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VMware .VMDK to HardDrive
I have setup and having an asterisk running and need a way to copy (clone) the VMware img to a hard drive to a server. Any ideas on how I can do this?
Which VMware virtual machine manager (VMM) is the Asterisk VM running under? ESX, VMware Server, WMware Workstation? In any case, you can just shut down (or suspend) the VM and copy the folder containing the VM's files (VMX, VMDK, etc) wherever you want to. If it's on ESX, you need to use the VI client to copy the files from the datastore on the ESX server, if it's Workstation or Server on a Windows box, you can just copy them with Windows Explorer or Robocopy.
It seems to me rather you like to v2p the system, right?
Reading your question I needed a little more info. I'll assume you're trying to move the image away from the vmware/vmdk to another drive, otherwise this has been answered above. You could use say a trial cd of the shadow protect IT Edition which you can obtain from storagecraft website when you fill out the application or acronis's will most likley do the trick also.
Booting from this CD inside the virtual machine then backing up the HDD over the network to another machine/share then booting again from the Shadow Protect IT CD on the target machine and restoring the image to the disk using universal restore if required.
Cheers,
Qten
Booting from this CD inside the virtual machine then backing up the HDD over the network to another machine/share then booting again from the Shadow Protect IT CD on the target machine and restoring the image to the disk using universal restore if required.
Cheers,
Qten
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Its on a Vmware Workstation v7, as a VMDK on windows 7 x64.
What I am looking to do is clone and resize a CentOS (Linux) Partition/Drive (.VMDK) (40gb) to a 120 Gb Western Digital sata hard drive that's in a server that has no Cd/DVD Drive .... I know.. I know... Just open the server and plug in a CD Drive. What I was hopping for is to Copy Boot Media to a pen drive (I have the tools to do so) and then just img a copy to the main hard drive from another hard drive.
I was looking at norton ghost but that's HD > VMDK only
I have tried to mount a Physical drive into VMware and clone the drive but no luck, it just crashes when i try and boot from it
Would Installing VMWare ESXi on the server work? if so how do i increase the hard drive size?
What I am looking to do is clone and resize a CentOS (Linux) Partition/Drive (.VMDK) (40gb) to a 120 Gb Western Digital sata hard drive that's in a server that has no Cd/DVD Drive .... I know.. I know... Just open the server and plug in a CD Drive. What I was hopping for is to Copy Boot Media to a pen drive (I have the tools to do so) and then just img a copy to the main hard drive from another hard drive.
I was looking at norton ghost but that's HD > VMDK only
I have tried to mount a Physical drive into VMware and clone the drive but no luck, it just crashes when i try and boot from it
Would Installing VMWare ESXi on the server work? if so how do i increase the hard drive size?
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