Editing an existing disk in the Clone Wizard results in the destination virtual machine pointing to the source VMDK

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The virtual machines disk settings are edited through the Clone Wizard
  
  
• After cloning, the destination virtual machine is using the source virtual machine disk
  
  
• The destination virtual machine is not locking and using the cloned VMDK
  

Cause

In vCenter Server, when you clone a virtual machine through vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client, you have the option to edit the hardware of the destination virtual machine. If you choose to edit a disk and adjust its size, the disk of the resulting virtual machine points back to the source virtual machine disk. This results in the destination virtual machine using the source virtual machine disk.

Resolution

This issue has been resolved in vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 release. To download vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1, see VMware Download Center.

As a workaround, do not edit disk settings if the option Edit virtual hardware (Experimental) is selected during clone or deploy from a template wizard.

Additional Information

クローンウィザードでディスクの設定を編集すると、クローン先の仮想マシンがクローン元の VMDK に紐付けられる