I am trying to clone a VHD between hosts, and somehow I can't recreate something I did last week. I have to use IP address for the destination as for some reason DNS isn't getting the HostName of these hosts, even though they are using DHCP to get an IP address and all the Windows clients do the same and manage to update DNS. That said... I THOUGHT this was the proper command, after CD to the source folder
vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk [email protected]://vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME
I also tried it with a single forward slash after the IP, which I have also seen when searching, so
vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk [email protected]:/vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME
In both cases I get Failed to clone disk: The destination file system does not support large files (12)
which my searching suggests is a bit of a misnomer, actually indicating I am getting my arguments wrong.
REALLY wishing I had copied the successful command to a reference document last week. Definitely WILL do that this week. :)
EDIT: Well, I am getting closer. I tried
scp /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk [email protected]://vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk
and it copes something, but it's a tiny destination file, not the actual 128GB VHD. Seems like I must be missing something in the SCP command.