No that's right, I really need to have access to the snapshots...so I do not wish to remove them.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 June 2011 03:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Move virtual machines to a new physical host - VMWare Server for Windows 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. 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