Esxi 5.5 clone vm without vcenter

Author: Konstantinos Tsoukalas ,

In a previous article I mentioned the required step to create a Virtual Machine in vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.7.

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In this article, you 'll learn how to clone a virtual machine, on vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.7.

The Virtual Machine cloning, is usually an easy two-step process when you have a vCenter server. But what if for any reason you do not have a vCenter server, and you need to clone a virtual machine from the ESXi host?

The next steps are going to explain how to achieve this.

How to Clone Virtual Machines in vSphere ESXi 6.7.

In order to clone a Virtual machine from ESXi, you have to find out first, where are stored the Virtual machine's files and it's virtual disk.

To do that:

1.

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Power Off (Shut down) the machine that you want to clone.
2. Then, select the Virtual machine that you want to clone and click Edit. (or right-click on the machine and select Edit Settings)

3. At Virtual Hardware tab, expand the Hard Disk 1 and notice the name and the location

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