Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
This post describes how you can import a VHD disk image file from XenApp 6 to your VMware vSphere 5 environment in a few simple steps. I am writing this because VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client version 4.3 does not support conversion of VHD image files, even though it has done so in previous versions. I guess this procedure can be used on VHD files in general, but I have not tried it.
# Extent description RW 102400000 VMFS "converted-vhd-image-file.vmdk"
value from the converted meta file converted-vhd-image-file.vmdk to the one VMware created to the new virtual machine
The full listing of my working converted-vhd-image-file.vmdk file is like this
# Disk DescriptorFile version=1 encoding="UTF-8" CID=fffffffe parentCID=ffffffff isNativeSnapshot="no" createType="vmfs" # Extent description RW 102400000 VMFS "converted-vhd-image-file-flat.vmdk" # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.virtualHWVersion = "8" ddb.longContentID = "660f859cd36ce88e4fd6e0bcfffffffe" ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9a c0 a3 63 b1-1f 85 fe 55 e8 1e 30 a5" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "5221" ddb.geometry.heads = "255" ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" ddb.thinProvisioned = "1" ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"