Thursday, February 8, 2018

Import a VM on VMware ESXi server with vSphere Client 6.0

Okay, so this is the second post in the "funky design" series.
I am writing these down, just in case that I forget about them myself in the future.

With vSphere Client 6.0, creating a VM is relatively easy, just as easy as how you achieve it in VMware Player or VMware Workstation.

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I would expect importing a VM to be done in the same way, but I was totally wrong on this. I searched the client UI for quite a while but did not find anything related to importing.
What is importing?
After I transfer the files of a VM from one ESXi server to the other, I need to be able to edit it and run it. There needs to be some way to let the new ESXi server know about its existence.

Later I learned this from Google --
First, I need to open the data-store browser by right-click on the data-store in the "summary" page, which is anti-intuition enough...

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Second, I need to find the file that I copied to this ESXi server, manually select the ".vmx" file, and click the "add to inventory" button.

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Good job...

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