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Moving VMDK files

Posted on February 25, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

If you don’t have vSphere installed, or don’t have Storage vMotion and want to move vCenter itself there are several ways, the “vmkfstools” from the commandline, V2V with VMware Converter or another P2V tool, or by using the vSphere client’s … Continue reading →

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Storage vMotion manual repair (ESX 3.5)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Two years ago (approx) VMware released Storage vMotion. At the time it was a remote-command-line-only utility and kind of rough. There were not many checks plus it had a bug that was triggered by another bug – for whatever reason, … Continue reading →

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