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Login to the console, and copy at the ESX server prompt with cp.<br />
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it will be much faster if you peform a server side copy.<br />
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cp /vmfs/vm1/*.vmdk /vmfs/vm2/
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Any idea is the cloning will be any faster than cold migration?<br />

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i would expect them both to br the same.
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I need to migrate an 800+G vm to a new Data Store. I have vmotion but not svmotion.<br />
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The question is wheather to migrate or copy the vm using a toold like Veeam Backup. &nbsp;Which one would it be faster? Safer? <br />
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Thanks,<br />

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I need to migrate an 800+G vm to a new Data Store. I have vmotion but not svmotion.

The question is wheather to migrate or copy the vm using a toold like Veeam Backup.  Which one would it be faster? Safer? 

Thanks,


Login to the console, and copy at the ESX server prompt with cp.

it will be much faster if you peform a server side copy.

cp /vmfs/vm1/*.vmdk /vmfs/vm2/

Any idea is the cloning will be any faster than cold migration?


Copying vs Migrating

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.