Dear Team,
We want to transfer one Virtual Machine image from one site to second site, without effecting Source VM. want to know following 2 methods will work ....
Method 1
1) Take clone of Source VM
2) Copy new cloned vm from vmfs datastore to external HDD
3) ship the external hdd to second site
4) Connect external hdd on vcenter converter server
5) restored on any ESX host
or
Method 2
1) Take image backup of Source VM
2) manually copy image backup folder from VCB server to external HDD
3) ship the external hdd to second site
4) Connect external hdd on vcenter converter server
5) restored on any ESX host
want to know which option will be the best or any other options are available to do the needful.
regards
Mr VMware
