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  • 1.  Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

    Posted Feb 01, 2022 08:05 PM

    When I move (or copy) a VM from ESXi host to a location on my local PC, I kept getting this error:
    "Failed to create disk: E:\Server7\Server7_BU-disk3.vmdk. Reason: One of the parameters supplied is invalid"

    I tried to shrink down Server7 so the back up VM will be lower than 2TB but I still get this error.

    Server7 has 3 hard disk:
    . Hard disk 1: 60GB (thin provision)
    . Hard disk 2: 250 GB (thin provision)
    . Hard disk 3: 3TB (thin provision)



  • 2.  RE: Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

    Posted Jul 24, 2022 12:27 AM

    started having the same issue with esxi7u3



  • 3.  RE: Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

    Posted Jul 24, 2022 10:02 AM

    Has this got anything to do with vSphere Replication, or did you just post in the wrong area of the Communities?

     



  • 4.  RE: Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

    Posted Jul 24, 2022 11:30 AM

    Can you confirm that you have 3 TB free disk space available on your PC?
    Remember that Thin Provisioning is a VMFS file system feature. and copying thin provisioned files may inflate them to their provisioned size on the target.

    André



  • 5.  RE: Failed to create disk. One of the parameters supplied is invalid.

    Posted Jul 25, 2022 08:32 PM

    Before you start the copy operation you better convert the vmdks to a less space-eating format.
    vmkfstools -i 3tb.vmdk ws-compatible-split-sparse.vmdk -d 2gbsparse
    When done download ws-compatible-split-sparse.vmdk to your Windows host.