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- #HOW TO CLONE VM IN VSPHERE CLIENT 6.5 WINDOWS#
This Post is purely to easy of vSphere Admins who want to download the VMware vSphere Client. In this post, I am not going to discuss about any technical stuffs or troubleshooting.
#HOW TO CLONE VM IN VSPHERE CLIENT 6.5 WINDOWS#
Diff VCenter 5.5 appliance and vCenter on WIndows.If you liked my VMware article and would like to see more VMware Articles from me, please click the Yes button near the: Was this article helpful? at the Top of this article to the right of the Article title. Thank you for reading my article, please leave valuable feedback. You have successfully cloned or copied a virtual machine. The Virtual Machine will be added to the inventory. Review the details and Click Finish to add the VM to the Host Machines Inventory. Select the host, that you want to add this virtual machine to, followed by Next

This is just a friendly name for the inventory, it does not change the name of the name of the virtual machine OS. Select and Right Click the virtual machine VMX file.įollow the Add to Inventory Wizard, make sure the name is different and unique, it must be different to the original virtual machine name. Register the cloned/copied virtual machine with the Inventory The Copy Progress bar will be displayed, indicating a time to completion.Ĭontents of the new folder, with the cloned/copied virtual machine files.Ħ. Right click the empty folder space and Right Click and Select Paste Select and open the folder created in Step 4. Once all the files have been selected, Right Click and Select Copy. Select ALL the files in the VM folder to be cloned/copied.

The folder will be created in the root of the datastoreīefore you can CLONE/COPY the virtual machine files the Virtual Machine needs to be POWERED-OFF.ĭouble click the virtual machine folder you need to clone/copy. Select the root (/) of the datastore, and click the New Folder icon to create a new destination folder for the new virtual machine clon or copy.Įnter a name for the folder name followed by OK. Create a destination virtual machine folder for the virtual machine clone or copy The virtual machines are stored in folders.ĭouble click the virtual machine folder you need to clone or copy.Ĥ. The Datastore Browser will open and show the contents of the datastore. Select the correct virtual machine folder All VMware virtual machine files are stored in the datastore.ģ. Right Click the datastore datastore1 and select Browse datastore.

Select the datastore, if you've not rename the datastore, the datastore default name is datastore1. The datastore properties are shown on the right hand side Once connected to the server, the VMware vSphere Client will display the following inventory of the VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi server. If you have a VMware vSphere vCenter server, you could also specify IP address or hostname of the vCenter server which manages your ESX/ESXi servers.
#HOW TO CLONE VM IN VSPHERE CLIENT 6.5 PASSWORD#
Using the VMware vSphere Client, login and connect to the ESX/ESXi server, using the IP address or hostname of the ESX/ESXi server, using the root username and password credentials. Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor Server This procedure can be used when connected directly to the host server or VMware vSphere vCenter Management Server.ġ. The VMware vSphere Client is used to manage a VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.0 host server. Using the following method, no third party tools are required or need to be installed, other than the VMware vSphere Client. This Tutorial covers a very basic and common question asked on Experts Exchange, "How Do I Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.0?"
