VMWare Fusion for Mac - how much space HARD drive is my virtual machine taking?

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• Convert a hard drive to a virtual machine

  I have a server that the material died which has mirrored hard SATA hard drives in them.  I would like to convert the data on that hard drive to a virtual machine and put it in my vCenter, but I am unable to start the server.  What is the best way to do it?  I can mount and read data from Windows on another machine.  Right now I'm trying to back up data until an acronis image and then use converter to import.  I think it is easier to sense, though.   I also have a backup server Symantec Backup Exec, but I do not have the agent ESX for Symantec.

  Thank you

  Dave

  If you want to try the converter, just fix the disk on a physical host somewhere and run a normal conversion.

  Once you have done this, create a new empty virtual machine with no disc and you fix vmdk for the reader you want migrated to this new virtual machine. Chances are that you will get the normal NT Loader boot error when you try to start, but you should be able to solve this problem using a fo the following:

  DiskPart

  Fdisk

  Recovery Boot

  You can also consider to use something else than VMware converter - perhaps something like Acronis True image?

  Good luck and please feed back.

• Partitions of hard drive on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a few questions related to the hard drive on a virtual machine.

  1. is it possible to create multiple hard drive partitions (virtual hard disk, we can add, modify the virtual machine settings) that we have in our PC? In the case the ESX Server and Workstation?

  2. in WMware Workstation by clicking on change settings for virtual machine, I've added an extra IDE drive and allocated 1 GB of space, so now I have two hard drives. I said my virtual machine (Windows XP is the guest operating system), I expected to see the additional drive as "D:", but it was not! What stage is omitted by me?

  Thanks to AdvanceSalahuddin

  1. Yes.  Treat your virtual machine exactly as you would with a physical.

  2. yet once, as you would in a physical installation.  When you add a hard drive, you must go in disk management, select the new drive, create a partition on it and format the partition.

• Problem with VMware fusion for MAC after OS 10.7.4 upgrade

  VMWARE Fusion does not load.

  Received the following error

  Failed to retrieve the size of the area kernal,

  then

  failed to initialize the surveillance apparatus

  then cannot find a valid peer to connect to

  Suggestions for troubleshooting?

  Search the Forum - answered in another thread.

  But to make it simple, upgrade to 3.1.4 or 4.1.2 and restart.

• Problems opening Captivate 7 for Mac after installing new hard drive

  Hello!

  My HDD recently crashed and I need to install a new hard drive (OS x El Capitan, version 10.11.13) on my mac. They re-installed Adobe Captivate (I use Adobe Captivate 7 for Mac), but now the software and files that I created using the software will not open. Initially, I received an error message stating that I had to install a new version of Java, but even after I did it, it will still not open. I click on the link in the finder and it bounces on the taskbar at the bottom for one second, then disappears. I tried to restart the computer, but it does not help.

  Can anyone help? I need it immediately for work!

  Thank you, Ashley

  I suspect that the reason is the operating system. Even the Captivate 8 was not compatible with El Capitan, I doubt that is the case with CP7. Only CP9 is compatible with El Capitan.

• E3000 you see is not a WD MyBook for Mac 2 TB external hard drive

  Just bought a router from LinkSys e3000 and WD My Book for Mac (+ WD Smartware) in order to save my two MacBook Pro wireless.  The router works FINE for all other wireless and routing functions.

  Bottom line, the LinkSys Router cannot access external drive USB, the same scores if he can 'see' the reader. (By clicking 'claim' does nothing)

  This would have something to do with the functionality of ITS and drivers needed - since I can't add the drivers to the router.

  (1) valid router works by plugging an another WD MyBook essential 1 TB drive (PC version) and the routers sees several partitions.

  (2) worked with support technical LinkSys to check the router works with the journaled Mac partitions and the router worked as expected

  (3) added a FAT on my book Mac volume - still does not work with the router

  (4) plugged my book Mac directly on the MacBook Pro - works fine (actually a backup from two Mac Book Pro both 1 via USB direct connect)

  (5) off VCD - no luck on the router

  Can anyone provide a suggestion before I return this drive to WD?  I'm at my wits end.

  In addition, other that this problem with WD, I can highly recommend the LinkSys e3000.  Seriously HOT router with a huge flow.

  Yes... it's that I'm just understand! : smileymad:

  Please ask PD to put this future firmware support on the list for improvements.  I love the router, but really miss you a market of large target with this omission.

  It is closed for me.   Thank you!

  SDM

• How to present a drive on a Virtual Machine of the SAN storage?

  Hi all

  My Question is that suppose we have three Machines virtual VM1 and VM2 VM3 respectively running on an ESX host. Now, we would like to introduce a SAN storage disk that is HP EVA VM02.

  How we would present disk for this particular virtual machine.

  Kind regards

  Khurram Shahzad

  A VM disk can be a vmdk file or disc RDM.

  With vmdk, you take the space of a VMFS data store, which is a logical unit number which could be simple presented to the ESX (and can be shared across ESX) and is formatted by ESX.

  With RDM you take a raw SAN disk, you must always present at ESX (as a VMFS data store), but you must add it to your VM without ESX format.

  André

• My computer does not recognize the external hard drive that my virtual machine is stored (continuous thread solved problem)...

  A new problem arises.  After I crossed the wire attached and mounted my VM on the external hard drive, I can access is no longer my hard drive.  Y at - it a trick to recognize again?

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1166805#1166805

  Ben, well talk to you again and let me know what external drive you eventually buy and if it was the controller or the drive in the other external drive.

  Woody

• excluding the hard drives in a virtual machine cloning

  Hello

  I want to clone a virtual machine that has multiple drives. The c: drive has OS (W2008R2) and is small enough, D:, E:, and F: are large (terabytes), and contain data. I need only the C: drive in the clone. Is it possible to exclude other readers during the cloning process? I clicked through the wizard, but it does not give me an option.

  Thank you

  Matthias
  

  I would use the VMware Converter Standalone where you have a choice of which drives to clone.  http://VMware.com/go/converter

• How to resize hard disks of a virtual machine?

  Here's the scenario, we virtualized just a physical machine.

  The (c) is 20 GB, and (d) is 190 GB.  We had to maintain these sizes during the P2V, then re-run the P2V and resizing is not an option (the physical machine is in production and should maintain the current States of its disk).

  From what I can tell, these two (c) and (d) are on a virtual disk (vmdk), which is to ~ 210 GB in size.

  Now that we have virtualized, I could clean the disks and delete unnecessary data.  Now I need to change the (c) for 30 GB and I need to change the (d) to be 50 GB

  Can someone please advice of office?  How to cultivate the (c) and shrink (d) while they are both on a virtual disk (vmdk)?

  In which case it is important, we use a SAN with the left hand.  Our esx-data store is 1 TB, with plenty of room.

  Thanks in advance,

  Chris

  Highlight the host you want to convert to (could be the cluster), then right click and select "import machine".  It will then launch converter.  You can do it on by selecting 'Powered on machine' or if feed you first, you can import it as a virtual one by specifying the host / virtual center.

• How much space do I need to allow for Vista while partitioning the hard drive?

  How much space do I need to allow for Vista while partitioning the hard drive?

  I am installing on a new drive hard and need to partition the hard drive.

  I remember he had a certaing amount allocated for vista and before recovery.

  Help, please!

  Hello

  40GBs is the minimum; who will be vey quickly useless.

  Recovery partition would have been photographed by the manufacturer of the computer hard disk and you can't replicate that.

  You can use all of the hard disk space available to install Vista on.

  Here's how to do a clean install of Vista using a DVD of Vista from Microsoft:

  "How to do a clean install and configure with a full Version of Vista '

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-Vista.html

  And once the operating system is installed, go to your computer manufacturer's website and get the latest drivers for your particular model or laptop computer.

  And phone Activation may be necessary when you use the above installation method.

  "How to activate Vista normally and by Activation of the phone '

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/84488-activate-Vista-phone.html

  See you soon.

• How much space for Time Machine backups

  Hello

  Is there a rule for how much space you may want to allow for Time Machine backups?

  I would like to partition the drive to have a room reserved for Time Machine back ups only.  I realize that it is a personal preference.

  Each individual backup occupies approximately 790 GB.  But somehow I have 6 months of backups that supposedly take up only 880 GB on the disk.

  At this time the backups of my other drive back to 6 months in time.

  Fortunately, I never had to go back a few more days to recover a file.

  Is there a reasonable amount of space to allocate for backups, based on current usage of disk?

  Thank you

  A Silverstone wrote:

  Hello

  Is there a rule for how much space you may want to allow for Time Machine backups?

  I would like to partition the drive to have a room reserved for Time Machine back ups only.  I realize that it is a personal preference.

  Each individual backup occupies approximately 790 GB.  But somehow I have 6 months of backups that supposedly take up only 880 GB on the disk.

  At this time the backups of my other drive back to 6 months in time.

  Fortunately, I never had to go back a few more days to recover a file.

  Is there a reasonable amount of space to allocate for backups, based on current usage of disk?

  Thank you

  Minimum would, of course, the size of the internal drive.

  Double the quantity is sufficient

  Triple the amount if you want a value years from TM backups

  I am convinced that these are independent external drives from your main hard drive of Machines

• Backup how much space do I need for a complete backup system?

  I intend to make a full system backup (complete with the image of the system) with a Toshiba 500 gig external hard drive I recently bought on Amazon.  I currently have 464,86 GB of free space available on this device (my external hard drive provided with the NTI EZ Backup utility).  How much space will create a full backup on this device?  Or should I simply back up files/folders and create the image of the system on a separate drive?

  Evan

  Hey Evan,

  It depends on the files and folders you have on the hard drive.

  For example: If you have 200 GB of a data value in the C drive then to perform a system image you need minimum of 200 GB of space on the external hard drive to make a system image.

  To learn more about the system image in Windows 7, see the link

  What is a system image?

  Should what backup settings I use to maximize my disk space?

  Hope this information helps.

• How much space I need for ios9 (not enough free 5 GB)

  How much space I need for ios9 (not enough free 5 GB)

  You have a computer and you sync via iTunes?

  If you update via iTunes you need not as much free space on your iPad because the software spreads itself by using your computer, not the ipad memory

• My space free icloud is full, so I want to download all my files on my Mac and use a hard drive instead of icloud. I'm not happy to pay to store my files in icloud. How can I do this?

  My space free icloud is full, so I want to download all my files on my Mac and use a hard drive instead of icloud. I'm not happy to pay to store my files in icloud. How can I do this?

  Welcome to the Apple community.

  Locate in iCloud drive in your Finder, drag to where you want to save them on your Mac, confirm, you want to move them when the Finder prompts.