ESXi Migration with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone - 971

I showed your video to my wife, she said, do that I leave the home lol

Sorry bro this not how VMFS works... Once blocks are allocated in thin provisioning i.e data is written by VM..those blocks are allocated to that VM. Disk doesn't shrinks on it's own as data is still there. it's just whenever you delete some data only index / reference / pointer(depends on file system) is removed not the actual data.. Actual data is deleted only one zeroing is performed on those bits.... In this case NFS is a better option because it stores data in form of files not blocks. As I can see you are using DAS and iSCSI so SAN and NAS are out of option..

If all the hosts were doing shared storage. You could remove the VM from Inventory on 1 host and host 2 just browse the Datastore and right click the .vmx import it Ghetto vMotion. Or Ghetto Cloning Turn the VM off browse the datastore Download the Folder Named the VM and Upload it to the new host also works.

Thank you!, lol I'm doing this at work now, trying to go from 6.7 to 7.0. any experience with remote authentication? SAML, or LDAP? And then to Azure? Awesome video as always!

First week off in 35 years? That'll kill your mechanic, Morten. o.0
I bet he'll use the time to give his garage fresh paint or so. Some people just can't stop doing stuff, or there's a bright flash and a loud bang, and they are gone.

I'm curious as to why you would stuff around for hours and hours to "save " a few Gb of storage, while doing all of this on stupid small hard drive in a totally unsafe JBOD configuration. You already lost one ancient 146Gb drive. Why would you not have thrown 3 or 4 300Gb SAS drives into the newer server and then the space wouldn't have been an issue.

4 myself... i use this on my windows VMs :
- defrag + compact first.... and :
C:\>sdelete64 -z c:
inside the VM ... replacing free space with 0... here for the C:
(GG is U'r friend for this awesome free software ;)

Next... switch off the VM and launch :
VBoxManage modifymedium disk --compact MyOwesomeDiskOfMyVM.vdi
Wait... And that's it.
Spoiler : it's for VirtuaBox.. BUT! sure that can exist for VMware.
The size of the VM is like 80Gb before... 17Gb after.
Taking time... having a Bud .... ^^

Hi Morton, wouldn't it be better just to work with fixed sized vmdk's? That way you'll never be surprised.
That 2008 DC and W7 vm's should better be migrated to higher versions for support and security reasons.

Why internet explorer

Well thank you! I was running into shadow writer issues doing it from the client and tried the route you showed and its processing! Thanks mang!

Very interesting. Thanks so much for the video.

Thanks for the video, will be doing this soon as my 16 sas drives arrive for my new Lenovo server :P

This is cool and I recommend everyone to watch to the end

Search for command line commands in the Esxii Consol for shrinking to drive

If you are running thin vms, why not use ghettovcb to backup to the ssd, then restore from the ssd to the new esxi box?

Maybe do a video about upgrading the Domain Controller to server 2019?

Can’t you just use vMotion?

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