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Downloaded -flat.vmdk from snapshoted machine is different everytime

I have a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0, machine has one Thick provisioned disk stored in VM forder (residing on local datastore). I am planning to move the virtual machine to another ...
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Populate Snapshot manager with missing snapshots or revert to one manually?

Is there a way to populate the Snapshot Manager with snapshots that are listed in the datastore but not under Manage Snapshots. Is there a way to either populate Manage Snapshots or using something ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Increasing memory giving error in VMware ESXi

I'm getting this error when I tried to increase the memory of a VM in VMware ESXi Failed to reconfigure virtual machine XXX. Unable to access file [VMS] XXX/boot.vmdk boot.vmdk is already exist but ...
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AWS: error on import of OVF/OVA file from a VMWare ESXi

My goal is to migrate a VM from VMWare to AWS EC2. I exported the "OVF+VMDK" file from VMWare ESXI 6.5. I also converted to an OVA file to be able to test both OVF and OVA format. I followed ...
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It is possible to replace a flat.vmdk file with a older backup version of the file?

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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