Here's the situation. I have two sets of ESX servers, in different cities. I need to get one VM from one cluster, to the 2nd cluster. My thought was move the vm from vmfs, to ext3(/vmimages) then ftp it over to a ext3 partition on the other esx server, then use vmkfstools -i to import it back in..
Now I thought I had used this process before in the past, and I do this type of thing very rarely, so I can't remember exactly what I did to get it to work, but when I just tried
# vmkfstools -i license3.vmdk /vmimages/machines/license3test.vmdk
Destination disk format: VMFS thick
Cloning disk 'license3.vmdk'...
Failed to clone disk : File system isn't VMFS (35).
Which I guess makes sense. What needs to change? Or is this not the proper way to do it and should I be doing something different?
Running vc2.5 and esx 3.5U1 (u2 i think in the other location..)