Hello,
I am thinking of using Scheduled Tasks in VC to hot clone some VM:s regularly to a secondary storage as a complement to the usual backup.
How am I supposed to work with this feature ?
If I schedule a clone to be done every hour, for instance, I get the error message that there already exist a VM with that name and the task fails.
I would expect it to overwrite the first VM clone.
Anybody, please explain this to me.
Regards,
Johnny Lundgren
i would suggest using the VMware converter plugin, it has an "overwrite" option:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/07/30/cool-feature-of-the-vmware-converter-plugin/
Duncan
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Hello Duncan,
thanks for the fast answer. I tried the suggestion you made but I chose virtual machine instead of physical.
Unfortunately, it complained about the VM being powered on or suspended.
Do I have to create a task that shuts the source VM down before importing it ?
Regards,
Johnny Lundgren
Anyone come up with a solution for this? I'm having the same issue... I want to schedule a clone task weekly and overwrite the old VM but it just creates another with the same VM name, and the vmfs file name it appends with "_1"
There should be an easy overwrite option. =/