It’s a script I’ve been using often but I forgot to write a post about this
In VMware ESXi copying thin provisioned VMs using the web interface or console consumes a lot of time and disk IO as it defaults to allocate the new VM as a thick provisioned one.
So I created a special script that avoids default copy operations and copy files as you normally would expect.
https://git.mananet.net/manatails/vmware-thin-mover
Screenshot:
I hope this simple script saves you much of your precious time.
Resignaturing a VMFS datastore was not possible over the new WebGUI. ESX Shell is necessary at this point.
list orphaned VMFS datastores
esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list
Resig VMFS datastore
esxcli storage vmfs snapshot resignature --volume-uuid=
Enable SSH and add the following lines to the .vmx file
You might need to change the pciSlotNumber to something else in order to avoid collision
sound.present = "true"
sound.allowGuestConnectionControl = "false"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "true"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "35"