[AusNOG] Re Question about ESXI and importing data from a HDD

[Will Dowling]

> Got a linux HDD from an installation that is required again. As we now 
> have esxi infrastructure how does one make an esxi image from a HDD
> I don’t know of any other then to power it up and use a convertor to 
> import it, but before I go to that trouble is there any other way?

VMWare actually have a (now) free tool that can do this conversion for 
you:
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/features.html

It will import various disk image formats and push it across to your 
ESXi instance, so you can use your tool of choice for creating the 
image.
Not sure if its still included, but it used to have a bootable ISO to 
do dump over the wire in the same manner also.

Hope this helps :)


Will Dowling

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