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  • 1.  USB Datastore shuttle for VMs between vSphere 4 to Fusion on Laptop

    Posted Oct 04, 2009 04:07 AM

    I would like to be able to shuttle my VMs from my ESX 4 server lab machine to my MacBook Pro running Fusion on Snow Leopard. Is there a way to create a Datastore on a USB drive that could also be read from Fusion? If this is possible, I would copy the VMs that are in my lab, and take them with me on the road when I have to copy the ones I need to the MacBook Pro and demo them. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.



  • 2.  RE: USB Datastore shuttle for VMs between vSphere 4 to Fusion on Laptop

    Posted Oct 04, 2009 04:27 AM

    Welcome to the Forums - the only way you would be able to do this is by exporting the VM to OVF format and then your should be able to import the VM into fusion -

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  • 3.  RE: USB Datastore shuttle for VMs between vSphere 4 to Fusion on Laptop

    Posted Oct 05, 2009 02:03 PM

    You could set up an NFS server on your Mac and mount it the the ESX server as a datastore. You can then copy the files from the ESX server datastore to the NFS datastore (script, etc.) I don't know what conversion you would need if any.



  • 4.  RE: USB Datastore shuttle for VMs between vSphere 4 to Fusion on Laptop

    Posted Oct 05, 2009 05:55 PM

    I was looking at NFS last night, but could not get ESX to use it as a datastore. Connection problems.



  • 5.  RE: USB Datastore shuttle for VMs between vSphere 4 to Fusion on Laptop

    Posted Oct 05, 2009 07:24 PM

    NFS must be set up for anonymous access and it must accept NFS version 3.

    Your exports file should look something like

    /backup 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,anonuid=96,anongid=96,secure,root_squash,no_wdelay,async)

    The anonuid and anongid should match up with the anonymous nfs user (nfsnobody ???) that nfs runs under.