server. Invoke-VMscript handles mounting and unmounting of the presented LUNs.

]]> By: professionalvmwarehttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-339 professionalvmware Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:27 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-339 Cool. Let me know the result. Further I've found this VMware Communities<br>post: <a href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757" rel="nofollow">http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757</a> that seems to suggest<br>using diskpart to do similar.<br><br>-Cody! Cool. Let me know the result. Further I've found this VMware Communities
post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/171757 that seems to suggest
using diskpart to do similar.

-Cody!

]]> By: jodellhttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-336 jodell Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:33:29 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-336 I have tried rescanning at the ESX level and within the VM. This makes no difference. I haven't tried restarting Logical Disk Management service. I will give this a try.<br><br>I am using Invoke-VMscript for my interim solution - I am running the main script from a 3rd server so I can reboot the backup server. Invoke-VMscript handles mounting and unmounting of the presented LUNs. I have tried rescanning at the ESX level and within the VM. This makes no difference. I haven't tried restarting Logical Disk Management service. I will give this a try.

I am using Invoke-VMscript for my interim solution – I am running the main script from a 3rd server so I can reboot the backup server. Invoke-VMscript handles mounting and unmounting of the presented LUNs.

]]> By: professionalvmwarehttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-329 professionalvmware Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:41:15 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-329 I do have some questions, and some ideas:<br><br>"I tried simply replacing the snapshot using the same LU number so the RDM<br>doesnt' change. WIndows 2003 keeps presenting a cached version of the<br>filesystem data. Unmounting and remounting doesn't refresh the data." -<br>Does a 'rescan' do anything? In disk manager, right click, rescan? Or a<br>restart of the "Logical Disk Management Service"?<br><br>You could further do those things through the VITK using Invoke-VMscript. Do<br>a "get-help Invoke-VMscript" to find out more about that.<br><br>If this doesn't help we can explore some other options as well.<br><br>-C I do have some questions, and some ideas:

“I tried simply replacing the snapshot using the same LU number so the RDM
doesnt' change. WIndows 2003 keeps presenting a cached version of the
filesystem data. Unmounting and remounting doesn't refresh the data.” -
Does a 'rescan' do anything? In disk manager, right click, rescan? Or a
restart of the “Logical Disk Management Service”?

You could further do those things through the VITK using Invoke-VMscript. Do
a “get-help Invoke-VMscript” to find out more about that.

If this doesn't help we can explore some other options as well.

-C

]]> By: 3415offhttp://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/comment-page-1/#comment-328 3415off Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:28:39 +0000 http://professionalvmware.com/2009/06/01/what-is-ailing-your-vi-call-for-topics/#comment-328 i have a VI toolkit problem that I have been unable to solve. My challenge is to mount a new SAN based snapshot to a Windows Guest each night so I can backup all of my SAN based data. <br><br>The server admin has challenged me to complete this without shutting down the server when removing a RDM (the old snapshot) and mapping the new snapshot. I have written a powershell based VI toolkit script to automate everything except one critical step - I haven't been able to see the changed data when I replace the old snapshot with the new one. <br><br>I haven't been able to find a way to remove the RDM while the guest is powerd up. I tried simply replacing the snapshot using the same LU number so the RDM doesnt' change. WIndows 2003 keeps presenting a cached version of the filesystem data. Unmounting and remounting doesn't refresh the data.<br><br>Do you have any ideas? i have a VI toolkit problem that I have been unable to solve. My challenge is to mount a new SAN based snapshot to a Windows Guest each night so I can backup all of my SAN based data.

The server admin has challenged me to complete this without shutting down the server when removing a RDM (the old snapshot) and mapping the new snapshot. I have written a powershell based VI toolkit script to automate everything except one critical step – I haven't been able to see the changed data when I replace the old snapshot with the new one.

I haven't been able to find a way to remove the RDM while the guest is powerd up. I tried simply replacing the snapshot using the same LU number so the RDM doesnt' change. WIndows 2003 keeps presenting a cached version of the filesystem data. Unmounting and remounting doesn't refresh the data.

Do you have any ideas?

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