How to mount the vmdk file to another virtual machine
How to import a VM (vmdk, ovf, ova) into VMware vSphere (vCenter) | VIDEO TUTORIAL
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hey this is digital bike computing we're
going through the steps on how to import
a VM into a VMware vSphere environment
so you can do this by connecting
directly to a ESXi host or you can do it
through a V Center setup as well now a
couple of different options available to
you so the first one is what's called
OVF templates where you can simply
download a OVF template off the off off
the internet for example and import that
into your V sphere environment and the
easy steps on how to do that would be to
go into file new excuse me not file new
file deploy OVF template and what this
is going to do is you go and navigate to
where you know your you have your OVF
for your OVA file open next and next and
we just call it test vm next where we're
going to copy a - we'll just copy it
onto here and leave it as is alright so
what this is doing is this is actually a
VM so like essentially like a template
VM that you can go and download off the
internet you can convert VMs into these
templates where you can easily then
import them in and that will add it into
my VMware environment as you can see
here it's creating a test vm vm here and
then you can go and open that and
actually get it to start running okay
that is the first step now that is a
simple step but it doesn't always let
you say import things like VMDK files
and things like that now the way that
you can do that is actually fairly it's
a bit more complicated but it's it's a
bit of a trick on how to do it but it's
still pretty easy on how to do that so
we're going to let that run we're just
going to minimize that now let's say
I've got a VM I've got a test VM I know
it's got some VMDK files it's somewhere
on a hard drive and I want to import
that as a disk on a VM somewhere easy
way to do that is to create a new
virtual machine alright just create a
dummy virtual machine we'll call it
another test VM I'm going to copy it
here yep we'll just leave that as
default you can go and change all this
later on anyway and finish so that is
now going to create a new VM all right
we'll just let that finish as you can
see it's the stuff some stuff happening
down here in the progress in the recent
tasks you're in progress that's for the
creating of the new VM but also
deploying that new OVF template that
we're doing here so we'll check back
once that's that VM is completely
finished getting built
so that is now finish as you can see the
other ones still running but now that VM
has been created
brand-new dummy VM we're gonna go into
edit settings now as you can see it's
got a virtual hard disk if I go and run
that it's obviously not going to bring
anything up because we haven't installed
an operating system or anything like
that so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to say remove and remove there is
nothing to remove that disk from this
particular VM okay now remember you
don't remove it unless you actually know
what you're doing don't remove it if
you're not sure if there's any data on
it or anything like that so just go
ahead and remove that that VM that disk
excuse me from that VM and then once
it's removed what we're going to go do
is we're now going to go and select
alright so edit again you'll see that
there's no disk we're now going to go
and select that VMDK for that we know
exists somewhere else add hard disk use
an existing virtual disk now this has to
be somewhere on your network and you
have to have gotten it into a data store
so you want to import that VMDK into a
data store we're not going to go through
how to do that but you need to get that
VMDK into a data store first so I'm
going to connect to this ready nas data
store that I've got here and I know for
the for the purpose of this
demonstration that I used to have a VM
that I removed from VMware but now I
want to re-add it so I want to re add
that that file that VMDK file just going
to sort it and that's the one that I'm
looking at test
and that is my VMDK file now that is
zero bytes it's probably not the best
example
BL VMDK file will be probably bigger
okay next next finish that is now added
that VMDK file into this another test VM
VM you see the progress on the bottom
that is now going to add it it's going
to change all the configuration of that
VM it's an update all the arm or the cop
files that are in the background the VM
X Files all those sort of things and
that is it that is how to import a VM
VMDK file into your VMware environment
now similarly we're not going to go
through and finish this off because it
will take a bit of time but essentially
this is via the OVF once this finishes
you'll then be able to go and execute
your test VM run it start it up and then
you'll be able to have that VM up and
running with whatever that OVF OVA file
was that you've acquired so that is the
steps on how to do both the ova ova
as well as importing it virally VMDK
file as well so I hope you found this
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