I have an ESX VM with 2 disks --- for instance , disk 1 in SSD 240 and disk 2 in SSD 480
I want to move to another disks
copy/Move disk 1 to the the same host to the disk SSD 960
disk 1 at this moment - filename: windows 10-000002.vmdk
and
copy/Move disk 2 to the the same host to the disk SSD 2 TB
disk 2 at this moment - filename: windows 10_1.vmdk
I know how to copy , but after copying I have to edit the .VMX file ? theres .vmx , .vmxf and .vmx~
Which one edit ?
Here's the full list of files I have now in my VM:
DISK 1::
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528.3K Aug 5 16:45 vmware-10.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418.5K Oct 15 2021 vmware-5.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932.6K Feb 14 2022 vmware-6.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389.5K Feb 14 2022 vmware-7.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6M Sep 27 2022 vmware-8.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M Jul 24 15:46 vmware-9.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Aug 21 13:15 vmware.log
-rw------- 1 root root 170.0M Aug 5 16:54 vmx-windows 10-750400100-1.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 23.7G Sep 26 2022 windows 10-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 325 Sep 21 2022 windows 10-000001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 197.7G Aug 21 14:52 windows 10-000002-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 332 Aug 21 05:04 windows 10-000002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 20.0G Aug 20 23:42 windows 10-2cba3264.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 31.0K Sep 21 2022 windows 10-Snapshot53.vmsn
-rw------- 1 root root 31.0K Sep 26 2022 windows 10-Snapshot54.vmsn
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Aug 21 05:05 windows 10-aux.xml
-rw------- 1 root root 500.0G Sep 21 2022 windows 10-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8.5K Aug 21 05:05 windows 10.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 502 Sep 21 2022 windows 10.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 778 Aug 21 05:05 windows 10.vmsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.4K Aug 21 05:05 windows 10.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 5 16:51 windows 10.vmx.lck
-rw------- 1 root root 3.1K Aug 20 23:59 windows 10.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Aug 21 05:05 windows 10.vmx~
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DISK 2:
-rw------- 1 root root 440.0G Aug 21 14:54 windows 10_1-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 476 Aug 21 05:05 windows 10_1.vmdk
With - what I assume - ESXi 6.x, thin provisioned virtual disks, and snapshots which likely cause "SSD 240" to fill up, I'd suggest the following steps, which also assume that you do not need the snapshots anymore.
If everything works as expected, you can then delete the two folders on the original datastores.
André
EDIT: Inserted step 9, which is necessary due to the snapshot consolidation.
Thank very much
I will try all the steps you provided (in the order you sent)
Thank you very much again
Please note that I've added step 9 to the previously posted task list.
André