A little script to clone a VM with VMware ESX/ESXi (but no VirtualCenter)
Tuesday Oct 14, 2008
I wanted to strike this one for my own records...
I was looking for an easy way to clone a VM without VirtualCenter and came across this, which worked like a charm, bits of which I had done before for other purposes...
http://hsukumar.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/esx-clone-without-virtual-center
So I came up with a little automation, good for when you have to "create a few"... Change according to your datastore!
Script: clone-system name-of-source-vm name-of-target-vm
SOURCEVM=$1
TARGETVM=$2
DATASTORE=/vmfs/volumes/MY-VM-STORE
mkdir $DATASTORE/"$2"
vmkfstools -i $DATASTORE/"$1"/"$1".vmdk $DATASTORE/"$2"/"$2".vmdk
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Posted at 10:00PM Oct 14, 2008
by danielc in Virtual Desktop
Tags: clone esx esxi machine script virtual vm vmkfstools
Tags: clone esx esxi machine script virtual vm vmkfstools
Champ :-)
Worked a charm
Nice Script!
I have revised it slightly for usag...