Can ESX resolve my issue? Convert Spanned Dynamic disk to Basic Help needed.

[mouradb]

First of all, this is not an ESX issue but ESX is implicated in it and maybe can resolve my issue, Sorry for the SPAM VMware Community


Here is my scenario;
Windows 2008 server on a VM
Two VM disks;


Disk1 > OS >Basic


Disk2> Data and an Installed Application.> Basic


Durng the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some
space to the Disk2.
Created a new disk (disk3), converted it to a Dynamic volum and added
this to disk 2 (disk 2 also converted to Dynamic volume) and for some
reason these now are spanned volumes.
just like an IDOT, I haven't taken any snapshot of this before I've made
the changes.
My question, is there a way I can re-convert this again to Basic?
I don't want to delete and recreate the disk volumes because of the
application installed on the disk 2


Any solution or tips I can use?

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[RParker]

Simply right clicking the disk and making it "basic" should work.

dynamic disks just means the disks can be raided, basic disks cannot. But BOTH can be in a snapshot. The snapshot is at the ESX level make sure the vmdk disk is NOT persistent and snapshot should work.

So realistically you don't need to convert it, but you should still be able to revert it basic if you remove it from the spanned volumes. So if you have data on the spanned volumes, you may not be able to convert it back because you have to first break the span.

So rebuild may be your only option.