Vmware Cold Clone ESXI 6

I would recommend you use VMware Converter and perform a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration.  Just ensure to disable services used by applications such as SQL, etc. as you would not just the OS to be running.

Also note that Cold Clone has been discontinued and no longer supported.  If you want to, you could download it from http://stuff.thatcouldbeaproblem.com/ISOs/coldclone303.iso.

I forgot to mention that the motherboard is dead however, the drive is good.

You could try, either Ghost and Ultimate P2V Method, or use Veritas System Recovery, create an image, and then use VMware Converter to Convert the Image to a VM.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/25539/HOW-TO-P2V-V2V-for-FREE-VMware-vCenter-Converter-Standalone-6-1.html

Would it be possible to use Macrium Reflect to image the drive then push the image to a generic VM?

any imaging tool can be used to write the image to the virtual disk.

but the image on the disk, must then be converted, to use the storage controllers, used by VMware.

that's where Ultimate P2V comes in which injects the drivers, and modifies the registry, so there's two parts to a conversion.

1. image-ing
2. conversion - injection and registry mod.

Okay, so in other words I would push the image to a VM then turn it on and run VMware Converter?
Thanks

Well I was not thinking of VMware Converter, I mentioned Ultimate P2V.

Buy you could try  VMware Converter, and try a V2V, and see if it will do the conversion.

The image to VM failed. Do you have a link by chance for Ultimate P2V? Thanks

see here

http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/Ultimate-P2V

you just need to get the image in a VM first, not too sure why it would fail ?

I am sorry it did succeed however it keeps blue screening so i figure I can now use Ultimate P2V?

Excellent thanks!