Category: Virtualization

How to thin provision an exsiting VMWare disk on ESXi without virtual center

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1. Login in VMware Esxi Server using putty (SSH) 2. Go to VM directory. 3. # cd  /vmfs/volumes/4dfb1103-9a5de242-b998-001ec9dd7bb1/nucnoemc01 4.  # vmkfstools -i nucnoemc01.vmdk nucnoemc01-thin.vmdk -d 'thin' -a lsilogic Destination disk format: VMF… more »

Linux p2v in Xen

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rsync works great on production enviroments, We had paravirtualized some servers with these method:  rsync -ave ssh --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev (if you are using udev) root@runingserver:/  /mnt/newserverimage/ after this:  mkdir /mn… more »