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Shrinking a preallocated VMDK
Have you checked if the disk is sparse or preallocated? If it's sparse, then you can follow the guide in the article already mentioned by John (defrag in Windows and then shrink using VMware Tools). ...
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How Do I Remove Files Stored In a VMDK?
At this point, it's going to be much quicker and easier to restore this VMDK from the backup copy you hopefully have. Snapshots are delta disks, and by deleting the earliest one, you have probably ...
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."
Try using vmware-vdiskmanager to repair the image.
Since VMware already likely tried running this command on its own, this probably will not help, but it's the easiest thing to try.
On macOS with ...
4
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ESXi Server has locked with .lock4 file suffix on all vmdk's after crash SAVE ME!
You've been hit with a VMware ESXi variant of ransomware.
Your VMware datastore's contents have been encrypted.
The attacker likely got into your system via ESXi SSH.
There may be a ransom note in the ...
3
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Unable to compress 18GB file on Ubuntu Linux 18.04
OK, I'm answering my own question which may serve someone else for realizing if he/she is actually having hardware problems.
After trying multiple times to compress the problematic file (even with ...
2
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LENOVO PX12-450R RAID configuration + general advice
Q1: Should I lump everything together and make 1 big RAID 10 storage pool and then create volumes for the items above or make two separate RAID 10 pools- one for backup and one for VM / file shares.
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Converting Thick vmdk to thin after Move from Datastore
It is possible to convert thick to thin only by copying VMDK file to different datastore/folder or within the folder with proper cmdlet:
vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/<source datastore>/<...
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Vmware ESXI one hard disk but 2 vmdk files
I would do this:
Check if there are snapshots taken and, if possible, delete them first
Performing a full backup
Check the configuration of the VM if there is really only one hard disk configured
...
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Windows 2000 Server on VMware Workstation is not booting
Redo files are set for differential disk type stuff (e.g. you have a "locked" source VMDK disk and one or more virtual machines that use that as a source and write their 'changes' to the Redo file ...
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dmesg + many messages as error count since last fsck
It seems fairly obvious that this is exactly what the RedHat document is talking about; the "initial error" and "last error" lines are simply reporting the historical errors. Make ...
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."
VMDK of one of my VMs got corrupted after my phisiscal disk got overfilled and the VM got terminated.
I tried several methods including vmware-vdiskmanager and StarWind V2V Converter, but none of them ...
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What are the chances of recovering any data from *-flat.vmdk file which didn't finish coping?
Try mounting it on a linux box and see. Something like
kpartx -av <image-flat.vmdk>; mount -o /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/vmdk
You may have to force the offset etc but I've had good results ...
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Converting virtual drives from .vmdk to .vhdx produces huge files
I have had a similar issue, I always use Disk2VHD now, I have tried many different methods but always end up back with this simple tool. It works brilliantly every time.
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converting Ganeti instance to vmdk fails
You should add memory= with the same value as maxmem in the backend section of your config.ini file.
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