I havd to deploy a lot of different Esxi5.5 hosts which needs to have different templates on them so I decided to go the cloning way and the choice fell on clonezilla. So far I cannot get partclone to work with the device. I have about 6 different partitions but when it comes to the biggest 1.8T partition, it shoots out a couple of warnings with LUN ID MISMATCH and then hangs. It actually tells me to press enter to continue but I can't do anything and have to reboot the box. dd works without problems but I rather copy the 40gb which is just the written data than the whole 1.8T of the array..
Hardware is a HP DL380p G8 with a RAID5 running through a P420i controller.
I also tried to see if I could accomplish this by installing partclone on ubuntu 14.04 but for some reason I don't have the command partclone.vmfs?? Is there any dependencies? This is the only utility which is missing.
Thanks. :)
- Chris
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Hi all,
I havd to deploy a lot of different Esxi5.5 hosts which needs to have different templates on them so I decided to go the cloning way and the choice fell on clonezilla. So far I cannot get partclone to work with the device. I have about 6 different partitions but when it comes to the biggest 1.8T partition, it shoots out a couple of warnings with LUN ID MISMATCH and then hangs. It actually tells me to press enter to continue but I can't do anything and have to reboot the box. dd works without problems but I rather copy the 40gb which is just the written data than the whole 1.8T of the array..
Hardware is a HP DL380p G8 with a RAID5 running through a P420i controller.
I also tried to see if I could accomplish this by installing partclone on ubuntu 14.04 but for some reason I don't have the command partclone.vmfs?? Is there any dependencies? This is the only utility which is missing.
Thanks. :)
- Chris
As described here:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/known-issues.php
http://clonezilla.org/downloads/stable/release-notes.php
There is an issue about VMFS5 imaging. Therefore we have changed to use dd instead of partclone to process VMFS.
Steven.