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Not sure which version you have, but you could just migrate to another datastore using vcenter?
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Not sure which version you have, but you could just migrate to another datastore using vcenter?

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see my EE Article<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9249.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0</a>
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see my EE Article

HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9249.html]

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I do not wish to migrate the VM.<br />
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I want to copy the VMs to another NFS share, the article provided shows how to copy within the same datastore, which is not suitable.<br />
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Currently I am downloading files to my local computer then copying them to the NFS share I am looking for a way to copy direct.
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I do not wish to migrate the VM.

I want to copy the VMs to another NFS share, the article provided shows how to copy within the same datastore, which is not suitable.

Currently I am downloading files to my local computer then copying them to the NFS share I am looking for a way to copy direct.

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How simple !!! cant believe I did not try that.
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How simple !!! cant believe I did not try that.

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What is the best way to take a copy of the 2 VMs files (while the machine is off) to another NFS share? <br />
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The NFS share can aslo me mounted as a datastore.
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What is the best way to take a copy of the 2 VMs files (while the machine is off) to another NFS share? 

The NFS share can aslo me mounted as a datastore.

Copy VM files to NFS share

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.