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trieu-huynh2022
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Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

When I move (or copy) a VM from ESXi host to a location on my local PC, I kept getting this error:
"Failed to create disk: E:\Server7\Server7_BU-disk3.vmdk. Reason: One of the parameters supplied is invalid"

I tried to shrink down Server7 so the back up VM will be lower than 2TB but I still get this error.

Server7 has 3 hard disk:
. Hard disk 1: 60GB (thin provision)
. Hard disk 2: 250 GB (thin provision)
. Hard disk 3: 3TB (thin provision)

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phoenicyan
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started having the same issue with esxi7u3 😞

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scott28tt
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Has this got anything to do with vSphere Replication, or did you just post in the wrong area of the Communities?

 


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a_p_
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Can you confirm that you have 3 TB free disk space available on your PC?
Remember that Thin Provisioning is a VMFS file system feature. and copying thin provisioned files may inflate them to their provisioned size on the target.

André

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continuum
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Before you start the copy operation you better convert the vmdks to a less space-eating format.
vmkfstools -i 3tb.vmdk ws-compatible-split-sparse.vmdk -d 2gbsparse
When done download ws-compatible-split-sparse.vmdk to your Windows host.

 


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