Cloning a virtual machine with 2 hard drives!

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• Cloning of virtual machines with snapshots

  Is it possible to take a virtual machine with snapshots, and then copy the individual vmdk files that make up a set of 5 shots manually and create a new virtual machine, so that all of the snapshots is all kept - and if it works what are the possible caviats / traps?  When you use just the cloning tool, it includes all snapshots.

  Hi TheVMinator,

  As mentioned in the kb, it is not recommended. But if you stop your virtual machine, copy the complete folder and then save the new VMX, it should work.

  The only problem that you have is a corruption of the sequence of disk. In this case, you can try to fix it or make another copy of the original VM. But you will not damage your original machine.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Cannot copy a virtual machine to a hard drive external

  Hi all

  I tried to make a copy of my Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm from my Mac OS X (10.5.6) my WD My Passport. I get the following error: "sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error has occurred. (Error code 0) »

  I am able to reproduce the VM in the same directory as the existing virtual machine but I can't copy it externally. I did ensure that VMware Fusion is not running in the background and I stopped him before doing so. I also deleted the application folder within the contents of the package as VM ordered in another post that is bad to copy.

  I upgrade the latest version of VMWare Fusion and also upgraded the virtual machine so everything should be updated.

  I don't really know what else to do, and honestly, I'm a little scared because I want to have a backup and also I'm moving to a new laptop and don't want to have to reinstall everything.

  Thank you

  Callista

  Is your external drive formatted as a FAT drive or Mac OS extended.

  If it's a FAT format drive (like most out-of-the-box USB drives), then a second question: you selected the option to create floppy disks to the virtual machine with the option "divided into 2 GB files?

  If this is not the case, this explains the problem. FAT formatted disks are limited to a maximum individual file of 4 GB size. Files Mac OS merger creates home that the virtual disk will be more often be larger than if you do not choose the option of split disk.

  If this is the case, you have one of two choices:

  (1) reformat the USB (with Mac disk utility) as a Mac OS Extended format disc. Once you do this, all data currently on the drive will be lost and you will not be able to use the drive with Windows.

  or

  (2) convert the virtual machine disk to 'divide into 2 GB files'. With the Fusion 2.x, you can do so directly from the virtual machine settings. Then you should be able to copy the VM on your USB.

• by specifying the vmpath for cloning a virtual machine with the vmClone SDK sample

  Does anyone know the syntax on how the vmpath should be passed.

  I have tried many examples:

  -vmpath data center/folder/vmname

  I can't to work theis

  Hi Jim,.

  It should be "Princeton, vm, VM, vm1. The virtual machine within the string is a bit tricky.

  The managed object browser is the best tool to find the path of the inventory of a specific managed entity. To get it, simply pointing a browser with the following url:

  https:///mob

  -Steve

• How to install Windows XP without service pack in my new machine with a hard drive sata and sata dvd?

  Installation problem

  Hello

  Not much to go here, but I'll try my best.

  First of all, I hope that your PC has a floppy drive. If it isn't, this isn't the end of the world, but it will make things much more complicated.

  Second, you must make sure that your motherboard BIOS is set according to your desired disk configuration. AHCI or RAID is the best but RAID is only if you want to set up a RAID. If you select IDE maybe you don't need the Setup F6 disk and the driver installation mentioned below.

  You have perhaps been provided with F6 floppy by your motherboard manufacturer but, if not, download the XP driver for your SATA controller from the manufacturer's web site and create your own F6 driver diskette.

  You must start your PC from the windows CD. Very shortly after the installation starting to show prompted to press F6 to another pilot. You have to hit F6 when you see this prompt. A few minutes later you will be asked to insert the Setup disk and identify your SATA controller. You should be able to continue with the installation later.

  It is a simplified version of what needs to be done and only goes up to get the installation to begin.

  If you want more specific help you should repost with exactly what installation problem that you are experiencing.

  Tricky

• Live cloning of virtual machines to ESXi ESXi

  Hello!

  We received a request for a project of construction of a recovery after disaster for their ESXi host. They have a robust with local disks server and another identical that they want to use for this purpose.

  So what they want is direct cloning VMs from Server A to Server B, so if the server goes down, virtual machines can be started from Server B and times of work.

  They do not have a SAN/NAS solution that we could use to share images.

  So does anyone know if it is possible to create a vcli script or a direct clone virtual machines from the hard drive of the server A to Server B's hard drive so that they would work from Server B.

  Best regards, city

  Salvation city,

  Welcome to the forums.

  If your hosts are connected to a vCenter, you can script or plan an operation clone from one host to another. Without vCenter, it's more complicated... You can try the script of a VMware Converter operation or the export of the FVO. There is also the old backup / restore solution.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Creating virtual machine with existing data

  Hi all

  I have virtualized my almost all servers except the one and only one file server.  I'm under vsphere 4 with 2 ESXi hosts and a 2000 Eternus model 100 SAN and using Veeam 6 B & R

  Current configuration

  Physical server with 2 network cards

  1 NETWORK LAN card

  1 SAN NETWORK card using MS iSCSI initiator

  Windows 2003

  There are 2 volumes on my SAN which is connected via the MS iSCSI initiator containing the data for the file server.  Server file sharing (NTFS) files stored on the San, and they have a lot of NTFS permissions on files and folders (approximately 1.5 TB of data).

  Ideal configuration

  1 virtual server

  1 vNIC to LAN

  2 volumes of SAN share via the server

  Windows 2008 r2

  My question

  Can I just add volumes to vsphere, create a virtual machine, add the two volumes of the virtual machine as 2 hard drives, the actions of installation and do with it?  I wonder where the permissions are checked and if these measures can be made without wiping the volumes.  I don't have another 1.5 TB of free space on the SAN.  I have a Netgear NAS I use as a target for backup if necessary but I prefer not to have to move the data if it is not needed.

  I hope that I have covered all my bases to make this easy to understand situation and we hope to meet .

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - Yes, you would be able to present the NTFS on the computer virtual hosted on your server using a RDM (Raw Device Mapping). Permissions on NTFS volumes are stored in the NTFS file system-

• Transfer the virtual machine from the external drive - URGENT HELP PLEASE

  I recently transferred my Virtual Machine to a hard drive external that I had to reinstall my OS Leopard, now when I try to copy the VM back to my mac from the external hard drive, to halfway through I have error message... "You cannot copy"Windows Vista.vmwarevm"because it has the same name as another article on volume of destination, and that the volume is not making the distinction between upper and lower case in file names."

  Virtual machine worked well for the external hard drive, but it's not convenient for me and I need ideally on my laptop... Please notify.

  To this folder on the Mac you copy it and what else is in this folder when copy you it.  I hope also merger is closed when you try to copy.

  Another thing you can do is inside the packaging of the Virtual Machine, there are two folders, Applications, and appListCache, I always delete before copy/move and these will be recreated and the reason why I do it, it is I saw copy fail until they have been deleted, although generally, it is one of the app in the Applications folder with the module of Virtual Machine that caused the problem.

  VMware Fusion (menu bar) > help > Search > type Package and then select work with Virtual Machine packages

• creation of multpile vitual machines with a hard file.

  In fact I am facing problems create multiple virtual machines with the hard file.

  I downloaded the file hard on the data store and created a virtual machine with this file and create another virtual machine with the same file. Is this possible or do I have to download the file again and create the virtual machine. ??

  Thank you.

  You would use this option to export a whole VM, and then import it later.

  Therefore, you must create a basic VM with whom. VMDK attached to it and then export it. You can then import several times with a new name and customize as needed from there.

• I need to reinstall photoshop elements 8 after having problems with my hard drive. I use MacBook Pro and a timemachine. After restoring the program of the Time Machine, I got the error 6 code: a license for this product has stopt working. How can I cancel

  I need to reinstall photoshop elements 8 after having problems with my hard drive. I use MacBook Pro and a timemachine. After restoring the program of the Time Machine, I got the error 6 code: a license for this product has stopt working. How can I cancel it?

  See here:

  Error "Licensing has stopped working". Mac OS

• Plan for the creation of new virtual machine with 3 TB data drive

  We have an old server, we need to virtualize, and one thing that we need is a lot more storage. We have approximately 3.25 TB of available for this machine (250 GB for the OS and 3 to for the data drives), but I'm going in circles trying to find the best approach for this server. It is not possible to separate the data between several players because of the way the files are indexed. I have created a virtual machine with 2 TB of disk space (for the readers of OS and data) and added 1.25 TB of disk space I want to add on the data reader, but it does not seem possible to add 1.25 TB without destroying the data on the first disk of 2 TB. What is the best approach? Create a single disc for my virtual machine that is 250 GB and then add in two separate disks of 1.5 TB for storage and combine them within Windows?

  Thanks for your suggestions.

  Hello

  Unfortunately, the maximum size of virtual disk to a virtual computer is 2 TB - 512 bytes. In you case it should create two or three separate virtual disks and combine them (disks RAID 0 or concatenate). Another way (IMHO besser way) is to create several virtual drives and mount using NTFS mount points.

  An example:

  C:\Data is a folder on one of the virtual disks. Create a second virtual disks and create the C:\Data\Data2 folder. Rather than assign a drive letter for the newly created disk, you can mount it in the Database2 folder. This gives you the ability to move the largest files on separate virtual drives without lose you the structure of folders.

  Kind regards

  Patrick

• 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.

• The substitution of parameters of the device when the cloning of virtual machines?

  Hello

  I'm trying to find out how I can substitute the disk space for a HARD drive or the network for an adapter in the cloning of virtual machines.
  I thought it should be in the VirtualMachineCloneSpec, but it doesn't seem to be an option for him. I forgot something?

  Thanks in advance.

  So it turns out that the code was perfectly fine, the problem is that in my lab I have always tried setting disk space on something weaker than what it was before that does not work.

  Thought, after verification of the documentation for Set-disc hard, as I wanted reconstruct this cmdlet to see what he's doing: Set - hard - drive vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets reference

  Thanks again for your help

• How to export/import a virtual machine with ESXi 5

  I use the free version of ESXi 5 and have created a virtual machine that is configured with the software for our project. I would like to share this virtual machine with other members of the team, some of whom are in other places and have slow network connections.  I want to pack the VM in a reasonable size file or a set of files I could ftp (or put it on DVD for people in areas of slow network) that they could then import into their ESXi hosts. The virtual machine has a 60 GB drive that is implemented by using the option 'thin', so it contains only 6 or 7 GB of real data right now.  Is it possible to export the image to a file or set of files that can be imported to another people ESXI host?  Before when I used VM Player we could do this by upgrading backup files in virtual machine directory and copy them to the new machine. With the ESXi data store, I don't know that something like this can be done.  I used vCenter Converter to convert to ESXi Infrastructure VM in VM Player format (and vice versa), but it is extremely slow. I think I might point the Source to my ESXi host and the Destination to a co-workers ESXi host and run a 'conversion' to transfer the files, but I think it would be very slow and impractical for some people to 'slow-network '.  I tried with vSphere Client navigation data store and I see the download options, but when I tried to download a VM directory it just hung.  I enabled ssh on my server ESXi and I found the store of data under/vmfs/volumes and when I look in the folder that contains my VM, there a file myvmname - flat hard which is 60 GB in size, so if I tar the contents of this folder to move elsewhere it will be huge.

  Can anyone suggest a solution?  The licensed version of ESXi would offer better alternatives?

  You can watch export OVF available in the Client vSphere for this function.

• Find virtual machines with disks of 'thin '.

  Hello

  I'm looking for a script that locates the virtual machines with disks of 'thin' and retrieves information about the provisioned size and "used" actual size and output to a CSV file.

  Thank you in advance!

  This gives you a report on virtual machines with thin discs and the capacity of your hard disk.

  Validated clerk/no values are available only through VM by the data store, I'm afraid, not by the hard drive.

  $report = foreach($vm in Get-VM){    $vm.Harddisks | where {$_.StorageFormat -eq "Thin"} |    Select @{N="VM";E={$vm.Name}},@{N="Harddisk";E={$_.Name}},    @{N="ProvisionedGB";E={[math]::Round($_.CapacityKB/1MB,1)}}}$report | Export-Csv "C:\report.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture