I need to copy some VMs from one datastore to another. I'm running ESX 3.5 U3, VMs are mostly Windows-based. I don't care about data integrity since it's only to test NetApps deduplication on the target destination and the VMs will never be running from this files. Since the VMs are used, i cannot shut them down. If I try to copy it with 'cp' of course I get errors complaining about locked files.
E.g.: "cp: cannot open ....vmdk' for reading: Device or resource busy
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Is there a trick to do this? With dd or cpio?
Regards