I have an esxi 4.1 server that we are decommissioning as part of a move. We've decided to archive some of the VMs that were part of a test bed, in case we need to revive them later. I've been copying the VMs directly to a USB hard drive on my Mac with ovftool, but I've found that about half of the testbed VMs cannot be copied. Here is an example of a failure:
wpeters$ ovftool vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/Riverbed/VSH_markt /Volumes/Archive/VSH_markt.ova
Enter login information for source vi://zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/
Username: root
Password: *********
Opening VI source: vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net:443/Riverbed/VSH_markt
Error: vim.fault.FileNotFound
Completed with errors
And a success, on another VM:
wpeters$ ovftool vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/Riverbed/VSH_250m /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova
Enter login information for source vi://zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/
Username: root
Password: *********
Opening VI source: vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net:443/Riverbed/VSH_250m
Opening OVA target: /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova
Writing OVA package: /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
Does anyone have any suggestions of what to look for? I've started and stopped these VMs from the console, so I'm certain the storage is still available, etc.
Thanks!