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Try to use the free FastSCP Tool from Veeam at <a href="http://www.veeam.com" rel="ugc">www.veeam.com</a><br />
Its faster then the datastore browser and more reliable.
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Try to use the free FastSCP Tool from Veeam at www.veeam.com [http://www.veeam.com]
Its faster then the datastore browser and more reliable.

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Hi,<br />
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Thanks but I've already tried to copy the file with FastSCP and there's the same phenomenon. It works with the vmx file but not the vmdk file. It says the file is not there or locked. It's obviously there so the problem is that it's locked ( = active)? I've managed to download the vmdk file of an inactive virtual server though ...<br />
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Does this mean it's not possible to copy the vmdk file of a virtual server that's running?
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Hi,

Thanks but I've already tried to copy the file with FastSCP and there's the same phenomenon. It works with the vmx file but not the vmdk file. It says the file is not there or locked. It's obviously there so the problem is that it's locked ( = active)? I've managed to download the vmdk file of an inactive virtual server though ...

Does this mean it's not possible to copy the vmdk file of a virtual server that's running?

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Hi, <br />
<br />
In order to have a copy of my virtual server I was trying to download the vmdk- and the vmx-file using the datastore browser of the ESXi host. It works for the vmx file (2 kB) but not for the vmdk file (125 Gb). In the later case the download seems to start but then I immediately get this error: 'connection to server has timed out' and the download fails.<br />
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Any ideas? Or is it simply that the virtual server has to be turned off to download the file? Can't test that right now ...<br />
<br />
Thanks!
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Hi, 

In order to have a copy of my virtual server I was trying to download the vmdk- and the vmx-file using the datastore browser of the ESXi host. It works for the vmx file (2 kB) but not for the vmdk file (125 Gb). In the later case the download seems to start but then I immediately get this error: 'connection to server has timed out' and the download fails.

Any ideas? Or is it simply that the virtual server has to be turned off to download the file? Can't test that right now ...

Thanks!

Download from a VMWare ESXi datastore failing!?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.