Convert iSCSI to a VMDK?

[jsteppe]

Does anyone know how to convert a iSCSI lun connection to a vmdk? I want to convert all my iSCSI's to be a vmdk on my NFS.

Thanks for any input.

[ablej]

You could setup NFS on you're current ESX servers and use Storage vMotion to move the servers for the iSCSI Lun to the NFS share.

David Strebel

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[jsteppe]

Would that work with my setup..

I have a ESXi host running with the main vmdk on a NFS datastore and once that vm is running it will connect to the other drives via iSCSI. So now what I want to do is get each drive that is connected via iSCSI into its own NFS vmdk file. What I was going to do, but it failed was I created a NFS for the vm and once it was running I was going to use Acronis to image the iSCSI drive to the NFS drive, but Acronis doesn't support iSCSI drives. So with Storage vMotion will I be able to tell it what vmdk file to move the iSCSI into?

Thanks for your help...

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

Does anyone know how to convert a iSCSI lun connection to a vmdk?

Is a RDM disk? In this case you can use storage VMotion (or simply do a copy of your VM).

If is a disk connected with a initiator inside the VM, you have first to "convert" in a RDM disk.

Or you can use Converter or simply create a second disk (in vmdk format) and copy all the data from the iSCSI disk.

Andre

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