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Very strange problem with VMDK thin/thick disks

I have some ESXi (4.1) virtual machines which were initially created using thin-provisioned disks, but where then physically moved to different datastores (all of them iSCSI); since these are stand-alone hosts, there is no vCenter Server available…
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What's the downside of starting with extra large Virtual Disk?

Since it's kind of a time consuming option to increase the size of a Virtual Disk, what's the downside of selecting a huge disk to start with? (Why not start at the largest size and never worry about running out of virtual space?)
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Deploy OVF Package Fails

Using vSphere client I am trying to import a VM that was exported from VirtualBox. I exported an .ova file from VirtualBox, I then used VMVware OVF Tool to modify the file .ova and create the following three files; myVm.mf myVm.ovf myVm.vmdk When…
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Ensuring VMware ESXi storage integrity?

I'm planning a small ESXi standalone server to host a number of VMs I use here. I haven't decided what facilities to use from the wider vSphere system. The underlying VM storage is local HDD RAID using enterprise HDDs and LSI megaraid, with the LSI…
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Converting virtual drives from .vmdk to .vhdx produces huge files

I'm using powershell and ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk cmdlet to convert .vmdk disks into .vhdx disks to be able to run them in our hyper-v environment. For some reason, the .vhdx files produced are huge, sometimes as much as ten times the original…
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qemu.img: conversion of a VMDK image failed with error "invalid VMDK image descriptor"

I trying to convert a VMDK image (Windows installed) to RAW format with the qemu-img command. However, it is failing with the following error: $ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw image.vmdk /tmp/image.img qemu-img: Could not open 'image.vmdk':…
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qemu-img: Could not open $FILE

I received a single-file VMDK from a vendor that has a virtual appliance for a particular product I'm interested in evaluating. We run a KVM solution (Proxmox) so I tried converting the file but on that system qemu-img blows up. (I was able to…
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Convert from VMDK to OVF

How can I convert a VMDK to OVF?
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Migration from Hyper-V to ESXi

I am in the process of migrating my machines from Hyper-V to ESXi and I was just wondering what is the best way to do so? I tried just copying the hyper-v disk file, creating a new vmware workstation machine that uses that VHD and it just worked (I…
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qemu-img convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 and vice versa error

I'm trying to convert CentOS7 from VMDK to QCOW2 and vice versa using qemu-img convert command. when uploading the new Templates (OVF with the new converted vmdk and KVM template with the new converted qcow2 to KVM server) I'm getting…
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Why is my vSphere disk now thick provisioned?

I have a vSphere 5.0 VM that was created with entirely thin-provisioned disks (I don't have any other options when creating them). A year later, one of the disks is now no longer thin provisioned but is Thick Provision Eager Zeroed. I'm not licensed…
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Converting .OVA-formatted VM to Hyper-V

I am struggling with importing an .OVA VM into my Hyper-V infrastructure. I managed to extract the .ova file using tar which yields three fiels - .ovf .mf and .vmdk. The .mf-contained SHA1 sums matched the .vmdk file. The .vmdk seems to be in the…
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ESXi - expanding vmdk file fails with insufficient space on file system

I receive the following error Failed to extend disk : There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation (13). When I run this command: vmkfstools -X 240G srvr.vmdk The disk is thick provisioned, lazy zeroed. The host is ESXi…
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How to mount vmdk inside ESXi 5.0 console

I have some big files inside VM which I need to copy to ESXi host datastore. What is the best/fastest method? Right now I am using vSphere Client inside the VM. VM is running in virtual network with another VM acting as a router to the outside…
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Exchange 2010 VMDK disk design

I am deploying Exchange 2010 on a single server on my VMware/SAN. We have about 100 mailboxes. I will be using normal VMDK disks, so my question is about the disk design. Should I put everything on the same single VMDK? Should I make two, one for OS…
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