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unit9419
Sep 19, 2014Aspirant
Large thin-provisioned VMDKs won't copy f/ Pro 4 to ESXi 5.5
We are using a ReadyNAS Pro 4 as off-line backup of VMs and to move VMs between 2 sites. Running RAIDiator 4.2.26 and ESXi 5.5. Using NFS. We copied a bunch of VMs to the NAS at site 1. Sent it to...
unit9419
Sep 23, 2014Aspirant
Hi everyone, I think we found the solution in case this happens to anyone else. The source host's datastore for this VM is VMFS5. The target host's datastore was VMFS3 with 1mb block size which limits vmdk size to 256gb. Very quick upgrade to VMFS5 (flip a switch) and it looks like the copy is now working!
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