Need a good walkthrough to migrate a VM in an unlicensed VMWare
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Yeah, it's really that simple. Probably run faster than using some USB drive or some other hokey method.
Other things to consider, but I would assume you didn't do this, is to consolidate all your snapshots and bring it into a single file. But if you were doing this on a DC, woe is you anyways. Make sure to grab all the VHDs, sometimes folks put the things everywhere and anywhere. I keep my stuff clean, one folder, one VMX, one VHD store.
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@PSX_Defector As of last week I no longer have any snap shots because I want to have as little data to move as possible. So I can shut the guest down and just move files.
The system has 5x 300GB 10k SAS drives in a man RAID0. Drive 4 is in predictive failure.
Performance is horrible lately. I am so pissed at myself for not checking the array config after the Dell guy replaced drives 2 years ago. -
@PSX_Defector said:
Clean method, copy the VHD and VMX off the datastore to your local machine, upload it to the other server, import and be done with it.
@JaredBusch said:
The server can be shut down all weekend as the email will get spooled by Postini (no idea why it hasn't converted yet). I guess that really is fairly simple, I just have never done it.
The Guest is running atm, but these need moved and imported? Should I drop them in a /tmp folder on the new server and let the import process create the new ID and such?
/vmfs/volumes/4fe4e121-00ce2358-1794-0026b92dd25f/JJDC # ls -l -rw------- 1 root root 8589934592 Aug 18 2013 JJDC-34a5604f.vswp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Feb 10 06:42 JJDC-aux.xml -rw------- 1 root root 429496729600 Feb 18 03:30 JJDC-flat.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 8684 Feb 18 03:01 JJDC.nvram -rw------- 1 root root 519 Feb 12 23:29 JJDC.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Feb 10 06:42 JJDC.vmsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4016 Feb 18 03:27 JJDC.vmx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2802 Feb 12 23:35 JJDC.vmxf -rw------- 1 root root 322122547200 Feb 18 03:30 JJDC_1-flat.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 521 Feb 12 23:30 JJDC_1.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1150772 Jun 23 2012 vmware-3.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298267 Jun 24 2012 vmware-4.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126696413 Sep 5 2012 vmware-5.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2366725 Feb 21 2013 vmware-6.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1471003 Aug 18 2013 vmware-7.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4184437 Feb 10 07:01 vmware-8.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418501 Feb 18 03:28 vmware.log -rw------- 1 root root 83886080 Aug 18 2013 vmx-JJDC-883253327-1.vswp.
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Yeup, you got two disks on the OS, so easy enough.
I always grab all the good stuff, logs are always useful. All you would need to do after you drop it into the new datastore, just import it into the vCenter.
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Here is a post, just now, that the free UEB can't back up Xen guests, which it could do if it was using the agents to do the backups.
