Hi,
Something pretty strange happened to us today. In order to migrate from VMWARE SERVER 2 to ESXi when needed to convert from growable virtual disks split in 2gb files to a single file. We used vmware-vdiskmanager -r source.vmdk -t 0 destination.vmdk. All the convertions went OK.
Once we start a virtual machine, we noticed some data missing. In fact, the content of the virtual mas 4 month old. We converted 10 virtual machines and that happened to us in 4 of them (2 on each server).
In order to reproduce the error, I copy vmdk from a backup to the server. I checked for current data and it was OK. I convert the disk but I keept the original. Once again the data was missing. I delete the disks, created new one and pointed to the OLD non-converted disks. The data was ALSO missing.
This was like the disk was not having the data writed to it or something like that. In the other hand, could this be a major bug in the conversion process? (not likely).
Any ideas what went wrong?
Regards
Hernán.
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