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In the GUI, select a source type of “VMware Infrastructure virtual machine”
populate the server /user/password information for the ESXi server where the VM is located, click “Next”
Click to select the VM you want to copy, click “Next”
Select an appropriate destination type (in my case VMware Infrastructure virtual machine), and populate the server / user / password data, click “Next”
Name your VM for the destination – be careful here as unusual characters (like ‘[‘) will end up interpreted differently in the datastore as something like ‘+Ww-‘ – so a name like ‘Test[1]’ would create files in the datastore like ‘Test+Ww-1+X.vmx’ and ‘Test+Ww-1+X.vmdk’, which may not be what you want.
*optional Select the Resource Pool for the VM to be stored in, click “Next”
Review the settings, edit if desired, click “Next”
One final review, click “Finish”
Method #2 – MOVE or COPY, depending on what you select (also generally slower than #1):
Create a NFS server in your network somewhere, giving it anonymous user access
For each ESXi server you want to copy between do the following:
Create a 2nd datastore (in vSphere Client select Inventory, then select the ESXi server, select the “Configuration” tab, select storage from the Hardware list, click the “Add Storage… link)
Select the “Network File System” radio button, click “Next”
Populate the IP or Hostname of the NFS server created in step #1
Populate the share name you created for the account in the Folder field
Give your new datastore a name, and click “Next”
Review your settings, click “Finish”
On the source ESXi server, browse the datastore (navigate to the datastore as above), select the datastore, right click and select “Browse Datastore”
Find the folder that represents the on-disk storage for the VM files, select the folder icon. In the file window, select all the files you want to move (usually all of them) (* here you may want to first use snapshot manager to merge any snapshots so there is less data to move).
Right click on the selected files and click “Move to”. Read and understand the warning that pops up. Select your destination datastore (the NFS datastore).
Reverse the process on the other ESXi server, moving from the NFS datastore to the local datastore.
Once you have moved or copied all the files, select the .vmx file in the datastore, right click and “Add to Inventory”.
When in Windows Server 2003 your VMware tools needs updated, but clicking on update VMware tools via the GUI doesn’t do anything, what do you do?
Uninstall VMware Tools via Add/remove programs, then after restart, from vSphere client select the VM in the inventory, click Inventory –> Virtual Machine –> Guest –> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools, then log into the VM and double click on the CD Rom from My Computer.
OOPs, I accidentally included strange characters in the name of my VM, and now the datastore is showing some wacky representation of my VM name, how do I fix this? Well, you would normally want to do something like double click on the file and simply give it a new name – however you will get an error when you try this with the virtual disk file:
At the moment, vSphere Client does not support the renaming of virtual disks as the machines that use this disk may loose access to the disk.
Oh crap…
So, the solution I have used, is to simply move the VM like in #1 above in the same datastore, giving it a new name in the process. Seems to work for me, but for such a simple process, its not very fast. If you wanted to move it, your going to have to delete the old copy from disk after the new copy is in place.
I use my iPhone as a pager (via SMS alerts) and need a ringtone that can ALWAYS wake me up in the middle of the night. The default ringtones from Apple just don’t cut it (especially the ones used for text alerts). So, like any geek, I created my own.
Here are a few different tones you can use for alarm sounds or very annoying ringtones.
Figured I would create a quick how-to on converting the MRDS mines data to POI. This covers how to manually create a file from MRDS format to Garmin POI format. To do this in an automated fashion (no real clue why you wouldn’t), see a future post on how to use MRDS-2-POI an application I created to automate the re-formatting.
First, go to the MRDS download page. Select you area of interest by clicking on the area you want to download:
Then select CSV from the download dropdown next to “Choose Format”, and select “Get Data”:
Then either download the zipped file, or the clear text file by right clicking and saying “save target as”
Once you have the file downloaded (as either text or csv), then you can massage the data manually:
as you can see there is a header line with a leading comma, and then the rows start with no leading comma. To import via POI Loader, you are going to need to delete the header line, and re-arrange the fields from the format:
POI Loader accepts .csv files that contain longitude, latitude, speed alert information, and optional comments. You can create .csv files using a text editor, MS Excel, or a similar program.
POI Loader assumes a .csv file utilizes the following format for each POI (brackets [ ] denote optional text):
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