{"id":255641,"date":"2016-10-21T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T06:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255641"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T07:33:11","slug":"backup-esxi-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255641","title":{"rendered":"Backup ESXi virtual machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Backup<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\nCopy the whole directory of the virtual machine in VMFS to NFS<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Restore<\/span>:<\/strong><br \/>\nCopy back from NFC to the same VMFS location<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Clone<\/span>:<\/strong><br \/>\nUsing <span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: small\">vmkfstools <\/span>to clone between different VMFS or Virtual Machine Name<\/p>\n<p>Refer to\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1027876\">1027876<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backup: Copy the whole directory of the  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255641\">\u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,332],"class_list":["post-255641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esxi","tag-vmfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255641\/revisions\/255642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}