{"id":3575,"date":"2019-07-09T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:14:34","slug":"how-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-esxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/how-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-esxi\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clone a Virtual Machine on VMware ESXi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having trouble with cloning a virtual machine in VMware ESXi? Worry no more. This guide will take you through how to clone a virtual machine on VMware ESXi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Clone a Virtual Machine on VMware ESXi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To clone a virtual machine on VMware ESXi host, all you need to do is to copy all the *.vmdk<\/strong> and *.vmx<\/strong> files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, login to your ESXi host and open the datastore where your virtual machines are stored. To open the datastore, click on the hostname\/IP address of the VMware ESXi host and navigate to Configuration<\/strong> > Storage<\/strong>. Right click on datastore<\/strong> and click browse datastore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Clone<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next, create the directory for the new virtual machine clone. To create a directory, click on the datastore root directory and click the create new directory icon. In this demo, the clone VM directory is named, es-node-01-clone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"create<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Poweroff the virtual machine that you want to clone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select the Virtual machine you want to clone to open its directory storage. After that select and copy the *.vmdk<\/strong> and *.vmx<\/strong> files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Select-vmdk-vmks-files\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Open the new virtual machine directory (es-node-01-clone<\/strong>) and paste the file copied above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the copying is done, you need to register the cloned virtual machine. Hence, right on the .vmx<\/strong> file and click Add to Inventory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"register-cloned-vmware-esxi-vm\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Set the name of the Cloned virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"set<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the next step, select the resource pool on which you wish to run the virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"vmware-esxi-resource-pool\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the next step, click finish to finalize the creation of a cloned virtual machine. You can now power on your cloned VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you power it on, the VMware ESXi needs to know whether the VM was moved or copied in order to configure management and networking features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"vmware-esxi-copied-vm\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since we did copy, select I Copied It<\/strong>. Press Ok to power on your cloned virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there you go. That is all on how to clone a virtual machine on VMware ESXi. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related Tutorials;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How to Upload ISO File to VMware ESXi Datastore using vSphere Client<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having trouble with cloning a virtual machine in VMware ESXi? Worry no more. This guide will take you through how to clone a virtual machine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,36,208],"tags":[1027,1028,206],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-virtualization","category-vmware","tag-clone-vm","tag-esxi","tag-vmware-esxi","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}