What is the best wat to copy a vm?

[sharoncook]

I want to copy a vm to a new host. i have seen Veeam , WinSCP but wondered if it there was a better way to copy the vm faster . Would it help if a PC was on the same IP address listing ?

I have tried using Veeam but it is so slow .

Thanks

[nielse]

If you power off the VM you can export is as OVF/OVA and import it somewhere else. Depending on how fast this goes mostly depends on the server and your internet connection.

You can also VeeamZIP a VM using the free Veeam B&R version.

[sharoncook]

I have downloaded the Veeam Free Softwarer but wanted to use Fast SCP but couldn;t find it in the software - i have about 30GB's to downloadand VEEAM Zip seeme so slow

[nielse]

FastSCP is old and deprecated. VeeamZIP is the new way to go. You will just have to wait for it to finish and download. SCP won't be any faster.

[sharoncook]

Would it be easier to set up a vm with Server 2003 on the same ip addressing , install Veeam and then do the zip that way ?

[William22]

Hi

Welcome to the communities.

you did not explain about storage .

If you are using SAN then connect storage to existing vm then move inbetween datastore.

"With normal actions you get normal  results."

[sharoncook]

Hi

The Storage I intend to use is another VM Server on another Exsi host or to download to my own PC then upload to another host. No SAN

Regards

[ramakrishnak]

i would say ovftool.

ovftool can be installed in win/linux desktops and can import/export VMs from source standalone esxi/NFS/web location to destination Standalone esxi or to vCenter

ovftool allows various supported disk conversion matrix and the source/destination can be original vmdk format or ovf format.

if you prefer to store the disk in intermediate place like NFS/or web then converting the disk to ova or ovf format would be ideal

Thanks,

[prashanthbgoud]

Are both the hosts part of same cluster? does they share any common datastore???

can you elaobarate more??

[sharoncook]

The hosts are on the same ip addressing, they do not sahe a common datastore

[PhillyDubs]

Use VMware Converter or just connect to the host with the vSphere Client and download the directory to your computer and then upload to the other host.

[ch1ta]

As it’s has been already mentioned, in order to meet your expectations you can utilize VeeamZIP functionality, which has come to take FastSCP place.

VeeamZIP is similar to full VM backup. Nevertheless, when you perform backup with VeeamZIP, there is no need to configure a backup job and schedule it; instead, the backup process for selected VMs can be started immediately. Minimum settings are required during this type of backup: backup destination, compression level and enabling or disabling application-aware image processing.

All you need to do is to add both of the hosts to VB&R console, VeeamZIP given VM, restore it to the new host.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.