ESXI: Move VM between hosts
Here is a “how-to” to move VMs between ESXi hosts without vCenter and completely for FREE:
Here is the scenario:
We have two ESXi hosts: “esxi-old” and “esxi-new” like below:
We want our VMs (here webserver, devFactory and database) to be copied (or you may call it moved/migrated) to the “esxi-new” host.
Follow these steps carefully without skipping any:
A: On esxi-old host
- Create a new user on ESXi host (I recommend for user name: ovfuser) follow this tutorial from buildvirtual.net
- WARNING: Use only alphanumeric characters in the password, else you will get an error! [REF #1]
- Assign the admin role for this ovfuser
- Remember to remove this user once all vm copy/migration […]