#Vm esxi 6.5 how to#

To get the desired files use this commands: cdВ /vmfs/volumes/volume01/yourmachine Using vmkfstools to clone the clone you will have 2 files Windows2008.vmdk ( meta file that you can open and edit) and Windows2008-flat.vmdk ( the actual data file)

vmdk you will see that you are unable to open very large file ( in my case 128GB).

#Vm esxi 6.5 how to#

If you donвЂ™t do this part you will have your Hard Disk as IDE drive and the performance of your machine will be very slow, there is a Official article how to convert IDE to SCSI but itвЂ™s missing the part and if you try to open the. Scp Windows2008-tmp.vmdk wget the cloned Hard Drive from your VirtualBox machine, you need to have your cloned Hard Drive into your phpVirtualBox directory on your VirtualBox machine cdВ /vmfs/volumes/volume01/yourmachine Login into your VirtualBox machine andВ SCP the file to your VMware machine cd /path/to/virtual/machine/ In vSpere Web Client click on the server you want to enable SSH and go to Configure -> System -> Security Profile and click Edit You will need to enable SSH on your VMwareВ machine to be able to use SCP to transfer the cloned image from VirtualBox machine to VMware machine orВ wget it from VirtualBox machine. vmdk image into VMware datastore using scp This will also create a clone of your Hard Drive and you will see the process in the bottom of your phpVirtualBox web interface. If using phpVirtualBox open File -> Virtual Media Manager, highlight the Drive you want to clone and click Copy You will need to have extra space for the cloned images, if you donвЂ™t attach some other USB Hard Drive or NFS storage if working in remote data center. VBoxManage clonehd Windows2008.vdi Windows2008-tmp.vmdk -format vmdk This will create new hard drive on which you can work with and you will have the original one just i case something is not working as you expect. You need to proper shutdown the Virtual Machine in VirtualBox and useВ VBoxManage to clone the hard drive in vmdk format. vdi Hard Drive from VirtualBox in vmdk format This will create directory in your datastore where we will upload the Hard Drive later on.Д¬lone the. Open your VMware and create Virtual Machine with the parameters you want and remove all the Hard Drives.

IвЂ™ve done this migrating machines fromВ VirtualBox 4.3 to VMware 6.5, it should also work with otherВ VirtualBox or VMware versions.

Attach the Hard Drive and start your Virtual Machine in VMware.

Convert using VMware vmkfstools ( this option is missing from tutorials!).

vmdk image into VMware datastore using scp or wget

Create diskless Virtual Machine in VMware.

There are a lot of tutorials out there but this method worked the best for me to migrate Virtual Machines from VirtualBox to VMware ESXi.