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Recreate header/descriptor vmdk files & recover failed Storage VMotion (DMotion)

By On 13 November 2008 · Leave a Comment

I had a another problem with Storage VMotion yesterday and found out a couple of interesting things.

Firstly, there is a now a Knowledge Base article explaining how to recreate vmdk header files if they are missing.  This was news to me, so here’s the link:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004232

Secondly, was discovering a sightly different [...]

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Problems with Storage VMotion

By On 14 July 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve been using the new Storage VMotion functionality fairly heavily over the last couple of months.  I have encountered a couple of significant bugs whilst using it, which have resulted in corrupted VMDK files.  Here are my two tips when using Storage VMotion, to avoid the problems I have seen:

Ensure that you have sufficient [...]

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