I need to clone a guest and don't have access to vCenter. I am going to use vmkfstools to do this and read KB: 1028042. This VM has a snapshot and the article says to grab the most current snapshot delta to get the most resent version of the guest. How do I know what file it is? I checked the vmx and found this scsi0:0.fileName = "CUC PUB 8.6-000001.vmdk" is this the file? I have these in the datastore.
/vmfs/volumes/53040877-a821ab54-2d1a-001018cfccf2/CUC PUB 8.6 # ls -lah
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9k May 15 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1.4k Feb 22 18:22 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 6.3M May 15 11:40 CUC PUB 8.6-000001-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 15.8G May 16 11:11 CUC PUB 8.6-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 396 Feb 24 16:27 CUC PUB 8.6-000001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 6.0G Feb 21 01:06 CUC PUB 8.6-6cd4d1b0.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 6.0G Feb 24 16:37 CUC PUB 8.6-Snapshot1.vmsn
-rw------- 1 root root 200.0G Feb 24 16:27 CUC PUB 8.6-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8.5k May 16 11:01 CUC PUB 8.6.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 500 Feb 21 00:57 CUC PUB 8.6.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409 May 15 11:40 CUC PUB 8.6.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.8k May 15 11:41 CUC PUB 8.6.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 May 15 08:59 CUC PUB 8.6.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510.7k May 15 11:42 vmware.log
Thanks for any help
Yes, this disk is the snapshot: 396 Feb 24 16:27 CUC PUB 8.6-000001.vmdk
For more information please, look to this book:
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf?src=vmdk
Yes, this disk is the snapshot: 396 Feb 24 16:27 CUC PUB 8.6-000001.vmdk
For more information please, look to this book:
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf?src=vmdk
Thank You, Just to clarify the file I noted from the .vnx would be the file I want to copy for the current state of the vm? Would like to know for future tasks.
Hello,
and the changes since the snapshot was taken are in this file:
-rw------- 1 root root 15.8G May 16 11:11 CUC PUB 8.6-000001-delta.vmdk
Best regards,
Pablo
Hello,
if you have ssh access to the esxi host, i would recommend you to commit the snapshot:
VMware KB: Committing snapshots on ESXi host from command line
Then copy the virtual machine's vdisk:
-rw------- 1 root root 200.0G Feb 24 16:27 CUC PUB 8.6-flat.vmdk
Best regards,
Pablo