Move VM to ESXi

[Zas]

Hi,

I would like move VM (Guest Windows) from VMWare Server 1.0.x (Host Red Hat) to ESXi 3.5 U2 (Version free).

I don't have Virtual center neither Converter Enterprise and CLI is read-only (vmfkstools,...).

For example. a VM have splits her disks :

PC1.vmdk (559 bytes), PC1-f001.vmdk (2GB), PC2-f002.vmdk (2GB)

How translate I my VM's to ESXi ?

Thanks!

[kpc]

There's a number of different ways to acheive this - manually or using VM converter. There's a few threads already posted that explain this fully, worth doing a search for them.

[Zas]

I had searched, but don't find for me solution.

Thanks!

[weinstein5]

Why not try out an evauation of VMware Converter to accoomplish this - maybe you will like it enough to purchase -

[Zas]

Evaluation for converter is full (for 30-day) ?

Thanks

[weinstein5]

at least - but might even be 60 to give you really time to test it -

[kpc]

ZAS have a look at this thread, should give you a few ideas:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/164717?tstart=0&start=0

It does kind of depend on how you originally created your VMware Server files, this is roughly how I moved my VM's to ESXi

1) Enable SSH access on ESXi

2) SCP VMware Server VM to ESXi datastore

3) If VM is thin it will need to be converted to fat via RCLI

4) If VM is IDE then will need to be converted to SCSI

5) Once VM is in place on ESXi datastore then add it via the inventory from VI

6) Fix your network cards

Cheers