saurabhgale
Contributor
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Automating VM clone/Snapshot/Restore using Vsphere CLI

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Currently by looking into the documentation I used the CLI “vmkfstool –clonevirtualdisk” for cloning the VM Image. I observed that the CLI only cloned the “<VM Name>.vmdk” file but other dependent configuration files like “<VM Name>.nvram , <VM Name>.vmx” etc were not cloned by the CLI.


<![endif]><![if gte mso 9]>How

can we clone the existing VMWare images using CLI so that we have all the required files like “ ’.vmdk’, ‘.vmx’, ‘.nvram’ ” etc available with us?

Snapshot

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Also please let me know if we have a CLI that can

be executed remotely using which we can Query a particular VM for its *MAC

and IP Address*.

Thanks and Regards

-Saurabh

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lamw
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Duplicated thread, please refer here:

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