Question : VMWare Converter Standalone Error to Convert

Hello,

My vCenter server is running on a Virtual Machine on one of my hosts. My goal is to resize its disk because I would like to activate the Fault Tolerance for that VM. The VM has 100GB using thin disks and I would like to resize it to 25GB because with the Fault Tolerance enabled I know it will convert it to thick and I dont want to use that amount if I just need like 10GB for the VMWare VM.

The way I found to do this was using VMWare Converter Standalone to resize the disk. The problem is I tried dozen times to convert that VM and the software always fails. I have realized that every time it fails I lose access to the vSphere client connected to the ESXi destination I am sending the VM to (I was connected with vSphere to the server destination while running the Standalone converting the VM).

Anybody have any ideas ? I have the logs with me but I dont know which one to post. If its useful for you, let me know which one and I will attach it here.

Thank you very much.

Guilherme

Answer : VMWare Converter Standalone Error to Convert

  1. Shutdown the virtual machine you want to resize
   2. Add a second virtual disk of the new smaller desired size to the VM you want to resize to. Use Ghost to clone the first disks partition to your second virtual disk
   3. Once complete make sure the second virtual disk is ‘Active’
   4. Switch your disks by editing the virtual machine settings and switching the SCSI id’s (0:0 and 0:1)
   5. If the virtual machine boots OK and you verify that everything works then shutdown the VM and remove the larger disk and delete it