Yeah, not that I have tons of ESXi experience, but I have just removed
the snapshots prior to the move. I'm guessing you don't want to do this
in case you need to rollback the server to a previous snapshot?
Stefan Jafs wrote:
And you can not remove the snapshots?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Mark Robinson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Scott. Yes that’s what I thought! However I’ve just fired
up one of the VM’s (with Snapshots) that I copied over to the new
host and the VM is only utilizing the original virtual disks, not
the data subsequently stored within the snapshots. So I have a
running VM, just without half of the data I had previously. So I
need to somehow encourage VMServer to acknowledge the snapshots.
Has anyone successfully migrated VM’s with snapshots to a new
installation of VMWare Server before?
*From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>]
*Sent:* 14 June 2011 22:24
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Move virtual machines to a new physical host -
VMWare Server for Windows
I’ve not done this in particular, but I would expect that you
could manually move the vmdk files along with the snapshot deltas
by moving the whole folder to a new machine and it would work fine.
*From:* Mark Robinson [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>]
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:20 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Move virtual machines to a new physical host - VMWare
Server for Windows
Hi,
I have VMWare Server for Windows (the free one) installed on a
machine which hosts 3 VM’s for test lab purposes. I want to move
these VM’s to a new machine and decommission the existing
machine. I have migrated one machine successfully to the new host
and this is running along merrily. However I suspect the
remaining two VM’s may be a different proposition altogether as
they have had snapshots taken whereas the VM I have migrated
already did not have any snapshots. Has anyone achieved this
themselves and could give me any pointers? I have read a couple
of articles around fixing the CID chain. Is this necessary? If
so how did you do it? I am about to folllow this advice:
http://sanbarrow.com/sickbay-lesson-fix-cid-chain-embedded.html
Many Thanks,
Mark
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