Otherwise, post responses here.įirstly thank you for taking the time to respond. This might be easier to do offline, feel free to email me at jonmkohler AT gmail DOT com and I would be happy to give you a hand with this. Third, What were you using to get backups of the VMs previously? This might get you in the right direction very fast and would be easy to test on one of the smaller VM's if you had any tiny ones. You will need to make these VMs as VM hardware version 4 (NOT 7) and take a "best guess" as to what type of hardware they had for network card, scsi card, etc. If you DONT have the VMX files (and just the VMDK's) AND you were running ESX 3.x, you can remake the VMX file by making a NEW vm on the ESXi 4.x server and attaching the old VMDK file to it. Converter needs the VMX file to know how many CPUs the VM had, what hard driver controller it had, etc to do a proper conversion. Secondly, Do you JUST have the VMDK files? or do you have the accompanying VMX files as well? If you don't have the VMX's, you have headaches on multiple levels.
You can use VMware Converter to do this and save yourself a TON of headaches.įirst off, what version of VMware were you PREVIOUSLY using to host VM's? VMware Server? VMware GSX? VMware ESX 2-3.5? VMware Workstation? Is there another solution I could look at Is there a way to optimise the network transfers maybe?ĥ. Is there a way to change the NTFS drive to a readable format by ESXi (ext3/resierfs/something) without losing the dataĤ. Is there an offline converter for VMDK files?ģ. Is the really not anyway to mount an NTFS drive (not USB) under ESXi - that way I could just convert from the backup drive to the datastore (nice and easy)Ģ. Firstly I have to get them on to the ESXi server in the first instance, and since we are looking at about 5Tb of data it is going to take FOREVER (been running for 2 days now - still nowhere near complete) and the second is even if I do get them onto the server, I will need another 5Tb of drive space to convert them into, which I don't have.ġ. I know I can convert them using vmkfstools (with the -i switch from memory) but I have two problems with this. The problem I have is that the VMDK files I have are the older version so not compatible with the curernt ESXi. However, the backups I have of the old machines are on NTFS formatted drives (not USB, they are in our backup machine) which means that they are unable to be mounted (as far as I can tell) under ESXi.
We have recently had a server failure and I have decided to rebuild the server and put ESXi 4 on it.
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