Oke thanx. I also executed another method: Online backup of the Windows 2008 R2 server with the standard backup tool. This is also creating an .VDH file. I've converted this to a .vmdk file and it succesfully created an 40 GB file (instead of 136 GB). Created a virtual machine and attached the .vmdk...

I’m getting the following error while converting the VHD file to an ESX .vmdk file: File I/O error (4) The source is from a Windows 2008 R2 physical server. The VHD file created by disk2vhd.exe, from sysinternals. The target format is: .vmdk VMware ESX server The disk is 136 GB, but I only selected ...