@olivierlambert Sorry for my lately response but this is not an option for me (I had researched the V2V solution, it's good but it requires at least 2 pieces of hardware to complete the transition). I have only 1 server working as a level 1 hypervisor and one simple HP to manage my backups. I was able to extract all of the VMDK images from my ESXI and was successfully able to setup my XCP-NG with Xen Orchestra.

However, since I'm new to this community and especially Xen architecture I've been having some issues regarding the storage of my virtual disks. To my understanding if I were to upload (import) any VMDK image it would automatically convert that disk to .VHD (which is also good and simplifies a lot the process).

Storage Respository (SR) is a very new concept to me, I was able to mount EXT disk to see how XOA processes each imported file but I find it a bit complicated to do the same thing without XO, cause files I'm interested in uploading are bigger than 1TB and attempting to upload those big files through a browser would just bring even more hurdles along the way.

Could you please point me in the right direction so I could start attempting to upload bigger files.

P.S. My secondary machine that manages backups also serves as an ISO SR and is connected to my XCP NG via SMB/CIFS. I also mounted another drive (with some virtual disks already preloaded )to XCP NG using NFS but the XOA/XCPNG-Center do not see them when I move those files to a created folder (guess its due to missing UUID not making those files visible to those clients)

Thank you very much!!!

Re: Unable to import vmdk Error: not a VMDK file

Hello,
I was planning to change virtualisation platfroms from VMWare ESXi to XCP-NG and since I'm new to XEN and everything related to XCP-NG I don't really know how to migrate my virtual disks from VMDK to VHD. As I understand OVF format usually takes care of all the necessary conversions.

All the virtual machines have been exported to OVF but since I have very big virtual disks (1TB+) I feel it would be very taxing on my home network to download those images via a web browser. Also, my esxi crashes when under heavy network load, which is why I decided to switch to XCP-NG.

I've seen a similar problem in another post, so I just need to know whether it's possible to convert disks or, at the very least, mount them to a VM so I can move files from the VMDK disk to a VHD.

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I'm going to add some pointers just in case people don't know what the difference between -flat.vmdk and .vmdk files are on ESXi machines.

• DISKNAME.vmdk is a file descriptor that contains all of the vital information such as, size, encoding, unique identifier, and so on, about your base image which in the case of VMWare is -flat.vmdk

• DISKNAME-flat.vmdk is a file that contains all of the data you store on your virtual disks but your VM won't run if you have a missing descriptor file, hence the issue a previous poster had encountered when trying to convert his disk image.

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Thanks in advance!