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ESX 3.01 Upgrade preupgrade.pl

We are planning an upgrade from 2.5.2 to 3.01. We ran the preupgrade perl script amd get the following errors on our SAN volumes where we have running VM's, any suggestions?

\[root@esx3 scripts]# perl ./preupgrade.pl

Checking existing VMs...

Checking VM versions...

Checking for repeatable resume...

Checking Service Console disk space...

Checking VMFS disk space...

ERROR: The following VMFS volumes require at least 1200 MB

ERROR: of free disk space to upgrade:

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:0:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:10:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:11:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:12:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:13:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:14:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:15:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:16:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:18:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:19:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:1:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:3:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:4:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:5:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:6:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:7:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:8:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:0:9:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:12:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:13:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:14:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:14:2

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:15:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:16:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:18:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:21:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:23:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:23:2

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:23:3

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:23:4

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:24:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:26:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:27:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:28:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:2:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:33:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:34:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:35:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:4:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:5:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:5:2

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:5:3

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:5:4

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:6:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:6:2

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:6:3

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:6:4

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:7:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:8:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:9:1

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:9:2

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:9:3

ERROR: * vmhba1:1:9:4

ERROR: * vmhba1:3:36:3

ERROR: * vmhba1:3:36:5

ERROR: * vmhba1:3:36:6

ERROR: * vmhba1:3:36:7

ERROR: * vmhba1:3:36:8

ERROR: * vmhba2:0:17:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:0:29:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:0:30:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:0:32:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:17:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:20:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:21:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:22:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:23:1

ERROR: * vmhba2:2:24:1

Checking VMFS version compatibility...

Checking device names...

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It looks like you do not have enough free space on your VMFS Volumes to convert them to VMFS3.

Were you planning on doing an in-place upgrade?

Looks like you may need to do a migration upgrade to at least on ESX host to free up VMFS space.

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