can't inflate vmdk

[pfuhli]

Hi there,

I've got a VMDK file which I assume has been created using VMware Workstation. This VMDK is in thin format.

I copied the file to a VMFS volume which is accessible to my ESX 3.5 boxes.

When I try to inflate the disk I've got the following message:

vmkfstools -j DWHULE_E.vmdk

The virtual disk (DWHULE_E.vmdk) cannot be inflated type: <2>, capacity: <268435456000>, space used: <50275221504>.

The VMFS volume has 551GB of free space.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

daniel

[AntonVZhbankov]

Looks like you hit VMFS datastore file limit size - maximum VMDK size for VMFS with 1MB block is 256GB.

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[pfuhli]

Ahh, thanks for that suggestion. I'll try to create another VMFS Vol with a larger Blocksize...

[pfuhli]

Hi Anton,

I checked the block size of this volume and it is 8MB. So it seems that this might not be the issue 😕

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

Oh, just missed that you copied it. Use VMware Converter to convert Workstation VM to ESX VM.

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[pfuhli]

Thanks, that worked