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Installing, Configuring and Upgrading ESX Server

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information. On a Linux host, expand the SCSI Drives tree and click the name of

the drive you want to migrate. Click Choose… to see the location information.

2. Using a Web browser, log in to the ESX Server machine as root and click Manage

Files. Use the file manager in the VMware Management Interface to perform all

the file copy steps described below.

3. In the file manager, navigate to the location of the source disk files. Select the

main disk (.vmdk or .dsk) file for the virtual disk you are migrating, then click

Copy.

4. Navigate to the vmfs folder and open the folder for the VMFS partition where

you want to store the virtual disk file. Click Paste.

A dialog box appears with the message “You are transferring one or more

console virtual disks to a VMFS partition. In order for virtual machines to access

these disks, they must be converted to the VMFS format. Although you can

convert console disks at any time, it is recommended that you do so now.”

The file you are pasting is selected. Click OK.

The virtual disk is imported to the VMFS partition.

Note: If you do not see the message about transferring disks, there is a problem

with the import. Be sure you are pasting to the correct vmfs folder.

5. Select the newly imported .dsk file, then click Edit Properties.

6. Change the user and group names in the right-hand column so the file’s owner

and group match those of the user who will run the virtual machine.

If necessary, change the filename extension to .dsk.

Click OK.

7. Log out, then log back in as the user who will run the new virtual machine.

8. Create a new virtual machine as described in Creating a New Virtual Machine on

page 59. When you set the file name for the new virtual machine’s disk, be sure

to use the virtual disk file you just copied to the VMFS partition.

9. Boot your virtual machine using VMware ESX Server and follow the instructions

below for installing VMware Tools and the network driver in the virtual machine.

Some guest operating systems display messages about detecting hardware

changes and require you to reboot the virtual machine. This occurs because

VMware ESX Server uses an emulation for chipsets and BIOS that is slightly

different from those used by other VMware products.

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