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Hi All,
I want to discuss one issue which I am facing. I have a virtual machine which was initially thick provisioned. I did storage migration and changed the provisioning to "thin provision".
But now I am not able to edit the disk setting and it is throwing an error "vSphere Replication does not support changing the disk length of a replicated disk" .
I don't have any replication or recovery tool. Please suggest!
I searched for this error and also followed some VMware link for .vmdk file extension but was unable to perform as it is new for me.
I want to discuss one issue which I am facing. I have a virtual machine which was initially thick provisioned. I did storage migration and changed the provisioning to "thin provision".
But now I am not able to edit the disk setting and it is throwing an error "vSphere Replication does not support changing the disk length of a replicated disk" .
I don't have any replication or recovery tool. Please suggest!
I searched for this error and also followed some VMware link for .vmdk file extension but was unable to perform as it is new for me.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Perform a new Storage vMotion, and this time change it to THICK.
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What would be its impact. I want to increase C:/ on this machine, with thick provisioning I wont be allowed to do so.
Please suggest!
Please suggest!
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HI ,
Will the cloning of the target virtual machine will work as a full backup resource for that vm?
Will the cloning of the target virtual machine will work as a full backup resource for that vm?
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Hi,
When I am cloning the above server it is throwing an error"The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8788 (0x80042454) ". I don't know how can I Freeze the process over it as it is a WSUS server.
Any Luck!
When I am cloning the above server it is throwing an error"The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8788 (0x80042454) ". I don't know how can I Freeze the process over it as it is a WSUS server.
Any Luck!
That is an issue with VSS in the VM.
see here
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018194
see here
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018194
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I tried doing the option mentioned on the above KB but no luck.
I created VMtool.conf file, restarted the VMTool services thrice, reinstall vmtools on the server but still no luck.
I created VMtool.conf file, restarted the VMTool services thrice, reinstall vmtools on the server but still no luck.
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Hi,
I managed to extend C Drive but need to allocate the unallocated space to it. I am restricted since it is a dynamic drive. Any Idea how can I Allocate it the space.
The OS version is 2008R2
I managed to extend C Drive but need to allocate the unallocated space to it. I am restricted since it is a dynamic drive. Any Idea how can I Allocate it the space.
The OS version is 2008R2
Right Click the Partition, and select Expand.
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This is a dynamic disk and this option is greyed out in dynamic.
I would use VMware Converter, and complete a V2V.
see my EE Article
HOW TO: Shrink or Reduce a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone v5.5.2
see my EE Article
HOW TO: Shrink or Reduce a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone v5.5.2
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