Comments on: How to Move the COS (esxconsole.vmdk) in VMware ESX 4 (vSphere)

By: Avram Woroch

Avram Woroch — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:23:23 +0000

Thank you sir. Those steps worked like a dream, and I’ve shared with my internal team your tricks!

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:50:53 +0000

Hi AJ – Glad the info helped. Sounds like you had some good foresight to go looking for info before choosing a disk.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:54:33 +0000

I am glad this post existed because it saved me alot of admin time on some ESX hosts wherein I THOUGHT it would have been a better idea for me to save the COS to a shared disk!

Thank you much!

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:42:34 +0000

Glad it helped – the dread you felt was the same I felt at the prospects of redoing everything as well. Hopefully VMware releases this (or another GUI based) solution for people who are stuck in this boat. It seems silly to make people go through so much work needlessly.

By: Groone

Groone — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:39:59 +0000

Thanks for this. I have 4 servers I need to reclaim auto made primary datastores on so this is going to make my life simple. I dreaded the idea of having to reinstall esx and reset up resource pools and stuff. Thanks!

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:46:28 +0000

Glad it worked – and thanks for the info about the iSCSI drives being missing, good to know. I will update the article, thanks Jim.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:38:24 +0000

Hey Toni, thanks for the great article, it came in very handy for me. One thing of note is that upon the first reboot while my local storage and FC LUNs showed up, the iSCSI ones did not. Luckily in my case I was moving it from FC to local so it was no big deal, but it may be an issue for others.

By: Virtualization Short Take #37 | Free Techie Blog

Virtualization Short Take #37 | Free Techie Blog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:37:59 +0000

[...] Westbrook has a good article on how to move the COS VMDK in VMware ESX 4.0. Key note: this solution is currently unsupported by VMware, so use at your own [...]

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:23:34 +0000

Yeah, Update Manager is truly awesome – and it sounds like those files are indeed related to upgrading. Glad everything went okay!

By: Alfred

Alfred — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:24:12 +0000

Hi Toni

first i done it like you and it works fine

I do the Upgrade from 3.5 to 4 by using the Update Manager and i found it very easy.

Thanks for your answer and sorry for my English its a little bit rusty.

Alfred