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• How to shrink a virtual disk (vmdk file)

  I use VMware Workstation 12.1 Pro on Windows 7 x 64.

  I have a virtual drive of 140 GB that I converted to stretch of prealloue (with excellent yesterday using continuum here).

  First, in Windows Disk Manager, I lowered the score of 140 GB GB 70, leaving the end 70 GB unallocated (unused). So I thought it would be easy to reduce the 140 GB vmdk file to 70 GB.

  I ran the vmware - vdiskmanager.exe command line with the-k option on the file vmdk from the host with the virtual machine off. Then in the virtual machine powered on, the command prompt, I ran VMwareToolboxCmd.exe fret C:\.

  These two options gave me a disc that was essentially the same size than what I started with. Looks like there should be an easy way to drop that last unused 70 GB, but I can't. Which offer a suggestion?

  Thank you!

  Joe

  To effectively reduce a vmdk extensible, you must be able to write to these locations with the trash.
  You resized the partition - which means that the trash is outside the accessible area in writing.
  Options:
  create a partition at the end of the disc, wipe it by filling it with zeros, when the partition is completely filled with zeros - shrink again and remove the fake wall when done. I suggest this order:
  Start: preallocated 140 GB vmdk
  1 defragment the partition from inside the guest
  2. resize the partition to 70 GB
  3. turn off the virtual machine completely and simply cut the flat.vmdk to 71 GB with a dd command
  4. adjust the description of the measure in descriptorfile

  result: a vmdk préallouée 70 GB

• How can I retrieve windows disk sets 7 10 windows installation

  How can I retrieve windows disk sets 7 10 windows installation

  Just download the older games of Windows7.
  See:

  Install Windows 7 Hearts, Solitaire games and more on Windows 10
  http://www.groovypost.com/howto/install-Windows-7-classic-games-Windows-10/

  This is the download page where you click on download Windows 7 games for Windows 10
  http://winaero.com/download.php?view.1836

• We can recover the file raw disk VMDK file?

  Somehow, we find that the VMDK (VM5.vmdk) file for a virtual computer is lost.  However, the raw disk VM5 - flat hard file always exist.

  We wonder if it is possible for us to create the file VM5.vmdk of the raw disk file?

  Thank you

  Yes... That's what I would do... He would also create a backup of your flat file in case things don't work and it never hurts to have a backup to moments like this.

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  Wil

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• Windows 7 a vmdk file not found, cannot open the file '... Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7. VMDK

  Could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open. I joined the collection of support...

  Thank you very much!

  B

  it2webber wrote: could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open.

  How the Virtual Machine has been backed up and restored?  If Time Machine then...

  It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring VMS in all circumstances/conditions.  Also back up Virtual Machines via Time Machine of disk/time intensive and wastes a lot of space for something that may be corrupted and worthless time to restore it.  At least I would exclude the Virtual Machines with virtual machines and Time Machine shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed and then manually copy the VMS to another location, preferably on a different physical hard drive.  So keep the user data stored in the virtual machine saved out of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis in order to always have a backup of the current user data.  If you need to restore a properly saved by VM is not as common at least you will have a virtual working Machine and data user to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine backup of the virtual machine fails.  Also take a look at: best practices for backup of virtual machine (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)

  That said, if you don't have a copy of the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk" and then to try to retrieve the data from the user, you can try the following:

  Download then unzip it (double-click on) the joint "Windows_7 - f004.vmdk.zip" file that contains the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk ' an empty logical binary measure that has been created on the metric of the existing drive and add to the Package of the Virtual Machine.  This should allow the VHD to be considered as a virtual hard drive, assuming that there is no damage to the extent of the binary left headers.  Take a look on: work with Virtual Machine packages

  At this point, that the VHD has the scope necessary to show as a full disk, assuming that it is not corrupt the header in other binary extensions and can now attempt to access for the recovery of user data.

  There are several ways to try to retrieve user data.  The easy, although not necessarily work properly according to what now lack us due to replace the missing binary extensions with a logical empty measure, is trying to start the VM normally.  If the virtual machine starts up on the desk and VMware Tools load properly you should be able to copy your data to user off on a USB or slip and fall on the side of Mac or if you have a configured VMware folder then copy the files through it.

  Other methods involve starting the Virtual Machine with a Live OS ISO Image and copy files from a USB key or temporarily assemble the VHD to another Virtual Machine work.

  With the right tools installed the virtual hard disk could also be mounted as another accessible Volume through Finder.

• How to import a converter vCenter VMware vmdk file 5

  Hello

  Here's the scenario,

  -We have one physical server with win 2003 OS installed. Installed VMware converter on this box.

  -Conversion all of the physical disk to VMDK in VMware Converter.

  -All copied the VMDK file with vmx and transferred to vcenter Datastore.

  Now when you try to import the machine through vmx import disks that are there with vmx showing as sparse disk. Now, how we'RE the VM of power with this. Can I convert this from front end/thick.

  -Why this shows also sparse.

  Just a note - I had to do what the latency between the physical server and vcenter is very high and the disk size is 1 TB. If you feel still another another good practice that above pl then let us know in this scenario.

  Kind regards

  Selim.

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  Post edited by: Suhag Desai

  Post edited by: Suhag Desai

  Yes, if you converted a system with a "VMware Workstation" destination, hard files become fragmented by default. For use on ESXi, you need to convert them again.

  André

• How I find myself with as many vmdk files (which are almost 320KO)?

  I'm new at this; Please, be gentle .

  I made a new Win 7-64 company VM Workstation 8.0.5. I asked a 60 GB of virtual disk in place with several files, and I found myself with 64 vmdk files (49 of which are 320 KB).

  I did the same thing a few months (on an earlier version of workstation) and 60 GB of virtual disk includes only 10 files vmdk, ranging from 1 GB and GB 28.

  Why the new VM do not end with as many files vmdk more and so much smaller?

  Thank you

  David

  David, although this was not really necessary, because I had already explained the plausible scenarios thanks nonetheless for the supply of the parsed data (factual) hard.  The reason why you have 64 files in the same directory hard is because the virtual machine has a 60 GB twoGbMaxExtentSparse virtual disk with a snapshot, and it is 32 hard files (for each) x 2 for a total of 64 records hard.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with this and is a scenario quite normal and expected and because it is so absolutely no sense why whatever mfelker made such a statement absurd as, "it's simply imposible t have 64 hard files in the same directory." and you can certainly security ignore this!

• How to get rid of a Zombie vmdk file

  Hi all

  We have a VMDK file approximately 172 VM who is sitting on our SAN, consuming expensive storage, but that is not actually used by any VM.

  Everything has idea how rid the Zombie vmdk file? Thanks in advance.

  Thank you

  vmk2014

  If you want to be sure, just do as I told you on my previous post... move the zombie file to another folder before deleting (if the file is in use will be impossible to move the file, because the file is locked)... and you can just wait a few days after the zombie file and before you permanently delete.

• How to move a single virtual disk (vmdk file) of one data store

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  I have a VM with 4 virtual disks (for example, 1.vmdk, 2.vmdk, 3.vmdk and 4.vmdk) all located on a SAN volume (e.g., SANVOL03). How can I move one of the virtual disks (for example, 3.vmdk) of its current volume of SAN to another (e.g. from SANVOL03 to SANVOL04) without turning off the virtual machine? It's vsphere 4.1

  Detach the VMDK virtual machine and move it manually on the desired data store.

• How to get the windows disk after downloading

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• How to list virtual machines with associated vmdk files

  Hello.

  I have a folder vmfs and file vmdk with names that aren't like any virtual machine name (probably because that rename the virtual computer name).

  How can I find what VM is?

  Thank you

  Hello, biokovo-

  You can use the standard Get - VM and hard to find names of VMDK VMs-associated cmdlets Get-disc.  Or another, much more quickly elsewhere, would be to use everyone's favorite: Get-View.

  Since you know the path of the data store for the VMDK, you can check the property LayoutEx of virtual machines to find the virtual machine that said the file property with the name of the value as the games way to store data, as:

  $strVmdkDatastorePath = "[mydatastore] somefolder/somefile.vmdk"Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,LayoutEx.File | ?{$_.LayoutEx.File | ?{$_.Name -eq $strVmdkDatastorePath}} | select name
  

  Where the path of the data store's format, "[datastoreName] folder/somefile.vmdk.  Yes, including the square brackets around the name of the data store and a space after the "]" (before the first character of the name of the folder).

  How does do for you?  (must be straight fast)

• How to extend a virtual disk on WS7?

  I use a virtual machine of WS7 running Win7x64 as my software development system.

  He has a 100 GB virtual disk and now I try to install Embarcadero RAD Studio XE7 on that, but is greeted by a message saying that the 33.6 GB of free space is not enough...

  He needs 37 a few GB.

  So now that I look at my options and the first, we must somehow extend the virtual disk (vmdk file) to a larger size.

  Is it possible at all the tool magic VMware or what I need to create a new record and the use of some software cloning inside the VM for Win7 to transfer the content courses like the one made when moving to a bigger real physical drive?

  Looks like it should be possible so to increase the size of the car without touching the data such that the partition holding the 100 GB drive is not now the disk is full.

  In this case, I use Win7 tools to extend the partition to use the full disk.

  Any advice/suggestions?

  Expand a virtual disk is a fairly straightforward task. Make sure that the virtual machine have Active snapshots and then increase the size of the virtual disk by typing in its new size in settings of the virtual machine HARD drive. After increasing the virtual disk, you must increase the partition within the guest OS. For Windows 7, this can be done in the disk management interface.

  Remember that when you set up a monolithic virtual disk for the virtual machine (i.e. a single hard large file), a new virtual disk will be created and all content will be copied on to this new hard file, which will have some time at the end, but it will also take the additional temporary disk space.

  André

• Remove the vmdk files

  I have a situation here: more than 40 GB of vmdk files.

  So, I would like to know it is possible to remove these files and how can I do this.

  Thanks in advance for any help

  

  renatob, read my previous comment.  You should not delete these files you will break your virtual machine.  The reason why you have so many files vmdk is because they are currently divided into 2 GB files.  Following the indications that I have described in the previous post to convert all these split files in a single disk VMDK file.  Then I recommend to perform a disk cleanup to compress the VMDK and reclaim space.

  Yo this by going to the settings of the VM, click general, and then Clean Up the Virtual Machine.  I hope this helps!

  

• In DatastoreBrowser vmdk file size not the same as busybox?

  Hello

  I have a few virtual machines in ESXi 4.0 U1, I installed the virtual disks as "thin" then they should grow in size, when the virtual machine is increasingly large.

  If I look at the vmdk files in the DatastoreBrowser of vSphere Client 4 is the case and I have a few files 20 GB for my Windows Server 2008 vmdk files.

  But if I look in the real file from busybox system (I use WinSCP or putty and even with Trilead VMX) then each vmdk-dish has the maximum size of 100 GB (exactly 107 GB). The vmdk file is named hard-plate here and not hard like in the DatastoreBrowser.

  If I download the file DatastoreBrowser vmdk to a Windows machine that I get a vmdk-apartment with great size and not the size specified in DatastoreBrowser.

  Surprisingly all-flat-files vmdk together (seen in WinSCP or VMX) are larger than the disk HARD Physics (500 GB).

  What is c?

  Thank you, franc

  Hello

  as said marcelo, thin discs works on the VMFS partition level. The thin disks does not exist outside of a VMFS partition.

  For example, is run you 'df - kh' you can see the real disk (distributed) of the VMFS partition space. In other words, you can see the total amount of disk space used by the thin disks of the virtual machines.

  Anyway, you turn in the busybox "ls - sh" (instead of 'ls - lh') you will see the real space of the thin virtual disk for a particular virtual machine (vmdk).

  But the problem is that tools such as winscp see the size of the disk space of the thin disks. This tools see the size of the reserved the vmdk file. Then, it copies all the file size of the disk as a thick disk. And of course, the target file system partition that will contain the thin disks, does not support thin disks.

  A thin disk with 3 GB of actual data (distributed) and a 10 GB reserved size is copied on the net by Winscp as a 10 GB drive.

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

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