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 issue is, after I have converted these and … Read more
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 cloning the VMDK from VirtualBox to a VDI format, and uploading these to DigitalOcean … Read more
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 bad idea? And how … Read more
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 volume. However in my case there are two volumes … Read more
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 this is very slow (around 7 MB/s) It … Read more
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 than the content of the image. So what I’m missing is empty space … Read more
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 (500 GB) My … Read more
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 files) … Read more
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 on but I don’t have the MyServer.vmdk or … Read more
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 filled our virtual disk. I couldn’t boot the VM, so … Read more
