{"id":1306,"date":"2020-08-24T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-04-03T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T04:48:53","slug":"quickly-move-copy-thin-provisioned-vms-in-vmware-esxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/quickly-move-copy-thin-provisioned-vms-in-vmware-esxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly move\/copy thin-provisioned VMs in VMware ESXi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a script I&#8217;ve been using often but I forgot to write a post about this<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>So I created a special script that avoids default copy operations and copy files as you normally would expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/git.mananet.net\/manatails\/vmware-thin-mover\">https:\/\/git.mananet.net\/manatails\/vmware-thin-mover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1307\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-24-16_02_19-default.tlp-root@esxi.home_.mananet.net_22-Bitvise-xterm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope this simple script saves you much of your precious time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a script I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/quickly-move-copy-thin-provisioned-vms-in-vmware-esxi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quickly move\/copy thin-provisioned VMs in VMware ESXi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}