When I've had problems converting/moving virtual disks, I've sometimes resorted to backing up the VM by booting it into clonezilla.
Then building an appropriate VM on the new hypervisor, and restoring via the clonezilla image. On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 12:27:35AM -0500, Steve Jones wrote: > If the vmx is problematic, the vmdk is irrelevant. Virtualbox is the last > resort. Get the vmdk in there, dick with the vmx til it boots and use > VMware converter. Set aside 14 hours and a case of Miller light for this. > Virtual box is where incompetence such as mine shines. > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 6:53 PM <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Can you move or copy the file locally and then download the copy? > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke > > *Sent:* Sunday, September 05, 2021 5:10 PM > > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Moving Virtual Machines > > > > > > > > It's a HP DL380G7 with 6 140GB disks in a Raid10. Wouldn't the Raid > > controller recognize the error and fail the drive? > > > > Although I don't think I've ever had a hard drive fail 'gracefully' For > > me they usually go from working fine to preventing the machine from POSTing > > with no middle ground. > > > > One one of my home machines, i just had a data drive that's been installed > > for years crash the machine, and keeps windows from booting, but when i > > plug it into a USB/SATA adapter, it works fine on the same machine. > > > > On 9/5/2021 3:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > > > > I'd be tempted to think a bad sector on the host disk. > > > > Maybe fsck or whatever is equivalent for that file system. > > > > > > > > On 9/5/2021 3:29 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > > > > I just tried to copy the VMDK file to another folder on the same > > datastore, and it stopped copying at about 25GB out of the 33GB file. The > > same time that it stops on my other copy methods. Does this mean the VMDK > > file is corrupt? The Virtual server itself seems to be running fine. > > > > On 9/3/2021 9:04 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > > > NFS is the only way I've found to be worthwhile for speed purposes. > > > > > > > > Josh Luthman > > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 > > Direct: 937-552-2343 > > 1100 Wayne St > > Suite 1337 > > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:35 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > locally copy to USB hard drive? > > > > On 9/2/2021 9:17 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > > > I have a couple stand alone ESXi servers (6.5.0). I'm trying to move > > > a 30GB server image from one server to another. Trying to download > > > the VM machine image file onto my desktop with VCenter, it gets about > > > 80% done and times out. Same with trying Veeam backup tools. It > > > throws an error after about 80%. I'm running an SCP transfer now, but > > > it's only running at about 300Kb/s (Searching online, I guess SCP and > > > ESXi is artificially slow for some reason) so I won't know if it > > > completes for another day. > > > > > > Is there anything that I'm missing to get the VMImage off the physical > > > hardware? I've moved lots of VMImages before just like this, and > > > never had a problem. The Virtual server is shut down while I'm trying > > > to move the image files. > > > > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
