{"id":907,"date":"2013-08-28T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=907"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:39","slug":"vmware-converting-raw-disk-to-vmdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"VMware converting RAW disk to VMDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 200;\ngoogle_ad_height = 200;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"200x200_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p><strong>Convert a Vmware RDM disk to VMDK while guest VM is powered off<\/strong><br \/>\nPower down the guest VM<\/p>\n<p>Clone the VM, under select virtual disk format \u2013 select Advanced \u2013 change the disk format to Thick provisioned.   You only need to do this step for the RDM disk.  Completed the steps to create the clone, the RDM will be converted to VMDK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Convert RDM to VMDK using storage vMotion<\/strong><br \/>\nPower down the guest VM to convert the RAW disk from Physical compatibility mode to Virtual compatibility mode.  Skip this step if already in Virtual mode.<\/p>\n<p>Edit the settings and remove the RAW disk.  Select remove from virtual machine and delete files from disk.<br \/>\nAdd RAW disk back with virtual compatibility mode.  Click on Add disk \u2013 RAW device mappings \u2013 select RAW disk \u2013 store with virtual machine \u2013 virtual compatibility mode.<\/p>\n<p>Power on the VM.  Now you can storage vMotion the VM while it is powered on, this minimizes the down time.  Right click VM \u2013 Migrate \u2013 change datastore \u2013 advance \u2013 disk format is Thick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convert a Vmware RDM disk to VMDK while guest VM is powered off Power down the guest VM Clone the VM, under select virtual disk format \u2013 select Advanced \u2013 change the disk format to Thick provisioned. You only need&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=907\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}