Capacity and FreeSpace of guest disks and partitions are not available
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Capacity and FreeSpace of guest disks and partitions are not available

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Article ID: 302469

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Products

VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When checking the capacity and free space of guest disks:
  • the Guest.Disk properties from the virtual machine cannot be queried via API, even though the VMware Tools are installed and running.
  • the type GuestDiskInfo in the Managed Object Browser has the value set as Unset.


Environment

VMware ESX 4.1.x
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable
VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x
VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware ESX 4.0.x
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded

Resolution

VMware Tools (which is reading the disk information) supports a many filesystems. Information is gathered only from these filesystem types:
  • ext2
  • ext3
  • ext4
  • hfs
  • msdos
  • ntfs
  • pcfs
  • reiserfs
  • ufs
  • vfat
  • zfs
Note: If the disks or partitions are managed by a Logical Volume Manager (LVM), the guest disk info is collected even if the filesystem is not on the above list.


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