See attachment for vdiskmanager preliminary test results.
One issue I was not able to reproduce was a consistent crash of a 20GB VMDK at 44%... I think it was either a type 1 or 3 and was being cloned from NTFS to VMFS. The logs don't go back that far but I will try to reproduce this problem.
Clone disk to VMFS:
Clone disk from VMFS:
Cloning an IDE disk to SCSI:
Cloning a version 7 disk to version 4:
One issue I was not able to reproduce was a consistent crash of a 20GB VMDK at 44%... I think it was either a type 1 or 3 and was being cloned from NTFS to VMFS. The logs don't go back that far but I will try to reproduce this problem.
Clone disk to VMFS:
vmware-vdiskmanager -r "<local_source_disk>.vmdk" -t 4 -h <remote_host_IP_address> -u <user> -f PWD.FILE "[target_datastore] <VMname>/<target_disk>.vmdk"
Clone disk from VMFS:
vmware-vdiskmanager -S -h <remote_host_IP address> -u <user> -f PWD.FILE -r "[source_datastore] <VMname>/<source_disk>.vmdk" -t <disk_type> "<local_target_disk>.vmdk"
<disk_type>
0 = growable, single file
1 = growable, 2GB split
2 = preallocated, single file
3 = preallocated, 2GB split
4 = preallocated, VMFS
5 = compressed
Cloning an IDE disk to SCSI:
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Cloning a version 7 disk to version 4:
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Attachments:
- VDISKMANAGER_CLONETESTS.xls (33.5 K)
- VDISKMANAGER_CLONETESTS.pdf (13.8 K)
