VMDK resizing (retractable)

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  Hi all

  I have a virtual machine with a disc which is fixed at 205 GB (which was a P2V played earlier) see image 1.  I have SvMotioned the virtual machine in another data store (same block size of 1 MB and VMFS v 3.31) yet the VMDK is retractable see illustration 2.  When checking in the operating system, it shows that only 124 GB is used in theory my hard file should only be ~ 124 GB.

  Environment is running esxi 4.1 on backend FC storage shared.  HW version is 7.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Michael

  Did you use sdelete or shrink at the beginning?

• Move and resize 4TB VMDK

  We run vSphere 6.0 and you have a VM Ubuntu which has a second virtual disk that is thin provided as 4TB and has about 80 GB of actual data.

  We must move from the virtual machine to an another 6.0 ESXi host vSphere that is not on a network.

  We have removed the second disk of the virtual machine first.

  What is the best way to move the VMDK on another host ESXi virtual machine?

  Can it be resized down from CT 4 so it can be copied to a USB key?

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  Why not create an archive in tar gzip the contents of disc 2 - then remove the 2 disk and create a new position final?

• Cannot resize the virtual disk, the virtual machine by using a «child» vmdk file

  Release: VMWare workstation 9

  SE host: Windows 7 64-bit

  Screenshots below.

  I want to resize my VM from 50 GB to 100 GB.

  It seems that VMware workstation 9 uses a child for my VM vmdk.  In my case, using its "Windows Server 2008 R2 x 64 - 000001.vmdk" for its virtual disk file.  The correct file should be "Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.vmdk", I think.

  There are currently no snapshots registered for this virtual machine, I see.

  The virtual machine works well as is, but I can't resize the disk without the VMWare gui, saying I should be perform the operation on the parent vmdk file.

  It seems that I do run a snapshot that is not really a snapshot?  How to merge with the older files - Sxx.vmdk to 0000xx - Sxxx.vmdk

  I also tried to use the command line tool to manually resize the vmdk parent, but I get permission "access denied" errors.

  Kind regards

  Matt

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  Parameters of the HARD disk:

  

  Error:

  

  Files:

  

  He no snapshots are displayed in the Manager of snapshot with the check box 'Show AutoProtect snapshots' verified then the snapshot is an orphan and the best way I use normally to fix this if I want the contents of the snapshot of orphan to be among the basic disk is with tab of the virtual machine in VMware Workstation GUI closed I simply delete the .vmsd file and then open the virtual machine tab in the VMware Workstation GUI and cover and immediately remove a snapshot in the Snapshot Manager.  This will force the orphan snapshot to merge with the parent disk.  Then to clean I still remove the .vmsd file and orphans, .vmsn and .vmem file.

  Note: Before the procedure you have a good backup of the virtual machine in case you accidentally mess something up.

• Error during resizing of vmdk in VMWare Fusion 3.1.1

  I have a Windows 7 virtual machine that had a 20 GB, designated as the single disk vmdk. I wanted to resize to 40 GB so I stop the machine, went

  for the parameters of the virtual machine and set the new size (with the disk to preallocate space / split into 2GB files on options).

  During resizing a popup of error is displayed with the following message:

  The called function can only be performed on partial strings. Please open the virtual disk parent.

  Once this message, the drive no longer appears in the settings of the virtual machine; If I try to re add the vmdk file, VMWare simply hangs after selecting it in the open file dialog box.

  I tried to check the disk with the following command:

  /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R seven.vmdk 
  No errors were found on the virtual disk, 'seven.vmdk'.
  

  If I try to clone the drive, I get this error:

  $ /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -r seven.vmdk -t 0 seven2.vmdk
  Creating disk '/Volumes/ScratchMyBak/Users/fabiocorneti/seven2.vmdk'
  Failed to convert disk: The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the parent virtual disk (0x500003e83).
  

  The same error is reported in more detail in the log file attached; the lines in question are these:

  Oct 15 11:52:36.473: vmx| DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk' persistent R[]
  Oct 15 11:52:39.083: vmx| FILE: WaitForPossession timeout on '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk.lck/M41364.lck' due to a local process (333)
  Oct 15 11:52:39.084: vmx| FILE: FileIO_Lock on '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk' failed: Lock timed out
  Oct 15 11:52:39.084: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: DescriptorOpenWithRetry: Descriptor file '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk' locked (try 0)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "seven-f001.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [1]: "seven-f002.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [2]: "seven-f003.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [3]: "seven-f004.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [4]: "seven-f005.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.952: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [5]: "seven-f006.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [6]: "seven-f007.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [7]: "seven-f008.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [8]: "seven-f009.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [9]: "seven-f010.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [10]: "seven-f011.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [11]: "seven-f012.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [12]: "seven-f013.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [13]: "seven-f014.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [14]: "seven-f015.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [15]: "seven-f016.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [16]: "seven-f017.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [17]: "seven-f018.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [18]: "seven-f019.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [19]: "seven-f020.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [20]: "seven-f021.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [21]: "seven-f022.vmdk" 0 (0x1a)
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-LINK  : Opened '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk' (0x1a): twoGbMaxExtentSparse, 83886080 sectors / 40 GB.
  Oct 15 11:52:42.953: vmx| DISKLIB-LIB   : Opened "/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk" (flags 0x1a).
  Oct 15 11:52:42.954: vmx| DiskDDB: Could not retrieve geometry.cylinders: The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the parent virtual disk.
  Oct 15 11:52:42.954: vmx| DiskDDB: Could not retrieve geometry.biosCylinders: The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the parent virtual disk.
  Oct 15 11:52:42.954: vmx| DiskGetGeometry: Reading of disk partition table
  Oct 15 11:52:42.954: vmx| Setting thread 37 stack size to 1048576.
  Oct 15 11:52:43.213: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
  Oct 15 11:52:43.213: vmx| [http://msg.disk.noBackEnd|http://msg.disk.noBackEnd] Cannot open the disk '/Volumes/VM/seven.vmwarevm/seven.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
  Oct 15 11:52:43.213: vmx| [http://msg.disk.configureDiskError|http://msg.disk.configureDiskError] Reason: The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the parent virtual disk.----------------------------------------
  Oct 15 11:52:47.567: vmx| Module DiskEarly power on failed.
  

  Is it possible to fix the vmdk?

  Sorry I had not had my coffee yet and missed the following...

  The next section in the original seven.vmdk file looked like at...

  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  encoding="UTF-8"
  CID=00000000
  parentCID=00000000
  isNativeSnapshot="no"
  createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"
  

  It should have looked like...

  # Disk DescriptorFile
  version=1
  encoding="UTF-8"
  CID=fffffffe
  parentCID=ffffffff
  isNativeSnapshot="no"
  createType="twoGbMaxExtentFlat"
  

  Try the new version of the attached file seven.vmdk.

• Resize the fixed size VMDK

  Im trying to resize a vmhd. I know that I have to convert it into a new vmhd to do. Ive been looking for a little while and got a good idea on how to do it, but something must be wrong in my syntax.

  Here's what I have.

  C:\Virtual Machines\VM1 > "c:\Program VMware Server\vmware - vdiskmanager.exe ', VM1.vmdk - r t 2 s 14 GB VM1_reduced.vmdk

  what I think is the syntax to convert a fixed disk of VM1.vmdk (t 2), size 14 GB, new name for VMDK

  but when I run, there is the original size which is about 16 GB. (Yes there is free space available in the host which is a windows Server 2003 OS)

  Any thoughts?

  Ahh... you can not reduce the defined maximum size of a virtual disk with vmware-vdiskmanager (or any other VMware tool, in fact).  You must create a new virtual disk and ghost/clone the existing drive, on another; then replace the original with the new disk in your virtual machine.

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  Hello

  I got flat condition vmdk again doing stub (http://www.phdvirtual.com/wrapgen) file.

  but I am wrong, and now I have the disk with size 900 GB instead of 9 GB.

  How can I resize this disc?

  Thanks in advance

  Delete the one you generated and create another new of correct size.

• Ability to resize Windows server 2008 vmdk?

  VMware Converter 4.0.1 has the possibility to resize VMDK in MS Windows 2008?

  I'm assuming that the ability to resize vmdkalso also applies to Windows 2003 virtual machines?

  Yes, with converter, you can resize Windows partitions.

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  Hi, I would like to resize a vmdk file.

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  Is this normal? Is there another method to resize the vmdk file?

  Concerning

  Another way to resize your disk vmdk can be:

  the concept is: create a nrew disk resized and a third party image so (example Hiren) allows you to copy the disc. Finally, disconnect the big disk and start the virtual machine with the new drive.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/961997#961997 http://communities.VMware.com/message/887516#887516

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  Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

  
  

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  THX

  
  

  S

  
  

  Here is a picture of the cmdline and content directory, in the case where I typed and do not (although I have copy and paste the name of vmdk)

  
  

  Please compress/zip . descriptor VMDK files for the two virtual disks as well as of VMwarelast.log virtual machine and attach archive .zip to a response message. What confuses me, is that the virtual disk consists of 21 files, which looks like the virtual disk is already here to 40 GB!

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