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The simplest way to do this is use the built-in VMWare Clone feature; rather than trying to manually manipulate the underlying file system...
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The simplest way to do this is use the built-in VMWare Clone feature; rather than trying to manually manipulate the underlying file system...

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Thanks guys, &nbsp;well it is too late for the easy options. &nbsp;<br />
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Cheers.
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Thanks guys,  well it is too late for the easy options.  

Cheers.

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I have a new ESXi V6 server going well.<br />
Guest OS is &nbsp;Server 2012 R2 x 2.<br />
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To create the second Server 2012 server I copy then pasted &nbsp;the first one in the Datastore Browser to another folder. I renamed the .vmx and nvram file names no worries however I could not seem to rename the .VDMK so i just ran sysprep in Windows and all seemed fine.<br />
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My issue now is &nbsp;I can not &nbsp;backup the cloned server in Acronis VM protect. It does not see the VM .<br />
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TLDR. How can I rename a .VMDK file. ?
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I have a new ESXi V6 server going well.
Guest OS is  Server 2012 R2 x 2.

To create the second Server 2012 server I copy then pasted  the first one in the Datastore Browser to another folder. I renamed the .vmx and nvram file names no worries however I could not seem to rename the .VDMK so i just ran sysprep in Windows and all seemed fine.

My issue now is  I can not  backup the cloned server in Acronis VM protect. It does not see the VM .

TLDR. How can I rename a .VMDK file. ?

Rename a .VMDK file

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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