copying vms over two servers with physical disks

[krles1]

Hello,

which is the best way to copy vm's from one physical server with local raid to another server. I need single copy because upgrading the hardware. Both servers will run ESX 3.5

Thanks for answers

Michal Krlin

[weinstein5]

Without Virtual Center you will need to manually copy the vm directories between the ESX hosts - and then register the vm on the new esx host

[krles1]

well but how exactly? I dont have any idea right now. using ftp or other protocol ?

[weinstein5]

ftp by default is blocked on your esx host - you will need to log into the service console and use the linux based scp command - if you are not comfortable with in Linux you might look at WinSCP a freeware tool that will allow you to move files to and form your ESX hosts -

[kjb007]

You can also use converter to do this for you.

-KjB

[krles1]

thank you both, i think i now know how to do it.

Vm Converter is nice tool but without proper licence is two step import and i dont have there enough space.