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Before doing anything with your exchange I would use vmware converter and move a copy to a test environment, bring it up then play around with taking snapshots and whatever else you are about to do with the exchange, this was you are not effecting your production environment and potentially having to do a rebuild. Exchange on VM is great but make sure you have a good DR inplace just incase something goes wrong
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Before doing anything with your exchange I would use vmware converter and move a copy to a test environment, bring it up then play around with taking snapshots and whatever else you are about to do with the exchange, this was you are not effecting your production environment and potentially having to do a rebuild. Exchange on VM is great but make sure you have a good DR inplace just incase something goes wrong

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One of Exchange 2007 machines is set up on VMware and has 2 drives:<br />
C - Windows OS<br />
D - EX '07 storage<br />
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Unfortunately the D drive has been set up as independent/persistent disk, therefore snapshots are not allowed. Is there a way to convert it non independent? <br />
D drive has 150GB &nbsp;in size 41GB in use, there is 50GB of free space on the server.<br />
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Thank you
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One of Exchange 2007 machines is set up on VMware and has 2 drives:
C - Windows OS
D - EX '07 storage

Unfortunately the D drive has been set up as independent/persistent disk, therefore snapshots are not allowed. Is there a way to convert it non independent? 
D drive has 150GB  in size 41GB in use, there is 50GB of free space on the server.

Thank you

Virtual Machine configured with Independent disks - can't take snapshot

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Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.