Resizing partitions during P2V migrations with VMM and SMP

[meckart]

Hello,

I'm using SIM 5.1 SP1 and VMM (Virtual Machine Management Pack) 2.1.01 with SMP (Server Migration Pack) 2.1. But there might be a bug resizing the partition during migration. If there is e.g. a 120GB partition with about 1GB data on it, the minimum size to choose in configuration dialog is about 60GB. I would expect 1GB plus overhead as the minimum size. Even if I defraged the partition or if there is a partion without any data on it, SMP only let me choose the half of the size of the source. Please see also attched screenshot.

Thanking for any help,

Martin

[Rob Buxton]

It may consider it too risky to shrink the disk too much.
One way is to not migrate the partition at all and manually move that data across, or copy it to a partition being migrated.
I did that for a similar situation.

[meckart]

Risky or not, the resizing feature is useless if it's only designed to shrink to half of the size. IMHO that's a bug. VMware Converter does that job flawless, but we choosed SMP due to other features. I've a support case open at HP but until now there no response yet. BTW the VMM and SIM logs doesn't showed any error.
I wonder that nobody else using SMP 2.1 saw that bug.