Migrate with SSH

[maksum]

Hello

I want to ask a question.Can we migrate a virtual machine one esx host to other esx host with ESX console or SSH ,For example with Putty..

Thanks your help..

[vmroyale]

If you want to move powered off VMs across ESX hosts, try using FastSCP or winscp to move the VMs.

Good Luck!

[jshelly]

I recently had to do this and simply used putty and scp via command line. worked like a charm.

Login to the host server where the vm resides. (I tar'd the vm's directory)

scp source.tgz root@destservername:/vmfs/volumes/datastorename/

Unless I'm wrong, I don't believe there is a way to use winscp from esx host to esx host without copying local first

[sbeaver]

SSH would be the best bet and I have done this before on numerous occasions but it is painly slow no matter how fat the network is.

Steve Beaver

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[maksum]

Sorry

I think , I ask my question bad.I want to ask that , We have Esx cluster.I want to migration with command line.Not VMware Infrastructure Client.Can I migrate a vm machine other host with command line !!

[sbeaver]

With powershell and the powershell toolkit for VMware you can yes

[jshelly]

If it's powered off. see my post

[azn2kew]

You might have to use vmkfstools command line to import/export vmdk (guests). Here is more details of command line syntax.

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Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems Inc.

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