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rreynol
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Cold migrate VM from vmfs3 to nfs

Is there anyway to move a VM from a vmfs3 volume to an nfs volume?

If I try a cold migration on VC 2.0.2 build 61426 and ESX 3.0.2 build 63195 it errors out after about 2% complete with the error:

The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format.

If I try to use vmkfstools -i to clone the disk, using either the thick or thin format, it errors out at 2% with the error:

Clone: 2% done. Failed to clone disk : Input/output error (327689)

I am able to create new VMs on the NFS mount so I know that is working.

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Feltrek
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Yes you should be able to do cold Migration from VMFS to NFS.

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thomps01
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If these migration methods are failing, you could try VMware Converter

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