[SOLVED] Safe to delete flat-vmdk and ctk-vmdk after conversion?

[markusbernhard]

Hi.
I'm in the process of moving vm:s from vmare by sharing a storage between esx and proxmox, successfully attaching the vmdk file to a promox vm, and then move/convert to qcow2 on another storage which vmware has no access to.
The vm only have the converted qcow2 disk attached, but the flat.vmkd and ctk.vmdk is lingering on the shared storage, in the proxmox file structure.
I assume that they're safe to delete, but assumption is the mother of all f*ckups, so I better be sure

Can anyone give me some input on this?

best regards
--
Markus - loving the proxmox approach of stuff.

 

[Lukas Wagner]

The qcow2 is self-contained after the conversion, you can safely remove the VMDK file afterwards. Personally I'd keep it around for at least a little while, in case of any issues that are not immediately apparent

 

[markusbernhard]

Thanks for your answer. As I thought then