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Clone a VM on VMware ESXi with a thin vmdk
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#!/bin/sh | |
# modified from script found at http://serverfault.com/questions/311459/how-to-backup-virtual-machines-on-a-standalone-esxi-host to allow VMs with spaces in the file name | |
if [ $# != 2 ]; then | |
echo "Usage: $(basename $0) <SOURCE VM PATH> <DESTINATION PATH>" | |
echo | |
echo " 1) Only works with VMs with a single .vmdk" | |
echo " 2) VM must be powered off" | |
echo " 3) VM must have no active snapshots" | |
echo | |
echo "Example: $(basename $0) /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VM1 /vmfs/volumes/datastore2" | |
exit | |
fi | |
vmx_path=$(/bin/ls "$1"/*.vmx) | |
vmx=$(basename "$vmx_path") | |
name=$(grep displayName "$1/$vmx" | /bin/awk -F\" '{print $(NF-1)}') | |
vmxf=$(grep vmxf "$1/$vmx" | /bin/awk -F\" '{print $(NF-1)}') | |
nvram=$(grep nvram "$1/$vmx" | /bin/awk -F\" '{print $(NF-1)}') | |
vmdk=$(grep vmdk "$1/$vmx" | /bin/awk -F\" '{print $(NF-1)}') | |
echo "Started copying VM '$name'" | |
vmdir=$(basename "$1") | |
destpath="$2/$vmdir" | |
echo "Source path: $1" | |
echo "Destination path: $destpath" | |
echo "Creating destination path '$destpath'" | |
/bin/mkdir -p "$destpath" | |
echo "Copying configuration files:" | |
echo "vmx: $vmx" | |
/bin/cp "$1/$vmx" "$destpath" | |
echo "vmxf: $vmxf" | |
/bin/cp "$1/$vmxf" "$destpath" | |
echo "nvram: $nvram" | |
/bin/cp "$1/$nvram" "$destpath" | |
echo "Copying virtual disk:" | |
echo "vmdk: $vmdk" | |
/sbin/vmkfstools -d thin -i "$1/$vmdk" "$destpath/$vmdk" | |
echo "Completed copying VM '$name'" |
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