vCenter Converter and SBS2008
Hello Experts,
I have a unusual issue (at least to me) with trying to convert a stand alone SBS2008 server to a VM. I have used the vCenter Converter stand alone tool with great success, however I am trying to convert a SBS2008 machine with no joy.
The converter starts, and during the process of building the VM, it returns an error about not being able to format the virtual disk.
The only difference in this case is that in the conversion, I am trying to resize the drives of the SBS2008 VM. Currently, the system drive is 65gb of 150gb used, and the data drive is 320gb of 900gb used...so a good amount of overhead. I would like to resize the data drive to 500gb.
I do not have a storage large enough to cover the 900gb in VMware, so I must resize the data drive.
Any ideas?
Mark
I have a unusual issue (at least to me) with trying to convert a stand alone SBS2008 server to a VM. I have used the vCenter Converter stand alone tool with great success, however I am trying to convert a SBS2008 machine with no joy.
The converter starts, and during the process of building the VM, it returns an error about not being able to format the virtual disk.
The only difference in this case is that in the conversion, I am trying to resize the drives of the SBS2008 VM. Currently, the system drive is 65gb of 150gb used, and the data drive is 320gb of 900gb used...so a good amount of overhead. I would like to resize the data drive to 500gb.
I do not have a storage large enough to cover the 900gb in VMware, so I must resize the data drive.
Any ideas?
Mark
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@ coolsport, will give it a try just doing the system drive, as I do have good backups for the server.
@ paulsology, the datastores are formated with a 4mb block size.
@ paulsology, the datastores are formated with a 4mb block size.
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So long story short here:
I ended up using the Windows backup and restoring via the SBS2008 boot disk map to another computer
Several attemps later, I now have a running version in production now on ESX.
What a royal pain!!!!
Thanks fro your help, I am going to split the points.
Mark
I ended up using the Windows backup and restoring via the SBS2008 boot disk map to another computer
Several attemps later, I now have a running version in production now on ESX.
What a royal pain!!!!
Thanks fro your help, I am going to split the points.
Mark
If you could provide this feedback we can proceed further.