SCP'd a VM from 1 ESXi host to 2nd. Add the VM to the 2nd Host's Inventory?

[sant0sk1]

I have 2 ESXi hosts with local storage. I have enabled the unsupported SSH facility on both and can successfully move a VM using a command similar to:

scp -r winxppro/ root@host2:/vmfs/volumes/main/

The problem is that the ESXi host which I copied the VM to does not have it registered in its inventory. I recall in vmware server you could create a new VM or open an existing VM on disk. I can't seem to find the latter in my Vitrual Infrastructure Client.

Is this possible? If so, how?

[Rubeck · Accepted solution]

Use the VI Client datastore bowser and find the .vmx file in the VMs directory on your datastore... Right click and select 'Add to inventory'...

/Rubeck

[rajesh_battala]

you can use vmware-cmd on the Esx console to register the vm

vmware-cmd -s <path to the copied vm .vmx file> register

that will register VM to the inventory

[bjorns]

Where do I find the datastore browser, or is it not available for the free versions of VMI Client / ESXi 3.5.0?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

It's available in all editions. Right click on the datastore and select browse datastore.

[bjorns]

Thanks, I must be blind on my eyes.

[kpc]

rajesh, there is NO vmware-cmd command in ESXi, well not that I can find anyway...

Ahhh sorry it comes with the Remote CLI

[heikki_m]

Could you report your access speeds in terms of network performance to your datastore via the browser or SCP?

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