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Hot-Convert Issue

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coolrunnings

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Yesterday I did a hot-convert of my office accounting server. It has about 100gb of space used. The original drive was a 500gb and since I didn't need all that space, I told VMWare Converter (v5) to shrink the drive to 200gb on my ESXi server. I have my datastore on an NFS volume shared from an OpenIndiana box. Here's where it gets wierd: it made 2 VMDK files that are different sizes if you look at them browsing the datastore. However, if you look at them on the NFS share, they are each taking 200gb. I am trying to figure out the following:
1. Why didn't put it in a single file.
2. Why is it taking up 400gb of space instead of 200gb.

Any ideas? Also a side note: any files I copy to that NFS share from my windows box (it's also shared via SMB) don't show up to ESXi in the datastore browser. They are accessible from all other clients though.
 
Sometimes there is a vmdk file and vmdk_flat file, which appear as one in the datastore browser. Perhaps try doing an SvMotion to somewhere else to clean everything up and see if that helps.

You can also view the settings on the virtual machine to see what VMDK file the actual virtual disk is pointing to. Perhaps you inadvertently resized the data volume and an extraneous boot volume to 200 GB during the P2V process...

Regarding the "hidden" files, it may have to do with NTFS/Unix permissions as you are sharing the files over both NFS and CIFS concurrently...
 
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