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Questions tagged [vmdk]

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VMDK File Growing After copying it using CP?

Using FreeBSD and a mounted NetApp NFS Share. I'm trying to copy a file FROM: localdisk/something.vmdk (size 527776 kilobytes) TO: nfsmount/copy-something.vmdk (size 533168 kilobytes) But it seems like from the above size I've demonstrated that the…
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Operating System not found when loading DD image in VMware

I provide much details below to hopefully make my issue as clear as possible. Using dd if=/dev/ps3da2 of=/mnt/edexhdd/EDPS3LINUX.iso bs=16384 I copied a fairly huge partition from a physical Linux non-Xwindow installation on a PPC64 architecture…
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Open/rescue large vmdk files with little ram and HDD memory

I have a vmdk file (approx. 800 GB), it contains many large media files. Unfortunately, the ESXI VM is filled to the last bit. The attempt of a subsequent enlargement was already some years ago, so that only this vmdk file is still contained. Is…
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ESXi Server has locked with .lock4 file suffix on all vmdk's after crash SAVE ME!

My ESXI server was running from a USB stick that got corrupted and as a result prevented my server from booting. I fixed this by reinstalling ESXI on a new memory stick and began re-adding all of my VMs. However when I try to start them up it is…
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Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) after CentOS custom image import DigitalOcean

I'm trying to import an existing CentOS VM from a VMware environment to run on Digitalocean vis their custom images option. I'm able to successfully run the VMDK in both VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. I've tried using the VMDK itself, 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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What are the chances of recovering any data from *-flat.vmdk file which didn't finish coping?

Does anybody know if there is a chance of recovering data from a *-flat.vmdk file from (ESXi 6 /VMFS-5) which didn't finish coping? Unfortunately backup is not available. The image file was thick provisioned and the size of incomplete file is bigger…
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How Do I Remove Files Stored In a VMDK?

I am a developer, not an IT guy, but I am the one responsible for managing our servers currently. I have run into a problem... apparently our SQL backups are much bigger than I anticipated, and on Saturday night, our SQL backup ran, then completely…
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Recovering broken VMDK image

we had a disk failure on our VM host (VMWare ESXI 5.1). We've managed to get some of the data off but some of the file we couldn't get as it kept on causing the disk to crash. I have file like MyServer-000001.vmdk and MyServer-000002.vmdk and so…
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Error while booting VMDK in VMWare Player; UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

Hi all and thanks in advance for taking the time to read this. My employer has provided me with three VMDK files, each representing a different hard drive of a VM. My aim is to get these converted to VHD and uploaded into an Azure environment. The…
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Move big file from VM to host hypervisor in vmware vsphere

I have a big file (220G) I would like to move from a virtual machine to its host. The file is actually another virtual machine's disk file. for other smaller files, I would have done that with a simple scp command moving them accros the network, but…
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Migrate multiple LVM volumes for KVM guest to image

I want to move some KVM guests to VMWARE and therefore have to create VMDK images of the disks. The virtual disks for the guests are spread around multiple LVM volumes. There are a couple of pointers that show that you can qemu-img convert an LVM…
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storing vmdk files on multiple drives

I have a vmdk file which can grow to 600 gb, and splits every 2 gb. Since I physically have 2 x 500gb drives, I would like some of the 2-gig vmdk's to be on D:\, and the rest be on E:. I edited the master vmdk file (which lists all the 2-gig vmdk…
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Running vmdk files from NAS with ESXi 5.1

I have a ESXi 5.1 Server and a 12TB Thecus n4200eco(~5.5TB in RAID6). I want to be able to run the virtual machines from the NAS instead of the server because the server has no RAID and I don't trust the drives in there. Is this possible? Or is it a…
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Quota restriction error when attempting to create a GCE image

I am trying to create a GCE image from an VMDK file but I am getting a quota error. None of the quotas on my quota limit page are at or near 100%. Which quota or restriction am I hitting here and why? > gcloud compute images import cloudimg…
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