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Questions tagged [vmdk]

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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."

I was running a virtual machine in VMware Fusion 11 when my computer crashed. When I tried to start it up again I saw an error message informing me that "The disk has one or more internal errors that cannot be fixed." Is there a way I can fix this?
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Shrinking a preallocated VMDK

I'm trying to shrink an 80GB preallocated CentOS VMDK that I've been given from a previous VMware environment, that I've been asked to get running on another host. The billing arrangement for this new running environment allows for the imported dick…
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Unable to compress 18GB file on Ubuntu Linux 18.04

It never happened to me before, but I'm unable to do a simple task such as compressing a 18.5 GB file on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 with any of the popular compressing tools such as gzip, bzip2 and 7z. All of them report a similar warning (not error)…
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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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Convert ESXi 5.0 & 5.5 VM's to Xenserver 6.5

I'm looking to convert about 50 esxi vm's to xenserver 6.5. I am running the free version of xenserver 6.5. I've seen posts for the citrix xen converter tool and I've tried out the VMware OVF Conversion Tool with some vmdk/vmx files but did not have…
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How to distinguish between virtual disk image formats?

There is huge number of different formats for virtual storage files for desktop and server purposes (vmdk, qcow2, vdi, vdk, etc.). I'm writing a little script for manipulating them and would like the script to be able to distinguish between them. Of…
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Converting Thick vmdk to thin after Move from Datastore

I am currently running Vcenter 6.7 and ESXi 6.0 with VMFS5 in our infrastructure. And I often have to move VM disks from a DataStore to another in order to free up space. When using the VCenter MOVE operation on a select VM Subfolder in the…
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Small VMDK file

I have a brand new VMWare ESXi 6.5 standalone host. I created a VM and installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 server onto it. I noticed that the VMDK file is only 549 bytes after installation. The VM runs just fine. Can somebody explain why the VMDK file is so…
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Converting a VMDK file to VHD

I am having trouble with converting a vmdk file to a vhd file. Is it possible to convert a vmdk file without running it in a VM. So it will just convert and create the same file but in VHD format? The size of the vmdk file is 400GB and I am wanting…
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converting Ganeti instance to vmdk fails

I have exported an instance from ganeti using this command : gnt-backup export -n I get these files: /srv/ganeti/export/win2k8.itlao.local# ls 6dac4bb5-19e9-4917-8233-39cecfbe0e39.disk0_data.snap config.ini When I try to convert for VMWARE using…
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Convert VMDK images into AMI images

I have setup and environment for building the virtual machines in vmdk format and then use ec2 api tools to convert, bundle and upload it to the AWS Cloud. However, I am facing certain challenges in that. Created a virtual machine in vmdk…
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SLES partitionless Installation

Windows VMWare guests can easily be resized live. For linux guests I've used LVM (add disk, partprobe, add disk to vg, lvextend, resize2fs). This works. I've just stumbled across the sketch of better approaches. The first seems eminently doable, use…
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Windows 2000 Server on VMware Workstation is not booting

I am trying to open a Windows 2000 server using VMware Workstation. it seems I am not having all the relevant files of the environment. I guess the server was partitioned with 3 parts. I am not having the vmdk for the 3rd part. there are some REDO…
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LENOVO PX12-450R RAID configuration + general advice

I have a Lenovo PX12-450R NAS device with eight 3TB 7.2rpm drives. The device has a Quad-Core 2.5GHz Xeon CPU + 8GB DDR3 RAM. I have 4 gigabit NICS bonded. I am looking to use it to be a target for my backups from Veeam, to give my users shares to…
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VMWare ESX 5.1 Input/Output Error when copying or deleting a file

I have an ESXi 5.1 server (free version) with two 500G drives mounted and assigned to one datastore. I am not able to delete or move certain files in the datastore. I don't have vMotion. This is not related to: VMWare ESX 3.5 Input/Output…
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