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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • November 5, 2024

5 Ways to Extract Data from a VMDK When Your VM Fails 

A failed VM doesn’t have to mean lost data. Explore 5 methods to access and recover the data stored in a VMDK file, using both built-in VMware tools and third-party solutions.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • July 8, 2024

How to shrink VMDK with a couple of PowerShell scripts?

While extending a VMDK file is a fairly easy task that can be performed right in Disk Manager, shrinking a virtual disk is a bit tricky. And, you need to be really careful because unless done properly, reducing virtual disk size may cause data loss! Sure, you can just use VMware Converter to make a VMDK smaller, but, for my money, it is always better to have a script at hand. In this article, I’ll discuss how to shrink virtual disks with 2 simple PowerShell scripts.
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Daryna Havrada
  • Daryna Havrada
  • May 9, 2023

How to Convert Hyper-V to KVM VM 

While fulfilling essentially the same functions, various hypervisors have different pros and cons. Sometimes, depending on requirements, one may need to convert a VM from one format to another.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 28, 2023

Recreating VMDK descriptor files for disks and their snapshots in VMware vSphere virtual machines

One of the reasons for such an error is that the disk descriptor file for the VM disk is either corrupted or missing. Fortunately, you can follow a straightforward process to recreate .vmdk descriptor files.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 30, 2021

VMware Multi-Writer Option for VMDK Disks in VMware vSphere for Clustering Solutions

Everything is a bit too complicated when it comes to vSphere, and this feature is no exception. While configuring vSphere clusters, your VMs may need to be accessed by various hosts simultaneously or several VMs in a cluster need to write at once within the same host. Sounds quite routine, but there are several “hoops” to jump through to set that up properly.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • January 16, 2018

Choosing proper V2V converter for smooth VM migration

Migrating your VMs from one hypervisor to another may be a bit of a challenge if you don’t have some decent virtual machine converter at hand. Different hypervisors have their own proprietary VM formats: VMDK, VHD and VHDX, QCOW, you name it. The problem is that one VM format can be not supported on other platforms. In this case, a V2V converter is a must-have. Now, the question arises: which converter should I choose?
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