I am out of drive space, can't connect a nas for some reason(forget this topic for now) nor add a drive, out of room. SO
anyone tried to clone an ESX server to an external drive, put in new larger drives, clone ESX back to the previous, and have it work?
Yup - can be done . . .
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vicfg-cfgbackup.php
Though if you are just adding space for Vms, just add an additional datastore.
Not checked out, until now.
But it doesn't take so long to install an new Server!
I'm not sure to understand what you want to do: do you want to resize a host disk??
If you are out of space you can simple add a new datastore.
You can always backup (in several ways) your VM and reinstall your ESX and is more simple and faster than try to make a clone.
Andre
Yup - can be done . . .
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vicfg-cfgbackup.php
Though if you are just adding space for Vms, just add an additional datastore.
No. Replace the current hHD with larger ones. The pizza only holds two and they are mirrored and out of room.
And it is a complex ESX install networking wise; simple backup and rebuild is not a good use of time.
Sorry the question wasn't clear. ?:|
It only holds two drives, connecting a nas has proved unsuccesful.