Accessing VMFS volumes from remote machines

[jboldt1973]

I apologize if my questions seem like I am green on this topic, I am. Let's say I use VMconverter to convert a machine to a VM, what is the best way to copy the contents to the VMFS volume. I am reading the Server Config guide to find it but if someone can provide a quick and easy answer I would greatly appreciate it.

[BryanMcC · Accepted solution]

SCP usually.. Check out this link.. Its free and built for VMware.

http://www.veeam.com/veeam_fast_scp.asp

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[jboldt1973]

I have used that tool and I even used WinSCP, any other common snaffoos when this type of stuff happens?

[EGRAdmin]

Sometimes with WinSCP it will not rename your file after it's copied to the ESX system and remove the .filepart extension.

you can issue this command to manually remove it;

mv filename.extension.filepart filename.extension

That's really the only thing that I've personally run into so far.

[mcowger]

If you are using converter, it copies the data for you.......