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yardster
yardster

Reputation: 37

VMWARE Seperated Snapshot Disk disk files will now not work

I have ended up with a stange problem where I have moved a Virtual Disk file across to another data store as the snapshots filled up the existing datastore to the extent that the VM failed to boot.

I am now in a scenario where the Virtual Disk fails to boot stating the message "The Parent of this virtual disk could not be opened" I can not download or move the location as it bugs out. Is there away I can restore or flaten a Virtual disk file in our example it is called "bird-serve-000002.vmkd"

any advice or guidence is appreciated.

Thank you for your time

Andrew.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5603

Answers (1)

Evan Powell
Evan Powell

Reputation: 960

Each snapshot file is two actual files: one small .vmdk and one larger -delta.vmdk. The plain .vmdk is a text file. If you open that file, you will find that it has a path to it's parent file - this is the link that has been broken. You'll have to readjust the links to point to the parent (wherever it went) to get it to work again.

Once you've done that, you can flatten or Storage vMotion any of the disk files around. Just don't move them manually, or you'll break the links again!

Upvotes: 1

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