Cloning and migration of VMware esxi virtual machines

I often encounter this problem when using esxi. I need to create multiple virtual machines, all of which are Linux operating systems. Do I have to install them one by one?

VMware esxi, VMWare vcenter server, and vsphere client are the virtualization layer, management layer, and interface layer of vsphere, respectively. The vsphere client, as the interface layer, does not provide the VM cloning function. You must install vcenter management esxi to perform this function.

However, we can do this manually.

The following describes how to clone a virtual machine named "Linux:

1. Access the vsphere client and disable the Virtual Machine Linux to be cloned.

2. Select the esxi server host, click the "configuration" tab on the right, select storage, right-click the storage name on the right, and select "Browse Data Storage"

3. Create a new folder named node3, enter the node2 folder, and copy the files node2.vmx and node2.vmdk to the folder named node3. The replication process is very fast and takes less than one minute.

4. Right-click the node2.vmx file and select "add to configuration". A dialog box is displayed for configuration.

When starting a virtual machine, a prompt is displayed, asking whether the virtual machine is moved or copied, select "I coyied it", OK

6. Cloning is completed. The cloned virtual machine has the same configuration as the source virtual machine environment, including the IP address and user name and password, which must be changed manually.

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