VMWare snapshots &migrato
I came in this morning to find my man file server was down due to lack of disk space on the store. The other day I noticed it was close to full, so instead of migrating to my issci lun, I just deleted some snapshots. I want to migrate it now but I get an error message stating that the snapshot cannot be found. What's the fix
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what's the version and build number of the VMware product?
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ESX Server 3.0.1,32039
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I'll give it a shot over the weekend.
I have a question for you... when you say you deleted snapshots did you do that via the normal procedure i.e. Commit Snapshot which causes ESX to apply the information in the snapshot files to the original associated vmdk or did you just delete them via the storage browser? ... if you did do it without commiting the snapshots, you will have lost any updates made to the VM since snapshot(s) were first created. In that case you may have a bigger issue. I think this is why VMware is telling you it cannot find the snapshot.
Hope you have backups of your data inside the VM.
Hope you have backups of your data inside the VM.
Another alternative to Cloning is to use the VMware vConverter 4.0 and import the VM as a new VM retaining the VMDKs to a different Datastore.
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I was able to shutdown the VM and then migrate it to the iSCSI LUN