cloning and snapshots

[michlong]

i'm relatively new to VMware ESX and i guess this is a simple question for some of you guys to answer.

i have a guest machine, windows 2008, with several snapshots, i wanted to clone the machine and keep the snapshots on the clone as the original machine. is this possible at all?

thanks in advance

[AntonVZhbankov]

It is not possible via standard "Clone" operation, but you can power VM off, copy VM files with Veeam FastSCP, and "Add to inventory" new VM.

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[michlong]

i guess i did something similar.

1. logged onto the ESX console

2.copied the folder containing the VM i was interested in.

3. added to the inventory.

thanks for the answer

[michlong]

I think I just figured that out, I actually logged onto the console of the ESX server and copied the guest folder on the datastore. That seems to have done what I needed.

Thanks for the answer.

[AntonVZhbankov]

Yes, it's completely the same thing, just another way.

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