Exporting my virtual machine

[usadba]

Hi, all,

Not entirely sure whether this is the correct forum to be posting in or not, but here goes.

We have recently installed ESXi on a couple of servers and we're very interested in learning how we might export the virtual machine for use later. In particular, this would be great for DR.

I can't seem to see how we can do it - we're using ESXi (not ESX) and are using the Infrastructure Client to manage the server as we can't seem to SSH into the physical server directly (presumably, this is intended behaviour).

How did VMPlanet export their appliances? Is there an add-on which has to be purchased?

Thanks a lot,

USA DBA

[WebMaster]

All the vmplanet images are done in vmware workstation which runs on top of the OS as an application instead of on bare hardware (like ESX)


My ESX servers all use a datastore that is a nfs export from the NAS, so if i wanted to copy images off of that, all i would have to do is mount that NFS share on my workstation.