Like Steve mentioned VMware converter will work also if you have nfs share you can mount that on both server and move the vm to nfs on inside then move off nfs on other server then add back to inventory on new server.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 9:40 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > VMware converter is my fail safe. If you have vcenter server it's fairly > painless to migrate to the new host with the guest powered off > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 8:19 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > >> I have a couple stand alone ESXi servers (6.5.0). I'm trying to move a >> 30GB server image from one server to another. Trying to download the VM >> machine image file onto my desktop with VCenter, it gets about 80% done >> and times out. Same with trying Veeam backup tools. It throws an error >> after about 80%. I'm running an SCP transfer now, but it's only running >> at about 300Kb/s (Searching online, I guess SCP and ESXi is artificially >> slow for some reason) so I won't know if it completes for another day. >> >> Is there anything that I'm missing to get the VMImage off the physical >> hardware? I've moved lots of VMImages before just like this, and never >> had a problem. The Virtual server is shut down while I'm trying to move >> the image files. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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