This article describes how to clone a live production linux server to a VM on ESX infrastructure although it is the same process to clone to another physical machine. Prepare the Target Machine Prepare a new server on ESX debian 32 bit machine, same hdd size etc: In the past I’ve always used the DSL …

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  This article describes how to fix the error “No Hard Drives Have Been Found” when installing Checkpoint Gaia on ESX. This is a simple one – I used to work round it by implementing an IDE drive instead of SCSI but actually it’s just due to the SCSI controller type. It happens when you …

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