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Windows 2008 VM won't boot with 1TB vmdk attached

We have a Windows 2008 VM that runs on an ESXi 3.5 server. It has two VMDKs attached to it: the boot drive and a 1TB data drive. The boot drive VMDK resides on some DAS drives on the server. The data drive sits on an iSCSI datastore. We have been…
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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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Virtual disk expansion

I'm running a virtual image (which happens to be our server for a number of programs) on a machine running ESXi 5.5.0. Although the host computer has a SSD of about 200GB, the virtual image was initially given a 40GB virtual disk. Unfortunately, it…
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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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Replacing failed drive on a ESXi host

I have a failing drive on my ESXi 4 host and I'm going to replace it. There is no fault tolerance (RAID), each drive on its own. I'm planning do offline dding old drive to new one but I'm not sure this will work. Will ESXi properly recognize the…
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copying an lvm partition to a smaller disk, and renaming volume groups

I was trying to shrink a vmdk (VMWare disk image) file to be as small as possible, and found two recommendations. The first is to cat /dev/zero into the fs then delete it, and run VMWare tools' shrink. This works okay. The second is to copy…
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Qcow2 converted to vmdk show as spare and can't be snapshot

As the title says, kvm disks that I converted and moved to ESXi are useless because I cannot use snapshots due to the fact that they are sparse disks. Does anyone have a resolution for this issue? esxi 5 free
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How to alter a vm snapshot's ip and mac address?

I have installed VMware and taken a snapshot of a VM. I want to change the virtual operating system's ip address and mac address in the snapshot state. Is there a way to accomplish this by editing the VM's files? I don't know whether this way is…
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Converted VHD to VMDK but vmx missing

I converted vhd to vmdk, and with vmware worstation tried to import the vmdk, but it says vmx is missing. when i did the conversion vmx file wasnt created. did i miss anything. i am aware vhd can be run in hyper-v, but my requirement is it run it…
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How can I create an Amazon Machine Image from a large VMDK file?

I am in the process of attempting to create an Amazon Machine Image from a large (160 GB) VMDK disk image of a virtual machine running Linux; however, I keep running up against notices about a 10 GB limit for AMIs. Is there a way to upload large…
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V2V conversion - linux distro from .vmdk to XenServer .vhd

I am running XenServer for virtualization. I have a linux distro with Big Blue Button (http://bigbluebutton.org/) in .vmdk format that I'd like to run on my XenServer (it uses .vhd files). Problem is that the official tool XenConvert only works if…
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Rescue *.vmdk by wrapping it in new, working *.vmdk

I have a vmdk (VMware virtual [NTFS] formatted disk) beyond repair (It's not mine, I don't know exactly what happened). I'm trying to get some files off of it using Plan B as outlined here: http://sanbarrow.com/sickbay.html#planb From what I can…
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how to run a vmdk image on another 64 bit machine which does not have vt support

I have a CentOS 64 as Guest OS installation (basically the vmdk file) which was created on a machine which had Virtualization Support enabled in BIOS. How ever I have another machine where I do not have virtualization support (even in BIOS) both…
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Does anyone knows how to convert ovf file to img using centos?

I'm trying to instal nuxeo on centos and I'm using now xen to virtualize. Nuxeo's downloads have not xen image. Only available ovf and vmware. Is possible to make the conversion?
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What's the simplest way to run a virtual image that was created in VMWare 4.0?

I have been given an image that I'm told was created in VMWare 4.0 that I am trying to run. When I open it in virtual box I'm told that it cant run the image as it's not a supported version. I tried digging around the VMWare site and all I could…
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