Cloning a Virtual Machine

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• 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

• Cloning a virtual machine running Live - destination of the is an exact match to the source at the beginning or end of the cloning process?

  Hello

  I'm not a VMware Expert, so please forgive my noob question.

  I was invited to migrate files from Windows Server 2003 to 2012 servers, and I intend to use cloning as a way of copying the VMDK with data from the file to the new server of 2012.

  I created a script with vSphere PowerCli, which made a clone of the source and, once the cloning is complete, it stops and disables the Server service on the Windows of the source virtual machine operating system to avoid changes in the source of this point in time.

  But I noticed, I have start by making a snapshot.

  Question:

  Changes made to the source VM when creating the clone will then be synchronized at the end of the cloning process, so that the destination virtual machine will be an exact copy of the source, at the end of the cloning process?

  Or destination VM will correspond only to the source of the VM at the time of the opening of the cloning process, and all the files that have been updated on the source VM when creating the clone will be lost on the destination?

  Thank you for helping me to get a clear understanding of the present!

  Best regards

  Changes made to the source VM when creating the clone will then be synchronized at the end of the cloning process, so that the destination virtual machine will be an exact copy of the source, at the end of the cloning process?

  Laughing out loud

  Or destination VM will correspond only to the source of the VM at the time of the opening of the cloning process, and all the files that have been updated on the source VM when creating the clone will be lost on the destination?

  Yes, the destination will be the data from the time you start to create the clone, because a snapshot will be created on the beginning of the process and the basic of this hat of the VM disk will be copied, all changes made on the source VM will be writing about the delta file and these data will not be copied.

• Cloning a virtual machine, is it possible?

  
  Hello

  Before this question, I tried to find the answer and to clear me on this issue, the fact is that it is is not clear to me yet.

  I would like to know if it is technically possible to clone a virtual machine running and what are the disadvantages - if there is - with a running virtual machine. Perhaps it is preferable or necessary to stop the mv to be cloned.

  I have 5 Vcenter. I don't know about cloning function it is differences between versions of vmware and have been improved accordingly.

  I give thanks for your help.

  Best regards

  John

  Yes you can clone the virtual machine running, you have vcenter to do.

  If you clone with virtual machine off, ends faster than running.

• 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

• 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

• Cloning a Virtual Machine, including ITS SNAPSHOTS

  I have a virtual machine with 2 photos and I want to this clone to another disk, such as snapshots are available in the clone. I am currently using VMWare Workstation 10.0. I read a few threads on this topic, but I'm not clear if this can be done or not. I can close the virtual machine and only care about downtime.

  Hello

  1. stop the virtual machine,

  2. close VMware Workstation.

  3. a complete copy of the virtual machine file to a new folder.

  4. Launch VMware Workstation

  5 file open-> Select copied VM

  6. choose 'move' on the question, "did you copy or move...» "If you want new hardware, select"Copy"If you want the virtual machine to have new material.

  Basically, that's all.

  Note that the new material will trigger things like windows activation to require a new license.

  Also note that if you do not receive new material that you can have your machine clone in the same network as the original (among others)

  --

  Wil

• Cloning a virtual machine that contains a system of operating under existing Windows license

  I have a Dell VRTX with three blades and five VM.  All five VM have Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.

  In the near future, I will create at least two new virtual machines that are also having Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.  To make things easy for me, I would like to just clone among the five existing VM to make the new virtual machine.  This should be easier to make a virtual machine from scratch.

  However, I'm concerned by the existing Windows license manager.  Ideally, I would like to clone an existing virtual machine, remove (format?) the Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit installation of VM newly created and then perform a new installation of Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit, install VMware Tools, etc. in the new virtual machine.

  1. what happens in the short time that in double Windows licenses are active?  I fear that the window one or two facilities will become disabled, as well.

  2. is there a better/more way to reach my goal of creating the new virtual machine?

  3. are there additional tips, comments or questions?

  Thanks in advance.

  
  

  Members of your VM of a domain? If you blow the OS disk, then just make sure that the first time it starts (if you need to start), you disable the network adapters for. Personally, I would create from scratch, especially if they are members of the domain.

• Cloning a virtual machine from a snapshot

  Using VMware Workstation I see that I can clone a virtual machine from a snapshot.

  I do not see a similar feature using the free version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi): is this correct?

  Should what component I add to activate even for VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)?

  I had to upgrade to VMware vSphere?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Pages for vmkfstools available here:

  http://www.get-virtual.info/2011/02/01/vmkfstools-man-pages/

• Cloning of virtual machines

  Hello

  I have been asked to clone a virtual machine to test in our environment 4.1 and run sys prep on the new virtual machine to create a new SID etc.

  By reading the guide in PDF for what's new (page 180 to be precise) he actually mentions that create new SID is part of the optional steps in creating a clone.  Is this correct and is that enough or should I use sys prep for questions related non - SID?

  All advice would be welcome

  Thank you

  Sam

  If you clone a virtual machine, use the customization plug, there is an option to create a new SID.  You must have all appropriate sysprep loaded into the appropriate on your vCenter server folders.

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1005593

• Cloning a virtual machine with 2 hard drives!

  Hi all!

  I ran into a very annoying problem. I'm trying to Migrate/convert virtual machines to a host in the CR. Each virtual machine has 2 hard drives which are located on 2 different data stores. When I try to migrate or to clone virtual machines from the host on my Cluster I get an 'error of operation period.

  After scratching my head for a while, I discovered why. The virtual machine have 2 hard drives on 2 different data stores. Both flat.vmdk files are called eponymous because they are on different data warehouses (TTDC001.vmdk). I created a VM test on the cluster with 2 hard drives and flat.vmdk flies are named TTDC001.vmdk and TTDC001_1.vmdk.

  So my conclusion as to why I get "Opération Timeout Error" is that VC trying Migrate/Clone to the virtual machine but is mistake because his attempts to migrate/Clone 2 hard files with the same name!

  Can someone give me some pointers as to how I can get around this? I am currently copy the file hard 2nd to my deskop from the data store and rename it then copy him on the new cluster data store to see if it works as you cannot rename the file hard in the data store. It just seems long way round to migrate virtual machines with 2 hard drives, and I don't even know if it works!

  Please help!  :|

  Andy Hughes

  Andy of the evening,

  I do it well. Thank you for asking.

  So if I'm reading correctly it seems that you are trying to clone a virtual machine from a stand-alone host to a host that is part of a VMware Cluster. When you do this you get a network midway through the copy error. Is this correct?

  Can you confirm how fast is connected to the Service Console between the two servers? For this kind of work I would recommend making them run at 1000/full, assuming you're not already. Could you also post the entire message that you get when the clone fails.

  Kind regards

  Glen

• 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

• Cloning a virtual machine to a disk size and model

  Hi all, I cloned successfully a vm from a template. I resized the HDD in a new size of 50 GB 20 GB models and completed the conversion. The clone, the space allocated to the system partition remained 20 GB and shows the remaining new size (30 GB) size as unallocated space in disk management.

  I called the Technical Support Center and they said that this is how it is supposed to be the case, although I previously resized the HDD when cloning and successfully using all the space reconfigured to the system partition. They recommended to convert the clone (using the converter) on another virtual computer and resize the disk. Anyone with a concrete solution to this is very welcome.

  You are welcome.

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• cloning of a windows virtual machine that is in a domain

  I cloned a virtual machine that has been joined in a domain and I want to use (the cloned vm) on the same network as its source. Consider if I it sever its domain, the original source vm will too be disjoint.

  What should I do or should I do to avoid this situation?

  What I would do, that's when the VM is not connected to the network, remove it from the field. (it must of course know in advance a local administrator password). Change the name of the computer.

  And you should be ok.

  Maish

  VMware communities moderator

  My Blog - @maishsk

  Co-author of VMware vSphere Design

• 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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