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Thanks! This is exactly the info I needed.
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Thanks! This is exactly the info I needed.

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Hello,<br />
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I have a two physical machines both running ESXi. Currently, I have working VM's on both hosts and would like to get rid of one of my physical machines. I want to transfer the VM's from one host ESXi (5.0.0) to the other Host (ESXi 5.1.0). <br />
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I already was able to download the VMDK's from source DataStore and upload them to the destination Host's Datastore; however, how do I spin up that VM? Normally I setup VM's from scratch via ISO installation, but what if I have a working VM and want to transfer?<br />
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I have heard of VMotion and Vcenter but I don't think I can afford that, so I wanted to see if there's a way to do it with VSphere. Also, do I need to transfer the entire folder from one DataStore to the other or just the VMDK's? Once transferred, how do I spin up? <br />
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Thanks!
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Hello,

I have a two physical machines both running ESXi. Currently, I have working VM's on both hosts and would like to get rid of one of my physical machines. I want to transfer the VM's from one host ESXi (5.0.0) to the other Host (ESXi 5.1.0). 

I already was able to download the VMDK's from source DataStore and upload them to the destination Host's Datastore; however, how do I spin up that VM? Normally I setup VM's from scratch via ISO installation, but what if I have a working VM and want to transfer?

I have heard of VMotion and Vcenter but I don't think I can afford that, so I wanted to see if there's a way to do it with VSphere. Also, do I need to transfer the entire folder from one DataStore to the other or just the VMDK's? Once transferred, how do I spin up? 

Thanks!

Transfer VM 's to another ESXi host

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.

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