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Cloning running virtual machines in SCVMM 2012 R2

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Yesterday I posted about how Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 allow you to export a running virtual machine.  This is also available when using SCVMM 2012 R2.

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Here you can now clone a running virtual machine.  When you clone the virtual machine you can either store it in your virtual machine library, or you can immediately deploy it to a Hyper-V server in your environment.

Cheers,
Ben

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  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2016
    I hate to be nitpicky here but I wish you would have highlighted a VM other than a Domain Controller to illustrate the clone option. You might want to link to https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2012/10/01/virtual-domain-controller-cloning-in-windows-server-2012/ in case someone feels like 'just' right-click and clone the DC.
  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2016
    hihi, will SCVMM perform sysprep during the VM cloning?
  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2017
    Mine won't clone. I get two jobs in the log.Create Hardware Profile, Completed, which change tracking shows correct hardware information.Remove resource, Completed, change tracking here shows the hardware profile just created.That's it. No clone. No error.
    • Anonymous
      June 08, 2017
      I can clone to a library share, but not to local or shared storage, same behavior as Progent.CT. Once cloned to a library share I am unable to deploy back to the cluster in VMM. This used to work and only stopped fairly recently.
    • Anonymous
      August 01, 2017
      Please apply UR13. This issue was fixed in hotfix for UR12 .-Rex