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I need to cold clone a physical box in a VMWare environment. What are people using for this these days?

The last version of this CD that I know of is vCenter Converter BootCD 4.1.1 that was available in the Drivers and Tools section of vCenter 4U2 Enterprise. Last time I checked for it was prior to the MyVMware rollout. Converter PEtool - Add Network and Storage Drivers to the Cold Clone CD/ISO As you P2V various different servers with the VMware Converter Cold Clone CD, you will find that not all the network and storage drivers you require are available on the CD. Why Would You Need VMware Cold Clone ISO? You cannot do a hot conversion every time. Sometimes you need to perform a cold clone to convert your physical servers in order to capture a “dead” state of the server, with all services, software, DBs shut down.

My preference is for VMWare's vConverter ISO, but it appears that this was discontinued. It's no longer available for download on their site from what I can tell (even under old versions).

Converter PEtool - Add Network and Storage Drivers to the Cold Clone CD/ISO As you P2V various different servers with the VMware Converter Cold Clone CD, you will find that not all the network and storage drivers you require are available on the CD.

I found one guy who appears to have an ISO for version 3.0.3 of vConverter posted to his site for download, but I'm eternally skeptical about downloading these types of software from random strangers: http://thatcouldbeaproblem.com/?p=584

I also found some mention of using MOA, but I've never used this and have no idea on how effective it is as a vConverter replacement.http://www.sanbarrow.com/moa.html

One other options seems to be using Acronis - booting off an Acronis disk to capture a .tib, then using a standard installation of vConverter to push the .tib to ESXi.

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I have a copy of the 3.0.3 ISO and yes, that does appear to be the last one they made available. If you want to try your luck with the download, here's the MD5 hash of the copy that I have: C8FDA701B884FE9A96CB6AD10154F2C1. I've used it before and it works OK, but be aware that it's rather limited in which network cards it supports. You might need to pull the hard drive out of your physical box so you can run the clone operation on another machine. For best results, find one that has a broadcom card.

Who told you it was discontinued and no longer available?

VMWare Converter Standalone version 5.5 was released 10/22/2013

edit: Oh wait, you want the cold cloning boot ISO. yes, not sure where that went since v4 I believe. The PE method with an older ISO still should work for most systems. Out of curiosity, why do you need to cold clone one?

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This how to will show you how I managed to import an Ubuntu VM from Hyper-V into a VMware 5.5 environment. This would also apply to importing a physical Ubuntu box.

This how to is a nasty long winded rabbit hole of a work around that takes advantage of the magic of virtualization. It would not have been necessary had VMware not dropped support for its Cold Clone ISO

14 Steps total

Step 1: Download a copy of ESXi 4.0

Log into your VMware account and download a copy of ESXi 4.0

Step 2: Create a New Guest VM

Use the following settings and create a new guest VM in your VMware environment.

•Virtual Machine Version 7
•Guest OS: Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)
•2 VCPUs, 2GB RAM
•2 NICs – e1000
•LSI Logic Parallel
•Ensure the disk has enough storage to hold the ESXi instance we are going to install and the Ubuntu server you plan to import.

Step 3: Install ESXi 4 onto the new Guest VM Instance

Once installed configure the management network of your new virtual ESXi host so you can connect to it from your Network and configure the root account password

Step 4: Add the Virtual ESXi Host to your vCenter Server

You can skip this step if you only have a single ESXi host, but it will make things easier later if you add it to vCenter.

You don't need to apply a license, We can run it in trial mode as we will only need it for a few hours

Step 5: Download the vCenter 3 Cold Clone CD

It is no longer available via VMware (Curse them) I found a copy of it in this blog
http://thatcouldbeaproblem.com/?p=584

Here is the Direct link
http://stuff.thatcouldbeaproblem.com/ISOs/coldclone303.iso

Step 6: Boot The Ubuntu box from the Cold Clone CD

If your Ubuntu box is physical you will have to burn the ISO to a CDDVD

If it is in Hyper-V you can must mount the ISO to the virtual CD drive
Before you Boot the Hyper-V Ubuntu host you will need to add a legacy network adapter. The cold clone boot CD won't recognize the regular virtual NIC

Step 7: Convert

Once the cold clone CD finished booting you will get the vConverter 3 interface.

Create a new clone job and pick the local disk.
Select the virtual ESXi host as the destination host

Start the clone job

Step 8: Wait

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Step 9: Success - Hopefully

Hopefully your Ubuntu box imports Successfully into the virtual ESXi 4 host.

Step 10: Migrate

If your virtual ESXi host was added to a vcenter install you can now migrate it off the virtual host onto a proper physical ESXi server by right clicking on it and selecting Migrate.

Change both the host and the datastore

Step 11: SnapShot

Because I am paranoid and didn't want to start over if I screwed up I took a snapshot of the Ubuntu Guest at this point

Step 12: Edit the Guest Settings

Before you power on the new Ubuntu Guest Edit its settings.

Change the Hard Drive controller to LSI Parallel Logic from BusLogic Parallel which is what the Cold Clone CD will have set it too.

If you miss this setting your Ubuntu box will boot, but it will corrupt its hard drive and will not function correctly.

I made this mistake, It was a good thing I took that snapshot!

Step 13: Power On

Power On your Ubuntu Guest and test it for proper function, Everything should be working now!

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Step 14: Clean Up

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Now that your Ubuntu guest is up and working clean up the Virtual ESXi box we created at the start of this article.

References

• That.. Could be a problem..
• VMware ESX 4 can even virtualize itself

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