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ccie4481
Contributor
Contributor

Unable to change disk size

All of my appliance images that are usng scsi disks, when i use the converter to convert from Workstation 5 to ESX, it shows the disk as unknown and i cant change the disk size.

Any one know what i can do to be allowed to change the disk size?

TIA

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rriva
Expert
Expert

Are your appliance Linux or Windows VM ?

Bye

R

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theanykey
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Chances are your OS is unsupported (for converter).

Try winSCP'ing your vmdk file(s) to ESX /vmfs

Run the command "vmkfstools -i" to convert the workstation VM to an ESX VM.

Moving Virtual Disks to or from ESX Server

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/900

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