Re: [opensuse] Accessing VMware filesystem on ESXi machine

В Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:12:23 -0500 Greg Freemyer пишет:

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:09 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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On 02/27/2015 04:02 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:41 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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On 02/27/2015 02:41 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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# cp LEDC1/LEDC1-flat.vmdk /mnt/AV162/AV162-LEDC1/LEDC1/ cp: error reading ‘LEDC1/LEDC1-flat.vmdk’: Input/output error cp: failed to extend ‘/mnt/AV162/AV162-LEDC1/LEDC1/LEDC1-flat.vmdk’: Input/output error

I see, so you are going after a vmdk as (essentially) a flat file. From your first description I didn't catch that part.

So what you are seeing looks like an output error to me, not a problem reading the fuse source.

The target file system (under /mnt) can't handle a file that big. What is the file system type mounted at /mnt/AV162/AV162-LEDC1/LEDC1/ ? Can it handle files that big? What about mounting an external disk partition that is XFS or something that can handle huge files?

I don't think the issue is the destination drive (NTFS). I happen to have 1.9TB file handy, so I tried to use openSUSE to cp that to the same drive. It had no issues (I killed it after 10GB of progress).

My research found several open issues at the vmfs-tools github upstream complaining about not supporting large VMDK files. I need to find an alternate solution I'm afraid.

https://github.com/glandium/vmfs-tools/issues

Thanks for the suggestions. I really don't want to boot the server, but that may be what I have to do. Greg

Well, I admit I didn't do any research on this, I simply carefully read the (confusing) error message, which on the first line says Error Reading, and on the second says Error extending and references your output target drive.

Perhaps on the Vmware communities List there would be more info?

(I don't use ESXI, just Workstation, but even there, I always choose the option to use multiple smaller vmdk segments just to be sure I can copy without hitting somebody's limit.)

I'm not the admin. I've just been called in after the fact to do some analysis for a potential court case. Thus my reluctance to power on the computer.

I'm looking into vddk from vmware. It can work with offline vmdk files it says, but I think it needs to be run from inside the ESX host. Still experimenting.

VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup) did run on Windows and worked by mounting VMFS volume. It was renamed to something else in the meantime (I forgot) but may be you can still download it or replacement. It could be an option (albeit requiring duplicating of HDD and setting up Windows server). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org