The servers here are all moving to ESX.  Well all but one.
This server was poorly created using VMware server version 1.1 a long time ago.  Everytime we tried to move to ESX lots of problems like missing VMDK files and Kernel Panics.  Two things wrong: 1) ESX doesn’t support IDE drives and 2) most P2V [...]

Tech writers seem like broken records.. Backup.. test backup.. test again.. make more backups… That is until your backups don’t work. Suddenly, they sound like wisened sages.
I had a file level copy of a .vmdk file that had a snapshot. (file-000002.vdmk) Backing these up individually at separate times breaks the snapshot [...]