{"id":173,"date":"2013-09-26T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:26:32","slug":"esxi-clone-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"esxi clone disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Command to clone a disk from an esxi VM from command line.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the VM is shut down.<br \/>\nThen you can just:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cd \/vmfs\/volumes\/Datastore<\/p>\n<p>mkdir NEW_VM<\/p>\n<p>cd SOURCE_VM<\/p>\n<p>vmkfstools -i source.vmdk ..\/NEW_VM\/new_vm.vmdk<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Command to clone a disk from an esxi VM from command line. Make sure the VM is shut down. Then you can just: cd \/vmfs\/volumes\/Datastore mkdir NEW_VM cd SOURCE_VM vmkfstools -i source.vmdk ..\/NEW_VM\/new_vm.vmdk \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meekconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}