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issues with cloning

Hi,

I have VCenter 4.1 update 1 and cluster of ESXi servers also on 4.1 update 1.

I have a VM which has two HDD's. Each on differenct LUN's.

When I shutdown the vm and clone it, the cloned vm has both of the vmdk files in the same LUN.

Can anyone please help. thanks

Tejas

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AndreTheGiant
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What do you mean "different LUN"?

Maybe different datastores? One vmdk is on one datastore and the second is on another?

In this case after cloning you must use migrate / storage /advanced and chose another datastore for the second vmdk.

Andre

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Hi Andre,

Pardon me, yes I did mean to say different datastores. I have tried to migrate the second vmdk but that does not work.

I shutdown the cloned vm, then go to datastore > move. Then I move it to the other datastore where I want the vmdk file to be and that works but when I try to start the vm, I get an error can't remember the error

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AndreTheGiant
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Can you retry and post the error message?

PS: be sure that no snapshot exist before doing this steps

Andre

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mnisadmin
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Hi Andre,

I am certain there is no snapshots. I tried something strange and it worked. During the clone, I went to advance to select where the vmdk files are to be located and I selected the datastore other than where I wanted it to be on...I know this sounds absurd...but it worked.

so for first vmdk file, I selected datastore 2 and for 2nd vmdk file I selected datastore 1 and then it worked....the files are in correct datastore....

I know it does not make any sense..but it worked for me. Many thanks for your answer

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