Recreating VMDK

How to create a .vmdk from flat.vmdk?

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In this post I'm going to Show how to recreate a vmdk file from a flat.vmdk.

Run from esxcli df -h here you can find the volume where you virtual machine reside.

so, run ls -l for identify your virtual machine

Here you need to run this command: ls -l yourvirtualmachinename-flat.vmdk this output show the virtual disk size.

After that you need to execute this command: vmkfstools -c 4294967296 (this the virtual disk size) -a lsilogic -d thin temp.vmdk

Here you need to execute this command: mv temp.vmdk yourvirtualmachinename.vmdk

Here execute this command vi yourvirtualmachinename.vmdk

Take Note: You should execute this command in the virtual machine directory.

After just exit and start your virtual machine.

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