Copied VM to new Datastore

[daxm_m]

I have configured a new Datstore in my server, but whenever I copy a new VM from the old Datastore to the new:

It can not find all disks. I have once tried to copy locally via "cp" command and the second time via GUI. But same result. 

[a_p_]

Does the VM have snapshots?
Please note that "old" snaphots (-delta.vmdk files) are not supported on VMFS-6 datastores anymore. VMFS-6 only supports snapshot in the new "-sesparse.vmdk" file format.

If this is not the case here, then please post a complete file lis from the VM's folder, i.e. the text output of ls -lisa.

André

[daxm_m]

The datastores:

[root@esx01:/vmfs/volumes/612fa76a-65d53804-99e3-54b20307f135/kub-worker-1] ls -lisa

total 235647616

281018372 128 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77824 Sep 4 12:52 .

4 1024 drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 73728 Sep 4 14:10 ..

310378500 18744320 -rw------- 1 root root 19193548800 Sep 4 12:51 kub-worker-1-000001-delta.vmdk

297795588 0 -rw------- 1 root root 306 Sep 4 12:48 kub-worker-1-000001.vmdk

314572804 7168000 -rw------- 1 root root 7340032000 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1-Snapshot1.vmem

306184196 18432 -rw------- 1 root root 18070046 Sep 4 12:48 kub-worker-1-Snapshot1.vmsn

285212676 209715200 -rw------- 1 root root 214748364800 Sep 4 12:48 kub-worker-1-flat.vmdk

327155716 64 -rw------- 1 root root 8684 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1.nvram

301989892 0 -rw------- 1 root root 508 Sep 4 12:48 kub-worker-1.vmdk

348127236 0 -rw------- 1 root root 412 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1.vmsd

331350020 0 -rw------- 1 root root 3541 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1.vmx

318767108 0 -rw------- 1 root root 3508 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1.vmx.bak

322961412 0 -rw------- 1 root root 150 Sep 4 12:52 kub-worker-1.vmxf

343932932 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31576 Sep 4 12:52 vmware-16.log

339738628 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31656 Sep 4 12:52 vmware-17.log

356515844 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31656 Sep 4 12:52 vmware-18.log

352321540 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31656 Sep 4 12:52 vmware-19.log

293601284 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31656 Sep 4 12:48 vmware-20.log

289406980 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31818 Sep 4 12:48 vmware-21.log

335544324 64 -rw------- 1 root root 31904 Sep 4 12:52 vmware.log

[a_p_]

That's what I thought.
In order to migrate the VM to a VMFS6 datatsore, you either need to delete/consolidate the snapshot prior to the migration, or use the migration wizard (vCenter Server required) which takes care of the format change (delta <-> sesparse).

André

[daxm_m]

The old datastore was also VMFS6.