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)
started having the same issue with esxi7u3 😞
Has this got anything to do with vSphere Replication, or did you just post in the wrong area of the Communities?
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
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.