{"id":70,"date":"2007-03-28T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2007\/03\/release-vmclonepl-for-vmware-esx-server\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T07:56:04","slug":"release-vmclonepl-for-vmware-esx-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/release-vmclonepl-for-vmware-esx-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: vmclone.pl for VMware ESX Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have released a script, vmclone.pl, to assist in the cloning of full Virtual Machines within an ESX Server box.&nbsp; This came about because of a gap in functionality between replicating individual hard disks and the clone option in the VI client that was mostly missing from VMs.<\/p>\n<p>The tool will replicate and rename all the files in a VM with a single command line execution and optionally allows you to tweak (using regex) some of the options such as changing the memory size of a VM.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgregg.com\/projects\/vmclone\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pgregg.com\/projects\/vmclone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have released a script, vmclone.pl, to assist in the cloning of full Virtual Machines within an ESX Server box.&nbsp; This came about because of a gap in functionality between replicating individual hard disks and the clone option in the VI client that was mostly missing from VMs. The tool will replicate and rename all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/release-vmclonepl-for-vmware-esx-server\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Release: vmclone.pl for VMware ESX Server&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbQOUu-18","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}