{"id":255675,"date":"2016-10-31T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255675"},"modified":"2016-10-31T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:30:00","slug":"esxi6-vm-disk-clone-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255675","title":{"rendered":"ESXi6  vm disk clone &amp; convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h1><strong>Login into ESXi shell<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">vmkfstools -i <em>input<\/em> <em>output<\/em> -d <em>format<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">-a <em>adaptertype<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>eg:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\"><em> <span style=\"font-size: small\">vmkfstools -i &#8220;\/vmfs\/volumes\/Datastore\/examplevm\/examplevm.vmdk&#8221; &#8220;\/vmfs\/volumes\/Datastore2\/newexamplevm\/newexamplevm.vmdk&#8221; -d thin <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>-a buslogic<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Refer to<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=1028042\">Cloning and converting virtual machine disks with vmkfstools (1028042)<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/search.do?cmd=displayKC&amp;docType=kc&amp;docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&amp;externalId=3443266\">Converting a virtual disk into a Raw Device Mapping (3443266)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Login into ESXi shell vmkfstools -i inpu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/?p=255675\">\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":[18],"tags":[166,251,338],"class_list":["post-255675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-download","tag-clone","tag-esxi","tag-vmdk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255675","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=255675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255677,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255675\/revisions\/255677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhenglei.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}