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Unable to access datastore1 ESXi 5
Hi All, Suddenly I cannot access my ESXi 5 datastore1. Both graphically and from shell. And all VM got hanged.Please Help. Here is the screen shoot. Screen Shoot of Shell:Screen Shoot of vSphere...
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Use the practice test via VMware Education as well. It has been a decent help in the past on my tests as well.
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View ArticleRe: Unable to access datastore1 ESXi 5
Is this a local datastore... if not can you perform a rescan of the storage device on esx
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We had the same issue even though we had the same servers set in our ntp.conf file and the hosts they were running on were the same processor and had the same time. We ended up having to create a cron...
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The datastore is over 2.75TB but the actual VMDK file is over 2TB. If it's up to 64TB, then there should not be any problem viewing the VMDK file...right?
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Hmm. I have seen the same issue myself. As another option, you might want to check out the "other" vCNS lab (HOL-SDC-1303), which contains similar content. -Doug Message was edited by Doug Baer :...
View ArticleRe: Unable to access datastore1 ESXi 5
Hi, Thanks for reply. Yes its local data store. HP server. Can you please tell me how to rescan of the storage device on esxi? Thanks,Mahfuz
View ArticleRe: server-flat.vmdk file
As I mentioned, the vmdk limit is 2TB and physical RDM size limit is 64 TB. vmdk specifically means that you are carving out a file from your SAN. RDM is raw device mapping where you are physically...
View ArticleRe: Unable to access datastore1 ESXi 5
Can you reboot the host and check if it comes back up... Also can you check if there is HDD failure
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