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ESX convert vmdk from sparse to thin without creating a new instance

I am using vmkfstools to create a thin provisioned vmdk from a sparse vmdk. I would like to be able to just rename the vmdk and flat vmdk files to have the name of the original disk and then power on the VM and be on my way, but it seems that…
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poor performance with vmdk mounted as loop device even after conversion to raw

Edit 13/12/12 - At this stage it would appear to be related to Western Digital (and possibly others) Advanced Format 4K block sizes. This link goes some way into describing the issue, however the disk I have reports 512 logical and 4096 physical…
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VMware ESXi Missing VMDK (Flat files and snapshots, but no base image)

We recently had a SAN failure that killed a very high-disk-activity VM while it was on. We fixed the failure, but can't boot the VM. When we attempt to, it displays this error message. I checked the datastore, and that file doesn't exist. However,…
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Maximum size of VMDK to support large NTFS filesystem in guest

I have a need to support an 8TB filesystem within a Win2k8 guest system running on VMWare. From what I've read online, the maximum size VMDK I can create is 2T, is this still the case? Will I need to create some kind of dynamic disk methodology…
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Force a downsize of a vmdk disk

I have a thick virtual disk (vmdk) file that is purely just a file-store. I currently have it configured to take up 2TB, however, there is only one 900GB partition on it. I read somewhere that the following command will force it to shrink, however,…
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VMWare - Increase disk space automatically - how?

There are many servers/hosts supporting many virtual machines on VMWare. Is there a way to automatically increase the disk space available on a VM say increase by 10%? How about sending messages (emails) to admins when it gets critical?
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Error adding 4tb LUN (Raw Device Mapping) to ESX4 VM

I'm trying to map an existing 4tb LUN from a Fibre Channel SAN, through to a VM in my ESX4 environment. It keeps telling me that the VMDK file size exceeds the the maximum size supported by the datastore. I've tried in Physical compatibility mode,…
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How to determine disk image file format: VMDK, VHD or raw file format?

Is there any shell command using which I can determine the format of a disk image file? I want to check that disk image file is in which of these formats: vmdk, vhd of raw file.
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PowerCLI Syntax: copy-harddisk

Whats the correct syntax for coping a vmdk with PowerCLI? I'd like to do the same as vmkfstools -i Get-HardDisk Machine1 | Copy-HardDisk "[DS] Machine2/test.vmdk" Produces: Copy-HardDisk : 21.01.2010 17:59:57 Copy-HardDisk …
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Copying thin VMFS .vmdk to a NAS

Short version: I want to copy a thin provisioned VMFS .vmdk from the free ESXI to a NAS for backup. How I do it? Are there any way which works out of the box? Naive copying doesn't work because it copies full size instead of actually provisioned…
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Migrate ESXi vm to qcow2 with settings preserved?

I have attempted to export a vm in ESXi which produced 3 files: vm_name.ovf (12KB) disk-0-2.vmdk (73KB) disk-1.vmdk (1.2GB) I assumed the larger file (disk-1.vmdk) was the flat file and therefore uploaded that to an appropriate folder where I…
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ESXi 6.0 exports empty OVF files?

I've exported a few old VMs the last few days to clean up our environments. I was trying to reimport one and received an error in the ESXi web client. Upon investigation, I noticed that the majority of the OVF files I exported show as 1kb but are…
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Rename VMDK file in esxi 6.5

I am attempting to rename VMDK's to eliminate spaces in the name. Because I want to migrate our VMs from an old ESXi Server to a new Version Server. (with scp command , I can only migrate VMs without spaces in the file names) looking at this…
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VMware 1.0.1 Windows7 - Ubuntu hostnames

I'm trying to run Ubuntu as the guest OS using VMWware 1.0.10 with Windows 7 Ultimate as the host OS. I had this set up previously with Win XP as the host OS and in fact I'm using the same .vmx My problem is I can't get either Win7 or Ubuntu to be…
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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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