We have 3 ESXi 5.5 hosts with only about 5 VMs. One of the VMs has a Windows 2008 x86 server guest OS. The server has a C and a D drive. The C drive is 300 GB with about 125 in use. The D drive is about 600Gb total and almost half full. But for some reason this server is consuming about 1.8TB. When I start the V2V, it lets be select a minimum size of 137 or so for drive C, so I select about 200GB. But then the D volume gives me a minimum of some huge amount, much larger than the capacity of the disk. The VM was created by exporting a backup from Dell AppAssure (which I had tested previously and it had worked fine or so it seemed). I don't know why, but for some reason when I exported the server to the ESXi host, it took up 1800GB total. And whatever the issue is, it seems to only affect the D volume. Remember in the V2V, it let me pick a reasonable value to resize C to, but when I tried to resize D, (I wanted to select around 600GB), the minimum it let me select was some absurd amount like 1500 GB. I do not know if AppAssure caused it or if it had something to do with the physical server. Has anyone ever seen or heard of anything like this? I will post anything else I find out... I would be a lucky dog if someone could help bail me out on this one. Thanks in advance!
Sam
P.S. Upon further inspection, on the W 2008 guest OS, if you look in "Computer", it shows the 2 disks and their respective capacities - C - 300, D - 600 (roughly). But if you open Disk Management, it shows C (disk 0) to be 400 GB and D to be around 1.5 TB. I believe when it was a physical box it had 4 1TB SATA disks in a RAID 10 array. So it would have had a couple TB total capacity. Not sure how it got like this but it sure is wasting a ton of space. Not sure how to fix it but I might have to convert it back to Physical and then back to virtual. Again, huge thanks for any suggestions.