Clone a virtual machine directly from single ESXi host

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• Add the model mv directly from the ESXI host

  Hi gentlemen,

  I have a question:

  Is it possible to add a model from the ESXI host without using VCENTER?

  I browse to the data store and I select Add to the broom, but I get an error.

  Sort of to reach it without using VCENTER?

  The models are a unique feature of vcenter. You can try renaming the vm vmxt vmx file, this would allow to add the file as a virtual machine, not model.

  But anyway, you will not be able to use to deploy from model or the options you have for cela vcenter.

• How to clone a virtual machine using ESXi 4.1 and vSphere?

  Instructions for I have seen that you can click with the right button on a virtual machine and choose "Clone", but I think it's only for vCenter

  Is there a way to clone a virtual machine in vSphere?

  Thank you

  If you have a licensed copy of ESXi (not vSphere Hypervisor, the free version), you can try the document below.  However, if you do not have a licensed copy you vCenter for cloning function

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-11708

• VCo workflow to clone a virtual machine of centos. Network interface problem

  Hello

  I use vco workflows to clone a virtual machine of vcenter. The virtual machine is running centos 6.0. When cloning is complete. I see the network eth0 and eth1 interfaces set correctly the static gateway ip and address information I provided. I deleted the 70 - persistent - net .rules on the basic vm form which I clone. So, I get the correct interface names. But when vm powers on and I run "ifconfig eth0" I don't see the IP address of this interface has all the details.  same for the other interface also.

  But if I do a system restart network without changes to networking and then do an ifconfig I see the IP with the previous information.   I don't know why the service network restart is necessary so that he can recognize the ip address.

  Any ideas what I could do wrong. or to avoid this manual step of the execution of the service network restart command on the creation of the vm.

  Thank you

  Kiran

  Yes I'm restarting after after the application of customization.

  Has been able to solve the problem... In CentOS, the network service does not work by default. This is why it does not have network interfaces at startup. So now the machine instant, I started the network services and stop the Network Manager service

  using chkconfig network on

  chkconfig NetworkManager off

  and then cloned from this virtual machine... and apply the customization settings. during the start now it shows the interfaces properly without needing a service restart

• Clone the virtual machine to the local data store

  Hi all

  I'm looking to automate a task daily (or almost) of my friends with a small script with powercli.

  I'm trying to "backup" or to clone a virtual machine, I work in a storage of one of our servers.

  The servers are managed by a 5.1 vCenter and the machine is on a shared storage.

  From time to time, I clean, stop the machine, remove all snapshots and clone the virtual machine to one of the local server as a backup storage. So I put together a small script which almost works. It works as long as the target data store is a shared storage, but not with a local storage.

  I get always an error that claims it can not access the local data store and is not a permissions problem...

  Given that I can accomplish this via the customer without problem I thought it is possible via powercli too, or I'm wrong?

  My Script up to now:

  # Variables
  $VC = "vc.domain.com" #vCenter Server
  $User = "domain\user" #User
  $Pass = 'test123' #User PW
  $VMName = 'scripttest' #VM
  $BackupSuffix = "backup" #Suffix to add the name of VM to mark this as a backup
  $VmHost = "esx2.domain.com".
  $Datastore = 'ESX2-LocalData' #Datastore
  $BackupFolder = 'Backup' #Folder the VM gets classified

  
  

  # Register cmdlets to VMware
  

  If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  
  

  # Connect to the server

  SE connect-ViServer $VC - user $User-password $Pass

  
  

  # Remove the old clone

  $OldBackups = get - VM | WHERE {$_.} {Name: corresponds to '$VMName - $BackupSuffix'}

  If ($OldBackups - don't "")

  {

  If ($OldBackups.Count - gt 1)

  {

  Write-Host "better check! "Found several results:

  Foreach ($VM to $OldBackups)

  {

  Write-Host $VM. Name

  }

  }

  on the other

  {

  Remove-VM - VM $OldBackups - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false

  }

  }

  
  

  # Clone VM

  $VMInfo = get - VM $VMName | Get-View

  $CloneSpec = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec

  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VMInfo.Snapshot.CurrentSnaphshot

  $CloneSpec.Location = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Datastore |) Get - View). MoRef

  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $CloneFolder = $VMInfo.Parent

  $CloneName = "$VMName - $BackupSuffix".

  $TaskCloneID = $VMInfo.CloneVM_Task ($CloneFolder, $CloneName, $CloneSpec)

  
  

  # Check if the task is completed

  
  

  $Check = $false

  While ($Check - eq $false)

  {

  $Tasks = get-job | Select State, id | Where {$_.} State - eq "Running" - and $_. State - eq "pending"}

  ForEach ($Task in $Tasks)

  {

  If ($Task.id - eq $TaskCloneID)

  {$Check = $false}

  on the other

  {$Check = $true}

  }

  Start-Sleep 10

  }

  # Move clone to the backup folder

  Move-VM - VM '$VMName - $BackupSuffix' - Destination $BackupFolder

  
  

  # Disconnect

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Can you show us the complete error message you get?

  BTW, the clone step can be replaced by the New-VM cmdlet with the setting of the virtual machine.

• Move the virtual machine Linux from AMD to Intel

  Hi, I'm running several CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 virtual machines on an AMD64 based host ESXi 4. I need to replace the AMD ESXi 5 host and move the VM to host Intel based host with an Intel-based.
  
  I did it with a VM test (cold migration), and it seems boot, but I read that I might need to change the kernel for Intel.  Is this necessary?  If so, can someone point me in the right direction on how to do it?  Thank you!

  If the test computer worked then no there is no need to replace the core.

• How to clone a virtual machine with the drive?

  Hello

  Previously, I used VMware Workstation and has a mastery of "clone". Now I use the reader and I would like to clone my current VM and there is no special orders. Simply copy the directory would probably not there a lot of information such as DNS name, etc. that are likely to be changed. Is it possible to clone a virtual machine with player or do I Workstation?

  Many thanks in advance,

  Nicolas

  In my computer a full clone is nothing more then is not a copy that was made unique in the process and the players of VMware capacity but there is nothing stopping you from manually making a copy and then manually by making the changes to make it unique.

• How is it possible to clone a virtual machine cluster when data warehouses not presented in source and destination

  I did not know that on ESX 3.5, in order to afin de vivre live clone a virtual machine from one ESX host to another, source and destination stores had to be available. However, I'm currently cloning a virtual machine to a host in a datacenter and cluster to one host in a different data center, but the destination store is not available at the source host and visa versa.

  How is that possible?  This is a new feature of vSphere?

  That seems to work on the console port. See this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1475721#1475721

  AWo

  VCP 3 & 4

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• Clone a virtual machine to a Cluster data store

  Hello

  Really simple (hopefully), but I'm trying to write a workflow that includes the provision of a virtual computer to a cluster of data store. I'm a link to the workflow 'Clone the virtual machine, no customizations' that only accepts a store of input data.

  I hope that I am a bit stupid here and there is a simple answer?

  Thank you.

  There is no simple answer.  DRS clusters are actually a set of rules and not a real thing, you can deploy a VMDK.  I suggest to use Onyx to deploy a virtual computer to a DRS cluster and see what it generates.  If I remember correctly, it executes DRS rules to get a recommendation for where to put a VMDK fundamentally and then uses the exit in order to actually deploy the model.

  I opted to write just a simple workflow that finds the data store with the most of freespace that corresponds to a string - for example, if I have a DRS cluster named DSCluster_ugabuga, I have a lot of data stores named something like "ugabuga... ».  So you ask these storages of data and find the one which most freespace.

• Error trying to clone a virtual machine

  Hello

  I'm trying to use the vsphere api 5.0 to clone a virtual machine that was created in the web client.

  Here is my XML SOAP message:

  <? XML version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"? >

  " < SOAP-SOAP ENV:Envelope - ENV:encodingStyle = ' http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/SOAP/encoding/ "xmlns:SOAP - ENV =" " http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/SOAP/envelope/ "container =" " http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema "" xmlns: xsi = " " http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance "xmlns:SOAP - ENC =" " http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/SOAP/encoding/ ">

  < SOAP - ENV:Body >

  < CloneVM_Task xmlns = "urn: vim25" >

  < _this type = 'VirtualMachine' > vm-xxxxx < / _this >

  < folder > datacenter-xxxxx < / case >

  < name > clone-test-1 < / name >

  < spec >

  < location >

  store of data <>data store - xxxxx < / datastore >

  resgroup-xxxxx < pool > < / pool >

  < / location >

  false < template > < / template >

  false < powerOn > < / powerOn >

  < / spec >

  < / CloneVM_Task >

  < / SOAP - ENV:Body >

  < / SOAP - ENV:Envelope >

  but I get the error "the application refers to an unexpected or unknown type".

  Here is the entire response in a table:

  {Array (15)}

  'key' = >

  String(11) "task-xxxxxxx".

  "task" = >

  String(11) "task-xxxxxxx".

  'name' = >

  (12) a string "CloneVM_Task".

  'descriptionId' = >

  (20) a string "VirtualMachine.clone".

  'entity' = >

  String (8) "vm-xxxxx".

  "entityName" = >

  (8) a string 'xxxxxx '.

  'State' = >

  String(5) "error".

  'cancelled' = >

  String(5) "false."

  'Cancel' = >

  (4) a string 'true '.

  'error' = >

  {Array (2)}

  'fault' = >

  {Array (1)}

  "argument" = >

  (22) a string "ManagedObjectReference".

  }

  'localizedMessage' = >

  String (52) "request refers to an unexpected or unknown type."

  }

  'reason' = >

  {Array (1)}

  'userName' = >

  String (10) "myusername".

  }

  'queueTime' = >

  (26) string "xxxx".

  "startTime" = >

  (27) string "xxxx".

  'completeTime' = >

  (26) string "xxxx".

  'eventChainId' = >

  String (7) 'xxxxxxx '.

  }

  Thanks in advance for any help, it will be greatly appreciated!

  Yes, login and vcenter.

  Thanks for trying to help, but I managed to solve it.  It turns out that it was

  1. I was providing the setting wrong folder (should have been the result of FindByInventoryPath('your_data_center_name/vm') instead of FindByInventoryPath ('your_data_center_name')

  2. I didn't need to provide anything inside the 'location' parameter, it comes to be present

  Thank you again and hope that the above comments help someone else trying to do the same thing

• Clone a virtual machine and change is the network settings?

  I'm looking to clone a virtual machine several times change the network connection and the IP he uses, any help appreciated.

  NP, alternative, will host this script:

  $vmlist=Import-CSVC:vms.csv
  foreach($itemin$vmlist) {
   # I like to map out my variables
   $vmname=$item.vmname
   $ipaddr=$item.ipaddress
   $subnet=$item.subnet
   $gateway=$item.gateway
   $pdnswins=$item.pdnswins
   $sdnswins=$item.sdnswins
   #Get the current interface info
   $GuestInterface= Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface -VM $vmname -HostCredential $HostCred-GuestCredential$GuestCred
   #If the IP in the VM matches, then I don't need to update
   If ($ipaddr-ne$($GuestInterface.ip)) {
       Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface-VMGuestNetworkInterface$GuestInterface -HostCredential $HostCred -GuestCredential $GuestCred -IP $ipaddr -Netmask $subnet -Gateway $gateway -DNS $pdnswins,$sdnswins-WINS  $pdnswins,$sdnswins
   }
  }

• Access to the virtual machine on a server ESXi 3.5

  A great feature of VMware Workstation 8 is the ability to manage virtual machines on ESX and ESXi servers.

  I can access virtual machine on a VMware ESXi 4.1 server, but I'm unable to access the VM on a VMware ESXi 3.5 server.

  Is this a known limit or that I should add/install/configure anything in VMware Workstation 8?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Hello.

  vCenter or ESX (i) 4.1 or later version is needed for this feature.

  Good luck!

• Cut short Linux to start the virtual machine directly

  Hi, I want to make a shortcut on the desktop to start a virtual machine directly

  Host: Edubuntu 10.10 64 bit

  Client: Windows 7 64-bit family (called: "'Educatieve netwerk.vmx" ")

  Working directory:/ home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk

  The virtual computer name: Educatieve netwerk

  Full path to the virtual machine:/home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx

  Location of VMS and the default teams: / home/zml/vmware

  I'm using VMWare Workstation version 7.1.3

  I tried the commands of mutiple, but still without success...

  VMware x/home/zml/vmware/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx

  didn't work...

  Could someone help me?

  Maarten

  Try the following:

  VMware x ' / home/vmware/zml/Educatieve netwerk/Educatieve netwerk.vmx.

  Make sure you put quotation marks ("" ") for the computer virtual access path.

• Virtual machine is unable to ping host on vSphere5.1 fresh install

  Hello

  I did a new install of vSphere 5.1 (previously 4.1 installed that works well). No vCenter for now.

  Running a virtual machine on LAN Paessler PRTG under Win 2 k 3 x 64.

  This virtual machine has been moved from 4.1 to 5.1, nothing has changed.

  This virtual machine can't ping the host. No monitoring WMI class too.

  A physical computer on the LAN can ping on host vSphere with no problems.

  What's wrong?

  Thank you

  Vincent

  According to the screenshots, the subnet mask, you use in your local network is 255.255.0.0. As a first step, please run ipconfig / all in the virtual machine to verify that the virtual machine is configured with the same subnet mask. Secondly, run the ping command from the virtual machine, rattling of its own IP to see if it succeeds.

  BTW. What type/model of virtual network adapter is configured for the virtual computer?

  André

• vSwitch ESXi 5.1 workaround to virtual machines (direct access to the network)

  Hello world!

  I have a server running properly the 5.1 ESXi hypervisor and got inside the physical grid active router with DHCP. How can I configure the vSwitch on ESXi 5.1 work not managed on the network, without VLAN and have direct access to the network?

  Just to clarify, I would like to first of all virtual machines VMware Workstation works - if it is possible to run several virtual machines and define all NICS (Network Interface Card) as connected by a bridge, that is to say. Each VM gets the specific configurations of IP to the external router.

  Since now, thank you very much for the help!

  Best regards

  Eduardo

  With ESXi the vSwitches work comparable to Bridged networking, so there is really nothing special to do.

  André