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  • 1.  Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 07:58 AM

    Hello Friends,

    can someone please help me find a tool (Free or Payed) which allows me to Copy files from a datastore ( or via ssh) from a VM ESXi ?!

    I mean a tool which can Handle the Files in THIN Format! Because if i allocate 250GByte of size for a Server in Thin and try to Copy it from Datastore to my local PCto take the file for backop e.g. i have to Download it in THICK/ Flat Format! that's horrible... even WinSCP doas not check thats it's thin... all tool just see the full Filesize!

    it would be really great if someone knows a few tools for Managing this kind of Problem!

    Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 10:15 AM

    Veeam has a superb product for this. Both FastSCP if all you want is the files which is free, or Backup and Replication which has superb speeds especially when using vSphere and Veeam 4 with the changed block tracking.

    I have installed this at many of our customer sites and found it to be really reliable and efficient. Definitely worth checking out (30 day trial of Backup and Rep.) or just the free FastSCP.

    http://www.veeam.com

    Hope this helps,

    Dan



  • 3.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 11:17 AM

    Veeam FastSCP is free.


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  • 4.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 12:16 PM

    Jupp but that tool does not Support THIN Copying! Thats what i NEED!



  • 5.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 12:57 PM

    Looks like they haven't added that functionality in the free FastSCP. But the paid for Backup and Replication, leaves you with a compressed Veeam backup file (.vbk) which will be equal to, and in most cases a lot less than the size of the volume of data actually stored in the .vmdk. It depends exactly what functionality you want out of these backups. The client allows for you to mount any VMs disk in the .vbk file in seconds and you will see the full folder structure at which point you can copy any files you want to restore out. Or restore the whole virtual machine back into the environment.

    Maybe take a look at the ghetto scripts:

    http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760

    These are a free alternative and it looks like they output in a variety of formats including thin. Not tried them myself but they are quite popular.

    Hope this helps,

    Dan



  • 6.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 01:00 PM

    Hi,

    ok i'll try the payd veeam then... maybe i get a trial license to check it...

    ghetto... i have a backup script running which stores at a nfs nas or locally on the store :smileyhappy: this works, also works a migration from server to server with vm convert



  • 7.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 03:02 PM

    You can use also VMware Standalone Converter 4.x

    Andre



  • 8.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 17, 2010 03:05 PM

    But that cannot copy from a VM Server to a local disc in my pc?!



  • 9.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 18, 2010 04:28 AM

    If you have a VMware Server you can simple copy the files.

    If you mean an ESX/ESXi server than the aswer is yes, just export from vSphere to VMware Workstation and save the files on your PC.

    Andre



  • 10.  RE: Tool to copy / Move / Download vmdk Drives

    Posted May 18, 2010 06:17 AM

    Hi Yes that was my Second Idea, to convert the Server from the ESX Server to a VMWare Server running PC!

    :smileywink: