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Import, export, and copy a VM in Cluster Manager

Import, export, and copy a VM in Cluster Manager - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage High Availability

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Import, export, and copy a VM in Cluster Manager

- [Voiceover] In this video, we're going to explain the import, export, and copy of virtual machines in Cluster Manager. In 2008, you needed to run scripts to be able to do this procedure, but in 2012 we can do this simply with a few clicks. Let's start by going into our Failover Cluster Manager. We want to first power down our client virtual machine, and then remove it from the cluster manager. Now that doesn't remove it permanently, it only removes it from the cluster manager. It's still going to be in the Hyper-V Manager, which is what we want. Now, let's go ahead and right-click on our client, and choose export. And now we'll choose the location. We'll go into our File Explorer and create a new folder. And we'll call it ClientCopy. We'll choose ClientCopy in the select folder, and click select folder. And then export. Under the status we can see that the export has begun. And if we go to our cluster storage in File Explorer we can see the ClientCopy folder, and we can see data has…

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