Hi folks,
I am running two Windows 2008 Server on a VMware ESXi 5 Server (VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). There are two different ESXi hosts within my VMware datacenter environment. Let us call them esxserver1 and esxserver2. Both of my Windows 2008 Servers are currently running on esxserver1 and I would like to move both Windows Servers to esxserver2 due to performance reasons (esxserver2 is much more powerful).
I actually expected that I can just clone both Windows VMs using vCenter but unfortunately the VM clones did not work after they were cloned successfully from esxserver1 to esxserver2.
Both Windows 2008 Server were stuck with some strange krnl error messages like the following ones:
ntkrnlpa.exe missing or corrupt
After I ran a repair from Windows Installation DVD a both machines came up with a quite similar error:
ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt
This is how I actually tried to clone the Windows 2008 Server virtual machines:
1. Shutdown of both Windows Server VMs
2. Clone of Window Server 2008 VM1 from esxserver1 to esxserver2
3. Clone of Window Server 2008 VM2 from esxserver1 to esxserver2
4. Start Windows Server 2008 VM1 on esxserver2 -> error as described above
5. Start Windows Server 2008 VM2 on esxserver2 -> error as described above
6. Tried to repair using the Windows Repair from Install DVD but unfortunately it did not help either
7. ???
I really wonder what I did wrong. Do I have to consider something else when cloning Windows 2008 servers from one esxserver to another?
Regards,
Alice