Migration of the existing NTFS files in a virtual drive with ESX4i

I have an existing Windows Vista system with a SATA 1.5 TB filled with large files on an Intel quad-core box.

I would like to migrate this to an ESXi server on which I can run multiple virtual machines.

I bought a new 2 TB drive and a plan to install ESX4i on it.  I disconnects the 1.5 TB of disk during installation so I do not lose my existing files.

Question: What is the best way to transfer the contents of my NTFS partitions in a sufficiently large VMDK into a new virtual machine running?

A really slow method would be to use a SATA/USB adapter and copy the files on the USB bus virtualized virtual machine.

Is there a way I can build a 'temporary' virtual machine by editing the vmx virtual machine file so that I can map a virtual drive at/dev/disks/xxxxx of the hypervisor?  As soon as I knew I could map it, its trivial to have a virtual machine linux, mount the ntfs volume, and then transfer the files to a virtual machine second.

(I did play a little bit, and it seems that the biggest disk virtualized I could create in a virtual machine under ESX4i 250 GB.  No problem, since I can create a handful of small discs and then link them together using LVM, but it seemed weird and maybe a problem with my system.  Not sure if this has no effect on my question, but better ask guess.)

Thank you very much

Maximum virtual disk size:

Default ESXi sets the size of the block of VMFS 1 MB data store, which translates into a maximum. Size of 256 GB VMDK.

(see block a VMFS data store size limits for more details)

If you need larger virtual disks you just remove the data store created during installation and create a new one with the size of the desired block (Configuration-> storage). In your case it would be the block size of 8MB.

All the data on the data store will be lost. So make sure you do this right after the installation or you back up a VM already created!

André

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