Can't you collapse the snapshot chain? Snapshots are not meant to run for an extended time, but to simply provide a way of backing out of a change in case it goes horribly wrong.
>>> Mark Robinson <[email protected]> 6/14/2011 2:50 PM >>> 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]] 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]] 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 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Internet communications are not secure and therefore CIPS does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of any e-mail message sent via this medium. The content of any e-mail communication is the view of the individual and CIPS does not accept legal liability for the contents. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by CIPS for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use. -- Scanned by iCritical. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Scanned by iCritical. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
