Active Oldest Votes. I would do this: Check if there are snapshots taken and, if possible, delete them first Performing a full backup Check the configuration of the VM if there is really only one hard disk configured Download the [machinename]. VMDK files.
Improve this answer. Hi, Thank you for your guides, I checked vmx file and there isn't any reference to second file, I have no problem with current configuration, And so I don't need to know about the second file content, So can I delete it? Because my real space is going to be full because of this file, I checked through SSH and there mentioned that this file is GB There is no snapshot too — Farhad Sakhaei.
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Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions Running vsphere 5. Two servers SAN'd into an array. Unfortunately VMWare isn't supporting our array to vsphere 6. So now it is going to be two arrays connected to the servers temporarily until we get the data moved over. The obvious way to move the vmdk files to other datastore would be to use vmotion but we don't want to move, we want to copy the vmdk and vmx files to the other datastore.
That way if the copy goes south we don't lose everything and can re-register the origin vm again. Something about eggs and a basket or something like that.. The best current solution that i tested in the lab would be to use vmkfstools -i to copy the files from datastore to another It will also rename which we might need too. Then re-register the vm and go. Testing from an old server to an old usb drive I was able to copy 75 gb an hour, which is really good considering the old technology.
Using the cp command gave us no copy status and was slower than molasses.. We really don't have a budget for 3rd party tools so I am reaching out to see if anyone has had experience with this or if anyone has any better ideas.. You might also search for a free backup solution. It's a safe way to restore to another storage solution. I recently had a similar scenario moving from vsphere 5. Vmotion 1 VM to the buffer datastore. Make sure it is in a clean shutdown state.
Move the datastore to the vsphere 6 host. Register the VM pointing to the existing vmdk files. Power on the VM and make sure everything is working as normal. Vmotion the VM to the permanent datastore, to free your buffer datastore for the next VM.
There is no quick way to make a full copy of that size. Alternatively, extract the entire disk contents using the Extract to folder functionality.
For this method to work, you must put the descriptor and flat files in the same folder. It is used to mount, or provide access, to a number of file systems configured on Linux machines. You can download Linux Reader from. On the screen that follows, check the boxes next to the VMDKs you want to be mounted and click on Mount. Hey mike this is the board I sent you a message on youtube about.
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