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indianmale
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migration help

Hi there.....Currently Iam using VMware Server 2.0.1..... on my windows xp pro OS.......I want to use VMware ESXi now....... I have 2 virtual machines on VMware Server........So I want take back up of those Virtual Machines and add those to inventory after installing VMware ESXi...... is it possible....? or do i need to create a fresh virtual machines later...?

Thanks and Regards....

Indianmale..

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Troy_Clavell
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nevermind...

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TomHowarth
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Firstly do you have a second machine?

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weinstein5
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You can export those VMs into the OVF format and when you ESXi server is built you can import them into the new ESXi server -

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indianmale
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Thanks.... But I cant find any option like export or import in my VI WebAccess......

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brian_hay
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This is really in response to your other post (...I need my files back...), but that thread is locked due to all of the answers being unhelpful. With that system, there is a good chance that much of your data is still accessible - my understanding is the ESXi has a pretty small disk footprint, and OS installs in general (although it is possible that ESXi is different) usually don't wipe the disk, although they do change the partition information. Anyway, the most imortant thing at this point is not to use the laptop in question. You should either create a copy of the drive (dd from a live CD will be fine for this) or boot from a forensic live CD (you can still find old versions of the Helix distro around the web for free, or you can get the paid version). If you're around a University that has a CS department you may want to look there for help - I sometimes get such requests and have helped to recover data if I have time. If you are doing this yourself get another system (that has no vital data on it) to experiment with.

Anyway, this is not trivial process, but if the data you had is important there is a good chance that you can recover at least some of it.

Good luck!

indianmale
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Thanks Brian for your reply,

I already reformatted my laptop. Any way thanks for your precious response.

Regards,

Indian male.

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