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  • 1.  VM Cloning Windows 2003

    Posted Dec 14, 2021 04:23 AM

    I have VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3a

    I want to clone a Windows 2003 machine:
    VMWare name: VM1
    Windows Name(OS): VM1
    Domain joined
    IP address fixed

    New Vm will be called VM2

    I'm thinking of using this clone procedure:
    1. Shutdown VM1
    2. Clone VM1 to VM2 running the wizard with customisations
    3. Start VM1 [as users need the downtime to be as small as possible]
    4. Turn off NIC for VM2
    5. Start VM2
    6. Move VM2 from domain to workgroup; ie. take VM2 out of domain
    7. Change IP address of VM2 to new IP
    8. Shutdown VM2
    9. Turn on NIC for VM2
    10. Start VM2
    11. Join VM2 to domain

    Questions
    1. Is the above procedure correct?
    2. If I adopt the above procedure do I need to do a manual sysprep?
    3. Do I need to copy the sysprep utility from the Windows install CD/DVD into VMWare
    somewhere for VMWare to do it's customisation process?



  • 2.  RE: VM Cloning Windows 2003

    Posted Dec 24, 2021 06:56 AM

    you are good to go

    also do not enable NIC on VM2 until you make sure machine SID is different than VM1

    use this tool

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psgetsid

     



  • 3.  RE: VM Cloning Windows 2003

    Posted Jan 11, 2022 04:44 AM

    Thanks.
    Clone worked well!!