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XenServer 6.5 - Failing creating Virtual Disk Images on a SR set on an USB External Drive

I have a test server running XenServer 6.5, which precisily is the version 6.5.0-90233c. By now I have two linux (Debian and Ubuntu) VMs smoothly running. I have attached a 1TB USB drive in which I successfuly set the whole disk as a storage…
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Using virtual disks or create RAID volumes to combine multiple disks in Windows

In Windows Server We can use Disk Management and create striped,mirrored or raid5 volume on multiple disks also we could put all the disks in a storage pool and create a virtual disk then create volume on top of it in Server Manger. What would the…
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Diagnose RAID utilisation on a failed drive

I am facing a problem on a server I didn't install, the former guy isn't here anymore to explain me anything. Some processes crashed due to what seems to be a disk failure, so I searched in the logs and found lines like this in /var/log/messages : …
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ZFS, mdconfig, GELI and getting my head around

I want to create an encrypted virtual disk but I am struggling with understanding some basic concepts. Please correct me if any of these statements are wrong: I need a block device that geli can encrypt and mount in the system Once the device is…
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Managing disks for File Server on Hyper-V VM

I want to set up a File Server role on a Hyper-V VM on a Windows 2012 Server host. What would be the best way to set up the system in terms of handling the underlying storage disk? The scenario's I am concerned about listed below: If I add a…
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How to mount Azure drive to the local windows?

How to mount Azure drive (attach disk) to the local windows? Does already exist some tool for this? So use case is the following. I have a attached disk to the virtual machine in the azure. Now I would like to share this "attached disk" to my local…
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How to delete a VM from datastore if it is locked?

we are using Esxi 4.1. One of the VM is there in datastore which could not be deleted due to the files were locked. We were trying to reload the VM into inventory by creating new VM with custom option(there we would be given option to select…
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How can the "actual" size of VHD/VMDK files be reduced after deleting unwanted files?

Somewhat akin to this question I asked on superuser, and this one for Hyper-V, after deleting files from a VM, how can the virtual disks be resized back downwards? For example, perhaps the VM has 40GB of free space. The virtual disk was setup to…
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Hyper-V Virtual Disk Creation Taking Forver

After some struggle, I finally managed to set up Hyper-V 2008 R2 on our server. So I connected to it using the Hyper-V Manager from a Windows 7 client and used the "New Virtual Machine Wizard". I set up a 350GB virtual hard disk. So I hit the…
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A space-efficient guest filesystem for grow-as-needed virtual disks?

A common practice is to use non-preallocated virtual disks. Since they only grow as needed, it makes them perfect for fast backup, overallocation and creation speed. Since file systems are usually based on physical disks they have the tendency to…
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RAID Virtual Disk Configuration / Partitioning in Operating System?

I have 6 x 1TB SAS for my new server. I want to create 3 partitions: one for OS, one for Virtual Machines, one for share data. There are 2 options for me: Option A: Create 3 Virtual Disks in RAID Configuration Utility Option B: Create 3 Partitions…
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hyper-v dynamic expanding vs fixed disk

In the "old times" it was not recommended to use dynamic expanding disks in hyper-v. This create the issue of using very much disk space on the hyper-v host. (because we need allocate the space for the virtual disks) I cannot find too much…
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Virtual disks raid 10 array with ramdisk cache using bcache

I was trying to simulate a scenario with mdadm and bcache. I created 4 raw img files using qemu-img. I have created raid 10 using mdadm and created tmpfs on /mnt/ramdisk and created a raw ramdisk.img file on ramdisk. Tried to connect ramdisk.img and…
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Vmware ESXI one hard disk but 2 vmdk files

I have a virtual machine on Vmware ESXI, I have currently a defined hard disk and the size of it is :1.5 TB But when I check the Datastore, there are 2 VMDK files which one of them (the main file of hard) have 1.3 TB size and there is another file…
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How to preserve mount points when moving Linux VMs to Azure?

I'm currently working on a project where Azure Site Recovery will be used as a DR solution for a fully virtualized datacenter based on Hyper-V and managed by SCVMM. The datacenter contains several Linux VMs, and most of them have several virtual…
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