Importing a vmdk file into ESX 3.1

[david_jerwood]

I wonder if anyone can offer me some advice.

Using Symantec Backup Exec Server Recovery 7.0 I took an image of a physical Windows 2000 server. I then converted this to a .vhdk file. And copied the file to my esx server using WinSCP

I am now trying to get this to run in a virtual machine in my ESX Server.

I have tried creating a new virtual machine and adding a existing virtual disk but when I browse to my file location on the esx server it can not find the file.

However it appears on the datastore and through WinSCP.

[Curdasss]

How did you convert the file to a vmdk? Check out the VM converter. It is probably what you want to use to do P2V's.

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html

[jonnyrocker]

I dont know the product you are using the symantec backup.

But how did you convert to vmdk this is one question ?

Also use vmkfstools -i your.vmdk to import this vmdk to the esx server.

Then go and try and add the server in the vi client.

JR