Guys a newbie in Virtualization needs your help.
I tried converting a physical server with 16GB (Basic/Raid-1) and 370GB (Dynamic/Raid-5) partitions. I opted to increase the size of the 16GB partition to 40GB and the 370GB decreased to 240GB as it only ever uses up to 160GB and also due to the fact that the host was formatted with 1MB blocksize thereby limiting me to 255GB max. I also chose the default thick provisioning. During the conversion, the first partition completed okay but immediately failed on the 2nd one. The conversion status said 'Cannot format volume' while the log highlight offered 'Unable to clone volume D'. Now another issue is that the datastore on my ESX has shrunk by 280GB which is the total of the 2 resized partitions. What is the best way to recover this disk space? I am also thinking the reason why volume D failed is because of the data that could possibly be residing after the 1st 240GB on the volume (pardon me if this a farfetched idea). I am trying to defragment the volume anyway. But before I retry the conversion, I want to make sure that I wont run to the same issue again and also have the disk space reclaimed first. So I hope you can give some valuable inputs to do this right. Thanking you in advance.