My company has a client that is trying to upload our VMDK file to his datastore. When he uploads the file, the size is reduced from 7.6 GB to 4.4 GB. When we try to boot up the VM, it runs into fatal boot errors and drops into the initramfs prompt (it's an Ubuntu 32-bit system).
We are not very familiar with VMware ourselves but have had several clients import our VMDK file into their VMware system and successfully boot up. It seems very strange that the file shrinks so much during the upload. We have since tested on another VMware system and did not see any file size reduction.
I believe the client is using ESXi 6.0 (I will confirm the version asap). The client's IT guy said they also use Nexenta software. I'm not familiar with that tool but it seems to be some sort of backup/storage solutions so I'm thinking it may be relevant to this issue.
I've seen several posts mentioning a 4GB upload limit for IE, but the resulting file size in our case is bigger than 4 GB and I believe the IT guy was using Chrome. There were no errors when we uploaded (at least none that appeared conspicuously).
Has anyone run into this type of upload issue with the datastore?