Complicated Cloning Process
We have multiple VM's that a vendor will be making updates to an application soon. The previous administrator would have the vendor update one VM and then he would deploy it replacing the rest of the...
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View ArticleRe: How to recover vm after deleting the snapshots in vSphere Client?
This files (vmdk) are large and have sensitive information.Btw. please use the Attach link in the lower right of the reply box.
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The *.vmdk files that Andre asks for are small - just a few kb in size and contain NO sensitive data at all.Due to a stupid design flaw in the Datastorebrowser you can not see them or download them...
View ArticleRe: Complicated Cloning Process
1. You must note down the config of old VMs first (IP and Host Names etc) and shutdown them with renaming in vmware inventory something like vmname_old. 2. Once your vendor make one VM updated, you can...
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Outstanding! Thanks so much. I will test this out this evening and let you know my results! Cheers!
View ArticleRe: Can someone tell me which FW/Driver of Intel C3758 is suitable for ESXi...
EDIT: Only the C2300, C2500, and 2700 series of Atom processors are supported with ESXi.
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The D-2146NT isn't officially supported with ESXi, but since it's Skylake it may work. No custom firmware or driver combination would determine this, however.
View ArticleRe: Complicated Cloning Process
Note : You will have to run sysprep if these machines are Windows. Also, if you're doing this first time, don't delete old VMs unless youre new VMs are up with application running This will need some...
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These are windows machines. Why will I need to run sysprep if I'm cloning a machine? I'll be doing this from Vsphere. Is sysprep I run from within Vsphere or will I need to do it on the cloned VM...
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You have to do it from inside window os in cloned copy of VM, this will clean the system data including sid which this cloned machine is carrying from source VM.
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That makes sense. So, once I power it on for the first time do I just shift+f3 or is it a different process?
View ArticleDatastore is showing completely blank
Hi, I was in the process of moving some of our old VMs from one server's local datastore to a QNAP datastore. The process appears to have failed as it moved everything but the vmdk's and flat files...
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When you login to new cloned VM, run "C:\windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe" - Chosse 'OOBE','Generalize' and 'Reboot'. After sysprep and reboot VM will come up then you can configure IP and hostname.
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Makes sense! Thanks again for your help! Will let you know what the results are after tonight!
View ArticleRe: Datastore is showing completely blank
Try to contact continuum, he's an expert in data recovery. André
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