- Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter how to#
- Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter password#
- Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter mac#
The Datastore Browser will open and show the contents of the datastore. Select the correct virtual machine folder All VMware virtual machine files are stored in the datastore.ģ. Right Click the datastore datastore1 and select Browse datastore. Select the datastore, if you've not rename the datastore, the datastore default name is datastore1. The datastore properties are shown on the right hand side Once connected to the server, the VMware vSphere Client will display the following inventory of the VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi server. If you have a VMware vSphere vCenter server, you could also specify IP address or hostname of the vCenter server which manages your ESX/ESXi servers.
Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter password#
Using the VMware vSphere Client, login and connect to the ESX/ESXi server, using the IP address or hostname of the ESX/ESXi server, using the root username and password credentials. Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor Server This procedure can be used when connected directly to the host server or VMware vSphere vCenter Management Server.ġ. The VMware vSphere Client is used to manage a VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.0 host server. Using the following method, no third party tools are required or need to be installed, other than the VMware vSphere Client. It should now boot with networking, using the same network configuration as the source VCSA it was cloned from.This Tutorial covers a very basic and common question asked on Experts Exchange, "How Do I Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.0?" Save the changes to the file, then reboot the appliance. Remove the configuration, so that the file looks like this: To do so, the following file needs to be edited: vi /etc/udev/rules.d/les
Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter mac#
Now the configuration referencing the old MAC address can be removed. The appliance should then boot to a shell: Once done, press enter, then press ‘b’ to boot with the new kernel options. Press ‘e’ to edit the line, then append ‘init=/bin/bash’ to the end of the kernel options: The line that needs to be edited is the one beginning ‘SUSE Linux…’, shown highlighted in the above screenshot. Once the correct password is entered, the option to edit the menu items will be available. This will either be the default password (vmware), or if the root password has been reset since deployment then it will be whatever that password is set as. The kernel option needs to be modified in the GRUB bootloader, in order to boot into a shell. As my VCSA wouldnt boot, I restarted, but interupted the boot at the GRUB menu, so that I could boot into a single user mode: To get the cloned VCSA to boot we need to remove the reference to the old MAC address. When the VCSA is cloned, a new MAC address is assigned to the clone – the VCSA then sees this as a new NIC with no configuration, whilst it sees the original NIC as missing. This issue occurs because the VCSA references the MAC address of the vNIC associated with eth0. The log confirmed this, showing that eth1 had no configuration: I hit ALT-F1 to see what was happening and saw that a bunch of services were failing to start and there were issues with eth0: When starting the cloned VCSA, the progress bar halted around three quarters of the way along. I had some issues with the cloned VCSAs networking, so posting what I worked through here.
Vmware 6.0 clone a drive with vcenter how to#
I recently had a need to clone my nested lab environment, so I could do some testing without breaking my lab and so I wanted to have a look at how to clone VCSA successfully.