Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter
Jan17

Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter

KB ID 0000185 Problem Using: vSphere 6.7 and VMware Standalone Converter Version 6.2.0 I’m performing this procedure on vSphere 6.7, back ith the release of vSphere 5, This process changed, with vSphere 4 and VI3, you had to install VMware Converter on the vCenter Server then download and enable the plugin in your VI client software (like this). VMware now only has the “standalone converter”, so now you DONT install...

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Migrate a VM from vCenter to Azure
Jan27

Migrate a VM from vCenter to Azure

KB ID 0001510 Problem Last time we looked at migrating from vCenter to Hyper-V, now we will use the MVMC (Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter) to take a VMware (vCenter) virtual machine and convert/upload it to Microsoft Azure. Note: MVMC is not ‘officially’ supported and this procedure requires you to create some ‘legacy’ (for legacy in Azure read ‘classic’) ways of doing things. So this might not...

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Conversion Error ‘Unsupported Disk Database Entry’
Jan23

Conversion Error ‘Unsupported Disk Database Entry’

KB ID 0001508 Problem Seen when attempting to convert a VMware disk (.vmdk) file to a Microsoft disk (.vhd or .vhdx) with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter encountered an error while attempting to convert the virtual machine. Details: The entry “{value}’ is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor. If you click on the ‘Log’ link you will see something line...

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Resizing Windows Volumes  / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX
Nov17

Resizing Windows Volumes / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX

KB ID 0000381  Problem This article is primarily geared towards making your guest virtual machines hard drives LARGER, If you want to SHRINK or make the drive smaller then see the following article. Resizing Guest Hard Drives using the VMware Converter Solution Re sizing a Guests Hard Drive (Make it larger) 1. On the properties of the VM select the hard disk in question and locate its size. 2. Enter the new size and hit OK. Note:...

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VMware ESXi – Converting ‘Thick’ Provisioned Drives to ‘Thin’, and ‘Thin’ to ‘Thick’
Nov17

VMware ESXi – Converting ‘Thick’ Provisioned Drives to ‘Thin’, and ‘Thin’ to ‘Thick’

KB ID 0000579  Problem Thin provisioning of hard drives is pretty cool stuff, full support for thin provisioning was brought in with vSphere version 4. Put simply a thin proviosioned drive is as big as it needs to be, and a thick provisioned drive is set to its maximum size when it’s created. The virtual machines that use these hard drives don’t know, and assume that their hard drive is a set size (even if it is thin...

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