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I need to cold clone a physical box in a VMWare environment. What are people using for this these days?

The name is correct, and the iso is called coldclone.iso. I don't believe the VMWare Cold Clone Converter CD is a freebie, and only if your are correctly licensed to download vCenter Server will you be able to download it. Maybe a polite email to your Consultant, and he may drop one off for you!? Cant boot from iso file of vmware esxi. I went to vmware and download vmware ESX-i iso file and copy to CD but when i try to boot from the iso it does not work. Is there something i need to do to be able to boot from iso file so i can install? Thanks Status Solved Priority. VMware includes support for ISO images, which represent CDs or DVDs. When you load an ISO image into a VMware program, the virtual machine sees the ISO image as if it were a physical disc. Check if the VMware vCenter Converter BootCD is present, and press Download: As said you must have an enterprise (plus) license of VMware to be able to download this. Download If I Had Known I Was a Genius movie.

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My preference is for VMWare's vConverter ISO, but it appears that this was discontinued. It's no longer available for download on their site from what I can tell (even under old versions).

I found one guy who appears to have an ISO for version 3.0.3 of vConverter posted to his site for download, but I'm eternally skeptical about downloading these types of software from random strangers: http://thatcouldbeaproblem.com/?p=584

I also found some mention of using MOA, but I've never used this and have no idea on how effective it is as a vConverter replacement.http://www.sanbarrow.com/moa.html

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One other options seems to be using Acronis - booting off an Acronis disk to capture a .tib, then using a standard installation of vConverter to push the .tib to ESXi.

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I have a copy of the 3.0.3 ISO and yes, that does appear to be the last one they made available. If you want to try your luck with the download, here's the MD5 hash of the copy that I have: C8FDA701B884FE9A96CB6AD10154F2C1. I've used it before and it works OK, but be aware that it's rather limited in which network cards it supports. You might need to pull the hard drive out of your physical box so you can run the clone operation on another machine. For best results, find one that has a broadcom card.

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Who told you it was discontinued and no longer available?

VMWare Converter Standalone version 5.5 was released 10/22/2013

edit: Oh wait, you want the cold cloning boot ISO.. yes, not sure where that went since v4 I believe. The PE method with an older ISO still should work for most systems. Out of curiosity, why do you need to cold clone one?

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