VM image converter (VMDK, VHD, VHDX, IMG, RAW, QCOW and QCOW2), P2V migrator
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fractal6969
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Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:32 pm
I am trying to convert a VMDK to VHDX. I am doing this with a locally copied VMDK since vSphere 6.5 is yet to be supported.
When I get to the portion of where the VHDX files are to be stored it gives me the local disk of the Hyper-v host. Is it possible to save the converted files to a file share? We are using file shares for our storage in hyper-v....not the local hyper-v disk.
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Fractal6969
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Oleg(staff)
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Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:52 am
You should be able to save the converted files to a file share. You need to assign a letter to this share in order to have this possibility.
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fractal6969
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Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:22 pm
We mapped a drive to the hyper-v host trying both "net use" and "New-PSDrive" making the drive persistent. No go. We can still only see the Local Disk under the Datastore section of the hyper-v host.
Thoughts?
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Oleg(staff)
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Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:52 am
You can also try to start V2V from Hyper-V host and try conversion in a local file. The share should be available in this way.
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fractal6969
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Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:31 pm
The application installs properly on a Windows 2016 core server. I ran a conversion from the 2016 server where the file share exists and it still only shows the local disk (C:\).
Ideas?
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Oleg(staff)
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Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:27 pm
Could you please run Diskpart tool?
What is the result of List volumes?
Please share the results of this command, are you able to see the letter of share?
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fractal6969
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Thu Dec 06, 2018 5:37 pm
Good morning, Oleg. When I run a list volume in diskpart it only shows 2 volumes...0 & 1. That is the c:\ drive and the system reserved drive. It doesn't show the persistent drive that we created (location of where the VM needs to go).
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Oleg(staff)
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Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:50 am
Hi,
Yes, I have news. This possibility should be added to the next build of V2V converter, should be released till the end of this month.
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fractal6969
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Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:18 pm
That is great news! I will be a huge benefit to those that have large server blade farms with very little local disk. Thanks for all you guys are doing!
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fractal6969
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Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:18 pm
Good morning, Oleg. I'd be more than willing to test out a beta version of the software to make sure that the ability exists to use file shares. Let me know!
thx