VM resides on VMFS 5 cannot be restored on VMFS 6

  • Document ID:KM02747449
  • Creation Date:06-Mar-2017
  • Modified Date:06-Mar-2017
    • Micro Focus Products:
      vm explorer 6.30

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Summary

VM resides on datastore from type VMFS 5 cannot be restored on datastore from type VMFS 6

Error

"The Selected target is formatted as VMFS6.
The VM to restore is not compatible with VMFS6 datastores as it contains vmfs-sparse snapshots.
Please select a different Datastore."

Cause

VM resides on datastore from type VMFS 5 cannot be restored on datastore from type VMFS 6 .
The reason for failure is that VMFS 5 and VMFS 6 datastores are not compatible.
The standard snapshot method for VMFS 5 is VMFSsparse (for disks up to 2 TB) and for VMFS 6, it is SEsparse.