How to Copy VM from one site to another which are not connected...

[MrVmware9423]

Dear Team,

We want to transfer one Virtual Machine image from one site to second site, without effecting Source VM. want to know following 2 methods will work ....

Method 1

1) Take clone of Source VM

2) Copy new cloned vm from vmfs datastore to external HDD

3) ship the external hdd to second site

4) Connect external hdd on vcenter converter server

5) restored on any ESX host

or

Method 2

1) Take image backup of Source VM

2) manually copy image backup folder from VCB server to external HDD

3) ship the external hdd to second site

4) Connect external hdd on vcenter converter server

5) restored on any ESX host

want to know which option will be the best or any other options are available to do the needful.

regards

Mr VMware

[ch1ta]

Additionally, you can deploy Veeam Backup and Replication Free and utilize VeeamZip feature.  VeeamZIP is similar to full VM backup. The backup produced by VeeamZip acts as an independent restore point. 

You’ve mentioned that there is no connection between two hosts, so you’ll need to install one instance of VB&R on VM residing on first host, and another one on VM residing on the second host. It doesn’t matter what VMs will be selected for such a role, since there are no special requirements apart from the fact that these VMs should be Windows-based ones.  

Step-by-step process:

1. On the first server: Perform VeeamZip backup of your VM.
   
   
2. Transfer .vbk-file to the second server.
   
   
3. On the second server: import this file to VB&R console and perform necessary restore operations. Otherwise, you can just double-click VBK in Windows Explorer and go from here.
   
   

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[aravinds3107]

Alternatively you can export the VM is OVF file from source vCenter move to external disk and import it back on your destination vCenter server

[MrVmware9423]

Dear Team,

Many thanks for the response

but will it work if i use 1st method i.e clone method

@aravind: how to convert vm in to ovf format ???

regards

Mr Vmware

[aravinds3107]

how to convert vm in to ovf format ???

1) Select VM > File > Export > Export to OVF Template.
2) Select a location to save the files to > OK.

When the import is finished copy it to EXternal HDD and on the destination server
1) File > Deploy OVF Template

Follow the On Screen and complete the Wizard to complete the deployment