I have a virtualized Windows Server 2008 with iSCSI volume attached (inside the guest). This disk servers as the main file server data disk with lots of shares, permissions, etc. I would like to “convert” the guest-attached iSCSI volume to a VMWare VMDK by disconnecting the iSCSI target from the Windows Server and reconnecting it … Read more
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 trying to migrate the … Read more
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 images or is the limit firm enough … Read more
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 Answer Log onto ESXi server using SSH and convert with vmkfstools: vmkfstools -i mysparedisk.vmdk -d … Read more
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 cloned new drive or will fail … Read more
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 is a “thick provision lazy zeroed” type disk, and cannot be … Read more
We have an vmware (6.0) machine that uses vmdk-files. There are flat.vmdk and delta.vmdk files. The files are dated with 27.05.2021. As far as I know, the flat.vmdk are read only and did not get changed, the changes are written in the delta.vmdk files. Now we have the problem that the flat.vmdk file is corrupt. … Read more
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 able to … Read more
I’m planning to use OpenVZ in an old machine I have at home. I want to know if a dumped OpenVZ instance image can be exported to other formats (like VirtualBox or Vmware). Thanks! Answer Not AFAIK but you should be able to use bare-metal tools like mondorescue.org or clonezilla.org to back up the VM … Read more
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 find were tools … Read more
