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Hi,<br />
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I want to clone a production Windows 2008 VM hosted in a Xenserver 5.6 environment to an alternative Xenserver 6.0.2 environment. What's the cleanest/best way to do this? ideally, I would like to leave the server running if at all possible<br />
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Can I clone VM's live?<br />
Or can I clone to template, make the template accessible to the alternative Xenserver?<br />
Or should I shut down the production VM and use Xenconvert?
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Hi,

I want to clone a production Windows 2008 VM hosted in a Xenserver 5.6 environment to an alternative Xenserver 6.0.2 environment. What's the cleanest/best way to do this? ideally, I would like to leave the server running if at all possible

Can I clone VM's live?
Or can I clone to template, make the template accessible to the alternative Xenserver?
Or should I shut down the production VM and use Xenconvert?

Xenserver 5.6 - Clone Production Win 2008 VM to Development Xenserver 6.0.2 Environment

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Citrix is the synonym for the virtualization and application infrastructure systems developed by the company of the same name. Main areas are application virtualization, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), cloud-computing and networking. The two most well-known are Citrix XenApp or Citrix CloudPlatform.