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w00ten
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‎08-30-2007 09:40 AM

WS6 to ESX3 Conversion with Local drive as destination

Due to a performance problem on our ESX/VCenter environment I cannot get converter to successfully convert an image into the environment. Is there any way I can convert the image to ESX format, but have it place the image on a local drive so I can copy it over manually into our storage?

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Immortal
Immortal
‎08-30-2007 09:44 AM

Workstation and ESX Server use different disk formats. Workstation 6 also has a higher hardware level than ESX Server 3.

You'll need to use Converter inside WS6 and create a WS5 VM, and select the 2GB-file option. Then you can copy these files over to ESX Server and then run vmkfstools to import the .vmdk files into ESX Server's VMFS format.

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continuum
Immortal
Immortal
‎08-30-2007 12:13 PM

>>> Workstation and ESX Server use different disk formats.

That is not the full story - in reality you can directly exchange the monolithicFlat format of WS 6 with ESX 3. It just needs a small edit. You do not even need vmkfstools to import it ...

Never mind - this is of course not supported Smiley Wink


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