Moving VM from ESXi to Workstation

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JimPhreak

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Is there any easy way to move a VM on an ESXi host over to Workstation 11?

I'd like to get my media server VM moved over to my PC so that I can keep that running while I test out different hypervisor options on my new server over the next week or two since ESXi is giving me headaches.

I use Veeam to backup my VMs but it doesn't support restoring to Workstation.

Should I just download the VM directory off the datastore and copy it over to my PC?
 
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markarr

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Should still be able to. Double click the vm, right click, go to manage and then clone. It let me do it connected directly to the esxi host.
 
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This is from workstation client. Connect workstation to the esxi host directly then you can clone the vm to workstation
 
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I see, in that case the easiest way would be shutdown the vm and copy the datastore folder. I apologize for misleading you.
 
JimPhreak

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markarr said:
I see, in that case the easiest way would be shutdown the vm and copy the datastore folder. I apologize for misleading you.
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No worries, I appreciate the effort. Luckily while I was attempting this with you I was already copying the datastore folder over so I didn't waste any time ;).

On the unfortunate side, it's copying at only 9MB/s since it's over my site-to-site VPN which is only 75Mbps. 80GB at 9MB/s = not cool :(.
 
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I was going to say yank the datastore disk put it in copy and put it back but maybe it's not local ?
 
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