Wayne Barron
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VMWare vmkfstools not Cloning the full size of the VMDK over. (16gb out of 50gb)
Would someone have an explanation for this?
Both times I have run this script.
It gets to around 45%, and then jumps to 100%
However, the actual size is 50GB
But the file transferred is only 16GB
This is the actual size
I have 7 VMs that need to be moved to a new drive, and this is causing some major slowing down issues.
Any ideas?
Also, if using the vmkfstools GUI is a better route to go, that would complete this without this issue.
Then please, tell me how to use the GUI, as I cannot find any information on using it.
Carrzkiss
Both times I have run this script.
vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/Date-2016/00 - DNS Server/00 - DNS Server.vmdk" -d thin "/vmfs/volumes/DES Lessons/00-DNS-Serve
r/00 - DNS Server.vmdk"
It gets to around 45%, and then jumps to 100%
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/Date-2016/00 - DNS Server/00 - DNS Server.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
However, the actual size is 50GB
But the file transferred is only 16GB
00 - DNS Server.vmdk
16.53 GB
Sunday, May 20, 2018, 12:48:59 -0400
This is the actual size
00 - DNS Server.vmdk
50 GB
Saturday, April 28, 2018, 08:23:53 -0400
I have 7 VMs that need to be moved to a new drive, and this is causing some major slowing down issues.
Any ideas?
Also, if using the vmkfstools GUI is a better route to go, that would complete this without this issue.
Then please, tell me how to use the GUI, as I cannot find any information on using it.
Carrzkiss
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Clone will only copy data, not empty blocks. So if you Guest OS is only 16Gb of data, you will have only 16Gb of that. Particularly when you are using thin option.
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Thanks, Luciano.
During my research, I found this out.
During my research, I found this out.
ASKER
I can deal with this.
Makes my job a LOT faster.
Just wish I would have known about this earlier, as I thought it had messed up, so I deleted the file and re-cloned it again.
We live, we learn.
All good now.