VMWare converter is very powerful tool to provide physical to virtual conversion. It’s quite easy to make P2V of Windows base servers. The last versions of VMware Converter claim to support P2V of Linux based servers. This is true, but there are limits. Linux server running sw raid (mdadm) is one of them. Here is [...]
Esx 4.0/4.1 might be not able to boot after reboot. It happens after update installation. Esx console says: Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0×83 uppermem 819200 kernel /vmlinuz ro root=UUID=ceadc074-b397-adcb-7b7604a8ab4a mem=800M quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup-0x1e00, size=0x179cdc] initrd /initrd.img Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue… Console snapshot: Quick look at [...]
/usr/sbin/vmkfstools -i testfed.vmdk -d thin tmp.vmdk /usr/sbin/vmkfstools -E tmp.vmdk testfed.vmdk