I have done a successful P2V test conversion from a Symantec System Recovery image. Although it completed successfully, vCenter told me that "Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed." When I go to look at the disks, for each physical drive there is a full size flat file, and four 1024 KB delta files. In the VMDK files, the delta disks appear completely orphaned - they only reference themselves (CID and parentCID are the same), and none of them reference each other or the original flat file.
I edited the VMX to point at the flat file, not the last delta, and the machine starts up perfectly. During the conversion process I used file-level copy, not block-level copy, as block-level would fail at 98%.
Any idea why these files are being created and if I can safely delete them?
Thanks