Cloning a VM from a snapshot

[marius1]

Using VMware Workstation I see I can clone a VM starting from a snapshot.

I don't see a similar feature using VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) free version: is it correct?

What component should I add to enable the same feature to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)?

Should I upgrade to VMware vSphere?

Regards

marius

[Basheer09]

Hi Marius,

You might hv to look at the command line for this.

vmkfstools -i <snapshot.vmdk> <path to new clone.vmdk>

This clone individual disks.

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[bulletprooffool · Accepted solution]

Man pages for vmkfstools available here:

http://www.get-virtual.info/2011/02/01/vmkfstools-man-pages/

[J1mbo]

Also vmware converter (stand-alone edition) can be used to clone running VMs quite neatly.