Erwin Bierens

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Move VMs between ESXi Hosts with SSH

2018-10-31 1 min read Linux VMWare Erwin Bierens

Recently is had some issues with capacity and old server hardware. I created some new ESXi hosts and wanted to move the VMs to the new hosts. Below i will describe how i obtained this:

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Setup Access

Start SSH and ESXi Shell on both servers, you can do this from the Web UI, Hosts > Actions > Services

Now create the destination folder (mostly VM name) on the new ESXi host.

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